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; breastfeeding; perinatal data; maternal mortality. |
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Guthrie S. Birkhead, MD, MPH
Deputy Commissioner, Office of Public Health, NYSDOH
Assoc Professor of Epidemiology, SPH
Special Interests: HIV/AIDS epidemiology, prevention & treatment; Communicable disease epidemiology; Public health surveillance; Immunization programs; Lyme disease.
Debra S. Blog, MD, MPH *
Director, Bureau of Immunization, NYSDOH
Assistant Director, Preventive Medicine Residency Program
Special Interests: Immunizations; children with special health care needs; children's environmental health.
David Pratt, MD, MPH*
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
Director, Congenital Malformations Registry,
Center for Environmental Health, 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.
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
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Science, NYSDOH
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, SPH
Special Interests: Communicable disease outbreak investigation; AIDS epidemiology; tuberculosis, emerging infections.
Kimberly Noyes, MD, MPH*
Director, Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, NYSDOH
Special Interests: communicable disease surveillance, influenza, communicable disease in pregnancy, women's health.
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
Consultant in Correctional Health Care
Assistant Affiliate Professor, School of Public Health,
University of Washington; 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
