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Dr. De Pinto is a pediatrician board certified in general pediatrics and a trained adolescent medicine specialist. Dr. De Pinto has been with the Maryland Department of Health for over two decades focusing on program development and implementation, policy development, consensus building, and professional development and training. She has influenced Maryland policy and legislative agendas in the areas of children with special health care needs, asthma, childhood lead poisoning prevention, childhood obesity prevention, school-based health centers, school health services and school chronic disease management. Most recently she has worked in the Office of Population Health Improvement (OPHI) at MDH. As d+irector for OPHI she has contributed to and been a leader for population health initiatives in the areas of workforce development, State Health Improvement Process and the population health measures framework and the state’s health system transformation efforts. Dr. De Pinto completed her medical training at the University of Pennsylvania, Pediatric Residency at Children's National Medical Center, her Adolescent Medicine Fellowship at the University of Maryland and received an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. De Pinto is the chair of the Executive Committee for the Council on School Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Alleyne, an epidemiologist, is the chief of programs and services at the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). In this role, he provides leadership for membership and meetings services and oversight for NACCHO’s four programmatic portfolios: community health, environmental health, public health infrastructure and systems and public health preparedness. Dr. Alleyne is a subject matter expert on a number of national boards and workgroups on biosurveillance, informatics, epidemiology, policy and public health. In addition, Dr. Alleyne is the past president of the Board of Directors of the New York State Public Health Association, past president of the Alpha Gamma Chapter of the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health and the past chair of the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Alleyne has a doctorate in public health from the New York Medical College, School of Health Sciences and Practice and is a graduate of the University of Albany, School of Public Health.