Appendix B

Biographical Sketches of Workshop Moderators, Speakers, and Panelists

Marin P. Allen, Ph.D., has nearly three decades of experience in public and strategic communication in health and science at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She served as the deputy associate director of communications, a public liaison, and the director of public information in the Office of the Director at NIH from 2004 to 2017, after which she retired from federal service. Her previous appointment at NIH had been as the communication director and a public liaison officer for the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Prior to serving at NIH, Dr. Allen was a tenured, full professor and the chair of the Department of Television, Film, and Photography at Gallaudet University and served on a dual appointment as the interim director of public relations for the university. She began her career as a faculty member in communication at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Allen served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy, led the NIH working group on health literacy, and has written and presented on a variety of health literacy, cultural respect, and disability topics. She has earned two Emmy awards for productions that aired on PBS and The Discovery Channel. Most recently, Dr. Allen was a scholar-in-residence at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania for the 2017–2018 term, where she developed and offered a seminar course in visualizing health and science. She is at work on a book on that topic, several articles, and a chapter on K–12 health literacy.

Trina Menden Anglin, M.D., Ph.D., recently retired from her federal position as the chief of the Adolescent Health Branch in the Health Resources

and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau. During her 23-year federal career, Dr. Anglin conceptualized and framed guiding policies for 14 national discretionary grant programs addressing adolescent health and school health, and served as the project officer for many of them. Her portfolio emphasized capacity building for health care and public health professionals as well as improving the quality of health services delivery in multiple venues, including office-based settings, school-based health centers, and comprehensive school mental health systems. She also oversaw the National Coordinating Committee on School Health and Safety, which convened about 75 national organizations and professional associations with several federal departments and agencies to promote the health, safety, and academic success of children and youth. She co-chaired two Healthy People topic area workgroups for both Healthy People 2020 and 2030: adolescent health and early and middle childhood. Each topic area contains objectives pertinent to school health.

Subspecialty board certified in adolescent medicine, Dr. Anglin is an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Clinical Scholars Program and holds a doctorate in sociology. Prior to joining the federal government, Dr. Anglin held pediatric faculty positions in two medical schools. She is a past president of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and a senior fellow of the Council for Excellence in Government. She has received several national awards for her efforts to advance school health.

Marina Arvanitis, M.D., M.P.H., is a primary care internist, a pediatrician, and a health services researcher focusing on health literacy, patient-reported outcomes, and health care quality. She is particularly interested in understanding the life-course development of health literacy, its effects on individual and family health, and opportunities for its promotion. After completing a combined internal medicine–pediatrics residency, Dr. Arvanitis went on to a National Research Service Award Primary Care Research Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Her fellowship work included completing a master’s degree in health care and prevention at the UNC Gillings Global School of Public Health, and engaging in research in health literacy, health care quality, and evidence-based medicine, including at the RTI-UNC Evidence-based Practice Center. In 2016, Dr. Arvanitis began a faculty position at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she is a researcher in the new Center for Applied Health Research on Aging. Within the center, Dr. Arvanitis is working with her mentor and health literacy researcher, Dr. Michael S. Wolf, to build a Life Course Health Transition Program. Dr. Arvanitis continues to provide primary care to children and adults through her practices at Northwestern Medicine and Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She is also engaged in developmental and health literacy initiatives through-

out Northwestern and its affiliated institutions, including the Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, and the Lurie Children’s Health Literacy Task Force.

Elaine Auld, M.P.H., MCHES, has served as the chief executive officer of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) since 1995. She oversees the organization’s portfolio in professional preparation, professional development, research, advocacy, and public policy. She has steered four psychometric studies of the health education profession that undergird the health education professional preparation and practice of the health education workforce in all settings (K–12 school health, health care, public health, nongovernmental organizations, work sites, and international practice). She serves as the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations and American Public Health Association (APHA) Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section’s advocacy chair and inaugurated SOPHE’s Advocacy Summit, which has trained thousands of health education advocates in the past 20+ years. More recently, she has provided input to SOPHE’s leadership on the future of school health education and health literacy, and she has published in professional journals and advocated for changes in professional preparation at the community college, baccalaureate, and master’s level, toward stronger alliances between school and public health education. Ms. Auld holds her M.P.H. from the University of Michigan School of Public Health with a concentration in behavioral science and health education, is a charter Certified Health Education Specialist and Master Certified Health Education Specialist^® (#0056), and has been honored with awards from SOPHE, APHA, Eta Sigma Gamma, Health Education Directory, and the National REACH Coalition.

Deena Chisolm, M.D., is the director of the Center for Innovation in Pediatric Practice and the vice president for health services research in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She is also a professor of pediatrics and public health at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on improving health and health care for children and families, and she has produced more than 75 peer-reviewed publications on pediatric health services, outcomes, and disparities. Her current projects explore how health literacy, health policy, and social factors, including housing, influence the health of at-risk adolescents transitioning to adulthood. Her research is funded by agencies including the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Chisolm currently serves as the chair of the Ohio Commission on Minority Health, a board member for the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, and a member of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education. She earned her B.S. in biological science

education from Miami University and her M.S. in preventive medicine and a doctorate in public health from The Ohio State University.

Sneha Dave is a senior at Indiana University majoring in chronic illness advocacy and journalism. She created the Health Advocacy Summit, a nonprofit that facilitates advocacy events and year-long programming for young adults with chronic and rare diseases. She also created the Crohn’s and Colitis Young Adults Network to connect young adults worldwide suffering from inflammatory bowel diseases. She writes for media platforms, such as the U.S. News & World Report, and has been published by outlets including the Center for Health Journalism. Ms. Dave has a research fellowship from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and she has received two fellowships from the Association of Health Care Journalists. Ms. Dave speaks publicly about advocacy for young patients, including on national television on Capitol Hill and at Stanford Medicine X as well as at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She also created and now chairs the first disability caucus in Indiana, and developed a voting guide to engage people with disabilities in the democratic process. Ms. Dave has served on various advisory boards and is currently on the board of directors for RespectAbility.

Steven Hoffman, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Brigham Young University (BYU) School of Social Work. He received degrees in social work from BYU–Idaho, Walla Walla University, and Arizona State University. Prior to joining the faculty at BYU he worked as an Institute of Education Sciences postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and as an assistant professor at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Hoffman’s research looks at health disparities among underserved youth. He has studied health literacy, suicidal ideation, religiosity, mental well-being, and health-related quality of life among youth from various parts of Mexico, Guatemala, and throughout the United States. His current projects focus on health literacy among young adults formerly in foster care, and health literacy and emotional well-being among youth from rural areas of Central Mexico. Prior to beginning his academic career Dr. Hoffman held various positions as a social worker and community volunteer. He worked with youth as a psychosocial rehabilitation specialist, facilitated parenting groups for high-conflict divorced fathers, and functioned as a forensic social work consultant for a law firm.

Lloyd Kolbe, Ph.D., is an emeritus professor of applied health science at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington. He conducts public health policy research and development to improve child and adolescent health and education in the United States and in other nations. Dr.

Kolbe has held senior positions across private-sector, government, and academic institutions; has worked within the Reagan, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton, and G.W. Bush administrations; and has written more than 160 scientific publications about the health and education of young people, school health programs, and public health policies.

Among other appointments, he has served as the chief of evaluation for the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; the associate director of The University of Texas Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research; a member of the U.S. Public Health Service Senior Biomedical Research Service; the chairman of the World Health Organization Expert Committee on School Health; the associate dean for global and community health at Indiana University; a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee; and the chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and for CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Dr. Kolbe has worked to improve adolescent and school health programs in 28 nations, and served for 18 years as the founding director of CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health.

Hannah Lane, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a medical instructor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. Her research uses multilevel intervention strategies to improve healthy eating and physical activity opportunities within organizations (e.g., schools) that serve socially disadvantaged children and adolescents. As a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow, she and her team developed and tested two health literacy and media literacy–focused interventions in both rural and urban schools. These interventions combined participatory action research approaches with advocacy training, with the dual goal of improving individual diet and physical activity behaviors as well as training students to be ambassadors for improving schools’ health-promoting environments. As an early-career researcher with an implementation science–focused National Institutes of Health career development award, she continues to promote youth-driven integration of health literacy interventions in settings where children and adolescents frequently make decisions about their health, as well as developing more pragmatic, age-appropriate, and mixed-methods strategies to measure child and adolescent health literacy. Dr. Lane holds an M.P.H. from The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and a Ph.D. in behavioral and community science from Virginia Tech, and she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Jennifer Manganello, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a professor at the University at Albany School of Public Health. She is a health communication scholar whose research focuses on health literacy as well as the effects of media on attitudes, behaviors, and policies that put young people (children, adolescents, and young adults) at risk for negative health outcomes. Other areas of interest include identifying best practices for the dissemination of health information to the public, as well as research on groups impacted by health disparities. Professor Manganello also examines the use of digital technology for health information and health interventions, also known as e-health. She has published work in journals such as the Journal of Health Communication, Pediatrics, Public Health Management and Practice, the Journal of Children and Media, and Public Health Nutrition. She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, before becoming a professor at the University at Albany.

Laura K. Noonan, M.D., joined the Department of Pediatrics at Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) in 1994. She is a founding organizer and the current director of the Center for Advancing Pediatric Excellence at Levine Children’s Hospital at CMC. For more than 20 years, her focus has been on health care quality improvement (QI) while teaching courses at the local, regional, and national levels. She is currently involved in QI teaching or coaching roles for a variety of state and national collaboratives. Dr. Noonan also has extensive experience teaching and advising about health literacy. She was the collaborative director for Carolinas HealthCare System’s (now Atrium Health’s) QI-based health literacy initiative for 24 facilities across the second-largest nonprofit health care system in the United States. She is currently co-chair of the system’s Health Literacy Steering Committee and has been an advisor for subsequent phases of the original initiative. She frequently lectures on this topic locally and nationally, including at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s National Forum, the American Academy of Pediatrics’ National Convention, and Boston University’s Health Literacy Annual Research Conference. From 2015 to 2016, she was included in an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant as part of a Technical Expert Panel for Organizational Health Literacy. She continually works on a national level to integrate health literacy into broader health care discussions.

Gail Nunlee-Bland, M.D., is the chief of endocrinology and the director of the Diabetes Treatment Center at Howard University Hospital. She is a professor of pediatrics and medicine. Dr. Nunlee-Bland has received several

grants to explore the use of technology to improve diabetes outcomes and patient engagement in underserved minority communities in Washington, DC. Most recently, she was the principal investigator on the DC-Baltimore Research Center on Child Health Disparities grant titled the W.E.I.G.H.T. (Working to Engage Insulin-Resistant Group Health Using Technology) Study funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The overall objective of the study is to educate adolescents and young adults on how to prevent diabetes by using state-of-the-art communications and networking technologies. Dr. Nunlee-Bland is the recipient of the 2010 American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists’ Outstanding Endocrine Service to Minority Communities Award. Dr. Nunlee-Bland is passionate about improving access to quality diabetes care. This passion has translated into the American Diabetes Association Recognized Diabetes Education program. Dr. Nunlee-Bland is a graduate of the Howard University College of Medicine.

Rory Parnell has spent more than 20 years working as an inner-city educator for the New York City Department of Education. She has served inner scholars as a high school English teacher, an assistant principal, and an instructional coach for the Office of Renewal Schools, and she is currently in her fifth year as the principal of August Martin High School. Ms. Parnell has spent the past 4 years creating systems of culture and instructional improvement through a turnaround effort at August Martin, a previously state-designated “Out of Time” school. Ms. Parnell and her team have increased the school’s graduation rate by 60 percent in 4 years, and August Martin is currently a school in “good standing.” Ms. Parnell dedicates her career to the courageous, resilient, and soulful scholars that she has the honor to serve every day as she stands by her claim, “My scholars save me, way more than I will ever save them.”

Terri Ann Parnell, DNP, M.A., RN, FAAN, is a nurse, a nationally recognized health literacy expert, and an award-winning author. She is the principal and the founder of Health Literacy Partners, a corporation that specializes in providing a tapestry of solutions to promote health equity by enhancing person-centered care, effective communication, and the patient experience. Her recent experience includes providing health literacy education and consultation to several New York State Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Performing Provider Systems. Previously, Dr. Parnell was the vice president for health literacy and patient education for the Northwell Health System, where she was responsible for the health literacy strategic plan and integrating concepts of health literacy, language access services, and cultural awareness into core activities across the system. Dr. Parnell is a graduate of the St. Vincent’s Hospital School of Nursing in

New York City. She earned a B.S. in nursing from Adelphi University, a master’s degree in health care administration from Hofstra University, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Parnell is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy and has served as a committee member on the American Nurses Association Care Coordination Quality Measures Panel. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and The New York Academy of Medicine and has been selected for the 2016–2017 New York Academy of Medicine Fellow Ambassadors Program. In 2016, Dr. Parnell joined the TVR Communications Advisory Board as its chief nursing officer. Her second book, Health Literacy in Nursing: Providing PersonCentered Care, received an American Journal of Nursing 2015 Book of the Year Award in the category of Nursing Management and Leadership.

Vanessa Simonds, Sc.D., completed her graduate studies at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, earning an M.S. from the Department of Epidemiology and a Sc.D. from the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health. In 2011, Dr. Simonds finished a postdoctoral fellowship with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico, where she was mentored by Dr. Nina Wallerstein. After her postdoctoral training, she joined the faculty at The University of Iowa College of Public Health as an assistant professor. While at The University of Iowa, she was selected for the 2012–2014 Native Investigator Development Program funded by the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Simonds uses community-based participatory research approaches to address health and health literacy issues ranging from chronic disease to environmental health among Native Americans. She is especially committed to designing and evaluating strength-based, community-centered outreach strategies designed in partnership with Native American communities. She is currently funded through Montana State University’s Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity to work in partnership with Crow community members to develop an environmental health literacy program for Crow youth and their families.

Lawrence G. Smith, M.D., MACP, is Northwell Health’s physician-in-chief, serving as the senior physician on all clinical issues. He previously served as Northwell’s chief medical officer. Dr. Smith is the founding dean of the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, which received full accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and whose first class graduated in 2015.

Dr. Smith earned a B.S. in physics from Fordham University and an M.D. from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. His

residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital was followed by military service as a captain in the Army Medical Corps at the Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center in Denver.

Dr. Smith has held senior leadership positions in national societies for medical education and residency training, has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in the area of medical education, and has received many awards and honors from national and international organizations. He is a member of the Board of Visitors of Fordham College. In 2011, he was elected to Mastership in the American College of Physicians. Dr. Smith was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2014, invited to join the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Board of Trustees in 2017, and made chair of the Gold Foundation’s Program Committee in 2018. Dr. Smith serves on the executive committee and as the treasurer for the Associated Medical Schools of New York. He serves as the chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy and is a member of the New York State Board of Education Advisory Committee on Long-Term Clinical Clerkships, and he is on the University of Rochester’s Board of Trustees Advisory Council. He is a former regent of the American College of Physicians, a former member-at-large of the National Board of Medical Examiners, and a former member of the board of directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Smith is the first recipient of the Lawrence Scherr, MD, Professorship of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is the recipient of the Solomon A. Berson Alumni Achievement Award in Health Science, given by the New York University Grossman School of Medicine.

Earnestine Willis, M.D., M.P.H., is a Kellner Professor in Pediatrics, the director of the Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children, and the director of Health Equity and Urban Clinical Care Partnerships at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She has almost three decades of experience in addressing health disparities by the development of successful community initiatives to include research, education, and community services. Her interests span from analyzing the impact of systems on children and adolescents to applied public policy, community-oriented programs, medical education, health assessments, and diversity in medicine and child advocacy.

Shonna (Hsiang) Yin, M.D., M.Sc., is an associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine. She is nationally recognized for her research accomplishments focused on health literacy as a key factor related to adverse child health outcomes and poverty-associated health disparities. Her work in developing health literacy–informed strategies addressing medication safety, chronic

disease management, and obesity prevention, conducted as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholar and as the principal investigator on grants from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute have been recognized as models for transforming the delivery of clinical care, and have informed CDC and FDA initiatives. Dr. Yin serves as an executive committee member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, is the co-chair of the Research Standards Committee of the International Health Literacy Association, and has served on FDA’s Risk Communication Advisory Committee. She is a key member of CDC’s Prevention of Overdoses and Treatment Errors in Children Taskforce initiative, and served as the co-chair of the subcommittee focused on the standardization of pediatric medication dosing instructions. Her research, focused on improving the labeling and dosing of pediatric medications using a health literacy perspective, led her to be awarded the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Cheers Award in 2017. Dr. Yin is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Rochester School of Medicine. She completed residency training in pediatrics and an M.S. in clinical investigation at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.