I have had the honor and privilege to work with and for many nationally recognized experts in the field of community health assessment and development. Below are some of the individuals that could offer you their experience and expertise.

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Business Management, Planning and Evaluation

Frank G. Cella
Frank G. Cella specializes in business consultative services with small and medium sized business, with a particular focus on turn-a-rounds, and developing business plans. Frank was a Senior Management Trainer for Bank of American and the Chrysler Corporation. As an experienced Dale Carnegie teacher of Leadership and Management, Frank could offer your business some on-site training and consultation. The former President of a local Rotary, Frank continues to serve on a variety of not-for-profit and for-profit board, balancing his already diverse perspective on business and community. He was the Founding Chairman of the Community Music School (Pennsylvania) and a Director (Board Member) at Muhlenberg College for nearly a decade. In addition to serving on the Board of the Allentown Improvement District, Frank received the highest honor for his outstanding leadership with the United Way (The Morning Call Silver Bowl).

Data Entry and Analysis

Dan Callahan
President of ABACUS Custom Research. Mr. Callahan has fifteen years of marketing research experience in a variety of consumer product, health care, and business-to-business applications. Along with complete advanced statistical analysis capabilities, Mr. Callahan has extensive qualitative research skills. He received his Master of Science degree in Marketing Research from the business school at The Pennsylvania State University.

FQHC's and HCAP Programs

Ruth Stevens
Ruth Stevens began her career in health as an internal medicine physician and received a Physician of the Year Award while working at Newark Community Health Centers, in Newark, New Jersey. This Member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and American Public Health Association is currently a private consultant with a particular focus on Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC's/330 Grant Program), Ryan White Title III, and other community based organizations. Ruth engages in grant writing, performance improvement plan development and implementation, and health care plan technical assistance. Ruth places particular focus on providing technical assistance to newly funded community health centers in the area of clinical management, clinical systems development, and assuring compliance with program standards and reporting requirements.

Cindy Prorok
A former Health and Human Services Director for Butler County Pennsylvania, Cindy been providing her advice and counsel to hospitals, health systems, and federally funded sites of care for nearly a decade, specifically as a contractor with the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Bureau of Primary Health Care. With a particular focus on the financial operations of institutions and programs, Cindy has contributed to more than forty (40) Primary Care Effectiveness Reviews (PCERs) and continues to do so presently. Cindy has also been involved in several key special projects from assisting the Pennsylvania Auditor General regarding Medicaid to performing cost-study projections for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Facility Design

Larry Pointer
Larry E. Pointer, is an Associate, and Senior Healthcare Planner, for Moody/Nolan Ltd., Inc., the largest minority owned architectural and engineering firm in Ohio, and one of the largest minority owned architectural and engineering firms in the Northeastern United States. Larry provides "up front" programming/functional programming, planning, design, and marketing support for both the Healthcare Studio, and the Education Studio, with a focus on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Prior to joining Moody/Nolan in 1994, Larry worked at Ross Planning Associates, the former Healthcare Planning Division of Ross Laboratories. During his seventeen years at "Ross," he participated in the planning and design of over 500 pediatric and perinatal projects, and over 300 medical office building projects.
Larry's community service includes:

• Neighborhood House, Inc. - Board Member
• AMMAS Mentorship Program
• The Columbus College of Art & Design - Advisory Panel Member
• Easter Seal Central & Southeast Ohio, Inc. - Facilities Board Member
• Historic Resources Commission - former Commissioner
• The Mentoring Center of Central Ohio - Board Chair

Federal Programs and the National Health Service Corps

Charles Van Anden
Charles Van Anden has a rich and diverse set of skills and perspectives that individuals and institutions involved in health improvement strategies will find of significant value. Chuck holds a Masters of Science in Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner from the State University of New York in Stonybrook, New York. In addition, Chuck holds a Certificate in Spanish Studies from the Universidad de Barcelona, Spain.

Chuck's career in the health improvement process began immediately after school when he served as a Staff Assistant to a United States Senator and then began direct service delivery in New York at Cabrini Medical Center and as a primary care clinician in East Harlem where he also served as Clinical Director for community outreach programs. Additionally Chuck has served in two Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Regional Field Offices and as an Executive Director of a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) or community health center. To learn more about Charles click here.

Matthew L. Henk, M.S.S.W., C.S.W.
Is recently retired from the U.S. Public Health Service Program at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Field Office in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to that Matt was a Clinical Associate Professor for the Family Medicine Program at the University of Rochester in New York City. Matt's work has focused on developing and improving improve primary care systems, integrating behavioral health and social work into primary care settings and improving methodologies for quality improvement and services for health promotion and disease prevention in primary care settings. To read more about Matthew Henke click here.

Grant Writing, Research and Evaluation

Steve T. Roussos
Steve is a public health scientist and educator specializing in the design, evaluation and improvement of initiatives for community health and development. He is an author and co-author of several research and conceptual papers in community health and preventive medicine. Steve completed his Masters in Public Health with an emphasis on Health Promotion at the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University and is currently completing doctoral work in Psychology and Human Development at the University of Kansas. As a research associate at the Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health (CBEACH), San Diego he contributed to several federally-funded controlled trials for tobacco use prevention and HIV/AIDS prevention for adolescents. His research work at CBEACH included the design of interventions to improve clinician provision of preventive services and the incorporation of preventive services into managed care systems. To learn more about Steve, click here.

Rhonda Savage, since 1998 Ms. Savage has assisted non-profit corporations through activities that enhanced their ability to identify, appropriately plan for, and implement a variety of health and social services programs. A total of 45 foundation, state, and federal applications have been written by Ms. Savage since 1998, of which, 41 have been funded. With extensive experience in conducting community needs assessments, data driven research and analysis, community planning, grant writing, and involvement in all levels of project reviews, Ms. Savage has an established history of success in positive project outcomes. Within the final 2004 HRSA 330 grant submission cycle where a total of only 74 awards were made from more than 250 submitted applications, Ms. Savage was the principal who wrote, compiled, and submitted 2 applications that were awarded the full $650,000 330(e) funding approval, and provided extensive assistance in a third application that also received a full 330(e) funding award.

Information Technology and JCAHO Compliance

Joe Whiting, BA, MBA, FACHE
Joe's mission is to improve the quality of American health care through the use of best of breed information system solutions and compliance with national standards. With more than 20 years of experience as a health care executive, including serving as a hospital President and Chief Executive Officer, Joe serves as Vice President, Hospital Solutions for Medcom Information Systems, a startup company providing computer-based patient record and related applications to small and rural hospital. He also serves as a consultant to firms including Quality Management Resources, a JCAHO compliance firm and Dorenfest and Associates, a nationally renowned health care information technology company. Joe earned his BA degree from Northwestern University and his MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. Joe is a Fellow in the American College of healthcare Executives.

Marketing and Communications

Cecilia Fabrizio
Cecilia is a marketing and communications planner with experience in the public and private sector. She spent four years in Hong Kong working on health care policy and advocacy and played a key role in the task force developing a population-based cancer screening program and the national Cancer Control Policy. For the first half of her career she worked in consumer product's marketing and now brings expertise in consumer behavior, goal-oriented planning and multi-functional teams into the health care setting. Cecilia also has extensive experience in strategic planning and communication research and development. Cecilia earned an MBA at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business.

Mental and Behavioral Health

Robert P. McCaffrey, Ph.D.
For twenty-five years, Dr. McCaffrey has been a nationally recognized leader, writer and speaker about the field of developmental disabilities. He has served as executive director of programs in five states, received numerous awards and was twice honored by the United States Congress for his work in inclusive educational practices and forensics. To read more about Dr. McCaffrey click here.

Project Planning and Training

Rebecca Landau, received an RN from Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, a BS in Community Health from Oregon State University and an MPH from the University of California, School of Public Health, Berkeley.

She is a successful grant writer, facilitator and project developer who gained her skills and expertise working with community based non-profit organizations, educational institutions and governmental entities throughout the US, in British Columbia and England.

Rebecca worked as a nurse practitioner in a clinic for transient youth in Canada and at a clinic for homeless and low-income clients in Oregon. She has a long history of working with community/migrant health centers both as a clinician and as an advocate.

An experienced educator, Rebecca has taught health professions and public health students. She is currently an instructor in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University and the faculty advisor for the Association of Students for the Underserved.

Rebecca served on various advisory committees for the National Health Service Corps and the Bureau of Primary Health Care. At the state level she served on the Board of the Oregon Primary Care Association, Oregon Public Health Association, Susan G. Komen Foundation grants committee and the Speakers Bureau for the Oregon Food Bank.

Please consider Rebecca for grant writing, meeting facilitation, workshop development and implementation, project planning and management or community development activities.