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17 <br /> Page 1 of 2 Deborah Porterfield <br /> Volunteer Application <br /> Orange County Advisory Boards and Commissions <br /> Name: Dr. Deborah Porterfield <br /> Name Called: <br /> Home Address: 108 Oosting Drive <br /> Chapel Hill NC 27514 <br /> Phone (Day): 9849745102 <br /> Phone (Evening): 9199329674 <br /> Phone (Cell): 9196300532 <br /> Email: deborah.s.porterfield@gmail.com <br /> Place of Employment: UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine <br /> Job Title: Associate Professor; Director, Preventive Medicine <br /> Year of OC Residence: 1998 <br /> Township of Residence: Chapel Hill <br /> Zone of Residence: <br /> Sex: Female <br /> Ethnic Background: white <br /> Community Activities/Organizational Memberships: <br /> Member, North Carolina Diabetes Advisory Council <br /> Chair, Advisory Team, The Value of Preventive Medicine study, American College of <br /> Preventive Medicine <br /> Member, Public Health Systems Research Interest Group, AcademyHealth <br /> Member: American College of Preventive Medicine (and its Graduate Education <br /> Committee), AcademyHealth, American College of Sports Medicine <br /> Past Service on Orange County Advisory Boards: <br /> none <br /> Boards/Commissions applied for: <br /> Board of Health <br /> Background, education and experience relevant to this board: <br /> Knowledge of public health practice at the state level in NC and in the US, as a former employee <br /> of the NC Division of Public Health and current contractor to CDC (through work at RTI). <br /> General familiarity with NC public health law and rule making of the Public Health Commission. <br /> Maintained interest in and engagement with public health practitioners and partners through <br /> responsibilities to educate next generation of public health physicians as Preventive Medicine <br /> Residency Director at UNC. I attempt to keep abreast of active public health issues in the state <br /> through attending state conferences (e.g., Public Health Leaders Conference, NCIOM) and <br /> networking to place residents in public and population health rotations as part of their training. <br /> Specific areas of expertise are chronic disease prevention and control, in particular diabetes <br /> prevention, and clinical-community linkages for population health improvement. Currently <br /> leading 2 projects for the Division of Diabetes Translation. <br /> Reasons for wanting to serve on this board: <br />