{"id":1110,"date":"2011-01-20T07:08:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T12:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/?page_id=1110"},"modified":"2021-03-05T13:56:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:56:38","slug":"dan-budnitz-md-mph-capt-usphs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/bios\/dan-budnitz-md-mph-capt-usphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Budnitz, MD, MPH, CAPT, USPHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6391\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6391 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/files\/2018\/04\/Dan-Budnitz-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Dan-Budnitz-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Dan-Budnitz-768x978.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Dan-Budnitz-805x1024.jpg 805w, https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/Dan-Budnitz.jpg 1492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director, Medication Safety Program, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Dan Budnitz, MD, MPH, CAPT, USPHS<\/h1>\n<p>Dr. Budnitz directs the Medication Safety Program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He leads a collaboration of CDC, FDA and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to conduct adverse drug event surveillance through the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS).<\/p>\n<p>These surveillance data are the basis for the 2014 National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/medicationsafety\/protect\/protect_initiative.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the PROTECT Initiative<\/a>, a public-private collaboration to reduce medication overdoses in young children; and more than 50 publications on medication safety, public health surveillance, and injury prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Budnitz joined CDC as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in 2001 after completing a BA in Government from Harvard University, a combined MD-MPH from Emory University, and internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Budnitz is currently a Captain in the US Public Health Service and has practiced as a Board-Certified internist at the Atlanta VA Medical Center and the DeKalb-Grady Neighborhood Health Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Budnitz, MD, MPH, CAPT, USPHS Dr. Budnitz directs the Medication Safety Program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He leads a collaboration of CDC, FDA and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to conduct adverse drug event surveillance through the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS). These surveillance data are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":140,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7049,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1110\/revisions\/7049"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/safehealthcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}