Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry
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The committee advises the HHS Secretary and Congress on a wide range of policy and program issues in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, dentistry, and physician assistant programs.

1. Nathaniel B. Savio Beers, M.D., M.P.A. is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.  He received a medical degree from George Washington University (1995) and completed a residency in pediatrics at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. (1998).  He earned a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (2001).  He is board certified in general pediatrics and in developmental and behavioral pediatrics.  Dr. Beers has held a number of positions with the American Academy of Pediatrics including chair of its section on residents and member of its committee on pediatric education.  Currently, he is Vice President/President-Elect of the Academy’s DC Chapter.  He has been the recipient of several grants from private institutions for the care of children with physical disabilities in foster care, residency training in cultural competency, and primary prevention in pediatric residency training. He has made regional and national presentations on children’s growth and development, early intervention, mental health care in primary care settings, and training of residents in outpatient settings.
   Term Ending:  09/30/2009
   

2. James F. Cawley, M.P.H., PA-C, is professor in the Department of Health Care Sciences at The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. where he is director of the Physician Assistant/Master of Public Health Program.  He is professor of epidemiology and vice chair of that institution's Department of Prevention and Community Health.  He was trained as a physician assistant at Touro College in New York (1974), certified as a physician assistant (1975), and received a master's degree in public health from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (1979).  Mr. Cawley was a HHS Public Health Service Primary Care Fellow in 2003.  He is a former president of the Physician Assistant Foundation/American Academy of Physician Assistants, president of the Association of Physician Assistant Programs, and member of the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.  He has been a Title VII, section 747 grant reviewer and chaired a review panel in 2004.  Mr. Cawley has served on numerous editorial boards and writes a monthly column for Advance for Physician Assistants. He has presented on a variety of topics including physician assistant education and the primary care workforce. 
   Term Ended:  09/30/2008 (Term Extended)
   

3. Diego Chaves-Gnecco, M.D., M.P.H., is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.  He received a medical degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Santafe de Bogota, Colombia, in 1994 and a masters of public health degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000.  He is an assistant district coordinator for the Residency Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  In 2002 Dr. Chaves-Gnecco established the first bilingual pediatric clinic in Pittsburgh and in Southwestern Pennsylvania, SALUD PARA NIÑOS, serving a growing Hispanic population of 17,500 persons, including 5,500 children, for which he has become program director.  He has been an editorial board member for two medical journals in Bogota.  He is interested in balancing clinical practice with attention to public health and public policy as they relate to the health care of children and underrepresented minorities. 
   Term Ended:  09/30/2007 (Term Extended)
   

4. William Alton Curry, M.D., F.A.C.P., is associate dean for primary care and rural health and professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham.  He previously served as dean of the College of Community Health Sciences, University of Alabama School of Medicine, in Tuscaloosa.  He received a medical degree from Vanderbilt University in 1976.  After a residency in internal medicine, he served two years in the National Health Service Corps.  He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.  Dr. Curry has served on the Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners and on the Governor's Task Force on Health Care Reform.  He is past president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama and past chair of the Rural Leadership Pipeline Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Alabama Southern Rural Access Program.  He currently is a reviewer for the Archives of Internal Medicine and The American Journal of the Medical Sciences.  He has given numerous presentations on a wide variety of clinical topics throughout Alabama. 
   Term Ended:  09/30/2007 (Term Extended)
   

5. Kevin J. Donly, D.D.S., M.S., is chair and clinic director of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC) at San Antonio.   He previously was professor at the University of Iowa.  Dr. Donly received a dental degree (1984) and a master's degree in oral science (1986) from the University of Iowa and is board certified in pediatric dentistry.  He currently is chair of the Council for Postdoctoral Education of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) and is a board member of that organization's Foundation.  In 2002 he chaired an AAPD consensus conference that resulted in an update of the AAPD's clinical guidelines on pediatric restorative dentistry.  He has been president of the American Society of Dentistry for Children and was instrumental in that organization's merger with the AAPD.  He has been the recipient of Title VII, section 747 grants and the principal investigator of projects receiving a variety of funding.  Dr. Donly has done research and written on numerous topics in pediatric dentistry.  He serves as a reviewer and an editorial board member for many dental journals.  He developed a collaboration between the UTHSC Dental School and the San Antonio Department of Metropolitan Health to provide dental care to underserved children. 
   Term Ended:  09/30/2008 (Term Extended)
   

6. Mary Burke Duke, M.D. is Associate Professor of both Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, where she was Program Director of the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program for eleven years.  Currently she is Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and a member of the College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education Committee at the University of Kentucky.  Dr. Duke received a medical degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana (1984), completed a residency in internal medicine-pediatrics at the University of Kentucky, Lexington (1988), and completed a fellowship in general internal medicine-ambulatory care at the VA Medical Center, Seattle, Washington (1994).  She is board certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics.  She is Governor for the Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Physicians and serves on the Health Policy Committee, Education Subcommittee for the Society of General Internal Medicine.  She is a member and a Past President of the Med-Peds Program Directors Association.  Dr. Duke has been an Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Journal of General Internal Medicine.  She has been a Principal Investigator for a Title VII, section 747 residency training grant and a Teaching Curriculum Coordinator for a faculty development grant.  She has given presentations locally and nationally on a wide range of topics including preventing medical errors, communicating effectively with patients, and evaluating essential skills for primary care.
   Term Ending:  09/30/2009
   

7. Katherine A. Flores, M.D., is a family medicine physician in private practice in Fresno, California, and an assistant clinical professor at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF).  She is the project director of the State of California Health Education Training Center and program director of the Health Career Opportunity Program and the Hispanic Centers of Excellence at the UCSF-Fresno.  She previously served as project director of the State of California Area Health Education Center (AHEC).  Dr. Flores received a medical degree from the University of California, Davis, in 1979 and is board certified by the American Board of Family Practice.  She is a board member of the National AHEC Organization and a member of the advisory board to the National Hispanic Medical Association.  She has received a variety of HRSA-funded grants on health professions education and minority faculty development.  She has given presentations to state and national organizations and has worked with elementary, junior high, and high school students, encouraging them to consider a career in the health professions.
   Term Ended:  09/30/2007 (Term Extended)
   

8. Stephanie L. Janson, PA-C is a physician assistant in the Emergency Department at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie, Pennsylvania.  She recently graduated with a Masters of Health Science from the physician assistant program, with a rural primary care emphasis, at Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania.  She is a member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.  She has served as a Program Specialist with the Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services Council.  She also has experience in human resources and as an educational consultant. Ms. Janson received a Master of Science degree in workforce education and development from Pennsylvania State University, University Park (2002) and a Bachelor of Science in Health Policy and Administration from the Pennsylvania State University. She has given many workshops on emergency medical services topics
   Term Ending:  09/30/2009
   

9. Sheila K. Koh, D.D.S., R.N., is associate professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials at The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center (UTHHSC) where she is director of government-funded training projects.  She previously served as director of the school's Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program.  Dr. Koh received a dental degree from UTHHSC in 1990 and completed a general practice residency there in 1991.  She earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Korea in 1972 and was a cardiovascular operating room nurse.  She is a member of the American Dental Education Association where she has held a number of positions including chair of the section on postdoctoral general dentistry.  She has extensive experience as a reviewer of Title VII, section 747 grants and has been a recipient of grants in general dentistry.  Dr. Koh has given presentations and co-authored articles on a variety of topics in dentistry.  She has worked to increase opportunities for under-represented minorities to enter the dental profession and strongly supports community-based training experiences for dental students and residents.
   Term Ended:  09/30/2008 (Term Extended)
   

10. Desiree Lie, M.D., M.S.Ed. is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, where she directs the Division of Faculty Development.  She has led multi-disciplinary programs that train international faculty from developing countries; multi-institutional training programs that develop cultural competency; and local university projects that enhance community preceptor skills.  Dr. Lie received a medical degree from the University of Oxford, England (1981), and completed residencies in pediatrics (1984) and family medicine (1987) in the United Kingdom.  She is board certified by the Royal College of General Practitioners, London, and is a diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice.  She has been a grant reviewer for Title VII, section 747 grants, the National Library of Science, and the NIH.  Dr. Lie is an honorary member of the Medscape Family Medicine and Primary Care Editorial Advisory Board.  She has presented at national meetings and written on pre-doctoral education, community-oriented primary care, international faculty development, and educational outcome measures.
    Term Ending:  09/30/2009
    

11. Lolita M. McDavid, M.D., M.P.A., is associate professor of pediatrics and medical director of child advocacy and protection at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.  Previously, she directed the Greater Cleveland Project of the Children's Defense Fund and was head of general pediatrics at MetroHealth Medical Center, the largest public hospital in Ohio.  Dr. McDavid received a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University (1979) and completed a residency in general pediatrics and adolescent medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1982).  She was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and a Bush Fellow in Child Development and Social Policy, both at Yale University (1982-1984).  She is board certified in pediatrics.  She also holds a master of public administration degree from State University of New York in Albany (1970).  Dr. McDavid is past chair of the Public Policy and Advocacy Committee of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association.  She has served as a grant reviewer for Title VII, section 747 grants and has been the recipient of grants for pediatric residency training.  She has been on the editorial board of the Journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association.  She has presented on various topics in pediatrics at professional meetings, in academic settings, and for community organizations.
    Term Ended:  09/30/2008 (Term Extended)
    

12. Dennis J. McTigue, D.D.S., M.S. is Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at the Ohio State University, Columbus.  As former chair of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at that institution, he established a dental clinic to serve underserved poor rural children in southeast Ohio.  Previously, as an Associate Professor at Louisiana State University, he received a State grant to provide dental care to handicapped adults.  Dr. McTigue received a dental degree from the University of Iowa (1974) and a master of science degree in pediatric dentistry (1976).  He is board certified in pediatric dentistry.  He is a past president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry; has chaired a number of its committees; and currently serves on its residency standards task force.  He has chaired committees of the American Dental Association and chaired the Commission on Dental Accreditation.  Dr. McTigue is a consultant to the written examination of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Dentistry for Children.  He has presented and written extensively on many topics in pediatric dentistry including management of dental emergencies, undergraduate pedodontic education, and barriers to dental care for the handicapped.
    Term Ending:  09/30/2009
    

13. Eugene Mochan, D.O., Ph.D., is associate dean for primary care at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) in Pennsylvania.  At PCOM he serves as faculty medical school liaison with the North Central and East Central AHEC Programs and is faculty program coordinator for a Philadelphia community health internship program.  He formerly served as chair of the Department of Family Practice at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine, president of the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners, and chair of a Statewide Primary Care Education Committee for Pennsylvania Consortium of Medical Schools.  Dr. Mochan received a doctor of osteopathy degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1977 and is board certified in family practice.  He was a HHS family medicine faculty fellow at Temple University in Philadelphia in 1989.  He earned a doctoral degree in biochemistry from the State University of New York-Buffalo.  He has been a Title VII, section 747 peer reviewer and recipient of faculty development, residency training, predoctoral, and academic administrative units grants.  He was a panel discussant at the Bureau of Health Professions' First All-Grantee Meeting in Washington, D.C. in 2005.  He has lectured and published on the diagnosis and treatment of rheumatological diseases, an area in which he has done basic research.
    Term Ended:  09/30/2008 (Term Extended)
    

14. Perri Morgan, Ph.D., PA-C, Vice Chair, currently is director of research in the physician assistant division at Duke University Medical Center.  In her previous position she was a senior lecturer and academic coordinator in the Physician Assistant Program in the Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM).  She received a bachelor of science degree in allied health from the Physician Associate Program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1987.  She is a Ph.D. candidate in the population health program in the UWM Preventive Medicine Department.  Ms. Morgan is certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.  She has been a coordinator of HRSA-funded grants on medical informatics education and an integrated curriculum on community health and diversity.  She has served on the Strategic Action Planning Committee sponsored by HRSA in collaboration with the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse which developed policy recommendations to improve substance abuse education and practice.  She has made a number of presentations on educational curricula to physician assistant students. 
    Term Ended:  09/30/2007 (Term Extended)
    

15. Charles P. Mouton, M.D., M.S., is professor and chair of the Department of Community Health and Family Practice at Howard University in Washington, D.C.  He also is co-investigator with MedStar Clinical Research Institute.  He previously served as associate professor and associate research director in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.  Dr. Mouton received a medical degree from Howard University (1986), earned a master of science degree in clinical epidemiology from Harvard University School of Public Health (1997), and completed a geriatrics fellowship at The George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. (1992).  He is board certified in family practice, has a certificate of added qualifications in geriatrics, and is a certified medical director.  He is a past president of the Texas Geriatrics Society.  Dr. Mouton has been a Title VII, section 747 grant reviewer, a recipient of academic administrative unit grants, and a consultant on a project to develop modules for a curriculum in ethnogeriatrics.  He has written and presented on a variety of topics in geriatric medicine.  He is on the editorial board of Family Medicine.  His research interests include health disparities and disease prevention in the elderly.
    Term Ended:  09/30/2008 (Term Extended)
    

16. Lauren L. Patton, D.D.S., Vice Chair, is a professor in the School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, where she directs the General Practice Residency Program.  She received a dental degree from UNC in 1986 and completed a clinical dental fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1990.  In 2001 she was awarded a fellowship in dental surgery at The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Scotland.  Dr. Patton is board certified by the American Board of Oral Medicine.  As a consultant to the American Dental Association's Commission on Dental Accreditation, she has conducted site visits of advanced education programs in general practice dentistry residency training.  As chair of a council of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, she was involved in the revision of outcomes assessment examinations used nationally.  She has experience as a grant reviewer and recipient of many grants from Federal Government agencies.  Dr. Patton has published extensively and serves on the editorial board of numerous professional journals.  She has spoken on many topics, including oral systemic diseases in medically complex patients.  She regularly provides continuing dental education courses throughout the State of North Carolina.
    Term Ended:  09/30/2007 (Term Extended)
    

17. Stephen C. Shannon, D.O., M.P.H. is President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine.  Previously, he was Dean and Vice President for Health Services at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNECOM) in Biddeford, Maine, where he was Professor in the Department of Family Medicine.  Dr. Shannon received a doctor of osteopathy degree from the UNECOM (1986) and completed residency training in family practice (1988) and in preventive medicine (1990).  He earned a master’s degree in public health from Harvard University (1990) and is board certified in osteopathic family practice and preventive medicine. Dr. Shannon has been the Chair of the Osteopathic Medical Education Council of the American Osteopathic Association and chair of the Board of Deans of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine.  Dr. Shannon has been the recipient of a number of grants and was a principal investigator for a HRSA grant to support the integration of behavioral medicine and public health into the medical school curriculum.  He has presented and written on osteopathic medical education, occupational health, and the healthcare workforce.
    Term Ending:  09/30/2009
    

18. Harry S. Strothers III, M.D., M.M.M. is Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, East Point, Georgia, where he is Associate Chair for Academic Programs and Geriatric Team Leader in the National Center for Primary Care.  He is Medical Director for the Georgia Enhanced Care/APS Healthcare Georgia.  He is former Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program at Morehouse.  Dr. Strothers received a medical degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore (1982) and completed a Family Practice Residency (1985).  He earned a master’s degree in medical management at Tulane University, New Orleans (2000).  He is board certified in family practice, with added qualifications in geriatrics.  He is a former National Health Service Corps Scholar who served in rural South Carolina.  Dr. Strothers is former Secretary-Treasurer of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and Vice President of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians.  He has served on numerous committees of professional organizations, hospitals, and state departments of health.  He has both reviewed and been the recipient of Title VII, section 747 grants.  He has presented and written on health disparities, HIV/AIDS, and geriatric medicine.
    Term Ending:  09/30/2009
    

19. James A. Thomas, Ph.D. is a medical student and a Ph.D. candidate in physiology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, where he has been an Instructor in Molecular Medicine and tutored medical students in pharmacology, pathology, and physiology.  He has been a research assistant at the NIH’s National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and had a pre-doctoral fellowship with the American Heart Association.  For a University of Virginia Alumni Association convocation, Mr. Thomas organized and recruited medical students to participate in a curriculum discussion and planned a presentation to explore the future of medical student education.  He also has participated in an information day for undergraduate students interested in medical school.  He has given numerous scientific presentations and co-authored several publications.
    Term Ending:  09/30/2009
    

20. Raymond J. Tseng, D.D.S., Ph.D. is a dental student in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Dentistry.  He completed a dual-degree general dentistry/oral biology doctor of philosophy program (2006) at the College of Dentistry at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, which he helped develop.  He was the founder and co-director of a free dental clinic serving Hispanics in central Ohio.  The clinic, staffed by dental students, provided basic dental exams, consultations in Spanish, and a service that pairs patients with Spanish-speaking dental students for further treatment.  Dr. Tseng has served as vice president of the Hispanic Dental Association.  He has been the recipient of both research and clinical service grants and has given oral and poster presentations at conferences.
    Term Ended:  09/30/2007 (Term Extended)
    

21. Barbara J. Turner, M.D., M.S. Ed., M.A., F.A.C.P., is professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where she directs a combined general internal medicine and pediatrics physician scientist fellowship program funded by Title VII.  She previously was professor of medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.  Dr. Turner received a medical degree (1978) and completed residency training in medicine (1981) from the University of Pennsylvania and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.  She was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program and as a recent Kimball Scholar with the American Board of Internal Medicine, she worked on developing quality of care measures for a wide variety of specialties including primary care.  She has held many positions with the Society of General Internal Medicine and currently serves as its president.  Dr. Turner has been a grant reviewer for numerous Government agencies including HRSA.  A primary interest is epidemiology and health services research related to HIV/AIDS, a topic on which she has lectured and written.  She has been on the editorial board of a number of publications and is currently associate editor of Annals of Internal Medicine.  She participates in a primary care practice that serves under-represented minorities in Philadelphia. 
    Term Ended:  09/30/2008 (Term Extended)
    

22. Surendra K. Varma, M.D., is professor and vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Texas Tech University School of Medicine in Lubbock where he directs the Pediatric Residency Program.  He received a medical degree from King George's  Medical College, Lucknow, India, in 1962 and did postdoctoral fellowships there and at Harvard Medical School, Boston.  He is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.  Dr. Varma has been a vice chair of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's Residency Review Committee in Pediatrics.  He has been active in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) where he is a member of the Committee on Residency Scholarship which promotes primary care.  Dr. Varma, former president of the AAP's Texas chapter, is chair of its Committee on Medical Education.  He has been active in the Association of Pediatric Program Directors where he reviews pediatric programs throughout the country.  He is widely published and has been a manuscript reviewer and editorial board member of a number of pediatric journals.  He has been a member of the Primary Care Advisory Committee of the Texas Coordinating Board for Higher Education and has received annual grants from the Coordinating Board for Primary Care Residency in Pediatrics.
    Term Ended:  09/30/2007 (Term Extended)
    

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