MARK S. DWORKIN, M.D., M.P.H.T.M., F.A.C.P.
Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
Work Experience
1994 to 1996, Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Washington State Department of Health
1996 to 2000, Project Officer for the Adult and Adolescent Spectrum of
Disease Project of the Surveillance Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS
Prevention and Lieutenant Commander and Commander, US Public Health
Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta
2000 to 2006, State Epidemiologist, Illinois Department of Public Health,
Chicago
2006 to present, Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health,
Chicago
Hantavirus field
investigation in Washington State with state health department and CDC
investigators, 1995.
Providing
shigellosis outbreak investigation assistance to the Stephenson County Health
Department with Illinois Department of Public Health staff and CDC EIS Officer
(Dr. Greg Huhn), 2003
Exploring
underground tunnels looking for overwintering mosquitoes that could carry West
Nile virus during an Illinois Department of Public Health and Illinois Natural
History Survey investigation, 2003.
Providing norovirus
outbreak investigation assistance to St. Clair County Health Department staff,
2003.
Presenting a lecture
on SARS and bioterrorism in Fukushima, Japan, 2004.
Teaching elementary
school children about germs, 2006.
Lecturing on surveillance in Hyderabad, India 2007.
Attending the International Workshop on HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Intervention in NingXia, China 2008.
Visiting the Communicable Diseases Hospital ("Cholera Hospital") in Chennai, India 2008.
Village medical store Shamirpet Village, Andhra Pradesh, India
Visiting the research offices of SHARE India near Hyderabad, India, 2008
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Cat teaching child appropriate way to wash hands, 2008.
Rockford Public Schools district hygiene intervention pilot study, Illinois 2008.
Lecturing on a restaurant foodhandler study at the Central Hospital of Bolzano (Bozen), Italy, 2010
Meeting with food safety colleagues from Italy and Switzerland in Neuchatel to discuss collaboration on a restaurant foodhandler knowledge project and a menu advertising Steak tartare, 2010
Excerpt from a restaurant foodhandler educational comic book used in a USDA funded Chicago study (artist - David Castellano)
Viewing a piragua (shaved ice drink) stand in San Juan, Puerto Rico to generate ideas for illustration in an AIDS food safety educational comic book
Reviewing data analysis from a USDA funded suburban Chicago food handler education project with PhD student Mindi Manes and biostatistician Li Liu, 2011
Attending a regional European restaurant foodhandler symposium with colleagues from Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and UIC PhD student Palak Panchal in Bolzano, Italy, 2011
Site visit to Puerto Rico for USDA funded AIDS food safety educational study with colleagues from the Retrovirus Research Center, Bayamon 2011
Excerpt from a Spanish language educational comic book for restaurant foodhandlers produced during an USDA funded research project (artist - David Castellano)
Textbook used to teach Outbreak Investigation/Field Epidemiology at UIC School of Public Health http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9780763778910/