WOEMA is a regional component of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), and is dedicated to high quality medical care and ethical principles governing the practice of occupational medicine.
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Board of Directors and Officers
Roger Belcourt MD MPH FACOEM
Chairman of the Board
Medical Director of Occupational Medicine
Dr. Belcourt received his medical degree from the University of Nevada,
Reno and completed his residency in Family Practice at the University of
California, Davis. He received his MPH from the Medical College of
Wisconsin. He is board-certified by the American Board of Preventive
Medicine in Occupational Medicine and by the American Board of Family
Medicine in Family Practice. Dr. Belcourt is Director, Occupational
Health Services at UC Davis.
Walt S Newman Jr MD
President
Dr.
Newman is the principal of The Newman Medical Group, focusing on
Occupational Health Services for Silicon Valley and the Monterey
Peninsula. Dr.Newman received his M.D. from UCSF and did residency
training in Family Medicine at the Stanford/San Jose program. He
completed the Mini-Residency in Occupational Medicine at UCSF. Dr. Newman
is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford
University. His clinical activities have included consulting services and
direct patient care to over 50 companies throughout California.
Currently, his largest client is Monterey Mushrooms, where he serves as
Chief Health Officer for over 3,500 Hispanic farm workers around the
United States.
Leslie Israel DO MPH FACOEM
President-elect
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Dr.
Israel is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of
California, Irvine Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
(COEH), the Associate Occupational Medicine Residency Program Director
and the Medical Director for the COEH Occupational and Environmental
Medicine Clinic. In addition, she is working on several clinical
research projects: Firefighter Occupational Exposures in collaboration
with the Biomonitoring California Program, a NIOSH funded Firefighter
Obesity Study (FORWARD), and a review of cardiac workers' compensation
claims among firefighters. Currently, Dr. Israel serves as a member of
the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Personal Protective
Equipment (COPPE) and as a reviewer of NIOSH training grant
applications. She was also selected as the chairperson for the National
Occupational Medicine Residency Program Directors Group (5/1/2010 -
3/25/2011). Dr. Israel received her internship and residency training at
Yale University and is board-certified in Occupational Medicine.
Ellyn G McIntosh MD MPH FACOEM
First Vice President
ExxonMobil Corporation, Torrance, CA
Dr.
McIntosh received her MD degree in 1984 from the Pennsylvania
State University. She received a Masters of Public Health degree from
UCLA, and completed her Occupational Medicine Residency at UC Irvine.
She is board certified in Occupational Medicine. She has worked as an
Occupational Health Manager for ExxonMobil Corporation since 2000, and
is a member of the volunteer clinical faculty at UC Irvine, teaching
occupational medicine residents during their corporate occupational
medicine rotations at ExxonMobil.
Peter J Vasquez MD
Second Vice PresidentTake Care Health Systems, Chandler, AZ
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Dr.
Vasquez currently works for Take Care Health Systems, where he is a
Regional Medical Director, providing oversight to the on-site medical
services in the Western US. He is certified by both the American Board
of Family Medicine, and the American Board of Preventive Medicine with a
specialty in Occupational Medicine.
Sachin Kapoor DO MBA MPH FACOEM
Dr.
Kapoor completed his training in Occupational and Environmental Medicine
at Harvard University, and earned his Masters in Public Health from the
Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to that he completed Internal
Medicine training at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New
Jersey. He attended medical school in New York where he simultaneously
earned his Masters in Business Administration in Management. He is board
certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational and Environmental
Medicine. He joined Kaiser Permanente in 2005 and practices clinical
occupational medicine full time. He has a background in web design and
an interest in the development and enhancement of electronic health
information systems.
Ramon J Terrazas MD MPH FACOEM
Treasurer
Department Physician, Office of the Department Physician
San Francisco Fire Department, San Francisco, CA
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San Francisco Fire Department, San Francisco, CA
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Dr.
Terrazas currently serves as the Department Physician for the San
Francisco Fire Department. His is board certification in Occupational
and Environmental Medicine and obtained a Master of Public Health degree
from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed his residency at
the University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Parker has served as Executive Director of the Western Occupational & Environmental Medical Association (WOEMA) since 1999. She serves in this capacity through a management contract with Holland-Parlette Associates (HPA), a San Francisco-based association management firm. HPA also provides association management services to other non-profit medical associations. Parker has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Iowa (1982) and a Master's degree in Public Administration from Iowa State University (1985).
Robert C Blink MD MPH
DirectorWorksite Partners Medical Group Inc., San Francisco, CA
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Dr.
Blink works as a front-line occupational medicine clinic physician in small independent, hospital-based,and large group practices; nationwide corporate medical directorships; principal consulting physician to joint labor-management health programs; staffs workplace on-site clinics; serves as a QME; academic affiliation; and educational outreach to employer, labor and community groups. Dr. Blink was part of the WOHC Planning Committee 2011 and has been part of the WOEMA Legislative Affairs Committee with emphasis on physician reimbursement and medical quality issues.
Rupali Das MD MPH FACOEM
DirectorCalifornia Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA
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Dr. Das is currently Chief of the Exposure Assessment Section, Environmental Health Investigations Branch, California Department of Health (CDPH). She is also an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco, where her practice includes attending as physician in the occupational medicine referral clinic. For over a decade at CDPH's Occupational Health Branch she led programs to track and prevent occupational pesticide illnesses, emergency preparedness and planning, and respond to occupational infectious disease outbreaks. She currently leads the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program, the nation's first mandated statewide program to assess chemical exposures in the California population. Dr. Das attended medical school at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago and a Fellowship in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at UCSF. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine/Occupational Medicine.
Paula Lenny MD MPH FACOEM
DirectorKaiser Permanente, Occupational Health Services, Paia, HI
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Dr. Lenny is an Occupational Health Services physician for Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, Maui Clinics and has been practicing Occupational Medicine on Maui for 10 years. She is Board Certified in Occupational & Environmental Medicine and a certified MRO. As a representative from Hawaii and as a physician who practices in the trenches of Occupational Medicine, she hopes to bring needed regional diversity and a multicultural Occupational Medicine perspective unique to Hawaii to the organization and to learn and share with her island colleagues the collective knowledge and support WOEMA can offer.
Dr. Levy is Chief of Occupational Medicine as well as Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for The Permanente Medical Group. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine and regularly practices in both fields. Dr. Levy had served as Chair of the WOEMA membership committee for 3 years and still remains an active member. He is currently Co-Chair of the WOEMA Legislative committee as well as a member of ACOEM membership committee. Dr. Levy also serves as Secretary of the Specialty Delegation of the California Medical Association.
William R Lewis MD
Director
Concentra, Phoenix, AZ
Concentra, Phoenix, AZ
Dr. Lewis oversees medical operations and serves as chair of Concentra medical expert panel on Urgent Care. Since joining Concentra in 1996, Dr. Lewis has supervised over 120 occupational health facilities, with 350 providers, in a 10-state area. He is currently leading the conversion of pure occupational care facilities to a mixed blend model of urgent care and occupational medicine. Dr. Lewis is board certified in emergency medicine and is a graduate of Ohio State University, College of Medicine.
Anne Searcy MD
Director
Zenith Insurance, Pleasanton, CA
Zenith Insurance, Pleasanton, CA
Dr.
Searcy received her B.A. from UC San Diego and M.D. from UC Davis. She was the medical director for an occupational medicine clinic in the East Bay until 1995 when she reduced her practice time to join the Department of Industrial Relations. She was appointed as the Executive Medical Director of the DWC Medical Unit by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2006. In that capacity, she managed the division's medical and health-related programs, including development of treatment guidelines, fee schedules, and management of the qualified medical evaluator, medical provider network, utilization review, health care organization and spinal surgery second opinion programs. She also supervised studies related to workers' compensation medical services as well as analyzed and implemented new legislation and policies in conjunction with the DWC administrative director. She joined the Zenith Insurance Company in December of 2008 where she is a Senior Vice President in Medical Management. At Zenith, she provides case management, helps administer provider networks, and is involved in special projects such as reviewing pharmacy benefit delivery systems.