Inside HRSA, March 2007 issue, Health Resources and Services Administration
 
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Four Move to New Positions

These HRSA colleagues have accepted new responsibilities in recent months:

Tanya Pagán Raggio Ashley

 Tanya Pagán Raggio Ashley is HRSA's new Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, succeeding Dr. Bill Robinson, who retired in January, in both positions. Dr. Pagán Raggio Ashley came to HRSA in 2004 and in 2006 became Senior Advisor to Bureau of Health Professions Associate Administrator Michelle Snyder. Before joining HRSA, she was an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at the City University of New York.

Dennis Wagner

Dennis Wagner is now Deputy Director of HRSA's Center for Quality after spending the last three years as Director of the Organ Donation and Transplantation Collaboratives in HRSA's Division of Transplantation, Healthcare Systems Bureau. He joined HRSA in 1997, serving first as Special Advisor to the Director of the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) and then as Acting Director of the Healthy Communities Access Program.

As part of the BPHC realignment noted in the January edition of Inside HRSA, Associate Administrator Jim Macrae announced the appointment of Gina Capra as Director of the Bureau's Eastern Division and Angela Powell as Director of the Western Division.

Gina Capra

Gina Capra has served HRSA in a variety of roles, most recently in Boston as the Region I Division Director of HRSA's Office of Performance Review. In Boston, she also served as Operations Director and as a Project Officer for Community Health Centers, Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) Title V State Block Grants, and HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) Ryan White Title II and III programs.

 

Angela Powell

Angela Powell has also served HRSA in several capacities, most recently in Denver as the Region VIII Division Director of HRSA's Office of Performance Review. She also served as Acting Director of HAB's Division of Training and Technical Assistance, Deputy Branch Chief and Project Officer for the Ryan White Title I and II programs, and as a HRSA Public Health Specialist on special assignment to the White House Office of National AIDS Policy.

Gina and Angela will be starting their new positions this spring.

 

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