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Featuring
Joseph L.
Wright, MD, MPH ’79
Executive
Director of the Child Health Advocacy Institute, Children's National Medical
Center in Washington, DC
and
Kathy
Cumberbatch Montague DMD, '95
Public Health
Dentist, Generations Family Medical Center, Willimantic, CT
Sunday, October 19
12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Usdan University Center
Andersen Meeting Room (Room 110)
Lunch will be provided
Join alumni and students
for lunch and discussion at the first in our six-part career networking
series, Unconventional Wisdom: Legacies of Success. This month the
session will focus on Health Professions. Created and sponsored by Kurt Lyn
'87 and Michelle Anderson-Lyn '84 this series was designed to facilitate
meaningful interactions between successful alumni and students. Get the
insider's scoop as our presenters share what they wish they had known when
applying to their first job or internship and reveal the special people and
resources integral to their success.
RSVP online at MyCRC,
http://wesleyan.erecruiting.com by 10/15/08.
Questions? Contact Persephone Hall at x2180
Sponsored by the Career Resource Center and
the Alumni of Color Network
Stay tuned for information regarding other
sessions on Business, Careers for the Common Good, Education and Law.
Joseph L. Wright, MD,
MPH is Executive Director of the
Child Health Advocacy Institute, a newly established center of excellence at
Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC. In that capacity, Dr.
Wright provides strategic leadership for the organization’s advocacy
mission, public policy positions and community partnership initiatives.
Academically, he is a Professor and Vice Chairman in the Department of
Pediatrics, as well a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy at
the George Washington University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. He
has been attending faculty in the Division of Emergency Medicine at
Children’s National since 1993, and is founding director of the division’s
Institute for Prehospital Pediatrics and Emergency Research. He provides
state-level leadership as the EMS Medical Director for Pediatrics within the
Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, and national
leadership as senior investigator of the federally-funded Emergency Medical
Services for Children National Resource Center.
Dr. Wright’s major areas
of scholarly interest include emergency medical services for children,
injury prevention and the needs of underserved communities. He has received
recognition for his advocacy work throughout his career, including the
Shining Star award from the Los Angeles-based Starlight Foundation for
outstanding community service, and has been inducted into Delta Omega, the
nation’s public health honor society. He has been appointed to key national
advisory bodies, including the inaugural National EMS Advisory Council and
several within the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of
Pediatrics where he currently chairs the Academy’s subcommittee on Violence
Prevention. Dr. Wright has delivered expert testimony before Congress on
many occasions, has made numerous national media appearances and lectures
widely to both professional and lay audiences.
Kathy Montague, D.M.D.,
graduated from Wesleyan University in 1995 with a B.A. in Biology, and
received her Doctorate from Boston University Goldman School of Dental
Medicine in 1999. Her primary focus is in community health and has been a
public health Dentist for over nine years, dedicated to providing service to
adults and children in communities of greatest need who may otherwise
receive insufficient or no health care.
Dr. Montague is also a
member of the National Dental Association, American Dental Association,
Academy of General Dentistry, and serves as a representative for the
Manchester Dental Society, to the House of Delegates of the Connecticut
State Dental Association. She is also a mentor to pre and post-doctorate
students at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine.
In her private time, she
also serves as a member of the Connecticut Disaster Identification Response
(DIRT) Team, and is an active member of the Epsilon Omicron Omega Chapter of
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.
Dr. Montague resides in
Manchester, CT with her husband Alonzo and two daughters, Khari and Nina.
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