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Patrick O'Carroll, MD, MPH, FACPM

Dr. O’Carroll is an EIS-trained medical epidemiologist with the Public Health Practice Program Office (PHPPO), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

He is currently assigned to the University of Washington an Executive Fellow in Public Health Informatics.

Prior to this assignment, Dr. O'Carroll served as the Associate Director for Health Informatics at PHPPO/CDC, in which capacity he directed the national Health Alert Network program. In a previous assignment to the State of Washington Dr. O'Carroll served as the Director of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, where he developed one of the nation’s first public health informatics training courses and led a variety of information systems development and research projects.

Dr. O'Carroll has now worked in the field of public health informatics for almost a decade. He co-led the development of CDC WONDER (an on-line system providing remote, ad hoc query access to CDC's scientific databases), and was lead scientist for the CDC Prevention Guidelines Database project. Prior to his informatics work, Dr. O'Carroll worked in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at CDC, where he led the epidemiology research unit that addresses the prevention of suicide and violence. In addition to his CDC responsibilities, Dr. O'Carroll holds Affiliate Associate Professor appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine.