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Dr. Singleton is Chief Medical Director for the Baltimore City Health Department’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response. She is the executive medical/clinical advisor to the Baltimore City Health Commissioner and Baltimore City’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, coordinating all emergency preparedness and response operational activities respective to infectious disease outbreak activities, clinical procedures and protocols, medical screening, isolation and quarantine, prophylaxis, and adverse events. Prior to this, she was the inaugural director of public health emergency preparedness at the Baltimore County Department of Health. In this role, she created, coordinated, and implemented all public health preparedness and response activities within the department and for area health and law enforcement partners. Prior to coming to Baltimore County, Dr. Singleton held senior policy analyst positions at several Washington, DC, organizations and also worked nights and weekends as a pediatric emergency room physician. Dr. Singleton received her BS in Microbiology from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, her MD from the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY, and her pediatric residency training at the Thomas Jefferson University and the duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE, and Philadelphia, PA. During her pediatric residency training, she began her studies toward a master’s in public health at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. She completed the final phase of her MPH in 1996 while working as a pediatric emergency room physician.
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