CDC Leadership

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—Plutarch

 

Daniel Marc Sosin, MD, MPH, FACP

Acting Director, Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response

Dr. Daniel M. Sosin assumed the position of Acting Director, Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response(COTPER), on January 22, 2009.

He began his career at CDC in 1986 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service assigned to the Kentucky Department for Health Services in Frankfort, Kentucky. He served as a CDC Preventive Medicine Resident in the Division of Injury Epidemiology and Control in 1988–89. He supervised state–based EIS Officers as a Section Chief in the Epidemiology Program Office (EPO) from 1989–1994 and then returned to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) to study traumatic brain injury (TBI) and develop longitudinal surveillance of TBI. Dr. Sosin′s scientific investigations include numerous epidemiologic investigations of TBI, including those resulting from motorcycle and bicycle crashes, adolescent risk behaviors, and a range of outbreak investigations.

He later served as the Associate Director for Science in NCIPC where he coordinated national injury surveillance and extramural research activities, spearheading their new research agenda and a variety of research policies. From 2001 through 2003 Dr. Sosin was the Director, Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, EPO where he directed 70 staff and a $6 million budget and served as the senior advisor for surveillance policy, research, and programs, including the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System, 122 Cities Mortality Reporting System, the Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program, the Assessment Initiative, web–access to CDC data sets, and Epi Info. As the Senior Advisor for Science and Public Health Practice, Dr. Sosin has been the lead scientist for terrorism preparedness and emergency response at CDC since 2004, developing and implementing the agency science priorities and serving as a medical and science advisor to the Director, COTPER. Dr. Sosin has been a national leader in the development and evaluation of surveillance systems for early detection of outbreaks.

Dr. Sosin is board certified in preventive medicine and internal medicine. He received his B.S. in biology from the University of Michigan; his M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine; and his M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the University of Washington School of Public Health. Dr. Sosin is a Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service and holds the grade of Captain. Professional memberships include the American College of Physicians (Fellow), the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American Medical Association, and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officers′ Association.