Curriculum Vitae: Marianne M. Hillemeier
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EDUCATION
**** **.*., ********** ** Michigan, Department of Sociology, Population
Studies/Demography
1988 M.P.H., Harvard University, School of Public Health,
Maternal and Child Health
1982 M.S.N., P.N.P., Yale University, School of Nursing,
Pediatric Nursing
1975 B.S., University of Iowa, College of Nursing
POSITIONS HELD
2008Associate Professor, The Pennsylvania State University,
Department of Health Policy and Administration and Demography
Joint appointments in: Department of Public Health Sciences, Department
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and School of Nursing
20022008Assistant Professor, The Pennsylvania State University,
Department of Health Policy and Administration and Demography
Joint appointments in: Department of Public Health Sciences, Department
of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and School of Nursing
2002 - Research Associate, Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State
University
1999 Research Affiliate, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
and Population Study Center, University of Michigan
1999 - 2002Research Associate, University of Michigan, Department of
Epidemiology; director of a CDC-funded project to develop the
Community Health Counts, an index of health-related contextual factors
1998 - 1999Research Investigator, University of Michigan, Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology; in charge of designing and implementing a research
program to evaluate developmental and health outcomes among twins
1995 - 1998Research Associate, University of Michigan, Department of Health
Behavior and Health Education; Assistant Director, "Race, Socioeconomic
Status and Weathering" research project funded by the CDC, and also
"Health Uncertainty, Disability, and Mortality in Persistently
Impoverished Populations: Implications for the Care of Children" research
project funded by the William T. Grant Foundation
1989-1994Research Associate, University of Michigan, Department of Public Health
Policy and Administration; Assistant Director, "Reconsidering the
Consequences of Teen Childbearing" research project funded by the
Russell Sage Foundation, and "Proximate Determinants of Low Birth
Weight and Infant Mortality" research project funded by NICHD
1982 - 1987Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Kent County Visiting Nurse Association,
Warwick, RI; Waterford Public Health Nursing Service,Waterford, CT
;
New Visions for Newport County, Newport, RI
1982 - 1983Instructor in Parent-Child Health Nursing, University of Rhode
Island College of Nursing, Kingston, RI
1978 - 1980Pediatric Endocrinology Nurse Specialist, Yale-New Haven
Hospital, New Haven, CT
1977 - 1978Pediatric Endocrinology Nurse Specialist, Children's Memorial
Hospital, Chicago, IL
1975 - 1976Staff Nurse, Clinical Research Center, Children's Memorial
Hospital, Chicago, IL
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Journals
Weisman CS, Hillemeier MM, Downs DS, Chuang CH, Dyer AM. 2010. Preconception predictors
of
weight gain during pregnancy: prospective findings from the Central Pennsylvania Women s
Health
Study (CePAWHS). Women s Health Issues 20:126-132.
Chuang CH, Hillemeier MM, Camacho F, Dyer A-M, Schwartz EB, Weisman CS. 2009. Pregnancy
intention and health behaviors: Results from the Central Pennsylvania Women s Health
Study
(CePAWHS) cohort. Maternal and Child Health Journal epub ahead of print, doi
10.1007/s10995-009-
0453-6.
Weisman CS, Misra DP, Hillemeier MM, Downs DS, Chuang CH, Camacho FT, Dyer A-M. 2009.
Preconception predictors of birth outcomes: prospective findings from the Central
Pennsylvania
Women s Health Study. Maternal and Child Health Journal epub ahead of print, doi
10.1007/s10995-
009-0473-2.
Hillemeier MM, Farkas G, Morgan PL, Martin MA, Maczuga SA. 2009. Disparities in the
of cognitive delay: How early do they appear? Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
23(3):186-198.
Wells R, Hillemeier MM, Bai Y, Belue R. 2009. Health service access across racial/ethnic
groups of
children in the child welfare system. Child Abuse & Neglect 33(5):282-292.
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Preconceptional Health Promotion to Improve Birth Outcomes: The Central Pennsylvania
Women s
Health Study. Keynote address at the annual conference of the Pennsylvania Sociological
Society,
Harrisburg, PA, October 2008.
Allostatic Load and Pregnancy Outcomes: The Community Child Health Network. Presentation
at the
Pennsylvania State University Stress and Health Research Day, University Park, October
2008.
Preconceptional Health Promotion in Low-Income Rural Communities: Preliminary Randomized
Trial
Administration
Colloquium Series, Pennsylvania State University, January 2004.
Relative or Absolute Standards for Child Poverty: A State-Level Analysis of Infant and
Child Mortality
(coauthored with John Lynch, Sam Harper, Trivellore Raghunathan, and George Kaplan).
Paper
presented as part of the Pennsylvania State Population Research Institute Brown Bag
Series, February,
2003.
Income Inequality and Health: The Story So Far and its Implications for Understanding
Regional
Mortality Trends within the US (coauthored with John Lynch, Sam Harper, Nancy Ross,
Michael
Wolfson, and George Kaplan). Paper presented at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic
Research
Symposium on Regional Mortality Trends, Rostock, Germany, June, 2002.
Development of a Community-Based Health Assets Index (coauthored with John Lynch, Michele
Casper, and Sam Harper). Paper presented at the first national Centers for Disease
Control Prevention
Conference on Heart Disease and Stroke, Atlanta, August, 2001.
Black/White Differentials in Children s Access to Primary Care: Trends Over the 1980s.
Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Chicago,
November, 1999.
Widening Black/White Mortality Gaps Over the 1980s Among Urban Children in the U.S.: Are
They
Explained by Increasing Economic Inequality? (coauthored with Arline Geronimus). Paper
presented at
the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, New York City, March, 1999.
Black/White Differentials in Childhood Mortality: A Tale of Three Cities. Paper presented
at the
annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington DC: November, 1998.
Widening Black/White Gaps in Childhood Mortality 1980-90: What Were the Contributing
Causes?
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association,
Indianapolis:
November, 1997.
Black/White Differentials in Childhood Mortality in the United States: Changes over the
1980s. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington DC:
March,
1997.
Maternal and Child Health in the United States: Current Perspectives and Future
Prospects. Keynote
address presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Population/Family Planning
Libraries
and Information Centers-International (APLIC), Cincinnati: March, 1993.
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Blacks' and Whites' Perceptions of Discrimination in Employment. Paper presented at the
annual
meeting of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kalamazoo, MI: March, 1993.
Does Young Maternal Age Adversely Affect Child Development? (co-authored with Arline
Geronimus
and Sanders Korenman). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public
Health
Association, Atlanta: November, 1991.
Trends in Low Level Lead Exposure by Race and Age in Reproductive-Aged Women (co-authored
with
Arline Geronimus). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health
Association,
New York, October 1990.
GRANTS
2010-2012Co-Principal Investigator, Breast Cancer Disparities in Rural Appalachia,
Susan
G. Komen Foundation, $269,936
2010-2010Principal Investigator, Examination of Transportation Services Available to
Rural
Military Veterans for Medical Services, Center for Rural Pennsylvania, $50,000
2009-2011Co-Principal Investigator, Poverty, Low Birthweight and Early Cognitive Delay:
A Population-Based Approach, (PI G Farkas), R21 HD058124-01A1, National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $403,559
2009-2010Co-Investigator, Rural Women s Health Care (PI C Weisman), Penn State
Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, $40,000
2008-2010Co-Investigator, Pediatrician-Directed Screening and Intervention for Language
Delays in High-Risk Children (PI P Morgan), Penn State Children, Youth, and
Families Consortium, $20,000
2008-2010Co-Investigator, Central Pennsylvania Women s Health Study (CePAWHS):
Extending the Strong Healthy Women Behavior Change Intervention to Urban
Areas, (PI C Weisman), Penn State CTSA seed grant, $74,996
2008-2010Co-Investigator, Preventing Overweight Among Mothers and Their Infants (PIs
D Symons Downs and L Birch), Penn State Diabetes and Obesity Center project
planning grant, $100,000
2008-2013Co-Investigator, Mode of First Delivery and Subsequent Childbearing, (PI K
Kjerulff) R01 HD052990-01A2, funded by the National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development, $4,600,000
2007-2012Co-Investigator, National Children s Study, (PI J Cauley) Pennsylvania State
University subcontract in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh study site
funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $60,000
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2006-2011Co-Investigator, Data Coordination and Analyses Center for the Community and
Child Health Network, (PI V Chinchilli) funded by the National Institute of Child
Health and Development, $1,200,000
2005-2008Principal Investigator, Racial Disparities in School and Mental Health
Services,
R03 MH071713-01A1, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health,
$145,000
2008-2008Co-Investigator, The Health and Development of Mexican-Origin Children:
Immigrantion, Family Processes, and the Health Risk Environment (PI N
Landale), Penn State Children, Youth, and Families Consortium, $5,000
2005-2005Principal Investigator, School Nurses on the Front Line: Challenges in Meeting
the Diverse Health Needs of Rural Pennsylvania School Children, funded by th e
Center for Rural Pennsylvania, $50,000
2005-2007 Investigator, Racial Disparities in Child Welfare, (PI EM Foster) funded by
the
Children, Youth and Family Consortium, Pennsylvania State University, $10,000.
2004-2008Co-Principal Investigator and Director of Research Core, Central Pennsylvania
Center of Excellence for Research on Pregnancy Outcomes, (PI C Weisman)
funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Health, $4,700,000
2004-2004Principal Investigator, Mental Health, Academic Achievement, and Sexual
Behavior and Childbearing among African American and White Teens, funded by
the Children, Youth and Family Consortium and the Methodology Center,
Pennsylvania State University. $4,000
2004 - 2004Principal Investigator, Childhood Asthma in Rural Pennsylvania: Building
Schools Capacity to Optimize Health, funded by the Center for Rural
Pennsylvania. $50,000
2003 - 2004Principal Investigator, Disparities Among African American, Hispanic, and
White
Children in Public Health Insurance Eligibility and Enrollment Dynamics, funded
by the Children, Youth and Family Consortium, Pennsylvania State University
$15,000
2003 - 2003Principal Investigator, Racial Disparities in Special Education, funded by
the
Social Science Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University $4,000
1999 - 2003Project Director, Development of a Community Based Index of Inequality, (PI
J
Lynch) funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $26,000
1999 - 1999Principal Investigator, Childhood Growth and Development of Twin and Triplet
Children, funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research, University of
Michigan $15,000
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1997 - 1998Co-Principal Investigator, Racial and Socioeconomic Differentials in
Mortality
Among Children in the United States, (PI J Bound) funded by the Office of the
Vice President for Research, University of Michigan $5,000
SERVICE
2010 Committee Member, Penn State Population Research Institute Director Search
Committee
2009- Co-Chair, American Public Health Association, Maternal Child Health Section
Child Health Committee
2009 External Reviewer for Promotion and Tenure, University of Rochester School of
Nursing
2009 Peer Reviewer, NIH Scientific Review Group Special Emphasis Panels 2009/10
ZRG1 RPHB-A (58) R and 2009/10 ZRG1 RPHB-E (58) R
2008- Chair, Penn State Health Policy and Administration Department Faculty Search
Committee
2008- Committee Member, Penn State Department of Health Policy and Administration
Promotion and Tenure Committee
2008 - 2009 Committee Member, National Children s Study Neighborhoods Working Team
2008 Committee Member, AD-14 Department Head Review Committee, Penn State
College of Health and Human Development
2007 Peer Reviewer, NIH Scientific Review Group Special Emphasis Panel 2007/05
ZDA1 MXS-M (26) (2)
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2007 Session Organizer and Moderator, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2
National Summit on Preconception Health and Health Care
2007 Co-Chair, Penn State University Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA)
Steering Committee, Community Engagement Working Group
2006 - 2009 Peer Reviewer, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting Planning
Committee, Maternal Child Health Section
2006 Committee Member, Penn State College of Health and Human Development Dean
Search Committee
2006 Peer Reviewer, Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center Pilot and
Feasibility Project Applications
2006 - 2007 Committee Member, Pennsylvania State University Graduate Council
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2005 2006 Search Committee Member, Health Policy and Administration Faculty Search
2005 - 2007 Committee Member, Pennsylvania State University Rural Women s Health
Initiative
2005 Peer Reviewer, NIH Scientific Review Group Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 HOP-
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2004 2008 Advisory Committee Member, Women s Leadership Initiative, Pennsylvania State
University
2004 - 2008 Futures Council Member, Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health
2004 - 2008 Health Policy and Administration Awards Committee (Chair 2005-2008)
2004 - 2004 Consultant on contextual data relevant to child health and development,
National
Children s Study, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
2003 - Committee Member, Health Policy and Administration PhD/MS Program
Committee
2003 - 2007 Board Member, Family Health Council of Central Pennsylvania
2000 - 2001 External Advisory Committee Member, Community Capacity for Improving
Population Health, Design and Feasibility Study, Research Triangle Institute
1996 - 1999 Child Health and Safety Initiative Planning Group Member, Greater
Detroit Area Health Council
1987 - 1988 Medical Consultant, Head Start Program, US Public Health Service
AWARDS
1991- 1995 University of Michigan Regents' Fellowship
MEMBERSHIPS
Pennsylvania Rural Health Association
American Public Health Association
Population Association of America
AcademyHealth
OCCASIONAL PEER REVIEWER
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2003 Pennsylvania R.N. Certification No. RN542939
1988 Michigan R.N. Certification No. 470-***-****
1984 P.N.P. Certification-American Nurses Association
1982 P.N.P. Certification-NAPNA/P
1982 Rhode Island R.N. Certification No. RN23728
1978 Connecticut R.N. Certification No. R-31251
1975 Illinois R.N. Certification No. 41-163378
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