Author and Narrator: Dr. Daniel M. Sosin

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Dr. Daniel M. Sosin is the Director of the Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics in the Epidemiology Program Office (EPO), at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

He began his career at CDC in 1986 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service assigned to the Kentucky Department for Health Services in Frankfort, Kentucky. He served as a CDC Preventive Medicine Resident in the Division of Injury Epidemiology and Control in 1988-89. He supervised state-based EIS Officers as a Section Chief in EPO from 1989-1994 and then returned to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) to study traumatic brain injury (TBI) and develop longitudinal surveillance of TBI. Dr. Sosin's scientific investigations include numerous epidemiologic investigations of TBI, including those resulting from motorcycle and bicycle crashes, adolescent risk behaviors, and a range of outbreak investigations. He later served as the Associate Director for Science in NCIPC where he coordinated national injury surveillance and extramural research activities, spearheading their new research agenda and a variety of research policies.

Dr. Sosin is board certified in preventive medicine and internal medicine. He received his B.S. in biology from the University of Michigan; his M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine; and his M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the University of Washington School of Public Health.

As Director, Dr. Sosin has responsibilities in planning, managing and evaluating Division programs of National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance, the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System, 122 Cities Mortality Reporting System, the Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program, the Assessment Initiative, CDC WONDER and web-access to CDC data sets, Epi Info, and the Medical Examiner and Coroner Information Sharing Program. He also serves as a senior advisor for surveillance policy, research, and program direction. Dr. Sosin currently serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University. He serves as a scientific reviewer for various medical journals. Professional memberships include the American College of Physicians (Fellow), the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American Medical Association, and the Commissioned Officers= Association - U.S. Public Health Service.

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