Marguerite Erme, DO, MPH

Northeast Ohio Medical University

Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine

Contact Information

Summit County Public Health
1100 Graham Road Circle
Stow OH 44224

Phone: 330.812.3865
Fax: 330.375.2447
Email: Merme@schd.org

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, DO
The Ohio State University, MPH

Biography

Marguerite A. Erme, DO, MPH is a 1977 graduate of Ohio State University with BS in microbiology, a 1981 graduate of Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, and a 1993 graduate of Ohio State University with a Master of Public Health. She is board certified in emergency medicine and worked as an emergency medicine physician for 12 years. From February 1996 until June 2004 she was employed by NEOUCOM in the Department of Community Health Sciences and also served as part-time Disease Control Medical Officer for the Akron Health Department. She was the full-time Disease Control Medical Officer for the Akron Health Department from July 2004 through December 2010 and interim Medical Director from April 2009 through December 2010. She became Medical Director for the Summit County Health Department in May 2010 and has continued in that position after the consolidation of the Akron Health Department with the Summit County Health Department in January 2011. Her main duties include clinical services oversight, communicable disease control, graduate, undergraduate, clinical and community teaching.

Research Interests

  • Communicable Disease Surveillance

Practice Interests

  • Communicable Disease Surveillance

Consortium of Eastern Ohio Master of Public Health Involvement

  • Faculty appointment
  • Instructor, Public Health Concepts
  • Instructor, Epidemiology in Public Health
  • Capstone preceptor

Capstone or Practicum Areas of Expertise

  • Communicable disease epidemiology and surveillance