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The Consultant's Role

The CE consultant will work with the CTSA site to decide the best method(s) of information exchange (presentation/lecture, sit-down meeting with key personnel, etc.);

The consultant will:

Visit and consult with the site;
Make recommendations to the site;
Complete a consultant form stating their opinion of the preparedness of the site;
Submit travel receipts to the site.

The consultant should expect to spend at least 2-4 hours at the site visit for there to be benefit to the consultant and site.

Recommending a Consultant

To identify a consultant:

Contact them directly and confirm via e-mail their willingness to be on the list; or
Send their names and contact information via e-mail to Duke.

When recommending a consultant, please provide the following information:

Consultant Contact Information:

Name
Role/Responsibility/Title
Name of Organization or Affiliation (community organization or agency, university, etc.)
Street Address of Organization of Affiliation
Phone
Fax
E-mail
CE Best Practice Expertise (list up to three best practices)

Your Contact Information as Recommender:

Name
Role/Responsibility/Title
Name of Organization or Affiliation (community organization or agency, university, etc.)
Phone
E-mail

The Consultant Visit

As a site preparing for a consultant visit you will need to:

identify the best practice with which you plan to seek consultation;
complete the site self-assessment form (use the log-in account information provided by Duke);
schedule a visit with the consultant (work with your CTSA regional coordinator as needed).

You may include other sites or institutions at the consultant visit if you so choose.

After the site visit, you will:

complete an evaluation of the consultant visit;
develop an action plan based on the consultant's recommendations.

Regional CE Consultant List

Below is a list of CE consultants by region. Please consider this list as you select a consultant. You may also recommend someone not on the list by sending e-mail to cecs@duke.edu.

Mid-Atlantic | Midwest | Northeast | South | West

Mid-Atlantic

Crystal Dawn Evans, MS
Community Relations Manager
Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Alpha Commons Bldg., 4th floor
5300 Alpha Commons Drive
Baltimore,MD 21224
Contact Information:
Phone: 410-550-2281
E-mail: cevans20@jhmi.edu
Best way to reach: e-mail
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to use non-traditional, culturally-sensitive, effective methods and strategies to recruit within communities; How to work with community partners to collectively set the research agenda; How to structure long-term relationships with community partners

Recommended By:
Charles M. Balch, MD
Deputy Director for Clinical Trials and Outcomes Research
Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
600 N. Wolfe Street, Osler 624
Baltimore, MD 21287
410-614-6686

Lisa Lubomski, PhD
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine
1909 Thames Street, Ste 100
Baltimore, MD 21231
Contact Information:
Office: 410-614-4037
FAX: 410-502-3235
E-mail: Lluboms1@jhmi.edu
Best way to reach: e-mail
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to change expectations of data acquisition and sharing; How to work with an entire practice staff, not just the providers; How to build larger partnerships through small pilot projects

Recommended By:
Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD
Medical Director for the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care
Johns Hopkins University
Phone: 410-502-3231
E-mail: ppronovo@jhmi.edu

Midwest

Adolfo Ariza, MD
Co-Director, Practice Based Research Program
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
Co-Director, Pediatric Practice Research Group
Phone: 312-503-1709
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to think broadly about how to define community and identify community partners; How to re-focus the research agenda to include primary care and prevention; How to design flexible research projects that incorporate the community.

Recommended By:
Michelle Melin-Rogovin, Center Manager
Community-Engaged Research Center
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
750 N. Lake Shore Drive, 11th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312-503-5050
Cell: 312-282-9982

Adam Becker, PhD
Executive Director
Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children; Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities Steering Committee Member
Contact Information:
E-mail: abbecker@childrensmemorial.org
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to think broadly about how to define community and identify community partners; How to design flexible research projects that incorporate the community; How to include community partners in the earliest stages of research planning.

Helen Binns, MD, MPH
Practice Based Research Program
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and Co-Director, Pediatric Practice Research Group
Co-Director, Pediatric Practice Research Group
Contact Information:
Phone: 312-503-1709
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to think broadly about how to define community and identify community partners; How to re-focus the research agenda to include primary care and prevention; How to design flexible research projects that incorporate the community.

Jen Kauper-Brown, MPH
Co-Director, Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
Contact Information:
Phone: 312-503-1709
E-mail: j-kauper-brown@northwestern.edu
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to successfully use innovative methods and strategies for disseminating information; How to identify the best training models for different audiences (medical students, researchers, community partners, etc.); How to understand how to work with an entire practice staff, not just the providers.

Milton "Mickey" Eder, Ph.D.
Director of Research Programs, Access Community Health Network
1501 South California Avenue NR6-106 , Chicago, IL 60608
Contact Information:
Phone: 773-257-6087
Fax: 773-257-6026
Email: edem@accesscommunityhealth.net

CE Best Practice Expertise: How to structure long-term relationships with community partners; How to design flexible research projects that incorporate the community.

Recommended By:
Alyna Chien, MD
Clinical Instructor, Community Health Sciences, The Institute for Molecular Pediatric Sciences, The University of Chicago

Carol Estwing Ferrans, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN
Deputy Director, UIC Center for Population Health and Health Disparities
Professor and Associate Dean for Research, College of Nursing
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing (MC 802)
845 South Damen Avenue
Chicago, IL 60612-7350
Contact Information:
Phone: 312.996.8445
E-mail: cferrans@uic.edu
CE Expertise: How to re-focus the research agenda to include primary care and prevention; How to be culturally smart when approaching and working with communities;How to demonstrate that community engagement has improved your population's health – outcomes that matter (evaluation)

Recommended By:
Barbara E. Moquin, Ph.D., APRN, BC-P
Office of the Clinical Director
NIH/NCCAM/DIR
Phone: 301-451-8985
E-mail: moquinb@mail.nih.gov

Miriam A. Marquez, Ph.D.
Director, Office for Diversity in Clinical Research
Mayo Clinic
200 1st ST SW
Rochester, MN 55905
Contact Information:
Phone: 507-255-9173
Email: marquez.miriam@mayo.edu
Best way to reach: email
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to include community partners in the earliest stages of research planning; How to use non-traditional, culturally-sensitive, effective methods and strategies to recruit within communities; How to build larger partnerships through small pilot projects/p>

Recommended By:
David O. Warner, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN 55905
warner.david@mayo.edu

Northeast

Bernadette Boden-Albala, DrPH
Co-Director of Community Engagement
Columbia University
710 West 168th St. Rm 644
New York, NY 10590
Contact Information:
E-mail: bb87@columbia.edu
Best way to reach: e-mail
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to think broadly about how to define community and identify community partners; How to be culturally smart when approaching and working with communities; How to be culturally smart when approaching and working with communities

Recommended By:
Raul Garcia, DMD, MMSc
Co-Investigator Center for Research to Evaluate and Eliminate Dental Disparities
rig@bu.edu

Douglas Brugge, PhD
Associate Professor, Public Health and Family Medicine
Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute
136 Harrison Ave
Boston, MA 02111
Contact Information:
Phone : 617-636-0325
E-mail: Doug.brugge@tufts.edu
Best way to contact: e-mail
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to build trust with partners; How to include community partners in the earliest stages of research planning; How to be culturally smart when approaching and working with communities

Recommended By:
Laurel K. Leslie, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Tufts Medical Center and Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute
800 Washington Street, #345
Boston, MA 02111
Phone: 617-636-5090
E-mail: lleslie@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Christina D. Economos, PhD
Assistant Professor
Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute
150 Harrison Ave
Boston, MA 02111
Contact Information:
Phone: 617-636-3784
E-mail : Christina.economos@tufts.edu
Best way to contact: e-mail
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to link community engagement and policy making support; How to structure long-term relationships with community partners

Elmer R. Freeman
Executive Director, Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc.
Director, Office of Urban Health Programs and Policy
Bouve College of Health Sciences
716 Columbus Avenue, Suite 398
Boston, MA 02120
Contact Information:
Phone: 617-373-5179
Fax: 617-373-8797
E-mail: e.freeman@neu.edu
Best way to reach: e-mail
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to build trust with partners; How to design flexible research projects that incorporate the community; How to be culturally smart when approaching and working with communities.

Richard C. Hermann, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
Tufts University School of Medicine
Tufts Medical Center
800 Washington Street, # 345
Boston, MA 02111
Contact Information:
Phone: 617-636-2866
Fax: 617-636-8351
E-mail : rhermann@tuftsmedicalcenter.org
Best way to contact: email
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to understand how to work with an entire practice staff, not just the providers

Linda S. Martinez, PhD
Coordinator, Internship Program
Community Health Program
Tufts University
112 Packard Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
Contact Information
Phone: 617-627-5445
Fax: 617-627-3072
E-mail: linda.martinez@tufts.edu
Best way to reach: phone

Recommended By:
Elmer R. Freeman
Executive Director, Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc.
Director, Office of Urban Health Programs and Policy
Bouve College of Health Sciences
716 Columbus Avenue, Suite 398
Boston, MA 02120
Phone: 617-373-5179
E-mail: e.freeman@neu.edu

South

Alice Ammerman, DrPH, RD
Director, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Professor, Department of Nutrition
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1700 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, CB# 7426
Chapel Hill, NC 29599-7426
Contact Information:
Phone: 919-966-6082
E-mail: alice_ammerman@unc.edu
Best way to reach: e-mail
CE Best Practice Expertise: Understanding that a research agenda should be developed as a collaborative effort with community members; Including community partners early in the process of research development and planning; Learning how to build internal and external trust with communities at various stages of the research process; Using effective and innovative strategies for communicating study results and findings; Understanding how garnering community and political support can lead to structural changes.

Recommended by:
Malika Roman Isler, MPH
Assistant Director
NC TraCS Institute - Community Engagement Core
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Medical School Wing D, Rm. 182
336 Emergency Room Drive
Campus Box 7064
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7064
Phone: (919) 843- 9632
E-mail: mromanisler@med.unc.edu

Salli Benedict, MPH
Project Director, HOPE Works
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1700 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, CB# 7426
Chapel Hill, NC 29599-7426
Contact Information:
Phone: 919-966-6090
E-mail: salli_benedict@unc.edu
Best way to reach: e-mail
CE Best Practice Expertise: Understanding that a research agenda should be developed as a collaborative effort with community members; Being flexible in design given different research needs; Including community partners early in the process of research development and planning; Using non-traditional culturally-sensitive methods to recruit within communities; Actively and consistently working with communities long-term; learning how to refrain from coming in and out of communities for singular gain

MaryAnn Black, MSW
Associate VP, Office of Community Relations
Duke University Health System
Box 3701 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
Contact Information:
Phone: (919) 668- 3792
Fax: (919) 684- 8874
E-mail: maryann.black@duke.edu
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to be culturally smart when approaching and working with communities; How to work with community partners to collectively set the research agenda; How to build trust with partners.

Recommended By:
Lloyd Michener, MD
Chair, Department of Community and Family Medicine
Duke University
Phone: (919) 681-3178
E-mail: lloyd.michener@duke.edu

Dan Blumenthal, MD MPH
Professor, Chair of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive
Atlanta, GA. 30310
Contact Information:
Phone: 404-752-1625 (Call 9am to 5:00 pm)
E-mail: dblumenthal@msm.edu
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to build trust with partners; How to include community partners in the earliest stages of research planning; How to structure long-term relationships with community partners

Recommended By:
Katherine Erwin, DDS, MPA, MSCR
Project Director, Community Engagement and Research Program (CERP)
Morehouse School of Medicine
Phone: 404-756-5278
E-mail: kerwin@msm.edu

Rowena Dolor, MD
Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine
Duke University
Box 3850 Med Center, Durham, NC 27710
Contact Information:
Phone: (919) 286-6963
Fax: (919) 668-7063
E-mail: rowena.dolor@duke.edu
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to reach out to provide care - providing medical care outside of the walls of the academic medical center; How to identify the best training models for different audiences (medical students, researchers, community partners, etc.); How to understand how to work with an entire practice staff, not just the providers.

Recommended By:
Lloyd Michener, MD
Chair, Department of Community and Family Medicine
Duke University
Phone: (919) 681-3178
E-mail: lloyd.michener@duke.edu

Mona Fouad, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Medicine
Director of UAB Minority Health and Research Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
Preventive Medicine, Suite 618
1717 11th Ave. South
Birmingham, AL 35205
Contact Information:
Phone: (205) 934-4307
E-mail: mfouad@uab.edu
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to include community partners in the earliest stages of research planning; How to use non-traditional, culturally-sensitive, effective methods and strategies to recruit within communities; How to work with community partners to collectively set the research agenda

Recommended By:
Linda B. Cottler, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Epidemiology
Director, Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University
40 N. Kingshighway, Suite 4
St. Louis, MO 63108
(314) 286-2252
cottler@epi.wustl.edu

Gayle Harris, RN, MPH
Acting Director, Durham County Health Department
414 E. Main Street, Durham, NC 27701
Contact Information:
Phone: (919) 560-7713
Fax: (919) 560-7744
E-mail: gharris@ph.co.durham.nc.us
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to include community partners in the earliest stages of research planning; How to structure long-term relationships with community partners; How to build trust with partners.

Recommended By:
Lloyd Michener, MD
Chair, Department of Community and Family Medicine
Duke University
Phone: (919) 681-3178
E-mail: lloyd.michener@duke.edu

Brenda Hayes, MSW, MPA, DSW
Director of Grant Proposal Development, OSPA
Morehouse School of Medicine
Contact Information:
Phone: 404-756-5795 (Call 9am to 5:00 pm)
E-mail: dhayes@msm.edu
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to build trust with partners; How to successfully use innovative methods and strategies for disseminating information; How to identify ways to share funds with community partners

Recommended By:
Katherine Erwin, DDS, MPA, MSCR
Project Director, Community Engagement and Research Program (CERP)
Morehouse School of Medicine
Phone: 404-756-5278
E-mail: kerwin@msm.edu

Alexandra Lightfoot, EdD
Assistant Director for Community-Based Participatory Research
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1700 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, CB# 7426
Chapel Hill, NC 29599-7426
Contact Information:
Phone: 919-843-9562
E-mail: aflight@email.unc.edu
Best way to reach: e-mail
CE Best Practice Expertise: Understanding that a research agenda should be developed as a collaborative effort with community members; Identifying various modes of communication and education styles to implement with communities and different segments within communities; Including community partners early in the process of research development and planning; Learning how to build internal and external trust with communities at various stages of the research process

Laura Linnan, ScD
Associate Professor
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
359 Rosenau Hall
Contact Information:
Phone: (919) 843-8044
E-mail: linnan@email.unc.edu
Best way to reach: e-mail
CE Best Practice Expertise: Thinking "outside of the box when defining what constitutes a community; Using non-traditional, culturally-sensitive, effective methods and strategies to recruit within communities; Learning how to build internal and external trust with communities at various stages of the research process

Michelle Lyn, MBA, MHA
Assistant Professor, Division of Community Health
Duke University Department of Community and Family Medicine
Contact Information:
Phone: (919) 681-3192
Fax: (919) 681-3371
E-mail: lyn00001@mc.duke.edu
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to reach out to provide care - providing medical care outside of the walls of the academic medical center; How to structure long-term relationships with community partners; How to build larger partnerships through small pilot projects.

Recommended By:
Lloyd Michener, MD
Chair, Department of Community and Family Medicine
Duke University
Phone: (919) 681-3178
E-mail: lloyd.michener@duke.edu

Mary Anne McDonald, DrPH
Assistant Professor, Division of Community Health
Duke University Department of Community and Family Medicine
Contact Information:
Phone: (919) 681- 6811
Fax: (919) 681 3371
E-mail: maryanne.mcdonald@duke.edu
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to design flexible research projects that incorporate the community; How to work with community partners to collectively set the research agenda; How to build trust with partners.

Recommended by:
Dan Blumenthal, MD MPH
Professor, Chair of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine
720 Westview Drive
Atlanta, GA. 30310
Phone: 404-752-1625 (Call 9am to 5:00 pm)
E-mail: dblumenthal@msm.edu

Lloyd Michener, MD
Chair, Duke Department of Community and Family Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
319 Hanes House
Box 2914 Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710
Contact Information:
Phone: 919-681-3178
E-mail: lloyd.michener@duke.edu
Best way to reach: e-mail
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to reach out to provide care - providing medical care outside of the walls of the academic medical center; How to successfully leverage existing resources, information, and tools which have been effective in community engagement; How to re-focus the research agenda to include primary care and prevention

Recommended By:
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD
Director Center for Reducing Health Disparities,
UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA
2921 Stockton Blvd. Suite 1400
Sacramento, CA 95817
916- 703-9114

Fred Murphy MSPH
Life Long Inc.
4112 Fieldway Road
Rex, GA. 30273
Contact Information:
Phone: (770) 507-9659
Mobile: (404) 579-8787
E-mail: fgmurphy50@hotmail.com
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to build trust with partners; How to include community partners in the earliest stages of research planning; How to be culturally smart when approaching and working with communities

Recommended By:
Katherine Erwin, DDS, MPA, MSCR
Project Director, Community Engagement and Research Program (CERP)
Morehouse School of Medicine
Phone: (404) 756-5278
E-mail: kerwin@msm.edu

Earl Phillips
NECD Executive director, Department of Community Development
Durham, NC
Contact Information:
Phone: (919) 560-4570, extension 256
E-mail: earl.phillips@durhamnc.gov
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to work with community partners to collectively set the research agenda; How to build larger partnerships through small pilot projects; How to demonstrate that community engagement has improved your population's health – outcomes that matter (evaluation).

Recommended By:
Lloyd Michener, MD
Chair, Department of Community and Family Medicine
Duke University
Phone: (919) 681-3178
E-mail: lloyd.michener@duke.edu

West

Charlene Barriendos Ortiz
Community Engagement Education and Training Leader
University of Colorado CTSI
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Colorado Health Outcomes Program
Mail Stop F-443
312477 East 19th Ave., P.O. Box 6508
Aurora, CO 80045
Contact Information:
Phone: 303.724.1700
E-mail: Charlene.Ortiz@ uchsc.edu
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to build trust with partners; How to work with community partners to collectively set the research agenda; How to be culturally smart when approaching and working with communities

Recommended By:
Sheana Bull, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Colorado Health Outcomes Program
E-mail: sheana.bull@ucdenver.edu

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine, Director
Center for Reducing Health Disparities, UC Davis School of Medicine
2921 Stockton Blvd. Suite 1400
Sacramento, CA 95817

Contact Information:
Phone: 916-703-9114
Fax: 916-703-9124
Email: sergio.aguilar-gaxiola@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

CE Best Practice Expertise: How to use non-traditional, culturally-sensitive, effective methods and strategies to recruit within communities; How to demonstrate that community engagement has improved your population's health – outcomes that matter (evaluation).

Recommended By:
Lloyd Michener, MD
Chair, Duke Department of Community and Family Medicine

Victor Rubin PhD
Vice President for Research
Policy Link
1438 Webster Street, Suite 303
Oakland, CA 94612
Contact Information:
Phone: 510-663-2333
Best way to reach: phonel
CE Best Practice Expertise: How to successfully use innovative methods and strategies for disseminating information; How to link community engagement and policy making support.

Recommended By:
Gisselle Corbie Smith, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Social Medicine
UNC-Chapel Hill
919-843-6877

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