In this Issue: Communicable Disease 
Omar A. Khan, MD, MHS;1 and Timothy E. Gibbs, MPH2 

1. President, Delaware Academy of Medicine / Delaware Public Health Association; Editor-in-
Chief, Delaware Journal of Public Health 

2. Executive Director, Delaware Academy of Medicine / Delaware Public Health Association 
This is truly a milestone moment for the Delaware Academy of Medicine / Delaware Public 
Health Association. At our Annual Meeting this year (the 89th), our keynote address was 
delivered by David Heymann, M.D., D.T.M.&H., C.B.E., speaking about a lifetime combating 
global communicable diseases. The entire collection of images from this event is available online 
at https://delamed.org/images-from-the-89th-annual-meeting-of-the-academy-dpha/. 

Immediately before Dr. Heymann’s presentation, we recognized the extraordinary work of the 
William J. Holloway Community Program at Christiana Care Health System. Now expanded to 
include sites throughout the state, their efforts have been a part of the success story regarding 
HIV—seeing it go from being a fatal illness, to a manageable chronic disease. The award was 
accepted by Dr. Susan Szabo and Arlene Bincsik R.N., M.S., C.C.R.C., A.C.R.N. Arlene was 
thanked in particular, for her 40 years of advocacy, care, and education. For more on the story, 
see: https://news.christianacare.org/2019/05/william-j-holloway-program-honored-by-delaware-
academy-of-medicine/ 
The timing of this issue on Communicable Disease could therefore not be better. It follows the 
day-long Holloway Infectious Disease Symposium and the spectacular events and awards above. 
We are indebted to our expert guest editors, Neal Goldstein, Ph.D. and Deborah Kahal, M.D. for 
their guest editorship of this issue. 
We also recognized the work of Sherman L. Townsend, Chair of the Delaware Institute for 
Medical Education and Research (DIMER), with the 2019 Lewis B. Flinn President’s Award. 
His leadership of DIMER, which along with the Delaware Branch Campus at Christiana Care 
acts as Delaware’s medical school, has been assuring spots for Delaware students at our 
Philadelphia medical school partners for nearly 50 years. We take this opportunity to thank the 
Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and the Philadelphia College of 
Osteopathic Medicine for their continued partnership in helping serve Delawareans’ health needs 
through a well-trained workforce. 
To those of you who have read the Delaware Journal of Public Health from the start in 2015, 
you’ll notice a change in the layout and readability of this issue. This is a result of reader 
feedback; as a result we have improved viewability and readability of graphics and text on 
mobile devices. 
We hope that you like the change, and as always, keep the comments coming! 

 


	In this Issue: Communicable Disease