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Hernam Ellis, MD,
MPH, FACPM, FACOEM
Public
Health Regent
Dr. Ellis is presently State Medical
Director of the Delaware Division of Public Health and
acting director of the Office of Minority Health. Dr.
Ellis is a Fellow of both the American College of
Preventive Medicine and American College of Occupational
and Environmental Medicine. Prior to accepting his
present position, he was Health Director of the City of
Richmond. Dr. Ellis spent 15 years in industry that
included employment with IBM, where he managed the
epidemiology program and was the company’s medical
mediator; Monsanto where he had regional responsibility
and managed the disability and drug screening programs;
Rohm and Haas where he was corporate medical director
directly responsible for policy development in nursing,
epidemiology and medicine in 44 countries. Dr. Ellis is
a former Navy medical officer and served as the Chief of
Epidemiology for the Atlantic Fleet overseeing education
of civilian and Navy personnel on infectious diseases
and serving as the expert adviser to Navy commanders on
the requirements for medications and appropriate
protection against infectious diseases in combat zones.
Dr. Ellis was Chair of Occupational and Preventive
Medicine and was interim Chair of Family Medicine at
Meharry
Medical College. He is an adjunct assistant professor at
the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
(Environmental Sciences). Dr. Ellis is a graduate of the
Boston University School of Medicine and the University
of Michigan School of Public Health.
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