Public Health Management & Pop Health Slides and Video

Public Health Management & Pop Health

Patrick Remington, MD, MPH, FACPM is Professor Emeritus at the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). He began his public health career with the CDC, where he completed the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), Preventive Medicine Residency, and Career Development Program. He then returned to his home state of Wisconsin, where from 1988-1997, he served as the Chief Medical Officer for Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, at the Wisconsin Division of Public Health. After practicing public health for 15 years, he joined the faculty at the UW, where he established and directed the Population Health Institute, the Master of Public Health Program, and the Preventive Medicine Residency Program. From 2009-2019, he served as the inaugural Associate Dean for Public Health, leading the transformation of the UW medical school to an integrated school of medicine and public health. Dr. Remington’s research focused on the interface between science and practice and culminated in a model for public health surveillance for engaging communities in broad-based efforts to measure health and mobilize communities toward action—the County Health Rankings. A passionate educator, Dr. Remington also developed and taught courses on public health to undergraduate, medical, and public health students. Dr. Remington has published over 300 papers and book chapters, including serving as the lead editor of the APHA’s Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control textbook. He is frequently sought by the media for his views on a variety of public health topics and has served on numerous IOM, NIH, and CDC advisory committees. He has received numerous honors recognizing his work, including his selection as the 2010 Langmuir Lecturer at CDC and his appointment to the DHHS Healthy People 2020 Federal Advisory Committee and the CDC’s Community Preventive Services Task Force. Upon his retirement in 2019, he was awarded the UW’s Folkert Belzer Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Wisconsin Public Health Association’s Carol Graham Lifetime Achievement Award, and the American College of Preventive Medicine’s Ronald Davis Special Recognition Award. Dr. Remington earned his MD from UW and completed an Internal Medicine Internship at Virginia Mason in Seattle and an MPH degree from the University of Minnesota. He currently serves as an advisor to the Preventive Medicine Residency Program, serves as an editor for the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and volunteers in several community-based non-profit organizations in the Madison area.

Richard Bruno is a double-boarded Family & Preventive medicine physician serving as the Health Officer for Multnomah County Health Department, serving over 800,000 people in the greater Portland, Oregon area. He formerly served as the Senior Medical Director for Primary Care at a federally-qualified health center called Central City Concern, that focuses on healthcare for the homeless in Portland, Oregon. His main clinical focuses are on HIV, gender affirming care, obesity, and opioid use disorder, with involvement in community public health interventions and policies, including cooking classes for kids and legislation expanding access to medication for opioid use disorder. He has served on the board of directors of the American College of Preventive Medicine, American Academy of Family Physicians, Physicians for a National Health Program, National Physicians Alliance (now Doctors for America), Committee to Protect Medicare, American Association of Public Health Physicians, Physicians for Social Responsibility (Chesapeake chapter and Oregon chapter), MedChi (the Maryland state medical society), Sugar Free Kids Maryland, Maryland Academy of Family Physicians, Baltimore City Medical Society, Hampden Family Center, Richmond Neighborhood Association, People's Grocery co-op, and the Oregon Prescription Drug Affordability Board. He has also served on the Ethics Panel of the Baltimore City Public Schools district. He attained a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, doctorate of medicine from Oregon Health and Science University, and a master of public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He graduated from the combined Family & Preventive Medicine residency program at MedStar Franklin Square and Johns Hopkins. His wife and two children enjoy hiking, biking, cooking, and playing music together.