Bureau of Community Health and Chronic Disease Prevention
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
1800 St. Julian Place
Columbia,
SC
USA
29204
Email:
myerspm@dhec.sc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
2005 Diabetes Disease Epidemiologist
Office of Chronic Disease Epidemiology
DHEC Bureau of Community Health and Chronic Disease Prevention, Columbia, SC
2002-2005 Director, Division of Surveillance, and Program Support
DHEC Bureau of Epidemiology, Columbia, SC
1999-2002 Perinatal Epidemiologist , DHEC Bureau of Epidemiology, Columbia, SC
1995-1999 Clinical Dietitian, , Mississippi State Hospital, Jackson, MS
1993-1994 District Supervising Nutritionist, Mississippi State Department of Health, District VI, Meridian, MS
1992 Nutrition Program Consultant, North Carolina Department of Health, Raleigh, NC
1989-1992 Dissertation Research, Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina
Publications
Reed, J.A., Anderson, J.J.B., Tylavsky, T.A., McGee, P. Relations of Dietary Intakes of Energy and Nutrients to Bone Mass in Elderly White Women. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Vol. 200. June, 1992, p. 282.
Dissertation
Associations of Body Fat, Alcohol Consumption, and Diet with the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Survey. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1992.
Presentations and Posters
Epidemiological Profile of Self-Identified Cases with Diabetes, Presented at CDC Diabetes Translation Conference, May 5–8, 2008, Orlando, Florida
Disparities in Stroke Morbidity and Mortality in South Carolina, Presented at TriState Stork Network Annual Meeting 2006, Chapel Hill, NC