Charles H. Hennekens MD, DrPH

Professor Charles H. Hennekens is currently the first Sir Richard Doll Professor and Senior Academic Advisor to the Dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University. He is also Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine at Nova Southeastern University, Voluntary Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Meharry Medical College, and Visiting Fellow, Green College, University of Oxford.

Professor Hennekens was born in Brooklyn, NY and moved to Bayside, Queens at age 10. He attended the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania and then received his B.S. from Queens College, Phi Beta Kappa, his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College where he completed an internship and residency in internal medicine. He then served two years as Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Medical Epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control assigned to the Dade County Department of Public Health. He then received an MPH, MS and DrPH in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.