MPN HEALTH CARE PROVIDER EDUCATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Lorne K. Garrettson, M.D., (Committee Chair) has served on the faculties of medicine at State University of New York at Buffalo, Virginia Commonwealth University and Emory University. He has been involved in the management of poison control centers and in the care of poisoned patients for 40 years and has run clinics for the diagnosis and care of lead poisoned children in Virginia and Georgia. Dr. Garretson developed the Georgia Poison Center as a reference center for the public and professionals on issues of drugs in human breast milk.

Ruth Berlin, L.C.S.W.-C, has been a practicing psychotherapist and a teacher in the field for the past 35 years. She was the co-founder and co-director of the Family Group Institute, San Francisco and associate faculty at the University of San Francisco Medical School. Ruth also co-founded and is the former co-director of InnerSource: A Center for Psychotherapy and Healing, in Annapolis, MD. She is the founder and executive director of the Maryland Pesticide Network.

Richard L. Humphrey, M.D., has been on the faculty and staff of the Johns Hopkins (JH) University School of Medicine, the JH Hospital and the JH Bloomberg School of Public Health for more than 45 years. Dr. Humphrey founded and directed the Multiple Myeloma and Plasma Cell Disease Research and Treatment Program at Johns Hopkins and was also the Director of the Immunology laboratory in the Department of pathology until his partial retirement in 1999.

Lawrence A. Plumlee, M.D., served as a research investigator in physiology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and as medical science adviser in the office of research of the U.S. Public Health Service’s Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service, and at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Plumlee was also Assistant Professor of Behavioral Biology at Hopkins. Presently he is editor of The Environmental Physician and President of the Chemical Sensitivity Disorders Association.

Jo Ann Schropp, R.N., B.S.N.,M.S.N., is a Psychiatric Nursing Clinical Instructor at Howard County Community College, Columbia, Maryland. She was a Mental Health Nursing Clinical Specialist at Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) in Annapolis, Maryland, and also served as a consultant to the Inpatient Psychiatric Service. She worked extensively with the AAMC Cardiac Rehabilitation Service as an education and counseling resource for patients and their families and has also worked in the OB/GYN, Pediatric, and Public Health Nursing specialty areas.