Viera also is assistant professor of family medicine in the UNC medical school.

 

His current research examines better ways to measure blood pressure and assess people's overall cardiovascular disease risk.

 

"We are very fortunate to have Dr. Viera as a member of our Public Health Leadership Program," said PHLP director Anna Schenck, PhD.  "He is enthusiastic about public health and it is well demonstrated in his teaching and mentoring in our program." Schenck also is director of the school's North Carolina Institute for Public Health and its associate dean for public health practice.

 

 
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.