 dr terashita currently serves as the chief of the healthcare outreach unit at the county of los angeles department of public health acute communicable disease control program dr terashita was educated at the new york medical college and obtained her masters of public health from loma linda university dr terashita is board certified in public health and general preventive medicine she has supervised more than a hundred healthcare associated outbreaks and authored and co authored numerous related publications she is chair of the los angeles county healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance committee and is a member of the california department of public health healthcare associated infections advisory committee 