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Valerie Yontz
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Valerie
Yontz, PhD
Associate Specialist, Health Services, Administration
and Planning
1960 East West Road, Biomed D202
Honolulu, HI 96822
email: vyontz@hawaii.edu
phone: (808) 956-5771
fax: (808) 956-5818 |
Academic Degrees
PhD (Sociology of Aging), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
MPH (Gerontology), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
MA (Sociology), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
MSN (Nursing), University of Utah
MS (Biology), Saint Louis University (Missouri)
BSN (Nursing), Saint Louis University (Missouri)
BA (Biology), Saint Louis University (Missouri)
Certifications/Licenses
Assisted Living National Administrator Certification (Level1)
Board Certified as Gerontological Nurse (RN-BC)
Advanced Certificate in Gerontology (University of Hawai‘i)
Notary Public in State of Hawaii
Registered Nurse (RN) in Hawai‘i
Awards/Honors
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PH 630 Cultural Competency in Health Care
voted most favorite class by Hui Ola Pono |
Research Interests (past and current)
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Health Disparities |
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Cultural Competenncy |
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Aging and Elder Services |
Current Research Grants
Health Disparities Service Learning Collaboration
grant—director-Valerie Yontz
Pacific Public Health Training Center grant—Valerie
Yontz is one of the Management Team member with in conjunction
with four California School of Public Health—UCLA, UC-Berkeley,
San Diego State University, and Loma Linda University
Nursing grant for community and Public Health Masters in
Nursing Collaboration with School of Nursing and Public Health
Courses Taught
PH 602 Introduction to Health Services
PH 630 Cultural Competency in Health Care
PH 791E & PH 791S (Practicum Coordinator)
Dr. Valerie Yontz is currently Associate Specialist and Practicum
Coordinator. Through her experiences in the community, Dr.
Yontz helps make linkages and placements for the MPH students'
field practicum. Valerie's teaching areas include: health
services, administration, planning, cultural competency, health
policy and gerontology. Dr. Yontz has participated in research
about community-based participatory research, aging issues,
health disparities, and end-of-life decision-making.
Prior to the university, Dr. Yontz worked in an Assisted Living facility
as Health Service Director for Pohai Nani Retirement Organization to oversee
their assisted living services to their elder residents. Prior to that job,
Valerie was hired as Hospice Hawaii's Patient Care Coordinator to oversee
the clinical operations for end-of-life care of Hospice Hawaii's terminally-ill
patients.
For more than six years, Dr. Yontz was the Coordinator of an Elderly Service
Program for a Community Health Center in Hawaii called Kokua Kalihi Valley
Comprehensive Family Services. She developed an expansive and very successful
community-based elderly service program that demonstrated elderly can exercise,
eat right, improve their health, and age more successfully while staying
longer in their own homes. Valerie also served as the Quality Assurance Officer
and the Director of Public Housing Services for Kokua Kalihi Valley Health
Center. She created many major components of KKV's Quality Improvement system.
Valerie is originally from central Illinois and has a wide range of experiences
acquired throughout her professional life. Valerie is a nurse,
biologist, sociologist, and gerontologist. She has worked
in Missouri, Maine, Utah, and Illinois as an emergency room
nurse, home health nurse, tuberculosis monitoring nurse, and
nursing consultant. With her transcultrual nursing background,
Valerie has worked overseas in Liberia, West Africa training
village health workers and in Thailand, Malaysia and throughout
Southeast Asia teaching and training Vietnamese and Cambodian
refugees about health education topics and healthy behavior
practices.
Selected Publications
Yontz, V. & Maddock, J. (2007). Focus
on Health Disparities: Gaining Momentum in Hawaii, California
Journal of Health Promotion 2007, Volume 5, Issue in
press.
Yontz, V., Kilonsky, N. Maddock, J. &
Braun, K. (2007) Public Health at the University of Hawai‘i
at Mānoa, 2000-2006. California Journal of Health Promotion
2007, Volume 5, Issue I, vii-xv.
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