Oregon Department of Human Services
Public Health Division-Immunization Prg and Acute & Communicable Disease Prevention
800 NE Oregon, Suites 370 and 772
Portland,
OR
USA
97232
Email:
james.a.gaudino@state.or.us
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Jim Gaudino is a board-certified preventive medicine physician and a senior medical epidemiologist with the State of Oregon Immunization Program (OIP), Office of Family Health and the Office of Disease Prevention and Epidemiology, Public Health Division in the Department of Human Services. He also serves as a Clinical Associate Professor with Oregon Health & Science’s (OHSU’s) Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Collaborating with valued colleagues, among other activities, he serves/has served as the principal investigator (PI) for a new CDC funded project to set up sentinel surveiillance to monitor the impact of the new Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine on the incidences of severe cervical dysplasia disease among adult women in the Portland Metro area as one of 5 US sentinel sites, for a CDC-funded research project studying parent-signed exemptions to school immunization requirements in Oregon; as the PI of Oregon ALERT’s CDC Sentinel Immunization Information System Surveillance project; and as a co-investigator with the OHSU Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network Oregon Rural Immunization Initiative project. He also serves as lead on an OIP initative to work more closely with Tribal and Indian Health Service clinics. Previously during his 12-year career with the CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health, he spent over nine years working in the Pacific Northwest and served in 3 state health departments and a regional tribal health organization as a senior maternal and child health (MCH) medical epidemiologist. He is a graduate of CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) fellowship program and he holds two masters degrees in biostatistics and epidemiology.