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She won a silver medal in the 400 medley relay at the 2004 Olympics in Athens among a long national-team career.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk Sell received her Ph.D., from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in health policy and management. She is a professor at the Bloomberg School in the Department of Health and Engineering and a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think back on my time at Stanford as a time of great joy,\u201d Kirk Sell said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cscaa.org\/news\/2021\/award-gmelich-2wz86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a press release Wednesday<\/a>. \u201cThere were things to get done, and I was doing them\u2026 I also loved the camaraderie of being with my team and, of course, the winning. You don&#8217;t realize that there are not the same opportunities to win once you head out into the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of us are aware of Dr. Sell\u2019s accomplishments as a swimmer, but the McCaffree Award spotlights the impressive impact she is having through her work in the public health and biosecurity field,\u201d CSCAA Executive Director <strong>Samantha Barany<\/strong> said. \u201cTara demonstrates the spirit of the Charles McCaffree Award perfectly, and I am thrilled the CSCAA will recognize this outstanding community member for the work she is doing outside of the pool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CSCAA will hold its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cscaa.org\/meetings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">62nd annual meetings and awards celebration<\/a> at the Hard Rock Caf\u00e9 in Orlando in May. 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