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Public Health, Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Preventive Medicine

ID: 727242 Louisiana, USA

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Expert is presently a State Epidemiologist. He received an MD degree from the University of Paris, France, Medical School, specializing in tropical medicine, microbiology and immunology. Later he obtained a MS in Parasitology from LSU Medical Center, New Orleans and an MPH&TM from Tulane University and did a residency of preventive medicine (public health) in Texas. He is board certified in preventive medicine. Expert worked 38 years in public health, mostly in communicable disease control programs, in malaria and leprosy control in Vanuatu, leprosy control in Texas, tuberculosis and STD in Louisiana, tuberculosis in North Carolina, schistosomiasis in Cameroon, hospital infection control in Saudi Arabia. He has also taught infectious disease epidemiology at the University of South Florida School of Public Health in Tampa, Florida and presently at the Louisiana State University School of Public Health.

US Center for Disease Control (CDC)/ Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Consultant – Morocco Ministry of Health - Pandemic Influenza plan development -Rabat, Morocco Nov 2008US CDC/CSTE Consultant – Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention & Control, 2008, Atlanta, GA Sep 2008US CDC/CSTE Consultant – Training workshop for Rapid Response Team of human with influenza A (H5N1) Infection - Beijing, China, Sep 2007USAID Consultant - Vector Biology & Control Project Malaria control - Niger Sep-Oct 1991, Apr-May 1992WHO Short Term Consultant, Leprosy course -Suva, Fiji, Aug 1979

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1976 Degree: MPH&TM Subject: Epidemiology, Tropical Medicine Institution: Tulane U School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Year: 1976 Degree: MS Subject: Microbiology, parasitology Institution: Louisiana State U Health Science Center
Year: 1971 Degree: Dip Microbio & Immuno Subject: Microbiology & Immunology Institution: Institut Pasteur
Year: 1970 Degree: Dip TM Subject: Tropical Medicine Institution: U Paris School of Medicine
Year: 1968 Degree: MD Subject: Medicine Institution: U Paris School of Medicine

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2000 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: State Epidemiologist Department: Office of Public Health
Responsibilities:
Direct the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section of the Louisiana Office of Public health responsible for infectious disease surveillance and outbreak investigation.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1999 to 1996 Employer: North Carolina Department of Health Title: Medical Director, TB Control Program Department: Communicable Disease Epidemiology
Responsibilities:
Direct the Tuberculosis Control Program of the State Department of Health, provide consultation to counties with no TB control physicians
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1998 to 1999 Employer: College of Public Health, University of South Florida Title: Associate Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Department: Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics,
Responsibilities:
Teaching and Research in infectious disease epidemiology
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1992 to 1998 Employer: Saudi Aramco Medical Services, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Title: Senior Epidemiology Specialist Department: Preventive Medicine Services Division,
Responsibilities:
Direct the Epidemiology Services Unit with a staff of 24, including 1--surveillance and control of communicable diseases for a population of 300,000 throughout Saudi Arabia, 2--surveillance and control of hospital acquired infections for two large hospitals in the Eastern Province (compliant with JCAHO requirements) 3--inspection of infection control programs for 15 contracted hospitals throughout the country.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1990 to 1992 Employer: Louisiana Department of Health Title: Public Health Medical Consultant (Environmental Epidemiology, Cancer Control) Department: Office of Public Health
Responsibilities:
direction to the Environmental Epidemiology and Cancer Control Section and provide consultation on the health effects resulting from environmental hazards to the Department of Environmental Quality and physicians throughout the State.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1985 to 1990 Employer: Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine Title: Chief, USAID-Tulane U. Schistosomiasis Research Project, Yaounde, Cameroon. Department: Department of Tropical Medicine,
Responsibilities:
Supervise a team of 2 PhDs (Parasitology and Malacology) and an Administrator, provide consultation to the Cameroon Government Ministry of Health, to the Institute of Medical Research, supervise field research of Cameroonian PhD candidates, plan and implementthe National School Survey and the longitudinal studies in the research villages.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1980 to 1985 Employer: Louisiana Department of Health Title: Chief, Sections of Venereal Disease, Tuberculosis, Environmental Epidemiology Department: Office of Public Health
Responsibilities:
The Chief of these Sections provided overall direction for these surveillance and control programs, supervising the Section staff and the administration of the programs, serving as a medical consultant to the staff and to physicians throughout the State.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1980 to 1980 Employer: Louisiana Department of Health Title: Director, Jefferson Parish Health Unit, Department: Office of Public Health
Responsibilities:
Provide direction to the Jefferson Parish Health Unit (Staff 200), carry out infectious disease (TB, STD) clinics.

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
WHO Short Term Consultant, Leprosy course, Suva, Fiji, Aug 1979
USAID Consultant - Vector Biology & Control Project Malaria control Niger Sep-Oct 1991, Apr-May 1992
CDC Technical Consultant Training for Influenza,Atlanta, GA Feb 27-Mar 1,2006
US CDC/CSTE Consultant – Training workshop for Rapid Response Team of human with influenza A (H5N1) Infection, Beijing, China, Sep 2007
US CDC/CSTE Consultant – Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention & Control, 2008, Atlanta, GA Sep 2008
US CDC/CSTE Consultant – Morocco Ministry of Health Pandemic Influenza plan development, Rabat, Morocco Nov 2008

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
American College of Preventive Medicine, American College of Epidemiology, Delta Omega Society,
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
Louisiana Public Health Association, Association for Professionals in Infection Control
Jefferson Parish Medical Society, Louisiana State Medical Society (Public Health Committee),
American Medical Association
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine (Fellow)
Licenses / Certifications
License to practice medicine in Texas, 1978, in Louisiana, 1979, in Georgia 1997, and North Carolina 1998.
Certification of specialization in public health by American Board of Preventive Medicine, 1978
Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, 1979
Member of the American College of Epidemiology, 1982
Awards / Recognition
Bronze medal for MD Thesis, University of Paris, 1968
Specia ® prize of Tropical Medicine, University of Paris, 1968
William Roy Memorial award, Louisiana VD Association, 1984
Dr. E.H. Barton Memorial Award, Louisiana Public Health Association, 1985
University of South Florida College of Public Health Student Association, Outstanding Teacher Award for 1998-99
Publications and Patents Summary
74 publications in peer reviewed medical journals

Fields of Expertise

disease outbreaks, disease reservoirs, endemic disease, epidemiology, infectious disease transmission, public health, public health epidemiology, preventive medicine, environmental epidemiology, chronic disease epidemiology

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