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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 69-80

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From page 69...
... She also serves on the Patient Advisory Council for Mountain States Health Alliance, where she encourages positive hospital patient experience through effective provider-to-patient communication, and is a member of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, and the Gay Alliance SafeZone program at East Tennessee State University.
From page 70...
... McNulty Prize, Credit Union National Association Herb Wegner Award, Opportunity Finance Network Ned Gramlich Award, National Rural Assembly Rural Hero Award, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions Annie Vamper Award, and Ernst & Young/Kauffman Foundation National Entrepreneur of the Year. Ned Calonge, M.D., M.P.H., is the President and CEO of The ­ olorado C Trust, a private grant-making foundation dedicated to achieving health equity for all Coloradans.
From page 71...
... Community Preventive Services Task Force and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and he currently serves on the advisory committee to the director of CDC.
From page 72...
... Prior to his tenure at The Children's Health Fund, Mr. Johnson was a senior program officer at the Fund for New York City Public Education and a research analyst at the Public Policy Institute of the Business Council of New York State.
From page 73...
... Felecia Lucky, M.B.A., is the Executive Director of the Black Belt Community Foundation in Selma, Alabama. The Black Belt Community Foundation was established to support community efforts that contribute to the strength, innovation, and success in Alabama's 12 poorest counties -- the Black Belt.
From page 74...
... He is also a clinical professor with an appointment in the university's School of Social Work and holds an adjunct professor appointment at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry. He currently serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Health and Medicine Division's (HMD's)
From page 75...
... He was Chief Resident during his psychiatric training at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and is an alumnus of The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard Medical School. Michael Meit, M.A., M.P.H., serves as co-director of the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis and as a Senior Fellow in NORC's Public Health Research Department.
From page 76...
... in interdisciplinary arts and sciences with a specialization in public health science from Union Institute & University. Tom Morris, M.P.A., serves as the Associate Administrator for the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
From page 77...
... He recently completed work in directing the development of a comprehensive statewide health assessment for the Alabama Department of Public Health. Prior to this role, he served as the Director of Statistical Analysis with the Alabama Center for Health Statistics from 1986 until 2000.
From page 78...
... A health equity foundation, Con Alma was recently awarded the Public Health Advocate Award for "an organization that has made a positive health-related change in their community" from the New Mexico Public Health Association. A native New Mexican, Dr.
From page 79...
... Her focus with the NC Rural Health Research Program is managing rural health projects, especially work with hospital closures. Her other rural health project interests include social determinants, maternal– child health, qualitative research, and health inequities.
From page 80...
... /CDC HIV/STD Advisory ­ ouncil, C the HRSA National Advisory Council for Nursing Education and Practice, Health and Medicine Division Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, and also as a charter member of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services' Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities. She is a member of the Strategic Advisory Council of the AARP/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy Future of ­ ursing Campaign for Action and co-chairs the N Diversity Steering Committee.


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