Heller Alumni News Fall 2010

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

FALL 2010

A MAGAZINE FOR THE ALUMNI OF THE HELLER SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND MANAGEMENT

ALUMNI NEWS AND VIEWS SPECIAL ISSUE ON

HEALTH CARE REFORM

CONTENTS PAGE 1

LETTER FROM THE DEAN

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INSIDE YOUR SCHOOL LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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FEATURE ARTICLES

Heller Alum Champions Nurses, Geriatrics and Haiti, featuring Antoinette M. Hays, Ph.D.’90 Interview with Helen Halpin, Ph.D.’89 Back Together Where They Belong: Compassion and Medicine, featuring Julie Rosen, M.M.H.S.’89 Stuart Altman and a Rose by Any Other Name: How America’s Poor Ended up with Free Hospital Care PAGES 10–13

FOUNDATIONS AND HEALTH CARE REFORM CONFERENCE 2010 PAGES 14–15

FEATURE ARTICLES

Managing Health Care Reform, State by State, featuring Anya Rader Wallack, Ph.D.’07 Reengineering Health Care in Central and Eastern Europe, featuring Henrieta Madarova, M.S.’06 PAGE 15 Heller Launches Global Health and Development Institute

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VIEWPOINTS: ALUMNI REFLECT ON HOW THEIR WORK IS HELPING EXPAND HEALTH CARE

By Lawrence Atkins, Ph.D.’85

By Sarah K. Emond, M.P. P. ’09

By Eric Cahow, Ph.D.’04

By Katharine Tull, M.P. P. ’09

By Susan Moscou, Ph.D.’06

By Michael Doonan, Ph.D.’02

PAGE 19 Making a Meaningful Gift When Assets Are More Modest, featuring Deborah Pearlman, Ph.D.’90 PAGES 20–21

ALUMNI DONORS FY’10 PAGES 22–25

ALUMNI MILESTONES

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY MS 035 PO Box 549110 Waltham, MA 02454-9110

LISA M. LYNCH Dean and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy SAMUEL O. THIER, MD Chair, Heller Board of Overseers PAULA PARIS, M.M.H.S.’79 President, Heller Alumni Association Board

CLAUDIA J. JACOBS ’70 Editor and Director of Communications Initiatives LESLIE GODOFF ’71 Director, Development and Alumni Relations JENNIFER RAYMOND Assistant Director for Annual Giving and Alumni Relations

COURTNEY LOMBARDO Editorial Assistant and Senior Program Administrator, Development, Alumni Relations and Communications

A magazine for the alumni of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University

ALUMNI NEWS AND VIEWS

SPECIAL ISSUE ON HEALTH CARE REFORM

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Letter from the Dean DEAR HELLER ALUMNI, Warmest regards from all of us at Heller. I am delighted to introduce this special health care issue of Heller Alumni News and Views. With the passage of landmark health care reform in the United States last spring, we saw the critical role Heller faculty, researchers and alumni play in basic research and policy analysis. Now, as policymakers begin the daunting task of implementing the legislation, I cannot think of a better time for Heller alumni to share their perspectives on this critical social policy issue.

Reading the words of this issue’s Viewpoint responders will enable you to appreciate how their work helps expand health benefits and access to those previously left behind.

Our feature articles include reflections by Julie Rosen, M.M.H.S.’89, on leading an extraordinary organization at Massachusetts General Hospital that has changed the face of compassionate health care not only in Massachusetts but across the nation. A piece on Antoinette Hays, Ph.D.’90, dean of nursing science and health professions at Regis College, shows how her expertise and commitment to nursing care have led to Regis faculty exchanges with Haiti and to the creation of a master’s degree nursing program in that country. Also showcased are Helen Halpin, Ph.D.’89, whose vision of a public option in California years ago catapulted her into the Obama campaign’s health care leadership team; and Anya Rader Wallack, Ph.D.’07, who, through her newly created firm, Arrowhead Health Analytics, has assisted states in approaching Medicaid to maximize benefits and quality care under the new legislation. Clearly Heller alumni have had a huge impact on health care practice, policy and management around the world.

The alumni who volunteered to be interviewed for this issue of the Heller alumni magazine represent only a fraction of you who prove every day that Heller School graduates use their knowledge to make a real difference in social policy and management.

It would be impossible to do an issue on health care reform without hearing from Stuart Altman, Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy. He is busy writing a book on the history of U.S. health care reform in collaboration with former Heller staffer David Shactman, so we have included a vignette from their forthcoming book.

At the Heller School, we continue to grow and thrive. This fall, we have added a sixth degree program, a master’s in coexistence and conflict that had resided in Brandeis’ Graduate School of Arts and Sciences since 2004. This welcome addition to Heller owes its support to the Slifka Foundation, which has funded a new faculty chair and provided additional program dollars. Last spring, Heller also established a new research group, the Institute for Global Health and Development. Part of the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, it is under the direction of Professor Allyala Krishna Nandakumar.

Heller alumni represent the wonderful continuum of life at Heller. Your support of the school takes many forms, including financial help for scholarships and student travel grants. I am especially grateful to the many alumni who responded to this past year’s 50th anniversary scholarship challenge. Through this challenge, we raised more than $150,000 for financial aid distributed to 12 students.

Each year, in the fall issue of Heller Alumni News and Views, we are proud to list those who contributed in the previous fiscal year. Our particular focus on Deborah Pearlman, Ph.D.’90, demonstrates what alumni can do beyond making much appreciated annual gifts and shows how it is possible for alumni at every income level to have a substantial impact. We honor you for your loyalty and support and want you to understand how much students appreciate your generosity. Many of them would not be here following in your footsteps without these acts of kindness.

Best wishes,

Lisa M. Lynch Dean and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy

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INSIDE YOUR SCHOOL: WHAT’S HAPPENING AT HELLER SUSAN PARISH TAKES HELM AT LURIE INSTITUTE The Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at the Heller School, created by the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation, continues a long tradition of progressive disability policy research at Heller.

Incoming director and Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Disability Susan Parish says she would like the Lurie Institute to become the preeminent disability policy research center in the world. Through research, policy develop­ ment, education and public engagement, the Lurie Institute will provide a com­prehensive approach to addressing dis­ability issues.

Marji Erickson Warfield, Ph.D.’91, has ably directed the research of the center and its seminar series while the institute awaited Parish’s arrival.

HELLER ADOPTS NEW DEGREE PROGRAM IN COEXISTENCE AND CONFLICT STUDIES The master’s program in coexistence and conflict (COEX), which began in 2004 and was originally based in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has moved to the Heller School. The COEX program focuses on chal­ lenges posed by intercommunal and societal conflicts in today’s world, and it is designed to bring greater professional policy, practical expertise and leadership to bear upon these challenges. With a history of extensive cross registration between COEX and Heller’s sustainable international development program (SID) and the recent dual degree

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in COEX/SID, the program’s integration into Heller is expected to be seamless.

The COEX program’s expansion and move to the Heller School is facilitated by a $4.25 million dollar gift by the Alan B. Slifka Foundation. This gift will enhance the curric­ ulum and allow Heller to build a vibrant alumni network. Both strategies will promote leadership development in the emerging field of intercommunal conflict resolution.

This is the fifth master’s degree to be offered by the Heller School, which began in 1959 with a single doctoral program in social policy.

INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT ADDED TO SCHNEIDER INSTITUTES Leveraging its expertise in issues of health care systems and development, the Heller School has launched a new institute that will complete a powerful trio of research units within the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy. The Institute for Global Health and Development will tap the expertise of Heller’s faculty members, research staff and doctoral students. A new doctoral concentration in global health and development complements the research work conducted. Professor Allyala Krishna Nandakumar directs the new institute.

HELLER HIGHLIGHTS Interested in keeping up with research going on at Heller? A new compendium of research by topic area is available three times a year.

Not on our email blast informing you of each edition with a live link? Contact your alumni office to sign up! HellerAlumni@brandeis.edu

HELLER WEBSITE GETS NEW FACE If your web travels have not led you to heller.brandeis.edu in a while, visit our site and check out the new designs created for the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy, the Heller home page and many of Heller’s degree programs. You’ll also find all the back issues of Heller Alumni News and Views in the alumni section. On the docket is a Heller alumni magazine website section with expanded stories to supplement our print version.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor, I read with much interest the excellent article in Heller Alumni News and Views about Florence Heller by Claudia Jacobs ’70, who interviewed Barbara Mandel.

I want to answer Barbara Mandel’s question when she was quoted as saying that “she does not remember the exact reason Heller made the gift to Brandeis to establish the Heller School.”

I would like to explain why Mrs. Heller made this gift.

Florence Heller had established a very close professional and personal relationship with Sanford Solender when she was president of the National Jewish Welfare Board and he was executive vice president. She had a profound respect for his judgment.

They discussed at great length the personnel crisis in the Jewish Community Center field. Sanford Solender stressed the need for an academic program that would specifically focus on preparing students to assume professional positions in social welfare in the Jewish community, with particular attention to the community centers.

Mrs. Heller responded positively to this idea. Several meetings and telephone calls then occurred between Mrs. Heller, Abram L. Sachar and Sanford Solender.

Sachar proposed that Brandeis University be the sponsor for this type of social-welfare education. Mrs. Heller agreed to provide the lead gift, and the Florence Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare (now the Heller School for Social Policy and Management) at Brandeis University came into existence.

Its mission gradually expanded to reach the broader mandate it has today.

I am pleased to provide this historical information.

STEPHEN SOLENDER EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF THE UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK

The writer is the son of Sanford Solender. He previously served as president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America [formerly United Jewish Communities] from 1999 to 2001.

If you have any comments for our editor, please write: Heller Alumni News and Views, Brandeis University, the Heller School, Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 415 South Street, MS 035, Waltham, MA 02454-9110 or email HellerAlumni@brandeis.edu.

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HELLER ALUM CHAMPIONS NURSES, GERIATRICS AND HAITI Antoinette M. Hays, Ph.D.’90, believes that promoting the role of nurse practitioners is one viable strategy to ensuring high-quality and affordable care in this era of health care reform. “This work cannot be left only to doctors,” Hays said in a recent newspaper opinion piece. “There is a shortage of primary care physicians. Nurse practitioners are educated regarding the whole person and are attuned to nutrition, prevention and wellness.

They are more present in the community and available around the clock.”

With health care reform, the physician short­ age will become more acute, with more than 30 million newly insured patients expected to join the ranks. And Hays’ analysis is that the access problem cannot be solved unless the critical role of nurse practitioners in primary health care is recognized.

As the dean of nursing science and health professions at Regis College, Hays believes in “health care without walls.”

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“My commitment was always outside the walls of a hospital and with the underserved,” she says. “I learned the importance of being politically active and how to influence policy — but to do this I had to understand the economics at play behind the scenes and how it impacted patient care.” That was where the Heller School played a role in her career devel­ opment. She credits Jim Callahan, Ph.D.’68, with connecting her to the Heller School as she directed her career path toward academia.

Hays says she was awestruck by the other doctoral students and their job titles when she arrived at Heller. Her classmates were profes­ sionals who led large health care agencies, and having those leaders as peers created a whole new world for her. But, she says, she brought the real world to their table — the bedside work and her role as a self-described “streetlevel bureaucrat.”

Today she is charged with educating a new generation of nurses. Hays built the master’s program at Regis College from a student body

of 150 to 700. She brings many elements of her Heller School experience to the Regis curriculum, focusing on health policy and research. Regis students learn about health policy by spending 30 field hours talking to legislators about issues affecting health care, writing editorial opinion pieces and devel­ oping mock testimony to help demystify the process and promote the engagement of nurses in the political process. Their dean certainly walks that talk as well.

Early in her career, Hays developed a passion for geriatric nursing and, along with a geri­ atrician, was instrumental in helping the Boston Medical Center develop interdisciplin­ ary teams made up of physicians and nurses to provide home care, long-term care and acute care for the elderly.

She remains committed to geriatrics and hopes to attract a new generation of nurses to the field. Geriatric rotations in nursing schools occur at the beginning of the first year, when students are least able to address

chronic illness. Hays proposes that the order be reversed. “New students have not yet developed a more sophisticated level of coping skills,” she says. “I’d like to see the geriatrics rotation offered later in their education, when they have the resources to deal with the field’s complex­ ity. Maybe we’d have a greater number of people opting for geriatrics if they were exposed to it with more experience under their belts.”

Hays’ creativity extends to housing as well as health care options for the elderly.

She chaired the program development committee for a proposed living and learning community for older adults on the Regis College campus. The program was designed using an “aging in place” framework to promote a new independent living vision for retirement communities.

“Such a model supports older adults remaining in their independent living units even when long-term care needs increase, avoiding location change when people are most fragile,” she says. “Even more important, it would be a totally inte­ grated experience. Think of the academic synergies and intergenerational connec­ tions that would be possible — students and retirees working, teaching, mentoring and learning together.” While the recession has made progress on this front difficult, Hays still has optimism that the idea will take hold when the time is right.

And if that isn’t enough, Hays spends time in Haiti working with Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health to assess the need for a master’s in nursing program in the earth­ quake-torn country. Regis has had a robust faculty exchange program with Haitian nurses since 2007 as well. Hays is commit­ ted to helping in the development of a high-quality nursing program there.

“Right now it is somewhat of an uphill battle to raise money for this effort,” she says. “We need donors who can sustain support, because our commitment to this country is for the long term.”

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HELEN HALPIN, PH.D.’89 Helen Halpin is a professor in health policy and politics at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has been teaching and conducting research in health insurance policy since she graduated from the Heller School.

Because of her participation in the front lines of the health care debate, Heller Alumni News and Views chose Dr. Halpin for this issue’s Alumni Q&A. News and Views: Tell us about your political experience in health reform.

Halpin: I advised Sens. Ted Kennedy and Paul Wellstone in 1993­–94 regarding the Clinton Administration’s proposal for univer­ sal coverage. I joined the Obama campaign’s

Health Policy Committee as an adviser and health policy surrogate for Northern California in March 2007 and worked with the campaign for two and a half years.

You recently wrote about the public option and how it fared in Congress during the health care debate. Why was the public option such a hot button?

What was your role as candidate Obama crafted his health care platform prior to his election?

The public option was an idea I first proposed for California in 2001. But it proved to be very contentious. The public option would have opened the door to a voluntary transition toward a single-payer system. Conservatives loathed the idea of greater government involve­ ment in health care, and Republicans were uniformly opposed to the public option from the beginning.

I wore many hats in the Obama campaign. It was one of the most important, rewarding and exciting experiences of my life. I was involved in the early policy committees to flesh out the reform proposal both before and after its release.

I drafted the campaign’s statement on mental For many liberals, the public option repre­ health policy. I chaired the blog team for the sented a compromise with those who favored Health Policy Commit­tee and wrote for blogs a single-payer system. While charges of a such as the Daily Kos (a liberal political analysis “government takeover” were ludicrous — since blog). I campaigned door-to-door in California, the public option by definition represented Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania, speaking with consumer choice, since any movement toward hundreds of voters. I was a frequent guest on single-payer would be the result of the prefer­ National Public Radio discussing the policy ences of the American people — they did not process and the evolving legislative proposals. want to let the proverbial camel’s nose under I was also a member of the rapid response team, the tent. summarizing health news from battleground states, and sat on the Obama campaign’s For those who support for-profit health insur­ leadership team on health policy. ance, the public option represents a direct threat to the viability of that market — those on the right understood that for-profit insur­ ance companies might not be able to compete against the greater efficiency, equity and choice available in a public program. The heart of this debate was about the role of government in health care. In the end, the Democrats decided that passing reform was more important than holding out for a public option.

In last spring’s passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, what were the stumbling blocks in garnering the political support to include a public option?

The problem was in the Senate. The House included a public option in all the bills that came out of committee and the bill that passed the floor. The Senate, with its threat of filibuster, required 60 votes, which proved impossible to find. Many moderate Democrats would not support it, despite overwhelming

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public support. Some suggest that, if the White House had worked harder to turn some of these senators, it could have passed, but the White House didn’t want to get out in front on an issue that could ultimately defeat the entire reform effort.

What have we lost by defeating the public option?

In many states there are few options for private insurance, and the public option would have increased consumer choice.

It would have forced private insurers to compete on quality, cost and access.

BACK TOGETHER WHERE THEY BELONG: COMPASSION AND MEDICINE When Julie Rosen, M.M.H.S.’89, was a high school senior, she was accepted to Duke University and Tufts University — both great schools. Her high school internship with a Massachusetts legislator who became a lifelong mentor made her college choice simple.

It also would have been more publicly accountable. Private insurers’ first loyalty is to their shareholders, not to Americans who need medical care. A public plan could be administered at a considerably lower cost than private plans, since the ability of the govern­ ment to negotiate prices would be formidable.

And your interest in these issues all started at Heller?

I chose Heller because I wanted to study health policy in the broader context of social policy. I loved my time at Heller. Probably the biggest influences on me were the other students who provided the essential support

tor of the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Advocacy, health care and politics always have been among Rosen’s passions. While in college, she took two semesters off to pursue internships, including a stint working for Ralph Nader on his consumer agenda (“when everyone loved him,” she says). After gradua­ tion, she worked on a number of political campaigns in Chicago but found her true calling in representing health care organiza­ tions at the federal, state and city levels.

Eventually she recognized that, to move ahead in her career, she would need a graduate

one needs to get through a doctoral program.

Faculty members Deborah Stone, Stu Altman and Stan Wallack also had a tremendous impact on my thinking.

The training I received in political science, economics, sociology and research methods has profoundly affected the kinds of policy questions I ask. My dissertation, which won the Minkoff Prize in Health Economics, esti­ mated the costs of chronic disease risk factors to the Medicare program. Much of my research since has built on this to provide significant findings on how to structure health insurance policy to increase appropri­ ate use of effective clinical preventive services.

degree. Stuart Altman, a family friend, told her about the Heller School. Soon after, she applied, enrolled and adopted Altman as her next mentor. “Stuart is brilliant, kind, acces­ sible, connected and incredibly funny. I learned and continue to learn about the inter­ section of health care policy and politics from him,” says Rosen.

“I found my home at the Heller School,” she adds. “The atmosphere was intellectually exciting, the faculty was on a first-name basis with students, and it was the kind of place where you got what you put into the experi­ ence. I loved every minute of it.”

She enrolled at Tufts and continued her internship for two years at the State House with Sen. William Saltonstall. “Bill modeled the importance of listening to people and understanding issues from different points of view before making a decision,” Rosen says.

“He taught me about the value of relationships through his ability to make friends and lasting impressions wherever he went.” Sen. Saltonstall was the first of several mentors who influenced her development as a profes­ sional. Rosen is currently the executive direc­

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In 1996, Rosen was the director of govern­ ment affairs at Tufts Health Plan, where she found her third mentor, Dr. Harris Berman, chief executive officer of Tufts Health Plan.

She became an assistant vice president and ran the health plan’s government, media and community benefits programs. After working for more than eight years there, she came to believe that her true calling was to be at the helm of a nonprofit. That is when she made the move to the Schwartz Center at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Thinking back to her days at Heller, Rosen says that Professor Jon Chilingerian’s class best prepared her for her role at the Schwartz Center. “It was hands-down the best class experience,” she says. “He helped me learn how to navigate organizational dynamics and deal with people and how to put myself in someone else’s shoes.”

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experiences make up the essence of the Schwartz Center, which was established by the family and friends of the late Kenneth B. Schwartz, a young Boston attorney who lost his battle with lung cancer in 1995. Schwartz believed that the relationship between patients and caregivers was critical to health care.

He experienced incredible compassion during his illness and was grateful for the care he received. At the same time, Schwartz saw that medicine was turning into a business, and he worried that it was trending away from compassion.

The Schwartz Center brings together health care clinicians to improve communication, enhance relationships and, ultimately, improve patient outcomes. The center organizes special discussions called Schwartz Center Rounds — educational opportunities to bring disparate parts of the hospital staff together in nonthreat­ ening learning environments.

At the Schwartz Center, Rosen’s work focuses on the definition of good care. With health care reform, she sees new challenges and opportunities. “Many now recognize the effectiveness of the Schwartz Center Rounds approach,” she adds. Promoting communica­ tion and breaking down the silos that currently exist are becoming the gold stan­ dard in the medical field. Ultimately, public and private payers are recognizing that patient-centered care is the way of the future.

The Joint Commission and other accrediting agencies are working now to measure clinician compliance in these areas. This is uncharted territory but gaining momentum across the United States.

To learn more about the Schwartz Center approach and read Julie Rosen’s blogs, visit www.SchwartzCenter.org.

STUART ALTMAN AND A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME: HOW AMERICA’S POOR ENDED UP WITH FREE HOSPITAL CARE Stuart Altman This article is taken from the forthcoming book

by Stuart Altman and David Shactman on the long history and tortuous journey to provide health coverage for all Americans.

Consistent with the book, Altman’s participation is written in the third person.

Stuart Altman had no idea what the number should be. In the entire history of the country, the government had never given the unin­ sured poor any legal right to receive medical care. However, in 1970, patients began suing the Nixon Administration’s Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). They claimed hospitals that had received grants from the 24-year-old Hill-Burton program were obligated to give them free care.

If that was the case, Altman asked himself, how much free care should hospitals have to provide? There simply was no precedent.

Altman was 34 years old and had just joined HEW, and his boss, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson, wanted to know the number.

In 1945, many existing hospitals were old and obsolete, and 40 percent of U.S. counties had no hospitals at all. Under President Truman, Congress enacted the Hill-Burton Act to fund hospital construction. Republicans and Southern Democrats insisted that the power to disseminate the funds be given to the states,

rather than the federal government. As a bone to liberals, however, they included a clause in the bill requiring any hospital that accepted Hill-Burton funds to “provide a reasonable amount of services to people unable to pay.”

Hill-Burton spurred a renaissance in hospital construction. By the year 2000, more than $4.6 billion in grants and $1.5 billion in loans helped build facilities in more than 4,000 communities. Yet, the obligation to provide free care was completely ignored.

Completely ignored, that is, except by one young Washington attorney by the name of Marilyn Rose.

Working in HEW’s Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), Rose discovered the free care clause. She believed it granted individuals who could not otherwise afford it a right to obtain free care. After transferring to another OEO-funded organization, Rose advertised for clients to bring class-action suits against Hill-Burton hospitals to enforce the rights of indigent patients. She won a string of cases and prompted Secretary Richardson to issue new regulations mandating that Hill-Burton hospitals provide free care. Richardson had to decide how much free care those hospitals should be required to provide — so he asked Stuart Altman.

looking back at all the policy issues I’ve been involved with over the years, this, perhaps, might have been the most important.”

While Altman’s contribution was important, the free care clause, which had lain dormant for 24 years, probably never would have been enforced without the dedication and concern of one public interest lawyer who doggedly pursued social justice. Marilyn Rose, who later became a judge, received a bachelor of arts degree in 1956 from Brandeis University.

David Shactman, former Heller staffer and coauthor with Stuart Altman

Altman and his team at HEW wanted to expand access to care and, in fact, were formulating Nixon’s proposal for universal health care. They eventually agreed to require Hill-Burton hospitals to provide 3 percent of their revenues as free care to those unable to pay. “I remember it was a difficult thing to decide,” Altman recalls. “Afterward, I never gave it much thought until we started writing our book. Yet, Hill-Burton was truly a water­ shed. It eventually provided free care to millions of poor, uninsured citizens who had no place else to go. And many people believe it was the basis for EMTALA, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1986. That law still obligates hospitals to treat and stabilize anyone who arrives in an emer­ gent condition without regard to their ability to pay. Most people think Hill-Burton was simply a hospital construction bill. But FALL 2010

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FOUNDATIONS AND HEALTH CARE REFORM 2010 With many foundations now working to develop strategies that leverage the new Patient Care and Protection Act, researchers at the Schneider Institutes and staff at the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy presented the Foundations and Health Care Reform 2010 conference.

Members of the Heller community discussed with foundation colleagues issues such as strengthening the community safety net, delivery system redesign, payment redesign, improving workforce efficiency, and consumer education and engagement. Photos from the event follow.

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THIS CONFERENCE WAS SUPPORTED BY GRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH, THE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION, THE CALIFORNIA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION AND THE COMMONWEALTH FUND.

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MANAGING HEALTH CARE REFORM, STATE BY STATE Anya Rader Wallack, Ph.D.’07 For more than a year, President Obama and the U.S. Congress engaged in an epic political battle to overhaul the nation’s health care system by extending medical coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans.

With the far-reaching bill — all 1,017 pages of it — now on the books, the difficult work of administering the legislation falls to the individual states. To assist in this monumental task, state officials increasingly are turning to people like Anya Rader Wallack, Ph.D.’07, whose expertise in health care delivery has never been in higher demand.

Wallack recently started her own consulting business, Arrowhead Health Analytics, after serving for two years as executive director of the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute (MMPI) and as interim president of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation for part of last year.

Implementing health care reform will be an “enormous burden” on the individual states, Wallack says, especially given the current economic climate. “Now, with the recession and budget cuts, stepping up to the plate will be very challenging.”

Under the legislation, states are charged with administering new insurance rules and expanding Medicaid coverage. States have the authority to establish health insurance exchanges, which function as clearinghouses for consumers to purchase insurance.

New resources are available to help states take on a wide variety of pilot and demonstration projects related to health care payment and

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delivery-system reform. According to Wallack, Sherman Ellis, before being tapped by then “The law provides badly needed resources to governor Howard Dean to be his policy direc­ states, but states have to develop strong tor and deputy chief of staff. proposals for how to spend the money.

“It was then — when I was exclusively working Right now they are all scrambling to identify on health policy — that I realized I had the opportunities and position themselves health care in my DNA,” Wallack says. to respond.”

Still, Wallack believes that, despite these chal­ lenges, the new law is both workable and affordable with the support of the federal government. As one example, she cites a new Medicaid provision that mandates the federal government’s payment of 100 percent of the costs of covering newly eligible individuals through 2016.

“In the end, it is the federal government that has the ability to redistribute income on a large scale and create robust social insurance,” she says.

Through her work at MMPI and the Blue Cross Foundation, Wallack was actively engaged in the Massachusetts health care reform initiative enacted in 2006. The law mandates that nearly every resident obtain a minimum level of health care insurance cover­ age and provides free insurance to residents earning less than 150 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL). It also partially subsidizes insurance costs for those earning up to 300 percent of the FPL. Wallack calls the Massachusetts law a success and a model for other states to follow. The key, she says, has been the spirit of coopera­ tion among government officials, business leaders and provider communities. “Of course, there are some shortfalls in the budget, but this is the worst economy in decades, and almost all states are having shortfalls without health care reform,” she says. “Some elements of the Massachusetts plan have been easier than others to implement, but it is not true that health care is bankrupting the state.”

Wallack’s foray into health care began in the late 1980s, when she accepted a staff position to head the Vermont legislature’s Committee on Health and Welfare. She later worked for a government-relations and strategic-communi­ cations firm in Montpelier, Vt., Kimbell

Wallack served Dean for one term, moved for a brief time to Oregon, and then returned to Vermont to lead the state’s Program for Quality in Health Care, a quasigovernmental agency that specializes in quality measure­ ment and improvement at the state level.

Wishing to burnish her academic credentials, Wallack next enrolled in Heller’s Ph.D. program in social policy — choosing it over Harvard’s Kennedy School at the urging of renowned health economist Bruce Spitz. Her doctoral dissertation focused on Medicaid.

Looking ahead, Wallack says one of the coun­ try’s greatest challenges will be covering the costs of long-term health care, an issue only marginally addressed by the recent law. In the meantime, a provision introduced by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy softens the financial blow by creating savings plans for long-term care insurance.

REENGINEERING HEALTH CARE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Henrieta Madarova, M.S.’06, is an entrepreneur determined to foster innovation in the health care industry.

Sounds like an all-American challenge, right?

The twist is that this 32-year-old alumna is working to ensure the success of health care institutions in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, two European countries that, until 1989, were a single communist-ruled state.

Madarova has developed the Advance Healthcare Management Institute, which offers an executive education program to help health care insurers and providers in the Czech Republic understand health policy and economics. It also teaches practical tools for improving the quality and efficiency of health care institutions.

The institute, Madarova says, strives to produce well-rounded, flexible health care leaders who know how to use rational decision making to solve problems and deal with an ever-increasing scarcity of publichealth resources.

Madarova also does strategic planning in health care in Slovakia, designing projects that improve quality and efficiency at the country’s biggest private health insurance company, Dovera.

Before coming to the Heller School, Madarova worked as a health-reform team member for Slovakia’s minister of health.

Back then, she explains, Central and Eastern Europe had no formal university programs focused on health policy. As a result, she says, she and her health-reform colleagues were mostly “self-educated enthusiasts who had read a few English-language articles and books about health policy.”

But Madarova wanted to learn much more about the intersection of economics and health policy, and she began to look for a rele­ vant graduate program. “When a colleague from the World Bank recommended the Heller School, I did not hesitate one minute,” she says.

“The health system is a very sensitive sector, where a desire for immortality meets with strict principles of economics,” Madarova says.

“At the policy level, you need to understand the underlying principles before proposing a solution or a change.” The Heller School gave her that grounding.

Madarova says she relished having access to up-to-date health-policy research at Heller, as well as opportunities to discuss issues with experienced faculty and students. She says she often uses the arguments she learned at Heller

to encourage health-policy changes in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

After graduating from Heller, Madarova coestablished and worked as a senior health policy analyst for a think tank. Following that, she advised the Czech Republic’s minister of health on health care financing reform. The push then, she says, was to introduce medical savings accounts and managed-care plans modeled on the U.S. system. But the proposed reforms weren’t well understood by the public and have not yet been implemented.

When Madarova and her Ministry of Health colleagues realized a number of stakeholders in the Czech Republic health system — including managers in health-insurance companies and health care providers — didn’t understand basic health-system principles and terminology, they decided to establish an education program for top- and mid-level health care executives. And so the Advance Healthcare Management Institute was born.

In Central and Eastern European countries, access to health care is considered a universal right, provided to all citizens regardless of their ability to pay. Despite this, Madarova points out, health systems there face a number of thorny challenges that the United States is confronting, including the graying of their population and rapidly increasing health care costs.

HELLER LAUNCHES GLOBAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE Leveraging its expertise in issues of health care systems and development, the Heller School has launched a new institute designed to improve access to sustainable health care services and inspire anti-poverty and socialjustice initiatives in developing nations throughout the world.

The Institute for Global Health and Development (IGHD), housed at Heller’s Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, will

work with established international agencies and government leaders to tackle vexing issues such as infant mortality, childhood disease and HIV/AIDS. Sustainable health-system development will require financial and delivery-system reforms uniquely designed for each country. IGHD leaders believe that, by using existing evidence about what works and by monitoring new initiatives, they will achieve results at a scale not currently possible.

The new institute, led by Heller professor Allyala Krishna Nandakumar, taps the exper­ tise of some 25 core faculty members, research staff and doctoral students. IGHD students include master’s students in sustain­ able international development and interna­ tional health policy and management, as well as doctoral students in global health and development. Their work spans international health, finance, labor economics, evaluation research, health policy, agriculture, interna­ tional relations, comparative government and human rights.

“Our hope,” said Nandakumar, “is that the new institute will support academic programs; provide a home for faculty, researchers and students; facilitate integration of graduates into academic, research and government positions; and build strong networks among alumni.”

Schneider Institutes Executive Director Stanley Wallack says that IGHD fulfills a commitment he made to Irving Schneider more than a decade ago: to make the Schneider Institutes a major contributor on the world stage of global health and development.

Lisa Lynch, dean of the Heller School, believes IGHD’s addition to the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy — alongside the Institute for Behavioral Health and the Institute on Healthcare Systems — will create one of the largest university-based research centers on health issues in the country and one that is uniquely interdisciplinary.

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VIEWPOINTS: OPINIONS BY HELLER ALUMNI How is your work helping to expand health care to those who have not enjoyed that benefit before?

LAWRENCE ATKINS, Ph.D.’85 Only Red Sox fans, with a similar cycle of prolonged disappointment and sudden redemption, can appreciate the surreal feeling — after 30 years of health care reform work in Washington — of seeing the Affordable Care Act enacted. Now the focus shifts to securing and implementing what passed.

How this reform passed is the subject for books. However, one thing that differentiated this health reform effort from previous efforts was the breadth of the coalition — including

affected health industry groups — that came together in support of comprehensive reform.

Merck and other pharmaceutical companies played a role in building a broad consensus of stakeholders in support of reform. Most stakeholders realized coverage expansion would require savings from every health care sector to offset the bill’s likely inflationary effects. Merck helped rally others in the phar­ maceutical industry in support of reform and worked directly with the administration and Congress on the industry’s commitment. The early and continuing support of pharmaceuti­ cal companies for this reform effort was unusual, and this support was a factor in the successful enactment of the bill.

the administration on a wide range of activities to put the pharmaceutical industry commitments in place, to help launch the new comparative effectiveness research entity, and to support health information technology and payment reform initiatives.

Lawrence Atkins, Ph.D.’85, Executive Director, U.S. Public Policy Merck & Co., Inc.

Work has begun on the effort to sustain the new law and implement the insurance market and other reforms and the new entities the law calls for. Merck continues to work with

SARAH K. EMOND, M.P. P. ’09 Massachusetts’ experience with universal health care coverage has taught us something: when expand­ ing access, you have to deal with costs. Our work at the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) aims to help decision makers understand the best ways to increase value in the health care system. ICER conducts and implements comparative effectiveness research to demonstrate which treatments and inter­ ventions may lead to the best outcomes while improving value.

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For example, we recently completed a review of low-risk prostate cancer treatments. Our research showed that for the four main approaches to managing the disease — active surveillance, surgery and two types of radia­ tion — there were no clear differences in disease recurrence or cancer deaths, but there were differences in rates and types of side effects and in costs. Providers and patients now use this information to make betterinformed decisions, while policymakers may use this information to equalize reimburse­ ment rates.

National efforts to expand access will depend on being able to sustain the commitment to subsidizing insurance for vulnerable popula­ tions. To do so, we have to use the resources we have in the best way possible; comparative effectiveness research will help us do just that.

Sarah K. Emond, M.P.P.’09, is the chief oper­ ating officer of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review at the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Institute for Technology Assessment.

ERIC CAHOW, Ph.D.’04 Currently I am consulting with private insur­ ance companies about Medicare, Medicaid and the incipient exchanges to help them improve the quality of care delivered to their members.

The health reform law has created strong incentives for increasing the quality of care.

Payment is now to be based on quality in Medicare and the exchanges. What I am finding is that access determines quality both directly and indirectly; thus my job becomes one of solving access problems.

Health plan members’ perception of access is one measure on which the plans will be judged for payment. Therefore, I spend a lot of time pondering what their members actu­ ally mean when they report inabilities to get needed care in a timely manner. What do I do about the health plan member who reports no access problems because the emergency room is always open? Or the member who demands same-day appointments for non-urgent needs?

Eric Cahow, Ph.D.’04, is senior director of government program management at Ingenix Consulting in Rocky Hill, Conn.

Access is central to clinical measures of quality as well. Mammograms present a great exam­ ple. Most health plans in Medicare have elim­ inated cost sharing for this service, yet members still report financial barriers to care.

What does a financial barrier to care mean for a patient who has no cost sharing and for whom there is no loss of income associated with time off from work?

KATHARINE TULL, M.P. P. ’09 When I was the associate direc­ tor of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, the work I did supported the expansion of access to health care. Although Massachusetts has near univer­ sal insurance coverage, there is still work to be done. I spent a lot of time during the past two years analyzing the implementation of health reform in Massachusetts to find relevant lessons for other states as well as national reform efforts. These findings were published in March, the same week that the Patient

Protection and Affordable Care Act finally passed. For the health reform legislation to succeed in expanding access to health care, it is crucial that implementation be done effec­ tively. The forum’s work can certainly inform policymakers on doing so.

Katharine Tull, M.P. P.’09, works as an operational excellence analyst in the Program Management Office at the University of California, San Francisco.

A second way my work relates to expanding access is through a project that examines payment reform and promotes accountable health care delivery in Massachusetts. The expanded access made possible through health reform is sustainable only if we can slow longterm cost growth, and access is most benefi­ cial if patients receive high-quality, efficient care. By convening stakeholders to consider how Massachusetts can implement payment reform to promote accountable care organiza­ tions, we are working to ensure expanded access continues in a meaningful way.

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SUSAN MOSCOU, Ph.D.’06 How does my work help to expand health care? That’s an interesting question, because I wear two hats — academic and clinical. In my academic role, I teach health policy to undergraduate and graduate nurses. Educating students about health policy provides them with a foundation to understand how insurance and health care services are correlated. Students learn that insurance often determines the decisions their patients may make about treat­ ment regimens (something they had no inkling about before).

In my clinical role, I am a family nurse practi­ tioner. I provide health services to students at a large university in New York City. Even though all students have insurance, their benefits are determined by the policy type: basic or comprehensive. If I have a patient with multiple medical issues, I encourage him or her to upgrade to comprehensive.

Susan Moscou, F.N.P., M.P.H., Ph.D.’06, is an associate professor in the nursing program at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

Each month, I volunteer as a clinical precep­ tor for medical students (Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York University), seeing uninsured adults at two free clinics in New York City. We provide medical care, women’s health care, immuniza­ tions and specialty referrals. It is within this role that I expand health care to those with­ out the benefit. I hope the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) will assist these patients we see in the free clinics.

MICHAEL DOONAN, Ph.D.’02 I run the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, which is based at the Heller School and supported

by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Partners Healthcare, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan.

Since 2004, we have conducted research and brought stakeholders together at forums on HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, health informa­ tion technology, health care quality, women’s health, obesity and healthy aging.

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Traditionally the forum commissioned research and held a conference on a particular topic and then moved on to the next issue.

Increasingly we are concentrating effort in specific areas with multiple forums, publica­ tions, and broad-based media strategy to maximize our impact.

I’m proud of the role the forum played in forwarding the Massachusetts health care reform. We held a key forum in April 2005 on the Massachusetts Medicaid waiver and how it would have to be modified to continue to receive federal funding to cover the costs of the uninsured. Federal changes in the waiver precipitated state reform efforts. In partner­ ship with the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, the forum spon­ sored research and held public meetings eval­ uating the first year of Massachusetts’ health

care reform, the impact of state reform on women’s health, and the impact of national reform on state reform.

The forum is currently working on research and a series of conferences about healthy aging. This work, with the help of the many players engaged in the “health care improve­ ment movement,” has the goal of moving Massachusetts to be the healthiest place in the United States for aging adults.

Michael Doonan, Ph.D.’02, is an assistant professor and director of Heller’s master’s in public policy program in addition to directing the forum.

To learn more about the work of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, visit masshealthpolicyforum.brandeis.edu.

MAKING A MEANINGFUL GIFT WHEN ASSETS ARE MORE MODEST Deborah Pearlman, Ph.D.’90

Deborah Pearlman, Ph.D.’90, hopes her fellow Heller School alumni will reach the same conclusion that she did — you do not need to be a captain of industry or other highly compensated professional to help Heller students.

Pearlman, a public health researcher at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School, recently made a generous planned gift to Brandeis in support of Heller student scholar­ ships. Four years ago, when she was elected to the Heller Alumni Association board, she began to see that she could make a real differ­ ence in the lives of students.

Pearlman had a wonderful educational experi­ ence at Heller, but she had a somewhat passive relationship with her alma mater in the years after graduation. “I felt an obliga­ tion to write annual checks, to honor that connection with Brandeis and Heller, so I

regularly responded to annual appeals,” she says. But that was the extent of it.

Her election to the Heller Alumni Board was an important turning point. Her participation deepened her relationship with the school.

What Pearlman came to understand was how a more meaningful gift left in her will could help enhance the experience for Heller students while providing her with great personal satisfaction.

“As I served my first three years on the Heller Alumni Board, my relationship with Claudia Jacobs, who was then Heller’s development director, taught me that, even though I wasn’t Warren Buffett, I could still be a philanthro­ pist,” Pearlman says.

Pearlman had believed — as many people do — that significant philanthropy was the prov­ ince of wealthy people who had buildings named after them. “My grandparents were immigrants, and what little was left was passed on to the next generation, so giving to institutions was not familiar,” she says. But she found out she could scale her gift to her personal financial situation and achieve her goals through estate planning.

“I am so excited about creating the Deborah Pearlman Scholarship that I have already talked about my decision with family members and friends so they can also see how to pass on money to organizations in support of issues that they care about,” Pearlman says.

“All of us in the middle class have the capacity

— whether we have modest assets or signifi­ cant financial resources — to give to institu­ tions that have had a profound effect on us.

Because of my relationship with the Heller staff, I am one of those people today.”

Pearlman worked with her personal attorney and a member of the Office of Development who specializes in planned giving to draft the details of the gift. She also conferred with family members who stood to benefit from her estate.

“I talked to all of them before I made my decision,” Pearlman said, “but I wanted the gift to be important enough to the institution that it would be meaningful. While my $50 gifts to Heller in response to appeals in the mail were checks I was happy to write, doing something more substantial makes a much bigger difference.”

She encourages her fellow alumni to consider making similar gifts. “Having someone to help me scale the size of what I could do — not the Warren Buffett way but the Deborah Pearlman way — made the difference,” she says. “You need to feel comfortable, and the litmus test is that since I made plans to do this several years ago, I have never regretted the decision one iota.”

Deborah Pearlman, Ph.D.’90, is a public health researcher at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School and is one of only three research­ ers in the program in public health whose work (women’s health, chronic diseases and gender equity) is focused on applied public health.

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ALUMNI DONORS FY’10 Thank you, Heller Alumni Donors!

Your enthusiastic response to Heller’s 50th Anniversary Challenge is a wonderful tribute to Heller’s past and its promising future.

Each of you — first-time and renewing donors — helps to ease the financial burden of Heller students with your gifts to the Heller Fellowship Fund and Heller Alumni Annual Fund. Your generosity during this milestone year, with increased donors and dollars, resulted in Dean Lynch granting Heller 50th Anniversary Scholarships to 12 incoming students.

We look forward to sharing news throughout the year about Heller’s new cohort of student scholars, practitioners, social change agents — and future Heller alumni.

On behalf of Heller’s students — today’s and tomorrow’s — thank you again for your past and ongoing support. You make a difference!

We appreciate all alumni donations.

This honor roll specifically recognizes gifts of $100 or more made by Heller alumni between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010. Heller Alumni Annual Fund and Heller Fellowship Fund gifts support master’s and doctoral students through scholarships; special grants to complete dissertations, defray the cost of required texts and to present at professional meetings; and help to finance student projects such as the Heller Alternative Spring Break.

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Dean’s Circle ($5,000+) G. Lawrence Atkins, Ph.D.’85+~ Neal F. Bermas, Ph.D.’81+~ May H. Futrell, Ph.D.’76*~ Thomas P. Glynn III, M.S.W.’72, Ph.D.’77+~ Charles S. Rodgers, Ph.D.’78+ Bryna Sanger, Ph.D.’76+ Anya Rader Wallack, Ph.D.’07 Alumni Leaders Circle ($1,000–$4,999) Thomas G. Broussard Jr., Ph.D.’06* Stephen M. Coan ’84, M.M.H.S.’90, Ph.D.’97~ Irene E. Cramer, Ph.D.’99 Mary Edna Davidson, Ph.D.’75 Harold W. Demone, Ph.D.’66~ Diane M. Disney, Ph.D.’89~ Michelle S. Dworkin, M.A.’07 Alejandro Garcia, Ph.D.’80 Jane A. Karas, Ph.D.’87 Jonathan D. Katz, Ph.D.’81 Eric R. Kingson, Ph.D.’79~ Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, Ph.D.’81~ Mary Jo Larson, Ph.D.’92 Edward F. Lawlor, Ph.D.’85~ Eva Marx, M.M.H.S.’80~ Jane Mattson, Ph.D.’94 Daniel Nussbaum, Ph.D.’78 Gail K. Robinson, Ph.D.’80+*~ Barbara Skydell Safran, Ph.D.’83 Sarah Kroloff Segal ’86, M.M.H.S.’89 Jason A. Soloway, M.A.’01, M.M.’01*~ Associate ($500–$999) Doris Toby Axelrod ’63, Ph.D.’99 Victor A. Capoccia, Ph.D.’78* Stuart Carter, Ph.D.’91~ Betty Jane Cleckley, Ph.D.’74~ Ann F. Collard, Ph.D.’88 Sheldon R. Gelman, Ph.D.’73~ Elizabeth Louise Glaser, M.S.’08 Lillian Labecki Glickman, M.S.W.’71, Ph.D.’81*~ John E. Hansan, Ph.D.’80 Michael J. Hunter, M.M.H.S.’82 Christina Jameson, Ph.D.’81 Otis S. Johnson, Ph.D.’80* Leslie Pechman Koch, M.M.H.S.’93 Bruce W. Lagay, Ph.D.’73 Walter N. Leutz, Ph.D.’81~ Nancy L. Lohmann, Ph.D.’77, and Roger A. Lohmann, Ph.D.’75~ Elizabeth Levy Merrick, Ph.D.’98~ Ricardo A. Millett ’68, M.S.W.’70, Ph.D.’74 John N. Morris, M.S.W.’70, Ph.D.’74

Samuel Okpaku, Ph.D.’79 Margo L. Rosenbach ’78, Ph.D.’85~ Roberta Ward Walsh, Ph.D.’89~ Mary Ann Wilner, M.M.H.S.’81, Ph.D.’86~ Founder ($250–$499) Laura S. Altman, Ph.D.’88~ Mary Elizabeth Belgard, M.M.H.S.’91 Deanne E. Bonnar, Ph.D.’85 Mary Bouchard, M.B.A.’05 Mary F. Brolin, Ph.D.’05~ Eric E. Cahow, Ph.D.’04*~ James J. Callahan, Ph.D.’68^*~ Joseph Castellana, Ph.D.’02~ Paul Francis Creighton, M.M.H.S.’81 Gerben DeJong, Ph.D.’81 Daniel M. Finkelstein, Ph.D.’05~ Sharon M. Fujii, Ph.D.’75 Arturo N. Gonzales, Ph.D.’83 Lori Rosenquist Griswold, Ph.D.’93 Wayne Michael Harding ’70, Ph.D.’92~ Evelyn Bullitt Hausslein, M.M.H.S.’84~ Elizabeth J. Hibner, M.M.’98 Linda Holiner, M.M.H.S.’89 Carolyn Jacobs, Ph.D.’78 Sandra E. Kretz, Ph.D.’81 Emily Layzer, Ph.D.’84 David A. Mangs, Ph.D.’87 Danna Mauch, Ph.D.’90 Dwight N. McNeill, Ph.D.’03 Sherman Merle, Ph.D.’68~ Charlotte Whiteley Milan, M.B.A.’09 Vincent Mor, Ph.D.’79 Regina O’Grady-LeShane, Ph.D.’82 Paula A. Paris, M.M.H.S.’79+*~ Avis Y. Pointer, Ph.D.’74 Janet Poppendieck, M.S.W.’71, Ph.D.’79~ Raelene V. Shippee-Rice, Ph.D.’90 Nina M. Silverstein, Ph.D.’80*~ Linda Simoni-Wastila, Ph.D.’93~ Julio Alejandro Urbina, Ph.D.’01*~ Ione Dugger Vargus, Ph.D.’71~ Jonathan Wasserman ’92, M.B.A.’08 Contributor ($100–$249) Alidu Babatu Adam, M.A.’09 Saul F. Andron ’72, Ph.D.’80 Carol E. Blixen, Ph.D.’89 Elliott I. Bovelle, Ph.D.’80~ Ruth A. Brandwein, Ph.D.’78~ Jacqueline Daniels Braunthal, M.M.H.S.’84~ Yitzhak Brick, Ph.D.’75 Dean P. Briggs, Ph.D.’85 Richard O. Brooks, Ph.D.’74 Katharine Valleen Byers, M.S.W.’71~

Jiangnan Cai, Ph.D.’97 James W. Callicutt, Ph.D.’69~ Lois C. Camberg, Ph.D.’85~ Cecilia Rivera Casale, Ph.D.’79*~ Lucy McGonagle Casella, M.M.’99, M.A.’05 Mady E. Chalk, Ph.D.’90 Matinal Chan ’91, M.M.H.S.’00* Andrew F. Coburn, Ph.D.’82 Marc Aaron Cohen, Ph.D.’87~ Jennifer Kane Coplon, Ph.D.’94~ Bruce Paul Dembling, Ph.D.’93 Carol J. DeVita, Ph.D.’85~ Almas Dossa, Ph.D.’07 Elizabeth A. Eastwood, Ph.D.’84 Susan Hampton Edwards, M.M.H.S.’86 Austin Patrick Egan, M.B.A.’09 Carol Hall Ellenbecker, Ph.D.’89 Marwa Mohmed Ezzat Farag, M.S.’05, Ph.D.’10* Betty A. Farbman, M.M.H.S.’81~ Judith Moss Feingold, M.M.H.S.’82 Karen Wolk Feinstein, Ph.D.’83+ Dena Fisher, Ph.D.’91 Virginia M. Fitzhugh, M.M.’03~ Joanne C. Foster, M.B.A.’08 Murray W. Frank, Ph.D.’74*~ Lori Berman Gans ’83, M.M.H.S.’86~ Hollis N. Gauss, M.A.’01, M.M.’01 Jack W. Gettens, M.A.’06, Ph.D.’09 Ross Schuyler Gibson, M.M.H.S.’85 John T. Gleason, M.M.H.S.’93 James C. Gorman, M.S.W.’73, Ph.D.’78~ Elaine Selig Gould, M.S.W.’71 Robin Gregg, Ph.D.’92 Toni L. Gustus, M.B.A.’99~ Mario J. Gutierrez, M.A.’06 Gail Shangraw Hanssen, Ph.D.’97 Brooke S. Harrow, Ph.D.’92~ Cariann Guyette Harsh, M.B.A.’04~ Cornelius M. Hegarty, M.M.H.S.’80 Phyllis Hearst Hersch, Ph.D.’77 MC Terry Hokenstad Jr., Ph.D.’69~ Colin Holmes, M.A.’07* Anne M. Howard, Ph.D.’90 Kathleen J. Hunt, M.M.H.S.’98~ Sharon R. Hunt, Ph.D.’01~ Batya Hyman, Ph.D.’93 Frances Anne Kanach, Ph.D.’89 Erika Kates, Ph.D.’84~ Elizabeth Robboy Kittrie, M.M.H.S.’94 Lavy Klein, M.B.A.’00 Ada Knijinsky, Ph.D.’82 Valerie R. Leiter, Ph.D.’01~ David Robert Leslie, M.M.H.S.’84

Roberta Leviton, Ph.D.’99 Baruch Levy, Ph.D.’80 Joyce Kelly Lewis, Ph.D.’93 Katharine Kranz Lewis, Ph.D.’07 Carl G. MacMillan, M.M.H.S.’88~ Diane Feeney Mahoney, Ph.D.’89~ Lynne Man, M.A.’05, Ph.D.’08 Margaret Ellen Martin, Ph.D.’90 Nancy E. McAward, M.M.H.S.’84 Jacqueline R. Michelove, M.M.H.S.’81~ William Richard Miner, Ph.D.’76 Melissa A. Morley, Ph.D.’05 Susan E. Moscou, Ph.D.’06 Kathryn Moss, Ph.D.’80 Ann E. Mowery, Ph.D.’92 Otrude Moyo, M.A.’00, Ph.D.’01 Nancy R. Mudrick, Ph.D.’76 Jacob A. Murray, M.M.’98, and Jennifer Azzara, M.M.’98 Chrisann Newransky, M.A.’05* Hoa Thi Kim Nghiem, M.A.’09 Darlene O’Connor, Ph.D.’87 Bernard Olshansky, D.S.W.’61 Darwin Palmiere, Ph.D.’75~ Ruth Palombo, M.A.’00, Ph.D.’03 Ankur M. Patel, M.A.’06 Susan E. Perlik, Ph.D.’84 Sylvia B. Perlman, Ph.D.’85~ Deborah Potter, M.A.’00, Ph.D.’07 Betty Holroyd Roberts, Ph.D.’75~ Daniel E. Rodell, Ph.D.’76~ Beatrice Lorge Rogers, Ph.D.’78~ Janis F. Rothbard, M.M.H.S.’81 Nancy A. Sacks, M.M.H.S.’79 Michael Markoe Schieffelin, M.M.H.S.’96 Craig David Schneider, Ph.D.’04 Andrea F. Schuman, Ph.D.’99 Dick Scobie, Ph.D.’72* David Howard Segal ’78, M.M.H.S.’83 Annabel Sheinberg, M.M.’98 Windsor Westbrook Sherrill, Ph.D.’00~ Valerie Shulock, M.M.H.S.’97 Andrew M. Sokatch, Ph.D.’02 Sharon Meri Sokoloff, Ph.D.’91 Peter A. Stathopoulos, Ph.D.’80 Shelley Ann Steenrod, Ph.D.’99 Stacey B. Stein ’99, M.B.A.’05 Walter F. Stern, Ph.D.’67~ Lynne Sullivan, M.B.A.’02* Michael George Tauber, M.M.H.S.’94 Mordean Taylor-Archer, Ph.D.’79 Yvonne Eleanor Thraen, Ph.D.’77~ Carol R. Tobias, M.M.H.S.’86 Michael G. Trisolini, M.A.’00, Ph.D.’01~

Winston M. Turner, Ph.D.’87~ Elizabeth Ann Walsh, M.A.’09 Kuo-Yu Wang, Ph.D.’91 Joseph Warren, M.S.W.’72, Ph.D.’83^~ Janet B. Wasserstein, M.M.H.S.’90~ Joel S. Weissman, Ph.D.’87~ Ghenet K. Weldeslassie, M.A.’99* Jean S. Whitney, M.M.’01~ Dow Wieman, Ph.D.’98 Merrill Wilcox, M.A.’09 Judith K. Williams, Ph.D.’83~ Steven K. Wisensale, Ph.D.’83 David E. Woodsworth, Ph.D.’68^~ Robert F. Wooler, M.M.H.S.’80 Donna L. Yee, Ph.D.’90 Assunta Young, Ph.D.’79~ Jessica Zander, M.M.H.S.’94 Leona R. Zarsky, M.M.H.S.’78~ Maria E. Zuniga, Ph.D.’80 Only Heller alumni are listed above, but others, including friends, staff and Brandeis undergraduate alumni, also donated generously to these funds. Please let us know if your name has been inadvertently omitted.

We apologize and will include you in our next issue. Alumni who ask to remain anonymous are not listed here, but our gratitude extends to them as well. * FY10 Heller Alumni Association Board Member + FY10 Heller Board of Overseers Member ^ Deceased ~ Consistent donor (five years or more) For more information, please contact the Heller Office of Development and Alumni Relations at 781-736-3808 or visit heller.brandeis.edu, where you can also make a gift online.

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MILESTONES New Jobs/Degrees/Directions Amrote Abdella, M.A.’07, recently moved to Geneva, where she’s working with the World Economic Forum as a community manager for Africa. She’s also one of the fellows in the 2009 cohort recruited under the Global Leadership Fellow Programme (amrote@gmail.com).

Richard Brooks, Ph.D.’74, recently retired from Vermont Law School as the founding director of its Environmental Law Center and is now an emeritus professor of law.

He returned to his first love — the classics — and has just completed the fourth in a series of edited volumes on great figures in jurisprudence. This volume is “St. Augustine and Modern Law,” preceded over the past 10 years by “Plato and Modern Law,” “Aristotle and Modern Law” and “Cicero and Modern Law” (rbrooks@vermontlaw.edu).

Kathleen M. Drennan, Ph.D.’06, recently was promoted to senior analyst with the strategic issues team for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Her research focuses on state and local fiscal pressures and economic recovery, and, more broadly, the changing nature of the intergovernmental compact between federal, state and local governments in delivering services. Over the past 18 months, Drennan has been part of a GAO team reviewing how the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is spending its American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. In addition, she recently was re-elected to a second three-year term on the Mendon-Upton Regional School Committee, where she spends an inordinate amount of time fighting for revenues to support public education and balance the school district’s budget (drennank@gao.gov).

perceptions with respect to end-of-life care (deborahagray@comcast.net).

Dorothea Hertzberg, M.A.’07, was promoted to deputy director of the Peace Corps Paraguay program and moved to that country from her position in Peace Corps Ethiopia on August 15, 2010 (deehertz2002@ yahoo.com).

Erin Yale Horwitz, M.M.’98, is the administrator for diagnostic imaging and professional services and responsible for the faculty practice as well as the hospital operations at the imaging department at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Her husband is a marketing executive at Kohler, and their daughters, Abigail and Amelia, are 5 and 4 (erinyale@yahoo.com).

Lee Rachel Jurman, M.M.H.S.’82, is the lead disability advocate at Personal Disability Consulting, Inc., working as a private case manager and advocate for adults who have disabilities. She recently moved her home and work to Newton, Mass. (lee@personaldisability.com).

Bishwa Shakha Koirala, M.A.’05, received a Ph.D. in economics, focusing on environmental and resource economics, from the University of New Mexico in July 2010. This fall, he starts a new position as visiting faculty member for the Department of Economics at Saint Louis University (bskoirala@gmail.com).

Emilia Garcia, M.P.P.’10, M.A.’10, is the outreach coordinator with the Texas State Employees Union and will be managing press research and coalition building (mimi.garcia@gmail.com).

Barbara Ellen Mawn, Ph.D.’93, was appointed Ph.D. nursing program director in fall 2009 at the School of Health and Environment at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She was a visiting professor at Mahidol University’s School of Public Health in Bangkok in February and March 2010 and served as a visiting professor at Queen’s University in Belfast, Ireland, in June 2010 (barbara_mawn@uml.edu).

Deborah Ann Gray, M.B.A.’05, is working as a research assistant for Massachusetts General Hospital in the medical intensive care unit. She will investigate the effect of medical practice changes — specifically patient- and family-focused interventions — to determine the effectiveness of services and

Sara Plachta-Elliott, M.A.’10, started as a research associate on July 1, 2010, with the Center for Youth and Communities at the Heller School. The position is located at the Skillman Foundation in Detroit, where she is serving as a two-year evaluation fellow (selliott@brandeis.edu).

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Laura Scarlett Tavares, M.B.A.’05, is membership manager for Interise in Boston (laurascarlett@gmail.com).

Mark Snyderman, M.M.H.S.’82, recently was appointed chief of the service programs unit for the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA), U.S. Department of Education. RSA provides vocational rehabilitation services to approximately 980,000 individuals with disabilities annually and funds programs designed to help individuals with disabilities prepare for and engage in gainful employment (mark.snyderman@ed.gov).

Laura Stahl, M.B.A.’08, is returning to Teach for America as the director of operations at its New York training institute (stahl_l@hotmail.com).

Stephen Monroe Tomczak, Ph.D.’08, accepted a position as an assistant professor at the Department of Social Work at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Conn. He will teach graduate and undergraduate courses on social welfare policy and community organization (tomczaks1@ southernct.edu).

Gidon van Emden, M.B.A.’03, M.A.’03, is moving to Washington, D.C., from Brussels, where he lived after graduating from Heller/ Hornstein. For the past four and a half years, he was responsible for European advocacy and Jewish affairs at CEJI, a Jewish antidiscrimination organization (gidonandre@gmail.com).

Andrew Westbury, M.A.’07, became the senior program officer for Africa at CHF International in June 2010. He was with Land O’Lakes International Development for almost three years. This move will take him back to Washington, D.C. (andrew.westbury@gmail.com).

Publications Aziz O. Abdallah, M.S.’09, shares an article titled “Introducing a Multi-Site Program for Early Diagnosis of HIV Infection Among HIV-Exposed Infants in Tanzania.” It is about a project he was involved with at the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs at Columbia University.

He provided in-country leadership as director of implementation and site support for the implementation of the pilot and program.

In Tanzania, it is estimated that less than a third of HIV-infected children in need of antiretroviral therapy are receiving it. Read the full article at http://www.biomedcentral. com/1471-2431/10/44 (aziz_ochieng@ hotmail.com).

Brenda Bond, Ph.D.’06, recently cowrote two white papers with Gabrielle Aydnwylde for the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, located in Boston. The first one, titled “Facing the Economic Crisis: Challenges for Massachusetts Police Chiefs,” details the extraordinary struggles that police chiefs across the state currently face.

The second, “Where Are the Public Safety Funds Going?” reviews the past decade and the means and methods of funding public safety initiatives at the local level. Bond also cowrote an article with Professor Jody Hoffer Gittell, titled “Cross-Agency Coordination of Offender Re-entry: Testing Collaboration Outcomes,” in the Journal of Criminal Justice (bbond@suffolk.edu).

Karen Devereaux Melillo, Ph.D.’90, and Susan Crocker Houde, Ph.D.’96, coauthored the second edition of “Geropsychiatric and Mental Health Nursing” (karen_melillo@uml.edu and susan_houde@ uml.edu).

Elizabeth Palley, Ph.D.’03, recently completed a teaching Fulbright in Seoul, South Korea. She has written multiple articles, including “Who Cares for Children? Why We Are Where We Are With American Child Care Policy,” in Children and Youth Services Review; and “Civil Rights for People With Disabilities: Obstacles to the Least Restrictive Environment Mandate” in the Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation.

She coauthored, with Traci Levy, “Education, Needs and a Feminist Ethic of Care: Lessons from Discomfort with Academic Giftedness” in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society Advance Access (palley@adelphi.edu).

Shelley Ann Steenrod, Ph.D.’99, has written multiple articles, including “A Functional Guide to Evidence-Based Practices for Publicly Funded Substance Abuse Treatment Katharine Valleen Byers, M.S.W.’71, Agencies”; reviews of “Beautiful Boy: A coauthored “Policy Practice for Social Workers: Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction” New Strategies for a New Era,” with Linda

by David Sheff and “Tweak: Growing up K. Cummins and Laura Pedrick. It was pub­ on Methamphetamines,” by Nic Sheff; and lished by Allyn and Bacon as part of its Core “The Interface Between Non-Specialty and Competency Series (kvbyers@indiana.edu).

Specialty Substance Abuse Treatment Sectors: Navigating the Terrain in Social Work.” She Almas Dossa, Ph.D.’07, cowrote with John also cowrote an article with E. Slayter titled A. Capitman two articles, “Community-Based “Addressing Alcohol and Drug Issues Among Disability Prevention Programs for Elders: Individuals with Mental Retardation: The Predictors for Program Completion” and Need for Cross-System Collaboration.” All “Lay Health Mentors in Community-Based five were published in 2009 in the Journal Disability Prevention Programs: Provider of Social Work Practice in the Addictions Perspectives,” in the Journal of Gerontological (ssteenrod@salemstate.edu).

Social Work (almas.dossa@va.gov).

Awards/Honors/Boards/Grants Mary E. Gilfus, Ph.D.’88, a full professor at Simmons College School of Social Work, Neal Bermas, coauthored a paper in the spring/summer Ph.D.’81, was issue of the Journal of Social Work Education interviewed recently titled “Gender and Intimate Partner Violence: as part of a short Evaluating the Evidence.” She plans to feature story done on continue researching and writing on domestic Vietnamese television, violence issues during a fall sabbatical about STREETS (mary.gilfus@simmons.edu).

International, an innovative social enterprise that he founded several years ago. The first program site was in Hoi An, Vietnam. View the shortened video

at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivtV7k99kXI (nbermas@streetsinternational.org).

Allan Borowski, Ph.D.’79, was recently nominated by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology to serve as a panel member on the Criminology Research Council for its 2010–11 grants round. He is also the recipient of a grant of more than half a million dollars from the Australian Research Council to undertake a national study of Australia’s Children’s Courts across six states and two territories. Borowski, who is an elected member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, is a professor of social work and social policy at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia (a.borowski@latrobe.edu.au).

Yitzhak Brick, Ph.D.’75, received an award for his outstanding contribution to the development of services for the elderly in Israel. It was presented at the biannual conference of the Gerontological Society in Tel Aviv on February 16, 2010 (brick@jdc.org.il).

Anthony Campinell, Ph.D.’03, was recog­ nized recently for 40 years of continuous service with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He is the director of therapeutic and supported employment programs in the Office of Mental Health for the Veterans Health Administration, Washington, D.C., and is responsible for management of vocational rehabilitation programs in mental health departments at 170 VA Medical Centers nationally. He was employed at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Bedford, Mass., before accepting his position in Washington, D.C. He served with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam (campinell.a@va.gov).

Betty A. Farbman, M.M.H.S.’81, has been elected as a board member-at-large to the National Council of University Research Administrators (bettyaf@optonline.net).

Karen Wolk Feinstein, Ph.D.’83, has been highly engaged with the Heller School.

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MILESTONES on Health Care Economics and Policy, which sponsors the Princeton Conferences; and with Chris Tompkins, M.M.H.S.’82, Ph.D.’91, on doctoral work regarding quality improvement and payment reform.

But possibly the best collaboration yet is the event that Heller has shepherded for the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, Grantmakers in Health, the Commonwealth Fund and the California Healthcare Foundation. On July 27–28, 2010, more than 90 health care leaders representing 70 health foundations gathered at Heller to discuss what local, regional and state health funders can do as health reform devolves to the local level as a result of the new health care legislation.

Background papers for each session were prepared by Heller’s distinguished faculty and researchers on delivery redesign, payment reform, the safety net, workforce development and patient engagement to provide anchors for lively discussion. Hosted at Heller by the Institute on Healthcare Systems in the Schneider Institutes and the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy, the event showcased Heller’s substance and depth of academic talent and brought together sophisticated health foundation leaders from Maine to California.

Arturo N. Gonzales, Ph.D.’83, and his company, Sangre de Cristo Community Health Partnership, completed the successful implementation of a project funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in New Mexico.

The project included integration of medical care and behavioral health services within rural Federally Qualified Health Centers in New Mexico. Gonzales was appointed

by Federal Health and Human Services Department secretary Kathleen Sebelius and SAMHSA administrator Pam Hyde to serve on its SAMHSA National Advisory Committee starting in May 2010 (arturo. gonzales@sdcchp.nm.org).

Deborah Ann Gray, M.B.A.’05, received the Gerontology Service Award from the Gerontology Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston (deborahagray@ comcast.net).

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March 24, 2010, at a ceremony chaired by the president of the National Association of Social Workers, James J. Kelly. The award is given to a living individual, group or organization that has significantly advanced the public image of professional social work (jhansan2000@yahoo.com).

Ruth Kelley, M.M.’04, is the chief behavioral health officer at Dimock Community Health Center in Roxbury, Mass. She has been awarded two Department of Public Health/ Bureau of Substance Abuse Services contracts for women’s services for substance use and addictions. Recently she announced the fall opening of two residential programs for women in recovery (short-term intensive, and long-term treatment), which will be funded by the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services.

My Sister’s House at Dimock is a one-year, long-term residential program for women in recovery. Women’s Renewal at Dimock is a 30-day crisis stabilization service. These two programs complete a full continuum of care for men, women and families in recovery at Dimock and will bring the number of behavioral health services to 16 programs (rkelley@dimock.org).

Bernie McCann, M.A.’07, a current Heller doctoral candidate, was recently appointed to a three-year term on the Employee Assistance Certification Commission (EACC). The EACC is the autonomous credentialing body established to administer professional educational, ethical and certification activities for those engaged in the field of employee assistance programs (mccanba@brandeis.edu).

Karen Devereaux Melillo, Ph.D.’90, was named a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America in November 2009 (karen_melillo@uml.edu).

Deborah Pearlman, Ph.D.’90, a member of the clinical teaching faculty at Brown University, received the first Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring in Public Health from the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown on May 5, 2010 (deborah_pearlman@brown.edu).

Lotay Rinchen, M.A.’08, was invited to speak at the second World Ecotourism Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from July 8–11, 2010. He presented his travel venture, Bridge to Bhutan (For the Mindful Traveler). There were 250 delegates from all over the world, including Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Nepal, India, Japan and Korea. Read the entire story at http://is.gd/ dCqd7 (lotayrinchen@gmail.com).

Richard Rowland, Ph.D.’70, received the 2010 Louis Lowy Award from the Massachusetts Gerontology Association on May 6, 2010. The Louis Lowy Award is given to individuals for distinguished contributions to the field of aging in Massachusetts (rowlandr@bc.edu).

Nina M. Silverstein, Ph.D.’80, recently was elected chair of the social research planning and practice section of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Her three-year term will begin following the society’s annual meeting in November 2010 in New Orleans (nina.silverstein@umb.edu).

Births/Marriages Lyndsey Ellis, M.A.’07, married Christian Velasquez Donaldson, M.A.’07, on Oct. 3, 2009, in Keene, N.H. They now live in the Washington, D.C., area (lyndsd81@gmail.com).

Marwa Farag, M.S.’05, Ph.D.’10, married Tamer Qarmout, M.A.’07, on July 18, 2010, in Cairo, Egypt (marwa@brandeis.edu and tamerky@yahoo.com).

Vivien Gyuris, M.A.’04, married Csaba Kovacs on June 19, 2009. On September 30, 2009, she gave birth to Kristof David. Gyuris has been working with the World Bank in Budapest, Hungary, since 1998 as an operations analyst and later as a consultant. She works as a fundraiser at the Roma Education Fund

in Budapest. Kovacs is the finance director of a Hungarian human resources outsourcing company (vgyuris@t-online.hu).

Naomi Lambertson, M.A.’03, married Michael Andreas Pusch on August 28, 2010, in Greenville, Maine (nlambertson@yahoo.com).

Lisa Tabak, M.M.H.S.’95, gave birth to a son, Ari Oliver Lipsett, on January 14, 2010 (tabsett@gmail.com).

Jamie (Bridges) Walzer, M.B.A.’06, married Gil Walzer in May 2010. She has been work­ ing for the past two and a half years as a web and database development manager. After a cross-country honeymoon, she will start a new job this fall teaching kids how to make websites through Newton Community Education in Massachusetts. Simultaneously, she plans to start a nonprofit to help connect college students with orphaned/abandoned children in another country (jamieb7777777@yahoo.com).

Nelly Zambrano, M.A.’09, gave birth to a son, Istvan, on June 19, 2010. The baby was born in San Francisco surrounded by family and friends, and Zambrano now resides in Los Angeles (nelly@namaste-direct.org).

Faculty/Staff Notes The 2010 Teaching Award was presented to Professor Eric Olson (eolson@brandeis. edu), and the 2010 Mentoring Award was presented to Professor Lorraine Klerman.

Professor Susan P. Curnan hosted an event titled “The Val-Kill Spirit of Freedom, Curiosity and Determination: A Conversation About What We Can Learn From Eleanor Roosevelt About Changing Our Lives and Changing the World,” on July 17, 2010, in collaboration with the National Park Service, at the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York. In three 90-minute sessions, she shared her story of growing up at Eleanor Roosevelt’s home and the many connections between Eleanor Roosevelt and Brandeis University, and participants discussed the impact that

Roosevelt had on their lives (curnan@brandeis.edu).

Professor emerita Janet Giele attended the XVII World Congress of Sociology, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, from July 11–17, 2010.

The event drew more than 5,000 sociologists from all over the world. Giele’s paper, “The Emergence of Family Policy in America,” was presented to the Committee on Family Research and covered the main themes from her current book on the development of the American safety net (giele1@brandeis.edu).

Professor David G. Gil wrote “From Tribal Consciousness and Subjective Rationality toward Global Consciousness and Objective Rationality” in the Journal of Comparative Social Welfare (gil@brandeis.edu).

Professor Lorraine Klerman coauthored an article titled “What Mothers Don’t Know and Doctors Don’t Say: Detecting Early Developmental Delays,” in the Infant Mental Health Journal.

Tatjana Meschede, research director and lecturer, wrote “Accessing Housing: Exploring the Impact of Medical and Substance Abuse Services on Housing Attainment for Chronically Homeless Street Dwellers,” in the Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Sciences (meschede@brandeis.edu).

Tatjana Meschede, research director and lecturer at the Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP); Thomas Shapiro, Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy and director of IASP; Laura Sullivan, Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at IASP; and Jennifer Wheary of Demos, a public policy research and advocacy organization, released in their Living Longer on Less series a report titled “Severe Financial Insecurity Among African-American and Latino Seniors.” This report was published jointly by IASP at the Heller School and Demos in New York City.

In addition, Shapiro, Meschede and Sullivan published a research policy brief titled “The Racial Wealth Gap Increases Fourfold” (meschede@brandeis.edu and tshapiro@ brandeis.edu and lauras@brandeis.edu).

Kelley Ready, senior lecturer, led a delegation to Guatemala for the Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee to commemorate the Plan de Sánchez massacre, where hundreds

of indigenous Mayan peasants were brutally killed in 1982. She also had the opportunity to meet with the survivors of the massacre and learn how they are using regional and international human rights mechanisms to force the government to accept responsibility for the slaughter and to pay reparations.

In addition, Ready’s paper, “The Uneasy ‘Informal Consensual Union’ of Lesbianism in El Salvador and its Flirtation With the International Gay Rights Movement,” won an essay competition on Latin American and Caribbean sexualities sponsored by the International Resource Network of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center at City University of New York. Read the entire paper at http://www.irnweb.org/en (kready@brandeis.edu).

In Memoriam James J. Callahan Jr., Ph.D.’68, beloved professor, mentor, advocate and friend, died Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Callahan was 74.

Lorraine Klerman, 1929–2010.

Dean Lisa Lynch (middle) presented Heller‘s 2010 Mentoring Award to Professor Lorraine Klerman (left), who passed away recently, and the 2010 Heller Teaching Award to Professor Eric Olson (right). The Heller community is saddened by the passing of colleague, mentor, teacher and friend, Professor Lorraine V. Klerman.

Robert B. Lefferts, Ph.D.’73, passed away on May 19, 2010.

Ronald Montgomery, Ph.D.’80, passed away on April 17, 2010.

David E. Woodsworth, Ph.D.’68, passed away on Aug. 13, 2010, at the age of 91.

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