Advisory Committees

Policy Advisory Committee

Carol Buckheit

Principal Consultant

Just Giving Communications

Heather Crockett-Miller, DDS

Director of Dental Services

Equitas Health

Mehul Dalal, MD, MPH

Community Services Administrator

City of New Haven

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

Community Engagement and Research Coordinator

Curtis D. Robinson Center for Health Equity at Saint Francis Hospital.

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

Lisa Barry, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Psychiatry

University of Connecticut Center on Aging

Randi Berkowitz, MD

Medical Director, Care System
Improvement and Care Delivery Innovation

Commonwealth Care Alliance

Eilon Caspi, PhD

Dementia Behavior Consulting, LLC

Leslie Curry, PhD, MPH

Senior Research Scientist in Public Health

Yale School of Public Health

Mary Jane Koren, MD, MPH (Chair)

Program Consultant

John A. Hartford Foundation

Julie T. Robison, PhD

Associate Professor, Medicine

University of Connecticut Center on Aging

Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE

Associate Professor, Quantitative Health Sciences

University of Massachusetts Medical School

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

Diana Buist, PhD, MPH

Director, Research and Strategic Partnership

KP Washington Research Institute

Emil Coman, PhD

Research Associate University of Connecticut

David M. Dosa, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Services, Policy and Practice

Brown University

Courtney Gidengil, MD, MPH

Senior Physician Policy Researcher
RAND Corporation

Sarah Greene, MPH

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, Health Policy Institute

Georgetown 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

Phil Nyakauru Gona, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor

University of Massachusetts Boston

John Pakutka, MPPMManaging Director The Crescent Group

Managing Director The Crescent Group

Victor Villagra, MD, FACP

Founder & President
Health & Technology Vector, Inc.

Stephen Walsh, ScD

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics

University of Connecticut

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

Director, Health Aging Program

Samuels Foundation