Speaker Biographies

Arthur P. Liang, MD, MPH

Director, CDC Food Safety Office. He previously served as Associate Director for Public Health Practice, Division of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office, where he directed CDC's Preventive Medicine Residency. He is the Southeast Regent of American College of Preventive Medicine. He is Chair of the Residency Review Committee for Preventive Medicine, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and a member of the Preventive Medicine Residency Advisory Committee for the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. From 1987-93, he was the Assistant Director for Science in the Division of Public Health Systems, Public Health Practice Program Office, CDC. He is a former state epidemiologist, Chief, Communicable Disease Division, Hawaii Department of Health, and a member EIS of Class of 1980. He is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health. He has an M.P.H. from the University of Hawaii (1980); M.D. from the University of Maryland (1974); and a B.A. from Oberlin College (1970).

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