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Faculty Mentors
Residents work closely with faculty mentors on choosing
coursework, planning and carrying out practicum rotations,
and exploring career paths. The following list includes
many, but not all, of the mentors available to residents,
with a brief description of their areas of interests.
Mary
S. Applegate, MD, MPH *
Director, Preventive Medicine Residency
Interim Dean, School of Public Health
Special Interests: Unintended pregnancy;
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Guthrie S. Birkhead, MD, MPH
Assoc
Professor of Epidemiology, SPH
Director, Center for
Community Health & AIDS Institute,
NYSDOH
Special Interests: HIV/AIDS
epidemiology, prevention & treatment; Communicable
disease epidemiology; Public health surveillance;
Immunization programs; Lyme disease.
Debra S. Blog, MD, MPH *
Medical Director,
Immunization Program, Bureau of Communicable Disease
Control, NYSDOH
Special Interests: Immunizations; children
with special health care needs; children's
environmental health.
Carolyn Callner
Deputy Commissioner,
Schenectady County Public Health Services
Special
Interests: Local public health services.
James B. Crucetti, MD, MPH
Commissioner,
Albany County Health Department
Clinical Assoc
Professor of Health Policy, Management, & Behavior,
SPH
Special Interests: Public health - managed
care partnerships, clinical preventive medicine.
Rachel M. De Long, MD, MPH *
Director, Bureau of Child and Adolescent Health,
NYSDOH
Special Interests: Early
childhood; building family assets; rural health.
Charlotte Druschel, MD, MPH
Research
Physician, Reproductive Surveillance, NYSDOH
Asst.
Professor of Epidemiology, SPH
Special
Interests: Birth defects surveillance; perinatal and
pediatric epidemiology
Carolyn Grosvenor, MD, MPH *
Staff Physician, Stratton Veterans
Administration Medical Center
Special Interests:
Urban health; health care quality improvement.
Heather Mann, DO, MPH *
Medical Director, Bureau of Chronic Disease
Services, NYSDOH
Special Interests:
Cancer prevention, screening, and care; tobacco control.
Matthew Mauer, DO, MPH *
Public Health
Physician, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational
Epidemiology, NYSDOH
Asst. Professor of
Epidemiology, SPH
Special Interests:
Environmental and Occupational Health.
Jean McMahon, MD
Occupational medicine physician
Special Interests: Environmental and
Occupational Health.
James Miller, MD, MPH *
Director, Bioterrorism
Preparedness Program, Bureau of Communicable Disease
Control, NYSDOH
Special Interests:
Bioterrorism response; public health preparedness.
David C. Momrow, MPH
Senior Vice President
& Director of Cancer Control, American Cancer
Society
Clinical Assoc. Professor, Dept of Health
Policy, Management, & Behavior, SPH
Special
Interests: Cancer Prevention; tobacco control;
health promotion; population-based interventions;
cancer epidemiology and surveillance; cancer
advocacy.
Dale Morse, MD, MS
Director, Office of
Public Health & Science, NYSDOH
Professor,
Department of Epidemiology, SPH
Special
Interests: Communicable disease outbreak
investigation; AIDS epidemiology; tuberculosis, emerging
infections.
Margaret Oxtoby, MD, MPH *
Director, Bureau of TB
Control, NYSDOH
Asst. Professor of
Epidemiology, SPH
Special Interests:
Tuberculosis prevention and control; HIV/AIDS epidemiology.
Lou Crocker Smith, MD, MPH *
Director,
Bureau of HIV/AIDS Epidemiology,
NYSDOH
Special Interests:HIV/AIDS; hepatitis;
epidemiology, prevention, and health care issues for
chronic infectious diseases.
Marc F. Stern, MD, MPH
Medical Director,
Associate Deputy Secretary, Washington State Department
of Correctional Services; PMR Journal Club Director
Special Interests:
Health services research, evidence-based medicine; clinical epidemiology,
outcomes research, medical education, prison
medicine.
Barbara Wallace, MD, MPH *
Director, Bureau of Communicable Disease
Control, NYSDOH
Asst. Professor of Epidemiology, SPH
Special Interests:
Communicable disease epidemiology & control; outbreak investigation;
antibiotic resistance; arthropod-borne disease.
* Graduates of the New York State
Preventive Medicine Residency Program
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