University of New England

Health Literacy Center Director Sue Stableford awarded visiting professorship

BIDDEFORD - Sue Stableford, M.P.H., M.S.B., director of the University of New England's Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Health Literacy Center in the College of Osteopathic Medicine's Division of Community Programs, was selected as one of nine recipients nationally of the 2007 Pfizer-sponsored Health Literacy Visiting Professorship in Health Literacy/ Clear Health Communication.

Each year Pfizer awards nine $7,500 grants to selected organizations, "Host Institutions," to contract with a visiting professor for three days of teaching and consulting. These professorships work to facilitate in-depth, educationally focused visits by prominent medical experts to U.S. medical schools and/or teaching hospitals.

This is the fifth consecutive year that Stableford has been designated as a visiting professor. In November 2007 she will conduct her professorship at Littleton Regional Hospital in Littleton, New Hampshire, where she will provide three days of health literacy training and consulting to the hospital and to regional and community-based health professionals.

"This is a fine opportunity to work with an integrated rural health delivery system that provides care to the population of northern New Hampshire," said Stableford.

(Press release posted June 25, 2007)