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List of 2006-2008 Associates

Alexy Arauz-Boudreau, MD, MPH
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Areas of Interest: Determining effective means to reduce health care disparities for vulnerable children through the structure of health care systems and provider level interventions

Steven J. Atlas, MD, MPH
Associate Director, MGH Primary Care Operations Improvement Program

Co-Director, MGH Primary Care Practice-Based Research Network
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Areas of Interest: Understanding patterns of care and designing efficient models of care to improve quality for patients seen in primary care practice networks

W. Michael Byrd, MD, MPH
Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Areas of Interest: Health policies and concerns impacting African American and other disadvantaged minorities in the United States health system

Eric G. Campbell, PhD
Senior Scientist, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor, MGH Department of Medicine & Harvard Medical School
Areas of Interest: Science policy, academic industry relations

Linda A. Clayton, MD, MPH
Associate Medical Director, Division of Medical Assistance of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Division of Public Health Practice, Harvard School of Public Health
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Areas of Interest: Health policy and concerns impacting African American and other disadvantaged minorities in the United States health system

Nakela Cook, MD, MPH
Research and Clinical Fellow in Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Areas of Interest: Differences in the incidence, progression, and outcomes of cardiovascular disease among members of different races and between genders

Timothy G. Ferris, MD, MPhil, MPH
Senior Scientist, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor, Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Areas of Interest: Measurement and improvement of health care quality for adults and children, effects of the organization and financing of care on the costs and quality of care, risk adjustment of quality measures, and disparities in health care

Katherine L. Flaherty, ScD
Director, Health Access and Community Partnerships, Community Benefit Programs, Partners Health Care System
Areas of Interest: Access to health services for low-income and uninsured populations, program development, management and evaluation, and public policy development and analyses in areas such as maternal and child health and disease management

Lenny Lopez, MD, MPH, MDiv
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Research and Clinical Fellow in General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Areas of Interest: Racial and ethnic diaparities in healthcare, cardiovascular health in minority populations, graduate medical education, quality and patient safety.

Sanja Percac-Lima MD, PhD, DMD
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Areas of Interest: Improving colorectal cancer screening rates by lowering barriers in low income and non-English speaking populations

Angelleen Peters-Lewis, RN, PhD
Gastroenterology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Areas of Interest: Racial and ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer screening

Andrea E. Reid, MD, MPH
Program Director, Gastroenterology Training Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Areas of Interest: Clinical outcomes and therapies of Hepatitis C and minority access to liver transplantation

Fidencio Saldana, MD, MPH
Clinical and Research Fellow in Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Area of interest: Racial disparities and outcomes in cardiovascular disease, Recruitment of underrepresented minorities to the health professions

Valerie E. Stone, MD
Director, Primary Care Residency Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Women's HIV/AIDS Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Chief, General Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Areas of Interest: Racial and ethnic disparities in HIV/AIDS

Nhi-Ha Trinh MD, MPH
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Graduate Assistant, Massachusetts General Hospital and Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow, McLean Hospital
Areas of Interest:  Mental Health Disparities for Depression in Minority Patients, Geriatric and Community Psychiatry

Joel S. Weissman, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Senior Scientist, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital
Areas of Interest: Racial and ethnic disparities and access to care for the uninsured, delays in treatment, preventable hospitalizations, quality and patient safety, health care financing including uncompensated care, drug policy, and academic-industry relationships in biomedical research

Winfred W. Williams, MD
Director, Multicultural Affairs Office, Massachusetts General Hospital
Areas of Interest: Hypertension, end-stage renal disease, liver transplantation and racial and ethnic disparities in renal transplantation

Albert Yeung, M.D., Sc.D.
Director of Primary Care Studies at the MGH Depression Clinical and Research Program
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Areas of Interest: Integrating primary care and mental health services to improve treatment of depression, mental health issues of under-served populations, and using complementary and alternative treatment for mood disorders

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