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PATRICIA L. MEINHARDT, MD, MPH, MA
Certified,
American Board of Preventive Medicine MEDICAL DIRECTOR Dr. Meinhardt has 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 United States. Dr. Meinhardt has provided technical assistance and medical consultation to numerous local and national technical advisory boards targeting environmental health issues over the past decade. 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 resulting from exposure to environmental toxins and microbial agents. Dr. Meinhardt has authored five major chapters on water quality management, waterborne disease, and water terrorism in the past 12 months 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 also acts as the subject matter expert on waterborne disease, water pollution, water terrorism, and disaster preparedness for water contamination events for the Responder Knowledge Base sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Domestic Preparedness and the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism. Since 9/11, Dr. Meinhardt has 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. Dr. Meinhardt has received funding from and worked in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, American College of Preventive Medicine, and the American Water Works Association to provide education to healthcare practitioners concerning the recognition, treatment, and prevention of water-related disease resulting from natural disasters, man-made accidents, and intentional contamination of water. In addition, Dr. Meinhardt has provided disaster preparedness, threat assessment, consequence management, and waterborne disease recognition training to 16,500 medical and public health practitioners, emergency response and disaster management professionals, public safety officers and government officials, and public infrastructure specialists throughout the US and Canada over the past 3 years. She has also developed and delivered a series of disaster scenario exercises addressing the management of water contamination events resulting from natural, man-made, and intentional contamination of water. Dr. Meinhardt has authored Recognizing Waterborne Disease and the Health Effects of Water Pollution: A Physician On-Line Reference Guide accessible at: http://www.WaterHealthConnection.org and Physician Preparedness for Acts of Water Terrorism: A Physician On-Line Readiness Guide accessible at http://www.waterhealthconnection.org/bt. These on-line medical reference guides provide comprehensive resources for healthcare providers and other disaster management professionals faced with recognizing and managing water-related disease in their communities and have received more than 8 million hits for information in a 36-month period of time. If you have any comments about this website and would like to contact the author, click here and use the contact form provided. Patricia L. Meinhardt, MD, MPH, MA, Author This website is sponsored by the Arnot Ogden Medical Center. Original funding for this website was
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