[PNWHEALTH] New Director of Public Health - Seattle & King County

[Sarena Seifer]

Dear colleagues,

Please see below for message dated November 27 from Ron Sims, King County 
Executive:

> Dear Public Health Staff:
> 
> I am very pleased to announce my appointment of David Fleming, M.D. as 
Director of Public Health > ->  Seattle & King County.
> 
> Dr. Fleming currently serves as director of Global Health Strategies at 
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this capacity, he has been responsible 
for the creation, development and oversight of cross-cutting programs targeting 
diseases and conditions that disproportionately affect the world's poorest 
people and counties. His role has been to bring vision, innovation and 
leadership to a number of initiatives including: combating vaccine preventable 
diseases; promoting nutrition programs and infant and young children feeding 
programs; maternal and child survival; leadership development; public health 
information systems; emergency relief; and community development for self 
sufficiency.
> 
> David is also Clinical Associate Professor in Epidemiology at the U.W. 
School of Public Health.
> 
> David has an impressive background, which will serve him, and us, very 
well. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2003, he worked at the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he served from 2000 to 2003 as 
deputy director of CDC for Science and Public Health and in 2002 as acting 
director of the agency. David also served as deputy administrator, Agency for 
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and in that capacity he provided 
leadership in shaping policy and developing and using CDC's and ATSDR's 
capabilities in science and public health practice. He served as the principal 
source of expertise and advice to the director on science and public health 
programs, and oversaw CDC offices of Minority Health, Global Health, Women's 
Health and the Associate Director for Science.
> 
> Before joining CDC, from 1986-2000, David served first as deputy and 
then as state epidemiologist with the Oregon Health Division, overseeing a 
broad range of public health programs. He also served on the faculty of the 
Department of Public Health at Oregon Health Sciences University for 17 years. 
David has published scientific articles on a wide range of public health 
issues. He received his M.D. from the State University of New York Upstate 
Medical Center in Syracuse. David is board certified in internal medicine and 
preventive medicine. He has served as president of the Council of State and 
Territorial Epidemiologists and many Federal and National Academy of 
Science/Institute of Medicine Committees as well as serving on the boards of a 
number of Global Public Health Alliances.
> 
> I am very pleased that David is ready to grapple with the opportunities 
and challenges in our health department. He has come to recognize, as I do, how 
talented you are. I have also emphasized to him how much I support the good 
work of this department.
> 
> Our search for a new Public Health leader was extensive and nationwide, 
and a number of very strong candidates were identified. We are indeed fortunate 
that an individual of David> '> s stature and caliber was available right in 
our own community. We anticipate David will start in his new role on or about 
February 6, 2007
> 
> I would also like to thank Dorothy Teeter, who served extremely well as 
Interim Director for the department. Dorothy> '> s leadership during this 
period has helped to steer the department through a number of public health 
challenges and successes. I sincerely appreciate her good work.
> 
> Peace and Prosperity,
> 
> Ron Sims

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