CURRICULUM VITAE



CURRICULUM VITAE

JEREMY J. HESS, MD, MPH

Revised: 6/8/2015

Name: Jeremy J. Hess MD, MPH

Office Address: Department of Emergency Medicine

Steiner Building, Room 120

49 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive

Atlanta, GA 30303

Telephone: 404-251-8851

Fax: 404-778-2630

Email: jhess@emory.edu

Citizenship: United States of America

Current Titles and Affiliations:

Academic Appointments:

Primary Appointment:

Associate Professor Department of Emergency Medicine 2014-Current

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

Joint and Secondary Appointment:

Associate Professor Department of Environmental Health 2014-Current

Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University

Atlanta, GA

Clinical Appointments:

Senior Medical Advisor Climate and Health Program 2006-Current

National Center for Environmental Health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA

Attending Physician Emory University Hospital Midtown 2006-Current

Atlanta, GA

Attending Physician Emory University Hospital 2006-Current

Atlanta, GA

Attending Physician Grady Memorial Hospital 2006-Current

Atlanta, GA

Attending Physician Hughes Spalding Children’s Hospital 2006-2009

Atlanta, GA

Other Administrative Appointments:

Associate Director, Research Department of Emergency Medicine 2013-Current

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

Member Emory HealthCare Sustainability Taskforce 2009-Current

(CEO Appointment)

Previous Academic and Professional Appointments:

Assistant Professor Department of Emergency Medicine 2006-2014

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Health 2006-2014

Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University

Atlanta, GA

Assistant Director, Research Department of Emergency Medicine 2010-2013

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

O. C. Hubert EIS Fellow National Center for Environmental Health 2003

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA

Chief Investigator AIDS and Child-Headed Households 2002

CARE-Rwanda

Kigali, Rwanda

Staff Pediatric Environmental Health 2002

Specialty Unit

Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, GA

Fellow Department of Environmental and 1999

Occupational Health

Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University

Atlanta, GA

Previous Administrative and/or Clinical Appointments:

Director Community HealthCorps 1995-1996

Providence, RI

Founding Director Thai Youth AIDS Prevention Project 1995-1996 Chiang Mai, Thailand

Program Director Project for HIV-AIDS Statewide Education 1993-1995

Brown University

Providence, RI

Program Director Filipino AIDS Peer Education Program 1994

Manila, Philippines

Licensures/Boards:

2003-Current National Board of Medical Examiners

2006-Current Georgia Composite Medical Board (Physician)

2006-Current Federal Drug Enforcement Agency

2007-2017 American Board of Emergency Medicine

Education:

1990 – 1992 Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, CA

1992 – 1995 BA with Honors, Brown University, Providence, RI

2001 – 2002 MPH, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA

1998 – 2003 MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Postgraduate Training:

2003 – 2006 Emergency Medicine Residency, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Committee Memberships:

National and International:

Founding Member Ahmedabad Heat Health Planning Project Steering 2012-Current

Committee, Indian Institute of Public Health, Public Health Foundation of India,

and Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Member, Health Indicators Committee, National Climate Assessment, 2012-Current

US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC

Member, Interagency Cross-Cutting Group on Climate Change and Human 2010-Current

Health, US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC

Member, Public Health Interest Group, Society for Academic Emergency 2007-Current

Medicine, Des Plaines, IL

Member, Ad Hoc Interagency Working Group on Climate Change and Health 2009-2010

Research, US Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA

Member, International Adaptation to Climate Change Working Group, 2009-2010

White House Council on Environmental Quality, Washington, DC USA

Board Member, Thai Youth AIDS Prevention Project, Chiang Mai, Thailand 1996-2001

Institutional:

Founding Member, Climate@Emory, Academic Learning Community 2013-Current

Founding Member, Carbon Action Plan Committee, Emory University School 2013-Current

of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Member, Emory Sponsored Investigators Association, Emory University, 2013-Current Atlanta, GA

Founding Member, Interdisciplinary Health Services Research Group, 2013-Current

Emory University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Business,

Atlanta, GA

Founding Member, Climate Action Plan Committee, Emory University School 2012-Current

of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Member, Institutional Review Board, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 2012-Current

Member, Observation Care Steering Committee, Department of Emergency 2012-Current

Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Research Liaison and Member, Medical Directors and Operations Group, 2011-Current

Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine,

Atlanta, GA

Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Environmental Health, 2009-Current

Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Member, Research Committee, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory 2006-Current

University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Consultantships:

Consulting Scientist, Stratus Consulting, Projecting the Temperature-Related 2013-2015

Health Impacts of Climate Change for the interim National Climate Assess-

ment for the Environmental Protection Agency

Consulting Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council, Heat health 2012-2013

vulnerability assessment and heat early warning system development for Gujarat,

India, funded by the Climate Development Knowledge Network

Consulting Scientist, Lumenetec, Inc., a National Institutes of Health-funded 2012

Small Business Innovation Research grantee, Atlanta, GA

Consultant, CARE-USA HIV/AIDS Unit, CARE-USA, Atlanta, GA 2003

Editorships and Editorial Boards:

Guest Editor, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public 2013-Current

Health, Special Issue on Extreme Weather-Related Morbidity and Mortality:

Risks and Responses

Public Health Section Editor, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2010-Current

Guest Editor, American Journal of Public Health, Special Issue Petroleum 2009-2011

Scarcity and Health

Guest Editor, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Special Issue on 2008

Climate Change and Health

Study Section Membership:

Reviewer, Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results 2011

(STAR) grant study section, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.,

Manuscript reviewer:

Global Environmental Change 2010-Current

American Journal of Public Health 2010-Current

Journal of the American Medical Association 2009-Current

Annals of Emergency Medicine 2009-Current

Environmental Health Perspectives 2009-Current

American Journal of Epidemiology (ad hoc) 2012

Energy Policy (ad hoc) 2011

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ad hoc) 2009-2010

American Journal of Preventive Medicine (ad hoc) 2008

Honors and Awards:

Top Section Editor 2014-15, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2015

Outstanding Teaching Fellowship Project, American College of Emergency 2013

Medicine Teaching Fellowship

Medical Student Research Day Judge, School of Medicine, Emory University 2013, 2014

Atlanta, GA

American College of Emergency Medicine (ACEP) Teaching Fellowship 2012-2013

Lead Author, Health Chapter, National Climate Assessment 2011-2013

Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Special Report 2010-2012

on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate

Change Adaptation

National Center for Environmental Health Director’s Award for “A Human 2010

Health Perspective on Climate Change”

Presidential GreenGov Award to the Interagency Workgroup on Climate 2010

Change and Health for “A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change”

Award for Academic Excellence, Emory Emergency Medicine Residency, 2006

Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Graduation with Clinical Excellence, Emory Emergency Medicine Residency, 2006

Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Physician Assistant Resident Teaching Award, Emergency Medicine 2005

Residency Program, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Gangarosa Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Health, 2003

Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA

O.C. Hubert Epidemic Intelligence Service Fellowship at CDC, 2003

Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Thomas J. Sellers Merit Scholarship to the School of Public Health, 2001

Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Gaston Service Scholarship, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 2000

Emory University Humanitarian Award, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 2000

Woodruff Fellowship, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 1998-2003

Echoing Green Public Service Fellow, Echoing Green Foundation, NY, NY 1995-1996

Swearer Center Public Service Fellow, Brown University, Providence, RI 1995

President’s Community Service Fellow, Brown University, Providence, RI 1994

Society Memberships:

American Public Health Association 2007-Current

American College of Emergency Physicians 2003-Current

Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association 2003-2006

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2002-Current

Physicians for Human Rights 1998-Current

Physicians for Social Responsibility 1998-Current

Organization of National or International Conferences:

Conference Chair, Innovations in Climate Change Adaptation, Global 2010

Health, and Development, an international conference jointly sponsored by

Emory University, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and

CARE-USA in Atlanta, GA

Conference Co-Chair, Climate Change and Waterborne disease, a national 2007

conference organized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in

Atlanta, GA

Conference Co-Chair, US Public Health Response to Climate Change, an 2007

International conference organized by the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention in Atlanta, GA

Research Focus:

My research focuses on the human health effects of climate change, public health preparedness to reduce climate change health impacts, and health care operations related to acute and emergency care. Related interests include environmental sustainability in health care and the role of complex systems in public health.

Grant Support:

Active support, Federally-funded:

Assessing and Addressing Heat-health Vulnerability in Ahmedabad, India 2013-2015

R21TW009535-01National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center

Role: PI

Award $275,000 direct

Climate change and heat-related morbidity among vulnerable populations 2013-2015

in Atlanta

R21- 0000019357, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences

PI S. Sarnat, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University

Role: Co-I

Award $17,990 direct

National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment 2010-Current

Role: Recipient, Competitive loan repayment program

Award: $29,682

Interagency Personnel Agreement 2006-Current

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Role: PI

Award: $117,418/year, total $812,360 to date

Active support, privately-funded:

Describing, Modeling, and Managing Systems to Maximize Patient Flow 2013-Current

Emory Medical Care Foundation

Role: Principal Investigator

Award: $29,814

Previous Support:

Air Quality and Morbidity in Birmingham, AL 2011-2012

Environmental Protection Agency

Role: Co-Investigator

Award: $13,330

Social Vulnerability and Climatic Drivers of Enteric Disease 2011-2012

in Rural Ecuador

National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center

Role: Co-Investigator

Award: $6,851

EMERGEncy ID Net Study Site Principal Investigator 2011-2012

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 5U01C10003S3

Role: Co-Investigator, Study Site Principal Investigator

Award: $10,981

Air Quality and Emergency Department Visits in Dallas, TX 2010-2011

Electric Power Research Institute

Role: Co-Investigator

Award: $6,665

Climate Variability and Acute Morbidity: Intramural Award, 2009-2010

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Climate Change Program

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Award: through 2008 Interagency Personnel Agreement

Liquid Fuel Use in Emergency Medical Services 2007-2008

Rooms to Go Intramural Funding

Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine,

Atlanta, GA

Role: Principal Investigator

Award: $15,000

Liquid Fuel Use in Emergency Medical Services 2007-2008

Office of Sustainability Initiatives, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Role: Principal Investigator

Award: $2,500

Clinical Service Contributions:

Research Liaison to the Medical Directors and Operations Group, 2011-Current

Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine,

Atlanta, GA; facilitate well-designed quality improvement activities and research

projects focused on emergency department and related health care operations.

Emory University Hospital Site Coordinator, Emergency Medicine Research 2008-2013

Committee, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School

of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; site coordinator for research activities taking place in

the Emory University Hospital Emergency Department.

Formal Teaching:

Medical Student Teaching, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Discovery Phase Mentor, Annemarie Cardell, Emergency Medicine 2014-2015

Faculty Workflow, Teaching, and Clinical Productivity

Thrills and Spills Session Tutor – Patient Presentations, Suturing 2013

Discovery Phase Mentor, Brandi Gunn, Perceptions of Environmental 2011-2013

Environmental Sustainability in Medicine

Capstone Faculty Proctor, Pharmacology module 2012

Resuscitation Science Small Group Leader 2009

Trauma Resuscitation Small Group Leader 2007

Delivering Bad News, Death Notification Learning Session Facilitator 2007

Injury Prevention and Control Lecture 2007

Thrills and Spills Second-Year Elective, Session Tutor 2007

Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies Learning Session Facilitator 2006

Graduate Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Emory University School of Medicine

Resident Core Competency Simulation Case Proctor, Emory 2014-Current

Emergency Medicine Residency

Core Academic Faculty, Emory Emergency Medicine Residency 2013-Current

Course Director, Research Design and Knowledge Translation 2011-Current

Annual Emergency Medicine Resident Lecture Series

Invasive Procedure Cadaver Lab Annual Session Faculty Member 2007-Current

Examiner, Emergency Medicine Mock Oral Boards 2014

Defining a Research Question: The PICOT Framework, Annual 2011-12

Research Bootcamp, Department of Emergency Medicine

Case Studies and Dynamic Emergency Medicine, 2011

Emory Emergency Medicine Resident Lecture Series

Natural Disasters: Past Trends and Future Shifts 2011

Emory Emergency Medicine Resident Lecture Series

How to Define a Research Question, Emory Emergency Medicine 2010

Resident Lecture Series

Health Care and Energy: The Case of Petroleum 2010

Emory University Social Medicine Lecture Series

Climate Change and Emergency Medicine, 2010

Emory Emergency Medicine Resident Lecture Series

Pericarditis and Endocarditis, 2007, 2008

Emory Emergency Medicine Resident Lecture Series

Gastritis and Peptic Ulcer Disease, 2007

Emory Emergency Medicine Resident Lecture Series

Medicine Morbidity and Mortality Conference: Managing the 2006

Agitated and Violent Patient, Emory Emergency Medicine

Resident Lecture Series

Ballistics and Blast Injury, Emory Emergency Medicine Resident 2006

Lecture Series

Complex Humanitarian Emergencies, Emory Emergency Medicine 2005

Resident Lecture Series

Asthma, Emory Emergency Medicine Resident Lecture Series 2004

Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Guest Lecturer, GH 501 – Systems Science and Public Health, 2013

Two contact hours

Guest Lecturer, Built Environment and Public Health - Climate Change 2012

and Disasters; course co-listed by Rollins School of Public Health and

Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture, two contact

hours

Course Co-Director, EH/GH 580 – Environment, Climate, & Infectious 2007-Current

Disease, two contact hours per semester, co-taught with Dr. Justin

Remais

Course Co-Director, EH/GH 586 – Advanced Seminar in Climate 2008-Current

Change and Health, two contact hours per semester, co-taught with

Dr. Justin Remais

Supervisory Teaching:

Supervisory Teaching of Emergency Medicine Post-Graduate Fellows

Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Fellow Project mentor to Dr. Karim Ali, Administrative Fellow, 2012-2014

Fellow Scholarly Project Mentorship on Laboratory Turnaround

Times, Length of Stay, and Effects of a Urine Collection Protocol

Fellow Project mentor to Dr. Andrew Pendley, Administrative Fellow, 2012-2014

on Impact of Care Teams on Staff Morale, Productivity, and Patient

Flow in the Emory University Hospital Emergency Department

Fellow Project mentor to Dr. Sean Lowe, Administrative Fellow, on 2012-2014

Impact of Bedside Consultation Consultation on Emergency

Department Length of Stay for in the Grady Memorial Hospital

Emergency Care Center

Fellow Project Mentor to Dr. Daniel Wood, Research Fellow, on 2012-2013

Heat and Injuries from Violent Crime

Fellow Project Mentor to Dr. Deno Zaharis, Adminsitrative Fellow, 2012

on Computed Tomography Utilization and Impact of a Noncontrast

Protocol on Patient Care an Length of Stay

Fellow Project Mentor to Dr. Deno Zaharis, Administrative Fellow, 2011-2012

on Integration of Clinical Decision Rules into the Electronic

Medical Record at Emory University Hospital

Fellow Project Mentor to Dr. Stephanie Marshall, Adminsitrative Fellow, 2011-2012

on Systems Science and Emergency Medicine

Fellow Project Mentor to Dr. Stephanie Marshall, Administrative Fellow, 2011-2012

on Sepsis Screening and Management for Patients in the Emory

University Hospital Emergency Department

Supervisory Teaching of Emergency Medicine Residents

Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Faculty Mentor to Dr. Brandi Gunn, Emergency Medicine Resident 2013-Current

Resident Scholarly Project mentor to Drs. Ryan Stroder and 2012-2014

Gina Porter on Patient Perceptions of Visit Urgency and

Wait Times at Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University

Hospital Midtown

Resident Scholarly Project mentor to Dr. Karim Ali on Laboratory 2011-2012

Turnaround Times, Length of Stay, and Effects of a Urine

Collection Protocol

Faculty Mentor to Dr. Mark Fenig, Emergency Medicine Resident 2008-2011

Supervisory Teaching of Masters in Public Health Graduate Students

Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University

Thesis Advisor to Daniel Gingold, MD, MPH, on Epidemiology of 2011-2013

Climate Variability and Poison Center Calls for Ciguatera Fish

Poisoning in the US and Implications of Climate Change; thesis

was a finalist for the Charles C. Shepard Award at the Rollins School

of Public Health at Emory University; Dr. Gingold is now a

Resident in Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland

Capstone Advisor to Jennifer Tlumak, MPH, on Development of 2012-2013

Expert Guidelines for Climate Change Health Impact Projections

Using a Delphi Process; Ms. Tlumak is now Executive Director of

Urban Green Lab in Nashville, TN

Woodruff Fellowship Advisor to Jennifer Tlumak, MPH, on 2011-2013

Development of Evidence-Based Public Health Guidelines for

Climate Change Adaptation, Climate and Health Program, National

Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Thesis Advisor to Shivangi Khargonekar on A Novel Method for 2011-2012

Projecting Future Extreme Heat Event Scenarios; Ms. Khargonekar

is now a consultant with Deloitte

Thesis Advisor to Kathy Tran on Assessing Vulnerability to Extreme 2011-2012

Heat in Ahmedabad, India; Ms. Tran now works with the California

Department of Public Health

Thesis Advisor to Sally Embrey on Climate Change and Ecosystem 2009-2011

Disruption: The Health Impacts of the North American Rocky

Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation; Ms. Embrey is now a doctoral

student at the University of California

Thesis Advisor to Julia McDowell on Vulnerability to Climate Change 2009-2010

Change Health Impacts in Palca, Bolivia; Ms. McDowell now works

with the Clinton Global Initiative

Thesis Advisor to Micah Hahn on Assessing Livelihood Vulnerability to 2007

Climate Change in Mozambique; Ms. Hahn is now a doctoral student

at the University of Wisconsin

Lectureships, Seminar Invitations, and Visiting Professorships:

Lunch speaker, “Climate change and children’s respiratory health,” American 2014 Lung Association of the Southeast, Atlanta, GA

Guest Lecturer, EH 590R Environmental Health Journal Club; 2010-Current

“Climate Change Epidemiology,” Rollins School of Public Health at Emory

University, Atlanta, GA, two contact hours annually

Guest Lecturer, EH 500 Introduction to Environmental Health; 2007-Current

“Climate Change Health Impacts and Public Health Preparedness,”

Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA,

two contact hours annually

Featured Speaker, “Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE),” 2013

Training webinar for Climate and Health Program Climate-Ready States and

Cities Grantees, sponsored by the Association of State and Tribal Health

Organizations and delivered at the National Center for Environmental Health,

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Featured Speaker, “Evidence-Based Public Health and Climate Change 2013

Adaptation,” Training webinar for Climate and Health Program Climate-

Ready States and Cities Grantees, delivered at the National Center for

Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

Atlanta, GA

Keynote Speaker, “Environmental Sustainability in Health Care,” Seminar on 2013

Sustainability in Health Care, Emory University School of Medicine and

Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Featured Speaker, “Frontiers in Climate Change and Health Research,” 2012

Environmental Health Colloquium, Frontiers in Climate Change and

Health Research Colloquium, Harvard School of Public Health,

Cambridge, MA

Guest Lecturer, “Public Health Approach to Climate Change,” Georgia Institute 2011

of Technology School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA,

one contact hour

Speaker, “Sustainability in Atlanta,” National Academies, Pathways to Urban 2010

Sustainability Workshop, Atlanta, GA

Guest Lecturer, EOH 585 Public Health Ecology, “Ecology in Climate Change 2010

and Health Research,” Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University,

two contact hours

Speaker, “Epidemiology of Indoor Air Quality, Respiratory Health Outcomes, 2010

and Climate Change,” Climate Change and Indoor Air Quality Workshop,

Institute of Medicine Workshop, Washington, DC

Grand Rounds Speaker, “Health Impacts of Climate Change,” Department of 2009

Internal Medicine, Northwestern University Chicago, IL

Invitations to National or International Conferences:

Lead Speaker, Heat Health Summit, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 2014

Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington,

D.C.

Lead Speaker, “Urban heat and health: assessing the risks,” Urban Climate 2014

Institute 2014: Urban Warming, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,

GA

Session Moderator and Speaker, “Deriving exposure-response functions and 2014

projecting the health impacts of climate change,” Climate-Ready States

and Cities Grantee Meeting, Climate & Health Program, National Center for

Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

Panelist and Presenter, “Assessing Impacts and Developing Prevention and 2014

Mitigation Strategies for the Health System,” Forum on Public Health

Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC

Oral Presentation, “Extreme Heat Preparedness in Low Resource Settings: 2013

The Case of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India;” delivered at the 2013 Climate and

Health Colloquium, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research,

Boulder, CO

Oral Presentation, “Public Health Preparedness for Extreme Weather Events 2012

and Climate Change Adaptation in the United States,” for the Extreme Events

and Health Protection Program at the Health Protection Agency, London, England

Oral Presentation, “Early Warning Systems for Climate-Sensitive Environmental 2012

Health Hazards: An Indian Case Study,” at the Royal Society Conference on

Handling Uncertainty in Weather and Climate Prediction, with Application to

Health, Agronomy, Hydrology, Energy and Economics, The Royal Society at

Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire, England

Oral Presentation, “An Evidence Based Public Health Approach to Climate 2012

Change Adaptation,” Joint Symposium on Climate and Health, Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention and National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration, Atlanta, GA

Symposium presentation, “Devising and Testing an Intuitive Approach to 2012

Temperature Projection to Facilitate Extreme Heat Preparedness,”

International Society of Environmental Epidemiologists Annual Conference,

Columbia, SC

Featured Oral Presentation, “Adaptation to Climate Change in Public Health,” 2012

American College of Preventive Medicine Annual Conference, Orlando, FL

Panelist, “Valuation of Climate Change Health Impacts,” Union of Concerned 2011

Scientists, National Conference on Valuation of Climate Change Health

Impacts, Boston, MA

Featured Speaker, “Climate Change and Health Impacts of Extreme Events,” 2011

Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT

Featured Oral Presentation, “Aeroallergens and Emergency Department Visits 2010

for Asthma and Wheeze,” American College of Emergency Physicians

Scientific Assembly 2010, Las Vegas, NV

Plenary Speaker, “Looming Concerns for Public Health,” 2010

Association of Ohio Health Commissioners, Columbus, OH

Plenary Speaker, “Climate Change and Respiratory Disease,” 2010

American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA

Plenary Speaker, “Symposium on Climate Change, Health, and Biodiversity,” 2010

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Plenary Speaker, “Climate and Waterborne Disease in South Asia,” 2009

Joint Indo-US Workshop on Climate Change and Health, Goa, India

Keynote Speaker, “Public Health After Peak Oil,” Johns Hopkins University 2009

Baltimore, MD

Keynote Speaker, “Public Health Response to Climate Change,” University 2008

of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tuscon, AZ

Featured Speaker, “Communicating Climate Change,” National Center for 2008

Health Marketing Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA

Featured Speaker, “Climate Change & Health,” American College of 2008

Occupational and Environmental Medicine National Conference,

Washington, DC

Featured Speaker, “Climate Change and Global Health,” CARE Annual 2008

Conference, Washington, DC

Featured Speaker, “Climate Change and Waterborne Disease,” American Water 2008

Works Association Annual Conference

Featured Speaker, “Climate Change and Public Health in Georgia,” Georgia 2008

Climate Summit, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Keynote Speaker, “Climate Change and Health,” Central Florida Climate 2008

Summit, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Keynote Speaker, “Peak Petroleum and Public Health,” Vanderbilt Medical 2008

School, Nashville, TN

Keynote Speaker, “Climate Change and Place,” Alaska Forum on the 2008

Environment, Anchorage, AK

Other Activities:

Independent Safety Monitor for Division of Microbiology and Infectious 2012-Current Diseases number 07-0051: Clindamycin, Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole,

or Placebo for uncomplicated Skin and Soft Tissue Infection caused by

Commmunity-acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphyloccocus Aureus

Lead Author, Health Chapter, National Climate Assessment, US Global Change 2011-Current

Research Program, Washington, DC

Lead Author, Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and 2010-2012

Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, Intergovernmental Panel

on Climate Change, United Nations Environmental Programme and World

Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Institute for Systems Science and Health training course, weeklong selective 2011

program jointly administered by the National Institutes of Health and the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the University of Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh, PA

Faculty Development Course, Emory University School of Medicine, 2006-2007

Atlanta, GA

Piedmont Project Faculty Development Course in incorporating sustainability 2007

into course design, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Bibliography:

Published and Accepted Research Articles in Referenced Journals:

1. Hess J, Frumkin H. International trade in toxic waste: the case of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 2000; 6: 331-344.

2. Luber G, Hess J. Climate change and human health in the United States. Journal of Environmental Health 2007; 70(5): 43-46.

3. Frumkin H, Hess J, Vindigni S. Peak petroleum and public health. JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association 2007; 298: 1688-1690.

4. Frumkin H, Hess J, Luber G, Malilay J, McGeehin M.  The public health response to climate change.  American Journal of Public Health 2008; 98: 435-445.

5. St. Louis M, Hess JJ. Climate Change and Global Health. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2008, 35(5): 527-38.

6. Hess JJ, Malilay J, Parkinson A. Climate change: the importance of place, and places at special risk. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2008, 35(5) 468-78.

7. Frumkin H, McMichael A, Hess JJ. Climate change and the health of the public. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2008, 35(5): 401-2.

8. Frumkin H, Hess J, Vindigni S. Energy and public health: the challenge of peak petroleum. Public Health Reports 2009, 124: 5-19.

9. Hess JJ, Heilpern KL, Davis TE, Frumkin H. Climate Change and Emergency Medicine: Impacts and Opportunities. Academic Emergency Medicine 2009 16: 782-94.

10. Portier CJ, Thigpen-Tart K, Hess J, Luber G, Maslak T, Radtke M, Strickman D, Trtanj JM, Carter SR, Dilworth CH, Grambsch A, Howard SN, Lutz JT, Rosenthal JP, Rowles T, Sandifer P, Scheraga J, Whung PY. A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change. Environmental Health Perspectives 2010 doi:10.1289/ehp.1002272

11. Stone B, Hess J, Frumkin H. Urban Form and Extreme Heat Events: Are Sprawling Cities more Vulnerable to Climate Change than Compact Cities? Environmental Health Perspectives 2010 118: 1425–1428, doi: 10.1289/ehp.0901879: 2010.

12. Bush KF, Luber G, Kotha SR, Dhaliwal RS, Kapil V, Pascual M, Brown DG, Frumkin H, Dhiman RC, Hess J, Wilson ML, Balakrishnan K, Eisenberg J, Kaur T, Rood R, Batterman S, Joseph A, Gronlund CJ, Agrawal A, Hu H. Impacts of Climate Change on Public Health in India: Future Research Directions. Environmental Health Perspectives 2011 119(6): 765–770. doi:10.1289/ehp.1003000: 2011.

13. Schwartz B, Parker C, Hess JJ, Frumkin H. Public Health and Medicine in an Age of Energy Scarcity: The Case of Petroleum. American Journal of Public Health 2011 101: 1560-1567.

doi 10.2105/AJPH.2010.205187.

14. Hess JJ, Greenberg LA. Liquid Fuel Use in a Large, Dynamically-Deployed, Hospital-Based Emergency Medical Services System. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2011 26(5):394–398. doi:10.1017/S1049023X11006595.

15. Hess JJ, Bednarz D, Bae, JY, Pierce J. Petroleum and Health Care: Evaluating and Managing Health Care's Vulnerability to Petroleum Supply Shifts. American Journal of Public Health. 2011, 101: 1568-1579. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300233.

16. Frumkin H, Hess JJ, Parker C, Schwartz. Peak Petroleum: Fuel for Public Health Debate. American Journal of Public Health. 2011, 101: 1542. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300322.

17. Embrey S, Remais JV, Hess JJ. Climate Change and Ecosystem Disruption: The Health Impacts of the North American Rocky Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation. American Journal of Public Health. 2011, 102(5): 818-827. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300520.

18. McDowell JZ, Hess JJ. Accessing Adaptation: Multiple Stressors on Livelihoods in the Bolivian Highlands under a Changing Climate. Global Environmental Change 2012, 22(2): 342-352. .

19. Hess JJ, McDowell JZ, Luber G. Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Public Health Practice: Using Adaptive Management to Increase Adaptive Capacity and Build Resilience. Environmental Health Perspectives 2012, 120(2): 171–179. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1103515: 2011. 

20. Gamble J, Hess JJ. Temperature and Violent Crime in Dallas, Texas: Observed Relationships and Possible Implications of Climate Change. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012; 13(3): 239-46.

21. Darrow L, Hess J, Rogers C, Tolbert P, Klein M, Sarnat S.  Ambient pollen concentrations and emergency department visits for asthma and wheeze.  Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2012; 130(3): 630-638.

22. Winquist A, Klein M, Tolbert P, Flanders D, Hess J, Sarnat S. Comparison of emergency department and hospital admissions data for air pollution time series. Environmental Health, 2012; 11: 70-83. doi 1186/1476-069X-11-70.

23. Tran KV, Azhar GS, Nair R, Knowlton K, Jaiswal A, Sheffield P, Mavalankar D, Hess J. A Cross-Sectional, Randomized Cluster Sample Survey of Household Vulnerability to Extreme Heat among Slum Dwellers in Ahmedabad, India. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2013; 10(6): 2515-2543; doi:10.3390/ijerph10062515.

24. Atallah H, Weerasuriya D, Hess J, Houry D, Wu D, Haley L. Time to antibiotics and hospital length of stay in emergency department patients admitted for pneumonia: a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis. Universal Journal of Clinical Medicine, in press.

25. Hess JJ, Schramm PJ, Luber G. Public Health and Climate Change Adaptation at the Federal Level: One Agency’s Response to Executive Order 13514. American Journal of Public Health, 2014 104(3): e22-e30; doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301796.

26. Remais JV, Hess JJ, Ebi K, Markandya A, Balbus J, Wilkinson P, Haines A, Chalabi Z. Methodological issues in estimating the public health effects of greenhouse-gas emission reduction strategies: addressing parametric, model, and valuation challenges. Environmental Health Perspectives 2014; 122(5):447-455. doi:10.1289/ehp.1306744.

27. Gingold DB, Strickland MJ, Hess JJ. Ciguatera fish poisoning and climate change: analysis of national poison center data in the United States 2001-2011. Environmental Health Perspectives 122:580-586; .

28. Azhar GS, Mavalankar D, Nori-Sarma A, Rajiva A, Dutta P, Sheffield P, Knowlton K, Hess JJ, for the Ahmedabad Heat and Climate Study Group. Heat-related mortality in India: Excess all-cause mortality associated with the 2010 Ahmedabad heat wave. PLoS ONE -Public Library of Science ONE 2014; 9(3): e91831. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0091831. .

29. Knowlton K, Kulkarni SP, Azhar GS, Mavalankar D, Jaiswal A, Connolly M, Nori-Sarma A, Rajiva A, Dutta P, Deol B, Sanchez L, Khosla R, Webster PJ, Toma VE, Sheffield P, Hess JJ, writing for the Ahmedabad Heat and Climate Study Group. Development and Implementation of South Asia’s First Heat-Health Action Plan in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2014 11(4): 3473-3492; doi:10.3390/ijerph110403473.

30. Hess JJ, Saha S, Luber G. Summertime Heat Illness in US Emergency Departments from 2006 through 2010: Analysis of a Nationally Representative Sample. Environmental Health Perspectives, 122:1209–1215; .

31. Marinucci G, Luber G, Uejio CK, Saha S, Hess JJ. Building Resilience Against Climate Effects – A Novel Framework to Facilitate Climate Readiness in Public Health Agencies.

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2014, 11(6): 6433-6458; doi:10.3390/ijerph110606433. Available at .

31. Hess JJ, Eidson M, Tlumak JE, Raab KK, Luber G. An Evidence-Based Public Health Approach to Climate Change Adaptation. Environmental Health Perspectives;  122:1177–1186; .

32. Hodges M, Belle J, Carlton E, Liang S, Li H, Luo W, Freeman M, Liu Y, Gao Y, Hess J, Remais J. Delays reducing waterborne and water-related infectious diseases in China under climate change. Nature Climate Change, in press; doi:10.1038/nclimate2428.

Manuscripts Submitted and In Preparation:

1. Devlin JJ, El-Chami MF, Guo Y, Hess J, Kazzi ZN. Tpeak – Tend indices outperform QTc

when identifying patients with arrhythmic events: A case-control study of suspected QT-prolonging drug overdose. In review at Journal of Emergency Medicine.

2. Rajiva A, Venugopal V, Dutta P, Azhar GS, Knowlton K, Sheffield P, Hess JJ, Mavalankar DV. Heat stress and its perceptions among construction workers in Ahmedabad, India. In review at Journal of Environmental Health Research.

3. Hess JJ, Wallenstein J, Akhter M, Ackerman J, Ander D, Keadey M, Capes JP. A Prospective Evaluation of the Impact of a Scribe Program on Provider Experience, Patient Flow, Clinical Productivity, and Clinical Teaching in an Academic Emergency Medicine Practice. In review at Western Journal of Emergency Medicine.

4. Hess JJ, Saha S. Age-stratified case fatality rates for heat stroke in the United States 2006-2011. In preparation.

5. Atallah H, Khosravanipour M, Daniels L, Haley L, Wu D, Morgan S, Padilla M, Porter G, Stroder R, Hess JJ. Patient Perceptions of Urgency, Costs, and Anticipated Wait Time: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Large Urban Academic County Hospital Emergency Department. In preparation.

6. Saha S, Schramm PJ, Nolan A, Hess JJ. Adverse weather conditions and fatal motor vehicle crashes in United States, 1994-2012. In preparation.

7. Cardell A, Coplin M, KC D, Hess JJ. Methodological issues in an emergency department time and motion study. In preparation.

8. Hess JJ, Cardell A, Coplin M, KC D, Atallah H, Haley L. Academic emergency medicine faculty time use: A detailed time and motion study. In preparation.

9. Lall M, Wallenstein J, Siegelman J, Cardell A, Coplin M, KC D, Atallah H, Haley L, Hess JJ. Clinical teaching patterns among academic emergency medicine faculty and associations with teaching evaluations. In preparation.

10. Hess JJ, Pitts SR. The shifting distribution of acute care provision in the United States. In preparation.

11. Pitts SR, Akhter M, Atallah H, Hess JJ. The Gini index – a new metric of emergency department utilization. In preparation.

12. Hess JJ. Public health as risk management. In preparation.

Book Chapters:

1. Hess JJ, Yaffee AQ, Holmes JR, Razzak JA. Injuries. Chapter 23 in Environmental Health: From Global to Local, 3rd ed. H Frumkin, ed. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2015, pp. XXX.

2. Hess JJ. Climate change health impact projections: Looking into the future. Chapter 11 in The Health Consequences of a Changing Climate: Public Health and Clinical Perspectives. J Lemery and G Luber, eds. San Franciso: Jossey Bass, 2015, pp. XXX.

3. Frumkin H, Hess J, Luber G. Public Health. Chapter 11 in Climate Change and Public Health, B Levy and J Patz, eds., 2014.

4. Luber G, Knowlton K, Balbus J, Frumkin H, Hayden M, Hess J, McGeehin, Sheats N, Backer L, Beard C, Ebi K, Maibach E, Ostfeld R, Wiedinmyer C, Zielinski-Gutiérrez E, Ziska L. Human Health. Chapter 9 in Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, JM Melillo, T Richmond, GW Yohe, eds., U.S. Global Change Research Program, 220-256. doi:10.7930/J0PN93H5. 2014.

5. Hess JJ, Marinucci G, Schramm P, Manangan A, Luber G. Management of Climate Change Adaptation at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chapter 20 in Climate Change and Global Public Health. Editors: Pinkerton K and Rom W. New York: Springer, 2014.

6. Hess JJ, Myers, S. Climate Change, Health Impacts, Ecology, and Development. Chapter 12 in Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction. Editors: Rumbaitis del Rio C, DeClerck F, Ingram JC. New York: Springer, 2012, pp. 187-216.

7. McCormick S, Hess J. European Heat Waves of 2003 and 2006. Case Study in Chapter 9 in Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, pp. 492-496, available at .

8. Hess J, Campbell-Lendrum D. Disastrous Epidemic Disease: The Case of Cholera. Case Study in Chapter 9 in Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, pp. 507-510, available at .

9. Lavell A, Oppenheimer M, Diop S, Hess J, Lempert R, Li J, Muir-Wood R, Myeong S. Climate Change: New Dimensions in Disaster Risk, Exposure, Vulnerability, and Resilience. Chapter 1 in Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, pp. 25-65, available at .

10. Hess, JJ. Energy Production. Chapter 13 in Environmental Health: From Global to Local, 2nd ed. H Frumkin, ed. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2010, pp. 417-450.

11. Hess JJ, Razzak J. Injuries. Chapter 25 in Environmental Health: From Global to Local, 2nd ed. H Frumkin, ed. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2010, pp. 805-842.

12. Hess J, Heilpern KL. Immunization. Chapter 61 in Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine. Editors: Rowe BH, Lang E, Brown M, Houry D, Newman D, Wyer P.  Blackwell-BMJ Books, 2008, London, UK, pp. 614-623.

13. Razzak J, Hess J, Kellermann A. Injuries. Chapter 25 in Environmental Health: From Global to Local by H. Frumkin, ed., San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2005, pp. 715-744.

Technical Reports:

1. Manangan AP, Uejio CK, Saha S, Schramm PJ, Marinucci GD, Hess JJ, and Luber G. Assessing health vulnerability to climate change: A guide for health departments. Climate and Health Technical Report Series, 2014.

2. Schramm PJ, Uejio CK, Hess JJ, Marinucci GD, and Luber G. Climate models and the use of climate projections: A brief overview for health departments. Climate and Health Technical Report Series, 2014.

3. Hess JJ, Saha S, Schramm PJ, Conlon KC, Uejio CK, Luber G. Projecting climate-related disease burden: A guide for health departments. Climate and Health Technical Report Series, 2015.

Book Reviews:

1. Hess J. Review of First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Clerkship: A Student to Student Guide. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2004; 44: 196.

Other Publications:

1. Devlin JJ, El-Chami MF, Guo Y, Hess J, Kazzi ZN. Clinical features of patients with and without dysrhythmic events after exposure to QT- prolonging drugs – presented at the North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology, 29 Sep 2013, Atlanta, GA.

2. Devlin JJ, El-Chami MF, Guo Y, Hess J, Kazzi ZN. “Clinical features of patients with

and without adverse dysrrhythmic events after exposure to QT-prolonging drugs.”

Clin Toxicol, 2013; 51(7): 656-657 (abstract only).

3. Devlin JJ, El-Chami MF, Guo Y, Hess J, Kazzi ZN. “Tpeak-Tend is better than QTc at

identifying patients with QT-prolonging drug overdose complicated by adverse arrhythmic events.” Heart Rhythm, 2013; 10(5S): S89-90 (abstract only).

4. Devlin JJ, El-Chami MF, Guo Y, Hess J, Kazzi ZN. TPeak-TEnd: Association with arrhythmic events after QT-prolonging drug overdose. Presented at Heart Rhythm 2013, Denver, CO (10 May 2013).

5. Gamble JL, Hess JJ. Temperature and violent crime in Dallas, Texas: Relationships and implications of climate change. Letter to the Editor. West JEmerg Med. 2012;13(3): 239–246. DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2013.5.18221

2. Tran K, Azhar G, Nair R, Jaiswal A, Knowlton K, Mavalankar D, Hess J. Characterizing vulnerability to heat and heat illnesses among urban slum dwellers of Ahmedabad, India. Poster presentation, American Public Health Association 2012 Annual Conference, 29 October 2012, San Francisco, CA.

3. Hodges M, Hess J, Remais J. A Method for Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Attributable Disease in China. Poster presentation, Second Annual Centers for Disease Control and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate and Health Symposium Climate and Health Symposium, 12 September, 2012, Atlanta, GA.

4. Gingold D, Hess J, Strickland M. Ciguatera fish poisoning and climate change: analysis of cross--‐sectional national poison center data in the United States 2001-2011. Poster presentation, Second Annual Centers for Disease Control and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate and Health Symposium, 12 September, 2012, Atlanta, GA.

5. Hess JJ, Khargonekar S, Luber G. Developing and testing a simple approach to projecting very rare extreme heat events to facilitate public health preparedness. Abstract oral presentation, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, August 2012, Columbia, SC.

6. Hess JJ, Saha S, Luber G. Summertime heat illness in US emergency departments: Analysis of a cross-sectional, nationally representative sample. Abstract poster presentation, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, April 2012, Chicago, IL.

7. Hess JJ. Climate change, its health impacts, and our role. Worcester Medicine, May/June 2011, available at .

8. Bush, KF, Frumkin H, Kotha SR, Dhiman RC, Eisenberg J, Sur D, Rood R, Batterman S, Joseph A, Gronlund C, Agrawal A, Shah B, Hu H, Kapil V, Luber G, Brown DG, Kaur T, Hess J, Wilson M, Balakrishnan K. "The Impact of Climate Change on Public Health in India: Future Research Directions." Epidemiology 22(1): S21-S21. Abstract presented at International Society of Environmental Epidemiology Annual Conference 2010, Seoul, Korea.

9. McDowell JZ, Moe CL, Hess JJ. Adaptation or Maladaptation? Vulnerability to Competing Economic and Climatic Exposures in the Bolivian Highlands. Paper presented at the “Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation: Theories and Cases” ICARUS (Initiative on Climate Adaptation Research and Understanding through the Social Sciences) Conference, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL. 10-13 February 2010.

10. McDonald K, Hess J, Luber G, McGeehin M, Frumkin H, Webster P. Extreme weather, climate change, and the Haddon matrix. Abstract presentation, Society for the Advancement of Injury and Violence Research (SAVIR) National Conference, 2009, Atlanta, GA.

11. Hess J, Greenberg L, Ackerman J, Cowan D, Bitner M, Ossmann E, Frumkin H. Liquid fuels and Emergency Medical Service (EMS) preparedness: Fuel use in a large, urban, hospital-based ambulance service. Abstract presentation, Southeast Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Conference, 2008, Atlanta, GA.

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