Expert Directory
Daniel Horton, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, RWJ Medical School
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers Universitypediatric rheumatology, Childhood Arthritis, Drug Safety in Children, Microbiome, Off Label Drugs in Children
Daniel Horton (MSCE, Clinical Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, 2015; MD, Harvard Medical School, 2008; AB, Harvard College, 2001) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of Pediatric Rheumatology and Population Health, Quality, and Implementation Sciences (PopQuIS), at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health. He is a core member of the Rutgers Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and a Chancellor’s Scholar at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. Dr. Horton’s research focuses on the uses, safety, and effectiveness of medications in pediatric populations, and the origins and management of childhood arthritis. He performs epidemiologic studies using large administrative and electronic health records databases as well as translational research. He has been involved in efforts to understand the risk factors and impact of the coronavirus pandemic and COVID-19 in children and adults, with a focus on health care workers. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and various research foundations.
Joel C. Cantor, ScD
Director, Center for State Health Policy Distinguished Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers UniversityHealth Insurance Markets, Affordable Care Act , Medicaid, Homelessness and Health Care,Health Care Policy
Joel C. Cantor (Sc.D., Johns Hopkins University) is a Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and the Founding Director of the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Established in 1999, the Center is a leader in health policy research and development nationally, with a special focus on informing policy in New Jersey. Dr. Cantor is published widely in the health services and policy literature on innovations in health service delivery and the regulation of private health insurance markets. He serves frequently as an advisor on health policy matters to New Jersey state government, and was the 2006 recipient of the Rutgers University President’s Award for Research in Service to New Jersey. In June 2017, Dr. Cantor was appointed Interim Director of the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research. The Institute is the parent unit of the Center for State Health Policy and other centers and programs addressing critical health and mental health issues. Prior to joining Rutgers in 1999, Dr. Cantor served as director of research at the United Hospital Fund of New York and director of evaluation research at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He received his doctorate in health policy and management from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health in 1988, and was elected a Fellow of AcademyHealth in 1996.
sports and injury, Sports Medicine, sports medicine doctors, Professional Sports, Professional Sports Leagues, College sports medicine, High school sports medicine
Pietro Tonino, MD, MBA, was drawn to orthopaedics in part because of his love of sports, and he now works extensively with professional, college and recreational athletes. Over the years his team of orthopaedic and sports medicine physicians have increasingly seen more ACL and other injuries in young women. Dr. Tonino received his medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and completed his residency at Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center. He completed a fellowship in orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine at Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedics.
Saint Louis University
Don A. Moore, PhD
Professor | Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication
University of California, Berkeley Haas School of BusinessOrganization Behaviour, Overconfidence, Negotiation, Ethical Choice
Don Moore is the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication at Berkeley Haas. He received his PhD in Organization Behavior from Northwestern University. His research interests include overconfidence—including when people think they are better than they actually are, when people think they are better than others, and when they are too sure they know the truth. He is only occasionally overconfident. Expertise and Research Interests: Ethical Choice Decision-Making Overconfidence Negotiation Positions Held: 2016 – present, Professor, Management of Organizations Group, Haas School of Business 2010 – 2016, Associate Professor, Management of Organizations Group, Haas School of Business Courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 2015 – present, Faculty Director, Xlab 2000 – 2010, Assistant to Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Macroeconomics and markets, recessions, Federal Reserve policy, business conditions, unemployment and inflation, Consumer spending
Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy and Finance Expertise and Research Interests: Small Business Lending Bank Mergers and Acquisitions Banking Business Conditions Consumer Spending Unemployment And Inflation Federal Reserve Monetary Policy And Interest Rates Credit Union Failures And Losses Positions Held: 1978 – present, Professor, Haas School of Business 2016 – present, Member, Financial Economists Roundtable 2014 – 2016, Member, Board of Directors, VirtualBeam, Inc. 2012 – present, Member, Board of Directors, Finance Scholars Group 2012 – 2015, Chair, Economic Analysis and Policy Group, Haas School of Business 2003 – present, Fellow, Wharton Financial Institutions Center 1999 – 2001, Chief Economist, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC 1991 – 1992, Economist, Federal Reserve Board 1990 – 1991, Senior Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Gary I Kleiner, MD, PhD
Allergy & Immunology Specialist
University of Miami Health System, Miller School of MedicinePediatric Allergy, Immunology, Primary Immune Deficiency, Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant
Laura Beauchamps, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Miami Health System, Miller School of MedicineHIV, infectios diseases
Dr. Laura Beauchamps is an Infectious Disease Specialist in Miami, Florida. She graduated with honors in 2001. Having more than 19 years of diverse experiences, especially in INFECTIOUS DISEASE, INTERNAL MEDICINE, Dr. Laura Beauchamps affiliated with many hospitals including Jackson Health System, University Of Miami Hospital And Clinics, cooperates with many other doctors and specialists in the medical group the University Of Miami.
Dushyantha T Jayaweera, MD, FACP, MRCOG (UK), CIP
Infectious disease specialist, Professor in Clinical Medicine
University of Miami Health System, Miller School of MedicineHIV, Infectious Disease, covid 19
Prof. Dushyantha Jayaweera MD, FACP, MRCOG (UK), CIP is a Professor in Clinical Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He graduated from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and has been working on HIV for the last 25 years. He has received grant support from the National Institutes of Drug Abuse, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Jayaweera has led and continues to lead numerous industry-funded trials of HIV and HIV/HCV coinfection and has published extensively. He was formerly the Associate Vice Provost for Human Subject Research overseeing the activities of the ethics committees. He received his M.D. degree in Sri Lanka and trained in medicine in Sri Lanka, Great Britain, and the Loyola University of Chicago. In conjunction with other esteemed faculty members at UM, he has been instrumental in initiating minority HIV and HIV/HCV care clinics in the US. Prof. Jayaweera is a frequent speaker and organizer of international workshops, meetings, and conferences.
Allergy, Asthma, Immunology, Pediatrics
Susan R. Bailey, MD, an allergist/immunologist from Fort Worth, Texas, was elected president of the American Medical Association in June 2020. Previously, she served as president-elect of the AMA for one year, speaker of the AMA House of Delegates for four years and as vice speaker for four years. Dr. Bailey, who has been active in the AMA since medical school when she served as chair of the AMA Medical Student Section, has held numerous leadership positions with the AMA. These include serving as chair of both the Advisory Panel on Women in Medicine and the AMA Council on Medical Education, as well as representing the AMA on the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, the American Board of Medical Specialties, and COLA. Her long history of service in helping guide organized medicine extends to the local and state levels as well. She has served as board chair and president of the Tarrant County Medical Society, and as vice speaker, speaker and president of the Texas Medical Association. Dr. Bailey is an allergist in private practice, and has been with Fort Worth Allergy and Asthma Associates for over 30 years. She completed her residency in general pediatrics and a fellowship in allergy/immunology at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn., and is board certified in allergy and immunology, and pediatrics and has been awarded the title of Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. In addition to receiving her medical degree with honors from the Texas A&M University College of Medicine as a member of its charter class, Dr. Bailey was later appointed to the Texas A&M System Board of Regents by then Gov. George W. Bush, and has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M University and of Texas A&M University College of Medicine.
David Price, BSc, MD, CCFP, FCFP
Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine
McMaster UniversityFamily Medicine, Primary Care, Health Care Policy Reform, interprofessional collaboration, Quality in Family Medicine
Dr. David Price – Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University since 2006 and was Chief of Family Medicine at Hamilton Health Sciences from 2004-2018. While most of his career has been as a comprehensive family physician in major urban centres (including Vancouver and Hamilton), he is proud of the fact that he gained significant clinical experience in a number of rural and northern communities. During his tenure as Chair, the Department has experienced substantial growth such that it now graduates over 100 family medicine residents annually, has a full-time faculty of over 40 with approximately 1,400 part-time faculty and 200 staff. The total Department budget overseen is now just under $40 M annually. The research enterprise within the department has also grown proportionately, with approximately $19 M managed annually and is recognized both nationally and internationally for its work in primary care. Through his leadership roles at the University and Hospital, and his involvement with local, regional, and provincial government bodies where he acts as a consultant and advisor, he has developed expertise in primary care reform and health care policy development. As the Chair of the Provincial (Ontario) Expert Advisory Panel on Primary Care (2013-2014) he was instrumental in helping produce “Patient Care Groups: A new model of population based primary health care for Ontario” (“Price Report”). Locally, he was the founding director of the Maternity Centre of Hamilton; a multidisciplinary centre that cares for prenatal and intrapartum patients. Dr. Price was also instrumental in helping to create the academic Family Health Team at McMaster University, an interprofessional team, currently serving over 40,000 patients in the Hamilton area. He was a key player in the development of the $85 M, David Braley Health Sciences Centre, a six-story, 185,000 sq. ft. home for Family Medicine and Hamilton Public Health in the downtown core. He has participated in over $6M in peer reviewed research funding (> $1M as lead) and has been the lead in over $15 M of other funding from a variety of Governments and Agencies. David has authored over 35 peer reviewed publications (half of these as either lead or senior author) and published numerous other articles/book chapters. In April 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, he was tasked with chairing the Primary Care Advisory Table on behalf of Ontario’s Ministry of Health.
Dee Mangin, MBChB, DPH, FRNZCGP
Professor Associate Chair and Director, Research David Braley & Nancy Gordon Chair in Family Medicine Professor and Director of Research, University of Otago, Christchurch
McMaster UniversityPrimary Care, Polypharmacy, Medication Safety and Effectiveness, Drug Adverse Reactions
Dee Mangin is Professor of Family Medicine, David Braley Chair in Family Medicine and Research Director at the David Braley Primary Care Research Collaborative at McMaster University. Her broad interests are: rational prescribing and drug safety; innovative models of primary care delivery; effective incorporation of evidence into patient centred practice; and the influences of science, policy and commerce on the nature of care. Her current work focuses on both strengthening primary care, and matching the burden of care to the patient’s capacity to benefit. She has wide clinical research experience in primary care, including observational and interventional quantitative research methods and community RCTs of innovative models of care. Dr. Mangin has experience leading RCTs of clinical interventions in areas such as antidepressant use, community acquired pneumonia, antibiotics in urinary tract infections, the TAPER program of deprescribing research among older adults. Before moving from New Zealand to Canada, Dee Mangin was the Director of the Primary Care Unit at the University of Otago, Christchurch, and Clinical Leader for Research Audit and Evaluation at the Pegasus Health Primary Healthcare Organisation. She was a Ministerially appointed member of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Products Advisory Committee, PHARMAC. She is a Fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, and in 2011 she received their Distinguished Service Medal. She was awarded both a Distinguished Paper at the North American Primary Care Research Group’s (NAPCRG) 2015 conference. She is the Director of MUSIC, the McMaster University Sentinel and Information Collaboration practice-based research network, and the Medical Director and cofounder of RxISK.org a website for consumer information and reporting of drug adverse reactions, as well as Chief Medical Officer for TaperMD, a clinical pathway for reducing polypharmacy.
Family Medicine, chronic disease management, Community paramedicine, Anxiety Disorders, Intimate Partner Violence, primary care and epidemiology
Dr. Gina Agarwal is a Professor at McMaster University in the Departments of Family Medicine and Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact and an Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Aging. She is a practicing Family Physician, Primary Care Epidemiologist, and the McMaster Family Medicine Levitt Scholar. She is a member of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging and the McMaster Institute for Health Equity. Her research achievements have been recognized with the CIHR-IHSPR Article of the Year Award (2019), the prestigious Mid-Career Researcher Award from the North American Primary Care Research Group (2018), and an Award of Excellence from the College of Family Physicians of Canada (2016). As the Director of the Vulnerable Individuals in Primary Care (VIP) Research Lab, she focuses on improving primary health care access for vulnerable populations, ensuring people in need receive appropriate care at the right time and in the right place. As the Principal Investigator of the McMaster Community Paramedicine Research Team, she has driven health system change including the uptake of the innovative Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) program by 51% of Ontario Paramedic Services and its national (e.g. BCEHS) and international (e.g. UK, Australia) scale-up. She has worked extensively in social housing to improve the health of this vulnerable population and identify healthcare usage patterns. Her quantitative and qualitative research, including complex pragmatic studies, uses rigorous methods to produce novel insight into the unmet health needs of traditionally difficult-to-reach populations and determines cost-effective and targeted healthcare solutions nationally and globally. She regularly supervises undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students. VIP Research Lab website: https://vipresearchlab.ca/ CP@clinic website: https://cpatclinic.ca/
Fiona Kouyoumdjian, MD, MPH, PhD, CCFP, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
McMaster UniversityPopulation Health, Prison Health
Fiona Kouyoumdjian is a Family Physician, Public Health and Preventive Medicine Physician and Epidemiologist. She received her BA with Honors from Brown University, her MD from Dalhousie University, her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She completed residency training at the University of Toronto and a CIHR Fellowship at St. Michael’s Hospital. Fiona leads a program of research focused on the health status and health care of people who experience imprisonment. Her research foci are decreasing imprisonment, improving health care and health promotion for people in prison, and supporting successful re-integration to the community for people on release from prison. Fiona is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University and an Adjunct Scientist at ICES.
Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine
Dr. Kannan Ramar is a Professor of Medicine at the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center for Sleep Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. He is the Safety Officer for Mayo Clinic, Rochester. He also serves as the Assistant Dean for Clinical Learning Environment Optimization (CLEO) at the Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education (MCSGME) and is the president for the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). Dr. Ramar served as the Education Chair for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine division and as the Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Internal Medicine, and Pulmonary Disease Fellowship programs at Rochester, MN. Dr. Ramar has served as quality chair for the Medical Intensive Care Unit between 2010 and 2013, and as the quality chair for the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine between 2013 and 2014. He was the Mayo Quality Fellows Program chair between 2015 and 2019, and serves on the Graduate Medical Education Committee, Mayo Clinic Quality Academy Education Committee and serves for the Mayo Clinic Proceedings Editorial Board as the Pulmonary Medicine section editor. He currently serves as a board member on AASM, AASM Foundation, American Board of Sleep Medicine, and recently on the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety.
Family Medicine, narrative medicine, health humanities
Dr. Joyce Zazulak is a Full Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University and practices medicine at the Maternity Centre of Hamilton. Dr. Zazulak’s academic areas of interest include teaching about communication skills and patient-centered care, Narrative Medicine, and Health Humanities. She is the Faculty Development Director for the Department of Family Medicine, as well as the Faculty Lead for Academic Support and Resident Remediation. Dr. Zazulak has a particular interest in the use of art and visual literacy in the training of healthcare professionals and, in collaboration with the McMaster Museum of Art, has developed a visual literacy program for family medicine residents called “The Art of Seeing.” Dr. Zazulak is also one of the co-creators of the Indigenous Teaching Through Art Program.
Doug Oliver, BSc, MSc, MD, CCFP
Associate Professor Medical Director, McMaster Family Practice Associate Member, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
McMaster UniversityCare of the Elderly, Palliative Care, Medical Education, Interprofessional Primary Care, Primary Care Psychiatry
Dr. Oliver is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University. He joined the Department in 2004 and took on a full-time faculty position in 2007. Dr. Oliver’s passion for elder care lead him to take on the position as Care of the Elderly Curriculum Coordinator from 2006 – 2015. This role allowed him to develop many innovative programs for the Department, including a Long Term Care clinical rotation for residents and a successful annual CME event entitled “Care of the Elderly: Perspectives for Primary Care”. His clinical commitment to this patient population continues with weekly nursing home rounds and house-calls to frail elderly patients. He is also co-PI on Health Tapestry, a multi-year, multi-site primary care based intervention aimed at promoting optimal aging in community dwelling older adults. Dr. Oliver’s interest in improving access for patients in primary care resulted in study and co-development of an Advanced Access booking model in the McMaster Family Health Team. This model allows patients better access to their primary care team by having the majority of booking spots available for same day appointments. Dr. Oliver is the Principle Investigator on a research project designed to better understand how and why patients make the choices they do, when calling in to book an appointment with their family doctor. On the academic front, Dr. Oliver is assisting the Department with several educational leadership roles including Co-Education Coordinator at McMaster Family Practice (2011-16), Hamilton Site Director and CBRT Education Coordinator (2012-2013) and Behavioural Sciences Co-Coordinator (2013-). Dr. Oliver has held several academic leadership roles in the last few years, including Education Coordinator at MFP (2011-16), MHBS Curriculum Coordinator (2013-2019) and is currently the Medical Director at McMaster Family Practice (2016-present)”
Amy Montour, BScN, MSc, MD, CCFP
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
McMaster UniversityHealth Care, Palliative Care, Elderly Healthcare, Indigenous Health
Dr. Amy Montour is an Haudenosaunee woman from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She has completed Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing, and Doctor of Medicine degrees at McMaster University. Amy works clinically as a palliative care physician and as an advocate for Indigenous health. As full-time faculty with the McMaster University Department of Family Medicine she serves as the Site Director for the Grand Erie Six Nations site and as an Indigenous Health consultant.
Balaji Narasimhan, PhD
Distinguished Professor of chemical and biological engineering; director, the Nanovaccine Institute
Iowa State Universitynanovaccines, Nanotechnology, Vaccines, Chemical Engineering, Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Nanomedicine
Balaji Narasimhan directs the Nanovaccine Institute based at Iowa State University. The institute is looking for new and better ways to prevent disease, including influenza and cancers. Nanovaccines, unlike current vaccines, are based on tiny particles that can send pathogen-like signals to immune cells. They can prevent disease. They can boost the immune system’s own response to disease. Production is quick. Storage is easy. And the technology is sustainable. “This is truly one of the dream teams working on vaccine research anywhere in the world,” Narasimhan said.
Economics, Agriculture, grain markets, CORN, Soybean, Trade
I was born and raised in southwest Missouri. My parents raised a few cattle and operated a small meat locker. I received a B.S. in economics with minors in mathematics, history, and astronomy from Southwest Missouri State University in 1991. I then moved to Iowa in the summer of 1991 to pursue graduate education. I received a Ph.D. in economics and statistics in 1999 from Iowa State University. Upon graduation, I joined the staff for the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State. I served as the U.S. Policy and Insurance Analyst with the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) and a Scientist with CARD. For FAPRI, I was responsible for directing econometric and modeling efforts for the crop insurance component of the FAPRI modeling system. For CARD, I served in multiple roles, concluding as the head of the Biorenewables Policy Division and examined the interactions between the agricultural and energy sectors. My research has examined the interaction between the agricultural commitments within the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the agricultural policies and programs of WTO members, crop insurance, international trade, biofuel policy, federal agricultural policy, and crop marketing.
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