Catherine Slemp, M.D., M.P.H.

Secretary

         Dr. Slemp has served as the Board of Medicine's Secretary since July 15, 2002. She has been designated State Director of Health for this purpose by Department of Health and Human Resources Secretary Nusbaum.

         Dr. Slemp received her A.B. degree  cum  laude, in Biochemistry, from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, and her M.D. degree from Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.  Her Family Practice Residency was at St. Margaret Memorial Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  She then received a Masters of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1993 and completed her Residency in Preventive Medicine in 1994.

         While serving as Clinical Director of the Division of Surveillance and Disease Control (DSDC) for the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health from 1994 through 2000, she was a Public Health Leadership Scholar from 1997 through 1998 at the Southeast Public Health Leadership Institute.  From 2000 to February of 2002, she was Communicable Disease Transitions Coordinator and Medical Epidemiologist at the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health, DSDC, and since February, 2002, she has been Executive Director of Public Health Threat Preparedness, West Virginia Bureau for Public Health.  Since July 2002, she has also served as Acting State Health Officer.

          Dr. Slemp was Board Certified in Family Practice in 1992 and re-certified in 1998.  She has been Board Certified in Public Health and Preventive Medicine since 1996.  She holds an active license to practice medicine in West Virginia and from 1994 to the present has served as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University.

         She maintains memberships in several professional associations, including both the American and West Virginia Academies of Family Physicians and the American and West Virginia Public Health Associations, and the American College of Preventive Medicine.  Over the years, she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the West Virginia Sanitarian's Association Award of Appreciation, the Lyman-Stebbins MPH Award, the Mead Johnson National Award for Graduate Education in Family Practice, and others. 

        Dr. Slemp has co-authored numerous articles which have appeared in several publications, including Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Review and the West Virginia Medical Journal, and has been involved in a variety of public health special projects on a statewide and national basis.  She has given workshops and courses and lectured regularly throughout West Virginia on communicable disease, public health, and cancer.