Chicago Department of Public Health
Environmental Health
2133 West Lexington
Chicago,
IL
USA
60612
Email:
lohff_cortland@cdph.org
Biographical Sketch:
03/09 – Present – Medical Director, Division of Environmental Health, Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, IL
9/03 – 10/08 – State Epidemiologist and Chief, Infectious Disease Section, Vermont Department of Public Health, Burlington, VT
8/99 – 08/03 - Assistant State Epidemiologist and Chief, Center for Acute Disease Epidemiology, Iowa Department of Public Health, Des Moines, IA
7/98-6/99 - Preventive Medicine Resident, New York State Department of Health/University at Albany School of Public Health, Albany, NY
7/97-6/98 - Intern, Michigan State University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
4/00 – 8/03 - Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Iowa School of Public Health
1/02 – 8/03 - Clinical Professor, Des Moines University – Osteopathic Medical Center
1/06 – Present - Lead, STD Team, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
Responsibilities have included: 1) planning and faciliting STD-related sessions at the CSTE Annual Conference; 2) chairing the CSTE Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Working Group; 3) developing STD-related position statements and presenting them for discussion at the CSTE Annual Conference.
Numerous publications on infectious and non-infectious disease outbreak investigations