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L.B. Sandy Rock, MPH is President of Interpretive
Consultations, Inc., a risk communication and environmental health
consulting concern. He received his M.D. degree from the University of
Virginia in 1970, and did residency training in general medicine and
pediatrics in San Diego and Virginia. He was first certified by the
American Board of Family Practice in 1976 and recertified in 1982 and
1989. In 1972, he received a Masters Degree in Public Health (MPH) from
the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. As a
Board Certified Family Practitioner, he practiced medicine until 1994 in a variety of settings including emergency room, student health
centers, rural Virginia private practice, as well as community-based and
migrant-worker clinics on both coasts.
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From 1995 to 2000, he was Public Health
Physician for the Washington State Department of Health’s Hanford Health
Information Network (HHIN), training health care providers about radiation
health effects. He has been I-131 Environmental Health Education Project
Consultant for the American College of Preventive Medicine since May 2001.
He is Environment and Health Research Director for the Pacific Northwest
Pollution Prevention Resource Center, and teaches Environmental Science
and Cell Biology at a community college.
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He has been an active member of the American
Public Health Association since 1972.
He has served on a variety of boards, including the American Lung
Associations of both Virginia and Washington, the Disaster Response
Planning Committee at San Diego State University, and the Northwest
Council on Climate Change. Since
July 2001, he has been Chair of the Environment and Health Committee of
the Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (WPSR). In 1999, he
received certification in Radiation Medicine and Thyroid Disease from the
Atomic Bomb Disease Institute of the Nagasaki University School of
Medicine.
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Doctor Rock is conversationally fluent in
Spanish, has lived, worked and traveled in Latin America, and teaches a
course in “Spanish for Healthcare Professionals.” His medical passions
include environmental and public health. His avocations include playing
the guitar and singing, outdoor wilderness activities, cooking, and
computers. He lives near Seattle with his family.
2004 c.v.: L.B. Sandy Rock, MPH
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