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Fredia S. Wadley, MD, MSHPA
Medical Director
Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care
Fredia S. Wadley, MD, MSHPA, is Medical Director of Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care in Easton, Maryland. Delmarva is a non-profit organization dedicated to the improvement of healthcare and human services, with contracts as a Quality Improvement Organization with CMS; for External Quality Review with eight state Medicaid agencies; with Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for Knowledge Transfer; but also performs many other quality improvement activities.
Prior to joining Delmarva Foundation, Dr. Wadley had over 25 years of public health experience in Tennessee, and was Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Health from 1995 – 2003. She received her medical degree from the University of Tennessee, Memphis, and her Master’s degree in Health Planning and Administration from the University of Cincinnati.
She has previously served as the Director of the Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County Health Department for eight years; the Chief Medical Officer for the Tennessee Department of Health; as well as both the regional medical director and the regional director for the Tennessee Department of Health, Southeast Region. Prior to her career in government, she was on the Pediatric Faculty of U.T. Memphis and then in private pediatric practice in Winchester, Tennessee. She is a past board member of the United Way of Middle Tennessee, the American Red Cross, the Vanderbilt AIDS Project, the Vanderbilt Child Development Center, and a hospital management company.
Dr. Wadley is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics/Tennessee Pediatric Society for her promotion of children’s health and well-being, the Charles G. Jordan Award from the Southern Branch of the American Public Health Association for outstanding accomplishments in the field of public health; the Special Meritorious Award from the Southern Health Association for outstanding contributions to the organization of public health; and the Special Meritorious Award from the Tennessee Public Health Association.
From 2002 – 2004, she participated on a National Academy of Sciences Committee on evaluating children’s health.
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Margaret A. Potter, MS, JD
Associate Dean &
Director
Center for Public Health Practice
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Maggie Potter is Associate Dean for Practice and Director of the Center for Public Health Practice, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health. Her primary interest – expressed in policy research, in teaching, in service, and in university administration – is to engage academic public health in improving the health of populations.
As a health policy analyst in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she focused on the problem of populations without access to health insurance, particularly those living in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Since then, she has addressed this problem by supporting students of health and health-related professions who wish to serve the underserved. Ms. Potter is a founding Advisory Board member of the Pittsburgh Schweitzer Fellows Program, and has led the Center for Public Health Practice in the support of internships for work with the homeless and other populations disenfranchised from the health care system. The Center sponsors the annual Catherine Cartier Ulrich Award to recognize outstanding service to the underserved among master’s and doctoral students of GSPH. Her contributions to academic public health practice and to the continuing education of public health professionals were recognized in the past year through an invited five-month fellowship as CDC Visiting Scholar in Extramural Prevention Research at the Public Health Practice Program Office of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. There, she developed and contributes to several ongoing research projects designed to encourage high standards for and academic recognition of community-based participatory-action research. Pursuing these projects, she is currently a consultant to CDC’s Office of Science and Extramural Prevention Research.
Now returned to the Graduate School of Public Health, she serves as director of the Capstone Course, the final integrative course in the school’s core curriculum, which received the 2001 Curriculum Innovation Award from the Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health. She is also principal investigator for the school’s two public health training centers with current federal grants totaling $2.6 million. Her research and teaching are concentrated in public health law and its relevance to the public health infrastructure at the national, state, and local levels. She contributes to the development of policies and programs within the university that support students’ and faculty members’ participation in population-based health practice.
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Cheryl Juntunen, MS, RN
District Director (Retired)
South Central District Health
Ms. Juntunen retired in
(June 2007) after serving as the District Director for South Central
District Health (Idaho) since 1991 and previously as the agency’s
Director of Physical Health Services. She received her Bachelor of
Science in Nursing from the University of North Dakota and Master's of
Science in Nursing from Idaho State University. She is a graduate of the
Public Health Leadership Institute.
Ms. Juntunen currently
serves on the Northwest Collaborative for Workforce Development as
Idaho’s representative, on the CityMatCH Board of Directors as NACCHO’s
representative, the Idaho Perinatal Advisory Committee, the Idaho Rural
Health Education Center Board of Directors and the Minidoka Memorial
Hospital Board. She previously served on the NACCHO Board and chaired
its Community Health and Prevention Committee.
Ms. Juntunen is the
recipient of the Idaho Public Health Association Outstanding
Professional Award and the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society
of Nurses’ Community Service Award. She and her husband share two grown
children and a love of canoeing.
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Leah M. Devlin, DDS, MPH
North Carolina State Health
Director,
Director, Division of Public Health,
North Carolina
Leah
Devlin is state health director for North Carolina, and also serves as
director of the Division of Public Health. She led the state’s public
health efforts during the anthrax scare of 2001, and also spearheaded
the state’s response to the West Nile virus outbreak. Devlin joined
state public health as deputy director in 1996. She served for ten years
as Wake County health director and began her career as a public health
dentist. Devlin holds an undergraduate degree, a master’s in public
health and a dental degree from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Additionally, the State Health Director, Dr. Leah Devlin formerly served
as the Chronic Disease Director for North Carolina and is very
knowledgeable about and supportive of current chronic disease prevention
and control issues. In 2005, she supported further integration of
chronic disease by transitioning the State Center for Health Statistics,
and the Asthma and Healthy Carolinians Programs into the Chronic Disease
Section. Chronic Disease and Health Disparities are 2 of the Division’s
5 priority areas and feature prominently in the Division’s Public Health
Improvement Plan.
Dr. Leah
Devlin received her dental degree and masters degree in public health
administration at the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill campus.
At UNC she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and the School of Public
Health's honor society.
Dr.
Devlin began her professional career at the Wake County Department of
Health as a dentist in 1979. In 1986 she became Director of the Wake
County Department of Health serving for ten years. After five years with
the State Division of Public Health, Dr Devlin is now serving as State
Health Director and Director of the Division of Public Health.
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Cleveland Grady, Jr.,
MBA
Regional Immunization Sales Director,
Western PA
GlaxoSmithKline
Cleveland Grady, Jr.
became a Director of Immunization Sales for the Vaccines Division of
GlaxoSmithKline late 2006. Just prior, he held a senior marketing
position with responsibility for the commercialization of PEDIARIX - a
modern combination vaccine. Both roles have created opportunities to
champion initiatives that improve the quality of childhood and adult
immunization amongst public and private stakeholders.
In 2005, Mr. Grady was
responsible for coordinating the commercial introduction of BOOSTRIX, an
adolescent booster vaccination. In this role, he was responsible for
working with key adolescent health stakeholders to drive a sense of
urgency around protecting this population against a re-emerging vaccine
preventable disease.
Prior to his work with
GlaxoSmithKline, Mr. Grady was a Business Manager with PPG Industries,
Inc. He holds a Masters of Business Administration (with honors) from
the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business, and
attained Certified Public Accountant certification in 1995.
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Shelley A. Hearne, DrPH
Founding
Executive Director, Trust for America's Health
Professor,
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Shelley Hearne
is the former Executive Director of Trust for America's Health – a
non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives by
protecting the health of every community and working to make disease
prevention a national priority. Dr. Hearne also is a Visiting Scholar at
the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health where she
teaches on public health infrastructure, policy and advocacy.
Dr. Hearne
previously was the Acting Director of the NJ DEP Office of Pollution
Prevention and a scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
She was the past-Chair of the American Public Health Association’s
Executive Board and Vice President of the Council on Education for
Public Health – the accreditation body for public health schools. She
has authored many national health reports, from bioterrorism to chronic
disease issues. Dr. Hearne has testified regularly before the U.S.
Congress on bioterrorism, pandemic preparedness, health tracking and
public health funding. She provides continual service to the public
health field serving on National Academy of Science Committees
(including the Oversight Committee, Division on Earth and Life Studies)
and chairing accreditation site visits to public health schools,
including most recently, Yale University and the University of Texas.
She was the national
recipient of the 2004 Delta Omega Curriculum Award honoring innovative
public health teaching. Through the Association of Schools of Public
Health, the top national award for innovative public health curriculum,
which integrates practical community-based practice and scholarship into
classroom discussions, applies public health principles, uses
science-based decision-making and involves the community in a teaching
partnership. She was the recipient for the Senator Frank Lautenberg
Award for lifetime achievement in public health advocacy, 2006.
Dr. Hearne has
worked in various roles in government, environmental non-profits and
philanthropy, including serving as the Executive Director of the Pew
Environmental Health Commission, past-Chair of the American Public
Health Association’s Executive Board, Vice President of the Council on
Education for Public Health – the accreditation body for public health
schools, and the US EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory
Committee, where she chaired their working group designated to identify
five rules, regulations or policies that should be revised to better
protect children.
Dr. Hearne has
previously worked as a Program Officer at The Pew Charitable Trusts, the
Acting Director of the NJ Department of Environmental Protection’s
Office of Pollution Prevention and as a research scientist with the
Natural Resources Defense Council. Shelley holds a bachelor's degree in
chemistry and environmental studies with honors from Bowdoin College,
Master of Public Health in Environmental Sciences 1988 from Columbia
University School of Public Health. Columbia, New York and a doctorate
in environmental health sciences from Columbia University's School of
Public Health.
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Robert E. King
CEO and Founder
GOAL/QPC
Bob King founded GOAL/QPC in 1978. Over the years he worked, in various capacities, with: Dr. W. Edwards Deming (founding the first community-based Deming Users Group); Joseph Juran; Noriaki Kano; Helmut Schlicksupp; Dr. Don Berwick; and Yogi Akao. He published the first English language version books on Hoshin and QFD and was the first recipient of the Akao Prize for contributions to the dissemination of QFD in 1986. King also established research committees with healthcare and financial service leaders and has launched the Memory Jogger series and its companion, Memory Jogger II.
King became chair of the ASQ Worldwide Research Committee—the group that would create a worldwide body of knowledge on quality and help determine the future direction of quality in 2002. In 2003 the committee funded a research project to investigate non-medical quality practices in physicians’ offices. That same year, King became an ASQ national director and also received the Georges Borel Award from the European Organizations for Quality as the person from around the world who had most contributed to the advancement of Quality and Innovation in its 34 member countries.
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Matt A. Mayer, JD
President & Chief Executive Officer
Provisum Strategies LLC
In February 2007, Matt A.
Mayer launched Provisum Strategies LLC in Dublin, Ohio. Provisum
Strategies’ services include providing strategic and tactical homeland
security advice, helping customers understand and navigate the homeland
security market, advising partners on potential acquisitions and
investments to achieve non-organic growth, developing the right message
to enhance market penetration, and serving as a general resources on
homeland security developments. Mr. Mayer also serves as an Adjunct
Professor at The Ohio State University where he teaches a course on
homeland security and the transatlantic alliance, and writes for The
Heritage Foundation and the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy
Solutions.
Prior to that, Mr. Mayer
served as the Lockheed Martin Corporation’s Director for Homeland
Security. In that role, Mr. Mayer helped Lockheed Martin develop its
strategic approach to the homeland security market, and then worked with
its lines of business at the tactical level to execute on that strategy.
Mr. Mayer enabled Lockheed Martin to more effectively navigate homeland
security at all levels of government, internationally, and with the
private sector. Finally, Mr. Mayer provided Lockheed Martin with
innovative solutions to enhance the company’s position as a thought
leader in homeland security issues.
As a senior official at
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Mayer performed multiple
key roles – at one point, holding down three jobs simultaneously – under
the leadership of Secretaries Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff. In these
roles, Mr. Mayer testified before Congress, participated in
international meetings with foreign government officials, and
represented the Department at media events on many occasions. Given his
executive-level role in Homeland Security, Mr. Mayer possesses unique
insights into the workings of the complex agency, including an
understanding of the leadership’s approaches to departmental issues and
its road ahead.
In his final position
with Homeland Security, Mr. Mayer served as the Counselor to Deputy
Secretary Michael P. Jackson. In that role, he advised Secretary
Chertoff and Deputy Secretary Jackson on all policy and operational
issues facing the Department. In addition, Mr. Mayer engaged in the
formulation and issuance of key policy programs, including the retooling
efforts at FEMA, immigration and border programs, maritime and port
security programs, and transportation security programs. Mr. Mayer also
played a central role in the crisis management following the
catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina.
Mr. Mayer also served as
the Acting Executive Director for the Office of Grants and Training
(formerly known as the Office of State and Local Government Coordination
and Preparedness and the Office for Domestic Preparedness). He
concurrently served as Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor for that
office. The Office of Grants and Training is the primary office
responsible for terrorism preparedness in Homeland Security. The office
provides training, funds for the purchase of equipment, support for the
planning and execution of exercises, technical assistance and other
support to assist states and local jurisdictions in preventing, planning
for, and responding to acts of terrorism.
In this role as Acting
Executive Director, Mr. Mayer led the Department’s efforts to transform
domestic preparedness to meet the demands of the ever-changing threat
environment. Mr. Mayer was a key architect and proponent of a major
departmental reorganization that unified the Department’s preparedness
programs. Similarly, he oversaw and managed the development of the
National Preparedness Goal and Target Capabilities List, which are
national strategic documents intended to transform how the nation
prepares for catastrophic events over the next decade. Mr. Mayer also
spearheaded the movement to allocate grant funds on a risk and need
model, which not only analyzed the relative risk of a jurisdiction, but
also analyzed the capability needs of the jurisdiction so that finite
funds were allocated wisely. This model included the creation of “super”
urban areas to more effectively reduce vulnerabilities and consequences
through regional collaboration, planning, capabilities acquisitions,
training, and exercising. Mr. Mayer also launched a decentralization
training initiative that allows state and local governments to
institutionalize federal training courses in police and fire academies
and community colleges intended to rapidly expand the number of first
responders who receive the critical training courses needed to meet
their homeland security missions.
Mr. Mayer came to
Homeland Security from Colorado where he served Governor Bill Owens as
the Deputy Director for the Department of Regulatory Agencies. In this
role, Mr. Mayer regulated more than 590,000 licensed professionals –
from accountants to veterinarians – and critical infrastructure
industries including banking, securities, insurance, telecommunications
and energy. Mr. Mayer co-developed Colorado’s Regulatory Notice system
that utilizes electronic mail to notify stakeholders of all proposed
regulations before those regulations become final. The Regulatory Notice
system earned the Denver Business Journal’s 2003 Innovative
Product/Service Award for making government more transparent and
accountable.
The Claremont Institute
for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy recently
designated Mr. Mayer as a Lincoln Fellow. In September 2005, The Ohio
State University Alumni Association awarded Mr. Mayer the William
Thompson Oxley Award for early career achievement. In 2003, the German
Marshall Fund recognized Mr. Mayer as an emerging national leader by
awarding him an American Marshall Memorial Fellowship. The Fellowship
consists of a series of transatlantic exchanges with European leaders on
issues ranging from homeland security to the foreign policy challenges
of maintaining a vibrant transatlantic alliance. At the age of 29, the
Denver Business Journal recognized Mr. Mayer as one of Colorado’s young
leaders by naming him to its “Forty Under 40” list.
Mr. Mayer has published
several public policy articles, and he has co-hosted several policy
roundtables involving stakeholders on matters ranging from the
intersection of homeland security and the private sector to the impact
the Federal Communication Commission’s Triennial Review would have on
telecommunications investment and activities. As an accomplished
attorney, Mr. Mayer represented clients in matters ranging from
employment discrimination cases to product liability actions, and
successfully defended several cases in federal court and private
arbitration. In 1997, Mr. Mayer was the recipient of the ABA-BNA
Excellence in Labor & Employment Law Award, and recognized as a Public
Service Fellow.
Mr. Mayer serves on the
Board of Directors for the Public Health Foundation, and served as the
Secretary on the Denver Children’s Home Board of Directors, as the Vice
Chairman for Opera Colorado’s Board of Directors, and as the Treasurer
and Vice President of Finance for Opera/Columbus. Mr. Mayer has been a
speaker at several events including the American Community Preparedness
Conference, the Small Business Administrations’ Business Economic
Development Day, and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy’s Homeland
Security Forum.
Mr. Mayer graduated cum
laude from the University of Dayton, with a double major in Philosophy
and Psychology, and received his law degree from The Ohio State
University College of Law, where he was the Editor in Chief of the Ohio
State Journal on Dispute Resolution and the recipient of the Past
Editors’ Award.
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Hans Schmalzried, Ph.D., RS
Associate Professor of Public Health
Public Health and Allied Health Department
College of Health and Human Services
Bowling Green State University
Dr. Hans Schmalzried received his Bachelor of Education from the University of Toledo in 1978. He received a Masters Degree of Science and Education in Public Health in 1982. Dr. Schmalzried earned his doctoral degree in public health administration from the University of Toledo in 1990. He is a 1996 – 1997 graduate of the Centers for Disease Control and University of California Public Health Leadership Institute.
Dr. Schmalzried was recently appointed as a full-time Associate Professor of Public Health at Bowling Green State University. For the past 19 years, he served concurrently as Health Commissioner for two county health districts (Fulton County and Henry County, Ohio). While there, he led a staff of more than 90 providing both traditional public health services and innovative programs including Home Health, Hospice, a regional dental center, and a mobile migrant medical services project. Between the two health districts he managed an annual budget worth over six million dollars. Prior to being a health commissioner, he spent seven years with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA), at first as an Environmental Scientist and then as a Certified Environmental Engineer.
Dr. Schmalzried had an appointment as part-time Assistant Professor of Public Health at Bowling Green State University since 1997. In that capacity he taught classes for the Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health Master of Public Health Degree Program. He also holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor appointment with the Medical University of Ohio School of Nursing.
For the past seven years he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Henry County Hospital Board. He also served as chairman of the same hospital’s strategic planning committee. He was elected and served as a board of director for the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners.
He is a member of the American Public Health Association and National Association of City and County Health Officials. He has been a Registered Sanitarian in the State of Ohio for over 20 years.
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Lillian Shirley, RN, MPH, MPA
Director of the Multnomah County Health Department
provides public health
leadership in collaboration with community partners to address the
county’s health needs, and offers health policy leadership on both a
county and state level. Early in her career, Ms. Shirley served as the
executive director for Medical Aid for Indochina, a non-profit medical
relief organization. Following completion of her Bachelor’s Degree in
Nursing, Ms. Shirley worked for the City of Boston Division of Public
Health. Shirley served as Director of Joint Maternity Programs for
Boston University Medical Center and the City of Boston’s Department of
Health and Hospitals. As Director of Public Health, Ms. Shirley was
responsible for all preventive and community-based health services.
After participating in the merger of Boston’s public hospital with
Boston University’s medical center, Ms. Shirley became the interim
Commissioner of the newly formed Boston Public Health Commission. In
this role, she had executive responsibility for the establishment,
design, and organization of the new public health authority in Boston.
Shirley received a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Boston
University School of Medicine and a Master’s Degree in Public
Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University. Community and professional activities include, member of the
Board of CareOregon, the Managed Care Medicaid Plan for Oregon,
Community Health Partnerships, National Association of County and City
Health Officials (NACCHO), Center for Women’s Health, Oregon Health &
Science University, Public Health Foundation, OHSU School of Medicine
Dept of Community Medicine Adjunct Faculty and OHSU School of Nursing,
Adjunct Faculty.
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Harvey Wallace, Ph.D.
Head, Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
Northern Michigan University
Harvey Wallace, PhD, joined the faculty of Northern Michigan University as a professor of school and community health in August 1978. He was appointed Interim Department Head in 1999 and Department Head in 2000. In 2002, Dr. Wallace was recognized by the university with the Distinguished Faculty Award for his service to his profession.
In 1987, Dr. Wallace was appointed to the Marquette County Board of Health and has continued to this day. As a member of his local board of health, other opportunities to serve local public health soon appeared. Dr. Wallace was elected in 1995 to the board of directors of the National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH) and served as its president in 2001. He was elected to serve as president of the Michigan Association for Local Public Health (MALPH) in 2003 and continues as a member of its executive committee.
Dr. Wallace was elected commissioner to the Marquette County Board of Commissioners in 1999 and continues to serve as an elected official.
As a representative of NALBOH, Dr. Wallace has participated in the development of several important public health documents including the following: the National Public Performance Standards – Governance Tool (CDC-PHPPO); Healthy People 2010 Oral Health Toolkit (NICDR); Framework for Community Oral Health Programs (ASTDD); and the Operational Definition of a Functional Local Health Department (NACCHO). Dr. Wallace is a member of the Exploring Accreditation Steering Committee, which will prepare a model for a voluntary accreditation system of state and local public health departments (NACCHO/ASTHO). He has been a member of the Michigan Local Public Health Accreditation Commission since its inception in 1999.
Dr. Wallace is the recipient of the Victor M. Hawthorne New Investigator Research Grant Award in Health Promotion, the NALBOH 2001 Leadership Award, the Michigan Public Health Association 2002 Public Service Award, the CDC/Public Health Practice Program Office 2002 Exemplary Service Award, and the MALPH 2004 President's Award.
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