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Bureau Chief, HIV/STD Prevention and Acting Assistant Director, Communicable Disease Control for the Houston Department of Health and Human Services
Dr. Troisi received her BA in Chemistry from the University of Rochester, her MS in Biochemistry from Michigan State University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Dr. Troisi is a member of TPHA, ASM, AAAS, and APHA. She serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at UTSPH and of Molecular Virology at Baylor College of Medicine. She is a member of the Center for Infectious Diseases at UTSPH. Lastly, she serves as a member of many HIV task forces and organizations, as an ex officio on CPG, and a member and abstract reviewer for National HIV conferences.
Office of Surveillance and Public Health Preparedness, Houston, Department of Health and Human Services
From 2003 to the present, Wolverton has served as public health investigator manager and database management and database manager. She is responsible for managing and for providing oversight for activities for HIV/AIDS Surveillance and for CDC funded special projects and studies. She provides technical and epidemiological expertise to staff and to local, state, and federal agencies.
Director of Ft. Bend County Health and Human Services
Jean N. Galloway, MD, Director of Ft.Bend County Health and Human Services was born and raised in Charleston, WV, and received a BA degree from Fisk University in Nashville, TN. She obtained her MD degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, OH, with honors in medicine and psychiatry. She met and married her husband, Robert Galloway, MD, there and relocated to Houston in 1977. After graduate work at Baylor, she inadvertently entered into a career in public health after taking a contract position in HDHHS clinics. She subsequently worked under five different Health Directors in three different positions: Bureau Chief of Clinical Health Services, Assistant Director of Personal Health Services, and Assistant Director of Communicable Diseases. During various other medical adventures in between assignments at HDHHS, Dr. Galloway has also been in private practice, worked in managed care, and served as Director of the Fourth Ward Clinic, now Good Neighbor Healthcare--an inner city clinic for the underprivileged--one of her most satisfying experiences as a physician. Her medical associations include NMA, NACCHO, APHA, TMA, and HCMS.
HDHHS Bureau of Epidemiology
HIV/STD Surveillance
Thornton has 17 years of employment with the City of Houston Health and Human Services in HIV/STD Prevention and HIV/STD Surveillance. She started her employment as a disease intervention specialist (DIS). She moved on to be a frontline supervisor at several STD clinics providing supervision to DIS. After several years of being a frontline supervisor, she was promoted to be the counseling and testing coordinator for HIV/STD prevention. At that time Thornton collaborated with City of Houston and Texas Department of Health–funded community based organizations to provide counseling and testing for HIV and other STDs for Houston Harris County. She is currently overseeing all STD surveillance activities as the administrative supervisor with the Bureau of Epidemiology. Her duties also include the oversight of HIV public Health follow-up and the enhanced surveillance activities for HIV Incidence Survey Project. Ms. Thornton is currently collaborating on two research studies; 1. A retrospective study of the serologic response to syphilis therapy in patients with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection with Baylor College of Medicine, 2. Analysis of Treponema pallidum antigen study with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Assistant Director, Office of Surveillance and Public Health Preparedness, Houston, Department of Health and Human Services
1984 M.P.H. Health
Services Management / Disease Control, School of Public Health, UT,
Health Science Center at Houston, TX.
1977 M.D. School
of Medicine, Egypt
1997-1998 Dr. PH Registered
for the Dr. PH program at the School
of Public Health, UT, Health
Science Center at Houston, TX and completed 30 Credit hours in
Advanced Epidemiology, Health Services Administration/Health Planning and Statistics. The Degree was not completed due to workload and new responsibilities since 1999. Currently employed as the Assistant Director, Office of Surveillance and Public Health Preparedness, Houston, Department of Health and Human Services. The City of Houston, Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Surveillance and Public Health Preparedness is the leading public health agency in preparing Houston to respond to Public Health emergencies and disasters.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO HIV/AIDS
- Activated the reporting system for the HIV/AIDS case ascertainment in assigned facilities and brought more than 4000 newly reported old diagnosed cases to the system.
- Formulated, directed, promoted, monitored and evaluated programs in the field of communicable diseases, immunizations, environmental health and other public health disciplines.
Since March of 2004, Dr. Umair Shah has served as Deputy Director for Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services (HCPHES). With over 700 employees, HCPHES serves Harris County - the third-most populous county in the United States, home to over 3.5 million residents. Dr. Shah received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Vanderbilt University. He then went on to attend medical school at the Medical University of Ohio in Toledo, Ohio, where he completed an International Health and Public Policy Internship at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Shah completed his residency in Internal Medicine and then fellowship in Primary Care - General Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H), and served as Clinical Instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine with his focus on the care of patients with HIV and AIDS. Dr. Shah also obtained a Master's in Public Health (MPH) with a concentration in Health Service Organizations through the University of Texas School of Public Health.
Upon completion of his training, Dr. Shah served for a number of years as an emergency room (ER) attending physician at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston. He then went onto serve as the Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer at the Galveston County Health District. In Galveston, he provided direct supervision and oversight over two Federally Qualified Health Centers in integrating clinical medicine with population-based public health activities. He was also appointed to be Adjunct Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Currently, Dr. Shah serves as Deputy Director of HCPHES and also as Director of the HCPHES Disease Control & Clinical Prevention Division where he oversees a broad range of public health initiatives. He serves as one of the Local Health Authorities for Harris County while also providing leadership in a wide variety of emergency disaster responses. For example, Dr. Shah served as the Medical Branch co-Director of the Reliant-Astrodome Shelter Operations which provided refuge to over 27,000 evacuees affected by Hurricane Katrina. He was also deployed through a WHO-sponsored emergency response group to provide medical relief work in the earthquake-devastated areas of northern Pakistan this past spring – providing emergency primary care to over 10,000 patients affected by the disaster. Dr. Shah is board-certified in Internal Medicine and remains active in clinical patient care.
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Deputy Director of the Fort Bend County Health and Human Services Department.
Areas of responsibility include administrative oversight of six subordinate departments, various grant projects and the epidemiology program for the County. She also serves on the Executive Board of the Texas Public Health Association. Previous experience includes twelve years with the City if Houston Department of Health and Human Services in various positions within the HIV/AIDS Surveillance program, including seven years as the HIV/AIDS Surveillance Coordinator responsible for all aspects of surveillance, serosurveillance and special studies. Prior to the Houston HIV/AIDS position, Kaye was the HIV/AIDS Surveillance Coordinator for the Dallas County Health Department’s HIV Impact Program.
Mr. Henley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who received his BA in Sociology from Trinity University in San Antonio and his MSW from the University of Houston. He has managed the HIV Services Section of Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services since 1997 and has been directly involved in administering HIV/AIDS funding in the Houston area since 1991. He is currently the Project Director for $20,000,000 in annual Ryan White Title I funds for the Houston Eligible Metropolitan Area and is co-Primary Investigator for the County’s Outreach, Care and Prevention to Engage HIV Seropositive Young MSM of Color Demonstration site – a Ryan White Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) grant. Henley was the 2004 recipient of the Health Resources and Services Administration Hank Carde Award for Metropolitan Services for his role in establishing the County’s CPCDMS client-level HIV/AIDS data system.