John H. Knelson, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pediatrician Carteret Clinic for Adolescents and Children, Morehead City, NC, 1978-2007 Chairman, Credentialing Committee, CGH, 1981-1982. Chief of Staff, CGH, 1986-1987. Chairman, ER Committee, CGH, 1990-1994.

Medical Missionary, Rwanda, 9/01, 9/03 and 5/04

Senior Research Official, Office of Research and Development Director, Health Effects Research Laboratory EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, 1975-1977. Coordinated activities of the four ORD laboratories located at RTP, with a staff of 600 and a budget in excess of $100 million. Responsible for directing EPA’s principal health effects research effort, determining long-range health research policy, planning research efforts, reviewing and coordinating all areas of the program.

Director, Human Studies Laboratory
EPA, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1974-1975. Supervised a staff of 120 and budget of $15 million, coordinating four branches: Clinical Studies, Epidemiology, Biometry, and Aerometry. Research emphasizes the interaction between population studies and clinical research with human subjects under controlled environmental conditions.

Chief, Clinical Studies Branch
EPA, Chapel Hill, NC, 1969-1973. Developed and managed the clinical laboratory research effort to detect and characterize the influence of air pollutant exposures on the health and performance of human beings.

Medical Officer, U.S. Army Special Forces Training Group
Fort Bragg, NC, 1962-1964.

Chief of Neonatology
North Carolina Memorial Hospital, UNC-CH, 1969-1974

Clinical Adjunct Professor
Dept. of Pediatrics UNC-SOM, 1969-1978, Dr. FLoyd Denny, Chairman

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Member, All Saints Episcopal Church
Anglican Mission in America, Province of Rwanda
Founding Director of Carteret Academy, Morehead City, NC

Undergraduate:

 Manchester College, BA
     North Manchester, Indiana, 1952-1955
Major: Chemistry, graduated with distinction

Medical Education:

 Fulbright Scholar, University of Paris
     Paris, France, 1955-1956.
Biochemistry, University of Paris and Microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris

 Northwestern University Medical School, MD
     Chicago, Illinois, 1956-1960

 University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
     Rotating Internship and Resident I 1960-1962 Resident II 1965

 M.P.H., University of Michigan School of Public Health
     Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1965-1967, Major: Epidemiology.