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Fresh out of his residency, Luke Shouse, M.D., M.P.H.,
is pictured here as a new employee in the HIV section in
2003.
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Luke Shouse, M.D., M.P.H., experienced the inside world of Public
Health as a medical resident,
full-time employee, and now as the CDC assignee to the HIV/AIDS
surveillance section. A graduate of East Tennessee State
University's Quillen College of Medicine in 1999, Dr. Shouse is
board certified in Preventive Medicine/Public Health.
"I completed my Preventive Medicine residency at Morehouse
School of Medicine in June 2002," said Dr. Shouse. "During my
residency, I participated in a three month rotation at the
Georgia Department of Public Health (formerly Division of Public
Health) in the Epidemiology Branch." Dr. Shouse has landed once
again in the Epidemiology Branch as he fills a recent vacancy.
"I am on a 120-day
assignment to DPH serving as the HIV epidemiology section chief,"
said Dr. Shouse. "I oversee the HIV surveillance programs including
the core notifiable disease registry for HIV, Georgia's HIV
Behavioral Surveillance system and the Medical Monitoring Project.
This is basically the job I held when I worked at DPH previously,"
Dr. Shouse said.
His Public Health training proved significant in his career with
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "My
training in Preventive Medicine prepared me for my work at both
DPH and then CDC," he told PHWEEK. "It provided the knowledge
and skills needed to assess population health outcomes and to
design surveillance programs to track and monitor disease."
"He's a great medical doctor and we're lucky to have him with us
again in Public Health," said J. Patrick O'Neal, M.D., director,
division of health protection.
-Story by Connie F. Smith, DPH Communications
