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2009-2010 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows
- Andrew Bindman, MD
- Gustavo D Cruz, DMD, MPH
- Sheldon Fields, PhD, RN
- David Keller, MD
- Janet Leigh, BDS, DMD
- Gregg Margolis, PhD, NREMT-P
- Mark Schwartz, MD
- Barbara Tobias, MD
- Margaret Wilmoth, PhD, RN, FAAN
- Shale Wong, MD, MSPH
Andrew Bindman, MD
Andrew Bindman, M.D., is Professor of Medicine, Health Policy, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He is Director of the California Medicaid Research Institute, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at UCSF’s affiliated San Francisco General Hospital, and Director of UCSF’s Primary Care Research Fellowship. He has practiced and taught primary care at San Francisco General Hospital and its affiliated clinics for the past 20 years.
Dr. Bindman has published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles evaluating the impact of health policies on low-income patients’ access to and quality of care. He is also a co-editor of a textbook entitled “Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Populations”. In his work, he has established the association between poor access to care and preventable hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions. He has used this measure to evaluate Medicaid programs and to design interventions to improve quality of care for low-income patients with chronic disease. He has won numerous awards for his work, including Academy Health’s Young Investigator Award and the Paper of the Year Award.
In 2000, he was selected to be an Atlantic fellow researching the evolution of primary and chronic care delivery in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. In 2005, he received an achievement award from the Health Resources and Services Administration in recognition of his contributions to research training in health care disparities and in improving the diversity of the nation’s health care workforce.Assignment:
House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Gustavo D Cruz, DMD, MPH
Gustavo D. Cruz, D.M.D., M.P.H., is Associate Professor and Director of Public Health and Health Promotion in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion at the New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry. He serves as Governance Faculty and Oral Public Health Concentration Leader of the Master’s in Global Public Health Program at NYU. He is Principal Investigator of the Effect of Immigration on Oral Health Study, which is funded by the National Institutes of Dental and Craniofacial Research, one of institutes of the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Cruz received his D.M.D. degree from the University of Puerto Rico and his M.P.H. from Columbia University School of Public Health. He was the recipient of a National Research Fellowship Award during which he also completed a Residency in Oral Public Health at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and the New York City Department of Health. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Public Health. Dr. Cruz’s professional experience includes being a private practitioner in New York City, a dental examiner for two studies for the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR/NIH), Clinical Director of a community-based clinic at the NYC Department of Health, and Attending Dentist at the Saint Clare’s Hospital and Medical Center.
During 1997-2001, Dr. Cruz was Associate Director of the NIH funded Northeast Research Center for Minority Oral Health where he was also the Principal Investigator of one of the projects within the Center. In 2002, Dr. Cruz organized a national conference on “Closing the Gap in Oral Health Disparities among Hispanics” and in 2004 he was co-organizer of the first National Workshop to Develop an Oral Health Research Agenda for Latinos in the US. With funding from the NIH and the NYS Department of Health, Dr. Cruz has conducted numerous research studies on the prevention and control of oral and pharyngeal cancer as well as the effect of race/ethnicity, acculturation and culturally influenced behaviors on health outcomes and health services utilization. Dr. Cruz has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and presented his findings in national and international meetings.Assignment:
HHS, Office of the Secretary
Sheldon Fields, PhD, RN
Sheldon D. Fields, Ph.D., R.N., is Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Rochester Medical Center - School of Nursing.
Dr. Fields is a fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and a distinguished practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. He is a nationally board-certified family nurse practitioner with advanced certification as an HIV/AIDS certified registered nurse. His clinical background includes work in medical oncology, home healthcare, general family practice and HIV/AIDS primary health care. He spent the last nine years practicing in an underserved inner-city community based health clinic. His research focuses on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment strategies for young men of color and has been funded by the Department of Health and Human Services – Health Resources Services Administration, New York State AIDS Institute, and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network.
He is a former national director of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) and received the association’s “President’s Award” for distinguished service in 2006.
Dr. Fields received his B.S. in nursing from the Decker School of Nursing at Binghamton University (State University of New York) in 1991 and completed his M.S. in family nursing with certification as a family nurse practitioner in 1995 at Binghamton University. His Ph.D. in nursing science was completed at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 under the direction of Dr. Loretta Sweet-Jemmott. He then went on to complete a postdoctoral appointment as a visiting professor in the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California San Francisco.Assignment:
Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD)
David Keller, MD
David Keller, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Medical School, where he served as Medical Director of South County Pediatrics, a community-based teaching practice and “Medical Home” for children with special health care needs. He also served as Pediatric Director of the Community Faculty Development Center, a HRSA-funded collaborative program to develop community faculty in the primary care specialties, and developed a curriculum in child advocacy and community involvement for the UMass Pediatric Residency program. He is the founding Medical Director of Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts, a medical-legal partnership addressing the social determinants of health in practices throughout Central Massachusetts, and serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnerships. In 2007, he was awarded a Physician Advocacy Fellowship through the Center on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University, enabling him to work half-time with Health Law Advocates in Boston on the Children’s Mental Health Project, to reform children mental health services in Massachusetts. At a national level, he has worked extensively with the American Academy of Pediatrics CATCH Program, a small grant program that encourages pediatricians to engage in community projects, and on the Board of Academic Pediatric Association.
Dr. Keller’s scholarly work in faculty development and child advocacy has been funded by HRSA (both Title VII and the MCHB), the RWJ Generalist Physician Program, the Cox Foundation, the Dyson Foundation and the Kellog Foundation. He has presented his curricula on cultural competence, child advocacy and the evaluation of community projects in workshops at national and international meetings, and has published his work in peer-reviewed journals and in several monographs.
Dr. Keller received his A.B. from Princeton University and his M.D from Harvard Medical School. He did his pediatrics residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, before serving with the National Health Service Corps at Crusaders Clinic in Rockford, Illinois. He completed a fellowship in ambulatory pediatrics and community health at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and took his current position on the UMass faculty in 1991. Throughout that time, he has practiced primary care pediatrics focusing on families that were underserved and had children with special health care needs.Assignment:
HHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Janet Leigh, BDS, DMD
Janet E. Leigh, B.D.S., D.M.D., is Professor and Chairman of Oral Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC). She holds a secondary appointment in the LSU School of Medicine and is on faculty at the LSUHSC School of Graduate Studies. She has received numerous awards including the Pfizer Award for Excellence in Research, Education, Patient Care and Community Outreach and the New Orleans City Business Women of the Year award.
Dr. Leigh received her B.D.S. from the University of London, and her D.M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine and her clinical practice background includes dental care for medically complex patients in both hospital and private practice.
Her work on the development of innovative oral health-care delivery systems, HIV/AIDS clinical research, work-force issues and rural pediatric initiatives IS funded by HRSA and NIH. She serves on the Louisiana’s Governor’s Commission on HIV and AIDS and as an ambassador with the National Health Service Corps. Following Hurricane Katrina Dr Leigh spearheaded the efforts to re-establish dental services in New Orleans while the LSU Dental School was temporarily relocated to Baton Rouge. Her work focuses on access to care issues and expansion of the dental safety net, funding of research and care delivery, development of clinical practice boundaries in cross-discipline collaboration, development of future healthcare work-force and education of that work-force in a culturally appropriate manner.Assignment:
HHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
Gregg Margolis, PhD, NREMT-P
Gregg Margolis, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT), a nonprofit organization that serves as the national certification agency for nearly 300,000 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) professionals in the United States. He is directly responsible for leadership of tResearch, Community Relations, and Recertification Departments.
Dr. Margolis began his EMS career in 1983 while working as a SCUBA diving instructor. Prior to joining the NREMT in 2003, he held faculty and leadership positions at the Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, and George Washington University.
Throughout his career, Dr. Margolis has played key roles in many national EMS improvement projects. Most notably, he was Principal Investigator for the revision of the Paramedic and EMT-Intermediate: National Standard Curricula (1995) and has played major leadership roles in the EMS Education Agenda for the Future (2000), the National EMS Scope of Practice Project (2007), and the National EMS Education Standards (2008) projects. He has served in numerous board and leadership positions, including with the Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the EMS Professions, the National Association of EMS Educators, the National Association of EMTs, and the Prehospital Care Research Forum.
Dr. Margolis has over 20 years of clinical experience in prehospital emergency medicine, including 12 years as a flight paramedic. He is the author of dozens of publications in a wide array of topics in emergency medicine. He remains active in many outdoor activities and adventure sports (skiing, SCUBA diving, alpine mountaineering) and recently developed an interest in acoustic guitar.Assignment:
Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV (D-WV)
Mark Schwartz, MD
Mark D. Schwartz, M.D., FACP, is Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. After studying medicine at Cornell University and training in internal medicine at NYU, Dr. Schwartz was awarded a Bowen-Brooks Fellowship by the New York Academy of Medicine to study medical education innovation in Israel and Holland, and then completed a General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Duke University. At NYU he was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar. He has been a primary care physician in urban underserved settings for 20 years.
Dr. Schwartz has studied primary care workforce issues since the 1980’s and recently completed a national study of influences on student interest in internal medicine. His health services research focuses on how primary care workplace characteristics impact physician stress and burnout and, subsequently, quality of care and medical errors. He also leads a Veterans Administration study of how educational interventions for health professionals improve patient outcomes.
Since 1995, Dr. Schwartz has led NYU’s General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program and established its Master’s of Science in Medical Education program. He directs NYU’s NIH Clinical Research Training Program and leads its Master’s of Science in Clinical Investigation program. He also directs the Fellowship in Medicine and Public Health Research. NYU recently named him Director of Translational Research Education and Careers in its Clinical Translational Science Institute. The Association of Clinical Research Training awarded him its Distinguished Research Educator award in 2008. In his practice, educational leadership, research, and scholarship, Dr. Schwartz has focused on the need to improve health and health care of vulnerable, urban poor populations.Assignment:
House Committee on Ways and Means
Barbara Tobias, MD
Barbara Tobias, M.D., is a family physician and Associate Professor of Family Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She is Director of Medical Education and the Family Medicine Clerkship. She has developed medical curricula for special populations including adolescents and geriatrics in collaboration with community partners and is recognized by medical students and her colleagues with awards in teaching and clinical excellence, including the Dean’s Teaching Award for Excellence and the Leonard R. Tow Humanism in Medicine Award. Dr. Tobias was appointed to the Ohio Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism where she served from 2005-2008.
In addition to her academic responsibilities, Dr. Tobias practices clinical family medicine. She has provided volunteer patient care at local shelters and practiced for over a decade at the Lincoln Heights Health Center, established in 1967 as Ohio’s first community health center. She currently practices family medicine in her hometown of Cincinnati.
Dr. Tobias received her B.A. from Cornell University in Asian Studies and her M.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She completed her residency and chief residency at the University of Cincinnati.Assignment:
HHS, Office of the Secretary
Margaret Wilmoth, PhD, RN, FAAN
Margaret C. Wilmoth, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, is Professor of Nursing at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, where she teaches and conducts research in the area of psychosocial oncology. She also serves as Brigadier General in the United States Army Reserve, currently assigned to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs as the Assistant for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs.
BG Wilmoth recently completed her tenure as Commanding General, 332nd Medical Brigade, Nashville, Tennessee. She commanded 6,000 soldiers assigned to 59 units across the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico, ensuring their readiness for mobilization and deployment. She also served on the Army Reserve Forces Policy Committee, which advises the Secretary of the Army on the mobilization readiness of the force.
Dr. Wilmoth\\\'s sustained work in the area of sexuality as it intersects with chronic illness has influenced and complemented the work of others to form the subspecialty of psychosexual oncology within the field of psychosocial oncology. She has developed two psychometric measures of sexuality and has award-winning publications stemming from her research, international collaborations, and student co-authored publications. Dr. Wilmoth has served on the Gynecologic Cancer Steering Committee of the NIH and as Quality of Life Liasion to the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group.
A graduate of the University of Maryland (B.S.N. and M.S. in nursing), Dr. Wilmoth received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in strategic studies from the United States Army War College.Assignment:
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Shale Wong, MD, MSPH
Shale L. Wong, M.D., M.S.P.H., is a pediatrician and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine. She is the Director of Medical Student Education and Director of Mentored Scholarship for students and residents in pediatrics. She also co-directs CU LEADS—an innovative curricular program she co-designed to promote leadership, education, advocacy, development, and scholarship for medical students. CU LEADS inspires new leadership in health care, focusing on social determinants of health and developing advocates who are empowered to improve the health of communities through service, civic engagement and public policy.
Dr. Wong’s clinical practice serves children from underserved and vulnerable populations in safety net hospitals, community health centers, and academic clinical settings. She is currently developing a medical-legal partnership between the Children’s Hospital and ColoradLegal Aid to address health concerns by providing legal assistance to patients and families. She has received multiple awards for clinical practice, teaching, and research, including the Chancellor’s Diversity RecognitionAward for CU LEADS.
Dr. Wong received her B.A. in modern dance from the University of California, Los Angeles, and earned her M.D. from the University of Utah, School of Medicine. After completing a residency and chief residency in pediatrics at the University of Colorado, she studied as a fellow in primary care research and earned her M.S. in public health. She was a faculty development scholar for the Ambulatory Pediatric Association and Stanford’s Clinical Teaching program.Assignment:
Office of the First Lady
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