Alumni Directory

Lori Uscher-Pines is a Distinguished Senior Research Scientist at Brown University School of Public Health, where she leads a research program on AI and digital health policy and emerging technologies in mental and behavioral health. She spent over fifteen years at the RAND Corporation, most recently as Senior Policy Researcher and Professor of Policy Analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, b...

Hui Shao is an Associate Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory University, with joint appointments in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Health Policy and Management. He is also Director of the Emory AI and Causal Lab. Trained in medicine and health economics, Dr. Shao’s research focuses on advancing precision medicine and precision...

Virginia LeBaron is an Associate Professor and the Kluge-Schakat Endowed Chair of Compassionate Care at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. As an internationally recognized nurse scientist, educator, and advanced practice clinician, her work focuses on improving quality of life for people living with serious illness, particularly advanced cancer. Over her career, she has practiced clinic...

Renu Tipirneni is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan. Her research and quality improvement activities focus on investigating and enhancing the effectiveness of health insurance policies and health care delivery programs, with current work examining Medicaid policy, Medicare policy for older adults, and o...

Susan M. Culican is Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Neurosciences, Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Designated Institutional Official at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where she oversees graduate medical education for more than 150 residency and fellowship programs training over 1,000 physicians each year. A pediatric ophthalmologist, educator, and nation...

Dr. Denise Colter Smith, PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, is an Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Colorado Anschutz College of Nursing, where she is a researcher, clinician, educator, and leader in midwifery and maternal health services research. A certified nurse-midwife with three decades of nursing and midwifery experience, her work bridges clinical practice, health systems research, w...

Akshar Abbott is a board-certified ophthalmologist and medical retina specialist, innovator, and nationally-recognized teleophthalmology expert. He most recently served in the Veterans Health Administration, where he drove the development and deployment of new teleophthalmology care programs providing critically-needed retinal subspecialty care to Veterans living in rural communities. His work has...

Lauren Hughes is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado and the State Policy Director of the Eugene S. Farley, Jr. Health Policy Center. A practicing family physician, she researches how to improve primary care payment and financing, strengthen rural health care delivery, and enhance access to integrated behavioral health. Dr. Hughes desires to change polici...

Di Fang is an Associate Professor in the Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida. She specializes in the economics of food, health, and nutrition policy, focusing on how policy influences dietary choices and health outcomes. She works across disciplines to examine how program design, retail environments, and consumer incentives can expand the availability and affordabil...

Brent Langellier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. His research focuses on understanding how public health and social policies can be used to address underlying causes of health disparities. Dr. Langellier has led and collaborated on numerous studies that explore how state and local immigration...