EXECUTIVE BOARD CANDIDATES

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1 ALFRED DEMARIA, JR., MD President-Elect Dr. Al DeMaria serves as Medical Director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He has been the State Epidemiologist for Massachusetts since He is a graduate of Boston University and Harvard Medical School. He trained in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, New York, and in Infectious Diseases at Boston City Hospital and the Boston University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the Department of Public Health in 1989, he was in academic medicine and then private practice. Dr. DeMaria is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. He serves on committees of the Massachusetts Medical Society, on the Board of Advisors of the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, on the board of The Public Health Museum, and as President of the Northeast Branch of the American Society for Microbiology. He has served in the past on the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and as a liaison member of the Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Tuberculosis. Dr. DeMaria has been a member of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists since 1989, and is currently on the Executive Board as Infectious Disease Chair. In the past, has been a lead consultant in blood safety, nosocomial infection and hepatitis; served on a CSTE/NASTAD Joint HIV Surveillance Working Group; and presently is CSTE representative on the Transfusion Transmitted Disease Committee of AABB. Dr. DeMaria is employed solely by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and has no conflicts of interest to disclose. 217

2 RENEE CALANAN, PHD, MS Chronic Disease / Maternal and Child Health / Oral Health Chair Dr. Renee Calanan serves as the Lead Chronic Disease and Oral Health Epidemiologist at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). Colorado participated in CDC s chronic disease integration pilot project, and Renee has been instrumentally involved in those efforts. For example, her related roles include creating an integrated chronic disease surveillance system, serving as a member of the Obesity Integration Steering Committee, building capacity in chronic disease epidemiology, and co-authoring the chronic disease state plan. Renee also serves as Co-Chair of the Oral Health Surveillance Advisory Committee. Prior to joining CDPHE in 2009, Renee was an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer from at the Utah Department of Health, where she gained a very well-rounded public health experience. Renee s projects during her two years in Utah ranged from the topic areas of infectious disease surveillance and outbreak response to environmental and occupational health and chronic disease epidemiology. Renee has been a member of CSTE and has attended every CSTE annual conference since In 2009, Renee joined the CSTE Chronic Disease Epidemiology Capacity Subcommittee; in 2010, she became Chair of the subcommittee. Highlights of Renee s accomplishments as a member and as Chair of the subcommittee include: (1) co-author of the report on chronic disease epidemiology capacity from the 2009 National Assessment of Epidemiology Capacity and the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Capacity State-Based Profiles, (2) participant of CSTE s 3rd Workforce Summit, (3) member of the Chronic Disease/ Maternal and Child Health/ Oral Health Conference Planning Committee, (4) CSTE representative on the workgroup to revise the National Chronic Disease Indicators, (5) reviewer of the CSTE position statement on the National Oral Health Surveillance System, (6) facilitator of subcommittee meetings and session moderator at the annual conferences, and (5) participant on review panels for two CSTE RFP/FOAs. Most recently, Renee has been participating on a work group with representation by CSTE, NACDD, and CDC to organize webinars and trainings for chronic disease epidemiologists, and she has been leading the considerable effort to develop an orientation manual for chronic disease epidemiologists. She is looking forward to disseminating the results of the subcommittee s work this summer, as she feels the orientation manual will be a valuable resource for chronic disease epidemiologists across the nation. Renee has a PhD in Epidemiology and Community Health and an MS in Epidemiology from the University at Buffalo. Her graduate research was related to chronic disease management as well as the associations between chronic disease and oral health. She currently is assigned to CDPHE through CDC s chronic disease epidemiology state-assignee program. Renee is proud is serve as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service. Disclosures: Dr. Calanan has no potential conflicts of interest regarding potential service as a member of the CSTE Board. 218 JUNE 9-13 PASADENA CALIFORNIA

3 GREGG REED, MPH for Chronic Disease / Maternal and Child Health / Oral Health Chair Gregg Reed provides epidemiological support to the Oral Health and Maternal and Child Health programs within the North Dakota Department of Health. He is actively involved on several state and national committees, including lead of the department epidemiologist team. Through his service on the Chronic Disease/MCH/ Oral Health committee of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) since 2010, he has contributed to the assessment of epidemiologic capacity and advancement of public health surveillance and policy. In 2012, he co-authored and presented two position statements at the CSTE Annual Conference. He also presented recommended Chronic Disease Indicator revisions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He recently co-authored an abstract titled Revision of the National Oral Health Surveillance System, to be presented at this conference. Formerly, Gregg served as the founding board president of Upper Valley Community Health Services Inc., a regional not-for-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Idaho. He was also employed as an analyst/representative for a diabetes healthcare and research center and served on state, regional, and local committees. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and a Master of Public Health from Idaho State University. As a graduate student, he served on the University student body Finance Committee. He is a 2011 graduate of the North Central Public Health Leadership Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Gregg is employed by the North Dakota Department of Health and his position is funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services operating divisions: 1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 2) Health Resources and Services Administration. No known or potential conflicts of interest exist. 219

4 KRISTY BRADLEY, DVM, MPH Executive Board Candidates for Member At-Large Kristy Bradley has been the Oklahoma State Epidemiologist since 2007 and the Oklahoma State Public Health Veterinarian since Between 2000 and 2007, she served as the Deputy State Epidemiologist and intermittently as the Interim State Epidemiologist. Dr. Bradley has a myriad of roles and responsibilities including epidemiologic direction of the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) Prevention & Preparedness Services; oversight of disease outbreak investigations; cross-programmatic consultation services; coordination of the agency s publications and presentations standards review; and leadership of the OSDH strategic planning teams focused on improving immunization coverage of children and adolescents, increasing capacity for all-hazards emergency preparedness and response, reducing motor vehicle crash-related injuries & fatalities, and decreasing incidence of selected communicable diseases. She is also involved in teaching with adjunct assistant professor appointments in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oklahoma College of Public Health and in the Center for Veterinary Health Sciences at Oklahoma State University. In September 2012, she was selected to serve on the CDC Office of Infectious Diseases, Board of Scientific Counselors. Dr. Bradley is a graduate of Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine. After obtaining her D.V.M. degree, she practiced small animal medicine and surgery for ten years. At this career juncture, she pursued education in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Oklahoma, College of Public Health. Immediately upon graduation, she launched her public health career at OSDH. Currently, Dr. Bradley is completing her fifth and final year on the Executive Board of the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (NASPHV) after completing terms as President-elect, President, and Vicepresident. As NASPHV President-elect, she served on the CSTE Conference Planning Committee for two years. During her tenure as NASPHV President, Dr. Bradley represented the zoonoses specialty on the Infectious Disease Steering Committee. She has also participated in the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Tribal Epidemiology subcommittees. Most recently, she was a member of the Bylaws Ad hoc Committee. She eagerly looks forward to attending the annual CSTE conference each year and has been a CSTE member since Disclosure: Dr. Bradley has no potential conflicts of interest regarding potential service as a member of the CSTE Board. 220 JUNE 9-13 PASADENA CALIFORNIA

5 MEGAN DAVIES, MD Executive Board Candidates for Member At-Large Megan Davies is the State Epidemiologist and Chief of the Epidemiology Section of the North Carolina Division of Public Health. Megan received her BA degree from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, and her MD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She completed residency training in Family Medicine at East Carolina University and then practiced family medicine in western North Carolina for four years. Her epidemiology training was in CDC s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS 1998), following which she served as a staff epidemiologist with the Center for Disease Control in the Center for Injury Prevention and Control. In 2002, Megan moved to the North Carolina Division of Public Health as a Career Epidemiology Field Officer working on communicable disease and public health preparedness. In 2009, she took the position of State Epidemiologist for North Carolina. As Chief of the Epidemiology Section, Megan oversees surveillance, outbreak response, and programmatic activities in communicable diseases, occupational and environmental health, public health preparedness, and the state laboratory. Megan joined CSTE in 1999, and was active in injury epidemiology activities, including serving on the Injury Surveillance Workgroups and helping produce the first State Injury Indicators Report. She maintains an interest in injury prevention, as well as being active in the areas of communicable diseases and public health informatics. Megan is employed by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. She has no other salary sources and no conflicts of interest to serving on the CSTE Executive Board. 221