October 22nd 2009 Annual Summit Biographies

Lunch Speaker Bios:

Allyson Y. Schwartz
U.S. Representative Allyson Y. Schwartz is serving in her third term representing Pennsylvania’s 13th congressional district. The 13th district includes both the close-knit neighborhoods of Northeast Philadelphia, as well as the first ring suburbs of Montgomery County.

National and local media have noted Schwartz’s effectiveness as a member of Congress. The Philadelphia Inquirer called Schwartz a leader “with especially impressive accomplishments” who “knows how to forge bipartisan coalitions with folks on the other side of the aisle” and described her appointment to the “influential” Committee on Ways and Means as evidence of her “clout” and “prominence in the local congressional delegation.” National Journal magazine called Schwartz a “rising star,” and correctly predicted that she is “likely to settle into an influential role” on the Hill.

Prior to her service in Congress, Representative Schwartz was a leading healthcare executive in Philadelphia and from 1990 to 2004 served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, where she was considered one of the most accomplished legislators for her ability to forge bipartisanship partnerships.

In just her second congressional term, Schwartz was appointed to the powerful Committee on Ways and Means, which has jurisdiction over tax, trade and revenue raising measures, as well as Medicare and Social Security. Schwartz’s appointment is an indicator of the confidence and respect that the Congressional leadership has in her legislative abilities.

Schwartz also continues to serve on the Budget Committee where she has distinguished herself as an outspoken critic of deficit spending. A strong proponent of fiscal discipline and a balanced federal budget, Schwartz believes the nation must reduce our enormous national debt and redirect our policies to meet the priorities of American families.

Long considered a leading advocate for children, Schwartz spearheaded Pennsylvania’s legislative efforts to provide healthcare coverage to the children of middle-class families. Her leadership led to the creation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 1992, which served as the model for the federal plan that now provides health insurance to millions of children.

In Congress, Schwartz has continued to focus on healthcare, including working for the expansion of federal SCHIP to cover all eligible children. Schwartz is also instrumental in legislative efforts redirecting the nation’s environmental and energy policies towards energy independence and the reduction of global warming. Her energy legislative accomplishments include smart reuse of Brownfield sites, incentives for businesses to build energy efficient buildings and securing tens of millions of dollars to enable communities throughout the 13th district to revitalize commercial business districts and develop new greenways.

She is a member of the centrist New Democratic Coalition and is considered a champion for business development, particularly in areas of biotechnology and technological innovation.

Schwartz’s first Congressional legislative proposal, which passed as part of the business tax reduction bill in 2007, offers tax credits to businesses that hire veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Noted for her diplomatic ability, Schwartz was appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve as a member of the House Democracy Assistance Commission, which has the mission to strengthen democratic institutions by assisting parliaments in emerging democracies. She has traveled to Asia and Eastern Europe to assist foreign parliaments on both legislative processes and institution building. In March 2007 Schwartz traveled to Iraq where she met with soldiers from the 13th district, military leaders and Iraqi civilians.

Schwartz cites the influences of her father, a Korean War veteran, and her mother, a Holocaust survivor, as the source of her commitment to public service. These personal family experiences compel Schwartz to be a strong advocate for veterans and their families and to fight for foreign and domestic policies that build democracy, security, and opportunity for all people.

Schwartz earned a B.A. from Simmons College in Sociology and a Masters of Social Work from Bryn Mawr College. She is married and has two grown sons.

Joseph W. Stubbs
President-elect; American College of Physicians

Joseph W. Stubbs, MD, FACP, an internist practicing in Albany, Ga., will be the 2009-2010 President of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists. He will become President during Internal Medicine 2009, the ACP scientific meeting, held April 23-25 in Philadelphia, Pa. 

Dr. Stubbs served two terms on the ACP Board of Regents, the organization’s main policymaking body. He also served as Chair of the ACP Medical Service Committee. Dr. Stubbs has served on the 2003 ACP Scientific Program Committee, the Member Insurance Subcommittee, the Publication Committee, and the Managed Care Subcommittee. He has also been Chair of ACP Services. He is in his second term on the Board of Trustees of the ACP Foundation and is currently Chair-elect of the ACP Foundation for 2009-2010.

Dr. Stubbs has been active in the ACP Georgia Chapter, joining the Governor’s Council in 1988 and serving on the Public and Professional Communications Committee, the Health and Public Policy Committee, and as Chapter Secretary. He was elected to serve the 1999-2003 term as ACP Governor for Georgia. In 2003, he was named a Laureate of the Georgia Chapter. That year, the Georgia Chapter was recognized by ACP with an Evergreen Award for outstanding chapter activities in the advocacy area.

Dr. Stubbs graduated, summa cum laude, from The College of William and Mary in 1975. He received his medical degree, summa cum laude, from Emory University School of Medicine in 1979. His postdoctoral training included an internship, residency in internal medicine and primary care, and training as chief resident at the University of Washington affiliated hospitals in Seattle. Dr. Stubbs is board-certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP). FACP is an honorary designation that recognizes ongoing individual service and contributions to the practice of medicine.

Dr. Stubbs is a member of the Southwest Georgia Cancer Coalition Prevention Task Force. He has also served on the Medical Association of Georgia Legislative Council and as the ACP Delegate to the Georgia Primary Care Coalition. He is a past President of the Dougherty County Medical Society.
 

Bios Panel 1:

Robert Kocher
Robert Kocher graduated from Rutgers University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Degree in Industrial and Operations Research. He was the first student to manage the new computer center that was just donated by IBM. Running IBM Dos and the brand new 'Windows 3.0', he managed the Hill Center Network for Rutgers University. He performed an internship with Weldotron Corporation in which a time saving facilities layout plan was implemented and utilized on the production floor.

Post college, he worked his way up to vice president of an Electrical Contracting organization in which a profit sharing plan, incentive plan, and anti shrinkage plans were designed and introduced by him. Over a two year period, the workers saw a whopping 50% increase in salary, while the company owners saw increased profit and revenues while experiencing a 40% reduction in loss of material.
It was now the end of 1997, and Robert Kocher decided to form his own company. Thus, was the beginning of Camelot Computers, Inc. For years he specialized in computer hardware and software gaining valuable experience in both building and troubleshooting. As the years past, and the focus of the information technology world changed, so did Robert Kocher. Camelot Computers began to specialize in high end professional websites, and databases.

His skill set grew with design and implementation of complex routers and networks. He also specialized in the design and maintenance of SQL databases and servers. Early works included numerous .ASP front-end databases followed up by later .NET counterparts. Crystal Reports, Microsoft InterDEV and advanced SQL Studio reporting developed into complex online reports in real time.
By 2008, the design and management of numerous large projects were in his portfolio as both a Director and President of two companies. In just a few years, over 30 Million dollars per year in database transactions are flowing through projects designed by Robert Kocher. Database projects include, but are not limited too:

Substance Abuse Initiative, Department of Addiction Services of New Jersey
SARD Development Database, Rutgers University Grant
Electrical Contracting Work Order & Company Database, J.E.M. Electrical Contractors
Driving Under the Influence Initiative (DUII), Department of Health and Human Services
Drug Court Database, Department of Health and Human Services
South Jersey Initiative (SJI), Department of Health and Human Services
American Indian Tribe Database, Tribal Leaders Council of Montana-Wyoming
Families and Schools Together (FAST) Database, City of Philadelphia
Kids N Kin Database, City of Philadelphia

Deborah Trautman
Dr. Trautman has held clinical and administrative leadership positions at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Most recently, she has served as the Vice President of Patient Care Services for Howard County General Hospital, part of the Johns Hopkins Health System; Director of Nursing for Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and has a Joint Appointment at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.

She received a B.S.N. from West Virginia Wesleyan College, an M.S.N. with emphasis on education and administration from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in health policy from the University of Maryland’s Department of Public Policy. Her dissertation research examined emergency department screening for intimate partner violence, and her research interests include women’s health, health care disparities, violence, and clinical service excellence.

She has authored and coauthored publications on intimate partner violence, pain management, clinical competency, change management, cardiopulmonary bypass, the use of music in the emergency department, and consolidating emergency services. As a member of the senior leadership at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, she represents the hospital on the Baltimore City Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team.
Dr. Trautman is a Magnet Appraiser Fellow for the American Nurses Association Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation. She previously served on the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s Public Health Interest Group, the Baltimore City Mayor’s Task Force on Domestic Violence, and the Johns Hopkins University President’s Council on Urban Health Violence Prevention Workgroup. Her health policy interests include emergency patient care, emergency nursing practice, women’s health, health care disparities, access to health care, and improving health care delivery.
She is a 2007 – 2008 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow working for the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, United States House of Representatives.

Stephen Cha
Dr. Cha is a board-certified internist and addresses a range of health care issues as professional staff for the Committee on Energy and Commerce under Chairman Henry A. Waxman.  He earned his medical degree from Brown University and completed his internal medicine residency at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, where he also served as chief resident.  Dr. Cha received a degree in health sciences research as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale University.

Ahaviah Glaser (Havi)
Ahaviah Diane Glaser is a member of the Health and Long Term Care Team at AARP where she serves as the organization’s Medicare lobbyist and as an integral part of the organization’s efforts on health care reform.  Ms. Glaser is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and a nationally award-winning legal writer.  She has served as an Adjunct Professor at Washington College of Law since 2006.  She began her career as a litigation associate, first at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco and then at Hale and Dorr in Boston.  While working at these firms, she did extensive pro bono work in the areas of civil rights and access to health care and was a frequent lecturer at local law schools and schools of public health.  In 2001, she moved into health care access full-time, heading up the Prescription Access Litigation Project of Community Catalyst and the National Health Law Program.  In 2004, Ms. Glaser transitioned to Washington, DC.  She worked at the National Women’s Law Center as Senior Counsel for Health and Reproductive Rights before joining AARP.

Bios Panel 2:

Hank Rappaport (Moderator)
Steven (Hank) Rappaport, M.D., is a Physician Executive/Senior Product Manager with Microsoft’s Health Solutions Group, working in Microsoft’s Medical Media Lab. In this role, he helps develop advanced prototype solutions built upon the Microsoft Amalga Unified Health Intelligence System and Health Vault, meeting needs such as clinical and administrative process support and tracking, communications, documentation and advanced analytics. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2006, Dr. Rappaport served as Enterprise Systems Manager for Clinical Systems with the Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, where he helped bring the VA’s VistA and CPRS to life. Dr. Rappaport received undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT, his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University and his pulmonary and critical care fellowship from UCLA.

Joanne M. Shear
Clinical Program Manager, VHA Primary Care, VA Central Office
Ms. Shear is the national clinical program manager for VA primary care.   She serves as a clinical resource expert for national planning, designing and implementing clinical care and national health policy and is a key leader in transforming national VA primary care into a robust primary care medical home model.  

Kevin Dorrance
CDR Dorrance manages the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) and Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), Internal Medicine Departments, overseeing several diverse specialty clinics to provide quality medical care for active duty and distinguished federal service members, retirees, and their families.  He directs medical treatment programs across the General Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Rheumatology, Infectious Disease, Endocrinology, Allergy, Diabetes Care Center, and Gerontology clinics.  CDR Dorrance has worked as a General Internist for 11 years.
He enlisted in the Navy in 1981 and served onboard the USS Hewitt DD966 and the USS Acadia AD42.  Following his sea service he was selected for a commissioning program at the University of Colorado and medical training at the Uniformed Services University.
Education:
B. A. – University of Colorado, Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology, 1991
M. D. – Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences, 1996
Residency – NNMC Bethesda MD, Internal Medicine, 2002
Assignments:
Assistant Chief of Medicine, National Naval Medical Center (NNMC)
Department Head, NNMC Bethesda MD, Internal Medicine
Chief of Residents, NNMC Bethesda MD, Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Uniformed University of the Health Sciences
Associate Program Director, NNMC Internal Medicine Residency
Director, NNMC Diabetes Care Center
Department Head, NNMC, Internal Medicine Department
Department Head, NNMC, General Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Rheumatology, Infectious Disease, Endocrinology, Allergy/Immunology
Medical Director Healthcare Business
Program Manager, NNMC Medical Home Pilot

Marie Maes-Voreis
Program Manager Health Care Homes, Minnesota Department of Health
Marie brings 31 years of nursing and health care leadership experience to the Health Care Homes project.  She joined the Minnesota Department of Health in November 2008 and is responsible for the program implementation of Health Care Homes legislation for MDH / DHS as a joint government private sector project.  Prior to joining MDH Marie worked as a Director of Primary Care Communication systems at Park Nicollet Health Services and the Director of the Family Medicine clinics at Hennepin County Medical Center..  She was also a Quality Improvement / Planning Specialist with HCMC.  She managed the successful implementation of medical home using a multi-disciplinary team care model in family medicine and has extensive experience with implementation of the EPIC electronic health record.   Marie is passionate about supporting health care services for the underserved and residency and nursing education programs.  Marie has a Masters degree in Health and Human Services Administration from St. Mary’s University and a Bachelors degree in Nursing from the College of St. Benedict.

Bios Panel 3:

Lynda McMillin (Moderator)
Lynda McMillin is the Director of Implementation Services at Wellcentive, LLC., a pioneer and market leader in population based registries. In this role, Ms. McMillin directs national implementation of Wellcentive registries and is national expert on PQRI for hospitals, practices, TPAs, physician organizations, etc. 
Ms. McMillin has over 15 years experience working in health care consulting and administration with both payers and providers.  She has most recently worked with physician leaders to utilize decision support tools in the office setting.  These tools include performance and trend report analysis and interpretation, implementation of HIT tools including registries, e-prescribing and workflow process analysis and support. 
Dedicated to ongoing quality improvement, Ms. McMillin established and led multidisciplinary teams focused on customer education and process improvement.  An experienced facilitator of change, Ms. McMillin worked directly with practice staff, providers, and patients to implement transformative capabilities and processes to achieve Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s Patient-Centered Medical Home certification.
A distinguished community leader, Ms. McMillin has served as past president of the South East Michigan Health Executive Forum (SEMHEF) and was the honored recipient of the Alumni of the Year Award at the College of Health and Human Services at Eastern Michigan University.  Currently, Ms. McMillin is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives, and chairs the board of directors of Youth Dance Theatre in Chelsea, Michigan.

Rebecca A Malouin
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Rebecca is jointly appointed in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.  Since 2006, she has served as an evaluator for several medical home initiatives in Michigan including a state demonstration site for a pediatric medical home for children with special health care needs at Michigan State University and, more recently, a collaborative to improve primary care services for children with behavioral and mental health issues in mid-Michigan.  She also serves as an external evaluator for the Priority Health Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative, the Children’s Healthcare Access Program in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the UnitedHealthcare PCMH pilot project in Arizona. She has written a monograph for the American Academy of Pediatrics, describing available tools to measure the pediatric medical home.  Rebecca was awarded a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in October in September 2009 for a project “Defining and Building a Patient-Centered Medical Home”. Rebecca received both her Ph.D. and M.P.H. at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed postdoctoral training in epidemiology at Michigan State University. 

Chad Boult
Dr. Chad Boult is the Lipitz Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He directs the Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care and holds joint appointments on the faculties of the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing. A geriatrician for more than 20 years, Dr. Boult has extensive experience in developing, testing, evaluating, and diffusing new models of health care for older persons. His current focus is on “Guided Care,” an interdisciplinary model of comprehensive care for older people with several chronic conditions. As an expert on chronic care, Dr. Boult has spoken at meetings and conferences throughout the world. He has published two books and more than 75 articles in scientific journals. He also created the first validated instrument for identifying high-risk older persons (the “Pra”). In 2000, he received the “Excellence in Research Award” from the American Geriatrics Society.  In 2008, he received the “Archstone Foundation Award for Excellence in Program Innovation” (for Guided Care) from the American Public Health Association. During 2009-2010, he is serving as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow in Washington DC. Additional information is available at www.jhsph.edu/LipitzCenter and www.GuidedCare.org.

Bruce Sherman
Bruce Sherman, MD, FCCP, FACOEM, is the consulting Medical Director, Global Services for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. In this role, he is responsible for developing integrated, value-based health and productivity management strategies for the organization's associates and family members worldwide. He is also the Director, Health & Productivity Initiatives with the Employers Health Coalition of Ohio. Dr. Sherman has particular interests in the areas of evidence-based medical care and evaluation of quality and efficiency in healthcare delivery.
Dr. Sherman co-chairs the Center for Benefit Redesign and Implementation of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), facilitating employer adoption of the patient-centered medical home through health benefits strategies. Dr. Sherman is a member of the Boards of Directors for the Integrated Benefits Institute and the Pharmacy Quality Alliance.  A speaker at both local and national levels, he has presented workforce health and productivity management strategies to diverse audiences, and has published numerous related articles.
Dr. Sherman received his MD from New York University School of Medicine, his MA from Harvard University and his bachelor's degree from Brown University. He is board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine. Dr. Sherman continues as a member of the clinical faculty in the Department of Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Bios Panel 4:

Shannah Koss (Moderator)
Shannah Renbaum Koss, MPP; President/CEO of Koss on Care LLC
Ms. Koss is a health policy and informatics expert and strategist who has supported federal and state government health agencies and private healthcare businesses and organizations for over 20 years. She has been the President of Koss on Care LLC since 2001. From 2005 to 2008, she was Vice President of Avalere Health, a leading advisory company on the intersection of health policy and business strategy, where she established and grew a national Health Information Technology (HIT) practice.
Prior executive positions included: Senior Vice President of Government Services for I-trax Inc., developing the company’s health and productivity products and strategy; Vice President Health Solutions for Voxiva, Inc. developing solutions for home health, chronic care, and post-operative care settings through the firms telephone/web-based platform; and HIPAA National Practice and Health Solutions Executive for IBM where she started and led the HIPAA practice before leaving to start her own consulting firm.
Ms. Koss began her policy career at the White House Office of Management and Budget, where for over ten years she served in progressively senior health oversight positions in the Information and Regulatory Affairs Division with concentrated expertise in regulatory reform, CMS, FDA, CDC and HIT. She served on several inter-agency HIT work groups and co-chaired the system workgroup under the Clinton health reform task force.
Ms. Koss has always had a passion for Consumer issues and advocacy since her first job after college at Washington Consumers’ Checkbook, a magazine that reviews and rates local area services, including healthcare. Subsequently, through her various policy and business positions she has co-chaired a federal interagency workgroup on health information for consumers, developed consumer facing Health IT solutions, helped design health and productivity consumer services and facilitated consumer workgroups and discussion sessions.
Ms. Koss has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago.

Stephanie M. Hammonds
Dr. Hammonds earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2004 from Purdue University, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Upon graduation, she joined The Johns Hopkins Hospital as a Point of Care Pharmacist, focused largely in pediatric oncology. While at Hopkins she co-founded the Pediatric Pharmacy Safety Committee and served on the USP-797 compliance committee. In 2006 she moved to New York, where she worked at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center, primarily in the surgery pharmacy. While in New York, she served as the Interim Chair of the Legislative Action Committee for the New York City Society of the New York State Council of Health System Pharmacists. In September of 2007, she relocated to her hometown, York, Pennsylvania, where she has practiced as a community pharmacist for Target.

Mona M. Counts
Mona M. Counts, PhD, CRNP, FNAP, FAANP
Dr. Counts is the past President of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the Clinical Director of the Primary Care Center of Mt. Morris and the Eloise Ross Eberly Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, Associate Professor in the School of Medicine. She has held teaching positions at numerous universities across the nation. She developed the Primary Care Center of Mt. Morris, one of the first all Nurse Practitioner practices in the United States and serves over 6000 rural Appalachians.
She received her BS from the University of Florida, her MS from Emory University and her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Counts has had a very large number of articles published and presentations made in her field. The Primary She is also involved in ongoing research support for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Center of Excellence for Remotely Under-served Areas (CERMUSA) and the Economic Development Funds. She has completed research support projects for the PA House of Representatives, United States Public Health Service (USPHS) and many other research projects. Dr. Counts has also received a very large number of honors and awards and is involved in many public service projects.   She has been an item writer and reviewer for the AANP Family Nurse Practitioner Certification exams.

Bios Panel 5:

Jeffrey Borkan (Moderator)
Jeffrey M. Borkan, MD, PhD is a family physician educator, researcher, clinician, and advocate whose career has bridged two fields (family medicine and medical anthropology), both in the US and abroad.  He joined the Department of Family Medicine at Brown University as Professor and Chair in 2001. He is currently the President of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine, a national organization linking all FM departments across the country and engaged in the transformation of the primary care.

Dr. Borkan received his BA from the University of Michigan and his MD and PhD at Case Western Reserve University.  He completed his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Washington and was a fellow in Social Medicine at Harvard.  Prior to arriving at Brown, he was on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Ben-Gurion, and Tel Aviv, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Washington, Penn State, and Harvard Medical School.  For six years, he was the Coordinator of a national practice-based research network (PBRN) and served as the Director of Research in a Family Medicine department for a decade. He came to Brown after having been the Vice Chair of Behavioral Science at Tel Aviv University, helping coordinate a humanistic curriculum reform, and co-leading a national health policy program to adapt universal healthcare coverage to the needs of minority populations.

At Brown, Dr. Borkan has spearheaded the growth and development of the Department of Family Medicine, the sole family medicine department in the State (and the site of training for 2/3 of the family physicians).  He has been active in Rhode Island and national healthcare policy, including chairing the Rhode Island Primary Care Physician Advisory Board for three years and a serving as a board member of the national academic family medicine advocacy association (AFMAA). Dr. Borkan has taken several leadership roles in medical education innovation and currently chairs the Brown MD Curriculum Committee during a period of curriculum redesign.  His association with the principles of the patient-centered medical home predate the emergence of the PCPCC and stem from practice innovations and experiences in a variety of urban and rural settings as a family physician and administrator over the past twenty-five years.  He is currently on the Advisory Board of the PCPCC.

Fitzhugh Mullan
Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D. is the Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and a Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine.  He has been on faculty at George Washington since 1997 where his research and policy work has focused on US and international health workforce issues with particular emphasis on capacity building in Africa.
Dr. Mullan graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1964 with a degree in history and from the University of Chicago Medical School in 1968.  He trained in pediatrics and was commissioned in the United States Public Health Service where he worked in New Mexico as one of the first members of the National Health Service Corps.  From 1977 through 1981 he served as Director of the National Health Service Corps in Washington, D.C., followed by tours as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Medicine, as a senior medical officer at the National Institutes of Health and, in 1984-1985, as the Secretary of the Health and Environment Department for the state of New Mexico.  During 1986-88 he was on faculty in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health followed by a two years on the staff of the Surgeon General, directing the Office of Public Health History.  He was appointed Director of the Bureau of Health Professions in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in 1990 and to the rank of Assistant Surgeon General (Rear Admiral) in 1991.  In subsequent years, he served on both the President’s Task Force on Health Care Reform and the Council on Graduate Medical Education.  In 1996, he retired from the Public Health Service, joined the faculty at George Washington University and the staff of the journal Health Affairs where he serves as a Contributing Editor and the founding editor of the Narrative Matters section. 
Dr. Mullan has written widely for both professional and general audiences on medical and health policy topics.  His books include White Coat Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American Physician (Macmillan, 1977), Vital Signs: A Young Doctor's Struggle with Cancer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983), Plagues and Politics: The Story of the United States Public Health Service (Basic Books, 1989), Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care (University of California Press/Milbank Fund, 2002).  He is the senior editor of Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to Human Resource Crisis in the HIV/AIDS (National Academy Press, 2005) and Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy (Johns Hopkins Press, 2006.)
Dr. Mullan is the Founding President of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship.  He is the recipient of the American Cancer Society's 1988 Courage award, the Society for Surgical Oncology's 1989 James Ewing medal, as well as the Surgeon General's Medallion, and the United States Public Health Service's Distinguished Service Medal.  He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lloyd Michener
J. Lloyd Michener, MD, is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Community and Family Medicine, Director of the Duke Center for Community Research, and Clinical Professor in the Duke School of Nursing.  Dr. Michener is also President of the Association for Prevention Teaching & Research, past Chair of the Council of Academic Societies, a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Board of the Association of Departments of Family Medicine, and the National Patient Safety Board of Governors.  In addition, Dr. Michener serves as co-chair of the NIH’s Community Engagement Steering Committee for the CTSA awards; a member of the CDC Foundation Working Group on Public Health and Medical Education; the National Institutes of Health Fogarty/Ellison Fellowship Program Selection Committee; and director of the Duke/CDC program in primary care and public health of the American Austrian Foundation - Open Medical Institute.
He has a long standing interest in community health, prevention, informatics, and training of faculty.  As Chair of the Department, he leads the family medicine, preventive/occupational medicine, community health, informatics, and physician assistant and physical therapy programs.  In addition, with the award of the NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Award to Duke in 2006, he directs a new Center in Community Research that spans the Health System.  He also oversees the Masters Program in Clinical Leadership, a joint program of the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Business, Law, and the Institute of Public Policy. Finally, within North Carolina, Dr. Michener has managed the state-wide networks of chronic disease prevention programs of the Kate B Reynolds Charitable Trust and the NC Health and Wellness Trust Fund.