Maine CDC is pleased to
announce that Siiri Bennett, MD, has accepted the position of State
epidemiologist.
Dr. Bennett received her medical
degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine and completed her
residency in internal medicine at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Massachusetts.
Dr. Bennett is currently a senior
research scientist and medical data consultant in the Department of
Biostatistics at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she is
co-principal investigator for an NIH-funded Data Coordinating Center for a
multi-study collaboration looking at tuberculosis latency and reactivation and
also serves as a project director for a multi-study consortium looking at
cardiovascular disease in patients with HIV.
She will begin her new role at
Maine CDC on July 20.
