Robert Dana Bradshaw MD, MPH, FACPM

Dr. Bradshaw is an Associate Professor at EVMS with responsibilities for teaching epidemiology and other courses in the Graduate Program in Public Health and Department of Family and Community Medicine. He was also recently chosen to assume responsibilities as Project Director for the multi-institution collaborative Commonwealth Public Health Center Training grant. Prior to coming to EVMS he was Director of the five county Rappahannock-Rapidan Health District of the VirginiaDepartment of Health (VDH) for three years, following 28 years of service as an Air Force medical officer. While in the military, Dr. Bradshaw was Program Director of the General Preventive Medicine (GPM) Residency at Uniformed Services University (USU) in Bethesda, MD and faculty in Preventive Medicine and Biometrics. During his career he has also held positions as Director of Military Health System programs at the DoD Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System and as Chief of Preventive Medicine for the AF Surgeon General, and on faculty in Family Medicine at USU as well as at a military Family Medicine residency program. Dr. Bradshaw has served on the Armed Forces Epidemiology Board, as DoD representative to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, as AF liaison to the US Preventive Services Task Force, on CDC's Yellow Fever Vaccine Safety working group and on the DoD Select Agents Response Task Force dealing with biological agent preparedness. He received his MD degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and Master of Public Health from USU and undergraduate degree from Abilene Christian University. He is board certified in both Family Medicine and Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. Research and clinical interests include vaccine safety surveillance and risk communication, improving the delivery of clinical preventive services (including immunizations), the epidemiology of infectious disease and communicable disease control, global health and travel medicine.