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He has served as the Medical Director and Manager of Medical and Public Health Services for the City of Detroit and was the chief physician responsible for measures designed to protect the public health of over one million persons living or working in the City of Detroit. Dr. Chiodo served as an assistant professor of internal medicine, family medicine, and public health at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He also served as an adjunct professor of industrial hygiene and toxicology at Wayne State University as well as an adjunct professor of law at John Marshall Law School and Loyola University Law School in Chicago where he taught toxic tort law. He is board certified in the medical specialties of internal medicine, occupational and environmental medicine, and public health and general preventive medicine. He is also certified in the public health discipline of industrial hygiene as a Certified Industrial Hygienist (C.I.H.). He is also a certified medical review officer which is the designation required by the United States Department of Transportation for a physician to review drug and alcohol test results. Due to his interest in building related disease including mold, he has maintained a residential builder’s license in the State of Michigan for many years. During his service as Medical Director and Manager of Medical and Public Health Services for the City of Detroit, Dr. Chiodo was the chief physician in charge of all public health and medical services provided by the City of Detroit to over one million persons then living and working in the City of Detroit. This was a position of substantial public responsibility were at the time he had the direct telephone number to the United States White House in the event that he needed to contract the President regarding any public health emergency in Detroit needing the immediate attention of the President. During his service as Medical Director and Manager of Medical and Public Health Services for the City of Detroit all water quality and building related public health issues for the City of Detroit were under his management and medical direction. MD: Wayne State University JD: Wayne State University MPH: Harvard MS Biomedical Engineering: Wayne State University MS Threat Response (biological, chemical, and radiological defense): University of Chicago MS Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences with Specialization in Industrial Toxicology: Wayne State University MBA: University of Chicago MS Evidence Based Health Care: University of Oxford (UK) MS Experimental and Translational Therapeutics (drug, vaccine, and medical device development): University of Oxford (UK). MS Nanotechnology for Medicine and Health Care: University of Oxford (UK) Dr. Chiodo has been honored by the Wayne State University College of Engineering Hall of Fame in 2019 as a Distinguished Biomedical Engineer Dr. Chiodo has received the rare honor of the Distinguished Alumnus Award for 2023 from Wayne State University School of Medicine. Wayne State University started in 1868 as a medical school. Wayne State University School of Medicine is the largest single campus medical school in the United States of America. Tens of thousands of physicians and surgeons have graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine since 1868. Dr. Chiodo was only the 135th graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine to receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Dr Chiodo was the medical expert for the Plaintiffs in the ground breaking $3 Million judgement for personal injuries in the fracking case of Parr v Aruba Petroleum.