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Frederick Burkle

Senior Scholar
Global Health Initiative

Contact Information:
T 202-691-4000 // F 202-691-4001
Expertise:
Global Health
;
North America
;
United States
Affiliation:
Professor; Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
Wilson Center Project(s):
"Ground Truth: Infulence of Politics on Health"
Term:
Aug 01, 2010
-
Aug 31, 2014

Senior Fellow & Visiting Scientist Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Harvard School of Public Health Boston & Cambridge, MA. Senior International Public Policy Scholar Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Washington, DC. Professor (2005-2010) Adjunct Professor Department of Community Emergency Health & Paramedic Practice Monash University School of Medicine Melbourne, Australia. Clinical Professor of Surgery (Emergency Medicine), Department of Surgery & Adjunct Professor, Departments of Tropical Medicine and Public Health Sciences & Epidemiology
John A. Burns School of Medicine University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. Senior Affiliate Faculty & Research Scientist Department of International Health & Emergency Medicine Schools of Medicine & Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes Baltimore, Maryland. Adjunct Professor of Emergency and Military Medicine,Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland. Elected Chair, National Disaster Life Support Consortium, American Medical Association & National Disaster Life Support Foundation, 2007- 2011.

Education

1957-1961 B.A: Biology (cum laude) Saint Michael’s College Winooski Park, Vermont
Doctoral:       
1961-1965 M.D. University of Vermont College of Medicine Burlington, Vermont
Postdoctoral: 
1965-1966
Internship Yale-New Haven Medical Center New Haven, Connecticut
1966 -1968 Resident in Pediatrics Yale-New Haven Medical Center New Haven, Connecticut
1968  Chief Resident in Emergency and Ambulatory Services Senior Resident in Pediatrics Yale-New Haven Medical Center New Haven, Connecticut
1970-1971
Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine Harvard Postgraduate School of Medicine Adolescents’ Unit Children’s Hospital of Boston. Boston, Massachusetts
1974-1975
Master’s Degree in Public Health (MPH) University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health Berkeley, California
1975-1977 Resident in Psychiatry Dartmouth Medical School Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Hanover, New Hampshire
1988 Health Emergencies in Large Populations Course Graduate Thesis earned Diploma CRC-WHO University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
2006 Diploma in Tropical Medicine Royal College of Surgeons Dublin, Ireland
 

Major Publications

  • Gryboski JD, Burkle FM, Hillman RD: “Mild Induced Colitis”, Pediatrics, Vol. 38, No. 1, August 1966, pp. 299-302.
  • Burkle FM, Bravo AJ: “Asphyxiating Thoracic Dystrophy-Malformation of the Newborn, “Clin Ped, Vol. 8, 1968, pp. 165-170.
  • Burkle FM: “Plague as Seen in South Vietnamese Children: A chronicle of observations and treatment under adverse conditions”, Clin Ped, Vol 12, No. 5, May 1973: 291-8
  • Burkle FM: “Developmental Approach to Post-Abortion Depression (In  Adolescence)”, The Practitioner, London, Vol 218, February 1977, pp. 217- 225.
  • Burkle FM, Lipowski Z:  “Colloid Cyst of the Third Ventricle Presenting as  Psychiatric Disorder”, Amer Jour of Psych, 135:3, March 1978, pp. 373-374.
  • Burkle CDR FM, Jewett LCDR C:  “Standards for Training - Medical Contingency Response Units”, Navy Medicine, Vol. 72, No. 12, 1981, pp. 16- 19.
  • Burkle FM: “Stress and Coping under Adverse Conditions: Implications for Disaster and Refugee Care”, Military Medicine, Vol 148, October 1983, pp. 800-803.
  • Burkle FM, Rae RP, Rice MM:  “Borderline Personality Disorder”, Annals of  Emer Med, 14:10, October 1985, pp. 996-1001.
  • Parks FB, Calabro JJ, Burkle FM: “Addisonian Crisis in an Adolescent Female: A Case Report”, Ped Emer Care, Vol 2 No. 1, March 1986, pp. 18-20.
  • Calabro JJ, Robinson M, McAlpine S, Burkle FM: “Tricyclic Overdoses Revisited: Sudden Delayed Death”, Annals of Emer Med, 15:11, November 1986, pp. 1349-52. 
Previous Terms at the Wilson Center:
May 1, 2008 - July 31, 2010

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