CPHD
Faculty and Staff
Center
Administration
Steven
J. Rottman, MD, FACEP, Director
Kimberley I. Shoaf,
DrPH, Associate Director
Alina
Dorian, PhD, Assistant Director
Allison Kamerman,
MS, Assistant Director for Administration
Center
Faculty
Linda
B. Bourque, PhD, Founder and Senior Advisor
- Dr. Bourque
is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the UCLA
School of Public Health and is also Associate Director of the Southern California
Injury Prevention Research Center. She teaches courses in research design,
questionnaire design, survey methodology, and the analysis of survey data.
She has conducted research on community perceptions of and responses to disasters
including the San Fernando (California) earthquake of 1971, the Whittier Narrows
(California) earthquake of 1987, the Loma Prieta (California) earthquake of
1989, and the Northridge (California) earthquake of 1994.
Alina
Dorian, PhD, Assistant Director
- Dr. Dorian is
an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences
in the UCLA School of Public Health. Her background is in health systems management
with expertise in international disasters and complex emergencies, both natural
and man-made. She is also a Senior Technical Advisor in the UCLA Center for
International Emergency Medicine. Furthermore, Dr. Dorian is an Assistant
Professor and Technical Health Consultant at the American University of Armenia,
and serves as a Public Health Consultant at International Relief and Development
in Washington D.C. as well as Public Health Director of the All Armenia Fund
USA in New York.
Steven
J. Rottman, MD, FACEP, Director
- Dr. Rottman
is board certified in emergency medicine and an Adjunct Professor in the Department
of Community Health Sciences in the UCLA School of Public Health and the David
Geffen School of Medicine. He is also the Medical Director of the UCLA Center
for Prehospital Care and is past-president of the World Association for Disaster
and Emergency Medicine. Dr. Rottman has published numerous articles in the
area of disaster medicine and emergency public health, and he teaches several
of the courses in the Center’s curriculum in emergency public health.
Currently, Dr. Rottman is a chairman of UCLA Medical Center Disaster Committee,
and he is involved with the UCLA Trauma Patient Care Committee and UCLA and
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Pandemic Planning Groups. He is a Fellow
of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Merritt Schreiber, PhD, Senior
Manager, Psychological Programs
- Dr. Schreiber
is an Associate Research Psychologist in the Department of Community Health
Sciences in the UCLA School of Public Health. He was appointed to the Secretary’s
Emergency Public Information and Communications Advisory Board, where he helped
draft several policy recommendations on the risk communications for our nation
and particularly the needs of children and families for the Secretary of Health
and Human Services. Dr. Schreiber was the Program Manager of the Terrorism/Disaster
Branch of the UCLA/National Center for Child Traumatic Stress at the David
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He coordinated the NCCTS/TDB Rapid Response
Support Team of National Child Traumatic Stress Network for disasters, terrorism,
and mass casualty events impacting children and families, and served as co-chair
of the Pediatric Emergency Mental Health Taskforce as the American Psychological
Association to the HHS/Emergency Medical Services for Children Program. He
received a presidential citation from the American Psychological Association
for his work with victim's families after 9/11 and received the Outstanding
Humanitarian Contribution Award from the California Psychological Association
in 2004. Dr. Schreiber was a first responder to Hurricane Katrina as a reserved
commissioned officer with the US Public Health Service and as Mental Health
team lead with California Disaster Medical Assistance Team CA- 1 of the US
Department of Homeland Security's National Disaster Medical System. Dr. Schreiber
had developed the first known disaster behavioral health rapid triage and
incident management system, called "PsySTART".
Shira Shafir, PhD, MPH
-
Dr. Shafir
is an assistant adjunct professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the
UCLA School of Public Health. Her expertise is in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
and she teaches courses in Neglected Tropical Diseases, Foodborne Illness
and Principles of Control of Infectious Disease. Additionally, she coordinates
the UCLA Center for Global and Immigrant Health and is responsible for teaching
the course in Responsible Research Ethics. She has worked on the development
of bioterrorism preparedness and response plans for two major states and
well as one major U.S. city.
Kimberley
I. Shoaf, DrPH, Associate Director
- Dr. Shoaf is
an Associate Professor In Residence in the Department of Community Health
Sciences in the UCLA School of Public Health. Her expertise is in the combination
of qualitative and quantitative methodologies for studying the social and
health impacts of disasters. She has published numerous scientific articles
in peer-reviewed journals and professional publications, specifically in the
areas of disasters and emergency public health. She directs the Center's PERRC
grant. She teaches several of the courses in the Center’s curriculum
in emergency public health and is a member of numerous committees. Additionally,
she participated in the National Research Council Committee on Disaster Research
in the Social Sciences.
Samuel
J. Stratton, MD, MPH
- Dr.
Stratton is the current Medical Director of Health Disaster Management/Emergency
Medical Services for the Orange County Health Care Agency. He is also an Adjunct
Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the UCLA School
of Public Health and
Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harbor-UCLA, Department
of Emergency Medicine. His
academic and research interests include public health and security along the
U.S.-Mexico border and emergency-disaster public health.
Affiliated Faculty and Researchers
Abdelmonem A. Afifi, PhD, Professor
and Dean Emeritus
- Dr. Afifi is
a Professor and Dean Emeritus in the UCLA School of Public Health. His methodological
research centers largely around multivariate statistical data analysis. His
research includes studying the properties of various methods of handling missing
observations in regression and discriminant analyses and variable selection
in multivariate analysis and multiple confidence intervals in linear models
and survival analysis. In health research, he concentrated on developing computer-based
prognostic indices for critically-ill patients, psychology, clinical trials,
and risk factors for lung and heart diseases. He co-authored 2 books (with
multiple editions) on multivariate analysis and a CD-ROM to serve as an electronic
companion to Biostatistics. Recently, he has been interested in meta-analysis
and in the health effects of electromagnetic fields, injury prevention, health
services research, multi-level models, and risk factor analysis.
David Eisenman, MD, HSHS
- David Eisenman, MD MSHS
is an Associate Natural Scientist at RAND and Associate Professor in Residence
in the UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research
of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Eisenman trained in psychiatry
and internal medicine and is a board-certified internist. His disaster research
has focused on preparedness among health systems, communities, and individuals,
vulnerable populations, and behavioral health and trauma. His current research
includes Principal Investigator of two disaster studies: “PM-PREP: Peer-Mentored
Preparedness for Adults with Developmental Disabilities”(R21, National
Institute of Nursing Research) and “Leave Early/Evacuation or Stay and
Defend: PTSD and the Public’s Response to Wildfire” (USDA Forest
Service). He is Co-Principal Investigator of the CDC funded study, “Building
Effective Public Health-CBO/FBO Partnerships for Disaster Readiness”.
Recently completed projects include a CDC funded award for Project PREP (Programa
Para Responder a Emergencias con Preparación), a community-based, participatory
research program to improve preparedness among low-income Latinos, that was
tested in a community-based, randomized control trial. Dr. Eisenman has published
over a dozen peer-reviewed publications and reports on disaster preparedness,
served on committee for the National Academies of Science and is on the Editorial
Board of the American Journal of Disaster Medicine.
Deborah
Glik, ScD
- Dr. Glik is
a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences in the UCLA School
of Public Health and is also Director of the UCLA
Health and Media Research Group. Her research interests focus on health
communication planning and evaluation, and social and behavioral aspects of
public health problems.
James
R. (Rick) Greenwood, PhD, MPH
- Dr. Greenwood
is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Administration at UCLA. He is
also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the UCLA School
of Public Health and is the former Director of the UCLA Office of Environment,
Health and Safety. He is also a member of the Los Angeles area terrorism
early warning group and the Los Angeles Chapter of the FBI (NIPC) InfraGard
program where he heads up the university sector. Dr. Greenwood's research
interests are related to infectious agents, and he is a co-author of the bioterrorism
chapter in the 2002 edition of the Oxford Textbook of Public Health.
Ron
Halbert, MD, MPH
- Dr. Halbert
is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences
in the UCLA School of Public Health. He is also a senior consultant for Constella
Health Strategies. His interests include epidemiology, emergency medicine,
and international relief.
Sydney
M. Harvey, PhD
- Dr. Harvey is
an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the UCLA
School of Public Health and Director of the Program for Laboratory Science.
She is the former Director of the Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratory,
a Level C reference laboratory in the CDC Laboratory Response Network and
a Homeland Security BioWatch Laboratory. She is also a member of the Los Angeles
Chapter of the FBI (NIPC) InfraGard program. Additionally, she has served
on a variety of state and national committees formulating laboratory legislative
and infectious disease policies as well as serving as a member of the Board
of Directors of the national Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL).
Her research and academic interests include laboratory security, enhancing
the role of public health laboratories, and molecular biology techniques for
detection of infectious agents.
Michael
Prelip, DPA, MPH
-
Dr. Prelip
is currently an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community
Health Sciences in the UCLA School of Public Health. He is responsible for
supervising the field component of the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree.
Additionally, he teaches courses in community-based program planning, research
and evaluation; fund development; community organization; and leadership
and empowerment. He also works on several communication projects focusing
on a number of health topics, including fetal alcohol syndrome prevention
and immunizations. He is lead faculty for the Pacific Public Health Training
Center.
Hope
Seligson, MS
- Ms. Hope A.
Seligson is an Associate with MMI Engineering and has been active in the areas
of earthquake engineering, natural hazard risk assessment and loss estimation
for over 20 years. She works with CPHD as an Engineering Research Consultant
on various Center projects. Ms. Seligson holds a Master's Degree in Structural
Engineering from Stanford University, with an emphasis in Earthquake Engineering.
Her areas of expertise include regional hazard, damage and casualty assessment,
building inventory development, vulnerability modeling, application of Geographic
Information Systems (GIS), and software application design and development.
Program
Managers and Staff
Katie
Arrington, MPH, Project Coordinator
Chara
Burnstein, Event Coordinator
Andrea Core, Administrative Manager
Sarah
L. Kuljian, MPH, Project Coordinator
Eva
Klein Selski, Training Manager
Bindu
Tharian , MPH, CHES, Resource Development Manager
Prakash
Vaswani , Administrative Assistant
Collaborating
Centers and Groups