National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
HealthPOWER! Prevention News Summer 2015: Staff Updates
Pooja Jani, M.D., is our newest Preventive Medicine Resident from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). She attended medical school at the Medical College of Georgia and completed an internship in Pediatrics at Georgetown University. She joined the UNC Ophthalmology Department as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2011, where she began pursuing her interests in public health and eye care. She is currently a resident enrolled in the Health Care & Prevention Master of Public Health program, and she continues to serve as the Project Director on a grant-funded project to build the North Carolina Diabetic Retinopathy Telemedicine Network. Her major career interests include international preventable blindness,telemedicine/tele-education, implementation science, global health, and public health informatics.
