A Strnad Fellowship is a prestigious fellowship that allows a select number of senior students at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio to pursue topics of interest (outside the curriculum) in great depth. The fellowship is designed by the students and must involve research, investigation, or study, and lead to a creative outcome. The Strnad Fellowship is funded by Hathaway Brown, through a generous endowment from James J. Strnad and Edna Dawley Strnad.
My specific project deals with the topic of healthy lifestyles among teenage girls. The end result is a website linked from the Cleveland Clinic Women's Cardiovascular Center website. This project is significant because maintaining a healthy lifestyle is very difficult for teenage girls with the pressures of today's society. Healthy teens will help to prevent heart and vascular disease and other health conditions in adulthood.
A team of experts agreed to help me with the review of articles in order to provide accurate well-written information:
- Dr. Stanley Hazen (Section Head, Preventive Cardiology)
- Dr. Leslie Cho (Director of the Cleveland Clinic’s Women’s Cardiovascular Center)
- Dr. Jacalyn Hazen (Pediatrician, specializing in adolescent medicine and obesity)
- Melissa Ohlson, MS, RD, LD (Nutritionist, Prevention)
- Julia Zumpano, RD (Nutritionist, Prevention)
- Dr. Gordon Blackburn (Exercise Specialist, Prevention)
- Angela Costello (medical writer)
- Betsy Stovsky (Manager, Heart and Vascular Institute web site)
Thank you to Melissa Ohlson for agreeing to be my project sponsor
Katherine Stovsky, Senior, Hathaway Brown School
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