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Admin. Team (details)	Clinician Team (details)	Educator Team (details)	Environment. Team (details)	Epidem. Team (details)	Lab. Team (details)
Deborah Klein Walker (team leader)	Mary Mortensen & Kristine Gebbie (team leaders)	Karen Greendale (team leader)	Robert Marino (team leader)	Peter Rumm (team leader)	Lou Turner (team leader)
Robert Jones	Elizabeth Tilson	Karina Boehm	Susan Metcalf	Bob Teclaw	Eric C. Blank
Kathy Peppe	Alan Guttmacher	Andrew Faucett	Luann White	Jennifer Woodward	Frances Downes
Jean Chabut	Theresa Long	Betsy Gettig	Elaine Krueger	Robert Rolfs	Katherine Kelley
Joe Kimbrell		Kathleen Miner	Harold Bengsch	Richard Hopkins	Scott Zimmerman
Vaughn Upshaw		Kathy Vincent	Luanne Williams	Tal Holmes	Steven Hinrichs
Michele Lyoyd-Puryear			Jan Friedman	Bob Fineman	Gary McKee
Amy Klein				Jesse Huang
Joyce Essien				Laurina Williams

Details

Administrator Team Members Deborah Klein Walker (team leader)
Name	Position	Employer
Deborah Klein Walker, Ed.D Debbie.Walker@state.ma.us	Associate Commissioner	Massachusetts Dept of Public Health
Robert A. Jones, MPH bjones@hhcorp.org	Senior Policy Analyst Office of Policy Planning and Product Development	Marion County Health and Hospital Assn.
Kathy Peppe kpeppe@gw.odh.state.oh.us	MCH Program	Ohio Department of Health
Jean Chabut chabutj@state.mi.us	Director of Chronic Disease & Injury Control	Michigan Department of Community Health/ Community Public Health Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Control
Joseph Kimbrell, MPH jkimbrell@lphi.org		Louisiana Public Health Institute
Vaughn Mamlin Upshaw, DrPh, EdD vaughn_upshaw@unc.edu	Clinical Assistant Professor	Health Policy and Administration School of Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michele Lyoyd-Puryear, M.D., Ph.D. Mpuryear@HRSA.GOV	Chief, Genetic Services Branch	Health Resources Services Administration Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Amy Klein, M.P.H. aklein@astho.org	Senior Analyst, Genetics	Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Joyce D. K. Essien, MD, MBA jessien@sph.emory.edu	Director	Center for Public Health Practice Rollins School of Public Health Emory University

Clinician Team Members Mary Mortensen & Kristine Gebbie (team leaders)
Name	Position	Employer
Kristine Gebbie, Dr.P.H., R.N. kmg24@columbia.edu	Associate Professor of Nursing	Columbia University School of Nursing Center for Health Policy
Mary Ellen Mortensen, M.D. mortenm@nationwide.com	Medical Director	Nationwide Health Plan
Elizabeth Tilson, MD, MPH betsy_tilson@med.unc.edu		Preventive Medicine Department of Social Medicine CB #7240 Wing D, Medical School University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7240
Alan Guttmacher, MD ag185x@NIH.GOV	Senior Clinical Advisor to the Director	Human Genome Research Institute National Institutes of Health Bldg 31/Room 4B09 Bethesda, MD 20892-6400
Theresa Long, MD teresal@cmhhealth.org	Assistant Health Commissioner and Medical Director	Columbus Health Department 181 Washington Blvd Columbus OH 43215

Educator Team Members Karen Greendale (team leader)
Name	Position	Employer
Karen Greendale, M.A., C.G.C. kxg03@health.state.ny.us		Bureau of Chronic Disease Services
Karina Boehm kb77i@nih.gov	Chief, Health Promotion Branch Office of Communications and Health Education	National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research National Institutes of Health Bldg 45/Room 4As19 Bethesda, MD 20892-6400
Andrew Faucett, MS, CSC aif3@cdc.gov	ATPM Fellow	PHPPO Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Kathleen Miner, PhD, MPH, CHES kminer@sph.emory.edu	Associate Dean for Applied Public Health	Rollins School of Public Health Emory University 1518 Clifton Road Atlanta, Ga 30322
Kathy Vincent kvincent@adph.state.al.us	Staff Assistant to the State Health Officer	Alabama Department of Public Health The RSA Tower, Suite 1552 P. O. Box 303017 Montgomery, AL 36130-3017

Environmentalist Team Members Robert Marino (team leader)
Name	Position	Employer
Robert (Bob) Marino, M.D.,M.P.H. marinorf@columb30.dhec.state.sc.us		South Carolina Dept of Health & Environmental Control Division of Health Hazard Evaluation
Susan Metcalf, MD SMetcalf@cdc.gov	Chief	Exposure Investigations Section Division of Heath Assessment and Consultation ATSDR
Luann White, Ph.D., DABT lawhite@tulane.edu	Director	Center for Applied Environmentsl Public Health School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine MS TW-43 1430 Tulane Avenue Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70112-2699
Elaine Krueger elaine.krueger@state.ma.us	Chief	Environmental Toxicology Environmental Health Mass. Department of Public Health 250 Washington, 7th Floor Boston, MA 02108
Harold Bengsch harold_bengsch@ci.springfield.mo.us (secretary Diane Carr)	Director of Health	Springfield/Green County Health Department 227 East Chestnut Expressway Springfield, MO 65802
Luanne Williams, Pharm.D. luanne.williams@ncmail.net	Toxicologist	Occupational and Environmental Epidemiologist Branch North Carolina Dept of Health & Human Services 1912 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-1912
Jan M. Friedman, MD, PhD JUF5@cdc.gov	ATPM Career Development Awardee in Genetics	CDC, NCEH, Division of Birth Defects and Disabilities, F-34

Epidemiologist Team Members Peter Rumm (team leader)
Name	Position	Employer
Peter D. Rumm, M.D., M.P.H. rummpd@dhfs.state.wi.us	Chief Medical Officer & State Epidemiologist for Chronic Disease and Health Promotion	Wisconsin Division of Public Health
Robert (Bob) Teclaw, D.V.M., M.P.H., Ph.D. bteclaw@gwnet.isd.state.in.us	State Epidemiologist	Indiana State Department of Health 2 North Meridian Street Indianapolis, IN 46206
Jennifer A. Woodward jennifer.a.woodward@state.or.us	InFHO Unit Manager	Department of Human Services Oregon Health Division 800 NE Oregon St, Suite 225 Portland, OR 97232
Robert T. Rolfs, MD, MPH rrolfs@doh.state.ut.us	Director	Center for Health Data Utah Department of Health 288 North 1460 West PO Box 142101 Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-2101 (for fedex use 84116 as zip code)
Richard Hopkins, MD, MSPH Richard_Hopkins@doh.state.fl.us	Chief, Epidemiology Bureau	Florida Department of Health 4052 Bald Cypress Ben # A-12 Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1720 2585 Merchants Road Blvd. (fed ex)
Tal Holmes, MPH, PhD tholmes@mail.doh.state.ar.us	Chief, Epidemiology Officer	Arkansas Department of Health 4815 West Markham Slot 32 Little Rock, AR 72205
Robert (Bob) Fineman, M.D., Ph.D. drbob@u.washington.edu	Medical Consultant & Clinical Professor, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Health	Maternal and Child Health, Washington State DOH 6266 Lake Shore Drive South Seattle WA 98118
Jesse Huang, MD, MPH, MBA jesse_huang@mhd.nashville.org	Chief Epidemiologist and Director, Division of Epidemiology; Adjunct Professor, Tennessee State University	Metropolitan Health Department of Nashville and Davidson County 311 23rd Ave, N Nashville, TN 37203
Laurina O. Williams, Ph.D. low1@cdc.gov	PHPPO, LS	Koger Williams Bldg 2726 Ms G-23

Laboratorian Team Members Lou Turner (team leader)
Name	Position	Employer
Lou Turner, Ph.D. lou.turner@ncmail.net		North Carolina State Lab of Public Health
Eric C. Blank, DrPH blanke@mail.health.state.mo.us		State Public Health Laboratory Missouri Department of Health Jefferson City, MO 65102
Frances P. Downes, DrPH downesf@state.mi.us	Bureau Administrator	Infectious Disease Division Michigan Department of Health Lansing, MI 48909
Katherine Kelley, DrPH kati.kelley@po.state.ct.us	Laboratory Director	Connecticut Department of Public Health & AS P.O. Box 1689 Hartford, CT 06144
Scott J. Zimmerman, DrPH, MPH ZIMMERMS@bflo.co.erie.ny.us	Laboratory Director	Erie County Public Health Laboratory Clinical Center, Building AA 462 Grider Street Buffalo, NY 14215
Steven Hinrichs, M.D. shinrich@unmc.edu		Department of Pathology and Public Health Laboratory University of Nebraska Medical Center 986495 Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE 68198
Gary McKee, PhD, MPH gmckee@missc.state.wy.us	State Health Officer	Wyoming Department of Health 117 Hathaway Building Cheyenne, WY 82002

Last Updated August 14, 2004