Communicable Disease Resource Directory

Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment

General Communicable Diseases
Antibiotic resistance / Ken Gershman / (303) 692-2657
CJD/Chronic wasting disease (CWD) / John Pape / (303) 692-2628
Influenza/respiratory diseases/Legionnaires / Ken Gershman / (303) 692-2657
Invasive bacterial diseases / Ken Gershman / (303) 692-2657
Foodborne & enteric diseases / Alicia Cronquist / (303) 692-2629
Hantavirus / John Pape
Melina Evdemon-Hogan / (303) 692-2628
(303) 692-2778
Plague
Rabies
Vaccine-preventable diseases (pertussis, measles, rubella, mumps, H. flu, meningococcal disease, varicella) / Sandy Rios
Denise Woods-Stout / (303) 692-2671
(303) 692-2672
West Nile virus (other arboviruses) / John Pape
Melina Evdemon-Hogan / (303) 692-2628
(303) 692-2778

General Communicable Diseases – Epi Consultants

Larimer, Weld, NE counties* / Al Scott / (970) 416-0562 (970) 420-6305 (cell)
San Luis Valley & SE counties** / Bill Ray / (719) 545-4650 (719) 251-9498 (cell)
Western Slope / Kate Lujan / (970) 248-7143 (970) 270-8669 (cell)

General Information

Business hours (303) 692-2700

After-hours (answering service for on-call epidemiologist) (303) 370-9395

HIV/STD

Client Services / Althea Bruce / (303) 692-2784
Counseling & Testing / Bob Bongiovanni / (303) 692-2703
Prevention / Bob Bongiovanni / (303) 692-2703
Surveillance / Allison Crutchfield / (303) 692-2691
Treatment & Care (Ryan White) / Scott Barnette / (303) 692-2718

Tuberculosis

Case Management / Gayle Schack / (303) 692-2635
Surveillance / Barbara Stone / (303) 692-2656
Refugee Health / TB / Barb Hummel Schultz / (303) 692-2647
General TB questions / (303) 692-2638

Viral Hepatitis

Hepatitis A (disease control and surveillance) / Alicia Cronquist / 303-692-2629
Hepatitis A (vaccine) / Amy Warner / (303) 692-2673
Hepatitis B (vaccine) and perinatal hepatitis B / Amy Warner / (303) 692-2673
Hepatitis C / DeAnn Ryberg / (303) 692-2674
Hepatitis surveillance issues (B and C) / Candace Vonderwahl / (303) 692-2687

* Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld, Yuma

** Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Cheyenne, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lake, Las Animas, Lincoln, Mineral, Otero, Park, Prowers, Pueblo, Rio Grande, Saguache, Teller

March 2006