Chair
Megan Shepherd-Banigan
Committee Member, Member

Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor - Durham VA and Duke University

Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Ph.D., is a mental health services researcher at the Durham VA Health Care System and an Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences at the Duke School of Medicine. Read Bio

Past Chair
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Committee Member, Member

Patricia Rowan, M.P.P., PMP

Health Services Researcher - Mathematica

Patricia Rowan, M.P.P., PMP, is a health services researcher at Mathematica. Read Bio

Member-At-Large
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Adele Levine

Doctoral Candidate - Boston University School of Public Health

Adele Levine is a doctoral candidate in Health Services Research at the Boston University School of Public Health. Read Bio

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Committee Member, Member

Hawking Ren, M.S.

Ph.D. Student - University of Minnesota

Hawking Ren, MS, is a first-year Health Service Research, Policy & Administration Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Read Bio

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Member

Sara Galantowicz, M.P.H.

Principal Associate and Client Account Lead for Health Policy - Abt Associates

Sara Galantowicz is a Principal Associate and Client Account Lead for Health Policy at Abt Associates. Read Bio

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Member

Arion Lillard-Green, M.H.A., M.T.S.

Doctoral Student - George Mason University

Arion M. Lillard-Green is a health services research doctoral student in the Department of Health Administration and Policy at George Mason University. Read Bio

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Committee Member, Member

Hari Sharma, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor - The University of Iowa

Hari Sharma, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Iowa. Read Bio

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Yongkang Zhang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor - Weill Cornell Medical College

Yongkang Zhang is an assistant professor of health policy and economics in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College. Read Bio

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Julia Burgdorf, Ph.D.

Research Scientist - Center for Home Care Policy & Research

Julia Burgdorf, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at the Center for Home Care Policy & Research at VNS Health. Read Bio

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Lori Eberly

Student - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Driven entrepreneur and long-term care professional with a desire for helping others achieve their goals. Read Bio

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Board Member

Shekinah A. Fashaw-Walters, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor - Division of Health Policy & Management - University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health

As a health services researcher, Dr. Fashaw-Walters’ program of research focuses on understanding the inequities in aging while elucidating and explicitly naming racism as a fundamental determinant of health inequities within long-term care. Read Bio

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Mihir Kakara

Post-Doctoral Fellow and Clinical Neurology Fellow - University of Pennsylvania
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Committee Member, Member

Theresa Kim, Ph.D., M.S.

Program Officer - National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging

Theresa Y. Kim, Ph.D., M.S., is a Program Officer for the Population and Social Processes Branch (PSP) of the NIA Division of Behavioral and Social Research (BSR). Read Bio

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Committee Member, Member

Roberto Millar, Ph.D.

Policy Analyst Advanced - The Hilltop Institute

Roberto Millar, Ph.D., is a Policy Analyst Advanced at The Hilltop Institute from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Read Bio

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Committee Member, Member

Katherine Miller, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - University of Pennsylvania

Katherine Miller is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Division of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and Associate Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Read Bio

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Committee Member, Member

Sijiu Wang, Ph.D.

Post-Doc Scholar - University of Chicago

Sijiu Wang, Ph.D., is a post-doc scholar in health services research at the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division Department of Public Health Sciences. Read Bio