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Office of Public
Health and Environmental Hazards
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Biography
Lawrence R. Deyton, MSPH, MD
Chief Public Health and Environmental Hazards
Officer
Lawrence Deyton,
MSPH, MD, became Chief Public Health and Environmental Hazards
Officer in January 2006. He was Chief Consultant for the public
health programs of the office since 1998, building policies and
programs in HIV, hepatitis C, and emerging infectious diseases on
behalf of health care providers and patients in the VA health
system. Before that he led research programs in the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National
Institutes of Health for 11 years, formulated policy for the Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Health of the Department of Health
and Human Services for 6 years, and served as a legislative aide
with the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Health and the
Environment.
Dr. Deyton also teaches—he is Associate Professor of Medicine and of
Health Policy, George Washington University School of Medicine and
Health Sciences, and practices medicine—he holds a weekly clinic at
the Washington, DC VA Medical Center caring for veterans with HIV,
infectious diseases and hepatitis C. He is a graduate of Kansas University, the
Harvard School of Public Health and the George Washington University
School of Medicine and has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed
journals on AIDS clinical trials, clinical trials methodology, and
public health aspects of HIV.
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March 05, 2007 |
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