Rene Joscoff, DDS, MPH, Captain, U.S. Public Health Service, and Special Advisor to the National Institutes of Health, is the inaugural speaker and honorary degree recipient at the commencement of the Doctor of Science, School of Medicine and Dentistry on Monday, May 8. Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts at 1:00 pm Joskow is a dentist, medical epidemiologist, and devoted to service and leading change.
Joskow holds the position of Captain of the U.S. Public Health Service whose mission is to “protect, promote and advance the health and security of our nation.” She has inspired others through teaching and mentoring to provide quality clinical care and public health expertise in the United States and abroad.
A dual-degree doctor of dental surgery and master’s degree in public health program from Columbia University, Joskow has worked in a hospital-based general practice training program and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) dental and public health training program/intramural. I completed both fellowships. She spent the first half of her professional career integrating her education, clinical care, and public health.
As a faculty member and course director at Columbia University School of Dentistry and as chief dentist at two hospitals, she has cared for patients and mentored and mentored medical and dental students and residents. At the same time, Joskow maintains a private dental practice in New York and has established a quality assurance and quality control consulting business, working with several medical institutions in three state territories.
After nearly 15 years of academic, corporate and clinical work, Joskow was appointed as an Epidemic Information Service (EIS) Officer for the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Sickness Detective”. After her EIS assignment, Joskow joined the Office of the Surgeon General, where she served as Medical Readiness Manager/Chief of Training and Education for her USPHS Commission, serving over 6,100 physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, I was in charge of training scientists. other medical professionals.
She then served as Senior Medical Epidemiologist and Program Manager at the Department of Homeland Security’s Directorate General of Science and Technology. Joskow later returned to her NIH, providing multi-million dollar expertise and program management. Clinical Translational Science Award research programs to promote and accelerate
I am honored to welcome Dr. Joskow as the keynote speaker for this year’s commencement ceremony. We look forward to the wealth of experience, insight and wisdom she will share with her graduates this year.