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University community mourns the loss of Barbara Arrington

Thursday, September 3, 2015

The late Barbara Arrington, former 91制片厂 professor — Barbara Arrington

The 91制片厂 is mourning the loss of faculty member and former dean Barbara Arrington, who passed away this week after a brief illness.

Arrington was a professor in the health management and policy department and director of the master鈥檚 degree program in public health. She was known as an avid supporter of students and a great advocate for public health.

Arrington came to 91制片厂 in 2007 to serve as dean of the 91制片厂 College of Health and Human Services (CHHS). She is credited with increasing both the research profile of the college and private support for the college during her time as dean. Arrington moved into the role of professor in 2011.听

Current CHHS dean Michael Ferrara says, 鈥淏arbara鈥檚 contributions to the college were outstanding. She was a well-respected member of the team who had an impact on many people. We were very saddened to learn of her passing.鈥�

Arrington received a doctorate in health services research from Saint Louis University and a master鈥檚 degree in public health from the University of Missouri. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Columbia University. Before coming to 91制片厂, Arrington served as senior associate dean at the School of Public Health at Saint Louis University鈥檚 Health Sciences Center.

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Arrington鈥檚 loss is being felt by colleagues and peers worldwide who have collaborated with her at the esteemed annual Health Professions Educators鈥� Summer Symposium for two decades.

Rosemary Caron has attended the last several of these symposiums with Arrington, and she recalls with a smile Arrington鈥檚 descriptions of the different types of learning that take place at the seminar.

鈥淪he would say early in the day was the pedagogical learning, where by morning鈥檚 end your brain hurts. Then at lunch, when you were still carrying on conversations from the morning session, she called that gustatory learning. Then there was kinesthetic learning, where the conversations carried onto the golf course or into other team building activities.鈥�

She had a deep understanding of the nature of the regional healthcare system and was widely published on the topic of public health policy and management.

At 91制片厂, Arrington taught Introduction to the Public Health System, U.S. Healthcare Systems and graduate-level courses in the master鈥檚 of public health program. She served as advisor to graduate and undergraduate students and had been serving as faculty advisor to the CHHS class of 2018.

Robert McGrath, chair of the 91制片厂 department of health management and policy, says Arrington loved the healthcare field and she loved mentoring and counseling young women in healthcare leadership. 鈥淪he got in the field with graduate students, working in a very hands-on way,鈥� McGrath says.

Grief counselors will be on hand for Arrington鈥檚 students.

Professor Rosemary Caron describes Arrington as a voracious reader, a raconteur and an unrelenting champion of improving our healthcare system. 鈥淪he had a passion for eventually seeing a healthcare system equitable and accessible by all,鈥� Caron says.

But, she adds, first and foremost, Arrington was an educator.听

鈥淪he gave of her time to her advisees,鈥� Caron says. 鈥淲hen she met with them it wasn鈥檛 five minutes, sign the slip and off you go. She would really try to get to know them and help them formulate or navigate their plans for working in the healthcare field, sharing her decades of experience.

鈥淪he loved what she did and she had a lot to offer,鈥� Caron says.

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