Appendix F

Committee Members, Fellows, and Staff Biosketches

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Tracy A. Lieu, M.D., M.P.H. (Chair), is a research scientist in the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, where she served as director of research 2012–2024. She is also a deputy editor for JAMA and its liaison to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). She is a professor in the Bernard J. Tyson Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine and an affiliate professor in the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. Dr. Lieu is a practicing pediatrician who has led seminal studies in vaccine safety and policy and decision sciences. Her current research studies how virtual care can be designed to facilitate quality and access for diverse patient populations. She served on the USPSTF and Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and chaired committees for National Institutes of Health and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies). She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Lieu was the founding director of the Center for Child Health Care Studies at Harvard University and received its medical school’s A. Clifford Barger Award for Excellence in Mentoring. She received an M.D. from UCSF School of Medicine and an M.P.H. from the University of California—Berkeley and completed pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Brenda J. Baker, Ph.D., RNC, is an associate professor at Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Previously, Dr. Baker worked as a clinical nurse specialist in perinatal settings. She was a 2021–2022 Robert

Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in Senator Bill Cassidy’s office and a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Her work focuses on the care of women and newborns, maternal well-being, and advocating for incarcerated pregnant and postpartum women. She is the founder of the Georgia Prison Motherhood Project, a collaboration between the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and the Georgia Department of Corrections that provides nursing students the opportunity to participate in and provide prenatal education, labor, and postpartum support for incarcerated women. She serves on state and national committees representing the unique needs of incarcerated pregnant women. Dr. Baker earned a diploma in nursing from Roanoke Memorial Hospital School of Professional Nursing, M.N. from Emory University, Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University, and J.M. from Emory Law School.

Rachel M. Bond, M.D., FACC, is system director of Women’s Heart Health at Dignity Health Arizona and assistant professor of internal medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine. A board-certified attending cardiologist and leading women’s heart health and prevention specialist in Arizona, Dr. Bond has authored several review papers referencing maternal health, sex and gender differences, cardiovascular conditions predominantly affecting women, and health care disparities. She is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), where she sits on a national committee for diversity, equity, and inclusion; board member and cochair of the Cardiovascular Disease in Women and Children Committee at the Association of Black Cardiologists; national spokesperson for the Go Red for Women campaign; and president of the board of directors of the American Heart Association, Greater Phoenix. Dr. Bond’s dedication to women’s heart health and advocacy, including her work addressing inequities in cardiovascular care, was recognized with the Nanette Wenger Award, and she was named one of Arizona’s Most Influential Women in 2022. She completed her M.D. and residency at New York University Grossman School of Medicine.

Thomas E. Dobbs, III, M.D., M.P.H., is dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and teaches epidemiology for the School of Population Health and School of Health-Related Professions. Dr. Dobbs had numerous leadership roles within the Mississippi State Department of Health, including state epidemiologist and state health officer; he directed the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, he has worked in leadership roles nationally and internationally in the fight against diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis. Dr. Dobbs is actively engaged in numerous research projects and community-based interventions in the fields of HIV, sexually transmitted

infections, and maternal health. These projects include establishing and disseminating a centering pregnancy group-based prenatal care in Mississippi, researching the social determinants associated with maternal morbidity and mortality, and addressing health-related social needs as a mechanism to improve postpartum engagement for people with severe hypertension (HTN) in pregnancy. He earned his M.P.H. and M.D. from the University of Alabama, where he also completed residencies in internal medicine and infectious diseases.

Cornelia R. Graves, M.D., is the medical director and managing partner of Tennessee Maternal Fetal Medicine, medical director for perinatal services at St. Thomas Health Systems, professor at the University of Tennessee, clinical professor at Vanderbilt University, and adjunct professor at Meharry Medical College. She is a former division director of maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) at Vanderbilt University and assistant dean for diversity. In 2014, Dr. Graves, along with cardiologist Stacy Davis, started the Collaborative Perinatal Cardiac Center, which is one of the first in the nation to address maternal heart care from prepregnancy through postpartum with a focus of long-term prevention. She serves on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) review committee for safety in perinatal research and holds grants from AHA, the Moore Foundation, and NIH. A past member of the board of directors of Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, she serves on the finance committee of its foundation and Tennessee Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC). Dr. Graves is a graduate of Baylor University, received her M.D. from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and earned the Purdue Fredrick Award for Excellence in Women’s Healthcare. She completed her internship, residency, and MFM fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). During her fellowship, she received special training in obstetrical critical care and became the director of one of the first critical care obstetrical units in the nation.

Kathryn Jesseca Lindley, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine and obstetrics and gynecology and developer and the Samuel S. Riven Director of the Women’s Heart Center at VUMC. She developed and directed the Washington University Center for Women’s Heart Disease 2014–2022. She is the immediate past chair of the ACC Cardiovascular Disease in Women Committee and chair of the ACC Reproductive Health and Cardio-Obstetrics Leadership Council. Her clinical expertise is in cardio-obstetrics and adult congenital heart disease. She has contributed to national efforts to improve maternal cardiovascular health in conjunction with the ACC, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and NIH. She has been a member of both Illinois (2017–2022) and Tennessee (2024–present) MMRCs. Her research

is focused on understanding and mitigating the impact of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy on short- and long-term adverse cardiovascular outcomes. She is coauthor of a paper on ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway Document for postpartum care that will be released in early 2026. She completed an M.D. at Emory University School of Medicine and internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship training at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

Daryl J. Selen, M.D., is an assistant professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She specializes in women’s endocrine disorders and endocrine disorders in pregnancy at Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Her research interests include the epidemiology of gestational and pregestational diabetes, with a focus on prepregnancy, interpregnancy, and postpartum periods and long-term maternal health outcomes after gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and gestational glucose intolerance. Dr. Selen has published articles focusing primarily on women’s endocrine disorders and been invited to present nationally about diabetes and hyperglycemia in pregnancy and reproductive endocrine disorders. She received her M.D. from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and completed residency in internal medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University, where she obtained additional expertise in women’s health through the Women’s Health Track. Her fellowship training in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism was at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University. While in fellowship, she pursued specialized training in women’s endocrine disorders, including diabetes and endocrine disorders in pregnancy, GDM, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility.

Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Ph.D., M.S., is dean and professor in the School of Public Health & Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts—Amherst. She is a nutritional epidemiologist whose research focuses on understanding the influence of maternal weight status and dietary patterns/behaviors in the etiology of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including GDM, pregnancy-induced HTN, preeclampsia, preterm birth, and inadequate or excessive gestational weight gain. Her most recent NIH grant, as co-principal investigator (PI), focused on examining the association of maternal prepregnancy health with childhood eating and weight status in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Dr. Siega-Riz serves on the National Academies Food and Nutrition Board and is a board member for the International Food Information Council and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts. She was on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Federal Advisory Committee, NIH’s Council of Councils, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Advisory Council, National Academies

Division of Health and Medicine (HMD) Advisory Council, Department of Agriculture/Department of Health and Human Services Pregnancy Technical Expert Committee, B–24-month Project, and several other Institute of Medicine committees. Dr. Siega-Riz holds an M.S. in food, nutrition, and food service management from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Greensboro and a Ph.D. in nutrition with a minor in epidemiology from the UNC at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Steven M. Smith, Pharm.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor of pharmacy, chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the University of Florida, and codirector for the Center for Integrative Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases. His research focuses on understanding and improving the use of medications for preventing and treating cardiovascular disease (CVD) at the population level. HTN and its treatment are the major area of focus, and his lab employs a variety of methodological approaches, including clinical trials and observational studies. Dr. Smith is an elected fellow of the AHA and American College of Clinical Pharmacy and the University of Florida member representative of the National Hypertension Control Roundtable. He served as the National Academy of Medicine Anniversary Fellow in Pharmacy. Dr. Smith holds a Pharm.D. and M.P.H. from the University of Florida.

Chien-Wen Tseng, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., is the past professor, director of research, and past Hawai‘i Medical Service Association Endowed Chair in Health Services and Quality Research at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Dr. Tseng served on the USPTSF (2016–2021), working on over 60 primary preventive care recommendations and statements, including those involving pregnancy, cardiovascular risk factors, and CVD. She has led and collaborated on research studies to improve quality of care, make care more affordable, prevent disease through primary care outreach, and use health information technology to innovate care. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and alumna of the RWJF Clinical Scholars and Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Programs. Dr. Tseng received her B.S. in electrical engineering and mathematical sciences at Rice University, M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and M.D. and M.P.H. from the University of California, Los Angeles and completed family medicine training at the University of Washington.

Rachel Urrutia, M.D., M.S., is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UNC at Chapel Hill. She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and preventive medicine. Dr. Urrutia served on the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Women’s Preventive Services Initiative

Multidisciplinary Steering Committee and assisted in developing the Well-Women Chart, which provides a framework for incorporating preventive health services for women into clinical practice. She is also part of the Research Triangle Institute–UNC Evidence-Based Practice Center, which conducts evidence reviews that inform USPTSF recommendations, and the women’s health medical consultant at the North Carolina Division of Public Health, where she provides technical assistance and guidance to local health departments in the 100 counties that are ensuring high-quality prenatal and family planning care. She supports the state MMRC in her role as medical consultant. Her research focuses on finding ways to promote high-quality, equitable care for individuals in their reproductive years and the menopause transition. She is one of the PIs of the ACURE4Moms study, which focuses on practice-based data accountability and community doula interventions to decrease low birth weight. She completed her B.A. at Clark University, M.D. at Harvard Medical School, and M.S. in epidemiology and clinical trials at UNC at Chapel Hill.

Janet Wei, M.D., FACC, FAHA, is an associate professor of cardiology and biomedical sciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She holds the Erika J. Glazer Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Research, Education, and Innovation and is program director of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program at the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute, codirector of the Stress Echocardiography Lab, and associate medical director of the Biomedical Imaging Research Institute. Her clinical and research interests include CVD in women, preventive cardiology, coronary vasomotor dysfunction, and advanced cardiac imaging. She serves as the Southern California governor of the state chapter of the ACC and a member of the ACC Reproductive Health & CardioObstetrics (formerly CardioObstetrics) Section. She was on the Southern California Mortality Review Committee 2020–2023, ACOG Pregnancy and Heart Disease Task Force 2018–2019, and Abbott Vascular Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction Advisory Board 2020–2022. She completed her internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, which was followed by advanced clinical and research training in women’s heart disease as an NIH T32 Trainee in the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai. She received her M.D. from Northwestern University.

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE FELLOWS

2023–2025 Gant/American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) Fellow

Michelle P. Debbink, M.D., Ph.D., is an maternal–fetal medicine (MFM) specialist, assistant professor, and departmental vice chair for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the University of Utah in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her clinical interests include complex maternal and fetal care, with a particular emphasis on high-quality, responsive care for historically marginalized women with high-risk pregnancies. She has focused her clinical, professional, and investigational efforts on the structural and community-level factors that contribute to racial and geographic health equity in pregnancy outcomes. As a Reproductive Scientist Development Program scholar, she conducts community-engaged mixed-methods research with Native Hawai‘ian and Pacific Islander and Native American/Indigenous mothers to understand community risk and resilience related to maternal morbidity and perinatal health. These collaborations have resulted in multiple funded awards to develop, implement, and test culturally responsive interventions for perinatal mental health, substance use disorders, and respectful care. She also has expertise in geographic information science as applied to population health and social epidemiology analyses that inform and bolster qualitative and community led research. She is a member of the Utah Perinatal Mortality Review Committee, Society for Reproductive Investigation Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, and ACOG Committee on Indigenous Health. Dr. Debbink is a National Academy of Medicine Gant/ABOG Fellow (2023–2025). She earned her M.D. and Ph.D. in health services organization and policy and completed her obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Michigan. Her MFM fellowship was at the University of Utah.

2024–2026 National Academy of Medicine Fellow to Advance State Health Policy

Yohualli B. Anaya, M.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin—Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. As core faculty, she teaches residents and medical students and is a primary care doctor at a Federally Qualified Health Center. Dr. Anaya is codirector of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture Accelerating Leadership Institute, 2024–2026 National Academy of Medicine Fellow to Advance State Health Policy, associate editor for Family Medicine, faculty expert for the Latina Futures Lab, and physician board director for the University of

Wisconsin Health Accountable Care Organization board of directors. Her research interests include Latinx and immigrant health and investigating and addressing aspects of health care delivery that impact care accessibility. She has collaborated on various research and policy efforts with organizations such as the California Health Care Foundation and been a featured expert for the California Legislature Assembly Health Committee, California Latino Legislative Caucus, and Hispanas Organized for Political Equality. She is a University of Wisconsin—Madison Centennial Scholars and Clinicians Program awardee and was a 2023 Visiting Scholar at the Robert Graham Center and 2024 NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Health Disparities Research Institute Scholar. She earned her M.D. and M.P.H. from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. She completed residency at the University of California, Los Angeles Family Medicine Residency Program.

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Amy Geller, M.P.H., is a senior program officer in the Center for Health, People, and Places in the Health Care and Public Health Program Area. During her over 20 years at the National Academies, she has staffed committees spanning many topics, including women’s health, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, workforce resilience, vaccine safety, reducing tobacco use, drug safety, and treating posttraumatic stress disorder. She was the study director for the recently released National Academies report A New Vision for Women’s Health Research: Transformative Change at the National Institutes of Health. She also directs the DC Public Health Case Challenge, a joint activity of the National Academies Roundtable on Population Health Improvement and National Academy of Medicine that aims to promote interdisciplinary, problem-based learning for college students at universities in the DC area.

L. Brielle Dojer, M.P.H., was a research associate in the Center for Health, People, and Places in the Health Care and Public Health Program Area until November 2025. She served as a research associate supporting other National Academies reports, including Federal Policy to Advance Racial, Ethnic, and Tribal Health and A New Vision for Women’s Health Research: Transformative Change at the National Institutes of Health. She holds an M.P.H. from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a B.A. in cellular and molecular biology and genetics from Boston University. Before pursuing a career in public health, she worked in research laboratories at New York University Langone and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Aisha Bhimla, Ph.D., M.P.H., was a program officer in the Health and Medicine Division until July 2025. She served as study director on the recently released report Advancing Research on Chronic Conditions in Women. Before joining the National Academies, she was a health quantitative senior analyst at Abt Global, supporting various federally and internationally funded health-related projects. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Asian Health at Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine 2020–2022, where she supported and conducted research on health disparities and community-based interventions on chronic disease and cancer, physical activity, cognitive functioning, and teen pregnancy/sexually transmitted infection prevention.

Dara Ancona, M.P.H., is an associate program officer in the Center for Health, People, and Places in the Health Care and Public Health Program Area. She served as an associate program officer supporting other National Academies studies, including Enhancing NIH Research on Autoimmune Disease, Evidence Review of the Adverse Effects of COVID-19 Vaccination and Intramuscular Vaccine Administration, and Vaccine Risk Monitoring and Evaluation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Before joining the National Academies, she was an epidemiologist at a local health department specializing in communicable disease and public health emergency preparedness. She holds a B.S. in health sciences from New York Institute of Technology and M.P.H. in epidemiology from George Washington University.

Madeleine Deye, B.A., is research associate in the Center for Health, People, and Places in the Health Care and Public Health Program Area. She was the editorial projects coordinator for the National Academy of Medicine, where she developed and edited discussion papers on a variety of public health topics, including systems thinking in public health, accountable communities for health, and women’s health research. She received a B.A. in English literature from Boston College, where her thesis on disability representation in adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s plays won the 2021 Doherty Honors Project Award. She is pursuing an M.Sc. in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Ella Castanier was a senior program assistant in the Health and Medicine Division’s Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice until August of 2025. In addition, she supported studies on behavioral health and women’s health. She received a B.A. in history with a minor in medical humanities from Georgetown University and completed an honors thesis on the intellectual history of Black psychiatry during the civil rights period. She interned at Georgetown University Press on the acquisitions editorial and

publicity teams and volunteered for the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice, assisting with early planning for the center and reviewing inaugural fellowship applications. She is pursuing an M.Sc. in history of science, medicine, and technology at the University of Oxford.

Katie Peterson, B.A., is a senior program assistant in the Center for Health, People, and Places in the Biomedical and Health Sciences Program area. She has supported consensus studies on public health topics, such as vaccine communications and military health. She graduated from Purdue University, where she double majored in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and anthropology, with concentrations in applied anthropology, anthropology of health, and cultural anthropology. In addition, she earned minors in psychology and French.

Rose Marie Martinez, Sc.D., was the director of the Health and Medicine Division (formerly the Institute of Medicine) Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice 1999–January 2026. Earlier, Dr. Martinez was a senior health researcher at Mathematica Policy Research (1995–1999), where she conducted research on the impact of health system change on the public health infrastructure, access to care for vulnerable populations, managed care, and the health care workforce. She is a former assistant director for health financing and policy with the U.S. General Accounting Office and directed research studies for the Regional Health Ministry of Madrid, Spain, for 6 years.

Sharyl J. Nass, Ph.D., serves as senior program director for Health Care and Public Health Program Area at the National Academies, which provide independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions related to science, technology, and medicine. The Health Care and Public Health Program Area addresses the delivery of primary and specialty health care across the life course, including care quality and patient safety, workforce, training, and financing and public health services, including prevention, surveillance, epidemiology, and population health improvement. For more than 25 years, Dr. Nass has worked on a broad range of health and science policy topics that includes cancer research and care, the quality and safety of health care and clinical trials, developing technologies for precision medicine, and strategies to support clinician and patient well-being. She has a Ph.D. from Georgetown University, postdoctoral training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. She also holds a B.S. and M.S. from the University

of Wisconsin—Madison. She has been the recipient of the Cecil Medal for Excellence in Health Policy Research, Distinguished Service Award from the National Academies, Institute of Medicine staff team achievement award (as team leader), and Health and Medicine Division Mentor Award.

Y. Crysti Park was the program coordinator for the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice until October 2025. previously, she was in marketing and sales management for over 15 years, working on creating catalogs, merchandising, and production in the garment industry. She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and Cornell University. Now, she is a membership associate for the National Academy of Sciences Executive Office.