Wayne Blount, MD, MPH
Professor,
Residency Program Director

Wayne Blount, MD, MPH is double boarded in Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine. His undergraduate education was completed at West Point; medical school was completed at the University of Miami; intership/residency was completed at Dewitt Army Hospital, Ft. Belvoir VA and faculty development fellowship was completed at Madigan Army Medical Center and the University of Washington. MWM looking for intelligent, bright, teachable, physicians who want to be Preventive Medicine Physicians to start a meaningful, fun 1 to 2 year educational experience.

Anne Dunlop, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor

Anne Lang Dunlop, MD, MPH is board-certified in family medicine and general preventive medicine/public health. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Michigan majoring in microbiology. She graduated from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota, and completed dual residency training in family and preventive medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. As part of her residency training she earned her MPH degree in International Health (epidemiology track) from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health. Since completing residency training, she has been faculty in Emory's Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and has served as a research fellow for the World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Reproductive Health. Her preventive medicine training, programming, and research experience has focused on maternal and child health issues and primary care approaches to prevention. She served as director of primary care services and co-principal investigator for the Grady Memorial Hospital Interpregnancy Care Program, and serves as a member of CDC's Select Panel for Preconception Care, which was responsible for convening the National Summit on Preconception Care and drafting the National Recommendations for Improving Preconception Health and Health Care. Dr. Dunlop is principal investigator of a randomized trial exploring behavioral approaches to treating pediatric overweight in the primary care setting and of a qualitative study exploring how the informed consent process influences participants' willingness to participate in clinical research. As part of her commitment to the WHO Collaborating Center in Reproductive Health, Dr. Dunlop performs analyses of state-wide data sets to better understand the contribution of underlying factors to feto-infant mortality in the state of Georgia according to the Perinatal Periods of Risk Approach. Additionally, Dr. Dunlop provides primary care to patients through Grady Health System's Neighborhood Health Centers.
 

Elizabeth Tong, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor

Dr. Tong completed an M.D./M.P.H. at Emory University School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health. She then did her Internal Medicine residency at Atlanta Medical Center followed by Preventive Medicine residency at Emory. Dr. Tong is double boarded in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine. She has been on faculty since completing Preventive Medicine residency in 2006. She currently supervises Preventive Medicine residents at the Atlanta V.A. Medical Center, where she also does clinical work and research when she is not taking care of her husband and 3 children.

Michael B. Miller, DO, OD, MPH
Assistant Professor

Mike is a veteran of the Army and its many all-expense paid assignments around the world after hiding out in professional schools for as long as he could. His friends call him “Dr Dood” in reference to his degrees in Optometry and Osteopathic Medicine. He is currently the Chief of Occupational Medicine for Atlanta VAMC and still doubles-up on weekends as a staff member of University Hospital's ED in Augusta, GA. Board Certified in Family Medicine and Occupational Medicine, his other roles include Medical Review Officer, Aviation Medical Examiner for the FAA, Independent Medical Examiner, and Volunteer Optometrist for Lenscrafters Foundation. While in Augusta, he established a free medical clinic, Clinica Latina, for Hispanic workers and their families. In addition, he received grant support to establish a free eye clinic for the working poor. Both clinics continue to thrive under the auspices of St Vincent DePaul Health Center and local volunteers in Augusta and they have provided services to hundreds of patients.

Norberto Fas, MD
Assistant Professor

Dr. Fas received his BS Degree in Biochemistry in 1989 at Texas A & M University in College Station, Texas and his MD Degree in 1992 from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in San Juan. His Internship and Residency was completed in Internal Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine Affiliated Program, Atlanta, Georgia. He is boarded in Internal Medicine and has been with Team Atlanta since July 1996. In January 2003, he was appointed as the Associate Chief of Staff for Education. He also concurrently serves as Supervising Physician for Employee Health Clinic and Physician reviewer for the Fee Basis Program. Dr. Fas has numerous awards and honors to his credit in addition to active membership on a number of committees and councils for Emory University and the Atlanta VA. Currently, Dr. Fas is Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and adjunct Assistant Professor of Preventive and Family Medicine.

Michael Compton, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Student Programs Director

Michael T. Compton, M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. He also has an appointment in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. Dr. Compton received his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia, and completed his psychiatry residency, public health degree, preventive medicine residency, and community psychiatry/public health fellowship at Emory University. Dr. Compton serves on the Prevention Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), the Prevention Practice Committee of the American College of Preventive Medicine, the Core Examination Committee of the American Board of Preventive Medicine, and the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association. Dr. Compton is co-director of the Emory University Fellowship in Community Psychiatry/Public Health. He previously served as Deputy Director, and then Acting Director, of the Emory University Preventive Medicine Residency. He currently serves on the Residency Advisory Committee. In 2006, Dr. Compton received the William Kane Rising Star Award of the American College of Preventive Medicine and a Leader of the Future Award of the International Early Psychosis Association. He receives research support through a K23 patient-oriented research career development award from the National Institute of Mental Health. His research interests include the multifactorial determinants of the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP), associations among risk markers in patients with schizophrenia and their first-degree relatives, correlates of substance use in the early course of schizophrenia, and the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model of collaboration between law enforcement and mental health.

Nakita Brown
Research Project Coordinator
Preventive Medicine Residency Coordinator Emory University School of Medicine Department of Family and Preventive Medicine