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Pittsburgh Doctor Named as New Allegheny County Health Department Director
Allegheny County Chief Executive Rich Fitzgerald on Wednesday announced that the incoming health department director will be Dr. Debra Bogen of Pittsburgh.
“Please welcome Dr. Debra Bogen as the new director of (ACHD). A pediatrician with (Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh), she will be formally appointed later today by the Board of Health and is expected to assume the position in May,” he tweeted.
The county has been seeking a new leader for the health department since the departure of Karen Hacker, who left in July to take a position with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
According to her bio on the UPMC Health Policy Institute, Bogen is a professor of pediatrics, psychiatry and clinical and translational science and director of the Fellowship in General Academic Pediatrics and HRSA NRSA T32 in Primary Care Research.
She is also the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine vice chair for education in the Department of Pediatrics and co-medical director of quality, safety and outcomes, Children’s Community Pediatrics.
She earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Barnard College of Columbia University, her medical degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and did both her pediatric residency and fellowship in general Academic Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins.
“We look forward to working with Dr. Bogen to champion air quality issues when she takes the helm of the health depart in May,” GASP Executive Director Rachel Filippini said.
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