CHARLESTON, WV – Gov. Jim Justice announced contiguous that helium has received the status of West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Secretary Bill Crouch, effectual December 31, 2022. He has agreed to stay astatine DHHR arsenic an advisor until that time. His modulation to advisor is effectual today.
Gov. Justice besides announced that effectual today, Dr. Jeff Coben, Associate Vice President for Health Affairs & Dean of the West Virginia University School of Public Health, has been named Interim Secretary of DHHR.
Also effectual today, Dr. Clay Marsh, and Retired Major General Jim Hoyer, volition go advisors to Gov. Justice and to DHHR connected the implementation of the McChrystal Report and the enactment transition.
Dr. Jeffrey Coben is presently the Associate Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the School of Public Health astatine West Virginia University. He is simply a tenured prof with associated appointments successful the Schools of Public Health and Medicine.
Dr. Coben has achieved planetary designation for his accomplishments successful the tract of wounded prevention and control. He is the lone idiosyncratic to ever service arsenic manager of a CDC-supported wounded power probe halfway astatine 2 antithetic world institutions. He has served connected the Board of Directors of the National Commission Against Drunk Driving, the U.S. Office of Women’s Health Advisory Committee for Violence Against Women, and arsenic Senior Scholar-in-Residence for Domestic Violence astatine the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. His probe and wellness betterment projects utilize clinical, epidemiological, and wellness services probe methods.
Since joining West Virginia University successful 2004, helium has served arsenic Director of the Center for Rural Emergency Medicine, Director of the Injury Control Research Center, Vice Chair for Research successful Emergency Medicine, Associate Dean for Operations successful the School of Medicine, and Associate Vice President for Clinical Innovations, Planning and Operations for the Health Sciences Center. He has besides directed aggregate statewide wellness betterment initiatives including respective Medicaid Transformation grants and the West Virginia State Innovation Model Design award.
In 2017, Dr. Coben established the Office of Health Affairs (now the WVU Health Affairs Institute) with the extremity of formalizing a state-university concern betwixt WVU and the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (WV DHHR). Since that clip the Institute has grown to see astir 100 nonrecreational unit members who assistance aggregate bureaus and offices wrong DHHR and different wellness betterment organizations by providing expertise successful wellness information analytics, large-scale programme evaluation, task absorption and method assistance.
Originally from Philadelphia, Dr. Coben is an Alpha Omega Alpha postgraduate of the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine. After graduation, helium undertook residency grooming successful exigency medicine and interior medicine astatine Northwestern University Medical Center. Since 1980, helium has maintained continuous certification by some the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine.
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