Hugh Stallworth, MD., M.P.H.

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     Dr. Stallworth is board-certified in Public Health and Preventive Medicine.  He obtained his medical degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and his internship and residency training at Detroit General Hospital and Henry Ford Hospital, also in Detroit.  He completed his Masters in Public Health at California State University, Long Beach.

     The first ten years of Dr. Stallworth’s career were spent in private practice.  Realizing that he had a gift for teaching, he gave up his practice and accepted a position as assistant professor of Family Practice at the University of Kentucky Medical Center.

     Dr. Stallworth became Health Officer of Fresno County, California in 1990, where he wrote a regular newspaper column for The Fresno Bee entitled, “The Doctor Is In,” and was also editor of a quarterly newsletter entitled, “The Sentinel.”

     He became Director of Public Health of Orange County, California in 1994.  He wrote a regular column in the Orange County Register entitled, “To Your Health,” as well as regular columns in the Excelsior (Spanish) and Ngoi Viet (Vietnamese) newspapers.

     During his tenure in Orange County, he guided Orange County Public Health through the largest municipal bankruptcy in the history of the US, as well as the largest Multiple Drug Resistant TB outbreak in a school in the history of the US.   He also developed innovative approaches for accessing underserved communities.

     From 1999 to 2002 Dr. Stallworth was National Vice President of Cancer Control, for the American Cancer Society where he developed an outreach model to reach underserved  communities with life saving cancer prevention and early detection messages.  The model has demonstrated success in communities from Massachusetts to the Mississippi delta.   

      Most recently, Dr. Stallworth was Director of Health and Hospitals for the City of St. Louis, as well as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at St. Louis University School of Public Health.

     In 1998 he published a highly acclaimed book entitled, “PARTNERSHIPS IN PUBLIC HEALTH: Creating Alliances Using the Business Paradigm.”

     He is currently Health Officer and Medical Director for Monterey County Department of Health, Salinas California.

    The producers of "Your Town" Radio and Television Program appreciates the time and effort that Dr. Stallworth takes to provide a entertaining and informative program.

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