HOFSTRA ALUMNAE HILARIE CRANMER FEATURED ON CNN'S IREPORT

2/13/2010 1:36:00 PM

Hempstead, NY - Hofstra University alumnae and former basketball and volleyball student-athlete Hilarie Cranmer was featured on CNN's iReport for her work in Haiti following the earthquake.

Cranmer, who played four years of women's basketball from 1984-88 and one year of volleyball, was a two-time Academic All-American and a 2006 inductee into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame.

Cranmer earned All-East Coast Conference honors three times, including first-team accolades as a senior, and was an honorable mention All-America as a sophomore. She currently ranks sixth on Hofstra's all-time scoring list with 1,548 points, and is the school's sixth all-time leading rebounder with 776. After averaging over 14 points and seven rebounds per game over her 110-game career, Hilarie played a year of volleyball while finishing her five-year engineering degree. Cranmer was recognized as Hofstra's CAA legend at the 2006 CAA Basketball Championship.

Now a resident of the Roxbury section of Boston after growing up in Astoria, New York, Cranmer went on to earn her medical degree from Washington University in 1996, and a master's degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004.

Currently an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cranmer has volunteered in a number of disaster relief efforts, including following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the Tsunami in Indonesia.

She has also served as a medical officer at Embangweni Hospital in Malawi and as a field officer with Physicians for Human Rights in post-war Kosovo where she did human rights work, taught ultrasonography and trauma management.

As a member of the faculty in the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Cranmer is the director of the humanitarian studies initiative for residents and the first director of the global women's health fellowship, a partnership with the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology.

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