Amy Baldwin, PhD

Amy Baldwin, PhD

Amy Baldwin, PhD
Amy Baldwin, PhD

Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Russell Hall 235L

1425 Prince Avenue

Athens, GA 30602

706-713-2215

Education

Postdoctoral Research: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences: University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Columbia, SC

M.S., Biological Sciences: Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

B.S., Genetics: University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Honors / Awards / Achievements

International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) Featured Member, March 2019

Honorary Professor, Universidad Evangélica Boliviana, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, July, 2018

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute (LACSI) Ambassador Travel Award, 2017 & 2018

Student Government Association Outstanding Faculty Award (Year 2 Educator of the Year), SGU 2015

Selected Publications

A Bahadoor-Yetman, L Riley, A Gibbons, P J Fields, V Mapp-Alexander, R Hage, and A Baldwin. Prevalence of cervical cancer and associated mortality in Grenada: A ten-year analysis (2000 – 2010). Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2016; 39(4):194–99. Refereed Abstracts

C Xu, P Cantalupo, M Sáenz-Robles, A Baldwin, D Fitzpatrick, D Norris, E Jackson, and J Pipas. Draft Genome of a Novel Rhabdovirus Isolated from Deinocerites Mosquitoes. Genome Announcements, Genome Announc. 2018 May 10; 6(19). pii: e01438-17.

Selected Peer-reviewed abstracts:

23rd International Association for Medical Science Educators Annual Meeting, Roanoke, VA, USA, ‘Incorporating home visits into a community health course to reinforce the importance of social determinants of health’, 2019

23rd International Association for Medical Science Educators Annual Meeting, Roanoke, VA, USA, ‘Evaluation of a gender gap in the academic performance of an integrated hybrid curriculum’, 2019

23rd International Association for Medical Science Educators Annual Meeting, Roanoke, VA, USA, ‘Using Improv as a Tool for Fostering Mentorship Among Medical and Pre-medical Students’, 2019

119th Annual Medical Library Association Conference, Chicago, USA, ‘Using Improvisation to Enhance Communication Skills for Librarians’, Immersion Session, 2019

Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, ‘Social determinants and home visits’, 2019

22nd Annual Conference on the Americas, Augusta, GA, USA, ‘The path less traveled: Complications & lessons learned in an ongoing interdisciplinary, international collaboration in Grenada, WI’, 2019

22nd International Association for Medical Science Educators Annual Meeting, Henderson, NV, USA,

‘Using Improv to Develop Communication Skills for Medical Students’, 2018

18th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID) Meeting, Buenos Aries, Argentina, ‘Assessment of circulating Dengue serotypes in Grenada, West Indies’, 2018

64th Annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, ‘The Prevalence of Dengue and its serotypes in a university health service setting in Grenada: A Five Year Retrospective Study’, 2015

2014 International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care (BMJ), Paris, France, ‘Incomplete History: Challenges of handwritten medical records in calculating prevalence of cervical cancer and mortality in Grenada (2000 – 2010)’

Grant Support

‘Pilot study on technology-enhanced health coaching intervention for low-income patients with multiple chronic conditions’, FY20 CTRU Seed Grant, co-investigator

Global Research Collaboration Grant, Office of Research and the Office of International Education, University of Georgia, USA 2018 – 2019, ‘Hearing women’s voices: Using focus groups to plan culturally-acceptable, high-risk HPV testing for primary cervical cancer screening in Grenada, WI”, co-principal investigator

Katherine A. Kendall Institute for International Social Work Education 2017 – 2019 “Transcending Boundaries: Connecting University of Georgia Social Work Students and Their Grenadian Peers in Virtual and Actual Space”, consultant

Scholarship & Research

Cervical cancer & other HPV-associated diseases

Health disparities

Gender equity

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