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Council Members

PHC Members	Qualifier
John M. Auerbach Commissioner/Chair Dept. of Public Health	Commissioner of Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health
Helen R.Caulton-Harris Director, Division of Health & Human Services, City of Springfield	Non-Health Care Provider: Appointed from list of 3 nominations from the MA Public Health Association
Vacancy	List of Heads of Non-public school of public health or their recommendation
Dr. John Cunningham Deputy Provost, University of Massachusetts @ Amherst, School of Public Health & Health Sciences Amherst	UMass Amherst School of Public Health & Health Sciences Dean or recommendation
Dr. Michèle David Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; Co-Director of the BMC Haitian Health Institute Boston	List of Heads of non-public schools of medicine or their recommendation
Dr. Muriel R. Gillick Staff Physician, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates; Clinical Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention Boston	Provider of Health Services: Expertise in long- term-care management
Paul J. Lanzikos Executive Director North Shore Elder Services, Inc. Danvers	Non-Health Care Provider: Recommended by the Secretary of Elder Affairs
Dennis Leary Executive Director Massachusetts Veterans, Inc. Worcester	Non-Health Care Provider: Recommended by the Secretary of Veterans’ Services
Lucilia Prates Ramos Statewide Director, Massachusetts SMP Program Empowering Seniors to Prevent Health Care Errors, Fraud and Abuse Elderly Services of the Merrimack Valley, Inc. Lawrence	Non-Health Care Provider: List of 3 persons nominated by “Health Care for All”
José Rafael Rivera Assistant Director, Central Massachusetts Center for Healthy Communities LUK Crisis Center Worcester	Non-Health Care Provider: Appointed from list of 3 nominations from the Mass. Community Health Worker Network
Dr. Meredith B. Rosenthal Associate Professor of Health Economic Policy, Harvard School of Public Health Boston	Non-Health Care Provider Appointed from a list of 3 nominations from the Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
Albert Sherman Vice Chancellor UMass Medical School Worcester	Chancellor of UMass Medical School or designee
Dr. Michael Wong Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School a nd Physician at B.I. Deaconess Medical Ctr. Div.of Infectious Diseases Boston	Provider of health Services with expertise in home or community based care management
Dr. Alan C. Woodward Emergency Physician; Past President of Massachusetts Medical Society Concord	Provider of Health Services: Expertise in acute care hospital management
Dr. Barry S. Zuckerman The Joel and Barbara Alpert Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine; Professor of Public Health, BU School of Public Health; Chief of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Boston	Provider of Health Services: Expertise in the practice of primary care medicine or public health nursing

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