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Austin, Texas Area United States
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Emerging and Acute Infectious Disease Branch at Texas Department of State Health Services
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A doctor of medicine with a master’s degree in public health and tropical medicine. Epidemiologist in public health disease prevention and preparedness. Responsible for Texas’s enhanced Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (CJD) and other prion disease surveillance programs. Develop, implement, coordinate, and evaluate epidemiologic studies and interventions. Medical epidemiologist and technical expert for Ebola virus disease (EVD), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and novel coronaviruses. Consult on coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, severe acute respiratory syndromes (SARS), amebic central nervous system infections and meningitis/encephalitis outbreak investigations. Serve on the state...
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