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Dr. Joyce Hargrove

Dr. Joyce HargroveDr. Joyce Keith Hargrove created and is the Administrator of the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion – Center for Asthma Education, Management and Policy, a new comprehensive asthma program for the city of Detroit.  She also organized and is the Chair of the Detroit Alliance for Asthma Awareness, a 44-member coalition of representatives from community groups, health care plans, and pharmaceutical companies engaged in asthma activities, that work as a collaborative to address the asthma problem in Detroit.

Dr. Hargrove is the Chair of the Michigan Consortium of Asthma Coalitions, serves on the environmental, school and sustainability work groups of the Michigan Asthma Advisory Committee, and the state team to address pediatric asthma disparities.  She is also a Regional Council member of the American Lung Association of Michigan; member of the Detroit Public Schools Asthma Committee, the Tri-Cities Tobacco Reduction Coalition, and an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Task Force.  In addition, Dr. Hargrove has worked on a broad array of environmental health projects addressing environmental justice issues. She is a member of the state’s Environmental Public Health Tracking team and co-chaired the Funding/Resources subcommittee for the Five-year Strategic Planning Steering Committee to Eliminate Childhood Lead Poisoning in Detroit by 2010.

Dr. Hargrove has a doctorate in Environmental Health and Toxicology with a specialty in risk management from the State University of New York at Albany - School of Public Health. She received M.S. and B.S.  degrees from Wayne State University.

Contact Information

Dr. Joyce Hargrove
Administrator
Detroit Dept. of Health & Wellness Promotion Center for Asthma Education, Management and Policy/ Detroit Alliance for Asthma Awareness-Chair
1151 Taylor, 502 A
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: (313) 876-4677
Fax: (313) 876-0177
hargrovejk@health.ci.detroit.mi.us

 

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Dr. Patricia Jacob
Dr. Patricia JacobPatricia Jacob, Pharm.D. is a Neurology Senior Regional Medical Scientist in the department of Medical Affairs, GlaxoSmithKline. 

Dr. Jacob received both her B.Sc. and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from Howard University. She completed a one year pharmacy residency in adult medicine at the University of Southern California, and a two-year post doctoral joint fellowship in pharmacokinetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Glaxo Inc.

Prior to her current position at GSK,  Dr. Jacob was an Assistant Professor at Xavier University, College of Pharmacy. She has published articles in peer-reviewed publications. She is a member of the American Headache Society.

Contact Information

Patricia Jacob
Neuroscience Senior Regional Medical Scientist II
GlaxoSmithKline
Phone: (908) 822-7105
Fax: (908) 822-7105
Patricia.E.Jacob@gsk.com

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Dr. Othelia Pryor

Dr. Othelia PryorOthelia W. Pryor earned a PhD from Michigan State University in Educational Psychology, an MBA in Finance from the University of Illinois and a BS in Business from the University of Pittsburgh. She has extensive experience as a community researcher and public speaker.  In 2005, Dr. Pryor, as Project Director of the Michigan Genetic Education Needs Evaluation Project, received the State of Michigan, Department of Community Health, and Genomics Division Directors Award for developing a communication model that assisted African American participants in identifying the genetic educational needs of the community.  One of her speeches, “What African Americans Need to Know About Genetics” is featured on the September 1, 2005 CDC Genomics and Disease Prevention: Genomics and Health Weekly Update. 

Dr. Pryor is the founder and Executive Director of the Michigan Minority Health Coalition (MMHC), a statewide consortium dedicated to developing strategies, creating partnerships and influencing public policy initiatives that will improve the health status of Michigan's ethnic and racial minority populations.

Dr. Pryor is also the founder and Executive Director of “Without a Vision the People Perish (WAV),” a community health education firm that informs individuals about life style choices and medical risk factors which cause needless deaths from cardiovascular-related disease in the African American community.

Contact Information

Othelia Pryor
Executive Director
Michigan Minority Health Coalition
P O Box 4654
East Lansing, MI 48826
Phone: (517) 337-0705
Fax: (517) 332-4162

otheliapryor@yahoo.com

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John Miall

John MiallJohn Miall serves as special consultant to the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation.  He began his consulting business, Miall Consulting, in 2005 after retiring as the Director of Risk Management for the City of Asheville, NC where he served for 30 years. He served as the Director of Risk Management for the City of Asheville since 1990 and was one of the visionaries behind The Asheville Project. He joined the staff of the APhA Foundation as a Special Consultant upon his retirement. 

As Director of Risk Management, Miall held major operational and budget responsibility for city-wide self-funded liability programs including $16million program for general, auto, public officials, law enforcement, and dams liability; $10 million annual group benefits program; $2million worker's compensation program; and four separate retirement programs, two of them self-funded and self-administered.

Miall was made an Honorary Member of American Pharmacists Association in 2000 and he was named a “Benny” Award Winner recognizing his innovative work in Employee Benefits by Employee Benefit News in 2003. He was named Risk Manager of the Year in 2004 by the Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA).  Miall is a graduate of Montreat-Anderson College and the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Miall is highly sought internationally as a speaker and presenter on risk management and health care innovations. In his capacity with the APhA Foundation, John Miall will assist the APhA Foundation in expanding the highly successfully work of the Asheville Project to more cities and employers around the country.  The APhA Foundation has expertise in designing programs to manage the cost and improve the outcomes associated with chronic disease by aligning the incentives for all stakeholders.  Miall will also assist with the implementation and management of these programs and serve as a resource to benefit managers and employers who choose to participate. 

Contact Information

John Miall
Consultant
Miall Consulting
18 Northwood Road
Asheville, NC 28804
Phone: (828) 777-8873
jpmiall@charter.net

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Loretta Davis-Satterla

Loretta Davis-SatterlaLoretta Davis-Satterla has distinguished herself as one of Michigan's top public health professionals and as a strong, effective champion for people and communities whose health needs are often overlooked. She has put to work her experience in health and human services, program development, and community organizing to create and lead some of Michigan's most successful public health initiatives. Her focus on and efforts in the HIV/AIDS-STD arena - in Michigan and globally - have heightened her passion for issues of minority health and health disparities facing minority communities worldwide.

Ms. Davis-Satterla has translated her passion for public health and minority health concerns into a focus on the critical fields of sexually transmitted disease, HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancy prevention, and reproductive health care. In her current position as the Director of the Division of Health, Wellness and Disease Control for the Michigan Department of Community Health, Ms. Davis-Satterla oversees Michigan's response to some of the nation's most challenging public health issues and has responsibility for HIV and STD treatment, prevention, education and supportive services programs funded by the state and federal governments. She also has responsibility for the Health Disparity Reduction and Minority Health Program, where the goal is to reduce health disparities by supporting a portfolio of social/behavioral interventions that will have the greatest impact among racial and ethnic minorities.

Loretta Davis-Satterla is the past Chair of the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD).  As a member of NASTAD's Global AIDS Team she traveled to East Africa, where she had the opportunity to help plan and mobilize a portion of Ethiopia's response to the AIDS epidemic.

She has received numerous awards including the "Nicholas A. Rango, MD Leadership Award" from the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) for her "dedication, tirelessness, and impatience in leading the struggle in HIV/AIDS."

Ms. Davis-Satterla holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Michigan and a Master of Science in Health Administration from Central Michigan University.

Contact Information

Loretta Davis-Satterla
Director
MDCH, Div. of Health Wellness & Disease Control
109 Michigan Ave.
Lansing, MI 48913
Phone: (517) 241-0854
Fax: (517) 241-0855
davis-satterlal@michigan.gov


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