Advisory Committees

Policy Advisory Committee

Carol Buckheit

Principal Consultant

Just Giving Communications

Heather Crockett-Miller, DDS

Director of Dental Services

Equitas Health

Jean Larson, MBA

Education and Community Outreach Manager (Retired)

Yale University Human Research
Protection Program

Katie Martin, PhD

Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer

Foodshare

Patrick McKenna, AIA

Architect and Project Manager

Community Solution’s Northeast Hartford Partnership

Caprice Taylor Mendez, EdM

Strategic Program Manager
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

Russell J. Munson, MD

Senior Medical Director
CarePartners of Connecticut

Bryce Raymond, QPA, ERPA

Principal
PASI, LLC.

Michelle Spoto

Student
University of Connecticut Schools of Dentistry and Medicine

Lawrence S. Young, MPH

Chief of Staff

Charter Oak Health Center

Another Look: Better Health for Elders in Care Facilities Review Committee

Lisa Barry, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, Psychiatry
University of Connecticut Center on Aging

Eilon Caspi, PhD

Gerontologist & Dementia Behavior Specialist
Assistant Research Professor, UCONN

Emil Coman, PhD

Research Associate
University of Connecticut

Leslie Curry, PhD, MPH

Senior Research Scientist in Public Health (Health Policy)

Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program

Yale School of Public Health

David M. Dosa, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Services, Policy and Practice

Brown University

Jennifer Gaudet Hefele, PhD

Fellow appointment, UMass Boston Gerontology Institute

Keith Goldfeld, PhD

Associate Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Roee Gutman, PhD

Associate Professor, Brown University

David V. Hunter

President & CEO of Mary Wade

Mag Morelli

President of LeadingAge Connecticut

Nora OBrien-Suric, Ph.D

President of the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York

Julie T. Robison, PhD (Chair)

Professor of Medicine
University of Connecticut Center on Aging

Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE

Associate Professor, Quantitative Health Sciences

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Julio Urbina, MPH, PhD

Vice-President
Director, Healthy Aging Program
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation

Greater Value Portfolio Review Committee

Nadine Barrett, PhD, MA, MS

Medical Sociologist and Assistant Professor, Department of Community & Family Medicine Duke University’s School of Medicine

Ruta Brazauskas, PhD

Associate Professor
Medical College of Wisconsin

Diana Buist, PhD, MPH

Senior Investigator and Director of Research and Strategic Partnerships

KP Washington Research Institute

Yuchiao Chang, PhD

Statistician
Massachusetts General Hospital
Division of General Internal Medicine

Courtney Gidengil, MD, MPH

Senior Physician Policy Researcher
RAND Corporation

Sarah Greene, MPH

Consultant & Strategic Advisor

Michael Gusmano, PhD

Research Scholar
The Hastings Center

Laura A. Hatfield, PhD

Associate Professor of Health Care Policy (Biostatistics), Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Jack Hoadley, PhD

Professor Emeritus
Georgetown University, Health Policy Institute

Tricia Johnson, PhD

Associate Chairperson, Professor, Department of Health Systems Management, College of Health Sciences
Rush University

Donald G. Klepser, PhD., MBA

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs College of Pharmacy
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Mark D. Neuman, MD, MSc

Director, Penn Center for Perioperative Outcomes Research and Transformation (CPORT)
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
University of Pennsylvania

John Pakutka, MPPM

Managing Director
The Crescent Group

Sarah Robertson

Brown University

Victor Villagra, MD, FACP

Founder & President
Health & Technology Vector, Inc.

R3 Advisory Committee

Carol Buckheit

Principal Consultant

Just Giving Communications

Konstantine Drakonakis, PE

Director

LaunchCapital, LLC

Anne Elwell, RN, MPH

Marie Massaro

Founder and Principal
Massaro Consulting

Veronica Nieva, PhD

Vice President

Westat

Laurel Pickering, MPH

Chief Revenue Officer

WellDoc

Beccah Rothschild, MPA

Principal
Health Engagement Strategies

C. Todd Staub, MD

Senior Vice President
Physician Relations

OptumCare

Julio Urbina, MPH, PhD

Vice-President
Director, Healthy Aging Program
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation