2006 until 2016. In 2007, she began a collaboration with the Southwest Georgia Cancer Coalition and New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church to educate the Georgian public about healthy eating. That same year, she was awarded the 2007 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award for "developing creative and effective interventions to reduce risk behaviors, encourage early detection of cancer, and prevent other acute and chronic diseases". Glanz stayed at Emory University until 2009 when she became the ninth Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor with appointments in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. The following year, she was appointed the inaugural George A. Weiss University Professor in the School of Medicine and School of Nursing. As a result of her academic research, Glanz was elected a Member of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) in 2013. At Penn, Glanz led the creation of the University of Pennsylvania's new Prevention Research Center (PRC), funded by the CDC and co-led with Dr. Kevin Volpp. She was later recognized by Clarivate, the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters as one of the world's most influential scientific minds and appointed to a four-year term on the Advisory Council for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. In 2018, Glanz was named the associate director for Community Engaged Research and leader for the Cancer Control Program at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Glanz is an avid triathlete and completed the Ironman World Championship in Kona in 2002, the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon in 2018 (3rd place age group), and more than a dozen Waikiki Roughwater Swims. She has ranked as an age group champion in several short-course triathlons, including winning her age group in the Georgia State Olympic Distance Triathlon Championships in 2004. References External links Living people 1953 births American women epidemiologists American epidemiologists Academics from Pennsylvania University of Michigan alumni University of Hawaiʻi faculty University of Pennsylvania faculty Emory University faculty Temple University faculty Members of the National Academy of Medicine 21st-century American women