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Appendix C: Biosketches of Presenters and Moderators
Appendix C: Biosketches of Presenters and Moderators
Pages 129-138
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He was previously the state health officer, chief medical officer, and state epidemiologist for occupational and environmental health in the Wisconsin Division of Public Health. His expertise includes public health; preventive, environmental, and occupational medicine; respiratory diseases; epidemiology; human health risk assessment; and risk communication.
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, the Convergence Partnership, and the Partnership for a Healthier America. He established Kaiser Permanente's Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research and its national genomics research bank, served as President of KP International and chaired Kaiser Permanente's field-leading environmental stewardship work.
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He is board certified in internal medicine and a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a fellow emeritus of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health in Great Britain. Paul Biedrzycki, M.P.H., M.B.A., CIH, serves as the director of disease control and environmental health within the City of Milwaukee Health Department (MHD)
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His professional experience includes local climate change planning for mitigation and adaptation, energy efficiency building, renewable energy, green buildings, open-space planning and management, wetlands protection, and land use policy. Currently, he is managing the Cambridge Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Climate Change Preparedness and Resilience Plan.
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She also received an honorary doctorate from Örebro University in Sweden for her contributions to chemical legislation in the United States and Sweden and her influence on the research conducted at the university's Man Technology Environment Research Centre. Halida Hatic, M.A., is the director of community relations and development for the Center for Interfaith Relations (CIR)
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in International and Development Economics from the University of New Hampshire and a master's in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University. Rachel Holmes, M.F., is the coordinator of The Nature Conservancy's national urban forestry program called the Healthy Trees, Healthy Cities Initiative.
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Paul-Ramsey County Department of Public Health and as a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. Her previous experience includes serving as the vice president and medical director of Consumer Health at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, where she was responsible for case management, disease management, and consumer engagement.
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Patel oversees the environmental health portfolio, which includes climate change, transportation and active transportation, working with tribal governments, healthy housing, chemical safety, building partnerships, and more. She received her B.S.
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She is board certified in pediatrics, having completed residency training and a chief residency year in the Residency Program for Social Medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx; this multidisciplinary training program is focused on social determinants of health, primary care, and advocacy. After completing her pediatric training, Ms.
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Fletcher Wilkinson, M.S., is the climate change program coordinator at the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP)
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