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Appendix A: Speaker and Planning Committee Member Biosketches
Pages 117-130

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From page 117...
... Darrold Bertsch is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Sakakawea Medical Center, a critical access hospital located in Hazen, North Dakota, and is also the CEO of the Coal Country Community Health Center, a federally qualified health center with four service delivery sites in west central North Dakota. Mr.
From page 118...
... Mr. Bird has served on the boards of the Kewa Pueblo Health Corporation, American Indian Graduate Center, Bernalillo County Off Reservation Native American Commission, Health Action New Mexico, Seva Foundation, National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health Advisory Committee (Canada)
From page 119...
... He serves on the advisory board of the Program in Health Law and Policy and is also the director of evaluation with the nationally recognized Southwest Rural Health Research Center at Texas A&M University. The center, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration's Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, was established to address the needs of rural and underserved populations across Texas and the nation by bringing together a unique combination of faculty expertise in health policy, health economics, aging, long-term care, health law, epidemiology, biostatistics, and chronic disease.
From page 120...
... She also serves as the director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center at the School of Public Health. Her research interests are health laws and ethics, disparities in health outcomes, research integrity, state and federal regulation in health care delivery, and effectiveness of laws aimed at improving public health.
From page 121...
... She has 20 years of experience implementing and directing public health programs, leading health services and health policy research projects, and evaluating the effects of programs. She conducted numerous health services research studies, health policy studies, and public health projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, Health Resources and Services Administration, Administration for Children and Families, U.S.
From page 122...
... She served on the board of MN Community Measurement and the board of NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center, a federally qualified health center and part of Hennepin Health. Her previous experience also includes the vice president and the medical director of Consumer Health at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.
From page 123...
... Her research interests include financing and evaluation of health-related social policy programs; strategic alignment of public and private health policy through collective impact; the role of local health initiatives in access and health improvement; the role of targeted technical assistance in improving the sustainability, efficiency, and programmatic effectiveness of nonprofit health collaboratives; and health and health care financing. In addition to overseeing the center's overall strategic vision, Dr.
From page 124...
... He has also served as the chief executive officer of a county health care authority, consisting of one of the nation's earliest critical access hospitals, the county emergency medical services, a physician clinic, and a home health agency.
From page 125...
... Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis and the chair of the RUPRI Health Panel. He has served as the president of the National Rural Health Association (NRHA)
From page 126...
... Ms. Nurr'araaluk Davidson's prior 20-year health career included state service as the commissioner of the Alaska Department of Health & Social Services, where she implemented Medicaid Expansion, Medicaid Reform, and the Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact.
From page 127...
... Allen Smart, M.P.H., M.A., is a national spokesperson and an advocate for improving rural philanthropic practice under his group PhilanthropywoRx. In addition, he recently completed a role as the project director for a national rural philanthropic project partially supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and based at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina.
From page 128...
... He is a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Rural Resource Hub at the University of North Dakota; the Culture of Health Prize Selection Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; the board of directors for Healthy Communities by Design; and the board of the North Carolina Healthcare Association Foundation.
From page 129...
... Yaemsiri's areas of interest include vital statistics, health disparities, developing key indicators, assessing data quality, statistics, and data visualization.


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