Curriculum Vitae for

David J. DeRose, M.D., M.P.H

Education and Training

Medical School

• Loma Linda University, School of Medicine: Loma Linda, CA (1980-1984). Degree awarded: M.D.

Postgraduate Medical

  • Wright State University/Kettering Medical Center: Kettering, OH (1984-1987). Internal Medicine Residency. Also worked part time: (a) lecturing for the Kettering College of Medical Arts Physicians Assistant Program and (b) providing occupational and preventive medicine services for Kettering Hospital’s Center for Health Promotion.
  • Loma Linda University, School of Public Health: Loma Linda, CA (1991-1993). Off-campus Public Health degree program. Degree awarded: Masters in Public Health, Emphasis: Health Promotion and Education.
  • Loma Linda University, School of Medicine: Loma Linda, CA (1994-1999). Preventive Medicine Residency, PGY3 year. While working full-time, I completed this residency on a part-time basis (part on-campus, part off-campus).

    Postgraduate Ministerial

• Andrews University Theological Seminary, InMinistry Program: Berrien Springs, MI (2004-2013; part-time/distance ed.). Masters in Pastoral Ministry (MAPMin).

Certifications

• Diplomat:
• American Board of Preventive Medicine (January 2000; recertified January 2010)• American Board of Internal Medicine (September 1987)
• National Board of Medical Examiners (July 1985)

Professional Societies

• American Public Health Association

Honors and Awards

• Delta Omega, Honorary Public Health Society

• Charlotte S. Leebron Award, 2000; co-recipient, awarded annually to the author(s) of the most outstanding scientific paper appearing in The Oklahoma State Medical Journal.

 

Current Employment

• COMPASSHEALTH CONSULTING, INC., Foresthill, CA; November 2002 to present (established in Oklahoma in 2002 as CompassHealth, Inc.; reorganized in 2011 as CompassHealth Consulting, Inc. in California)

Founder and President. In November 2002, I established CompassHealth, Inc., to provide preventive medicine consulting services. I worked full time in this capacity from 2002 to 2007. My work for CompassHealth was scaled back to half-time when I relocated to Maine in 2007 after accepting an invitation from the Northern New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists to work for them half-time (described later). In January 2010, I discontinued most of my work with CompassHealth when I began working with Weimar Center of Health and Education.

Since January 2014, I returned to primary employment with CompassHealth Consulting, with most of my work being rendered under this corporation. The one exception has been my clinical medical work (mentioned below).

For more than a decade CompassHealth and CompassHealth Consulting have provided a range of consulting and preventive medicine services. Examples of CompassHealth and CompassHealth-related projects I have been involved with over the past two decades include:

o Contract work for Native Ministries, North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists; my major responsibility has been hosting a weekly, syndicated, Native- themed radio health talk show called American Indian Living (more details later)

o Health seminars for churches, primarily in the United States

 

o Consulting on program development, utilization review, and case review with ensuing phone-based health education for the 50,000 + member Medi-Share organization (a non-denominational Christian insurance alternative)

o Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Adjunct Instructor, Central Maine Community College; Auburn, Maine; teaching health professional students

o Medical literature research and writing for Nedley Publishing

o Intensive one-night adult education workshops for Maine communities including Gray/New Gloucester, Poland/Mechanic Falls, and Windham. Topics included:

▪ Listening to the Buffalo: insights from Native American wisdom to address diabetes, obesity, and other chronic diseases

▪ Changing Bad Habits for Good: health motivation to aid in making lasting lifestyle changes

▪ The Methuselah Factor: practical implications of hemorheology (the science of blood fluidity) relating to the prevention of common chronic diseases

▪ Reversing Diabetes: lifestyle keys for addressing type 2 diabetes

▪ The Brain Health Revolution: lifestyle-based strategies to prevent neurodegenerative diseases and optimize mental performance

o Television work for the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN) and Good News TV (based in Arizona) as well as programming developed by the Quiet Hour, It Is Written, and Amazing Facts (more details later).

 

o Educational seminars in the U.S. and abroad (including Eastern and Western Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa)