Appendix A

Committee Member, Fellow, and Staff Biographies

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Frederick P. Rivara, M.D., M.P.H. (Chair), is the holder of the Seattle Children’s Guild Association Endowed Chair in Pediatric Outcomes Research, vice chair and professor of pediatrics, and adjunct professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington (UW). Dr. Rivara earned a bachelor’s degree at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, and received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.P.H. from the University of Washington. He completed residencies at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston and the University of Washington and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Washington. He is editor-in-chief of JAMA Network Open after serving for 17 years as editor-in-chief of JAMA Pediatrics.

He has received numerous honors, including the Charles C. Shepard Science Award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the American Public Health Association, Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section Distinguished Career Award; the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Section on Injury and Poison Prevention, Physician Achievement Award; the UW School of Public Health Distinguished Alumni Award; and the UW Medicine Minority Faculty Mentoring Award. Dr. Rivara was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM; now National Academy of Medicine [NAM]) in 2005. He was awarded the Joseph St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award from the Federation of Pediatric Organizations in 2021.

Dr. Rivara previously was the chair of the Committee on the Biological and Psychosocial Effects of Peer Victimization: Lessons for Bullying

Prevention, IOM; chair of the Committee on Oral Health Access to Care, IOM; member of the Committee on Adolescent Health Care Services and Models of Care, IOM; and vice chair of the Committee on Sports Related Concussions in Youth, IOM.

Kelly Betts, Ed.D., APRN-NP, CPNP-PC, CNE, P-SANE, is currently the assistant dean for the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) College of Nursing in Scottsbluff, NE. She is also a practicing primary care pediatric nurse practitioner at a Federally Qualified Health Center in Gering, NE. In her clinical practice, she cares for minority and underserved children in the panhandle of rural Nebraska. Currently at UNMC, she was awarded funding for an interprofessional grant with the UNMC Dental Hygiene program to integrate oral health risk assessment into pediatric well-child visits. Dr. Betts is also trained as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) and provides these services as needed to the rural counties in the Panhandle. Dr. Betts has more than 15 years of teaching nursing students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She received her Ed.D. from Walden University and her APRN Post-Master’s Certificate as a pediatric nurse practitioner at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Society, the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, the Nebraska Nurse Practitioner Association, and the National League for Nursing.

Kendall M. Campbell, M.D., FAAFP, is professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Prior to this appointment, he served as the senior associate dean for academic affairs and director of the Research Group for Underrepresented Minorities in Academic Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine in North Carolina. His research expertise includes issues impacting the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority students and faculty. He is well published in this area and nationally known for his contributions. He co-founded and is a faculty member in the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Leadership through Scholarship fellowship, a writing fellowship to promote profession advancement for early career academic family medicine physicians who are underrepresented in medicine. Dr. Campbell is a member of the NAM roundtable on health equity and was elected to NAM in 2021. He completed his medical school training at the University of Florida College of Medicine and residency training at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare.

Kecia N. Carroll, M.D., M.P.H., is chief, Division of General Pediatrics and professor of pediatrics and environmental medicine and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). She is the Black Family Chair for Pediatrics, a member of the Mount Sinai Institute for

Exposomic Research, and the Inaugural Senior Mount Sinai Biomedical Laureate in Clinical/Translational Research, a program created to foster inclusive research and mentoring environments. Dr. Carroll is a research fellowship-trained epidemiologist, clinical researcher, and board-certified pediatrician. Her current National Institutes of Health-funded research program investigates how prenatal and early life environmental exposures influence childhood asthma risk, with the long-term goals to decrease morbidity and prevent disease. Dr. Carroll serves as a co-director of the KL2 Program of the ConduITS Institute for Translational Sciences and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-funded T32 Research Training Program in Pediatric Exposomics at the ISMMS. She is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society. She obtained her undergraduate degree at Vassar College and completed medical school at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, pediatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and an academic general pediatrics Fellowship at Vanderbilt.

Candice Chen, M.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor of health policy and management at the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University. Her work focuses on health workforce equity, which includes diversity, social mission of health professions schools, workforce distribution, service to vulnerable populations, training for new models of care, and equity for the workforce. Her research has examined medical school outcomes in primary care, practice in underserved communities, and diversity; graduate medical education “imprinting” on the cost practice patterns of physicians; and identifying the workforce providing high-need services in reproductive health services and to Medicaid populations. Dr. Chen serves on the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Research Advisory Committee and is a board member for Authority Health GME and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, International. Dr. Chen was previously the director of the Division of Medicine and Dentistry in the Bureau of Health Workforce at the Health Resources and Services Administration, where she led programs to enhance training in primary care, oral health, and geriatrics, including graduate medical education programs in children’s hospitals and teaching health centers. Dr. Chen is a board-certified pediatrician. She received her M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine and her M.P.H. from The George Washington University, with a concentration in community oriented primary care.

Christopher B. Forrest, M.D., Ph.D., is a pediatrician and health services and outcomes researcher. He is director of PEDSnet (pedsnet.org), a national pediatric learning health system with 11 children’s hospital members.

PEDSnet has created a longitudinal electronic health record database for more than 12 million children, and the network conducts observational research and pediatric clinical trials across all pediatric subspecialty areas. Chris serves as the Director of the CHOP Applied Clinical Research Center, which is the institutional home for PEDSnet, and the Program Director for PEDSnet Scholars, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute funded K12 faculty development program. His research group has developed numerous pediatric patient-reported outcome measures, both child self-report and parent-proxy versions. He co-edited the new Handbook of Life Course Health Development, which has been downloaded more than 850,000 times from the Springer web site. Dr. Forrest received his B.A. and M.D. from Boston University and his Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management from Johns Hopkins University.

Elena Fuentes-Afflick, M.D., M.P.H., is professor of pediatrics and vice dean for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital at the University of California, San Francisco. An academic generalist, Dr. Fuentes-Afflick’s expertise is in the fields of perinatal epidemiology, acculturation, Latino health, professionalism, misconduct, and diversity in academic medicine. Dr. Fuentes-Afflick has served as president of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society and is an elected member of the NAM and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Currently, she serves as Home Secretary of the NAM. She previously served on the ABP’s New Subspecialties Committee (2017–2019) and the Research Advisory Committee (2018–2021). Dr. Fuentes-Afflick completed her undergraduate and medical school education at the University of Michigan and holds an M.P.H. at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served on numerous consensus committees, most recently on the underrepresentation of women and women of color in STEMM fields.

Rachel L. Garfield, M.H.S., Ph.D., is executive director of the Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP) and associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. VCHIP is a maternal and child health services research and quality improvement program that aims to optimize child and family health through measurement-based efforts to enhance child health practice. Prior to her current position, Dr. Garfield was a vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation and co-director for its Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Previous roles have included assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, policy analyst in state and federal Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program policy, and research consultant for hospital operations and management. Dr. Garfield has more than two

decades of experience in Medicaid policy research and is an expert in data analysis on insurance coverage and access to care for low-income populations. She also has expertise in behavioral health policy, particularly public financing for behavioral health services. Dr. Garfield holds a B.A. from Harvard College, an M.H.S. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University.

Kristin Hittle Gigli, M.S.N., Ph.D., CPNP-AC, is an acute care pediatric nurse practitioner and health services researcher. She is an assistant professor of graduate nursing in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research examines roles of the hospital-based advanced practice provider workforce in providing care and health outcomes of hospitalized children. She earned her nurse practitioner degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in Nursing from Vanderbilt University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Critical Care Medicine CRISMA Center at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to her research, Dr. Gigli has 15 years of experience in pediatric critical care and holds a clinical appointment in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Health Dallas. She is a past board member of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and currently a liaison to the AAP Committee on Hospital Care and the Association of Medical Schools Pediatric Department Chairs Pediatrics 2025: AMSPDC Workforce Initiative.

Javier A. Gonzalez del Rey, M.D., M.Ed., is currently a professor of pediatrics, chair of graduate medical education, Designated Institutional Officer for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), associate chair for education, and director of the Cincinnati Children’s Pediatric Education Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is a past president at the Association of Pediatric Program Directors, and past chair for the Executive Committee for the Section of Emergency Medicine at the AAP. He received his university and medical school education at the National University Pedro Henriquez Ureña in the Dominican Republic. He completed his pediatric residency at the University of Connecticut Pediatric Primary Care Program, and fellowship training in General Academic Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He is currently certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He completed a master’s of medical education and advanced training in quality improvement methodology (I2S2). Dr. Gonzalez del Rey’s major areas of interests include resident and subspecialty medical education—pediatric emergency medicine national and for Latin America, and improvement science methodology applied to medical education and training.

Shafali Spurling Jeste, M.D., is a child neurologist with expertise in neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). She is chief of neurology and co-director of the Neurological Institute at Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles (CHLA), and professor of pediatrics and neurology at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Her research, funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and the Simons foundation, is focused on improving precision health in NDDs, through biomarkers, clinical endpoints, and scalable clinical trials. Her clinical expertise lies in the diagnosis and management of infants and children with NDDs, particularly those with complex medical needs. At CHLA and through the Child Neurology Society, she is actively engaged in efforts to expand the pediatric workforce by cultivating early clinical research careers. She is on the Board of Directors of the American Brain Foundation and the National Organization for Rare Disorders, and she is on the Programmatic Panel of the Department of Defense Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program. In 2019 she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. In 2022 she was named a Woman of Influence in Health Care by the LA Business Journal. She earned her B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School. She completed her child neurology residency and behavioral neurology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Ophir D. Klein, M.D., Ph.D., serves as the inaugural executive director of Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s and the David and Meredith Kaplan Distinguished Chair in Children’s Health. He is also adjunct professor of orofacial sciences and pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he was previously the Larry L. Hillblom Distinguished Professor in Craniofacial Anomalies and the Charles J. Epstein Professor of Human Genetics. Until 2022, he served as director of the Institute for Human Genetics, chief of the Division of Medical Genetics, chair of the Division of Craniofacial Anomalies, and director of the Program in Craniofacial Biology at UCSF. Dr. Klein was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in Spanish Literature. He subsequently attended Yale University School of Medicine, where he received a Ph.D. in Genetics and an M.D. He then completed residencies at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Pediatrics and at UCSF in Clinical Genetics. Dr. Klein has received several honors, including a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health and the E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research. Dr. Klein was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the NAM and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Klein’s research focuses on understanding how organs form in the embryo and how they regenerate in the adult, with a particular emphasis on the processes underlying craniofacial

and dental development and renewal as well as understanding how stem cells in the intestinal epithelium enable renewal and regeneration.

Victoria Fay Norwood, M.D., is the Robert J. Roberts Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Virginia (UVA), where she has practiced as a pediatric nephrologist for her entire career after earning her M.D. and completing pediatric residency training at Tulane University. She completed her pediatric nephrology fellowship at UVA and began her tenure at UVA as a physician–scientist focused on developmental nephrology. Since that time, she served as division chief of nephrology for 17 years, program director of the Peds Nephrology Fellowship for 25 years, and vice chair for academic affairs in the Department of Pediatrics. Outside of UVA she has been deeply involved in the activities of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, of which she was president in 2014–2016. She was the founding chair of the Council of Pediatric Subspecialties in 2007–2010 and has served on the Review Committee for Pediatrics at ACGME. Most recently, after many years and roles with the ABP, she served as chair of ABP and the ABP Foundation Board of Directors in 2020. She also serves on the Governance Committee for the American Board of Medical Specialties. Dr. Norwood received the Henry L. Barnett Award for Lifetime Achievement in Pediatric Nephrology from the Section on Nephrology of the AAP in 2020. Dr. Norwood’s academic career has been and continues to be focused on issues of subspecialty pediatrics, including education, training, initial and continuing certification, credentialing, and workforce.

Eliana M. Perrin, M.D., M.P.H., is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Primary Care in the Schools of Medicine and Nursing at Johns Hopkins. Previously she served as associate vice chancellor for research at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill; and as division chief of primary care, founding director of the Center for Childhood Obesity Research, and as one of the directors of the National Clinician Scholars Program at Duke University. She is a general pediatrician and researcher with expertise in obesity, patient-oriented prevention, health services, and health disparities and has collaborated with numerous pediatrics subspecialists. As a division chief, she supervised a faculty of about 45; oversaw a robust clinical enterprise that included three continuity clinics, a medicine-pediatrics clinic, a healthy lifestyle clinic, a child maltreatment clinic, and an adolescent medicine clinic; and bolstered interdisciplinary research and educational efforts. She is a multiple Principal Investigator (PI) of the Greenlight obesity prevention project funded by two National Institutes of Health R01s and Co-PI of a large comparative effectiveness Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute trial. She served as chair of the National Research Committee of the Academic Pediatrics Association, was elected to the Society of Pediatric Research and American

Pediatric Society, and is a Fellow of the AAP, where she serves on the Committee on Pediatric Research. She has mentored more than 40 trainees at all levels, including 12 prior career development awardees. She won the Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement at UNC for groundbreaking and innovative research. She earned her M.D. (Alpha Omega Alpha honors) from the University of Rochester, completed her pediatrics residency at Stanford, was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, and earned an M.P.H. at UNC, Chapel Hill.

Samir S. Shah, M.D., MSCE, MHM, is vice chair of clinical affairs and education at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where he holds the James M. Ewell Endowed Chair. He is also professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Hospital Medicine, an official journal of the Society of Hospital Medicine. He practices clinically as both a pediatric hospitalist and a pediatric infectious diseases physician. Dr. Shah’s research focuses on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of care in the hospital setting with an emphasis on common, serious childhood infections. He co-developed an ACGME certified 3-year pediatric hospital medicine fellowship and has served as a mentor or co-mentor to seven federal K-series grant awardees. Dr. Shah has been recognized for his research and mentorship with numerous national awards, including the Excellence in Research Award (2009) and the Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement Award (2014) from the Society of Hospital Medicine, the Excellence in Research Award (2020) and the Miller-Sarkin Mentorship Award (2015) from the Academic Pediatric Association, and the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Award for Excellence in Research (2015), jointly awarded by the AAP, the Academic Pediatric Association, and the Society for Hospital Medicine. In 2019, he received the Master in Hospital Medicine, a lifetime achievement award, from the Society of Hospital Medicine. Following medical school at Yale, Dr. Shah completed a pediatrics residency as well as fellowships in both Academic General Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He also received an M.S. in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Christopher Stille, M.D., M.P.H., is professor of pediatrics and section head of general academic pediatrics, and the Stephen Berman, M.D., Endowed Chair in General Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. He leads an active group of roughly 55 pediatric faculty; practices and teaches primary care pediatrics; and conducts pediatric health services research and quality improvement focused on improving systems of care for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) in the Medical Home. He has a particular interest in

improving coordination of care among primary care clinicians, subspecialists, and family members, generated by his first years in private practice, but continuing over time. He has led projects funded by the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, and local and regional funders to pursue this investigation. Since 2017, he has been principal investigator of an MCHB-funded national network to conduct health systems research for CYSHCN, CYSHCNet (www.cyshcnet.org). Much of this network’s work addresses partnerships between the “medical neighborhood” and families. He is a co-chair of the Standing Committee on Patient Experience and Function of the National Quality Forum. He is membership chair and a member of the Executive Committee of the Council on Children with Disabilities of the AAP.

Bonnie T. Zima, M.D., M.P.H., is professor-in-residence, specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry, vice chair for faculty development, associate chair for academic affairs, and associate director of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Services & Society at the UCLA-Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Her research is dedicated to improving the quality of child mental health care, with priority placed on children enrolled in Medicaid-funded outpatient programs and underserved, at-risk child populations. Her research spans identification of high unmet need for mental health care among high-risk child populations, national pediatric hospitalization resource use and costs, validity of national quality measures, pediatric integrated care models, pediatric workforce development, and application of technologies and clinical informatics to improve child mental health care. Her research has received all three national research awards from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). In addition, Dr. Zima is a member of the U.S. Child and Adult Core Set Annual Review Workgroup for Center for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Services, American Psychiatric Association (APA) Council on Quality Care, Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse Steering Committee for the National Quality Forum, and AACAP Committee on Research. She is consulting editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, deputy editor for the journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology, and Distinguished Fellow of AACAP and APA. She graduated first in medical school at Rush Medical College, and completed her general psychiatry residency, child psychiatry fellowship, and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA. She was a member of the Committee to Evaluate the Supplemental Security Income Disability Program for Children with Mental Disorders (2014–2016).

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE FELLOW

Julie Sees, D.O., M.B.A., is a pediatric/neuro-orthopedic surgeon with dual-fellowship training in pediatric orthopedic surgery and neuro-orthopedic surgery. She has expertise in care for children and young adults with neuromotor-orthopedic disorders. An active member of the osteopathic medical profession, Dr. Sees serves on the American Osteopathic Association Board of Trustees, American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopedics (AOAO) Board of Directors, American Osteopathic Foundation (AOF) Vice President, Delaware State Osteopathic Medical Society President, and American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine Webmaster. Dr. Sees has authored more than 75 peer-reviewed publications/chapters and made more than 200 national and international conference presentations/instructional courses, including health care delivery and international strategy. Her research and advocacy includes best practices within physician professional development, neuro-orthopedics, complex motor conditions, gait abnormalities, pediatric subspecialty care, clinician well-being, and emerging leadership in health, education, and medicine. She was the recipient of an Emerging Leader Award by the AOF and the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine Alumni Association, J. Richard Bowen, M.D., Teaching Award, 2 U.S. patents with Pfizer Global Research and Development, and prestigious designation as Fellow of both the AOAO and the American Orthopedic Association. Dr. Sees obtained her B.A. in Chemistry/Religious Studies as a Division I scholarly athlete from College of the Holy Cross; earned her M.D. from Midwestern University Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine; completed her orthopedic residency at the former University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; and earned her Healthcare Executive M.B.A., summa cum laude, from Saint Joseph’s University Haub School of Business. Dr. Sees is a Fellow of Osteopathic Medicine with the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, working on the Action Collaborative for Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, Neuroscience Forum, and Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce Impact on Child Health, and medical director of Neuro-Orthopaedics/Spine Surgery for the CVS Health Medical Health Services Northeast Territory.

STAFF

Ruth Cooper, B.A., is an associate program officer with the Board on Health Care Services at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She has worked on several National Academies projects, including studies on the organ transplantation system, space radiation and cancer risk, building data capacity for conducting patient-centered outcomes research, cancer and disability, and evidence-based opioid prescribing, as

well as workshops on organ transplant and disability, companion animals as sentinels for environmental exposures, and diagnostic excellence in cardiac events, cancers, and COVID-19. She had also assisted with numerous National Cancer Policy Forum workshops ranging from the cancer workforce to health literacy. Prior to joining the National Academies, Ms. Cooper spent a year volunteering at Open Arms Home for Children in South Africa. She has previously worked at the U.S. Arctic Research Commission and participated in three Arctic field cruises. Ms. Cooper holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in Neuroscience and Behavior with a minor in Mediterranean Middle Eastern studies, and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in International Science and Technology Policy at The George Washington University.

Tracy Lustig, D.P.M., M.P.H., is a senior program officer with the Board on Health Care Services at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Lustig was trained in podiatric medicine and surgery and spent several years in private practice. In 1999 she was awarded a congressional fellowship with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and spent a year working in the office of Ron Wyden of the U.S. Senate. Dr. Lustig joined the National Academies in 2004. She was the study director for consensus studies on the geriatrics workforce, oral health, ovarian cancer research, and social isolation and loneliness, and was the co-director of a 2022 study on the quality of care in nursing homes. She has also directed workshops on the allied health workforce, the use of telehealth to serve rural populations, assistive technologies, hearing loss, and biomarkers of disability. In 2009 she staffed an Academies-wide initiative on the “Grand Challenges of an Aging Society” and subsequently helped to launch the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence, which she currently directs. Dr. Lustig has a doctor of podiatric medicine degree from Temple University and an M.P.H. with a concentration in health policy from The George Washington University.

Sharyl J. Nass, Ph.D., serves as senior director of the Board on Health Care Services and co-director of the National Cancer Policy Forum at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The National Academies provide independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions related to science, technology, and medicine. To enable the best possible care for all patients, the Board undertakes scholarly analysis of the organization, financing, effectiveness, workforce, and delivery of health care, with emphasis on quality, cost, accessibility, and equity. The Forum examines policy issues pertaining to the entire continuum of cancer research and care. For more than two decades, Dr. Nass has worked on a broad range of health

and science policy topics that includes the quality of health care and clinical trials, developing technologies for precision medicine, and strategies to support patient and clinician well-being. She has a Ph.D. from Georgetown University and undertook postdoctoral training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as a research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. She also holds a B.S. and an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has been the recipient of the Cecil Medal for Excellence in Health Policy Research, a Distinguished Service Award from the National Academies, the Institute of Medicine staff team achievement award (as team leader), and the Health and Medicine Division Mentor Award.

Tochi Ogbu-Mbadiugha, B.S., was a senior program assistant with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (through November 2022). Prior to joining the National Academies, she assisted the legislative practice at Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville PC with tracking legislation relevant to the firm’s health care, disability, and rehabilitation clients. She holds a B.S. in kinesiology from the University of Maryland College Park, where she completed research on the correlation between built environments and chronic disease rates among adults in urban settings.

Adaeze Okoroajuzie, B.H.S., is a senior program assistant with the Board on Health Care Services at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Prior to joining the National Academies, she was the president of GlobeMed at Howard University, a grassroots organization that works directly with the Nancholi Youth Organization in Blantyre, Malawi. She is a certified birth doula, providing free doula services to young mothers through the Mary’s Center doula volunteer program in Washington, DC. Through her content creator account “DazetheDoula,” she creates awareness and educates her community on birth education. A recent graduate of Howard University, Ms. Okoroajuzie obtained her B.H.S., magna cum laude, with a minor in biology and maternal child health. She was a member and case writer for the National Academies DC Public Health Case Challenge in 2019, 2021, and 2022.

Isaac Suh, M.S.P.H., is a research associate in the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Prior to joining the Academies, he obtained his B.S. in Global Public Health at New York University and his M.S.P.H. in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where he further specialized in risk sciences and policy.

Nikita Varman, M.P.H., was a research associate with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (through June 2022). Prior to joining the National Academies, Ms. Varman interned at Boston Children’s Hospital’s Office of Government Relations, where she advocated for children’s health care issues at the state and federal levels, and at Medecins sans Frontieres, where she researched accessibility of hepatitis C diagnostics. She is a 2020 graduate from Boston University with an M.P.H. in public health and concentrations in health policy and law as well as community assessment, program design, implementation, and evaluation. Ms. Varman also holds a B.S. in health sciences and a B.A. in political science, cum laude, as a Posse Foundation Scholar and Scarlet Key recipient from Boston University in 2019.

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