Appendix A

Biosketches of Committee Members and Staff

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Tina L. Cheng (Co-Chair, she/her) is the B.K. Rachford Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, director of the Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, and chief medical officer at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She was previously chair of pediatrics and pediatrician-in-chief at Johns Hopkins University. Her clinical work, teaching, and research focus on child, adolescent, and family perspectives on improving health; community-integrated models to interrupt the intergenerational cycle of disadvantage; as well as innovation and transformation for excellent and equitable health outcomes. Cheng completed Brown University’s 7-year program in medicine. She also completed her pediatrics residency and chief residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco General Hospital. At the University of California, Berkeley, she received an MPH in epidemiology and completed a preventive medicine residency, followed by a fellowship in academic general pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has served on National Academies Committees and the Forum for Children’s Well-Being. Cheng currently is consulting editor for Pediatric Clinics of North America and past president of the Academic Pediatric Association and holds leadership roles in the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs.

James M. Perrin (Co-Chair, he/him) is professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and formerly directed the Division of General Pediatrics at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children and its Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy. Perrin currently holds the MGH John C. Robinson Distinguished Chair in Pediatrics. He has been on faculty at the University of Rochester as well as Vanderbilt University. His work has recently addressed how to improve Medicaid for younger people in Massachusetts and nationally, with an emphasis on children and youth with chronic conditions. Perrin is a graduate of Harvard College and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, and did his residency and fellowship at the University of Rochester. He developed a rural community health center between Rochester and Buffalo. He has served on the boards of Family Voices, the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (University of North Carolina), and the Institute for Exceptional Care. A member of the National Academy of Medicine, he has been on several National Academies committees. He is past president of the Academic Pediatric Association (APA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and he currently chairs the AAP Committee on Child Health Financing. He was founding editor of the APA journal Academic Pediatrics.

Louis P. Appel (he/him) serves as director of pediatrics at People’s Community Clinic (PCC), a federally qualified health center in Austin, Texas. He previously served as chief medical officer of PCC. At PCC, Appel has championed the promotion of early relational health and projects on group pediatric well-child checks, postpartum depression screening, lactation support, and childhood obesity prevention focused on the prenatal and immediate postpartum periods. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a member of the American Public Health Association, and a member of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child’s Pediatric Innovation Initiative. Appel received an MD from Harvard Medical School and obtained an MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health, with a concentration in public management and community health. He completed his pediatric residency at the University of Washington in Seattle. Appel serves on a Medicaid advisory committee for BlueCross BlueShield of Texas and is immediate past president of the Texas Pediatric Society, the Texas chapter of the AAP.

Christina Bethell (she/her) is professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on building and translating the science of healthy development to promote early and lifelong health of children, youth, families, and communities. Her roots are in national and state health care policy, financing reform, and delivery system redesign to promote whole child and family health and integrated services.

Bethell is founding director of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative as well as the Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health. She led the design and national use of adult-, child-, and family-centered quality and outcomes measures in common use today, including measures of medical homes, children with special health care needs, promoting healthy development, adverse childhood experiences, positive childhood experiences, family resilience, and child flourishing, as well as the Integrated Child Risk Index. Her research has shaped policies regarding adverse childhood experiences and relational health promotion, including providing testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform on identifying, preventing, and treating childhood trauma. She earned an MBA and MPH from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in public policy and health services research from The University of Chicago.

Ashleigh F. Bowman (she/her) is assistant professor of maternal child health nursing in the College of Nursing at the University of South Alabama. She maintains an active practice as a pediatric nurse practitioner in the Pediatric Emergency Center at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital in Mobile, Alabama, with a particular interest in caring for critically ill and medically complex children. Bowman’s professional expertise in pediatric emergency medicine has recently focused on caring for children who have been physically and/or sexually abused. Her research interest is focused on health care policy, particularly how policy intersects with advanced nursing practice and how policy impacts child health outcomes. She is a member of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners where she serves on the Health Policy Committee and the International Association of Forensic Nurses. She received a DNP from the University of South Alabama and is a board-certified pediatric acute care nurse practitioner.

Nathan T. Chomilo (he/him) is medical director for the State of Minnesota’s Medicaid and MinnesotaCare programs, adjunct assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and general pediatrician with Park Nicollet Health Services/HealthPartners. He served as the State of Minnesota’s COVID-19 vaccine equity director and as senior advisor on equity to the Minnesota Commissioner of Health. Chomilo received an MD from the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he also completed his combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics and was a pediatric chief resident. Chomilo is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and currently serves in an uncompensated advisory role for some of the organization’s expert committees, including the Medicaid and CHIP Expert Advisory Panel, the Section on Minority Health Equity and Inclusion, and the Council on Early Childhood. He is a board member of the AAP chapter in Minnesota that operates independently from AAP.

Ashleigh D. Coser (she/her) is a health service psychologist with the Cherokee Nation. She oversees and provides integrated behavioral health services across multiple clinics and serves as an internship and practicum supervisor. Coser currently serves as a board member with the Oklahoma Psychological Association and recently served as chair for the Native American Special Interest Group with the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. She is a member of the Choctaw Nation and a descendant of the Creek and Chickasaw nations. Her research interests include examining the parent–child relationship among American Indian families and maternal mental health. Her recent publications have focused on conducting behavioral research in American Indian communities and examining psychometric properties of measures used widely with that population. Coser earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Oklahoma State University and completed her internship at the Indian Health Care Resource Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She completed her postdoctoral training at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

Alison E. Cuellar (she/her) is professor of health administration and policy at George Mason University and research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. She serves as chair of the Community Preventive Services Task Force, an independent, nonfederal panel of public health and prevention experts that provides evidence-based findings and recommendations about community preventive services, programs, and other interventions aimed at improving population health; she is also an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Cuellar has extensive research experience in evaluation, including the impact of new organizational forms, such as hospital systems and physician alliances and their effects on quality, efficiency, costs, prices, and equity. She also studies Medicaid and private payer initiatives, payment and coverage policy related to primary care and behavioral health, and the intersection with the legal–carceral systems. She received a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. Cuellar published the article “Value-based Payment, the Safety Net, and Rethinking Risk” in the American Journal of Managed Care.

Hala H. Durrah (she/her) is an independent patient family engagement consultant. Her passion for patient family engagement work stems from her experience as a mother of a chronically ill child who has undergone two liver transplants and a bone marrow transplant. As a subject matter expert and policy analyst in patient partnership and engagement, Durrah serves as a consultant on projects focused on patient-centered measurement, quality improvement, patient safety, health equity, child health, health care transformation, medical education and board certification, patient-partnered research, and patient experience. In 2020, she was elected to the

American Board of Emergency Medicine as their first public member director and recently selected to serve as the public member on the Committee for Certification to the American Board of Medical Specialties. Durrah has advised and provided her expertise to many organizations—including, but not limited to, the American Institutes for Research, National Association of Community Health Centers, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Community Catalyst, National Quality Forum, American Hospital Association, MedStar Health, and Anne Arundel Medical Center. She received a BA in international affairs and an MA in tourism administration, both from The George Washington University. Durrah currently serves as core faculty and family advisory lead for the Accelerating Child Health Transformation initiative led by the Center for Health Care Strategies with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has also published the article “My Child Is Sick; Don’t Call Her A ‘Consumer’” in Health Affairs.

Carole Roan Gresenz (she/her) is professor of public policy and health at Georgetown University and currently holds the Bette Jacobs endowed professorship. Previously, she was interim dean of the School of Nursing & Health Studies and senior advisor for Strategic Health Initiatives at Georgetown and served in various roles at the RAND Corporation, including as senior economist; director of the Economics, Sociology and Statistics Department; and director of the Health Economics, Finance, and Organization program. Her research background is broad-based and includes work on children’s health insurance, access to health care among uninsured children, children’s behavioral health care, gun violence, provider payment policies, and local health care policy making. She received an MA and PhD in economics from Brown University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Loyola University Maryland. Gresenz serves on the MedStar Healthcare Delivery Research advisory board and previously served on the scientific council for Georgetown/MedStar Health.

Kelly J. Kelleher (he/him) is the inaugural ADS chair of innovation and vice president for community health at Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH) and distinguished professor of pediatrics, psychiatry and public health at The Ohio State University. He is founding director of the Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research at NCH and developer of the Healthy Neighborhood/Healthy Family program in Columbus, Ohio, where his research and leadership focus on population health for children and young families, financing mechanisms that facilitate population health, and public–private collaborations for local community development on behalf of children. Kelleher received the national Hearst Population Health Prize and is steering committee chair for the national PEDSnet research consortium.

He received his BS and MD from The Ohio State University, his pediatric residency training from Northwestern University, his MPH from Johns Hopkins, and his fellowship training through the Epidemiology Training Program at the National Institute of Mental Health. He has also served on three previous consensus committees of the National Academies and the Forum for Children’s Well-Being and was a founding participant in the pediatric Digital Learning subcommittee of the National Academy of Medicine Leadership Consortium for a Value and Science-Driven Health System, which led to the formation of PEDSnet. Kelleher is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He published the article “Promoting Children’s Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral (MEB) Health in All Public Systems, Post-COVID-19” in Administration and Policy in Mental Health.

William Martinez (he/him) is associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and director of the Child and Adolescent Services clinic in the Division of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. He is currently director of pediatric mental health for the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative, a multidisciplinary group across several departments and hospitals focused on improving the health of asylees and their families. Martinez is also principal investigator of the Fuerte program, a school-based group prevention program targeting newcomer immigrant youth at risk for behavioral health concerns. His overall clinical and research aims are concentrated on reducing behavioral health disparities among ethnic minority youth, with a specific focus on Latinx and immigrant populations. He takes a socioecological approach to understanding these concerns across three areas of inquiry: (1) the impact of social determinants on behavioral health disparities; (2) implementation and dissemination of evidence-based prevention and intervention programming for traumatic stress; and (3) informed policy focused on improving conditions for asylee youth. Martinez received a PhD in clinical child psychology from DePaul University. He is board certified through the American Board of Professional Psychology in clinical child and adolescent psychology and has a certificate in implementation science through UCSF. He is retained by Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc., as a compensated member of an expert panel on a revision of the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children.

Philip O. Ozuah (he/him) is president and CEO of Montefiore Einstein Medicine, the umbrella organization for Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He previously served as president and chief operating officer of Montefiore Health System and professor and

university chairman of pediatrics and physician-in-chief of the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. In these roles, Ozuah expanded access for underserved communities, advanced programs of excellence, fostered innovations, and improved financial and operational performance. His research focuses on addressing disparities in pediatric asthma and obesity. Ozuah is a member of the National Institutes of Health study sections; a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Academic Pediatric Association, Society for Pediatric Research, and American Pediatric Society. Most recently he was elected chair of the Health Systems Committee of the American Hospital Association. Ozuah earned an MD from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria; an MSc, with a specialization in medical education, from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and a PhD in educational leadership and administration from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he published articles in The New York Times and in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals issue on health inequities.

Sarah A. Stoddard (she/her) is associate professor of nursing and health behavior health education at the University of Michigan. Her career has focused on promoting the health and wellbeing of youth living in communities characterized by substantial health and social disparities. Stoddard has served as a public health nurse focused on maternal–child health and a nurse practitioner in community- and school-based clinics; she was also state adolescent health coordinator for the Minnesota Department of Health. Her research aims to improve understanding of youth development within adverse contexts and apply strengths-based approaches to prevention in school and community settings. Stoddard serves on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Community Preventive Services Task Force. She has held leadership positions for the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science and the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, and served as a member of the executive committee for the National Network of State Adolescent Health Coordinators. She is a fellow of the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine and the American Academy of Nursing. Stoddard received her undergraduate degree in nursing from Minnesota State University at Mankato, and an MS and PhD from the University of Minnesota.

Lequisha S. Turner (she/her) is a predoctoral psychology intern with the University of Nebraska Medical Center Munroe Meyer Institute. She is also a licensed mental health professional and faculty member in the University of Nebraska Omaha Grace Abbott School of Social Work. Turner works with children, adolescents, and families from historically underserved

communities. She has provided behavioral health care in a federally qualified health center, a school-based health clinic, and multiple integrated primary care locations. She is also a member of American Psychological Association’s Division 17 Society of Counseling Psychology and Division 45 Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race. Turner obtained both her BA and MSW from the University of Nebraska Omaha and is currently completing her PhD in educational psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Jennifer R. Walton (she/her) is section chief of developmental behavioral pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and is part of the leadership of the university’s Mailman Center for Child Development. She is a champion of health equity, diversity, inclusion, and intersectionality. Walton has served on the board of directors for the Society for Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics and on the executive committee of the Pediatric Section of the National Medical Association. She now serves on the professional advisory board for the Williams Syndrome Association. Walton received an MD from the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (now called NEOMED) and an MPH from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She is a member and fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and volunteers on the executive committee for the member section on developmental behavioral pediatrics. She has been interviewed and contributed to articles on priorities for developmental and behavioral pediatrics and racism in pediatric health.

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE FELLOW

Kai N. Cheong is associate consultant pediatric specialist at the Hong Kong Children’s Hospital at Kai Tak. As a specialist in pediatric immunology, infectious diseases, and rheumatology, she is responsible for translocating the hospital’s existing tertiary service from Queen Mary Hospital at The University of Hong Kong, in addition to setting up and consolidating their entirely new quaternary regional service model in these specialties. Within just a few months, Cheong has led a small team to successfully implement a cost-efficient, innovative, one-stop, integrated, holistic, multidisciplinary service model in a Public Hospital Authority hospital within the framework of a public health care system heavily subsidized by the Hong Kong government. This service is the first of its kind in the region that is truly able to provide a comprehensive and personalized service for a large group of patients with complex diseases—at no extra cost to the patients and thus easily accessible to Hong Kong residents across all socioeconomic strata.

STAFF

Abigail Allen is an associate program officer with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Law and Justice. Previously, she worked for the Animal Legal Defense Fund as a criminal defense law clerk and legislative affairs intern. Her research and writing centered on projects related to COVID-19’s impact on the factory farming industry and aquatic animal law. Allen also worked as a criminal defense law clerk for a private firm in Fairfax, Virginia. She received both a BA in criminology, law, and society and a JD from George Mason University, after obtaining an associate degree from Northern Virginia Community College.

Emma Moore is senior program assistant with the Board on Children, Youth, and Families. She is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, where she earned a BA in criminology and criminal justice and family science. Her interests include juvenile justice and the reciprocal relationship of the criminal justice system on families and youth. Prior to working at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Moore held an internship at the Maryland Governor’s Office of Crime Prevention, Youth, and Victim Services. She anticipates attending graduate school in the future to obtain an MSW.

Shaakira Parker is associate program officer with the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Before joining the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, she was policy associate in the Child Health Advocacy Institute and the Early Childhood Innovation Network at Children’s National Hospital, where she focused on policy, advocacy, and systems change to improve the public behavioral health system for children and families in the District of Columbia. Parker has a bachelor’s degree in child development from Vanderbilt University and a master’s in public health from The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. She is interested in how research can be used to develop evidence-based policies and prevention programs to address social and health disparities.

Julie Anne Schuck is senior program officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In this role, Schuck regularly manages projects and staff teams; provides analytical, administrative, and editorial support for studies and convening activities; and serves as a technical writer. Projects have covered a wide range of subjects, including the health and wellbeing of children and youth, law and justice issues, incarceration and health, national security, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, the science of human-system integration, workforce development, and the evaluations of several federal research and assistance programs. Schuck received a BS in engineering physics from the University of California, San Diego, and an MS in education from Cornell University.

Sunia Young is research associate with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Children, Youth, and Families. She previously worked as case manager at a Washington, DC–based behavioral health organization and as contact tracer for the State of Utah during the COVID-19 pandemic. Young also interned at the Carter Center’s Mental Health Program and with a DC-based organization that supports Asian women who have experienced domestic violence and sexual assault. Additionally, she has studied the Persian language extensively and spent the summer of 2018 in Tajikistan studying the Iranian and Tajik dialects of Persian through the U.S. Department of State. Young graduated from Davidson College with a BS in psychology and a minor in Arab studies. Sunia is currently pursuing her master’s in public health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.