Patricia L. Meinhardt, MD, MPH, MA
Partner
Patricia Meinhardt is a Senior Partner with Martin, Blanck & Associates, a federal health services consulting firm based in Falls Church, Virginia. Martin-Blanck provides critical assistance to public and private sector clients focused on federal and state health care delivery systems and services. Martin-Blanck has grown to two dozen senior executive partners with expertise in health care policy, program development, management, informatics, and strategic planning.
Dr. Meinhardt is a board-certified preventive medicine and public health specialist who has a broad range of expertise and experience in public health and preventive medicine, occupational and environmental medicine clinical services, and terrorism preparedness and emergency response planning and training. Dr. Meinhardt provides expertise in public health and national preparedness program development, medical informatics and communications technologies for distribution of emergency response resources, occupational medicine clinical services including influenza vaccination program delivery and treatment for high-risk workers, and medical surveillance program design and communicable disease epidemiology. As such, she offers the medical expertise necessary to facilitate the development and implementation of pandemic influenza preparedness planning and response strategies by private corporations, public agencies, and critical infrastructure providers.
Dr. Meinhardt received board certification from the American Board of Preventive Medicine with specialty certification in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. She is also a physician-epidemiologist with specialty training and expertise in infectious disease surveillance, occupational and environmental health epidemiology, and performance-based program evaluation and assessment. She completed her medical training at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania followed by an internship in Internal Medicine at the Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. She completed her residency training in Preventive Medicine at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, Maryland and received her Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins with advanced training in the design, implementation, and evaluation of public health intervention and disease prevention programs.
As a physician-epidemiologist, Dr. Meinhardt has developed and implemented several medical surveillance programs including a tuberculosis surveillance and infectious disease control program in a high-risk cohort of 10,000 workers at risk for workplace exposure to active tuberculosis. The primary goal of this intervention program was to prevent the introduction, transmission, and spread of virulent and multi-drug resistant strains of tuberculosis in a high-risk workforce, similar to the current concern of the emergence of an influenza strain with pandemic potential.
During the past three years, Dr. Meinhardt has also developed and executed a national public health program providing pre-incident planning and post-event response training to federal, state, and local government agencies and private sector organizations addressing the early recognition, appropriate management, and effective prevention of disease resulting from natural disasters and intentional contamination of water from terrorist activity. With support from the EPA, CDC, and ATSDR, Dr. Meinhardt has provided emergency response and medical preparedness training to more 16,500 physicians, ancillary healthcare providers, local and state public health authorities, emergency response and disaster management specialists, and domestic security and critical infrastructure professionals in all 50 states of the US as well as Canada, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
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