Elaine Borawski named Angela Bowen Williamson Professor of Community Nutrition
Dr. Elaine Borawski, Angela Bowen Williamson Professor of Community NutritionElaine Borawski, PhD, co-director and principal investigator of the Prevention Research Center at Case Western Reserve University, was appointed as the inaugural Angela Bowen Williamson Professor of Community Nutrition in the CWRU School of Medicine on January 4, 2012.
Dr. Borawski is responsible for all projects and activities that occur within the PRC, and is also the President of the American Academy of Health Behavior. She has nearly 20 years of experience in community-based health research and has been awarded over $8 million over the past 12 years to support her research. Her research interests include: health behavior intervention, adolescent health, survey methodology, health status measurement, outcome-based community evaluations, and community-based participatory research.
The endowed chair was created from a gift of $23.5 million given to CWRU by James Wood Williamson. The Angela Bowen Williamson professorship was created in memory of Williamson's wife, who was a dietician educated at the Flora Stone Mather College for Women, now the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women at CWRU.
