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Jill Waalen, MD, MPH, FACPM
West Regent
Dr.
Jill Waalen is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Molecular and Experimental Medicine at The Scripps
Research Institute in La Jolla, California, specializing
in Genetic Epidemiology. She has published more than 30
articles on studies involving the genetic epidemiology of
obesity, hemochromatosis, anemia and other hematologic
diseases as well as screening for domestic violence and
translational cancer research. She also serves as
Associate Director of the University of California San
Diego-San Diego State University General Preventive
Medicine Residency Program.
Dr.
Waalen has been active nationally as Director of ACPM’s
Inservice Examination for Preventive Medicine residents
since 2002 and as chair of the ACPM’s annual meeting in
Miami in 2007. She has served on ACPM’s GME Committee and
was recently named co-chair of the College’s annual Board
Review Course. Dr. Waalen has also worked as a medical
journalist writing for publications including the Annals
of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the National Cancer
Institute, and World Book Health and Medicine Annual, and
has received the AMA Pettis Award in Science Writing.
Dr.
Waalen earned a BA in biology and history from Concordia
College in Moorhead , Minnesota, an MS in physiology from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a graduate
certificate in science communication from the University
of California Santa Cruz, an MD from the University of
Wisconsin School of Medicine, and an MPH from San Diego
State University and completed the General Preventive
Medicine Residency at UC San Diego. She is a Fellow of
the American College of Preventive Medicine.
ACPM Board of
Regents
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