EDUCATION:

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, PhD Environmental Biology 1973
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, MPH in Public Health, 1970
San Diego State University, San Diego, California, MS in Biology, 1967
San Diego State University, San Diego, California, BS in Biology, 1964

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

October 1, 2005 to Present - Professor and Chair, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

February 2004 to September 2005 - Public health consultant and part-time auditor for Everclean Services, Incorporated (restaurant inspection), El Paso, Texas.

September 2003 to January 2004 - Assistant to Provost, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.

January 15, 2001 to January 2004 – Professor, Health Science Program, College of Health Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.

January 15, 2001 to August 2003 - Dean, College of Health Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.

January 1998 to December 2000 - Interim Dean, School of Public Health, University at Albany,
State University of New York, Albany, New York.

1993 to 2000 - Professor of Environmental Health and Toxicology, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York.

1994 to 1997 - Associate Dean, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York.

1993 to 1997 - Director of Professional Education Program, School of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York.

1996 and 1997 (Summers only) - Public Health Officer, Concessions Office, Grand Teton National Park, Moose, Wyoming.

1987 - 1989; 1991 to 1992 - Associate Director and Graduate Advisor, Graduate School of
Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, California.

1990 (Fall Semester) - Guest Researcher (Sabbatical Leave), Division of Health Assessment and Consultation, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, U. S. Public Health Service, Atlanta, Georgia.

1987 (Spring Semester) - Visiting Professor, Public Health Program in the School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico.

1984 – 1987 - Head, Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, California.

1981 – 1992 - Professor of Public Health, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State
University, San Diego, California.

1978 – 1981 - Associate Professor, Bacteriology and Public Health, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.

1978 (Summer) - Academic Staff Member, Center for Lake Superior Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Superior, Superior, Wisconsin.

1976 – 1978 - Assistant Professor, Bacteriology and Public Health, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.

1972 – 1976 - Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

1974, 1975, 1976 (Summers Only) - Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Public Health,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1970 – 1972 - Research Assistant, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1967 – 1969 - Public Health Biologist, Division of Environmental Protection, Department of Natural Resources, State of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1966 – 1967 - Teaching Assistant, Division of Life Sciences, San Diego State College, San Diego, California.

1964 – 1965 - Public Health Sanitarian, San Diego County Health Department, San Diego, California.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

Recipient of the 2005 Walter F. Snyder Award for Achievement in Attaining Environmental Quality.  Awarded at the NEHA Educational Conference held in Providence, Rhode Island, June 2005.

Charles and Shirley Leavell Endowed Chair I, College of Health Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, 2002 to 2004.

Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.  Marquis Who’s Who, 121 Chanlon Road, New Providence, New Jersey, 1997 to 2004.

Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Medicine and Health Care.  Marquis Who’s Who, 121
Chanlon Road, New Providence, New Jersey, 2003.

Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America.  Marquis Who’s Who, 121 Chanlon Road, New
Providence, New Jersey, 2002-2004.

Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World.  Marquis Who’s Who, 121 Chanlon Road, New Providence, New Jersey, 2004.

Distinguished Service Award from the Section on the Environment of the American Public Health Association, Indianapolis, Indiana (November 11th), November 1997.

“Thaisa A. Beach Award” for outstanding, compassionate, and supportive service to the students at the SUNY Albany School of Public Health, May 1994.

“1992 Meliorism Award” presented by the College of Health and Human Services Student Council, San Diego State University, December 1992.

1992-93 Outstanding Faculty Member in the Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, December 1992.  

Listed in the 15th, 16th and 17th Edition of American Men and Women of Science; Physical and Biological Sciences.  Jacques Cattall Press, 1982 to 1984.

Outstanding Faculty Award for 1988-89 presented by College Council of Health and Human Services, Associated Students, San Diego State University, May 1989.

Received Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award (Cash award $2,500).  San
Diego State University, April 1988.

Who's Who in California in 1988.

Outstanding Faculty Award given by San Diego State University's Alumni and Associates, May 1986.

Journal of Environmental Health.  A. Harry Bliss Editorial Award for Outstanding Service as a
Reviewer and Author, June 1985.

Voted Outstanding Teacher in the Graduate School of Public Health by the student body, May
1984.

Received Exceptional Merit Service Award from San Diego State University for service during the 1982-83 academic year, April 1984.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Indicators of Water Quality:  Biological, chemical and physical water quality indicators in lotic, lentic and marine waters.  Ground water quality investigation.

Environmental Epidemiology: Human health risk factors associated with polluted water; private and public potable water supplies; and solid and hazardous waste generation, transportation and disposal.  Resource recovery and the impact on human health.

Emergency and Disaster preparedness:  Seismic safety requirements.

Environmental Health Manpower Needs:  Methods of recruiting students into the Environmental Health profession.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:  

Conway, J. B.  2001.  Public Health Issues.  In Loue, S. and B. E. Quill [Eds.], Handbook of Rural Health,  Chapter 3.  Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.  Pages 35-43.

Conway, J. B. and K. A. Rosettie.  2000.  Practice or Research?  Environmental Health at Schools of Public Health.  Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D. C.  129 pp. 

Conway, J. B. (contributing author).  1999.  Demonstrating Excellence in Academic Public Health Practice.  Association of Schools of Public Health Practice Council, Washington, D. C.  22 pp.

Conway, J. B.  1998.  Water Quality Management.   In Maxcy-Rosenau-Last, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Chapter 37 of the 14th Edition.   Appleton and Lange, Stamford, Connecticut. Pages 737-763.

Carpenter, D. O. and Conway, J. B.  1996.  Optimizing Professional Education in Public Health.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  2(4):66-72.

Joseph, S. W., Conway, J. B. and S. G. Kalichman.  1992.  Monitoring and Significance of Aquatic and Terrestrial Bacteria in the Aquatic Environments of Divers, p. 23-40.  In The Hazards of Diving in Polluted Waters.  Proceedings of an International Symposium.  A Maryland Sea Grant Publication, College Park, Maryland.  

Conway, J. B.  1991.  On the Need to Teach Science to Environmental Health Students.  Journal of  Environmental Health.  54(3):29-31.

Stern, B.S. and J. B. Conway.  1991.  Environmental Health Paradox: The Communication Gap Between Ivory Tower and Corporate America.  Journal of Environmental Health.  54(3)13-17.

Joseph, S. W., J. B. Conway and S.G. Kalichman.  1991.  Aquatic and terrestrial bacteria in diving environments: monitoring and significance.  Undersea Biomedical Research.  18(3):187-191.

Conway, J. B. and H. F. Salgado.  1990.  An investigation of selected wastewater sources in the San Diego-Tijuana area, p. 23-30.  In P. Ganster and H. Walter [Eds.] Environmental Hazards and Bioresource Management in the United States-Mexico Borderlands.  Latin American Center Publications, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

Guidotti, T.L. and J. B. Conway.  1990.  The Environmental Health Sciences: Building a faculty on basic principles.  Archives of Complex Environmental Studies.  2(2):1-8.

Conway, J. B.  1989.  Water quality in the Tijuana River Basin, p. 31-36.  In C. G. Metzner [ed.] Water Quality Issues of the California-Baja California Border Region.  Border Issues Series, 4.  Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias, San Diego State University, San Diego, California.

Conway, J. B.  1989.  Closing Remarks, p. 44-46.  In Environmental Health Faculty/Employer Forum. Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Service Administration, U.S. Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland.

Ryden, L. A., C. A. Molgaard, S. Bobbitt and J. B. Conway.  1989.  Occupational Low Back Injury in a Hospital Employee Population:  An Epidemiological Analysis of Multiple Risk Factors of a High Risk Occupational Group.  Spine.  14:315-322.

Hovell, M., C. Sipan, C. R. Hofstetter, B. Dubois, A. Kreft, J. B. Conway, M. Jasis and H. Issac.  1988.  Occupational Health for Mexican Women:  The Case of the Maquiladora along the Mexican/U.S. Border.  International Journal of Health Services.  18(4):617-627.

Conway, J. B.  1988.  General Environmental Health Professional: Water, p. 46-47.  In Evaluating the Environmental Health Work Force.  Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Service Administration, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland.

Guidotti, T. L. and J. B. Conway.  1987.  Cooperation in health affairs between adjacent international communities:  A successful model.  American Journal of Preventive Medicine.  3(5):287-292.

Conway, J. B. 1986.  Potential health risks associated with wastewater in the San Diego-Tijuana Region, p. 57-62.  In J. Alvarez and U. M. Castillo (Eds.) Ecology and the borderlands, The Study of the Environment of the Californias.  Autonomous University of Baja California, School of Economics, Tijuana, Mexico.

Conway, J. B. 1986.  Sewage and Public Health:  The San Diego-Tijuana Region, p. 27-31.  In L.A.  Herzog (Ed.), Planning the International Border Metropolis.  Trans-Boundary Policy Options for the San Diego-Tijuana Region.  Monograph Series 19.  Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.

Guidotti, T. L. and J. B. Conway. 1985.  A contemporary model of the environmental health sciences: its use in faculty recruitment and academic development.  Educacion Medica y Salud.  19(2):173-186.

Holmes, T., E. L. Jensen, and J. B. Conway. 1985.  Nitrate contamination of domestic potable water supplies: A social problem?  American Journal of Preventive Medicine.  1(1):51-57.

Guidotti, T. L. and J. B. Conway. 1984.  Water and Health. American Family Physician.  30(4):97-104.

Conway, J. B. 1981.  A study of NO3-N in private water supplies in Lincoln County, Washington. Journal of Environmental Health.  43(5):257-262.

Conway, J. B. 1977.  Seasonal and depth distribution of Limnocalanus macrurus at a site on Western Lake Superior. Journal of Great Lakes Research.  3:15-19.

Conway, J. B. and J. D. Lucas. 1977.  The environmentalist's role in a major emergency or disaster.  Journal of Environmental Health. 40(1):46-51.

Conway, J. B. 1971.  Health and water pollution.  The University of Minnesota Medical Bulletin. 42(5):15-17.