Board of Directors - 2010

Ed Schneider

President-Elect

Dr. Schneider is a 68-year-old retired optometrist who is a paid consultant to the Nebraska Optometric Association regarding insurance and related technical issues. He writes a monthly newsletter for that association, maintains a web page, responds to member’s queries on a daily basis, and speaks regularly at optometric functions regarding insurance claims, correct medical records documentation, and quality of care.

Dr. Schneider was appointed to the Lincoln-Lancaster County Board of Health in April 2000. He was elected President of the Board for four consecutive terms, January 2001 through January 2005. As president, he led the Board in addressing a number of public health issues and he represented the Board before the City Council and County Commissioners on multiple occasions. Public health issues addressed during his tenure as President included updating food regulations, addressing environmental issues, implementing tighter animal control ordinances, creating the Department’s strategic plan, implementing a new body-art ordinance, and passage of a 100% smoke-free workplace ordinance. During his tenure as President of the Board of Health he received Lincoln-Lancaster County’s Volunteer of the Month Award. He is a ex-officio member of the Lancaster County Metropolitan Medical Response System Steering Committee. He is past co-chair of a Board of Health and Lincoln Planning Commission joint-committee on land use planning for Lincoln-Lancaster County.

In 2004 he began working with the Public Health Association of Nebraska (PHAN) in the training of new board of health members throughout the state, speaking at various public health meetings and in videoconferences. That year he was one of the Nebraska representatives attending education on the National Public Health Perfomance Standards at the CDC in Atlanta. He was elected to the PHAN’s Board of Directors in 2007. He is on the advisory board of Nebraska’s State Association of Local Boards of Health, a section of PHAN.

He received the National Association of Local Boards of Health Regional Director’s Award in 2002. He has twice made educational presentations at the NALBOH Annual Conference, once regarding smoke-free workplace environments, once on land-use planning. He was elected to the NALBOH Board of Directors in 2006. He is co-chair of the NALBOH committee addressing the creation and support of State Associations of Local Boards of Health.

He was selected a member of the advisory committee revising the Community Health Standards Indicators in Washington DC in January of 2008. In April of 2008 Dr. Schneider received the Lincoln-Lancaster County Department of Health Public Health Leadership Award. He was invited to attend to Food and Drug Administrations consortium on food safety in August of 2008. In September of 2008 he received the Public Health Leadership Award from the Public Health Association of Nebraska. In 2009 he represented PHAN at the American Public Health Association’s symposium on sustainability. In 2008 and 2009 he attended the State Association of City and County Health Official’s annual meeting in Washington DC.

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