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Michael Resnick Selected to Serv on CDC National Consulting Team
U of M professor will focus on adolescent issues
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (May 10, 2006) -- Michael D. Resnick, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and public health, has been selected to serve on the Centers for Disease Control’s National Consulting Team for the Guide to Community Preventive Services. This guide is a compilation of the best available scientific evidence and expertise regarding essential public health services and their delivery.
As a member of the independent, non-federal Task Force on Community Preventive Services, Resnick will assist with a systematic review of effective interventions designed to promote adolescent health.
This initiative entails two components:
- Compiling existing adolescent health recommendations, and
- Conducting a new review to determine the effectiveness of interventions for adolescents that will reduce risk and enhance well being.
For the past 25 years, Resnick’s research, teaching, and advocacy efforts have focused on promoting protective factors among adolescents, including promotion of changes in programs, policy, and practices that make a positive difference in the lives of all young people. Resnick is the director of the University of Minnesota’s Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center. He holds the Gisela and E. Paul Konopka Chair in Adolescent Health and Development in the Department of Pediatrics, Medical School.
The Academic Health Center is home to the University of Minnesota’s six health professional schools and colleges as well as several health-related centers and institutes. Founded in 1851, the University is one of the oldest and largest land grant institutions in the country. The AHC prepares the new health professionals who improve the health of communities, discover and deliver new treatments and cures, and strengthen the health economy.
Contact: Sara Buss, Academic Health Center, (612) 624-2449
Molly Portz, Academic Health Center, (612) 625-2640
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