Winter Quarter 2005
Instructors

Course Instructors

Charles D. (Chuck) Treser, MPH
Senior Lecturer
Dept. of Env. & Occ. Health Sciences / PoE
Office: E-179A, Health Sciences Center
Campus Mailbox: Box 357234
Seattle, WA 98195-7234
Phone: 206-616-2097
Fax: 206-543-9616
Email: ctreser@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: At BCC by appointment.

Mr. Treser was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1945. He received his bachelor of arts degree in history from Thiel College in 1967, and served three years in the United States Army as an artillery survey specialist, an education specialist and a personnel specialist. In 1971 he began his career in environmental health as an environmental health inspector with the Allegheny County Health Department in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Steady promotions followed over the next four years until 1975, when as an environmental health supervisor, he went on leave to obtain a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Michigan. In 1976 he returned to the Allegheny County Health Department and was promoted to environmental health administrator. There he developed a comprehensive training program for new environmental health employees. In 1980, he accepted a position as Lecturer in Environmental Health with the University of Washington's Department of Environmental Health to manage a continuing competency education system for environmental health personnel.
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Chuck is currently a Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Advisor in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as the School-wide extended MPH degree program. He is an active participant in the University of Washington???s Northwest Center for Public Health Practice ??? the organizational nexus within the School of Public Health & Community Medicine for connecting the academic pursuits of the school with the needs of the Public Heal practice community. Chuck remains professionally active in environmental and public health professional organizations; including the American Public Health Association (Section Council 1987-1990, Chair 1991-92, Governing Council 1993-1994, 1996-1998, 2001-2002), the National Environmental Health Association (Chair of the Management Section, 1989-1994), the National Conference of Local Environmental Health Administrators (Editor, 1984-1994, Treasurer, 1995-present), the Washington State Environmental Health Association (Secretary, 1984-1987) and the Washington State Public Health Association (President, 1987-88). He has done consulting work for several local health departments and private engineering and consulting firms. His awards include the Washington State Public Health Association???s Tom Drummey Award (1995) and the American Public Health Association Environment Section???s Distinguished Service Award (1995). He was elected President of the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs in June, 2000. In 2002 he was elected as the president of the International Environmental Health Faculty Forum.

L.B. Sandy Rock, MD, MPH
Instructor, Science Division
Bellevue Community College
Office: B-146, BCC
3000 Landerholm Circle SE
Telephone: 425-564-6181
Email:srock@bcc.ctc.edu

Office Hours: At BCC by appointment.

 

Education:

BA, with distinction 1966, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
* Area of concentration ("Major"): Biology.

MD 1970, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Internship (Family Practice) 1971, Naval Hospital/Mercy Hospital, San Diego, CA

MPH 1972, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
* Field of Study: Population Dynamics and Family HealthPediatrics Residency (partial) July 1972-December 1972, University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
Board Certification: American Board of Family Practice, 1976, 1982, 1989


Additional Training:
* Health Risk Assessment; Embryologic and Reproductive Toxicology (1994); Occupational Medicine (1994); Special Topics in Epidemiology (1997), University of Washington, Seattle, WA
* Certification, Radiation Medicine and Thyroid Disease, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1999 Atomic Bomb Disease Institute(abomb.med.nagasaki-u.ac.jp)

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Experience:

  • Project Consultant, American College of Preventive Medicine, I-131 Environmental Health Education Project, October 1, 2001--->March 2004
  • Project Consultant, Water Resources Education Center (WREC), City of Vancouver (WA), PBT Exhibit, March 2002-April 2003; October 2003-March 2004
  • Environment and Health Research Director, Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center, January 2001--->2004
  • Instructor, Environmental Science, Cell Biology, Environmental Health- Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, Washington, September 2000---->present
  • Public Health Physician, Washington State Department of Health; Seattle, WA, May 1995 to May 2000 (Hanford Health Information Network--HHIN)
    Responsible for education of health care providers in the Pacific Northwest regarding possible health effects from exposure to radioactive materials released from the Hanford Nuclear Site. Many presentations given to HCPs and public. Organized Radiation Risk Communication conference, September 1996. Co-Director, Radiation Risk Communication conference, 1999. Researcher/writer for newsletter.
  • Primary Care Physician
    Self--contractual to ambulatory clinics
    Seattle, WA area
    1993 to 1994
  • Primary Care Physician
    University of Washington
    Seattle, WA
    1990 to 1992
  • Public Health/Primary Care Physician
    Santa Barbara County Health Department
    Lompoc, CA
    1988 to 1990
    Community and public health to mixed migrant worker, Hmong, and indigent community. Supervised public health outreach staff.

 


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