Faith and Public Health
11:15 AM
Panel description coming soon.
Moderator
Caitlin Reiner, MPH ’06
Global PMTCT Program Manager,
Clinton Health Access Initiative
Caitlin Reiner is the Global Program Manager for the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV with the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Prior to this, she worked as the Kenya Program Manager at the Lwala Community Alliance (LCA). Caitlin is a founding board member of the LCA and also sits on the board of the Blood:Water Mission. Caitlin received a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University and a BA in history and education from Dartmouth. She has worked with a number of global health organizations including the International Family AIDS Program and the Millennium Villages Project and is the recipient of the 2010 Award for Excellence in Global Health from Columbia University. She is based in New York City, but spends about 30% of the year in the developing world.
Panelists
J. Robert Beck, MD D’74
Chief Medical Officer, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Dr. J. Robert Beck is Senior Vice President, Chief Academic Officer and Chief Medical Officer at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. He also is the inaugural holder of the H.O. West & J.R. Wike Chair in Cancer Research at Fox Chase. In these roles Bob has responsibility for academic programs, corporate alliances, information technology, quantitative sciences, physician operations, clinical quality and safety, as well as strategic planning and process improvement. He is a Dartmouth ’75, Johns Hopkins MD ‘78. Bob has held positions at Dartmouth Medical School, Oregon Health Sciences University, and Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Beck’s research interests are in technology assessment, cost-effectiveness of cancer therapies, cancer health disparities, and medical administration. He has held grants from various federal and foundation sources. Bob is the author of 200 scholarly articles, and chairs the Healthcare Technology and Dissemination Sciences Review Panel for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Joyce A. Sackey MD ’85 DMS ’89
Founder, Foundation for African Relief
Dean for Multicultural Affairs and Global Health, Tufts University School of Medicine
Joyce A. Sackey, M.D. is Dean for Multicultural Affairs and Global Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Prior to joining TUSM, she was Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an Attending Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Sackey completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She was a Senior Rabkin fellow in the Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School where she completed advanced fellowship training in medical education.
Dr. Sackey has dedicated her time, skills and talent to addressing health care disparities, both locally as well as globally. A leader in global health education, Dr. Sackey has led a number of faculty development and training workshops for physicians and other health professionals. She has additionally mentored numerous students, residents and junior faculty on global health services delivery research and quality improvement projects.
She is co-founder of the Foundation for African Relief (FAR), a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization. The program has made significant contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS through the education and training African physicians in the forefront of providing clinical care to people living with HIV/AIDS. FAR has also helped to expand access to care and early detection of HIV through its Mobile Clinic Initiative in Ghana.
Timothy Flanigan, MD D’79
Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brown Medical School
Dr. Flanigan is the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rhode Island and The Miriam Hospitals and Brown Medical School. He came to Brown Medical School in 1991 to help establish a network of primary care for HIV infected individuals with a particular focus on women, substance abusers and individuals leaving prison. Dr. Flanigan developed the HIV Core Program at the State Prison to provide care for HIV infected individuals and link them to community based resources upon release. Over 70% of individuals in Rhode Island who are HIV infected link with primary medical care at The Immunology Center.
Dr. Flanigan is the PI on The Miriam/Brown AIDS Clinical Trials Unit to develop more effective therapies for the treatment of HIV. He is also associate director of The Miriam/Brown Fogarty Program which trains and mentors overseas investigators in HIV/AIDS.
He was the recipient of a community health leadership award from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the development of outstanding primary care for underserved HIV infected individuals. In 2005, he received an honorary doctorate from Salve Regina University for his support of educational opportunities for children of incarcerated parents.
