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Dr. Devlin announces leadership changes in the Division of Public HealthState Health Director Leah Devlin has announced five key personnel changes in the N.C. Division of Public Health.
“We are grateful for these leaders’ willingness to accept these new challenges,” Dr. Devlin said. “These changes will restore lost capacity to the Division of Public Health and will greatly improve our ability to work in a more integrated way on critical and complex public health issues so we can become even more effective in improving and protecting the health of all North Carolinians.”
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Dr. Steve Cline assumed the role of Deputy State Health Director
on June 21. Dr. Cline, a dentist with a master's degree in public
health, has over 23 years of experience in state and local public
health in N.C. He has been chief of the division’s Epidemiology Section
for the past six years and is known statewide and nationally for
his leadership in preparedness. In his new role, Dr. Cline has direct
responsibility for integrating the public health efforts of all of
the programmatic sections of Public Health, including Women and Children’s
Health, Chronic Disease and Injury, Vital Records and Oral Health. 
State Epidemiologist Jeffrey Engel is assuming the role of chief
of the Epidemiology Section, which includes the HIV/STD, Occupational
and Environmental Epidemiology, and General Communicable Disease
branches. Dr. Devlin commended Dr. Engel for his outstanding job
as State Epidemiologist over the past four years. Dr. Engel came
to Raleigh in 2002 from Pitt County, where he was the leader in infection
control at Pitt County Memorial Hospital and acting head of the Section
of Immunologic Diseases at the Brody School of Medicine. An internist
with a specialty in infectious diseases, Dr. Engel is Board Certified
in Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine. 
Dr. Lou Turner will head up a new Public Health section, “Preparedness,
Medical Examiner and Laboratory.” As the former director of the State
Laboratory of Public Health, she brings a wealth of knowledge and
experience to this new position. She also served over the past year
as acting director for Public Health Preparedness and Response, earning
praise for her outstanding contributions to preparedness. Dr. Turner
has a DrPH in Laboratory Practice and has worked in public health
in North Carolina for 26 years. 
Dr. Leslie Wolf was named Director of the State Laboratory for Public
Health. “Dr. Wolf has done an incredible job in the past year as
the Acting Director of the Lab and is well prepared to continue in
this leadership role,” Dr. Devlin said. Dr. Wolf has seven years
of experience in public health and holds a Ph.D in Immunology and
Microbiology. 
New to the Division is Dr. Julie Casani, who assumed the role
of the Preparedness Director and Branch Head with the new Preparedness,
Medical Examiner and Laboratory Section on June 26. Dr. Casani, whose
background is in Emergency Medicine, came from the Maryland Department
of Health, where she has been a key leader in that state’s preparedness
work.