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It was the summer of 1965 and Americans were just beginning to recover from their grief over the assassination of a young president and the end of Camelot. The British Invasion had begun with the landing of the Beatles in NY eighteen months earlier and the Beach Boys had appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. American cars were as long as a city block and sported space age fins. In the midst of all these changes, there were changes happening in quiet, leafy Madison, Wisconsin too but these changes were different - they were academic and scientific in nature. 1965 would mark the first time the University of Wisconsin would host a summer program in epidemiology. It would only stay there for a year before moving to the University of Minnesota. Dr. David Schottenfeld, Professor and Chair of the UMSPH Department of Epidemiology proposed what was then known as the Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology (GSS). For the next 22 years the program would remain at the University of Minnesota. In 1988 upon the retirement of Dr. Schuman, the GSS planning committee recommended that the program be moved to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2017 the program name changed and it is now known as the Summer Session in Epidemiology (SSE).
When the program moved to Ann Arbor, Dr. Schottenfeld became the Director from 1988 – 2004. Following his retirement, Dr. Hal Morgenstern succeeded him as Director from 2005 – 2017, when he retired. Since 2018 Dr. Eduardo Villamor has served as Director of the SSE/GSS. In addition to four wonderful directors, the program has been honored to have extremely prominent faculty who are recruited to teach in an area of their renowned expertise. These include, but are not limited to: Helen Abby, Alfred Evans, Philip Brachman, Michel Ibrahim, Ted Holford, Jennifer Kelsey, Robert Wallace, Charles Hennekens, Stanley Shapiro, Philip Cole, Paul Stolley, Lewis Kuller, Warren Winkelstein, David Savitz, Sander Greenland, Mitchell Levine, Stanley Shapiro, Brian Strom, Harvey Checkoway, Nigel Paneth, Richard Goodman, Steve Selvin, Ward Cates, Graham Colditz, Jose Teruel, Jack Colford, Matthew Boulton, and Sandro Cinti. Courses in the Summer Session in Epidemiology (SSE) are official graduate courses of the University of Michigan (U-M), reviewed and approved by the Advisory Committee on Academic Programs of the School of Public Health. Their credits are valid in various academic programs of the University of Michigan. Acceptance of courses for credit or substitution for similar courses offered by other institutions is dependent on the policy of those institutions. The objective of the SSE is to provide intensive instruction in the principles, methods, and applications of epidemiology. The continuity of this program for 60 years demonstrates its important role in the education and training of graduate students in public health, physicians, nurses, and health professionals throughout the world. ■ |
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