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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 99-110

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From page 99...
... In 1998 she updated her clinical experience in the Neonatal Unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. In 1999, Abu-Awad joined Ibn Sina College as a director for the nursing baccalaureate program and stayed in the position for 5 years.
From page 100...
... health reform strategy for large health insurers, academic medical centers, and hospital systems. She has also worked as a special assistant at the White House Office of Management and Budget during the drafting and passage of the Affordable Care Act, as a regional field director for the 2008 Obama for America campaign, and as a senior associate at UBS Financial Services.
From page 101...
... She has held faculty positions at the University of California, San Diego, Department of Community and Family Medicine; Boston University School of Public Health Department of Maternal and Child Health; and the University of California, San Francisco, Family Health Care Nursing. She served as a nurse-midwifery codirector for the University of California, San Francisco/University California, San Diego, Intercampus Program and director of the Boston University Nurse-Midwifery Program.
From page 102...
... , and a member of the Board of Directors of Aetna Inc.; Prosetta Biosciences, Inc.; Big White Wall; and the American Telemedicine Association. She has previously served as chair of the Board of Directors of PATH, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in global health, and on the boards of the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, Cholestech, Inc., The California Endowment, and the China Medical Board, as well as the advisory boards of venture and private equity firms investing in health care information technology and services.
From page 103...
... Fairman's research focuses on the history of 20th-century health care issues pervading contemporary nursing practice. Much of her recent work addresses the relationship between gender, nursing and technology (critical care)
From page 104...
... She is responsible for Aetna's nursing strategy, which includes developing and promoting a culture of high performance and engagement, workforce planning, and leadership development. Kosman is also responsible for the following functional and service areas within National Care Management: clinical training; quality review and auditing; medical management systems; program design for utilization management, case management, disease management, behavioral health, wellness and eHealth; and National Account custom care unit operations.
From page 105...
... Lagomarsino leads the Center for Health Market Innovations, which has discovered more than 1,000 innovative programs with potential to improve quality and affordability of care for the poor in 110 countries, and she is now working to facilitate the scale-up of successful programs. Lagomarsino is also the Secretariat lead and a cofounder of the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage, a network of policy makers in low- and middle-income countries working to accelerate the successful adoption of national health insurance reforms. Prior to joining R4D, Lagomarsino was senior health policy advisor to Washington, DC, Mayor Anthony Williams, where she worked to reform the health system of the District of Columbia.
From page 106...
... Maeda has more than 20 years of development experience in health and social programs, and has provided policy advice to senior government officials and assisted in the design of health policy reform and health projects in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, and Europe. Her areas of expertise include health insurance and health financing reforms, health services reorganization, and human resources for health.
From page 107...
... She continues with a research focus in international health and her current research and practice development activities include the evaluation of the family health nursing in Tajikistan and Scotland. She is also currently working on international nursing and midwifery development projects in the Central Asian region.
From page 108...
... Salmon's international service roles have focused on health workforce capacity building and include chair of the Global Advisory Group for Nursing and Midwifery, World Health Organization; head of the Secretariat for the Global Government Chief Nursing Officers Network; and founding director of the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, Emory University. She has been a consultant/advisor to individual governments and global health bodies, including the World Health Organization; the Pan American Health Organization; the Caribbean Community Secretariat; the Commonwealth Health Ministries Steering Committee for Nursing and Midwifery, the Regional Nursing Body of the Caribbean; and the U.S.
From page 109...
... Krishna Udayakumar, M.D., M.B.A., leads multiple initiatives at Duke Medicine in the rapidly evolving fields of health innovation and globalization of health care. As head of Global Innovation for Duke Medicine, he is responsible for the development and implementation of global strategy as well as global business development for Duke Medicine, across health care delivery, biomedical sciences research, and health professions education and training.
From page 110...
... She also accumulated experience in the private sector through positions with Silicon Valley high-tech companies, urban planning firms, and financial firms including Morgan Stanley. Vương is a cum laude graduate of Harvard University, San Jose State University, and pursued her Ph.D.


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