Child Health Services Research Interest Group Advisory Committee

Dr. Frances Lynch is a health economist and services researcher whose work focuses on vulnerable children and families, including children with mental health conditions and children in foster care. Read Bio

Dr. Xu Ji is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Ji's research focuses on leveraging quantitative research skills (big data analysis, administrative data, data linkage, statistical modeling) and theoretical grounding in health services research into pediatric cancer care and cancer survivorship Read Bio

Venice Ng Williams is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Prevention Research Center for Family & Child Health at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Read Bio

Suzanne Courtwright, PhD, MSN, PNP, RN, NEA-BC is a child health services researcher and pediatric nurse practitioner. Her program of research examines the role of pediatric primary care in child health equity, particularly in adolescents aged 10-24 with chronic conditions. Read Bio

Eline Lenne, MOT (she/they) is a Social Work & Social Research Ph.D. student in the School of Social Work at Portland State University. Read Bio

Rose Hardy, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a health services researcher and data scientist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research. Read Bio

Dr. Ettinger de Cuba is an applied health services researcher focused on health-related social needs, (difficulties affording food, housing, utilities, child care) and public assistance program policy. Read Bio

Joanne Constantine, Ph.D., M.P.H. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in child population health and health services research at the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center (CHEAR), in the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan. Read Bio

Dr. Kao-Ping Chua, M.D., Ph.D., is a primary care pediatrician and health services researcher in the Department of Pediatrics and the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Read Bio

Dr. Coates recently received her Ph.D. in 2021 from the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. She currently works for CareOregon, as a QI Program Administrator, and at Portland State University. Read Bio

Christian D. Pulcini, MD, MEd, MPH is a pediatric emergency medicine attending and clinician scientist at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Vermont. Read Bio

Dr. Shih is an Assistant Professor of Health Administration at the Virginia Commonwealth University and a health services and behavioral science researcher. Read Bio

Chu Zhang is a Ph.D. student in Health Services Research at University of Maryland, College Park. Read Bio