Alina Dorian appointed as principal of Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Board of Regents of Prelacy Armenian Schools Thursday, June 30, announced the appointment of Dr. Alina Dorian as the new principal of Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School, Asbarez reported.

Dr. Dorian received her Bachelors of Science degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in Biology, with an emphasis in Botanical Sciences and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health in International Health, Health Systems Management.

Dr. Alina Dorian has spent a good part of her professional career as an educator, as a director for numerous grants and as a project manager for full-scale systems restructuring and development. For the past eight year, Dr. Dorian has been a professor and the Assistant Director of the Center for Public Health and Disasters at the University of California Los Angeles. Dr. Dorian also serves as a lecturer for the Loma Linda University and is a trainer to the State and Local Public Health Departments and other governmental agencies.

Apart from her professional career Dr. Dorian has been an active member of our community. She has received her pre-school and elementary education at the Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School and then continued her middle and high school education at Holy Martyrs Ferrahian Armenian School. As a youth, she was an active member of both the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) as well as Homenetmen. In the past two years, Dr. Dorian has worked closely with Prelacy Armenian Schools in their emergency preparedness and response programs. Dr. Dorian has been working in Armenia and in particular, Karabakh, for the past 16 years. She authored Karabakh’s first National Health Plan in 1996 and was later conferred a medal from then-President of NKR Arkady Ghukassian for her substantial contribution in the development of the social sector in Nagorno Karabakh.