Office of Human Resources - Employee Recognition
President's Medal for Social Embeddedness
The President's Medal for Social Embeddedness recognizes teams that have demonstrated excellence in partnering with Arizona communities to develop and implement programs or projects that positively embed ASU in the social and cultural fabric of our surrounding communities.
2007-2008 Award Recipients
Arizona HealthQuery: A Community-University Partnership
The Arizona State University and Teach For America Partnership
Naco Fire District Brownfields Supplemental Assistance Partnership
Arizona HealthQuery:
A Community-University Partnership
Arizona HealthQuery (AZHQ) is a living community health data system that serves as a continuous resource for the information needed by researchers, policymakers, clinicians and community leaders to improve the health and health care of Arizona residents. AZHQ was created by the voluntary participation of health care providers, insurers and employers in Arizona.
AZHQ consists of a unique, massive relational database containing all essential demographic, clinical and financial elements of administrative health data on millions of Arizona residents. Its uniqueness rests in its ability to combine the administrative health data from a variety of health organizations into one community health data system, which can track the health care of individuals and populations over time and across providers.
The AZHQ database is queried frequently by data partners who use the database for grant proposals, program analysis and other projects. AZHQ has been successfully used in a wide range of community health studies on asthma, emergency department utilization, racial disparities in health care, patient safety and other topics. Efforts are focused on building additional data and research partnerships.
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ASU Team Members
Wade Bannister, Center for Health Information and Research
Leon Bendler, Center for Health Information and Research
Miwa Edge, Center for Health Information and Research
Heather Gray, Center for Health Information and Research
Gevork Harootunian, Center for Health Information and Research
Tameka Jackson, Center for Health Information and Research
William Johnson, Center for Health Information and Research
Ross Merritt, Center for Health Information and Research
George Runger, Industrial Engineering
Kathleen Russell, Center for Health Information and Research
Barbara Wilson, College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation
Community Partners
Amanda Aguirre, Regional Center for Border Health
Adda Alexander, Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
Dan Ausman, Abrazo Health Care
Bruce Bethancourt, Banner Medical Group
Martin Breeden, Mercy Gilbert Medical Center
Twila Burdick, Banner Health System
Kathy Byrne, El Rio Community Health Center
Carol Carr, The EXCEL Group
Dan Coleman, John C. Lincoln Health Network
Daniel Crawford, Yuma Pediatrics, Ltd.
Andrei Damian, Cardiovascular Consultants, Ltd.
Robert Dowd, Sonora Quest Laboratories
Kathleen Dowler, Chandler Regional Hospital
Janice Ertl, Society of Saint Vincent de Paul
Marisue Garganta, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
Susan Gerard, Arizona Department of Health Services
Christine Goldberg, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
Philip Hamilton, State of Arizona Department of Administration
John Hensing, Banner Health System
Todd Hirte, Yuma Regional Medical Center
Roger Hughes, St. Luke's Health Initiatives
Linda Hunt, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
Thomas James, III, Humana, Inc.
Paul Jensen, IASIS Healthcare Corporation
Nancy Johnson, St. Elizabeth's Health Center
Tricia Johnson, Rush University Medical Center
Jeffrey Joyce, Maricopa Integrated Health System
Jeffrey Kang, CIGNA Healthcare
James Kennedy, Maricopa Integrated Health System
Jacqueline Lundblad, Sun Health Corporation
Wendy Lyons, Scottsdale Healthcare
Emilia Matos, Pediatric Associates of Yuma
Tara McCollum Plese, Arizona Association of Community Health Centers
Elizabeth McNamee, St. Luke's Health Initiatives
Debbie Nixon, Your Partners in Quality, LLC
Lisa Picaso, TMC Healthcare
William Pike, Carondelet Health Network
Richard Porter, Arizona Department of Health Services
Judy Rich, TMC Healthcare
Anthony Rodgers, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
David Rogers, Sunset Community Health Center - Somerton
Ann Roggenbuck, North Country Healthcare
Linda Ross, Arizona Association of Community Health Centers
Avein Saaty-Tafoya, Clinica Adelante, Inc.
Peggy Stemmler, Stemmler and Associates
John Swagert, Mountain Park Health Center
Julian Villanueva, Pediatric Associates of Yuma
Wickenburg Community Hospital
Mark Wiest, CIGNA Healthcare
Gay Williams, Health Net of Arizona, Inc.
The Arizona State University
and Teach For America Partnership
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Arizona State University and Teach For America have joined forces to address Arizona’s most pressing educational needs. A socially embedded partnership has been established that brings ASU resources and expertise to bear on education in Arizona through a multi-pronged approach of recruitment, teacher support and development, and alumni leadership.
Specifically, this partnership fosters innovation in education to ensure the future success of our children and our state through the development of an Induction, Master’s and Certification program; educational incentives such as full fellowships and recruitment activities; and the selection of ASU as the Teach For America Phoenix Summer Institute site. The impact of this partnership is evident through the number of Teach For America corps members enrolled in ASU’s education programs, the increased attention toward high-needs schools, the enhanced collaboration between ASU faculty and local school districts and the dramatic increase in ASU students’ Teach For America corps member applications. The ASU and Teach For America partnership furthers ASU’s goal of being a socially embedded university and also establishes ASU as the premier higher education partner of Teach For America.
ASU Team Members
Daniel Ashlock, Associated Students
Carrie Bauer, Office of Classroom Scheduling
Daniel Bergin, Office of General Counsel
Jeff Bricker, Campus Recreation
Amanda Burke, Office of University Initiatives
Heather Carter, CTEL, Education Downtown
Sylvester Chestnut, Residential Life Operations
Michael Coakley, Residential Life
Arnold Danzig, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Safali Evans, University Student Initiatives
Tamra Garstka, Campus Recreation
Maureen Gerard, College of Teacher Education and Leadership
Barbara Giles, College of Teacher Education and Leadership
Melinda Helton, Parking and Transit Services
Sandra Johnson, University Technology Office
Michael Kelley, CTEL, Elementary Education
Louis Kelly, University Technology Office
Mari Koerner, College of Teacher Education and Leadership
Melissa Krewson, Residential Life
Robert Lane, Digital Document Services
Ida Malian, CTEL, Special Education
Kim Marrone, Office of University Initiatives
Suzanne Painter, CTEL, Graduate Studies
Andrew Perkins, Sun Card Office
Laura Ploughe, Business Applications and Fiscal Control
Peter Rillero, CTEL, Secondary Education
Pamela Sanchez, Campus Recreation
Tammy Taber, Residential Life Operations
Kathy Tibbetts, Office of Classroom Scheduling
Community Partners
Michelle Berg, Teach For America
Carolina de Rosas, Teach For America
Yuanxia Ding, Teach For America
Rosemary Gaona, Arizona Department of Education
Brandi Heatherly, Aramark Food Services
James Jorgenson, Aramark Food Services
Sarah Kirby, Teach For America
Jenny MacDonald, United Parcel Services
Will Seamans, Teach For America
Andrea Stouder, Teach For America
Demitra Taylor, Teach For America
Katie Tennessen, Teach For America
Naco Fire District
Brownfields Supplemental Assistance Partnership
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The Naco Fire District Brownfields Supplemental Assistance Partnership (SAP) is a collaboration between the southeastern cross-border community of Naco, AZ, and Arizona State University, which embodies the very spirit of the New American University by providing a disadvantaged community with the resources necessary to improve quality of life while fostering relationships that encourage independence and shared knowledge. Facilitated by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grants, the Partnership addresses cross-border environmental themes, community development and enrichment, education, historic preservation and cross-border revitalization.
Highlights include:
- providing environmental assessment services to document environmentally safe natural resources for community development activities,
- directly contributing to sanitation improvements for both Naco, AZ, and its adjacent sister community of Naco, Sonora, Mexico,
- providing ASU graduate students with opportunities for hands-on, real-world experience, in addition to educating students on region-specific environmental justice and socioeconomic issues faced by U.S./Mexico border communities, and
- encouraging ongoing partnerships between community leaders and private parties, which contribute to independence and improved quality of life.
ASU Team Members
Anne Therese Carpenter, Morrison School of Agribusiness and Department of Technology Management
Richard Gordon, Morrison School of Agribusiness
Nicholas Hild, Department of Technology Management
Larry Olson, Department of Technology Management
Steven Sutherland, Department of Technology Management
Community Partner
Rebecca Orozco, Center for Lifelong Learning