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
Stephen Walsh, ScD
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut
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
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, MS
PhD Candidate in Health Services, Policy, and Practice
Brown University
Victor Villagra, MD, FACP
Founder & President
Health & Technology Vector, Inc.