University of California, Berkeley

Fall 2007 Guest Course Lecturer

Harvey Kayman, MD, MPH, PHMO III

PH 298: Ethics and Public Health in an Age of Terrorism

Harvey Kayman received his early education in Bogalusa and New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated Cum Laude in Chemistry from Cornell University in 1964, the University of Chicago School of Medicine in 1968, the University of California – Berkeley in 1999 with an MPH, completed Pediatric Internship and Residency at Babies Hospital, Columbia University, in New York City in 1971, received certificates of achievement for two year-long courses at the Management Academy of Public Health in 2002 and the South East Public Health Leadership Institute in 2004 from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the Center of Disease Control and Prevention.

Currently, he is a Public Health Medical Officer III in the Emergency Planning and Preparedness Section of the Immunization Branch of the California Department of Health Services. Until November 2006, he was the Director of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau in the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. His experience in public health positions include 14 years as Chief of Health Education in Kaiser Permanente, Fremont, California and six years as a Public Health Officer in South Carolina (SC DHEC).  He has been honored to be the public health representative to the South Carolina Medical Association Ethics Committee for six years.  In addition, he has had many years experience as a front line practicing pediatrician, first in the United States Army (Chief of Pediatrics at the US Army Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand) and then as a staff pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente for 25 years.

Contact: 

Email: hkayman@dhs.ca.gov

Phone: 510 620 2986

Fax 510 620 3774

 


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