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Barbara Brandt, PhDCurrent Position:President, Philanthropic Consulting ServicesShort Bio:Barbara K. Brandt (Columbus, Ohio) is president of Barbara K. Brandt, Inc. PhilanthropicConsulting Services, charitable giving and strategic planning services for corporations,families, non-profits and foundations. Previously, she served as Director of Developmentfor the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences and as a Director of CentralOhio Campaign during the first major capital campaign at Ohio State. She also servedas V.P. of the Ohio Health Foundation as well as The Columbus Foundation. Barbarareceived her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and Ohio StateUniversity in 1963.
William (Bill) ConsidineCurrent Postion:President and CEO at Akron Children’s HospitalShort Bio:Bill Considine has been the chief executive officer and president of Akron Children’sHospital since 1979. As one of the longest serving hospital CEOs in the United States,Considine has overseen exponential growth of the hospital while remaining involved inhealthcare, educational and cultural organizations at the local, state and national levels.He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and a board memberof the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI)and American Hospital Association (AHA). He is also chairman of Akron Tomorrow andthe Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron.Considine is a seasoned spokesperson on pediatric lobbying issues, healthcare reformand business trends in healthcare.
Patricia Gabbe, MDCurrent Position:Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Wexner Medical CenterShort Bio:Dr. Patricia Gabbe is a pediatrician at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The OhioState University Wexner Medical Center. She is also a clinical professor of pediatricsand senior medical advisor to the Ohio State Health Plan. In 2010, Patricia founded aprogram called Moms2B, which is a community-based program that empowerspregnant women in low-income neighborhoods to have healthy pregnancies and -t-gabbe
Jacob Gayle, PhDCurrent Position:Vice President of Medtronic PhilanthropyShort Bio:DR. JACOB A. GAYLE is the Vice President of Medtronic Philanthropy, leadingthe philanthropic and community affairs programs of Medtronic, Inc. since he joined thecompany in August 2011.Medtronic is the global leader in medical technology, focused on innovativesolutions to fulfill its global Mission: to alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. Thecompany’s philanthropic efforts are centered on leveraging its people, products andprograms to expand access to chronic disease care to underserved communitiesworldwide. Dr. Gayle has a distinguished career in international public health anddiplomacy that has spanned three decades and several of the world’s leading health,development and philanthropic institutions, including Deputy Vice President of the FordFoundation, Senior Public Health Officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control andPrevention (CDC), and various other health and social development roles with U.S.Agency for International Development (USAID), United Nations, World Bank and CarterCenter. Dr. Gayle has served on six continents and completed long-term residentialassignments across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, North America and Europe.A lifelong devotee to academia, Dr. Gayle completed his Ph.D. in International/Community Health (Health Education) at The Ohio State University, where he alsoearned his M.A. in Community Health Education and M.Sc. in Preventive Medicine. AtOberlin College, he completed a B.A. in Psychobiology. Dr. Gayle received tenure asAssociate Professor of Community Health at Kent State University before joining CDCin 1989, and has since served as Adjunct Associate Professor at Rollins School ofPublic Health at Emory University. His scholarship has been published in keyprofessional journals and his leadership contributions within numerous professionalconferences and deliberations. Currently, he serves Oberlin College as a member of itsboard of trustees,and is a member of the Institute of Medicine Board on Global Health.United States citizen by birth, Dr. Gayle celebrates his global citizenship overall,including his strong ties to the Caribbean.
Bernie Goldstein, MDCurrent Position:Emeritus Professor and Emeritus DeanShort Bio:Dr. Goldstein, former dean of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of PublicHealth, is an environmental toxicologist whose research interests have focused largelyon the concept of biological markers in the field of risk assessment.He has published in the areas of blood toxicity, the formation of cancer-causingsubstances (free radicals) following exposure to inhalants, various aspects of publichealth decision-making and global issues in environmental medicine.Before coming to the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Goldstein was professor andchairman of the department of environmental and community medicine at the Universityof Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, wherehe established and directed the largest academic environmental and occupationalhealth program in the United States -- the Environmental and Occupational HealthSciences Institute.He also has served as an officer with the U.S. Public Health Service and as assistantadministrator for research and development at the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency.Dr. Goldstein received his medical degree from New York University and undergraduatedegree from the University of Wisconsin.http://www.pitt.edu/ bdgold/Academic.htm
R. Edward HowellCurrent Position:Professor, Former VP and CEO, University of Virginia Medical CenterShort Bio:Edward Howell retired as CEO and Vice President of the University of Virginia MedicalCenter in July 2014. A high school teacher and coach before embarking on a 37-yearcareer in health care, Howell, 66, plans to spend time in the classroom and pursuingfamily and personal interests. During his time as the Medical Center’s vice presidentand CEO, he taught in the Department of Public Health Sciences at U.Va. School ofMedicine, and has continued teaching there following his retirement.After becoming vice president and CEO in February 2002, Howell expanded the MedicalCenter’s offerings to better meet patient needs and created a network of carethroughout Virginia. The Medical Center has added nearly 100 additional inpatient beds;expanded its surgical and procedural capacity; built the Emily Couric Clinical CancerCenter; built the 40-bed Transitional Care Hospital; built a new clinical laboratory facility;and implemented an electronic medical record system.Howell has provided significant leadership throughout his career in the various areas ofacademic medicine, including serving as the chair of the Council of Teaching Hospitals,a member of the executive committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges,chair of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, chair of theUniversity Health System Consortium Board of Directors, co-chair of the Advisory Boardfor Clinical Research at the National Institutes of Health and a member of the AmericanHospital Association Long-Range Policy Committee. In 2010, he was recognized as theAmerican Heart Association’s Heart Ball honoree for the Charlottesville tire-july
Karen Hughes, MPHCurrent Position:RetiredFormer- Chief, Division of Family and Community Health Services, ODHShort Bio:Karen Hughes was the Chief of the Division of Family and Community Health Servicesat the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) with responsibilities for the administration andimplementation of a wide variety of statewide programs (e.g., Early Childhood, InfantMortality/Prematurity Prevention, Vision and Hearing Screening, Nutrition/WIC, OralHealth, Bureau for Children with Developmental and Special Health Needs, PrimaryCare and Rural Health, School and Adolescent Health). She had a staff ofapproximately 300 employees of various health professions. Hughes has been heavilyinvolved in perinatal and child health improvement initiatives statewide through the OhioBEACON Council (Best Evidence for Advancing Childhealth in Ohio NOW). Herprofessional experience prior to being chief of family and community services includesserving as interim director of Health, assistant and acting chief of the Bureau of OralHealth Services as well as the chief of the Bureau of Child and Family Health Servicesat ODH. Hughes also serves as the Title V Maternal and Child Health director for Ohioand has recently been appointed to the senior deputy committee of the Association ofState and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) representing the Association of Maternaland Child Health Programs (AMCHP).
Vikas Kapil, DO, MPH, FACOEMCurrent Position:Chief Medical Officer & AssociateDirector for ScienceCenter for Global HealthCenters for Disease Control And PreventionShort Bio:Dr. Vikas Kapil is the Chief Medical Officer and Associate Director for Science at CDC’sCenter for Global Health. Previously he was at the National Center for EnvironmentalHealth/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) where hehas served in several roles as part of the senior management team including as theChief Medical Officer. In addition, he was responsible for coordination ofNCEH/ATSDR’s global environmental health activities including CDC’s initiative onhousehold air pollution and health and a long standing collaboration on environmentaland occupational health and injury prevention and control in India. Previously, he alsoserved as Associate Director for Science at NCIPC’s Division of Injury Response, andas the Branch Chief for the Surveillance and Registries Branch at ATSDR.Prior to coming to CDC/ATSDR in 2002, Dr. Kapil served as Director of UniversityHealth Services and as Associate Professor of Environmental Health at the University ofCincinnati Medical Center, and as Director of Occupational Health Services at St. LukesMedical Center in Toledo, Ohio.His clinical and research interests include environmental and occupational pulmonarydiseases, occupational infections and vaccine preventable diseases, environmentalemergencies and environmental health problems and injury in low and middle incomecountries.
Dr. Kapil attended medical school at Michigan State University and received a Mastersin Public Health from the University of Michigan. He completed residency training inEmergency Medicine at POH Medical Center in Pontiac, Michigan and in Occupationaland Environmental Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor,Michigan. Dr. Kapil is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and in PreventiveMedicine and holds licenses to practice medicine in Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina.
Teresa Long, MDCurrent Position:Health Commissioner, Columbus Public HealthShort Bio:Dr. Teresa C. Long became the first female Health Commissioner for Columbus in2002. She was appointed to the post by Mayor Michael B. Coleman and the ColumbusBoard of Health. Prior to this appointment, she served as Medical Director and AssistantHealth Commissioner for the Columbus Health Department from 1986 until 2002.Before coming to Columbus, Dr. Long served on the front lines of the emerging AIDSepidemic as a physician specialist with the San Francisco Department of Public Health.She conducted her preventive medicine residency with the California Department ofHealth Services where she developed perinatal AIDS guidelines in addition to otherduties.Upon her arrival in Columbus, Dr. Long was instrumental in organizing both thedepartment's and the community's response to HIV/AIDS. Her commitment andattention to this disease have been unwavering. In addition to serving on numerousboards and committees, locally, statewide and nationally, Dr. Long is a ClinicalAssociate Professor at the Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health.She was the first recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Award for Pioneering Efforts toImprove Women's and Community Health. She holds a Doctor of Medicine Degree fromthe University of California - San Francisco and a Master of Public Health from theUniversity of California - Berkeley.
Marie Lynn Miranda, PhDCurrent Position:Howard R. Hughes Provost and Professor of Statistics at Rice UniversityShort Bio:Dr. Marie Lynn Miranda is the Howard R. Hughes Provost and Professor of Statistics at RiceUniversity. She also holds appointments as adjunct professor in the Departments of Pediatricsat the University of Michigan and the Baylor College of Medicine, and serves as the foundingDirector of the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI). Dr. Miranda's educationalbackground is rooted in economic and mathematical modeling; her professional experiencesintegrate environmental health sciences with sound social policies. She has taught courses andconducted research on children's environmental health, with a particular emphasis onreproductive and developmental toxicants, childhood lead exposure, and allergen and asthmatriggers. Dr. Miranda has applied spatial analytic approaches to a wide range of environmentalissues. She also has extensive experience running training, research translation, and outreachprograms, especially as they relate to disadvantaged populations. Dr. Miranda has an activeresearch portfolio, with funding from the USEPA, NIH, CDC, the National Association of ChronicDisease Directors, the USDA, the State of North Carolina, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation,and The Duke Endowment. She maintains a deep and abiding personal and professionalinterest in environmental and social justice.Miranda was previously Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) atthe University of Michigan and held faculty appointments in SNRE and the Departments ofPediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynecology. Before that, she was a faculty member in the NicholasSchool of the Environment, the Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program, theDepartment of Pediatrics, and the Global Health Institute at Duke ynn-miranda-named-provost-of-rice-university/
David S. Wilkes, MDCurrent Position:Dean, University of Virginia School of MedicineShort Bio:Dr. David S. Wilkes joined School of Medicine as dean in September 2015. A boardcertified specialist in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, prior to joining theUniversity of Virginia he served as executive associate dean for research affairs at theIndiana University School of Medicine.Dr. Wilkes previously served as the Indiana University’s assistant vice president forresearch and as director of the Strategic Research Initiative for the Indiana UniversitySchool of Medicine and Indiana University Health. He was also director of the IndianaUniversity School of Medicine’s Physician Scientist Initiative.He has served as a permanent member of study sections at the National Institutes ofHealth (NIH), as well as a member of the National Advisory Council for the NationalInstitutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Wilkes is a current member of theBoard of Scientific Counselors for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at NIH.Discoveries from Dr. Wilkes’ lab were the basis for his founding ImmuneWorks, abiotech company developing novel therapeutics for immune-mediated lung diseases.He is also the national director of the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Program for theRobert Wood Johnson Foundation, one of the nation’s leading programs in trainingphysician scientists.
Randy Wykoff, MDCurrent Position:Dean, East Tennessee State University College of Public HealthShort Bio:Randy Wykoff, MD, MPH & TM is founding dean, College of Public Health at EastTennessee State University. He is a physician, board certified in Pediatrics andPreventive Medicine, with additional training and certification in Tropical Medicine. Heteaches courses in Social Justice, Public Health Leadership, and in various aspects ofapplied public health, and he lectures extensively on the social determinants of health.Prior to his current position, he served as Senior Vice President for InternationalOperations at Project HOPE. He previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Health (Disease Prevention and Health Promotion) in the US Department of Healthand Human Services. In this position he oversaw the release and implementation ofHealthy People 2010, and the Surgeon General’s first Call to Action to Prevent andDecrease and Overweight and Obesity, and served for one year as the acting ExecutiveDirector of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sport. He served for 11years at the Food and Drug Administration, holding the positions of AssociateCommissioner for AIDS and Special Health Issues, and, later, Associate Commissionerfor Operations. While at FDA, he led the Science Team for the Tobacco WorkingGroup, served as the Executive Director of the National Task Force on AIDS DrugDevelopment, and completed a detail with Senator Edward Kennedy and the SenateLabor and Human Resources Committee. He began his career as District MedicalDirector of the Upper Savannah Health District in the South Carolina Department ofHealth and Environmental Control, responsible for all public health activities in a ruralsix county region.
College of Public Health Executive CommitteeMichael Bisesi, PhDSr. Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor; Interim ChairEnvironmental Health SciencesAnn FlorentineAssistant Dean for Finance and AdministrationWilliam J. Martin II, MDDean and ProfessorEnvironmental Health SciencesPhyllis Pirie, PhDChair and Professor, Health Behavior and Health PromotionInterim Chair, EpidemiologyCenter of Excellence in Regulatory Tobacco SciencePamela Salsberry, PhD, RN, FAANAssociate Dean for Community Outreach and EngagementProfessorHealth Behavior and Health PromotionRodney Sturdivant, PhDInterim Chair, Biostatistics; Associate Professor - ClinicalBiostatisticsCenter of Excellence in Regulatory Tobacco ScienceQinghua Sun, MD, PhDAssistant Dean for Global Public Health and ProfessorEnvironmental Health SciencesChristopher Weghorst, PhDAssociate Dean for Research and ProfessorEnvironmental Health SciencesThomas Wickizer, PhDChair and Stephen F. Loebs ProfessorHealth Services Management and Policy
for the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences and as a Director of Central Ohio Campaign during the first major capital campaign at Ohio State. She also served as V.P. of the Ohio Health Foundation as well as The Columbus Foundation. Barbara received her bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and Ohio State
