Aaron Schneiderman, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.N.
Dr. Aaron Schneiderman serves as Acting Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Epidemiology Program. Dr. Schneiderman has over eighteen years of experience using qualitative and quantitative research methodologies in the areas of occupational and environmental safety and health research with combat Veterans, military reservists, and civilians. His work with VA's War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) in Washington, D.C. included both clinical work and research with Veterans in the areas of health risk communication, perception of environmental exposures, and physical and psychological health concerns.
Dr. Schneiderman has recently conducted studies with Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Veterans addressing physical and psychological symptoms and exploring the perceptions and experiences of deployment, environmental exposures, and health concerns. He is currently principal investigator on the National Health Study for a New Generation of U.S. Veterans, a project that reaches out to 60,000 OEF/OIF deployed and non-deployed Veterans to assess health and exposure concerns, health care utilization, behavioral risk factors, and chronic illness.
Dr. Schneiderman earned his Masters of Public Health and Doctor of Philosophy from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. He earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing with honors from the University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Nursing. Dr. Schneiderman was honored with a VA Board of Veterans Appeals Exceptional Achievement Award in December 2006.
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