2008 Award Recipient

Past award recipients

 

Denise Koo, MD, MPH is honored for her exceptional service to APTR and our members.

 

Denise Koo, MD, MPH is Director of the Career Development Division in CDC’s Office of Workforce and Career Development. This Division houses several key CDC training and workforce development programs with a total of nearly 400 trainees each year, including the Epidemic Intelligence Service, an ACGME-accredited Preventive Medicine Residency, the Public Health Prevention Service, Public Health Informatics fellowship, Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship, electives and fellowships for medical and veterinary students, The CDC Experience fellowship in applied epidemiology for medical students, and the CDC lead for the Emerging Leader, Presidential Management Fellows Programs. 

Dr. Koo was graduated from Harvard University in 1984 with a BA in Biochemical Sciences.  After combining medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, with an MPH in epidemiology at University of California, Berkeley, she completed a primary care internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.  She then entered CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and was assigned to the California Department of Health Services from 1991-1993.  Subsequent to EIS, Dr. Koo served as a preventive medicine resident in CDC’s Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch.  Her career path at CDC has included positions as Chief of the CDC Branch responsible for operation of the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, in the Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, and Director of this same Division, in the Epidemiology Program Office (EPO).  

In 2001, Dr. Koo became the EPO Associate Director for Science.  Dr. Koo became Director of the Division of Applied Public Health Training at CDC in November 2002, re-organized 2 years later as the Career Development Division.  Dr. Koo obtained board certification in internal medicine and preventive medicine.  Dr. Koo holds appointments as Adjunct Professor of Global Health, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and Visiting Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center.

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