Oregon Department of Human Services
Public Health Division
800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 930
Portland,
OR
USA
97232
steve.k.modesitt@state.or.us
Biographical Sketch:
Positions and Employment
1974-86 Public Health Epidemiologist, Lane County Health Department, Eugene, Oregon
1987-1997 Psychiatric Staff Nurse, St. Vincent’s Hospital & MC, Portland, Oregon
1987-2000 HIV Surveillance Epidemiologist, Oregon Public Health Services, Portland, Oregon
2000- Information Systems Coordinator, Oregon Public Health Services, Portland, Oregon
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
1989 Member: American Public Health Association
1995-7 Board Member: Oregon Public Health Association
1998-2002 Member: Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
2002-3 Member: National Association for Public Health Information Technology,
2002-3 Member: Public Health Data Standards Consortium, 2003-4
Publications
Sexual Behaviors in an Urban Bathhouse 15 Years into the HIV Epidemic. Van Beneden, C., O'Brien, K., Modesitt, S., et.al., J of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Vol. 30/5, 2002, p. 522-526
McAnulty, J., Modesitt, S., Yusem,S., et.al. Improved AIDS Surveillance Through Laboratory-initiated CD4 Cell Count Reporting, 1997 J of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Vol. 16/5, 1997, p. 362-366
Modesitt, S.K., Smyser, M., et. al. Effects of Increasing Outpatient Diagnosis on AIDS Surveillance. J of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Vol. 1/6, 1993, p. 91-94
Modesitt S.K., Hulman S., Fleming D., Evaluation of Active versus Passive AIDS Surveillance in Oregon, Am J Public Health 1990, 80:463-464
Jui J., Modesitt S., Fleming D., et al., Multi-center HIV and Hepatitis B Seroprevalence Study, The J of Emergency Medicine, 1990, 8:243-251
Laura J. Fehrs, Fleming D., Modesitt S., Trial of Anonymous Versus Confidential Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing, LANCET, August 1988