Employer: State
Health Officer and Senior Administrator, Public Health Division, Wyoming Department
of Health
Previous Employers: Chief, Public Health Branch, Division of Public Health and Interdisciplinary
Education, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and
Services Administration, US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). Acting Deputy Director, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP),
Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS), HHS. Previously served as 11th Luther Terry Fellow/Senior
Clinical Advisor and then Prevention Science Team Lead at ODPHP.
ACPM Activities: Strategic Planning Task Force; ACPM Representative, American Medical
Association Section Council on Preventive Medicine; Young Physician Regent;
Vice-Chair, Continuing Medical Education/Maintenance of Certification
Committee; Adolescent Health Committee; Health Policy Committee; Maintenance of
Certification Part IV Task Force; 2010 Annual Meeting Chair; 2009 Annual
Meeting Policy Track Planning Committee Chair; 2008 Annual Meeting Policy Track
Planning Committee; ACPM Representative, AMA Adult Immunization Policy Group;
ACPM Representative, Planning Committee, AMA/CDC 2nd National
Congress on Public Health Readiness
Other Preventive Medicine Activities and Memberships: American Public Health Association (APHA) Education
Board; Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) Board of
Directors; ASTHO Performance Policy Committee; Chair, Training Impact Task
Force, Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice;
Editorial Board, Northwest Public Health;
Peer Reviewer, American Journal of
Preventive Medicine; APHA Continuing Education Accreditation Committee;
APHA Policy Archive Reviewer; APHA Annual Meeting Continuing Education
Reviewer; Associate, Department of
Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH);
JHBSPH General Preventive Medicine Residency Advisory Committee
Honors and Awards: ACPM Fellowship; 2010 William Kane Rising Star Award; Surgeon General’s
Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Contributions, Healthy Youth for a
Healthy Future (HYHF) Tour; Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH)’s Award for
Outstanding Team Performance, HYHF Team; ASH’s Award for Outstanding Team
Performance, ODPHP Community Strategies Team; ASH’s Award for Outstanding Team
Performance, ODPHP Prevention Science Team; Regional Finalist, White House Fellows
Program; Judge, Public Health Symposium, National Youth Leadership Forum on
Medicine; HHS Indian Health Service Office of Public Health Support Director’s
Award; GlaxoSmithKline Preventive Medicine Residency Scholarship; HHS Primary
Health Care Policy Fellowship
Education/Certification: MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; MD, Pennsylvania State University
College of Medicine; MSEd,
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education; AB, Duke University; Preventive
Medicine Residency, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Neurosurgery Residency, Penn State
Hershey Medical Center; Board Certified in
General Preventive Medicine/Public Health; Medical licenses: WY, MD, PA
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Dr. Blaney is a medical epidemiologist within the CDC's Special Pathogens Branch.