2008 Confirmed Faculty Biographies
Paul Aitken, MD, MPH
Clinical Preventive
Medicine for the PH/GPM Specialty
Dr. Aitken is now an
Associate Professor of Family and
Community Medicine at Penn State
University’s Milton S. Hershey College of
Medicine and Program Director of the Penn
State/Good Samaritan Hospital Residency in
Family & Community Medicine in Lebanon,
PA. He is board-certified in Family
Medicine and Preventive Medicine.
After graduating from the
State University of New York at Buffalo
School of Medicine, Dr. Aitken served an
internship in obstetrics and gynecology at
Duke University Medical Center, Durham,
NC. Afterwards he completed training in
General Preventive Medicine at the State
University of New York at Stony Brook
School of Medicine and received a Master
of Public Health degree at the School of
Public Health at Columbia University in
New York City.
Prior coming to Penn State,
he was Assistant Professor of Family
Medicine at the University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill and Assistant
Director of the Family Medicine Residency
Program at the New Hanover Regional
Medical Center in Wilmington, NC.
Robert Dana Bradshaw, MD,
MPH
Clinical Preventive Medicine–Infectious
Disease
Dr. Bradshaw is currently
Director of the General Preventive
Medicine (GPM) Residency Program at the
Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD,
and is board certified in both Family
Practice and Preventive Medicine. As an
active duty GPM officer in the Air Force,
he has done field malaria research in
Kenya and participated in outbreak
investigations with the CDC Epidemiology
Intelligience Service (EIS) and similar
military response activities. His career
in the Air Force has included positions as
as Chief of Preventive Medicine at the
Office of the AF Surgeon General and
Director of Military Health System
programs at the DoD Global Emerging
Infections Surveillance and Response
System prior to his service at USUHS.
During his tenure he formulated Air Force
and DoD policies on immunizations and
deployment health among other
responsibilities. Dr. Bradshaw has also
served on the Armed Forces Epidemiology
Board, as ex officio representative
for DoD to the Advisory Committee on
Immunization Practices, as Air Force
liaison to the USPSTF, as a member of
CDC's interagency Yellow Fever Vaccine
Safety working group, and on the DoD
Smallpox and Pandemic Influenza
Preparedness Planning task force.
Ned Calonge, MD, MPH
Epidemiology
Ned Calonge, MD, MPH, is the Chief Medical
Officer of the Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment. He is an
Associate Professor of Family Medicine and
of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at
the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center.
Dr. Calonge is a member and past President
of the Colorado Board of Medical
Examiners.
Nationally, Dr. Calonge is the Chair of the United States
Preventive Services Task Force, a member
of the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention’s (CDC’s) Task Force on
Community Preventive Services, a member of
the CDC’s Evaluating Genomic Applications
for Practice and Prevention (EGAPP)
Workgroup, and a member of the Advisory
Committee on Heritable Disorders and
Genetic Diseases in Newborns and Children
in the Maternal and Child Health Bureau in
the Health Resources and Services
Administration. He received his BA in
Chemistry from The Colorado College, his
MD from the University of Colorado, and
his MPH from the University of Washington;
he is board certified in both Family
Medicine and Preventive Medicine.
Susan Cassidy, MD, JD
Public Health Law
Dr. Cassidy is a board certified Internist
who received her medical degree from
Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
After five years of private practice in
internal medicine, she joined IBM. While
a Medical Director at IBM, Dr. Cassidy
obtained a Juris Doctorate degree from
University of Connecticut School of Law.
Subsequently, she served as Corporate
Medical Director of Disability Products
for Aetna Health Plans.
Dr. Cassidy served on the
Board of Directors and as Chairperson of
the Ethics Committee of the American
College of Occupational and Environmental
Medicine. She served as a member of the
ANSI International Advisory Committee on
Protection of Personal Data and Privacy,
and an advisor to the American Medical
Association’s, Guides to the
Evaluation of Permanent Impairment.
Most recently she was Vice President and
Senior Director of Health Management for
Sanofi-aventis Pharmaceuticals in
Bridgewater, New Jersey. Since leaving
Sanofi, she has established a consultative
practice providing health and employment
law, mediation, and arbitration, services.
Nicholas Davenport, MD, MPH
Management and Administration, Operational
Aerospace Medicine
Captain Davenport currently
serves on active duty in the U.S. Navy as
the Command Flight Surgeon to the Navy and
Marine Corps School of Aviation Safety in
Pensacola FL. He attending the University
of Houston for his B.S. in Physics, and
subsequently worked at NASA-MSC (now
Johnson Space Center) during the Apollo
Program as an aerospace engineer. He
received his MD degree from Baylor College
of Medicine in 1974, and completed two
years of general surgery residency
training at the Baylor Affiliated
Hospitals before entering private practice
in Emergency Medicine. In 1982, Dr.
Davenport joined the US Navy and has
served since in numerous positions in the
Naval Aviation community, including Senior
Medical Officer USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) from
1996-1998. Dr. Davenport was selected for
training in Occupational Medicine and
attended the University of Washington
1988-1990, where he obtained his MPH. In
1994, he attended the Navy Aerospace
Medicine residency, graduating in June
1996 and later served as Associate
Director of the Army-Navy Residency in
Aerospace Medicine in Pensacola, FL. He
is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical
Association, and he holds current
certifications in the specialties of
Aerospace, Occupational, and Emergency
Medicine.
David DeLonga, MD, PhD
The Flight Environment
David M. DeLonga, MD, PhD
is an active duty Commander in the United
States Navy Medical Corps. He is a
graduate of the Navy's Aerospace Medicine
residency program and is currently
assigned to the Naval Medical Center in
Portsmouth, Virginia. Commander DeLonga
is a Naval Flight Surgeon and is board
certified in Aerospace and Occupational
Medicine.
James Fraser, MD
Clinical Aerospace
Medicine
Dr. Fraser completed a
thirty year Navy career and retired as a
Captain (O6) in January 2004. He holds
degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of
Public Health and Doctor of Medicine, all
from the University of Oklahoma. He is
certified in the specialties of Preventive
Medicine (Aerospace Medicine) and Family
Practice. He is a Fellow of the Aerospace
Medical Association and the American
Academy of Family Practice. He is an
emeritus member of the Society of U.S.
Navel Flight Surgeons where he served as
President in 2002 - 2003. In January
2004, he was selected for the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) executive
Service and served as the Manager, Medical
Specialties. In April 2006, he was
selected and is currently serving as the
Deputy Federal Air Surgeon in the Office
of Aerospace Medicine at FAA Headquarters
in Washington, D.C.
Christopher Holland, MD,
MPH
Environmental–Fundamentals
of Occupational Medicine
Dr. Holland is the
President of OEMI, Inc. and has been a
consultant in Occupational Medicine with
Federal Occupational Health and the
Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences for the past 13 years.
Dr. Holland obtained his clinical training
in occupational medicine at Johns
Hopkins. He is board certified in
Occupational and Environmental Medicine,
Emergency Medicine, General Preventive
Medicine/Public Health and Addiction
Medicine. He is Assistant Professor of
Preventive Medicine and Biometrics and has
performed fellowship training in Diving
and Hyperbaric Medicine and Dermatology.
Alex Krist, MD
Clinical Preventive
Medicine
Alex Krist, MD, MPH is an Assistant
Professor of Family Medicine at Virginia
Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond,
Virginia. Dr. Krist graduated from the
University of Virginia medical school in
1996 and completed his residency at
Fairfax Family Practice in 1999. In
2001, Dr. Krist completed a faculty
development and teaching fellowship at VCU
and in 2006 he received his Masters in
Public Health from Johns Hopkins
University. Dr. Krist divides his time
between clinical care, teaching and
research. His research interests focus on
informatics, preventive care,
evidence-based practice, patient
education, shared decision-making and
patient-centered care. He teaches the
prevention, research and evidence-based
medicine curriculums at the Fairfax Family
Practice Residency and an online
prevention course for the VCU medical
students.
Liana Lianov, MD, MPH
Behavior and Mental Health
Dr. Lianov is Director of
the Medicine and Public Health Division of
the American Medical Association (AMA), as
well as Cross-organizational Team Leader
of the Health Lifestyles Team; a member of
the Screening and Preventive Measures
Workgroup for the Physician Consortium for
Performance Improvement; a member of the
Continuing Medical Education Program
Committee; a member of the Employee
Wellness Committee; and AMA Lead Member of
the Planning Committee of the 2008
International Physician’s Health
Conference.
Dr. Lianov is board
certified in Internal Medicine and
Preventive Medicine/Public Health and has
a fellowship certificate in
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. She is a
member of the Policy Committee, the
Lifestyle Task Force and the Membership
Committee for the American College of
Preventive Medicine; as well as a Mentor
for the Preventive Medicine Residency
Rotation of John Stroger Hospital, a
member of the National Diabetes Education
Program Steering Committee and a member of
the External Advisory Committee for the
Health Professional Masters in Public
Health Program at Northwestern University.
John Meyer, MD, MPH
Clinical Occupational
Medicine
Dr. Meyer is Associate Professor of
Medicine in the Division of Public Health
at the University of Connecticut School of
Medicine and directs the NIOSH–funded
residency training program in occupational
medicine there. He joined the UConn
faculty in 2001 after having directed the
residency program at West Virginia
University and teaching at the University
of Manchester in England, where he was
engaged in national occupational
surveillance programs to measure the
extent of work–related illness.
His current areas of research interest and
practice are in the evaluation and
prevention of occupational hazards in
pregnant and fertile women, and in the
health effects of social disparities
arising from occupation. He is active in
resident training and education, having
served as the chair of the Occupational
Medicine Residency Directors Association
from 1997 to 1999, and 2004–5. He also
sits on the NIOSH Occupational Safety and
Health Study Section and serves on the
Board of Directors of the Association of
Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC).
For his work in multidisciplinary training
of residents and safety professionals and
his role in developing distance learning
opportunities in West Virginia and
Appalachia, Dr. Meyer was awarded the
American College of Preventive Medicine’s
“Rising Star” award in 1998.
Sarah Schillie, MD, MPH
Chronic Disease
Sarah F. Schillie, MD, MPH,
MBA, is a graduate of the University of
Missouri School of Medicine. She
completed her Pediatrics residency at
Pennsylvania State University and her
Preventive Medicine residency at SUNY-Stony
Brook. She is board-certified in both
specialties. She received her MPH from
Columbia and MBA from Long Island
University. She served as the Director of
Performance Improvement for the Suffolk
County Department of Health Services (Long
Island) from 2003 - 2007. Currently, she
is an Epidemic Intelligence Service
Officer with the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. Dr. Schillie's
areas of interest include quality
improvement, obesity and cardiovascular
risk-reduction, and cancer screening.
Richard Thomas, MD, MPH
Environmental Health
Doctor Richard Thomas is an
Occupational Medicine Physician at the
National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda,
MD. He also serves as an Associate
Professor on the clinical faculty at
Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland.
Dr. Thomas served for 30 years in the US
Navy including his last tour as an
Associate Professor and Director of the
Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Residency Program from 2002-2005. Prior
to his current position, he was on the
staff of the National Institutes of Health
Occupational Medicine Service, Bethesda,
MD. He has presented at the ACPM Board
Review Course since 1998.
Ryung Suh, MD, MPH
Health Services Management (PH-GPM)
Ryung Suh is a graduate of
the United States Military Academy and
completed his medical, public policy, and
business administration studies at
Georgetown University. He is residency
trained in Occupational and Environmental
Medicine and brings a wealth of clinical,
health administration, policy, and
consulting experiences to the classroom.
He teaches the Health Systems and Policies
in Transition course.
His research interests include the
economic evaluation of health services,
health technology assessment,
pharmacovigilance and drug safety, FDA
regulation and strategic reimbursement,
medical product stewardship, clinical
trial development, global health and
humanitarian assistance, and
organizational development initiatives. He
has published and presented extensively
and has served in various review
capacities for the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the
International Society for
Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research,
the American College of Preventive
Medicine, and other professional
organizations. He has served on the Public
Health Committee of the American Medical
Association, as Vice President of the
Military Section of the American College
of Occupational and Environmental
Medicine, and as President of the
Association of Preventive Medicine
Residents, the American College of
Preventive Medicine.
Heather Young, PhD, MPH,
CHES
Biostatistics
Heather Young, PhD, MPH, is
an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics at The George Washington
University School of Public Health and
Health Services. She has ten years of
experience in biostatistical consulting
and has taught numerous courses in
graduate biostatistics to public health
and health professions students. She
completed her MPH and PhD in epidemiology
at The George Washington University. She
currently teaches courses in Advanced Data
Analysis for Public Health, Design of
Health Studies, and Pesticides and
Cancer. Her areas of research interest
include reproductive cancer, environmental
and occupational exposure assessment, and
health of military and veteran
populations. Dr. Young is currently
involved in research examining cancer
patterns in Gulf War veterans,
reproductive outcomes in Army Chemical
Corps Veterans, cancer disparities and
breast cancer patient navigation in the
District of Columbia. In addition, she
serves as a technical advisor for data
issues for DC’s HIV AIDS Administration
and has served as a statistical consultant
on several studies for the Institute of
Medicine’s Medical Follow-Up Agency.
Douglas Ball, MD, MPH
Hazard Recognition, Evaluation and Control
Dr. Douglas Ball is a board
certified preventive medicine physician
who has been the Medical Director for the
Bureau of Emergency Management for the New
York City Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene for the past several years. In
this setting he worked to foster
collaboration between city agencies and
private industry in emergency preparedness
planning. Dr. Ball graduated magna cum
laude from the University of Utah with a
bachelor’s degree in Physics. He received
his MD from Washington University in St.
Louis, Missouri. During his time at
Washington University, he also completed
an MA in Molecular and Cellular Biology,
and was a recipient of the American Heart
Association Research Fellowship Prize. He
completed residency training in General
Preventive Medicine and Public Health at
the University of Rochester School of
Medicine and Dentistry.
His previous experiences
include practice as an Occupational Health
Physician for Concentra Medical Centers.
He holds an Emergency Management Institute
PDS certificate from FEMA, and has
graduated from IS-300 and 400 courses. He
has been a consultant for RAND regarding
emergency preparedness standards. He is
currently serving as a consultant for FEMA,
for the development of resource typing
definitions that are applicable to public
health.
Mirza I. Rahman, MD, MPH
Health Services Management (Systems-Based
Practice)
Dr. Rahman is the Worldwide Vice President
responsible for Health Economics and
Outcomes Research in the Evidence Based
Medicine Department at Ortho Clinical
Diagnostics. Prior to this, he was a
Senior Director and head of the Health
Economics & Clinical Outcomes Research
group in the Medical Affairs Department at
Centocor, Inc. Previously, Dr. Rahman
served as a Director in the Benefit-Risk
Management Department at Johnson & Johnson
where his primary responsibility was to
support the Biologics and Cardiovascular
Therapeutic Areas as the Safety
Surveillance physician for a number of
products.
Additionally, Dr. Rahman
serves as a volunteer Attending Physician
preceptor in the Bryn Mawr Family Practice
Residency Program and is
an Adjunct
Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology in the
Quality Assurance/Regulatory Affairs
Graduate Program at the Temple University
School of Pharmacy. Dr. Rahman also
serves as the voluntary medical editor for
the monthly Guyana Journal,
a periodical published in New York for the
Caribbean community.
Prior to joining Johnson &
Johnson, Dr. Rahman was a Director at
Merck & Co. Before this, he
was an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Family Medicine, with
a joint appointment in the Ireland Cancer
Research Center, and the Department of
Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the Case
Western Reserve University School of
Medicine. Preceding this, he served as the
Medical Director of the Tri-Community
Health Center in Suffolk County, NY.
Dr. Rahman graduated from
the 7-year BS/MD Sophie Davis School of
Biomedical Education at the City College
of New York, earned his Doctor of Medicine
degree from the Stony Brook School of
Medicine, and earned his Master of Public
Health degree from the Columbia University
School of Public Health. He completed a
residency in Family Medicine, serving as
Chief Resident, before completing a second
residency in Public Health & General
Preventive Medicine, all at the Stony
Brook School of Medicine. Dr. Rahman is a
Fellow of both the American Academy of
Family Physicians and the American College
of Preventive Medicine.
