Candidates for President-Elect

Manijeh Berenji, MD, MPH

Chief of Occupational Health, VA Long Beach

Dr. Manijeh Berenji, MD, MPH, is a board-certified physician in Occupational and Environmental Medicine as well as Public Health and Preventive Medicine and board-eligible clinical informaticist, with extensive leadership experience in clinical, academic, consulting, and policy settings.  She currently serves as Chief of Occupational Health at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System and holds faculty appointments at the University of California  Irvine’s School of Medicine and the Wen School of Public Health. Dr. Berenji holds multiple roles in professional organizations, including serving as Chair of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine’s Council on OEM Science as well as Chair-Elect of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Climate Health and Informatics Working Group. If elected Secretary, she will champion a digital-first, technology-driven agenda, building transparent, interoperable record systems, analytics dashboards, and a robust database hub to accelerate the integration of Total Worker Health® into practice and policy, while expanding the Society’s reach by engaging employers, HR leaders, and community health partners with tailored resources and regular communications.

Candidates for Secretary 

 Shanna S. Dunbar, RN, BSN, COHN-S, FAAOHN

 President, Workplace Health Inc. 

Shanna Dunbar is President of Workplace Health Inc. and a nationally recognized occupational health nurse and Total Worker Health® practitioner. She has extensive experience helping employers integrate worker safety, health, well-being, and productivity through multidisciplinary programs and practical workplace solutions. Her areas of expertise include occupational health strategy, transitional work and disability management, workers’ compensation, ergonomics, employee mental health, and workplace health promotion. She is a Fellow of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses and a founding member of the Society for Total Worker Health™.

Cesar L. Pinzon-Gomez, MD, PhD, MPH

Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

Dr. Cesar Pinzon-Gomez is a physician-scientist and occupational medicine specialist at the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health. His research focuses on occupational injury prevention, worker well-being, and health disparities among vulnerable worker populations, particularly Latino day laborers and construction workers. His expertise includes Total Worker Health®, implementation science, epidemiology, and community-engaged research.