CDR Pamella Vodicka, MS, RD Health Resources and Services
Administration Maternal and Child Health Bureau Public Health
Analyst Choosing a New Direction
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A CAREER BEGINS August 86 January 88 Hermann Hospital January
88 April 89 April 89 December 91 General Pediatrics Pediatric
Nephrology (I/O) Adult Nephrology Adult Nephrology (I/O) NICU &
Transition (I/O) April 92 November 95 Neonatal Nutrition Fellowship
January April 92 DEVELOPS AND EVOLVES
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B EYOND THE WHITE WALLS P UBLIC H EALTH 12/1995 8/1996 8/1996
12/1997 High Risk Specialist BF Peer Supervisor High Risk
Specialist 12/1997 7/1998 December 1995 May 2002 A GAIN, A CHANCE
TO EVOLVE Nutrition Support Supervisor 7/1998 5/2002
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BUT, FIRST, A CHANCE TO GIVE May 2002 THEN WHAT
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A PAUSE BEFORE A NEW OPPORTUNITY
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DC B OUND September 04 November 04 Scholars Program Public
Health Analyst MCHB Oral Health Program LCDR, USPHS 4 November 2004
SEPTEMBER 2003 THE CALL WAS ANSWERED
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A CAREER CONTINUES TO GROW Professional Development
Subcommittee Member, 04/2004 04/2008 Diet-PAC Secretary, 04/2005
04/2006 Voting Member, Diet-PAC, 04/2006 03/2009 Professional
Development Subcommittee Chair, 04/2006 04/2008 Chair, 04/2008
03/2009 Lead: PHS OBC Category & PAC Introduction, 02 10/2009
Dietitian Representative: 2011 Benchmark Workgroup, 05/2009
Recruitment & Retention Subcommittee Member, 04/2010 present
Other duties: 2006 2008: Billet addendum, Pediatric Feeding Team
Clinic, WRAMC TIER 2 MHT3, 06/2006-5/2009; SAT5, 6/2009-present
2008: Continuing Promise 2008, US Navy-led humanitarian mission,
Dominican Republic and Trinidad Lead, Policy Ad Hoc Workgroup,
7/2010 3/2011 Dietitian Category Appointment Board, 2010 & 2011
WITH DUAL RESPONSIBILITIES National Director for Oral Health
Service Systems Grants Develop grant guidance and program policy in
keeping with Agency mission Administer grantee assistance and
coordinate information sharing between Federal and State oral
health programs State Oral Health Collaborative Service Systems
Targeted MCHB Oral Health Service Systems Collaboration with WIC
Collaboration with DCSHCN School-based Comprehensive Oral Health
Service Intra- and Interagency liaison for MCHBs Oral Health
Program Agency representative on National Oral conference planning
committee Nutrition and Oral Health (ADA position paper) WIC and
Oral Health Convene expert panel workshops on national oral health
issues Early Childhood Caries and School Readiness Perinatal Health
Children with Special Health Care Needs School-Based Health Care
Bureau nutrition expert and representative Healthy Childcare
America, Healthy Weight Project USDA Ad hoc expert workgroup,
website development for My Pyramid for Preschoolers ASTPHNDs
document Cornerstones of a Healthy Lifestyle: Blueprint for
Nutrition & Physical Activity
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. If a man does not keep pace
with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different
drummer. Henry David Thoreau You owe no one as much as you owe
yourself. You owe to yourself the action that opens for you the
doors to the goodness, the variety, and the excitement of effort
and success David Harold It is only well with me when I have a
chisel in my hand. Michelangelo
