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Charles M. Yarborough, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM, has over 30 years of experience in guiding health initiatives for global corporations including Exxon, Cyanamid, and Caterpillar, and many years of causation analyses for health claims and toxic tort litigation support, particularly for asbestos and lead. Prior to founding CYHealthAssociates, LLC, Dr. Yarborough was Director for Medical Strategies, Health and Wellness Department, Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMC) based in Bethesda, MD, joining in 2007. For 3 years before joining LMC, he was senior managing scientist in New York City for Exponent, Inc., an international engineering and health consulting firm. (Resume is provided below.)

Training under Dr. Tinsley Harrison (who was editor-in-chief of the first five editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine) he obtained a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Yarborough took his internship and residency training in internal medicine under Dr. Walter Kirkendall at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, including the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, followed by training in occupational/preventive medicine at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

Dr. Yarborough is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and also in Preventive/Occupational Medicine and holds active medical licenses in multiple states. He is on the medical staff of Johns Hopkins Suburban Hospital in Bethesda and is a voluntary physician for a community health center. He was a part-time Chief Physician at the Veterans Administration Health Care System and on medical staff of the University Medical Center at Princeton, NJ, and previously at several other major U.S. medical centers. Dr. Yarborough is an elected member of Delta Omega, the National Public Health Honors Society, and served on a health advisory committee for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, reporting to the EPA Director.

Dr. Yarborough was one of a group of corporate physicians who co-authored a statement of support for the first United Nations High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Disease involving Heads of State held in September of 2011. He is an advisor for an occupational medicine residency training program at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, and is Associate in the Department of Health Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Yarborough is a voting member of the Physicians’ Consortium on Quality Improvement® of the American Medical Association. In 2011 he was appointed by the governor to serve on the Operating Model and Insurance Rules Committee for Maryland’s Health Insurance Exchange Board. Since its inception 2 years ago as a non-profit organization, Dr. Yarborough has served as Chair, International Corporate Health Leadership Council, a think tank on health issues facing global companies.

Dr. Yarborough is serving a third elected term as a member of the Board of Directors for the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). He led the development of the initial framework for ACOEM’s Corporate Health Achievement Award (CHAA), serving as CHAA Committee Chair for 7 years, and continues to serve as a Judge for this annual award and others. Dr. Yarborough received ACOEM President’s Award in 1997. As well as having published many articles and a reviewer for prominent peer-reviewed medical journals, Dr. Yarborough has been invited to speak many times at U.S. and international meetings, including the International Congress on Occupational Health held in Stockholm concerning global healthcare delivery systems and population health management, and a TEDx session on Healthy Life Expectancy in 2013.