Pascal James Imperato

Dr. Pascal James Imperato received his MD degree from the State University of New York, and then completed a residency in internal medicine at Long Island College Hospital. He was awarded the Glorney-Raisbeck Fellowship of the New York Academy of Medicine, and served his fellowship at the International Center for Medical Research and Training located at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, and at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, from where he received his MPH&TM degree. He then served for six years as a medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in West Africa, where he directed mass immunization campaigns against smallpox, measles, yellow fever, cholera, and meningococcal meningitis. The U.S. Department of State awarded him its Meritorious Honor Award and Medal for this work. He returned to the United States and worked for the New York City Department of Health, as Director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease Control and Principal Epidemiologist, First Deputy Commissioner of Health and Director of the department’s Residency Training Program in Public Health, and as Commissioner of Health and Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. He was also Chair of the New York State Board for Medicine, and for several years was a member of the Fulbright Screening Committee for Africa. He also served for seven years as editor of the New York State Journal of Medicine, now

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