Alberto Busanet Martinez is the Director
of Policy, Planning, and Community Relations for Project
Reggie, a city-wide, centralized, computerized client registration
database in San Francisco that allows the collection of
basic, unduplicated client level demographic, health, and
service use data on HIV+ clients. This technology allows
the city better to serve a critical and needy HIV infected
population of Ryan White Care eligible clients as well
as understanding its social, demographic, health, and service
use profile.
Born in New York City on August 26, 1960, Mr. Martinez
grew up in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He attended the Catholic
University of Puerto Rico, where he received a Bachelor
of Science degree with a major in Chemistry and minors
in Biology and Education in 1982. After teaching chemistry
at the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, he attended
the School of Aerospace Medicine in Houston, Texas,
where he earned an advanced certificate in Environmental
Health. Mr. Martinez served as a sergeant in the United
States Air Force from 1983-1989.
Settling on the mainland after his discharge, Mr.
Martinez has held several positions of increasing responsibility
in the San Francisco Department of Public Health, including
Coordinator of the Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance
Program and Clinical Manager of the Tuberculosis Control
Division.
Mr. Martinez is the recipient of the Air Force Commendation
medal for outstanding professional skills at Travis
Air Force Base and the Air Force Achievement medal
for the health and safety and Welfare at Hickam Air
Force Base, Hawaii. He was recognized with the Distinguished
Graduate Award in the Noncommissioned Officer Professional
Military Education Program. During his tenure with
the San Francisco Health Department, a team under the
leadership of Mr. Martinez received recognition by
the Civil Service Commission for the successful implementation
of the Directly Observed Preventive Therapy (DOPT)
treatment program for clients infected with Tuberculosis.
He presented a session at the Tuberculosis Controllers
Association Annual Conference on the Directly Observed
Preventive Therapy Program in clients infected with
TB held in Chicago in 1999.
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