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Workshop Planning Committee and Speaker Bios
PLANNING COMMITTEE
Kimberly D. Lomis, M.D. (Cochair), is vice president for Medical Education Innovations at the American Medical Association (AMA). She guides the AMA ChangeMedEd Initiative, partnering with medical schools and graduate medical education (GME) programs to impact over 30,000 U.S. medical trainees. Themes of collaborative work and advocacy efforts among the institutions of the consortium include competency-based medical education, training in health systems science (HSS) across the continuum, value-added roles for learners, development of master adaptive learners, coaching for health professionals, diversity of the physician workforce and inclusive environments, learner and faculty well-being, educational technology, and change management. Dr. Lomis was professor of surgery and associate dean for undergraduate medical education at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, oversaw a major revision of the curriculum, and guided the implementation of a competency-based assessment program. She also served the Association of American Medical Colleges as the associate project director for the national pilot of the Core EPAs for Entering Residency and in its Group on Educational Affairs as chair of the Section on Undergraduate Medical Education and member of the GEA steering committee. Dr. Lomis received her B.S. from the University of Texas–Austin in 1988 and her M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1992. She trained in general surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1992–1997, and practiced until 2012. She holds a graduate certificate in the Business of Medicine from Johns Hopkins and is a Harvard Macy Institute Scholar.
Travis T. Threats, Ph.D. (Cochair), is a professor and chair of the Department of Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences at Saint Louis University. He has degrees in speech language pathology: a B.S. from Kansas State University in 1982, M.A. from University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign in 1984, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1990. His primary scholarly work has been with the World Health Organization (WHO) ICF. He has been the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) representative liaison to WHO since 1999 and was the primary contributor to the communication, hearing, and swallowing sections of the ICF. He was also a consultant for WHO’s latest update of the International Classification of Diseases, the ICD-11. Dr. Threats has published and presented internationally on his three other scholarly interests: spirituality/religiosity in rehabilitation, evidence-based practice, and rehabilitation ethics. In 2022, he earned the Honors of the Association by ASHA, which is its highest award and described on its website as recognition for scholars “whose contributions have been of such excellence that they have enhanced or altered the course of the professions.”
Reamer Bushardt, Pharm.D., PA-C, DFAAPA, serves as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions (MGH IHP), the only degree-granting member of the Boston-based Mass General Brigham. As provost, he is the chief academic officer with responsibility for all academic programs, research programs, faculty, and students. Dr. Bushardt is a seasoned educator, researcher, clinician, and administrator with experience in rural, community-based practice and faculty service within four academic health centers. He is licensed as a physician assistant (PA) and pharmacist, specializing in the care of older adults and management of inappropriate polypharmacy and drug injury. As a PA, he has spent more than 20 years in primary care practice. In research, he has chiefly led training grants and workforce development programs to increase workforce diversity and advance career opportunities for health professionals in medically underserved communities and health professional shortage areas. Recently, he led an Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)-funded health careers opportunity program, a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)-funded expansion of practitioner training in substance-use disorders program, and a T32 postdoctoral national research service award to prepare primary care researchers. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and abstracts. Dr. Bushardt was professor and senior associate dean in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at George Washington University in Washington, DC and co-led the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Clinical Translational Science Institute at Children’s National. Earlier, he served as department chair at Wake
Forest School of Medicine and associate vice president for workforce and process innovation in the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Before that, he was associate professor and division chief for PA studies at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Dr. Bushardt attended the University of South Carolina and earned a B.S. in pharmaceutical sciences in 1998 and a Pharm.D. in 1999. He attended the Medical University of South Carolina, where he trained and practiced as a PA. Bushardt is editor in chief emeritus for the Journal of the American Academy of Physician Associates.
Kathy Chappell, Ph.D., R.N., FNAP, FAAN, is the senior vice president of certification, measurement, accreditation, and research at the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She is responsible for certification of individual registered nurses and advanced practice registered nurses, development of certification examinations, accreditation of organizations that provide continuing nursing education and interprofessional continuing education, and accreditation of residency and fellowship programs for nurses. She also directs the Institute for Credentialing Research, analyzing outcomes related to credentialing. She holds a B.S. in nursing with distinction from the University of Virginia, an M.A. in advanced clinical nursing, and a Ph.D. in nursing from George Mason University. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and distinguished scholar and fellow in the National Academies of Practice.
David Farmer, Ph.D., LPC, LMFT, FNAP, is the executive director of Interprofessional Practice and Behavioral Health, providing leadership in integrating the two in HSC Health’s primary care clinics as part of its Whole Health initiative. Dr. Farmer served as the founding director of interprofessional education and practice at the University of North Texas Health Service Center (UNTHSC) from 2012 to 2021. A faculty member in the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM) Department of Medical Education and HSS, Dr. Farmer teaches skills development in clinical communication and emotional intelligence with first- and second-year medical students. He is also a faculty advisor at TCOM working with first- through fourth-year medical students. Dr. Farmer is an executive committee member in the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) and the UNTHSC principal investigator (PI) overseeing TCMHCC projects. He is a founding institutional member, IPE Fellow, and on the board of directors of the Texas IPE Consortium. Dr. Farmer is a distinguished scholar fellow and chair-elect of the Psychology Academy within the National Academies of Practice. His behavioral health clinical practice is in HSC Health’s Central Family Medicine Clinic. He began at UNTHSC in 2009 as the director of the Reynolds Geriatrics Education and Training in Texas Program, working
to integrate geriatrics training in medical school, residency, and continuing medical education curriculum. He came to UNTHSC with 23 years’ experience in the clinical practice of counseling psychology. He has a Ph.D. in counseling psychology (1994) and an M.A. in marriage and family counseling (1985) from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
Christopher Feddock, M.D., MS, FAAP, FACP, serves as the associate vice president for competency-based assessment at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). He is leading collaborative efforts to develop and deliver assessments and services that promote and measure important health care professional skills and behaviors. Dr. Feddock joined NBME in April 2020 as the executive director of the clinical skills evaluation collaboration and was responsible for the administration and strategic development of the U.S. Medical Licensure Examination (USMLE) Step 2 Clinical Skills exam. Before NBME, he was the senior associate dean for medical student education at the University of Kentucky, overseeing admissions, student affairs, educational faculty development, curriculum and assessment across four campuses. Dr. Feddock is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine–pediatrics residency and internal medicine chief residency at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Feddock is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Pediatrics.
Eric Holmboe, M.D., is chief research, milestones development, and evaluation officer at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. He is an adjunct professor of medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and of medical education at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. At Yale, Dr. Holmboe served as the associate program director of the Primary Care Internal Medicine residency program, director of student clinical assessment at the School of Medicine, and assistant director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program (which he had attended). Before joining Yale in 2000, he was division chief of general internal medicine at the National Naval Medical Center. Dr. Holmboe retired from the U.S. Naval Reserves in 2005. He was the chief medical officer at the American Board of Internal Medicine, 2009–2014. His research interests include interventions to improve quality of care and methods in the assessment of clinical competence. His professional memberships include the American College of Physicians, where he is a Master of the College, Society of General Internal Medicine, and Association of Medical Education in Europe. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and
Academy of Medical Educators. Dr. Holmboe is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He completed his residency and chief residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Matthew McHugh, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H., RN, FA, is professor and independence chair for nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at Penn. Dr. McHugh is the director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, where he conducts highly visible studies that draw on his expertise in nursing, law, public health, and health services research to evaluate how nursing can be a force for quality, equity, and innovation in health services. His program of research aims to bring evidence to bear upon the health system, law, and policy reforms needed to facilitate effective nursing practice and achieve the best patient outcomes, health equity, clinician well-being, and important national and international health policy goals. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, faculty director of the coordinated dual-degree program in nursing and healthcare management at Penn Nursing and Wharton School, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar. Dr. McHugh received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health, J.D. from the Northeastern University School of Law, and A.S.N./B.S.N. from Gwynedd-Mercy University. Dr. McHugh was a Fulbright Scholar with the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Denmark, graduate fellow at the Institute on Urban Health Research at Northeastern University, and postdoctoral fellow in health outcomes and policy research at the University of Pennsylvania.
Andrea Pfeifle, Ed.D., PT, FNAP, is associate vice president for interprofessional practice and education (IPE) for Ohio State’s seven health sciences colleges and the Wexner Medical Center since July 2020. Dr. Pfeifle came from the Indiana University IPE Center, where she was its executive director for 6 years. She has an impressive and extensive career in education, working to advance interprofessional education and teaching collaborative practice models across medical and health science education programs for more than 25 years. In addition to directing the IPE Center, Dr. Pfeifle was associate dean of interprofessional health education and practice and associate professor of family medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine and adjunct associate professor of physical therapy at Indiana University–Purdue University School of Health and Human Sciences. Dr. Pfeifle worked at the University of Kentucky from 1998 to 2014 in various roles, including instructor in the colleges of Health Professions and of Medicine, director of education in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, chair
of the Interprofessional Education Working Group, and inaugural director of the Center for Interprofessional Education, Research, and Practice. Dr. Pfeifle earned a Ph.D. in instruction and administration, an M.S. in instructional systems design, and a B.A. in physical therapy from the University of Kentucky.
Raj Ratwani, Ph.D., is the vice president of scientific affairs for the MedStar Health Research Institute, the director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, and an associate professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He has extensive expertise in patient safety, human factors, usability, digital health technologies, and data science. His research has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institutes of Health, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and industry partners. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles appearing in high-impact journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and Health Affairs and has influenced both policy and frontline clinical practice. His research has been featured by Politico, Fortune, Kaiser Health News, National Public Radio, and many other media outlets. He has served on federal advisory committees and testified to the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. He holds a doctorate in human factors and applied cognition from George Mason University (2008) and was a National Research Council post-doctoral fellow at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
Halaevalu Vakalahi, Ph.D., M.S.W., Med, is president and chief executive officer of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Dr. Vakalahi was professor and dean of the College of Health and Society at Hawai‘i Pacific University (HPU). She has contributed to the literature on Pacific communities and women of color in academia. In essence, her deepest commitment is to the advancement of women in academia. Her education and experiences with a B.S. in Business Management (Brigham Young University–Hawai‘i), MSW (University of Hawai‘i–Manoa), and M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Social Work (University of Utah) have informed her leadership, scholarship, teaching, and service to forward social and economic justice in some small way. Speaking to her passion for and commitment to mentorship, Dr. Vakalahi is the principal investigator on an NIH grant to create the HUI Student Research Center to support undergraduate research, preparation for graduate school, and entrance into a career in the biomedical and health sciences. Additionally, she cofounded Urban Social Work, a new peer-reviewed journal, a partnership between Morgan State University, Lehman College, HPU, New York Community Trust, and Springer Publishing. Dr. Vakalahi was honored to receive the CSWE Women’s Council Feminist Scholar Award and Morgan State University Iva G Jones Award, which she hopes is an
acknowledgment of her deep commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity on women’s issues that ultimately impact family and community well-being.
SPEAKERS
Nicholaus Christian, M.D., M.B.A., is an internal medicine clinician-educator and current postdoctoral research fellow through the Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development program and provider for veterans experiencing homelessness at the Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team clinic. He completed a fellowship in the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine after internal medicine residency training at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas–Austin, where he helped start the B Team, a national model for expanding access to buprenorphine for hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder. Throughout residency, he lived as a “missional” resident at Community First! Village, a master-planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for people transitioning out of chronic homelessness, where he has helped spearhead a community-based participatory research project to elevate the voice of his neighbors who used substances or were in recovery. His clinical and research interests include improving care for people who use substances who are on the continuum from experiencing homelessness to being stably housed. Dr. Christian serves as a staff clinician with the Office of the Clinical Director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program.
Kimberly Erler, OT, Ph.D., is associate professor of occupational therapy and director of the Tedy’s Team Center of Excellence in Stroke Recovery at the MGH Institute, a graduate school founded by the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Erler practices as an advanced clinician occupational therapist at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is also affiliate faculty at the Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, and was a clinical ethicist with expertise in rehabilitation ethics. Dr. Erler’s teaching, scholarship, and service have been recognized by several awards and honors by local and national organizations. She has extensive experience in interprofessional clinical education and a record of high-impact research with interprofessional teams in neurorehabilitation and ethics. Dr. Erler leverages her clinical and research training to foster innovative learning experiences that prepare students to be leaders in patient-centered, team-based care.
Jed Gonzalo, M.D., M.Sc., is the senior associate dean for medical education and oversees implementing and integrating all 4 years of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine curriculum. His major responsibilities include coordinating vertical and horizontal integration of the curriculum,
overseeing the student assessment and program evaluation processes, and implementing curriculum modifications enacted by the Medical Curriculum Committee and the dean. He is a member of the Dean’s Leadership Team. Dr. Gonzalo received his M.D. from the Penn State College of Medicine in 2006 and completed his internal medicine and chief residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he was instructor at the Harvard Medical School. While in medical school, he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and chosen as the “classmate you would most want as your physician.” In residency, he received the Lowell McGee Award, given to the resident who most demonstrates the “fundamental importance of teaching and to the spirit and substance of being a physician.” He completed a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in general internal medicine/medical education while earning an M.S. in medical education and clinical research. In 2012, he joined the Penn State College of Medicine as an assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Gonzalo has served in multiple and progressive leadership roles supporting medical education at Penn State. His contributions span strategic planning, curriculum development, direct teaching, clinical site development, accreditation preparation, and dissemination. He has led strategic initiatives to re-envision the Interprofessional Education Office, create an assessment plan across curricular phases, facilitate the creation of the College of Medicine education strategic plan, and develop a plan for M.A. programs. He contributed to developing the University Park Regional Campus curriculum and the internal medicine residency program’s 3+3 accelerated coaching program. As associate dean for health systems education, he led the design, implementation, and assessment of the medical school’s fourth pillar of education—HSS, which complements the basic and clinical sciences and health humanities. This work included developing and implementing more than 20 curricular innovations spanning the continuum of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education, including courses in social determinants and population health, high-value care, health system improvement, clinical skills, and systems thinking. One—the Patient Navigation Program—was the first in the United States to link medical students with patients to achieve better health outcomes for more than 6,000 patients in Pennsylvania. Another was a year-long professional development program aimed at advancing the team-based, systems skills for interprofessional learners, including faculty, nurses, therapists, pharmacists, residents, and students. The program served as a prototype for the AMA’s National HSS Academy, which has graduated more than 100 leading U.S. educators over the past 6 years.
Abbas Hyderi, M.D., M.P.H., is the founding senior associate dean for medical education and professor of clinical science at Kaiser Permanente
Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine (KPSOM), having come from the University of Illinois–Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine in 2018, where he was associate professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Medical Education and associate dean for undergraduate medical education with oversight of all 4 years of the curriculum. He led the University of Illinois College of Medicine team when it participated in the 5-year Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Core Entrustable Professional Activities (Core EPA) Pilot, for which he was also the national cochair of the Entrustment Concept Team and the national chair of the EPA 13 (related to patient safety and quality) Team. Dr. Hyderi is on the AMA-NBME Advisory Committee for HSS, NBME HSS Shelf Exam Test Development Committee, and AAMC Medical Education Senior Leaders Steering Committee and Anti-Racism Task Force. Dr. Hyderi has practiced both inpatient and outpatient family medicine, with an emphasis on HIV and transgender health, and provides outpatient care to individuals at risk for and living with HIV at Kaiser Permanente’s Los Angeles Medical Center. Dr. Hyderi has been recognized at both medical school and residency program levels with several local, regional, and national awards. He has produced over 150 peer-reviewed presentations and publications related to medical education, HIV, and transgender care and was the KPSOM PI and national cochair of the 2-year AMA ChangeMedEd Initiative for assessment of HSS in clinical environments. Dr. Hyderi graduated with honors from Harvard University and from the UIC College of Medicine. He completed his residency in combined family medicine and preventive medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, where he obtained his M.P.H. in health administration and policy and cowrote and advocated for passing Oregon House Bill 2706, which changed prenatal HIV testing to an opt-out approach.
Teneisha Kennard, LMSW, is the executive director of behavioral health–ambulatory services at JPS Health Network. With over a decade of experience in mental and behavioral health, she finds this role to be a continuation of her life’s passion for service. She is responsible for operating and developing a full continuum of accessible outpatient behavioral health services. She completed her undergraduate degree at Texas Christian University and graduate studies at the University of Texas–Arlington. She is a licensed social worker with a wealth of knowledge as a practitioner, educator, and administrator. Her service orientation has led her to work with some of the most vulnerable populations, including people experiencing homelessness, justice-system-involved individuals, and those facing socioeconomic challenges. Her path has resulted in progressive leadership positions and provided her the opportunity to build innovative programming, secure funding through grant writing, train and educate future clinicians, and participate in informative research resulting in publication.
Teri Kennedy, M.S.W., ACSW, FGSA, FNAP, is associate dean, interprofessional practice, education, policy, and research and Ida Johnson Feaster Professor of IPE in the University of Kansas (KU) School of Nursing; professor in the Department of Population Health, KU School of Medicine; professor affiliate in the KU School of Social Welfare; co-facilitator in the Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative; and associate member of the Landon Center on Aging, with the KU Medical Center. She was B.S.W. program coordinator and director in the Office of Gerontological and Interprofessional Initiatives, Arizona State University (ASU) School of Social Work, and as faculty lead of Clinical Partnerships, Center for Advancing Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research, ASU Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation. She has 17 years’ experience serving older adults across home-and-community-based, home health, inpatient medical and geropsychiatric, and skilled nursing faculty settings. Dr. Kennedy chaired and served two terms on the Advisory Committee for Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages, HRSA and participated as a Health and Aging Policy Fellows (HAPF)/American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow with Senator Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) DC Office assigned to the Senate Special Committee on Aging. She is a fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) and Social Work Academy and Social Research, Policy, and Practice, Gerontological Society of America; member of the Council on Leadership Development, CSWE, NAP Public Policy Steering Committee, Arizona Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging, and HAPF Alumni Network; cochair of the Mentoring Program, American Interprofessional Health Collaborative/National Center for IPE; chair of the NAP Telehealth Research Subcommittee; and cofounder of the Next Chapter. She was honored with the Mit Joyner Gerontology Leadership Award from the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors (BPD) and Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (2011) and Outstanding Social Work Program Director Award (BPD) (2010). Dr. Kennedy’s work concentrates on sustainability, interprofessional leadership, team science, health humanities and arts, and health and aging policy with a focus on age-friendly initiatives. She developed the Kennedy Model of Sustainability, adopted by the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, and a model of strengths-based IPE, and codeveloped the Micro, Meso, Macro: Aligning Your Nexus Through a Systems Lens tool to support interprofessional academic–community partnerships with National Center leadership.
Luan Lawson, M.D., is the senior associate dean of medical education and student affairs and a professor of emergency medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine. Her academic interests have focused on undergraduate education, with expertise in
curriculum development, assessment, and team training. As the PI of the AMA Accelerating Change in Education (ACE) grant, she oversaw the design and implementation of the Teachers of Quality Academy faculty-development program, a Health System Transformation and Leadership Distinction Track for medical students, and a longitudinal curriculum in HSS. Her work with the AMA-ACE Consortium has focused on defining and codifying the principles of HSS and developing curricula needed to teach these competencies to health care professionals. She is faculty for the AMA’s Health System Science Scholars program. Before VCU, Dr. Lawson was the associate dean of curricular innovation in medical education at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, where she developed a Transition to Practice HSS and Team STEPPS training for medical and nursing students. Dr. Lawson is the chair of National Board of Medical Examiners Emergency Medicine Advanced Clinical Exam Task Force and was president of the Clerkship Directors of Emergency Medicine. Additionally, she has overseen expanding and implementing Distinction Tracks to allow structured paracurricular experiences for medical students pursuing longitudinal, focused study in an academic area of interest.
Peter Maramaldi, Ph.D., M.Phil., LCSW, M.P.H., is the Social Work Alumni Fund Endowed Professor at the Simmons University School of Social Work with faculty appointments at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences. His expertise in gerontology, health promotion, interprofessional teaming, and integrated health care delivery combined with more than 30 years of clinical practice, community organizing, and research experience with diverse populations in urban and rural settings contribute to his leadership in behavioral health. Since 2002, Dr. Maramaldi has received consistent federal and foundation funding with national teams addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) with patients, caregivers, and health care providers. His interprofessional collaboration on research teams include promoting cancer screening, addressing health disparities, testing intervention models using randomized clinical trials, developing and scaling quality improvement approaches using behavioral interventions, developing cultures of quality to eliminate errors in outpatient dental treatment and surgery, and developing optimal teaming models in primary care treatment of community-dwelling older adults. Dr. Maramaldi has been honored for mentoring faculty scholars in gerontology and predoctoral trainees and advancing the careers of women. He has served as a commissioner to the CSWE in various capacities since 2010 and is an SDOH subject-matter expert developing learning collaboratives and webinars for health center staff through Harvard’s National Center for Equitable Care for Elders. Dr. Maramaldi is
a first-generation college graduate with advanced degrees from Columbia University in New York City and advanced training in education management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and mediation from the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA.
Kristen Miller, Dr.P.H., M.S.P.H., MSL, CPPS, is the senior scientific director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, associate professor of emergency medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and affiliate faculty at Georgetown Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics. She is a clinically oriented human factors researcher focusing on diagnostic safety, medical decision making, informatics, and the assessment of medical interventions with an emphasis on health care delivery. Her work includes meaningful and active collaboration with patient partners, families, caregivers, and frontline teams. Her portfolio includes federally funded work from the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, and Pew Charitable Trust. Her experience spans three public health degrees, a postdoctorate with the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety, an M.S. in law with a focus on health care, and experience with multiple health care systems, including the Veterans Health Administration, Johns Hopkins, and Christiana Care Health System. Dr. Miller serves as faculty for multiple programs that further the career of early career research scientists and female professionals in research and public health. Her research interests also include evaluating the ethical, legal, and policy implications of health information technology and digital health tools.
Rachel Pittmann, M.S.-H.P.Ed., MS-CCC-SLP, is an assistant dean of interprofessional practice in the Center for Interprofessional Education and Practice and assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders at the MGH IHP. Ms. Pittmann has worked as a speech language pathologist for 15 years, primarily in the outpatient setting, in evaluating and treating acquired and degenerative neurological communication disorders. Her areas of clinical interest have been in treating adults with cognitive-communication disorders as a result of brain injury and stroke. She also focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning, in both interprofessional education and telehealth. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in health professions education with a dissertation focused on the professionalism skills critical for successfully delivering health care in a telehealth platform. She is a graduate of Syracuse University, Boston University, and IHP.
Catherine Quatman-Yates, D.P.T., Ph.D., is a physical therapist and health services researcher with a great interest in and passion for improvement and implementation methods for research and clinical impact. She is an associate professor with tenure in the College of Medicine’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at The Ohio State University. She is diversely trained in a variety of methodologies, including systems thinking and modeling, implementation and improvement science, and quantitative and qualitative research approaches. With more than 13 years of experience as a clinician, researcher, and educator in health care settings, Dr. Quatman-Yates exemplifies both the challenges and opportunities of HSS and HSS education. She is the codirector of the Leading Improvement-Focused Teams for Advancing Health System Outcomes Lab, a tapestry of research, clinical, and educational experiences that help build, implement, and leverage continuous learning health system approaches to improving patient outcomes, train the next generation of health system leaders, and drive innovative health care delivery. Her work has been funded by a variety of sources, including the National Institutes of Health, Ohio Department of Medicaid, Ohio Bureau of Worker’s Compensation, and philanthropic donations. The focus of her work is team science and community participatory action research, but a primary area of emphasis for her scholarship has been closing clinical implementation and care coordination/process gaps related to supporting safe and optimal mobility and quality of life for all people. Her work has been recognized as impactful on a national level through such mechanisms as the American Physical Therapy Association’s Emerging Leader Award and multiple best paper and presentation awards at national conferences.
Natasha Sood, M.D., M.P.H., Med, is a resident at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology. She received her B.S. from the University of Michigan and her M.P.H. from Columbia University in Environmental Health Science with a specialization in Climate Change and Health. While at Penn State College of Medicine, Dr. Sood cofounded a national organization, Medical Students for a Sustainable Future, and was awarded the 2020 Emerging Physician Leader Award from Health Care Without Harm. In 2021, she founded the Climate Resources for Health Education initiative at the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education. She is passionate about mobilizing communities for change, applied climate and health education, and research on the intersection of HSS, climate, and sustainability.
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