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SciPAC Executive Board
2011/2012
CDR Karon Abe:
Chair
 CDR Abe has been a voting member of SciPAC and
was the chair of the Career Development subcommittee since 2008. CDR
Abe received her B.A. in Animal Physiology from the University of
California, San Diego and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 2002, she began working at CDC as
a fellow in the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental
Disorders after finishing a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship at Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2003,
she joined the USPHS as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
Officer and worked at the Georgia Department of Human Resources in
the Division of Public Health (GDPH). At the GDPH, CDR Abe was able
to lead infectious disease investigations that led to changes in
infectious control procedures and had the opportunity to publish
various analyses in injury and chronic disease. In 2005, CDR Abe
took a new position as an epidemiologist at CDC in the Division of
Reproductive Health, Maternal and Infant Health Branch, working in
the field of preterm birth. As a project officer of two major
preterm birth initiatives, she is able to combine some of her past
work in biology and epidemiology as well as gain new skills in
genetic epidemiology.
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CDR Ryan Novak: Vice Chair
 CDR Novak has been a voting member of SciPAC, chair of the Policy
Subcommittee, and SciPAC Mentor since 2010; and previously served as
co-chair of the Policy Subcommittee, member of the Category Day
subcommittee. He completed graduate work at the University of
Connecticut and the University of North Carolina School of Public
Health, followed by postdoctoral training in Emerging Infectious
Diseases with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
Meningitis and Special Pathogens Branch in Atlanta, Georgia; and in
2005, he joined USPHS as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
Officer assigned to the CDC Division of Viral Hepatitis in Atlanta.
Currently, he is an Epidemiologist with the CDC Meningitis and
Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch. His expertise includes the
development of disease surveillance, outbreak investigations,
epidemic/emergency response, and has participated in domestic
responses such as Hurricane Katrina and Influenza A H1N1 and
international responses to viral hepatitis and meningococcal disease
epidemics. As the MVPDB coordinator for international meningitis
activities, he is primarily focused on work with the Meningitis
Vaccine Project to strengthen disease surveillance and laboratory
capacity to support MenAfriVac evaluation studies following the
introduction of this vaccine across the 23 country “meningitis belt”
of sub-Saharan Africa. |
LCDR Tegan Boehmer: COF Liaison
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LCDR Boehmer received a B.S. in Biology from Bradley University
(1999) and a M.P.H. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Ph.D. in
Public Health Studies from Saint Louis University School of Public
Health (2001 and 2005, respectively). After finishing her M.P.H.,
LCDR Boehmer
completed a fellowship with the Association for Schools of Public
Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In
2006, she
joined the USPHS as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer
assigned to the Tri-County Health Department in Denver, Colorado for
two years. In 2008, LCDR Boehmer took a position as an
epidemiologist with the Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch,
National Center for Environmental Health, CDC in Atlanta, Georgia.
LCDR Boehmer has authored or co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed
publications since 2002 on a range of topics, including intimate
partner violence, physical activity, obesity, built environment,
reproductive health, veterans’ health, outbreak investigations, and
carbon monoxide poisoning.
Her research interests include the
impact of community design and transportation on population health,
particularly respiratory and cardiovascular disease, physical
activity, and obesity. She is currently conducting several research
projects that examine the association between urban sprawl, exposure
to traffic emissions, and air pollution-related morbidity and
mortality.
LCDR Boehmer has been a voting member of SciPAC since 2009 and
member of the Executive Board since 2010. She served as SciPAC
Secretary (2010-2011), Chair of the Category Day subcommittee
(2009-2010), and a member of the Career Development and Rules and
Membership subcommittees. |
CDR Danice Eaton: Secretary
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Danice Eaton received her MPH in Community and Family Health from
the State University of New York at Albany in 1997. In 2002, she
received her PhD in Behavioral Science with a focus on adolescent
health from the University of South Florida, College of Public
Health. Upon graduation, CDR Eaton was accepted into CDC’s Epidemic
Intelligence Service program, a 2-year applied epidemiology training
program. CDR Eaton was placed in the Division of Adolescent and
School Health for her EIS experience. During these two years she
gained valuable epidemiology skills and developed expertise in
behavior surveillance, conducting school-based research, and survey
data analysis. Upon completing EIS in 2004, CDR Eaton accepted a
full-time position in DASH and in 2006 became the project officer
for the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey contract. In this role,
she is responsible for all aspects of the national YRBS, oversees
methodological studies conducted as part of the contract, and leads
each YRBS cycle’s MMWR Surveillance Summary data release. CDR
Eaton's research interests include survey research methods and
adolescent health risk behaviors. CDR Eaton has been a voting
member of the SciPAC since 2008 and served as the Website
Subcommittee Co-Chair during 2008 - 2011. |
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