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Dr. Park is the Hawaii State Epidemiologist and Chief of the Disease Outbreak Control Division, Hawaii Department of Health. She directs all activities related to emerging infections, disease surveillance and investigations, immunizations, and emergency responses related to those areas (e.g., Hawaii’s response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic). Aside from her duties for Hawaii, Dr. Park serves on the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters, which advises the US Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary and Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) on issues related to children and disasters, specifically regarding the nation’s preparedness and capacity to respond. Additionally, Dr. Park is the President and an Executive Board member for the Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists, the senior states leadership and decision-making body for reviewing nationally notifiable conditions and establishing disease reporting and surveillance standards. Dr. Park has served on several other national committees as well as working groups to address various topics including guidelines for pediatric anthrax vaccines and smallpox management, and has provided talks locally and nationally on various infectious disease and public health response related topics.
Dr. Park is a former Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where her work included activities in bacterial respiratory diseases, West Nile Virus, methicillin resistant and vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and SARS. She has worked internationally with the World Health Organization and CDC in activities such as polio elimination, vaccine preventable disease surveillance and program assessment, and epidemic disease investigation and response.
Dr. Park completed her undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her medical education at the Boston University School of Medicine, her pediatrics residency at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, and her pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco. She continues to practice clinically, occasionally covering the pediatric infectious diseases inpatient service at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, HI, and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine.