April faculty and staff features

Carl F. Ameringer, Ph.D., L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs
Ameringer, professor of health policy and politics at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, is author of a new book about health care policy in the United States. “The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition” examines the movement in the late 1970s that changed health care in the United States from a medical monopoly to a market-based system.

Ameringer’s book details the events that led to the change and explores the market-based system in a broader social, political and economic perspective. Ameringer includes perspectives from supporters and opponents of the market-based system and looks at its future.

Ameringer’s research interests include the politics of health care access and delivery.  He is a former Maryland assistant attorney general and former deputy counsel to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

The book was published in April 2008 by the University of California Press.  

Susan G. Kornstein, M.D., Executive Director, Institute for Women's Health
The Journal of Women's Health, of which Kornstein is editor-in-chief, has been named the official journal of the American Medical Women's Association. The AMWA is devoted to the advancement of women in medicine and the improvement of women's health.

The Journal of Women's Health is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that are prevalent among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women than in men.

E. Ayn Welleford, Ph.D., chair, Department of Gerontology, School of Allied Health Professions
Welleford, associate professor in VCU’s Department of Gerontology and associate director of the Virginia Geriatric Education Center, was featured as the 2008 Distinguished Teacher Lecturer at the 34th Annual Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Meeting and Educational Leadership Conference. Her presentation focused on the VCU Department of Gerontology's role in providing students with the "toolkit" necessary for the myriad of careers in aging. The lecture included teaching strategies for students, including gerontology speed dating and elevator talks.

Brian J. Daugherity, M.A., Department of History
Daugherity, instructor and assistant to the chair in the Department of History, is lead editor of a new book examining and evaluating the implementation of the Brown v. Board of Education United States Supreme Court decision (1954) that ended school segregation. 

“With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education” includes essays from 12 distinguished historians who assess the court decision’s implementation in Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Delaware, Missouri, Indiana, Nevada and Wisconsin.  The book focuses on the importance of black activism, while also considering white opposition to school integration and the role of the federal government. In doing so, it offers a new view of this era, from the eyes of the supporters of school integration and their allies.

Daugherity edited the book with Charles C. Bolton, professor and chair of history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Daugherity also wrote the chapter on the implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia in the 1950s and 1960s. The book was published by The University of Arkansas Press.

Clint McCown, associate professor of English
Anhinga Press recently published McCown’s third collection of poetry, “Dead Languages.” The book includes 31 poems, including 25 previously published in journals such as the Sewanee Review, the Southern Review, the Southern Poetry Review and the North American Review.

William E. Smith, Pharm.D., Ph.D., MPH, School of Pharmacy
Smith, VCU professor and executive associate dean of the School of Pharmacy, has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. As a member of the counsel, Smith will advise on quality enhancements and cost reductions of health care through scientific research and the promotion of improvements in clinical practice and in the organization.