Associates

Please click on the names for professional summaries of our associates.

• M. Beth Benedict, DrPH, JD, RN,  Office of Research, Development and Information, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Riviera Beach, MD:  beth.benedict@cms.hhs.gov
• William Bria, III, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Tampa, Florida:  wbria@shrinenet.org
• Frances Dunn Butterfoss, PhD, MEd, Director, Behavioral Research and Community Health; Associate Professor, Pediatric Research, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia: ButterFD@evms.edu 
• Michael D. Cabana, MD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of General Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco:  michael.cabana@ucsf.edu 
• Denise Charron Prochownik, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Development, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: dcpro@pitt.edu
• Yu Zhi Chen, MD, Director, Asthma Center, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China: chenyuzhi@gmail.com 
• Jennifer Cleland, PhD, Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, General Practice and Primary Care; Faculty Coordinator, Medical Interviewing and Communication, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland: jen.cleland@abdn.ac.uk 
• David Evans, PhD, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians & Surgeons; and Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University in the City of New York: de8@colombia.edu 
• Monica Fletcher, MSc, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Respiratory Training Center, Warwick, England: mailto:m.fletcher@nrtc.org.uk 
• Mary Gallant, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, School of Public Health; Associate, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York: mgallant@albany.edu 
• Zhongxin (Molly) Gong, MD, Head of Data Collection and Analysis, Center for Managing Chronic Disease: mgong@umich.edu 
• Christopher Griffiths, MD, Professor, Primary Care, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Barts and the London Centre for General Practice and Primary Care, London, England: C.J.Griffiths@qmul.ac.uk 
• Jessie Gruman, PhD, President and Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Health, Washington DC: jgruman@cfah.org 
• Cindy K. Kelly, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia: KELLYCS@EVMS.EDU 
• Steve Keteyian, PhD, FACSM, Program Director, Preventive Cardiology;  Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Health System; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan: sketeyi1@hfhs.org 
• Talmadge King, Jr, MD, Constance B. Wofsy Distinguished Professor; Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Chief, Medical Services, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California: tking@medsfgh.ucsf.edu 
• Marielena Lara, MD, MPH, Director, UCLA/RAND Program on Latino Children with Asthma, Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angelos and RAND Health; Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of California at Los Angelos, Los Angelos, California: lara@rand.org 
• Xihong Lin, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics, Harvard University School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts: xlin@hsph.harvard.edu
• Philippa Madge, PhD, RSCN, Clinical Nurse Specialist Pediatric Asthma, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Greater Glasgow & Clyde Acute Hospitals Division, Glasgow G3 8SJ, Scotland: philippa.madge@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
• Floyd Malveaux, MD, PhD, Executive Director, Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Washington, D.C.:  floyd_malveaux@merck.com
• Robert Mellins, MD, Professor, Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University in the City of New York: rbm3@columbia.edu 
• John Meurer, MD, MBA, Associate Professor and Chief, General Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin; Medical Director, Downtown Health Center, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: jmeurer@mcw.edu 
• Lori Mosca, MD, PhD, MPH, Director, Preventive Cardiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University in the City of New York: ljm10@columbia.edu 
• Karen Meyerson, RN, BSN, Manager, Pediatric and Adult Asthma Network of West Michigan, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Meyersok@trinity-health.org 
• Elisa Nicholas, MD, MSPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California at Irvine; Chief Executive Officer, The Children's Clinic of Long Beach, Long Beach, California: Enicholas@memorialcare.org 
• Guy Parcel, PhD, Dean, School of Public Health; John P. McGovern Professor, Health Promotion; M. David Low Chair in Public Health, University of Texas at Houston, Houston, Texas: guy@sph.uth.tmc.edu 
• Martyn Partridge, MD, FRCP, Chair and Professor, Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College of London, London, England: m.partridge@imperial.ac.uk 
• James Paton, MD, Reader and Honorary Consultant Paediatrician, Department of Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland: J.Y.Paton@clinmed.gla.ac.uk 
• Marcia Pinkett-Heller, MPH, Associate Professor of Health Sciences, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, New Jersey: mphmph2@aol.com 
• Michael Rosenthal, MD, Clinical Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Programs, Family and Community Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Michael.Rosenthal@jefferson.edu 
• Susan Sawyer, MBBS, MD, FRACP, Director, Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children's Hospital; Chair and Professor of Adolescent Health, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia: susan.sawyer@rch.org.au 
• Smita Shah, MBChB, MCH, Director, Primary Health Care Education and Research Unit, Sydney West Area Health Service; Clinical Director and Clinical Senior Lecturer, Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia: Smita_Shah@wsahs.nsw.gov.au 
• Marianna Sockrider, MD, DrPH, Associate Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology, Baylor College of Medicine; Director, Children's Asthma Center Consultative Clinic Program, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas: marias@bcm.tmc.edu 
• Judith C. Taylor-Fishwick, MSc, Director,  National Respiratory Training Center; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia:  TaylorJC@EVMS.edu
• Sandra Wilson, PhD, Chair, Department of Health Services Research, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Co-Director, Stanford Lung Disease Research Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California: wilsons@pamfri.org 
• Zhaosu Wu, MD, MPH, Director, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung & Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China: wuzhaosu@263.net