Developing an Ideal System of Health Care for Children with Special Needs

a project of the Lucille Packard Foundation for Children's Health

Event Participants

David Alexander, M.D.
President and CEO
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health

Maya Altman
Executive Director
Health Plan of San Mateo

Johnna Anderson
Director, Case Management Services
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford

Julie Beckett
Parent; Formerly Director of National Policy
Family Voices

David Bergman, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford

Christy Bethell, Ph.D., MPH, MBA
Director of Child & Health Measurement Initiative
Associate Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics
School of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University

JoAnna Caywood
Director, Programs & Partnerships
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health

Anand Chabra, M.D., MPH, FACPM
Medical Director, California Children's Services
Director, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health
Family Health Services
San Mateo County Health System

Sophia Chang, M.D., MPH
Director, Chronic Disease Care Program
California Healthcare Foundation

Alexandria Combs, MSHS
Administrative Director Patient Progression & Resource Management
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford

Meg Comeau, MHA
Director, The Catalyst Center: Improving Financing of Care for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Health & Disability Working Group
Boston University School of Public Health

Linda Davis-Alldritt, RN, MA, PHN, FNASN
School Nurse Consultant
California Department of Education

Juno Duenas
Parent
Executive Director
Support for Families

Maral Farsi, MPH
Senior Policy Analyst
California Association of Health Plans

Michael Fraser
CEO
Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs

Marjorie Fujiki
Director, Programs & Partnerships
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health

Louis Girling, M.D., FAAP
Deputy Health Officer
Medical Director
Children’s Medical Services Programs
Santa Clara County Public Health Department

Tawara D. Goode, MA
Director
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
National Center for Cultural Competence

Neal Halfon, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Professor of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at UCLA
Director, UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities

Stephen Harris, M.D.
President of Chapter 1 of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Charles Homer, M.D., MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard University School of Public Health
Associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
CEO, National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality

Brenda Kaplan, RN
Statewide Program Manager-Healthy Families Program Individual, Small Group and Government Business Unit
Blue Shield of California

Tom Klitzner, M.D.
Children's Specialty Care Coalition
Chief Pediatric Cardiology
Mattel Children’s Hospital, UCLA

Jack Komejan
Director of Social Services
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford

Jacob Lesner-Buxton
KASA (Kids as Self Advocates)
Member, Committee to Improve Medical Services for Youth with Disabilities
Graduate Student, California State University, East Bay

Gene Lewit
Senior Program Manager for the Children, Families, and Communities Program
David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Merle McPherson, M.D. MPH
Former Director
Division of Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs
U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau

Fernando S. Mendoza, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Chief, Division of General Pediatrics
Associate Dean of Minority Advising and Programs
Stanford University, School of Medicine
Chief, General Pediatrics Service, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Janice Fitzgerald Milligan
Director, Public Programs
HealthNet of California, Inc.

Don Mordecai, M.D.
Director of Mental Health, Kaiser Permanente, Northern California
Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry at Stanford

Paul Newacheck, DPH
Professor of Health Policy and Pediatrics
Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Pediatrics
UCSF

Maureen E. O’Donnell MD MSc FRCPC
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of British Columbia
Senior Medical Director, Child Development and Rehabilitation
BC Children’s Hospital/ Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children

Thad Padua, M.D., FAAP
Medical Director
Pediatric Center for Life
O’Connor Hospital

Liz Pavlov
LPCH Advisory Council
Parent

Jennifer Rienks, Ph.D.
Analyst, Family Health Outcomes Project
University of California San Francisco

Linda Roundtree
Roundtree Consulting LLC

Edward L. Schor, MD
Vice President
The Commonwealth Fund

Barbara Frankel Siegel, M.P.H.
Managing Attorney
Health Consumer Center
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County

Stuart Siegel, M.D.
Director, Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, Children's Hospital LA
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, USC
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Kathryn Smith RN, MN
Associate Director for Administration at the USC University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine, USC
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Laurie Soman
Senior Policy Analyst
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital

Bonnie Strickland, Ph.D.
Director
Division of Services for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Health Resources and Services Administration
Maternal and Child Health Bureau

Kevin D. Vu
KASA (Kids as Self Advocates)
Student, California State University, Fresno

Eileen Walsh
Vice President, Programs and Partnerships
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health

Karen Wayman, Ph.D.
LPCH Endowed Director of Family Centered Care
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford

Gary Waymire
Point Forward

Paul Wise, M.D., MPH
Professor in Child Health and Professor, by courtesy, of Health Research and Policy at Stanford
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Stanford University

Katherine Zuckerman, MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Oregon Health and Science University