Advisory Committees
Policy Advisory Committee

Biree Andemariam, MD
Hematology Oncologist
Associate Professor
University of Connecticut School
of Medicine

Carol Buckheit
Principal Consultant
Just Giving Communications

Caprice Taylor Mendez, EdM
President
Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut

Russell J. Munson, MD
Senior Medical Director
CarePartners of Connecticut

Bryce Raymond, QPA, ERPA
Principal
PASI, LLC.

Alycia Santilli, MSW
Director
Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE)
Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU)

Lauren Vo, APRN
Hartford HealthCare Medical
Group

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

Roee Gutman, PhD
Associate Professor, Brown University

David V. Hunter, MBA
President & CEO of Mary Wade

Bing Lu, PhD
Professor
Biostatistics and Epidemiology
UConn Health

Nora OBrien-Suric, Ph.D
President of the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York

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

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

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

Patrick Heagerty
Professor
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington

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

Jeff Kullgren, MS, MD, MPH
Research Scientist, Associate Professor
VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School

Simon Mahler, MD, MS
Professor and Director of Clinical Research
Department of Emergency Medicine

John Pakutka, MPPM
Managing Director
The Crescent Group

Sarah Robertson, PhD, MS
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Victor Villagra, MD, FACP
Founder & President
Health & Technology Vector, Inc.