Steven C. Schumann MD

Chairman of the Board
Medical Director, Occupational Health
Doctors on Duty/Salinas Urgent Care
Salinas, CA
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Dr. Schumann has extensive experience in both private and corporate Occupational Medical environments. His background includes clinical software development as the founder of The Stolas Group, Inc. and its signature product StolaSystem. He has been active on WOEMA's behalf in Legislative Affairs. He Graduated from UC Irvine School of Medicine and completed an Emergency Medicine residency at Valley Medical Center in Fresno, California.

 

Paul J Papanek Jr MD MPH FACOEM

President

Los Angeles, CA
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Dr. Papanek received his MD degree in 1977 from UC San Diego and took his residency in Family Medicine at UCLA. He received a Masters of Public Health degree from UCLA in the field of Occupational and Environmental Health Science and is Board certified in both Occupational Medicine and Family Medicine. Dr. Papanek was Chief of the Occupational Health Service/Kaiser on the Job Program in the Metro Los Angeles area, and he serves on the Workers Compensation Committee of the California Medical Association.

Roger Belcourt MD MPH FACOEM

President-elect
AVP Pacific Region, Concentra
Reno, NV
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Dr. Belcourt received his medical degree from the University of Nevada, Reno and completed his residency in Family Practice at the University of California, Davis. Following a stint in the United States Air Force, he embarked upon his occupational medicine career in Sacramento. He is board-certified in both Occupational Medicine and Family Practice.

 

Walter S Newman Jr MD

First Vice President
Monterey Mushrooms
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Dr. Newman is the principal of The Newman Medical Group, focusing on Occupational Health Services for Silicon Valley and the Monterey Peninsula. Dr. Newman received his M.D. from UCSF and did residency training in Family Medicine at the Stanford/San Jose program. He completed the Mini-Residency in Occupational Medicine at UCSF. Dr. Newman is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. His clinical activities have included consulting services and direct patient care to over 50 companies throughout California. Currently, his largest client is Monterey Mushrooms, where he serves as Chief Health Officer for over 3,500 Hispanic farmworkers around the United States.

 

Leslie Israel DO MPH FACOEM

Second Vice President
University of California, Irvine
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
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Leslie Israel, DO, MPH is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) Residency Program at the University of California at Irvine (UCI), Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH). She joined the UC Irvine faculty in 2003 to pursue her interest in educating OEM residents. In addition to residency-related tasks, she provides medical oversight for clinical activities within the UCI COEH. She works with several municipalities and their public safety workers’ medical guidelines including the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR-Cal/OSHA Consultation) and California Department of Health Services “Flavor Industry Safety and Health Evaluation Program.

 

Peter Swann MD FAAFP 

Secretary/Newsletter Editor
Oak River Insurance, San Francisco, CA
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Dr. Swann is the National Medical Director for Oak River Insurance, in San Francisco. Dr. Swann is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Tufts University School of Medicine. He is board certified in Family Practice, having completed a US Army affiliated Family Practice Residency at Fort Ord, California.

Dinesh Govindarao MD MPH FACOEM

Treasurer
Concentra
Oakland, CA
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Kerry Parker CAE

Executive Director
WOEMA
San Francisco, CA
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Ms. Parker has served as Executive Director of the Western Occupational & Environmental Medical Association (WOEMA) since 1999. She serves in this capacity through a management contract with Holland-Parlette Associates (HPA), a San Francisco-based association management firm. HPA also provides association management services to other non-profit medical associations. Parker has a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Iowa (1982) and a Master's degree in Public Administration from Iowa State University (1985).

 

Rupali Das MD MPH FACOEM

Director
California Department of Public Health
Richmond, CA
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Dr. Das is currently Chief of the Exposure Assessment Section, Environmental Health Investigations Branch, California Department of Health (CDPH). She is also an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco, where her practice includes attending as physician in the occupational medicine referral clinic. For over a decade at CDPH’s Occupational Health Branch led programs to track and prevent occupational pesticide illnesses, emergency preparedness and planning, and respond to occupational infectious disease outbreaks. She currently leads the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program, a mandated statewide program to assess chemical exposures in the California population. Dr. Das attended medical school at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago and a Fellowship in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at UCSF. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine/Occupational Medicine.

 

Paula Lenny MD MPH

Director
Kaiser Permanente, Occupational Health Services
Paia, HI
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Dr. Lenny is an Occupational Health Services physician for Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, Maui Clinics and has been practicing Occupational Medicine on Maui for 10 years. She is Board Certified in Occupational & Environmental Medicine and a certified MRO. As a representative from Hawaii and as a physician who practices “in the trenches” of Occupational Medicine, she hopes to bring needed regional diversity and a multicultural Occupational Medicine perspective unique to Hawaii to the organization and to learn and share with her island colleagues the collective knowledge and support WOEMA can offer.

Patrick Luedtke MD MPH

Director
UT Div. of Epidemiology and Laboratory Services
Salt Lake City, UT
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Dr. Luedtke is the director of the Utah Public Health Laboratories and deputy director of the Division of Epidemiology for the state health department in Utah. Additionally, he is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Public Health at the University of Utah and the director of its Environmental Health graduate program. His duties as the director of laboratories include environmental public health testing (e.g., air, water, soil), clinical microbiology testing (e.g., STDs and tuberculosis), and forensic toxicology testing (e.g., blood alcohols, and drugs of abuse). In epidemiology he coordinates occupational health care for 1,300 health department employees and directs state and local responses for pandemic and bioterrorism preparedness. Academically, Dr. Luedtke’s activities include directing/teaching the environmental graduate courses, teaching public health epidemiology to residents and medical students, research, and patient care.

Dennis Pocekay, MD MPH

Director
TPMG, Inc.
Petaluma, CA
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Dr. Pocekay is Chief of the Department of Occupational Medicine at TPMG in San Rafael, CA and a Staff Physician in the Petaluma office. He received his MPH from University of California, Berkeley, and his MD from Creighton University in Omaha, NE. Dr. Pocekay went into Occupational Medicine because of special interest in musculoskeletal disorders. His interests include fibromyalgia, disability management, and occupational health and safety services. He especially enjoys teaching small groups and primary care providers.

Ramon J. Terrazas MD MPH FACOEM

Director
Department Physician, Office of the Department Physician
San Francisco Fire Department
San Francisco, CA
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Dr. Terrazas currently serves as the Department Physician for the San Francisco Fire Department. His is board certification in Occupational and Environmental Medicine and obtained a Master of Public Health degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed his residency at the University of Pennsylvania.

Peter J. Vasquez MD

Director
Chandler, AZ
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Dr. Vasquez has served as the Medical Director for Disability Management for the North American Division of BASF, the Area Medical Director for Hercules and Alliant Tech Systems, and an occupational medical consultant for employers such as USAA, UPS, Becton-Dickinson, Procter and Gamble, the Ross Division of Abbott Pharmaceuticals, and Owens Corning, and the Corporate Medical Director of MBI Occupational Health Care in Arizona. Dr. Vasquez currently works for Take Care Health Systems, where he is the Medical Director of the fifteen Health for Life Centers at Intel Corporation nationally. He is an MRO, and is involved in disability management, including stay-at-work/return-to-work program development and implementation. He currently serves on the Board of the Arizona Work Disability Prevention Association.