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March
2007
Acknowledgements
Our
Priorities for Reauthorization and Legislative Updates
is the conclusion of multiple years of shared work by
the National Advisory Council on The National Health Service
Corps. I would like to thank all of the Council members,
both current and former, for their dedication to complete
this work. I would also like to mention the hard work of
B L Seamon’s Diane Fabiyi-King and Karmen Lewis, who managed
the logistics for each of the Committee meetings, and Marie
Bouvier of WordSculpture, who worked tirelessly during the
meetings to gather all our thoughts into the report. Additional
thanks goes to Katie Previc, ASPH Public Health Fellow with
the NHSC, who supplied early research and support to the
Council in drafting and editing the final report.
The
expertise and information from Federal staff enabled the
Council the education necessary for complete understanding
of the program. Presentations from Kerry Nessler, Mike Berry,
Susan Salter, Cheryl Young, Ellen King, Ellen Volpe, Doug
Lloyd, Elise Quinones, Andy Jordan, Bob Arrindell, Mark
Wheeler, Michelle Corbin, Dan Mareck, Emmett Noll, Sonya
Shorter, and Eileen Pioli enhanced Council knowledge and
created a stronger report, and I thank them greatly. Thank
you also goes to the outside agencies who graciously addressed
the Council; Dan Hawkins, Vice President (Division of Federal,
State and Public Affairs) of the National Association of
Community Health Centers, and Bob Phillips, Director of
The Robert Graham Center. In addition, the council was
able to interact with NHSC clinicians in service both through
a site visit and having newly awarded loan repayors address
the council. Thank you to the Upper Cardozo site of Unity
Health Care in Washington D.C. and their clinicians as well
as the other clinicians in attendance at the September 2006
meeting for Loan Repayors for openly talking to the council
about the operation of the NHSC from their perspective.
The council also benefited and is extremely grateful for
the candid conversation with Michelle Snyder, Steve Pelovitz
and Dr. Elizabeth Duke in September of 2006. Finally a big
thank you goes out to the Federal staff that planned and
oversaw our meetings; Tira Patterson, Jennifer Burks and
Rick Smith.
The
Council is also appreciative for all the believers and clinicians
involved with the NHSC who further the mission and maintain
enthusiasm in the endless journey to medically serve all
of America’s underserved.
Sincerely,
Annette Kowal, Chair
National Advisory Council on the National Health Service
Corps
Chairperson:
Annette Kowal
Executive Director, Colorado Community Health Network
Denver, CO
Executive
Secretary:
Tira Patterson
National Health Service Corps
Office of the Director
Rockville, MD
Current
members:
Delisa
Culpepper
Chief Operating Officer,
Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority
Anchorage, AK |
Gary
Batton
Executive Director of Health,
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Durant, OK |
Stephen
McKernan
CEO, University of New Mexico Hospitals
Albuquerque, New Mexico |
Corey
Hebert
Pediatric Physician, NHSC Scholar
New Orleans, LA |
Donna
Johnson
Director, Division of Primary Care and Health Access,
MA Department of Public Health
Boston, MA |
Cherae Farmer-Dixon
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Meharry Medical College, School of Dentistry
Nashville, TN |
Jane
Martin
Assistant Dean, Graduate Program,
Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing,
Samford University
Birmingham, AL |
Kevin Lewis
Executive Director,
Maine Primary Care Association
Augusta, ME |
Nycole Campbell-Lewis
Deputy Administrator/Chief of Staff,
Governor Office of Medicaid, Mississippi
Jackson, MS |
Tam Nguyen
Family Medicine Resident – NHSC Scholar
Santa Clara, CA |
Theresa Horvath
Director, Physician Assistant Program, Mercy College
Bronx, NY |
Byron Crouse
Assoc. Dean - Rural and Community Health,
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public
Health
Madison, WI |
Heather
Reynolds
Associate Professor,
Yale University School of Nursing
New Haven, CT |
Luis Padilla
Associate Medical Director,
Upper Cardozo Community Health Center
Unity Health Care, Inc. and NHSC Scholar
Washington, DC |
Former
members:
| Barbara
Doty
Family Medicine Physician
Wasilla, AK |
Terry
Dickinson, former chair
Executive Director,
Virginia Dental Association
Richmond, VA |
| Sampat
Shivangi
Private Practice Physician, OB/GYN
Jackson, MS |
Dawn
Morton-Rias
Dean, College of Health Related Professions
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY |
| Gwendolyn
Spears
Chief Nurse, Midwifery Services,
King/Drew Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA |
Bernard
Osberg
Director, Office of Rural Health,
South Dakota State Department of Health
Pierre, SD |
| Robert
Trenschel
Vice President Clinical Operations,
Chief Medical Officer,
Florida Community Health Centers, Inc
West Palm Beach, FL |
Eddie
Orlando Rodriquez-Lopez
Family Medicine Physician, NHSC Scholar
Emmett, ID |
| Laurie
Wylie
Executive Director,
Western Washington Area Health Education Center
Seattle, WA |
Jason
Shu
Private Practice Physician, OB/GYN
Montoursville, PA |
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