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Allen, Susie

Dr. Susie Allen is a clinical associate professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She has a doctorate in Health Systems Management, and a masters in Business Administration. Dr. Allen has diverse experience encompassing public health education and curriculum development, communications, health administration and research. Her research areas have included distance learning, managed care, the nursing home industry, technology transfer, and comparative health care systems. Dr. Allen serves as the academic advisor for the distance learning masters students and manages all of the distance learning degree programs offered by CAEPH. Dr. Allen teaches courses and lectures in topics relating to health systems management and finance, as well as library research.

Abdelgani, Assaf

Amoss, Lisa

Lisa Amoss is an independent management consultant who has worked with not-for profit entities and for profit businesses since 1975. In the business sector, Ms. Amoss has worked in the petro-chemical, banking and utilities industries, as well as with a wide variety of small businesses. From 1987 until 1997 she was a partner in P.J.'s Coffee and Tea, Inc. where she was responsible for franchise development. Ms. Amoss is a member of the adjunct faculty at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business and School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Since 1978 she has taught organizational behavior, management and entrepreneurship courses in the graduate, undergraduate and executive programs.

Bowers, Harold

Harold N. Bowers (Chub) is presently an Adjunct Associate Professor at CAEPH and is a Senior Safety and Health Consultant with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Battelle.  Dr. Bowers received a Health and Safety Doctorate from Indiana University and has Masters Degrees from the University of Mississippi and Indiana State University.  He has more than 30 years of varied experience in the management of safety and health programs and related issues.  He spent a number of years on the faculty of Indiana University, Bloomington teaching safety and health courses nationally, internationally and directing educational programs.  Chub has held various positions in the management of safety and health programs with Rockwell Corporation, Westinghouse Corporation, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at the Department of Energy Hanford Site in Richland, Washington.  Operation experience includes chemical and nuclear processing, waste management, explosives manufacturing, Navy industrial operations, Army operations, research and development, and training program management.   He is a retired Colonel with the U.S. Army and is married with two adult daughters.

Cecich, Tom

Tom Cecich, MS is an environment, health and safety (EHS) management consultant living in Apex, NC.  He retired from pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in 2003 where he served as Vice President, EHS Global Business Support.  During his 30 year corporate career he also had EHS management responsibilities at the IBM and Allied Chemical Corporations.  In addition to serving as an adjunct instructor for Tulane, he is a frequent speaker on EHS topics and is national instructor for the American Society of Safety Engineers teaching the ASSE’s Executive Safety Management curriculum. He is also a member of the ORC Worldwide’s safety and health consulting practice in Washington, DC. He is a past member of the Board of Certified Safety Professionals and was President of the BCSP in 1997.

Goans, Ronald

Dr. Goans is presently a Clinical Associate Professor at CAEPH and a senior medical consultant with MJW Corporation where he provides radiation medicine consultation to the current DOE/NIOSH Dose Reconstruction Project. Dr. Goans received the MD degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine in 1983 and a PhD in radiation physics from the University of Tennessee in 1974. In addition, he received an MPH in Occupational Health and Safety Management from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in 2000. Dr. Goans has active medical licensure in Tennessee, Virginia, and Maryland and is board certified in occupational medicine from the American Board of Preventive Medicine. In addition, he is a certified Medical Review Officer (MRO) for workplace drug testing. Dr. Goans current research interests include development of mathematical methods for the early estimation of radiation dose. These techniques include mathematical modeling of lymphocyte kinetics and
the time to emesis for early dose assessment after either a radiation accident or a nuclear weapons event.

Herr, Monty

Dr. Monty Herr is a clinical assistant professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He has a PhD in Chemistry, and a MSPH (from Tulane) in Industrial Hygiene. Dr. Herr has taught in universities around the world, worked in industry, government, and, for the past several years, in a national laboratory. He has served on the Boards and Executive Committees of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene and the American Industrial Hygiene Association. He is a Fellow of the AIHA.

Lafreniere, Amy

Dr. Amy V. Lafreniere is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences.  Her areas of expertise are human health exposure assessment, risk assessment and risk communication. Her research has included the fate and bioavailability of organic contaminants in Boston Harbor; the assessment of exposure and risk from seafood contamination to human coastal populations; and the characterization of children’s exposures to lead.  She has taught courses in Environmental Health Risk Assessment, Risk Assessment Data Analysis and Fate and Transport of Chemicals in the Environment.  She has also developed a series of distance learning courses on chemical risk assessment, recognition and safe handling of terrorist agents, case studies in terrorist preparedness, and risk communication. 

Leemann, Jim

Dr. Leemann has a Ph.D. in Systemic Management from the Union Institute and University and two masters from Tulane, one in Industrial Hygiene from the School of Public Health and one in Environmental Engineering from the School of Engineering. He has more than 30 years experience in corporate and business-line management of safety, health, and environmental functions at DuPont and Conoco. Dr. Leemann teaches occupational health and safety management, air pollution, and environmental health at the School of Public Health. His research interests involve the competencies needed to be a superior performer in the safety, health, environmental, and occupational medicine professions. His consulting practice focuses on the use of systems thinking and interactive planning to enhance the value and performance of these functions in organizations.

Rabito, Felicia

Dr. Rabito is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology. Her areas of expertise include environmental and social epidemiology, the design of innovative health surveillance programs, and the conduct of community-based randomized intervention trials. Currently, her areas of research include lead poisoning, pediatric asthma and spatial analysis. Dr. Rabito is the Principal Investigator of the New Orleans Healthy Homes Initiative project, and is the lead on the Community-based Environmental Lead Intervention Study and the project entitled Demolition Activities and Children’s Lead Levels in St. Louis City: A Time/Space Analysis. She teaches Epidemiology 603 using distance learning technology.

Rando, Roy

Roy J.Rando, Sc.D., C.I.H. is Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Science in the School of Public Health, Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine. He is the Academic Director of the ABET-accredited industrial hygiene program at Tulane. His research interests have focused on respiratory toxicants in the workplace and indoor environments, and he is an internationally recognized expert on the industrial hygiene of isocyanates and polyurethanes. Currently he is working on epidemiologic investigations assessing the respiratory health effects of industrial wood dust exposure and the renal toxicity of crystalline silica exposure.

Rhoads, Jacqueline

Dr. Rhoads is the director of the Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program at Louisiana State University Health Science Center School of Nursing, for the Family Nurse Practitioners and Post Masters FNP and Adult Nurse Practitioner Program of Study. When not in the classroom, Dr. Rhoads serves as an Adult Nurse Practitioner at Health Care for the Homeless Clinic and Odyssey House, caring for some of New Orleans' homeless population.  Professor Rhoads' passion is military nursing. She has been an active duty and reserve Army Nurse for almost 30 years. Her research focuses on PTSD with active duty service personnel; women in the military; medical personnel; post Vietnam veterans; Post Desert Storm PTSD effects.  Rhoads has written numerous articles on clinical and professional issues for both acute and primary care nursing. She is a frequent speaker and member of several professional organizations, such as the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty and the Department of Veteran Affairs.

Swift, Doug

Dr Swift is currently the Co-medical director of the East Jefferson General Hospital Occupational Medicine Clinics. His clinical practice is devoted to the evaluation and treatment of occupational and environmental illnesses and injuries, a field in which he has over 20 years of experience. Dr Swift is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the Dept of Medicine at Tulane's School of Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Environmental Health at the School of Public Health. Dr Swift obtained his MD from the LSU School of Medicine and his Master of Science in Public Health at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Shankar, Arti

Arti Shankar, PhD, Organizational Behavior, Indian Institute of Technology, India, 1993 MS, Psychology, Gorakhpur University, India, 1987 BS, Psychology, Specialization-Clinical Behavior Gorakhpur University, India, 1985. Her professional achievment's include: School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Student Government Association Teaching Excellence Award 2006 Honorary Member, Delta Omega Society in Public Health, Eta Chapter, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (2005) University Grants Commission fellow 1988 National Merit Scholarship 1986.

White, Luann

LuAnn White, PhD, DABT is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health in the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She serves as the director of the Center for Applied Environmental Public Health which includes the Center of Excellence in Environmental Public Health Tracking. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology. Dr. White’s research focuses on the prevention of health effects in humans from environmental and occupational agents and environmental risk communication. She has conducted projects to identify exposure to environmental agents and assess and reduce the risk of subsequent health effects in communities. Public health interventions include behavioral aspects as well as the medical and scientific factors that influence exposure and affect health status.

She has developed risk communication methods that address the prevention of environmental exposures as well as individual behavioral risk factors that influence chronic diseases. She has launched distance learning master’s degree programs in Occupational Health and Safety Management, Occupational Health, and Industrial Hygiene.

Welch, Susan