Board Members

The CCPH Board of Directors is reflective of our diverse constituencies, including communities, educational institutions, faculty, students, community-based organizations, government and philanthropy.

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CCPH board members and staff at the
September 2005 board meeting in Toronto

 

Cynthia Barnes-Boyd Chicago, IL cboyd@uic.edu	Dr. Cynthia (Cee) Boyd began her health professional career in 1973 as a diploma prepared registered nurse. She completed her BSN, MSN and finally her Ph.D. in 1990 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Boyd has held a variety of advance practice and administrative roles including those of Critical Care Clinical Specialist, Assistant Director of Nursing and Executive Director of a community health center network. Currently, Dr. Boyd is the Director of the UIC Great Cities Neighborhoods Initiative/Director Community Health Initiatives for the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her responsibilities include developing, directing and monitoring University/community partnerships. She directs numerous community based initiatives including school based clinics, community based education programs, community based research initiatives, home visiting programs for families with special needs and after-school programs to name a few. Dr. Boyd is the Assistant Dean for Community Initiatives for the UIC College of Nursing. She serves as the director, principal investigator or evaluation director for several federally supported programs including REACH 2010, supported by the Centers for Disease Control, the Chicago Partnership for Health Promotion, supported by the United States Department of Agriculture, the Multiethnic Research Core, supported by the National Institute for Health and Healthy Schools/Healthy Communities, supported by the Bureau of Primary Health Care. Dr. Boyd's research has included studies addressing social and cultural contributors to health disparities, service utilization barriers, cultural alienation and health problems of importance to racioethnic groups. She has dedicated her career to improving access to health care by underrepresented groups. She has published, consulted and lectured nationally and internationally on issues related to health, post-neonatal mortality, and management. Dr. Boyd is nationally recognized for her work with organizations in the areas of cultural competency and work force diversity. Dr. Boyd currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Coalition of School Health Centers, the Campus and Community Partnerships for Health, the Chicago Chapter of the March of Dimes, where she also chairs the Community Grants Committee, the UIC School of Public Health Environmental Justice Committee, the Advisory Committee for the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities, and the Naomi Morris Community Health Research Collaborative. She is also an active Leader for the South Cook County Illinois Girl Scouts and the founder of the 'Girls Read For Life' Reading Program.
Renee Bayer Ann Arbor, MI rbayer@umich.edu	Renee Bayer is Community-Academic Liaison Coordinator at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Office of Community-Based Public Health. The goal of this Office is to promote community-based public health research, teaching, and practice. Ms. Bayer facilitates relationships and activities between the faculty and students at the School of Public Health and community-based organizations and local health departments. She spends about half-time working with community-based organizations and coalitions. The other part of her time is spent consulting with faculty about curriculum and research and coordinating community-based internships. She is staff/liaison to the following projects: 1) Michigan Neighborhood AmeriCorps Program; 2) Detroit-Community Academic Urban Research Center; 3) Prevention Research Center of Michigan; 4) Michigan Center for the Environment and Children's Health; 5) Community-Health Scholars Program (Kellogg-funded post-doctoral program); and 6) Community Health Investigator Project (STD prevention curriculum for middle schools in Detroit) Renee has a master's degree in health services administration.
Chuck Conner Spencer, WV cconner@wvrhep.org	Chuck Conner has served as the Site Coordinator for the West Virginia Rural Health Education Partnerships for the past thirteen years. This program places health professions students in rural settings for clinical and community experiences. He has previously served on the CCPH Conference Development and Membership Development committees and as the Conference Photographer for several years. Chuck is also a Licensed Social Worker, Nationally Certified Addictions Counselor and Prevention Specialist. He has been providing education and treatment services for individuals and families experiencing difficulty with the use of alcohol and drugs for over twenty years. His involvement in the field of health care extends to being the co-chair of the West Virginia University’s PRC / Community Partnership Board and representative to the National Community Committee; chair of the Roane County PATCH program, member of the WV Certification Board of Addiction and Prevention Professionals; and co-chair of the steering committee for WVU’s Rural Healthy Aging Network, etc. Chuck was a member of a Rotary International Group Study Exchange Team to Northern India in 1997 which subsequently led to his involvement in Rotary. In the past year he has served as the Centennial President of the Ripley Rotary Club, developed and implemented international service projects in Nepal, and was the Team Leader for the GSE Team to Germany’s District 1880 in May of 2005. In 2003 and 2004 Chuck was selected as the Rotarian of the Year by his club. He is currently on the District GSE Committee and the Assistant Governor to our area. Chuck has operated a professional photography business for the past thirty years. He began his profession in the US Air Force and worked at the Library of Congress as a photographer. His work has been selected for numerous juried exhibits and national publications. His work can be seen at www.chuckconner.com . Chuck lives on twelve acres in rural Roane County, WV. He has two adult children, Kane (27), and Kara (23). Other interests include hiking, biking, camping, gardening, beekeeping, reading, white water rafting and riding his BMW R 75/5 motorcycles.
Diane Downing Stafford, VA ddowni@arlingtonva.us	Diane Downing has a broad public health practice background with experience at the local, state and national levels. Her experience includes Coordinator for the Indiana Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Project; Maternal and Child Health Director, Indiana State Board of Health; and Assistant Commissioner for Nursing and Quality Improvement, New York City Department of Health. She is currently the Nurse Manager for Arlington County Department of Human Services, Arlington County, Virginia. This position includes responsibility for coordinating student placements within the Public Health Division. She holds a Bachelors degree in Nursing and a Masters Degree in Public Health Nursing from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and is a doctoral candidate at George Mason University College of Nursing and Health Science. She has served as Chair of the Public Health Nursing Section, American Public Health Association and Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations representative to the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice. Her volunteer work includes membership on the Rappahannock Area Chapter, American Red Cross, Disaster Action Team.
Lawrence W. Green San Francisco, CA lwgreen@comcast.net	Larry Green recently retired from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he oversaw a grant program for investigator-initiated, peer-reviewed, community-based participatory research projects. Before going to CDC as a Distinguished Fellow/Visiting Scientist in 1999, Larry was Director of the Institute of Health Promotion Research in the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Professor of Health Care and Epidemiology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia where he also headed the Division of Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion. He has also served as the Kaiser Family Foundation's Vice President and Director of its national Health Promotion Program. Larry is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Director of Social and Behavioral Research Program of the Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at San Francisco and a visiting professor at the University of Maryland and at UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
Barbara Gottlieb Jamaica Plain, MA bgottlieb@partners.org	Barbara Gottlieb, MD, MPH is a primary care internist at Brookside Community Health Center, where she has worked since 1981. In addition to her patient care responsibilities, she is responsible for developing clinical and public health programs and coordinates medical student and resident teaching activities at the health center. She also coordinates research activities at the health center, and serves as a liaison to academically based researchers and research projects. She is also a member of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care and the Division of Women's Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital and teaches regularly on the in-patient service. She is Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, where she teaches in several courses and is a member of the Division of Service Learning. She is a faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she teaches in the interdisciplinary program in Women, Gender and Health. She also teaches a practicum course for MPH students. She serves as advisor and mentor to medical and public health students who are interested in the health of women and underserved communities. She participates in local and national public health policy, advocacy and coalition building. She is a member of several coalitions convened by the Boston Public Health Commission to improve the health of women and adolescents, and is co-principal investigator in a community-academic-public health agency partnership to improve the health of reproductive age women. She is a member of the editorial board of Patient Care, Journal of Primary Care, and serves on the advisory boards of several organizations related to women's reproductive health.
Ella Greene-Moton Flint, MI EllaGreMo@aol.com	Ella Greene-Moton has an extensive background in community organizing, community-academic partnership building, and advocacy that spans over the past thirty-five years in the Flint area. Her commitment to the empowerment of community residents reaches across local, state, national, and international levels. She currently serves as a Community Education Coordinator at the Center of Public Health and Community Genomics as well as a Program Coordinator in the Community Based Public Health Office at the School of Public Health - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor and an Independent Community-Academic Consultant. She also served as an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Michigan Flint Campus from 2000-2003 as well as a Co-Instructor at the Michigan Public Health Training Center. In addition, she serves as a Community Mentor for the Community Health Scholars Program (CHSP). Ella is Chair of Community Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Board of Directors and member of the CCPH Consultancy Network. She is Past Chair of the Community-Based Public Health Caucus of APHA; Member-At-Large of the APHA Action Board and member of the APHA Joint Policy Committee (JPC). Beginning in 1995, Ella joined the Flint Odyssey House, Inc. Health Awareness Center and served as Assistant Director for seven of her ten year period of employment with the organization. In addition to her responsibilities of office management and staff supervision, other affiliations included; Coordinator of the Birth Sister Component of the REACH 2010 Program; Coordinator of the in-house Student Intern Placement from the University of Michigan Flint and Ann Arbor; member and 1st Community Chair of the Michigan Prevention Research Center (PRC) Community Board; National PRC Community Board Representative; Past Chair of the National PRC Community Committee; member of the National PRC Steering Committee; member of the National Chronic Disease and Prevention Research Conference Planning Committee; member of the Michigan Public Health Training Center (MPHTC) Curriculum Committee; member of the MPHTC Steering Committee and Coordinator of the FOHIHAC HIV/AIDS Counseling and Testing Site. She began her journey in Community Based Public Health as Chair of the McCree North Advisory Board; member of the Broome Team Collaborative (a cbo, university, and health department partnership established to implement and sustain Community Based Public Health activities); member of the Genesee County Violence Prevention Coalition; 1st Vice-Chair of the Community Based Organization Partners (CBOP); Past Vice-Chair of the Community Based Public Health Committee UM SPH; Past Vice-Chair of the Programs and Services Committee of PRIDE (Programs to Reduce Infant Deaths Effectively) Coalition; Past Vice- President of the Board of Directors of the Community Health Outreach Workers ([CHOW] a state wide coalition with a focus on HIV/AIDS) and member of the HIV/AIDS Regional Community Planning Group. Ella's volunteerism includes: President of the Michigan Association of Black Social Workers (MABSW); Immediate Past-President of the Flint Association of Black Social Workers (FABSW); Chair of the Health Committee of the Flint Association of Black Social Workers; and Alternate Representative for the National Association of Black Social Workers Steering Committee. She also serves on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Executive Committee; Past-Chair of the NAACP Youth Works; Chair of the NAACP ACT-SO (Academic Cultural Technological Scientific Olympics); Past-Youth Advisor of the Junior Optimist and Octagon International (JOOI) Clubs; Past-Chair/Coordinator of the Juneteenth Parade; Past-Co-Coordinator of the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner; Past-Chair of the NAACP Souvenir Journal Committee; Chair of the Southwestern Christian College National Dinner Day Activities. In support of her quest for knowledge and respect for learning, Ella has decided to return to school to complete her formal education that she might better utilize the wealth of experience and training she has already acquired.
Susan Ann Gust Minneapolis, MN sgustsrc@aol.com	Susan Ann Gust is a community activist, mother, grandmother and small business owner of 29 years of a construction management company. Susan enjoys an active civic and professional life that merge her passion to make the world a better place by assisting in bringing people together of different cultural and class backgrounds to work collaboratively towards that goal. Her work in construction and economic justice led to her founding the ReUse Center in Minneapolis. The ReUse Center is the nation’s first, retail reusable building material store. Susan is also Co-coordinator of an initiative called GRASS Routes (Grassroots Activism, Sciences and Scholarship). This initiative on the University of Minnesota campus assists in the forming, mentoring and sustaining of community-university partnerships. She was a University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute Public Policy Fellow 2003-2004. Her civic work includes co-founding and serving on the Phillips Neighborhood Healthy Housing Collaborative and the board of Community University Health Care Center, a community clinic. She also is serving her 2nd term appointment as the Ward 6 representative to the City of Minneapolis’s Public Health Advisory Committee.
Daniel Korin Bronx, NY dkorin@att.net	Daniel E. Korin, M.D., FAAP, a Latino board certified pediatrician, graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires medical school. He completed a Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Children's Hospital National Center, Washington, D.C. and trained at the Residency Program in Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY. Currently, he is a consultant for the GENE project at the March of Dimes to educate underserved communities on advances in genetics, with major emphasis on health communication, health literacy, and community-based participatory approaches. He has had extensive experience in the design and implementation primary care practices, health services to minority and medically underserved urban communities, and implementation of practice guidelines. He was instrumental in the development of a variety of community health intervention programs: * training of community women as "health care navigators" to increase completion of cervical and breast cancer screening among minority communities in the South Bronx; * improving health services and support for Hispanic and other minority family caregivers of chronically ill adults; * increasing immunization rates in minority children less than two years of age; * designing and implementing a program to "train-trainers" in cultural competence for health care providers, and others. He served as a consultant for national and international organizations on health services design and implementation, health services for adolescents, cultural competent health care, distance learning, and health care response to domestic violence (PanAmerican Health Organization, Inter-American Bank of Development, Lewin-ICF). He is the Senior Medical Advisor of Pro-Salud, a Hispanic health supplement distributed in major Spanish-language newspapers in the US with a total distribution of 450,000. Also, he is currently involved in the development of a Web-based bilingual-bicultural patient education management system for ambulatory care patients at the New York Presbyterian Ambulatory Care Network. His academic involvement includes the position of Associate Dean (New York Medical College); he held other academic appointments at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and SUNY Downstate. He was involved in hospital medical administration as Director of Community Medicine and Ambulatory Care; Medical Director/Associate Dean; and Sr. Vice President for Medical and professional affairs.
Dennis William Magill Toronto, Ontario, Canada dmagill@chass.utoronto.ca	Dennis William Magill is Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto. He is the Director of the University of Toronto's undergraduate Health Studies programme. In 1990 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Wellesley Hospital, a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto. During the Ontario provincial hospital restructuring, the Wellesley Hospital was closed in 1997. Its financial and real estate resources were transferred to the Wellesley Central Health Corporation. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of this Corporation. The corporation established the first Canadian Resource Centre in Community Based Research. A key goal of this Centre is the development of partnerships between community agencies/groups and researchers at the three Toronto universities: York University, Ryerson University, and the University of Toronto. The Centre has funded many community based research projects. He is the Managing Director and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Urban Health Initiatives located at the University of Toronto. Established in 2003 and funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the focus of the Centre is the facilitation of innovative trans-disciplinary research on the effects of physical and social environments on the health of urban residents. A major goal of the Centre is to involve the community in the process of academic research. His research areas are: race and ethnic relations, urban sociology, organizational analysis, and urban health.
Carmen Patrick Atlanta, GA carmen@hstatweb.org	Carmen Patrick is an MD candidate at Emory University who has been mobilizing students around access to healthcare and gender and racial equality for eight years. Along those lines, Carmen serves on the boards of the Third Wave Foundation, where she works specifically for reproductive health and justice, and of Health Students Taking Action Together (HealthSTAT). Her interdisciplinary efforts have included coordination of clinical trials of preventive HIV vaccines, internship with the national pilot of the Friendly Access Maternal and Child Health Program, and tissue-engineering research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As past Chairman of the Board of HealthSTAT, Carmen led the organization’s effort to strengthen its infrastructure, including board development, hiring its first full-time Executive Director, and developing its summer internship program. She also co-founded Context – The Journal of HealthSTAT in partnership with the Student Health Alliance, which is the first online journal to focus explicitly on health professional students’ service, advocacy, and research in communities. Carmen received a Bachelor of Science in Biological Resource Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park where she was a Banneker-Key Scholar. After leaving Maryland, she was selected in national competition as one of six Jane Addams-Andrew Carnegie Fellows at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. Carmen has received various recognitions for her work including the Robert E. Steward Engineering and Humanities Award from the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, the John Portz Award for students committed to service from the University of Maryland, and the Paul Ambrose Leadership Award from the American Teachers of Preventive Medicine.
Richard W. Redman Ann Arbor, MI rwr@umich.edu	Richard W. Redman is Director, Doctoral and Post-doctoral Programs, and Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. A professional nurse and a health services researcher, Richard has 30 years of academic experience in nursing, medical, and graduate education. He received a BSN from San Jose State University and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Iowa. He's taught nurses, family medicine residents, and health care administration students at a variety of academic institutions, including the Universities of Iowa, Michigan, and North Carolina (Chapel Hill) as well as the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and SUNY/Buffalo. He's passionate about civic engagement and service learning through community-based partnerships for students in the health professions. While at Colorado, he worked with faculty to implement required service learning experiences for nursing students in four degree programs. Similar efforts were carried out at UNC-Chapel Hill. At Michigan, he is implementing a service learning course for all undergraduate students and hopefully this will be expanded to other programs as well. Richard is married to Patricia, a medical librarian. They are the parents of four sons and grandparents of one granddaughter.
Douglas Simmons Houston, TX dsimmons@mail.db.uth.tmc.edu	Douglas M. Simmons is an Associate Professor in the department of Dental Public Health and Dental Hygiene at The University of Texas Houston Health Science Center Dental Branch. He joined the Dental Branch faculty in 1974 in a part-time capacity, while maintaining a full-time private practice in Houston. In 1981, he became a full-time faculty member and served as an Assistant Professor and Director of the Goodwill Dental Clinic (a community-based teaching clinic for fourth year dental students). He has served as the chair of the Department of Community Dentistry and interim chair of the Department of Dental Public Health and Dental Hygiene at the Dental Branch. In 1995, he established a school-based teaching dental clinic at Rusk Elementary School in Houston. About two years later, he established a mobile dental clinic where dental and dental hygiene students provide dental care at five elementary schools located in underserved neighborhoods. He is currently serving as the director of these two programs. Douglas serves on a number of academic committees at the University, and he was instrumental in establishing the advanced education program in dental public health at the Dental Branch. He is active in numerous civic, community, and professional organizations at the local, state and national levels. Currently, he serves on the board of directors of Good Neighbor Healthcare Center, Houston Area Urban League, and Houston Association of the United Church of Christ's housing project for low-income residents. At the state level, he is a member of the Oral Health Advisory Committee to the Texas Department of Health. He also served as the initial conveyer of a special interest group that became the Minority Affairs Section of the American Association of Dental Schools. Douglas received a D.D.S. from The University of Texas Houston Dental Branch and a M.P.H. from The University of Texas Houston School of Public Health. In addition, he received a certificate in dental care for the handicapped from the DECOD program at The University of Washington. He is married to Charles Andrea Simmons, a social worker, and they are the parents of two children ages 28 and 30.