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Dr. Gail Brion
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Gail Brion is the Raymond-Blythe Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering. She has a joint appointment with the Department of Preventive Medicine and environmental Health. Dr. Brion has been a civil engineering professor at UK since receiving her doctorate from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1995. Dr. Brion has interests in the area of research in Control of Water Bourne Disease, Disinfection, Environmental Virology, Fate of Pathogens in Water Environments, Public Health, Water reuse and Water Treatment. During her time with the university, she has set up her own specialized environmental virology research laboratory and has established the Environmental Research and Training Laboratory (ERTL), a world-class, shared-use environmental research lab used by scientists across the Commonwealth.
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Dr. Angela Dearinger
Curriculum Vitae
Angela T. Dearinger,
Assistant Professor of Medicine received her medical degree from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, completed a residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a faculty development fellowship in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the UK Chandler Medical Center in Lexington, KY. Dr. Dearinger also completed a Masters of Public Health degree at the University of Kentucky, College of Public Health. Dr. Dearinger is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. She is a core faculty member in the Preventive Medicine Residency Program and Co-Director of the Kentucky Public Health Research Network. Her special interests include public health systems and services research, preventive medicine, quality improvement, and resident education.
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Dr. Nancy Johnson
Curriculum Vitae
Nancy E. Johnson, Assistant Professor received her MSPH from the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Medicine and her DrPH from the UK College of Public Health then completed post-doctoral studies in Rural Cancer Control in the UK College of Medicine. She is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (Comprehensive Practice) and has worked for state OSHA programs then as a consultant for a private occupational and environmental management firm. Dr. Johnson is the primary investigator for two pilot projects evaluating trace elements, including arsenic, chromium and nickel in drinking water and as well as trace elements in residential topsoil for the Markey Cancer Center's Lung Cancer Epidemiology project in Kentucky's Appalachian Coalfields funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. Her special interests include exposure assessment, measurement and control.
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Melvin L. Myers, MPA
Curriculum Vitae
Melvin Myers is Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health at the University of Kentucky and a nationally recognized authority on injury cost analysis and farm safety. He has served as a commissioned officer of the U.S. Public Health Service and as a senior official of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. He is currently leading Aquaculture Safety and Health, a five-year, multi-state prevention/intervention project.
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Dr. Susan Pollack
Susan Pollack is a physician Board Certified in both Pediatrics and Occupational Medicine. She manages the Pediatric and Adolescent Injury Prevention Program at KIPRC, and is also an Assistant Professor in the General Pediatric Division of the UK Department of Pediatrics and in the UK Department of Preventive Medicine. She completed her undergraduate education at Smith College, her MD at Eastern Virginia Medical School, and her postgraduate training at West Virginia University- Morgantown and at Mt. Sinai in New York City. Susan is interested in all aspects of injury epidemiology and prevention for the pediatric and adolescent age group (and in teaching about those things to the public and health professionals), but has had funding, publications and a national role in the issue of occupational injuries among working teens. Major federal funding to her program currently comes from Emergency Medical Services for Children. Other special interests include Child Fatality Review and whitewater river safety.
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Dr. Kathy Riley
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Riley is an Associate Professor (PT) in the Preventive Medicine, Environmental Health, and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. As a co-investigator on the Nun Study, a longitudinal study of aging and Alzheimer’s disease, Dr. Riley is involved in research in the areas of successful aging, mild cognitive impairments, and neuropathologic correlates of cognition. She is currently analyzing data collected over the first ten years of the Nun Study, as they relate to the maintenance of high cognitive and functional ability in older women.
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Dr.Wayne Sanderson
Curriculum Vitae
Wayne Sanderson is Professor and Chair of the Epidemiology Department in the College of Public Health, with a joint appointment in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health at The University of Kentucky. Dr. Sanderson’s primary research focus is on agricultural health and safety and he is the Deputy-Director of the Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention, which is a national Center for research and education on health and safety problems facing our nation’s rural residents. His research interests are Agricultural health and safety, respiratory diseases, cancers, and birth defects associated with a variety of occupational and environmental exposures.
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Dr. Susan Spengler
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Spengler is an Associate Professor (PT) with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health. She is board certified in occupational medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation. Her clinical interests include general occupational health, musculoskeletal injury rehabilitation, and travel medicine. She is one of three occupational health physicians that see patients at KY Clinic South.
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