Community Connections/Service
Our relationship with our community connections, both public and private, support our service goals and objectives to meet the public health needs of our diverse community. These connections symbolize a strong statement as to our committment to the importance of public health functions within the community.
Our faculty are involved in community-based service activities on the local, regional, national, and international levels.
Faculty
Name/Academic Title/Phone/Community Connections-Service
Adams, M. Jacob, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, (585) 275-5951
Board of Directors, National Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation; Delegate, 19th Ward Community Association; American Heart Association Grass Roots Advocacy Network; CURE Childhood Cancer Association
Block, Robert C., MD, MPH, FACP, Assistant Professor, (585) 275-3356
Lecturer for the Division of Cardiology at URMC-affiliated hospitals in Upstate NY; Lecturer/consultant for Heartbeats for Life a support group based on the work of Dr. Dean Ornish; Co-Director, URMC Medical School course "Community Health Improvement Clerkship”
Brown, Theodore, PhD, Professor, (585) 275-1545
Executive Committee, Cluster for Human Values in Medicine; Executive Committee, Health & Society Program, The College; Executive Committee, Community Learning Center, The College; Steering Committee, Physicians for a National Health Program; Member, Rochester Interfaith Health Care Coalition
Chin, Nancy, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor/Associate Chair for Education Director MPH Program, (585) 275-9780
Member, Board of Directors, FOODLINK, Inc., Rochester, NY;
Member, Health Committee, Haiti Outreach – Pwoje Espwa (H.O.P.E.), Rochester, NY and Bourne, Haiti; Governing Council Member, Susan B. Anthony Institute, University of Rochester; Member, Research Subject Review Board, Section on Social and Behavioral Research, URSMD; Chair, Community Programs Advisory Committee, URSMD; Member, International Health Advisory Committee, URSMD; Member, Diversity Theme Team, URSMD; Member, American Public Health Association; Member, Society for Medical Anthropology; Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology
Dozier, Ann, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, (585) 758-7812
New York State Perinatal Association Board Member; Perinatal Network of Monroe County/Healthy Start Rochester, Consultant; NYS AIDS Institute, Lead, Center of Expertise for Program Evaluation; Upstate NY March of Dimes, Program Services Committee; Perinatal Smoking Cessation Coalition; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Reviewer; APHA – MCH Section, Chair, Annual Program; Chair, Epi and Data Committee Research in Nursing and Health, Reviewer; Journal of School Health, Reviewer; PAHO Journal, Reviewer
Fernandez, Diana, MD, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor, (585) 275-9554
Member, Advisory Board Greater Rochester Healthy Childcare 2010
Fisher, Susan MS, PhD, Chair & Professor, (585) 273-2849
Member, Goal Development Team on Data/Surveillance, NYS Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan, 2002; Grants Award Council, American Acadedy of Family Physicians Foundation; American Society of Clinical Oncology, Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee, Head and Neck Cancer, Integrated Panel Programmatic Review, Prostate Cancer Research Program; Department of Defense, US Army Medical Research and Material Command, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program, Program Reviewer; Consultant, Immunization Safety Review Committee, Institute of Medicine; Advisory Board, College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology
Friedman, Bruce, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor, (585) 273-2618
Guido, Joseph, MS, Faculty Associate, (585) 758-7818
President, Daily Mass League, Diocese of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Secretary, Nocturnal Adoration Society, Diocese of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Presider, Weekly Catholic Communion Service, Strong Memorial Hospital Chapel; Chair, Executive Committee, Genesee Valley SAS User’s Group, Rochester, NY; Presenter, Annual Career Day for Grade 6, Enrico Fermi School #17, Rochester, NY
Martina, Camille, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, (585) 758-7835
National Prevention Research Center Evaluation Committee (PRC-CDC; Academic Faculty Advisory Board, University of Rochester Medical Center, Office of Medical Education; Global Studies Steering Committee Member/UCIS University of Rochester; Sustainability Steering Committee/UCIS University of Rochester; Environmental Health Sciences Center Community Advisory Board; Global and Green Medicine, University of Rochester
McIntosh, Scott, PhD, MA, Associate Professor, (585) 758-7816
Director, Greater Rochester Area Tobacco Cessation Center; Director, Community Health Improvement Clerkship: School of Medicine & Dentistry; Chair, Celebration of Life, Inc. Community Advisory Board; Member, Newark Family Life Center, Board of Directors; Community Preceptor / Advisory Committee, Preventive Medicine Residency Training Program; Member, American Cancer Society (Eastern Division) Board of Directors; Member, American Cancer Society (Eastern Division) Tobacco Strike Force; Member, Monroe County Smoking and Health Action Committee (SHAC); Member, Tobacco Action Coalition of the Finger Lakes (TACFL); Member, Livingston County Tobacco Control Coalition; Faculty Advisor, University of Rochester Center for Community Health
Noyes, Ekaterina, MS, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor & Division Chief, Health Policy & Outcomes Research, (585) 275-8467
Member, International Society for Medical Decision Making; Member, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research; Chair, Graduate Student Recruitment Committee, DCPM HSR; Director, Health Systems Theme, URMC
Ossip, Deborah, MS, PhD, Associate Professor; Chief, Div. of Social & Behavioral Medicine; Director, Smoking Research Program (585) 758-7810
Direct proactive telephone service for Medicaid/uninsured NYS smokers through NYS Smokers’ Quitline; Member, President’s Advisory Council, North American Quitline Consortium; Member, Delegate for North America, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco; Member, Tobacco Consortium, Center for Child Health, American Academy of Pediatrics; Member, Ad Hoc Study Sections, NIH and State Tobacco Programs; Member, Cancer Control Unit, James P. Wilmot Cancer Center; Member, Monroe County Smoking and Health Action Coalition
Pearson, Thomas, MD, MPH, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research and Professor (585) 758-7806
Member, Graduate Field, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University; Member, Expert Panel on Integrated CVD Risk Reduction in Adults Guidelines; Chair, Guidelines Implementation Working Group, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH; Member, Steering Committee, National Action Plan for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention; Chair, Implementation Group on Regional and Global Partnerships, National CVD Action Plan, Centers for Disease Control; Chair, Data Safety and Monitoring Board, CLEVER Study, National Heart, Lung and blood Institute; Member, Women’s Health Initiative Working Group; Chair, Special Emphasis Panel, Measuring the Scientific Value of the Biologic Specimens from the Women’s Health Initiative, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH; Board of Scientific Advisors, Jackson Heart Study, NHLBI; Member, External Advisory Committee, Sibling Study, Johns Hopkins University; Member, External Advisory Committee, Stroke Prevention Center, Morehouse School of Medicine; Member, Shortening Time to Independence Working Group, AAMC; Consultant/Visiting Faculty, Clinical Research Training Program, Morehouse School of Medicine; Member, American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Primary Prevention Performance Measures Writing Group; Member, Steering Committee, CHARISMA Study, Cleveland Clinic; Member, Residency Advisory Committee, Preventive Medicine Residency Program, New York State Department of Health
Spezio, Ralph, MS, Senior Associate (585) 758-7814
Founding member and former Co-Chair for The Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning; Former Community Liaison for Project Believe; Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning Board of Directors; Coalition to End Lead Poisoning in New York State (Steering Comm. member); Action For Healthy Children Committee member; Anne E. Dyson Community Advisory Board; JOSANA member (Jay/Orchard Street Area Neighborhood Assoc.); Institute for Public Safety Policy Studies member; Charles House Neighbors in Action member; City of Rochester Economic Development Zone Board of Directors
Starr, Matt, MPH, Senior Instructor (585) 276-2120 (videophone)
Member, Advisory Board of the Urban and Community Studies Program, RIT
Suter, Barbara, MPH, Faculty Associate (585) 758-7811
Treasurer, Webster Council of Churches; Treasurer, Webster CROP Walk to fight hunger needs around the world; Advisory Board member, Webster Comfort Care hospice
Tacci, James, MD, MPH, JD, Assistant Professor (585) 275-8678
United Way of Rochester; The Nature Conservancy; The Seneca Park Zoo; The Rochester Business Alliance; The Monroe County Medical Society
Temkin-Greener, Helena, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor & Program Director, Doctoral Program in Health Services Research & Policy (585) 275-8713
Editorial Board Member, the Gerontologist; International Reviewers' Panel, Medical Science Monitor; Public Health and Aging Curriculum Subcommittee of the APHA/GHS; American Public Health Association, Section Council, Gerontological Health; American Public Health Association: Annual meeting abstract reviewer; New Investigator Awards Review Committee (GHS); International Research Award, Review Committee Chair (GHS); American Geriatrics Society Annual Meetings - abstract reviewer; Manuscript reviewer for: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; The Gerontologist; Journal of Gerontology: Medical Science; Journal of the American Medical Association; Medical Care; National PACE Association Data Task Force Member; National PACE Association, Research Committee Member; Palliative Care QI/Research Group
Veazie, Peter, PhD, Assistant Professor (585) 273-5464
Manuscript reviewer for the American Journal of Managed Care, Health Affairs, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Preventing Chronic Disease, and Journal of Medical Informatics Research
Van Wijngaarden, Edwin, PhD, Associate Professor & Division Chief, Epidemiology (585) 275-1985
Member, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology; Member, American College of Epidemiology; Member, Committee on Access to Pesticide Registry and Pesticide Application Information, Health Research Science Board, Department of Health, State of New York; Editorial Board "Dose-Response"
Yoo, Byung-Kwang, MD, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor (585) 275-3276
Zhang, Ning, PhD, Assistant Professor (585) 275-0165
Member, International Health Economics Association/American Society of Health Economics; Member, American Academy Health; Member, Western Economic Association
Professor Emeritus
Barker, William, MD, Professor Emeritus (585) 275-3357
Director, Prevention Theme, University of Rochester; Board Member, Genesee Valley Medical Foundation; Member, Advisory Committee Project EXITO!, Home Care of Rochester [HCR]
Kunitz, Stephen, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus (585) 758-7824
Zimmer, James G., MD, Professor Emeritus (585) 275-2831
Member, Board of Directors, Genesee Valley Medical Foundation; Member, Advisory Board, to Center for Clinical Research on Aging, University of Rochester School of Nursing
