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Dr. Harry Heiman Selected for Prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy
Fellowship
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has announced this year's cohort of Health
Policy Fellows and Morehouse School of Medicine’s Dr. Harry Heiman has made the prestigious
list. Dr. Heiman will join seven other exceptional health leaders with a range of
experience and expertise in fields ranging from radiology to nursing. The fellows
will utilize their academic, public health, clinical, and community-based experience
to provide health policy leadership on Capitol Hill.
“The RWJF Health Policy Fellowship provides firsthand training on how to use health
policy to improve public health and health care,” says Marie E. Michnich, DrPH, director
and alumna of the RWJF Health Policy Fellows program. “For 37 years, this program
has attracted some of the most talented professionals in health and health care. Our
2012–2013 fellows continue to raise the bar.”
This year’s fellows include the following.
• Barbara Damron, PhD, RN, FAAN, is associate professor at the University of New Mexico
College of Nursing, and director of the Office of Community Partnerships and Cancer
Health Disparities at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center.
• Karen B. Domino, MD, MPH, is professor and vice chair for clinical research in the
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, and adjunct professor for neurological
surgery, at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
• Bruce Edgren, PharmD, is associate professor and chair in the Department of Pharmacy
Practice and Administration at Saint Joseph College.
• Stephen Ferrara, MD, is commander and chief of Interventional Radiology in the Department
of Radiology with the U.S. Navy.
• Andrew Gettinger, MD, is associate dean for clinical informatics and professor at
Dartmouth Medical School. He is also chief medical information officer at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center.
• Harry J. Heiman, MD, MPH, is assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine
and director of health policy at the Morehouse School of Medicine, Satcher Health
Leadership Institute.
• Peter Sokolove, MD, is professor and vice chair for academic affairs in the Department
of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Davis Health System.
• Hassan A. Tetteh, MD, MPA, MBA, FACS, is assistant professor of surgery in the Department
of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the National Naval Medical Center. He is also a Commander
with the U.S. Navy Medical Corps.
“These fellows will develop unmatched leadership skills and become part of an influential
professional network,” said Michael Painter, JD, MD, RWJF senior program officer and
2003–2004 Health Policy Fellow. “Once they have completed the program, they return
to the field, where they put this network and their health policy leadership skills
to work.”
Each year, fellows are chosen through a highly competitive selection process. They
leave their academic settings and professional practices to spend a year in the nation’s
capital. A three-month orientation program is followed by a nine-month assignment
in which fellows work in either a congressional office or the executive branch. Work
assignments are supplemented throughout the year with health policy leadership development
activities and media training.
RWJF Health Policy Fellows is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
with direction and technical assistance provided by the Institute of Medicine of the
National Academies. More than 200 fellows from a variety of disciplines in health
and health care from across the nation have participated in the program since 1973.
For more information, visit www.healthpolicyfellows.org.
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