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

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
Principal
Global Living Consulting

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

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

Keith Goldfeld, PhD
Associate Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Roee Gutman, PhD
Associate Professor, Brown University

David V. Hunter, MBA
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.