CPHD
Faculty and Staff
Directors
and Core Faculty
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, UCLA Emergency
Medicine Quality Assurance Committee, and UCLA Medical Center Interdisciplinary
Practices Committee. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Areas of Interest:
Emergency medicine and disaster relief; infectious diseases
Linda
B. Bourque, PhD, Associate Director
- 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.
Areas of Interest:
Intentional and unintentional injury (e.g., sexual assault, natural disasters);
ophthalmology; research methodology (e.g., questionnaires, design and analysis
of surveys, data processing procedures)
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 teaches several of the
courses in the Center’s curriculum in emergency public health and is
a member of numerous committees. Additionally, she is an Ad Hoc Reviewer for
several publications and Co-Chairs the Disaster Committee in Injury Control
and the Emergency Health Section of the American Public Health Association.
Areas of Interest:
Impact of disasters on physical injuries; agency utilization in disasters; international
health
Alina
Dorian, PhD, Senior Program Manager
- 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.
Areas of Interest:
International disasters; humanitarian assistance; health systems management
Staff
Chara
Burnstein, Event Coordinator
Nicole
Brzeski, MPH, Technical Assistance Manager
Andrea Core, Assistant Administrator
Jennifer
Curran , MS, Project Coordinator
Allison
Kamerman, MS, Center Administrator
Armine
Kourouyan, MPH, Project Coordinator
Sarah
L. Kuljian, MPH, Project Coordinator
Kerry
Lamb , MPH, Project Coordinator
Brian
Lawless , Administrative Assistant
Kimber
Watson Nelson, MPH, Project Coordinator
Eva
Klein Selski, Training Manager
Bindu
Tharian , MPH, Project Coordinator
Benjamin
Trammell, IT Manager
Participating UCLA Faculty
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 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.
Bob
Kim-Farley, MD, MPH
- Dr. Kim-Farley
is a Visiting Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Community Health
Sciences in the UCLA School of Public Health. Dr. Kim-Farley's research interests
include methods of control of communicable diseases, the application of methods
of disease control for reduction, elimination and eradication of communicable
diseases in populations, and the use of epidemiology for evidence-based health
policy.
Kristi
L. Koenig, MD, FACEP
-
Dr. Koenig
is a Board Certified Emergency Physician and Professor of Clinical Emergency
Medicine at the University of California at Irvine, School of Medicine.
She serves as Director of Public Health Preparedness in the Department of
Emergency Medicine. Her research and academic interests include health policy
and systems analysis, homeland security, disaster triage, and medical response
to use of weapons of mass destruction.
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.
Merritt
Schreiber, PhD
- Dr. Schreiber
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".
Judith
M. Siegel, PhD, MSHyg
- Dr. Siegel is
a Professor of Community Health Sciences in the UCLA School of Public Health.
Her background is in Social Psychology and Epidemiology, and much of her research
has focused on the mental health impacts of disasters. She has recently written
articles on the emotional effects of the Northridge earthquake and the El
Niño phenomenon of 1998.
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.
Affiliates
Arpana
Gupta, MD
- Dr. Gupta is
a board certified Internist and Diplomate in Tropical Medicine. She was formerly
the Deputy Health Officer for Ventura County and works clinically as a Hospitalist.
She has participated in international disaster relief and medical efforts
including the Pakistan earthquake in 2005 and mobile surgical units in the
Andes. Her main areas of interest surround infectious diseases, medical and
health responses to large- scale disasters, and differences between domestic
and international health care structures and priorities.
Megumi
Kano, DrPH, MPH
- Dr. Kano received
a doctorate degree in public health from the Department of Community Health
Sciences in the UCLA School of Public Health. She is currently a Senior Research
Associate of the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center and
was previously a Graduate Student Researcher with the Center for Public Health
and Disasters. Her interests include disaster epidemiology and community and
public health preparedness for emergencies and disasters.
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.
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