Ms. Ritsick, a Vice President in the McKing Atlanta Office, joined McKing in March 2002. Ms. Ritsick has 10 years of Federal consulting experience focusing in public health programs. Ms. Ritsick manages numerous contracts that provide public health research and management consulting services with the following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention programs: National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Office of Public Health Genomics, Global Immunization Division, and the Office on Smoking and Health. Additionally, Ms. Ritsick is managing contracts with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registries on the development of a National Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Registry. One of these contracts focuses on working with three state health departments to conduct traditional state disease surveillance for ALS to identify cases and serve as a comparison against the National ALS Registry data as part of an evaluation of the National Registry’s methods of data collection. Ms. Ritsick holds a Masters of Public Health from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.




