The Department of Epidemiology Alumni Association awarded the 2016 H.A. Tyroler Distinguished Alumni Award to Robert Dittus, MD, MPH (1984), Executive Vice President, Public Health and Health Care Director, Institute for Medicine and Public Health; Senior Associate Dean for Population Health Sciences, Albert and Bernard Werthan Professor of Medicine Vanderbilt University. Dr. Dittus presented the Herman A. Tyroler Distinguished Alumni Seminar on September 7, 2016, in Tate-Turner-Kuralt auditorium, UNC School of Social Work.