Alumni Spotlight

Following their term in Washington, DC, many alumni put their experience to use with careers in health policy-related fields. Read profiles of distinguished fellowship alumni who have gone on to make a difference in health policy below.

 

Sister Rosemary Donley (’77-’78) holds the Jacques Laval Chair for Justice for Vulnerable Populations at Duquesne University. She notes that it is very interesting to come back to her home town after 30 years. The transition has been “interesting,” but she likes being at Duquesne.

Jay Gershen (’82-’83) has been named president of the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM). Read the full press release and view a picture of Jay with Steven P. Schmidt, Ph.D., chair of the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy’s Board of Trustees.

 

Arthur Kellermann (’06-’07) has been appointed to the RAND Corporation’s Paul O’Neill Alcoa Professorship in Policy Analysis. Art will be based in RAND’s Washington D.C. office and will spearhead the RAND Public Health Systems and Preparedness Initiative. He succeeds Dr. Nicole Lurie, who left RAND to become Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Read the full press release.

 

 

David Michaels (’93-’94) was nominated by President Obama in August of 2009 to be the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, and, without a hearing, was confirmed unanimously by the Senate in December. He has taken a leave of absence from The George Washington University School of Public Health to try to implement some of the changes in OSHA policy and practice that he has been advocating from his perch in the ivory tower.

 

 

Deborah Trautman (’07-’08) concluded her time as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in the Speaker’s Office on 30 November 2009. Deb returned to Hopkins to assume new responsibilities as the Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Policy. In this new role, she leads the Center toward fulfilling the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution’s mission and long standing commitment to developing solutions that improve health and health care in the city, region and the world.

 

 

Patience White (’00-’01) has been the lead on two major Arthritis Foundation projects coming to fruition on 4 February 2010 for a Capitol briefing where the Arthritis Foundation with the CDC and 75 partners will launch the National Public Health Agenda for Osteoarthritis and the AF/AD Council/American College of Rheumatology will announce a nationwide fight arthritis pain awareness campaign. Read the press release and see an invitation.