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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of the Speakers
Pages 141-154

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From page 141...
... He is the coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the World Health Organization's Mental Health Survey, and coordinates the work of the National Mental Health Institute surveys in Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, Peru, Costa Rica, and Portugal. He also develops culturally and linguistically sensitive diagnostic mental health measures, and translates mental health research into practical information for consumers and their families, health professionals, service administrators, and policy makers.
From page 142...
... He was selected as member of the White House Summit to Achieve eHealth Equity and selected as co-chair of the Awareness Committee for Region V of the HHS National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities. He is an Inaugural member of the National eHealth Collaborative Consumer Committee and is a member of the Ohio Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.
From page 143...
... Krisda Chaiyachati, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.H.P., is the physician lead for valuebased care and innovation for Verily Health Platforms at Verily, an Alphabet company and formerly Google Life Sciences, a division of Google X He is a physician executive with extensive background in health care innovation, health services research, epidemiology, and health policy with a lens toward the role of health care technology in transforming care delivery to make it more efficient, equitable, and accessible.
From page 144...
... Her academic career as a teacher and researcher has been focused on advancing equity, patient and stakeholder engaged research infrastructure, and measurement of the impact the primary care system has on health and health equity. As co-director of the Southeast Regional Clinicians Network, a practice-based research network made up of Federally Qualified Health Centers across eight southeastern states, she conducts practice-based research in the primary care safety net grounded in a robust patient and stakeholder engagement infrastructure.
From page 145...
... She also has expertise in designing and overseeing coaching protocols and clinical workflows for digital interventions. Reshma Gupta, M.D., M.S.H.P.M., is a practicing internist, the chief of population health and accountable care at University of California Davis Health in Sacramento, CA, and part of the Population Health Leadership Team for
From page 146...
... She completed her residency and chief residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington Seattle and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship and Masters in Health Policy and Management at UCLA. She is a distinguished leader of the California Health Care Foundation and Presidential Leadership Scholars programs.
From page 147...
... from Stetson University College of Law. Shreya Kangovi, M.D., M.S., founding executive director of the Penn Center for Community Health Workers, and an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, is a leading expert on improving population health through evidence-based community health worker (CHW)
From page 148...
... She has led the implementation and community engagement for multiple clinical trials funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and NIH.
From page 149...
... Dr. Politi's research includes a focus on reducing health disparities by engaging communities with unmet health needs and including them in both research and dissemination efforts.
From page 150...
... His work examines questions such as how research evidence can be most effectively communicated to policy makers and is used in policy-making processes, how social and political contexts affect policy making and policy implementation, and how the implementation of policies "on the books" can be improved in practice. He is also interested in population-based approaches to mental health and how mental health can be integrated into mainstream public health practice.
From page 151...
... He is board-certified in both family practice and in preventive medicine. He completed a family medicine residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and then began his career serving 6 years as medical director for the West Orange Farmworkers Health Association in Central Florida, where he developed innovative community programs such as the diabetic promotora project.
From page 152...
... She is a co-founder of Civic Health Alliance (a nonpartisan coalition of health professionals and students, committed to helping peers and patients register to vote and vote safely) , and CentiVox Media Group, a social impact firm that transforms public health communications by elevating health care providers, scientists, and health and equity experts as trusted messengers.
From page 153...
... Her current work includes examinations of Medicaid policy, Medicare and other health reform policy for older adults, and integration of social determinants of health into clinical practice. She has evaluated the Affordable Care Act, Michigan's Medicaid expansion, and other state and federal policies, and is a recipient of a K08 career development award from the National Institute on Aging for her work examining the impact of coverage expansions on near retirement adults.


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