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Panelist: Nancy M. Bennett, MD
Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences
Director of the Center for Community Health
Co-director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute
University of Rochester Medical Center
Nancy M. Bennett, MD, MS is Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences, the Director of the Center for Community Health and Co-director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Bennett is the chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has directed numerous studies and community interventions funded by the CDC, NYSDOH and national and regional foundations related to the prevention of communicable and chronic disease. Dr. Bennett is the principal investigator for the Rochester Emerging Infections Program (CDC) and the Healthy Living Research Center (NIH).
Dr. Bennett is a graduate of New York University School of Medicine and did her residency and Chief Residency at Bellevue Hospital in NYC. During her fellowship in general medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, she earned a Masters Degree in Epidemiology. She was an Assistant Professor of Medicine, a Mellon Fellow in Epidemiology, and taught in the School of Public Health at Columbia University before moving to Rochester. She served for 17 years as the Deputy Director of the Monroe County Department of Public Health, is an author of more than 100 peer reviewed articles, and serves on a variety of local and national advisory boards.
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