PESTWORLD - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President of Public Affairs
Dr. Fredericks is a Board Certified Entomologist and Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at NPMA. He received his BS in Biology Education from Millersville University of Pennsylvania in 1995 and his MS in Entomology from The University of Delaware in 2001.
In 2012, Dr. Fredericks received his Ph.D in Entomology and Wildlife Ecology from the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. His Ph.D research involved subterranean termite foraging behavior with respect to in-ground termite bait stations under field conditions.
Prior to his role with the NPMA, Jim spent 11.5 years working with Home Paramount Pest Control (Forest Hill, MD) as Technical Director where he was responsible product selection, treatment protocol development, service quality assurance technical training. A Philadelphia native, Jim currently lives in Fairfax, VA with his wife and two children.
Dr. Jim Fredericks is the Senior Vice President of Public Affairs at the National Pest Management Association and a Board Certified Entomologist.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Training and Technical Services
Dr. Michael Bentley is the Vice President of Training and Technical Services for the National Pest Management Association. He is a board certified entomologist who holds a Ph.D. in urban entomology from the University of Florida. His doctorate research focused on understanding environmental factors that influence the success of invasive ants in the southeastern United States.
Prior to earning his doctorate, Mike spent five years working in the pest management industry where he held multiple technical and operation roles for a nationwide pest control company. Mike also has a Master of Science degree in medical and veterinary entomology from the University of Florida. His master's research investigated the host-seeking behavior of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes.
Job Titles:
- Medical Advisor
- Medical Advisor, NPMA
Jorge P. Parada, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA, is the medical advisor for the National Pest Management Association (NPMA), the medical director of the Loyola University Medical System Infection Control Program in Chicago, Illinois, and an associate professor of medicine at the university's Stritch School of Medicine. He is also a senior research associate at the Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care at Hines Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital in Hines, Illinois.
After earning his medical degree at the Lisbon Medical School in Portugal, Dr. Parada remained in Lisbon to complete a medical-surgical residency and to train at the Institute for Tropical Medicine. He completed additional residency training in internal medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook an Northport VA Medical Center. Dr. Parada went on to obtain a masters degree in public health from Harvard University while completing an infectious diseases fellowship at Boston University. He also completed a health services research outcomes fellowship at Rush University and Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, before joining the faculty of Loyola University in 1999.
Dr. Parada's research interests include hospital epidemiology, emergency preparedness, and infection control with an emphasis on process of care variables related to Clostridium difficile-associated disease, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusinfection, and device-related infections. Outcomes from his work have been published in such notable journals as Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Journal of Infection, and Clinical Infectious Diseases. Dr. Parada has also served as course director for the Chicago Medical Society and the Chicago Department of Public Health's programs on emergency preparedness for bioterrorism, pandemic/avian influenza, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Dr. Jorge Parada is the medical advisor for the National Pest Management Association with a focus on infectious disease.