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Published over 100 scientific
articles
, book chapters and scholarly reports. |
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Won CDC Langmuir Prize, 1982
-- Awarded yearly to one "EIS" officer (CDC elite epidemiological
trainee) |
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Many scientific contributions in the areas of environmental health,
particularly on the effects of heat, cold, and chemical agents |
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Assigned by CDC
to Spain
during 1985-1987 as solo investigator under
intergovernmental bilateral agreement |
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"Established the Cause" of the
1981Toxic Oil Syndrome disaster (20,000 cases; 300 deaths) in Spain by
means of a series of cutting edge studies. |
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Led CDC's Successful Investigation
of the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) outbreak of
1989 |
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Led successful project to convert CDC's flagship publication,
the"MMWR," to electronic format, making it universally available to all
without charge over the Internet. Functioning since the early 1990's, it
was one of the first electronic scientific journals. |
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Founded two training
fellowships at the CDC: |
- Public Health Informatics Fellow Program
(started in 1996) one of the first training programs of its kind in the
world, allowing side-by-side teaching of public health and information
technology with consequent synthesis of techniques of the two
specialties and leading to entirely new ways of doing business in public
health
- Joint Medical Toxicology Fellowship (with Emory University --
started in 2000) is the first accredited subspecialty medical education
program at the CDC.
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Elected to Fellowship in the
academic societies of my three clinical specialties
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Served as member of the certifying Board in
medical toxicology
for the past seven years
(2000-2006). The Board evaluates and examines knowledge and credentials
and of U.S. physicians seeking to qualify in the specialty.
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Clarified the sensitive issue of cardiac
health effects in Vieques, Puerto Rico
. In 2001, I developed and coordinated an international (Spain, Mexico,
and the USA) review showing the absence of any scientific evidence of
an alleged excess of pericardial disease. Importantly, this
international process maintained the integrity of the science and permitted
sufficient trust by the Puerto Rican public for the results of the review
to be accepted.
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Led a 30-scientist CDC/ATSDR field team that
worked with FBI to conduct a forensic evaluation of the
first U.S. anthrax-contaminated building in Boca Raton, Florida
(summer of 2002). This was FBI's largest-ever collection of
"hazardous evidence."
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Led CDC Real-Time Surveillance
Project involving a cooperative relationship
with the National Association of Poison Control Centers and
resulting (in 2003) in the first comprehensive, nationwide real-time surveillance system
useful in WMD-based terrorism surveillance.
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Led State Dept Program monitoring activity and supporting civilian re-employment of Iraqi
Scientists with WMD expertise and knowledge of other
advanced weapons systems, working in Baghdad from Aug 2005 thru Aug 2006.
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Senior Partner -- Martin, Blanck & Associates -- Since 2007, Consultant in toxicology,
epidemiology and biodefense at a leading healthcare consulting firm that brings
together a team of partners with unparalleled leadership experience as health executives,
policy makers, and physicians and who have served throughout the federal government and
the private sector.
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