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PATRICIA
L. MEINHARDT, MD, MPH, MA
Certified,
American Board of Preventive Medicine
Certified,
American Board of Independent Medical Examiners
ENVIRONMENTAL
MEDICINE
BIOGRAPHICAL
PROFILE
Patricia L. Meinhardt,
MD, MPH, MA has been diagnosing and treating occupational and environmental
illness and injury since 1989. Dr. Meinhardt is an occupational and
environmental medicine specialist with advanced training as a physician-epidemiologist.
She has significant expertise and experience in the diagnosis, treatment,
and prevention of water-related disease resulting from biological, chemical,
and radiologic exposure. She has monitored thousands of patients for
the possible health effects associated with exposure to a diverse array
of biological and chemical agents in both occupational and environmental
settings. Dr. Meinhardt has also provided waterborne disease recognition
and medical management training to thousands of medical and public health
practitioners in the United States (US) and abroad. Most recently, Dr.
Meinhardt presented the keynote address at the Global Conference on
Microbial Contaminates in Drinking Water sponsored by Singapore Government.
She has provided medical preparedness training addressing water contamination
emergencies at the request of the Institute of Water Officers in London,
England and The World Water Organization at the United Nations in New
York City.
Dr. Meinhardt received board certification from the American Board of
Preventive Medicine and the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners.
She completed her medical training at the Medical College of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania followed by an internship in Internal
Medicine at the Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center in Portland,
Oregon. She completed her residency training in Preventive Medicine
at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She also received
a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins
with specialty training in occupational and environmental epidemiology.
Prior to her medical training, Dr. Meinhardt worked as an environmental
scientist participating in both air and water pollution investigations
that emphasized the use of primary pollution indicators as diagnostic
signs of environmental pollution in the US.
Dr. Meinhardt has provided technical assistance and medical consultation
to numerous local, state, and national organizations and agencies in
both the private and public sector over the past 15 years regarding
the health consequences of water-related disease. She has chaired and
moderated a number of medical conferences addressing the health effects
of water pollution resulting from both microbial and chemical contamination.
She has also provided continuing medical education training to medical
and public health professionals regarding the recognition, treatment,
and prevention of water-related disease with a special emphasis on susceptible
populations most at risk for serious morbidity. Dr. Meinhardt has published
several chapters and journal articles on waterborne disease, water pollution,
and water terrorism and acts as a peer reviewer of submitted water-related
manuscripts for Emerging Infectious Diseases published by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. She authored a major chapter on
water quality management and waterborne disease from microbial and chemical
water pollution that was published in Public Health and Preventive Medicine
considered an authoritative reference text in preventive medicine. Dr.
Meinhardt published a major review of the public health consequences
of waterborne Cryptosporidium in the American Journal of Epidemiology:
Epidemiologic Review. She also participated as an environmental medicine
expert in the 2006 Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List (CCL) Expert
Review Panel (Phase II) at the invitation of the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Office of Water. By invitation, she acts as the subject
matter expert on waterborne disease, water pollution, and disaster preparedness
for water contamination events for the Responder Knowledge Base sponsored
by the Department of Homeland Security and Office of Domestic Preparedness
and the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.
Dr. Meinhardt has also participated as a medical expert on several
private and governmental review committees addressing physician preparedness,
disaster response strategies, and infrastructure protection including
water safety and security. She has received funding from and worked
in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry (ATSDR), American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM),
and the American Water Works Association (AWWA) to provide education
to healthcare practitioners concerning the recognition, treatment, and
prevention of water-related disease resulting from natural disasters,
man-made pollution, and intentional contamination of water. Dr. Meinhardt
was awarded a $1.1 Million grant from the EPA to provide waterborne
disease recognition, medical management, threat assessment, and risk
communication training to 19,500 medical and public health practitioners,
emergency response and disaster management professionals, and public
infrastructure specialists throughout the US and Canada. She developed
and delivered a series of presentations addressing the medical management
of water contamination through webinars, videoconferences, satellite
broadcasts and live webcasts to the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Guam
with viewing audiences of up to 10,000 viewers for webcast events.
Dr. Meinhardt has authored this medical reference guide, Recognizing
Waterborne Disease and the Health Effects of Water Pollution: A Physician
On-Line Reference Guide to provide comprehensive resources for
healthcare providers and public health authorities faced with recognizing
and managing
water-related disease in their communities. In the past five years,
the medical website has received more than 10 million hits for information
from over 350,000 visitors located in 89 countries. More than 425 organizations
have highlighted and incorporated this medical website as a waterborne
disease medical reference guide including the American Medical Association,
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, American
College of Preventive Medicine, and Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. In addition, with sponsorship from the American College
of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Meinhardt developed a total of 44.5 On-line
Continuing Medical Education Credits (CME) and Maintenance of Certification
Credits (MOC) for review of the content of Recognizing Waterborne
Disease and the Health Effects of Water Pollution: A Physician On-Line
Reference
Guide (22 CME credit hours) and Physician Preparedness for
Acts of Water Terrorism: A Physician Online Readiness Guide (22.5 CME credit hours).
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on April 10, 2011
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