[Bristol-Birds] David Kirschke returns to NET birding scene !
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:38:55 -0500
Dr. David Kirschke, honored as the "Best New
Birder of the Year" by the Bristol Bird Club in 2007
when he formerly lived in Northeast Tennessee,
has returned to the region to work, live and bird.
His arrival creates excitement among the
NET birding community because he not only has
good birding skills but a passion for frequent
birding.
He left the Northeast Tennessee Regional Health
Office of the Tennessee Department of Health in
January 2008 to become the deputy state epidemiologist
for the Department of Health. He went to Nashville to
oversee the Department's Environmental Epidemiology,
Tuberculosis and Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Programs.
David Kirschke (left) and Rob Biller when he made
a surprise visit to the BBC March 2010 meeting.
At Nashville, he birded constantly throughout Middle
Tennessee and was active with the Nashville Chapter of
the Tennessee Ornithological Society.
Two weeks ago, he returned to Johnson City to be the
medical director with the Northeast Tennessee Regional
Health Office of the Tennessee Department of Health.
His birding will take the level of bird finding in the region
a notch higher due to his love for regular field work.
Kirschke obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Holy
Cross College in Worcester, Mass., and a Medical
Degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine
before training in family practice at Tallahassee Memorial
Hospital.
Prior to coming to Tennessee in 2001, Kirschke also
worked as a family physician at the Buncombe County
Health Department Primary Care Clinic in North Carolina.
He served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer
with the Centers for Disease Control stationed at the
Tennessee Department of Health from 2001-2003.
From 2003 thru 2007, he was medical director of the
Communicable and Environmental Disease Services and
the Emergency Preparedness Sections of the Northeast
Tennessee Regional Health Department and as an associate
professor of clinical medicine at the James H. Quillen
College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University.
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