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Amy Baldwin, PhD
Amy Baldwin, PhD
Amy Baldwin, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Russell Hall 235L
1425 Prince Avenue
Athens, GA 30602
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