Beth Bourdeau, PhD
Beth Bourdeau, PhD is an Academic Specialist and Deputy Director of the Prevention Research Center in the Department of Medicine's Division of Prevention Science at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her doctoral training in Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University, with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. Her research focuses on interventions to reduce risk-taking behavior among adolescents and young adults, with attention to Latinx and sexual/gender minority populations. Methodologically, Dr. Bourdeau specializes in outcome research and program evaluation, with a focus on person-centered analytic approaches and cross-cultural adaptation of measure.

 

Angie J. Brown, MBA
Angie Brown, received her MBA in Leadership and Financial Management and Budgeting from Grand Canyon University and her undergraduate Bachelors Degree in Music Education from Louisiana State University. She currently serves as the Director of Community Health Sciences Programs and the Ryan White Program Director for LSU Health Baton Rouge, Our Lady of the Lake.  She is also the Project Director of the Collaborative Care Program and has published papers and abstracts on an array of chronic disease/population management topics including HIV/AIDS and Collaborative Care. She has over 13 years of Public Health service and is the current Vice Chair of the Louisiana Commission on HIV, AIDS and Hepatitis C Education and an active member of the Baton Rouge Ending the HIV Epidemic Commission.
 

Hannah Bryant, MPH
Hannah Bryant is a Program Manager for two HRSA-funded cooperative agreements, the Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve Health Outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum Initiative, Implementation Technical Assistance Center (DEII ITAC) and the Using Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve Health Outcomes among People Living with HIV Initiative, Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance (E2i CCTA). In this role, Ms. Bryant closely collaborates with Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program recipients and subrecipients across the country. She coordinates technical assistance and training that effectively builds organizational and individual capacity to adapt and replicate evidence-informed interventions in diverse settings, including the Integrating Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in HIV Primary Care intervention and the Transitional Care Coordination from Jail Intake to Community HIV Primary Care intervention. In this role, Ms. Bryant is also responsible for managing subawardee budgets, contracts, and monitoring.

While at the George Washington University, Ms. Bryant served as a research consultant and program assistant to the Global Gender Program, which supported a women’s empowerment and cross-cultural exchange project, funded by the U.S. Department of State. Ms. Bryant also designed and conducted an acceptability assessment of e-health interventions among women at risk or living with HIV at The Women’s Collective, in Washington, DC.
 

Dr. Isolde Butler
Dr. Butler attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where she earned her undergraduate degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology in 2001, before earning her Master of Public Health in Tropical Medicine at the Tulane School of Public Health in New Orleans, LA in 2005. She received her medical degree in the same year at the Tulane School of Medicine, and completed her residency at the Tulane University Internal Medicine Residency Program. She is board certified in internal medicine and infectious disease.
 

Sean Cahill, Ph.D.
Sean Cahill, Ph.D., is the Director of Curriculum and Policy for the Evidence-Informed Interventions Center for Coordinating Technical Assistance. In this role he will develop a curriculum of webinars and a toolkit of actionable issue briefs, in consultation with expert faculty, for dissemination to 24 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Sites via the HRSA/TARGET Center website. Dr. Cahill is Director of Health Policy Research at the Fenway Institute where he focuses on LGBT health issues, HIV/AIDS, and elder and youth policy. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration at New York University, and Lecturer in Political Science at Northeastern University, where he teaches courses on LGBT public policy. His background includes leading policy research at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute from 1999 to 2007, and policy research and prevention efforts at Gay Men’s Health Crisis from 2007 to 2011. Working with staff from the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2007-2008 Dr. Cahill helped develop language into the 2008 reauthorization of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) promoting HIV prevention with gay and bisexual men in Africa and the Caribbean, and to conduct epidemiological research on men who have sex with men and HIV. From 2009-2012 Dr. Cahill worked with the Global Forum on MSM and HIV Policy Working Group to promote

implementation of the MSM prevention and research provisions of PEPFAR; and from 2007 through 2010 he worked closely with other U.S. AIDS activists and White House officials to support and inform the development of a domestic National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS).
 

Richard Cancio
Richard Cancio began his career in international development and global health as a Peace Corp volunteer in Namibia. Following his Peace Corps service, Richard completed his Master’s in Public Health from Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine. Richard then worked as the LGBT Health Services Program Manager for the Mount Sinai Health System – where he educated hospital staff and medical students on LGBT competent care. Since then he has developed a strong skill set for issues surrounding gender identity and healthcare including HIV/AIDS education, Sexual Risk Reduction, LGBT health program implementation, and mitigating Everyday Bias in Health. Currently, as the Curriculum Manager on the Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance team for the E2i project, Richard works to create culturally competent educational materials for a diverse patient population.
 

Stacy Cohen
Stacy Cohen has dedicated more than 20 years to HIV prevention and care programs and sexual health promotion for under-served communities across the U.S., at the community, state, and federal levels. Since 2008, she has focused much of her work on analyzing, translating, and disseminating HIV-related data to identify gaps and address disparities along the HIV care continuum. For the past 5 years, Ms. Cohen has served as the Chief of Evaluation, Analysis, and Dissemination Branch in the Division of Policy and Data at HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB). In this role, she leads HAB’s evaluation and data analysis/dissemination portfolios, as well as HAB’s implementation science activities. She holds a Master of Public Health from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and a Bachelor of Science in health behaviors and health education from the University of Maryland.
 

Tori Cooper
Tori Cooper is the Director of Community Engagement TG Justice Initiative at the Human Rights Campaign. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services and is matriculating towards her Master of Arts in Public Health. She has over 25 years of experience in the HIV field, first serving as a volunteer near the beginning of the epidemic. 

Tori is a national trainer for the CDC’s new TWIST intervention, the first of its kind, specifically for transgender women living with HIV. She is a national, regional and local trainer for NMAC’s BLOC program. She is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and the first transgender woman certified by the CDC as Lead Facilitator of the WILLOW intervention. She adapted the curriculum for this intervention in 2015 making it trans specific and culturally appropriate. She serves on a number of boards and community groups, including Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance-Bottom’s LGBTQ Advisory Board, the boards of SisterLove, Inc., Project Affirm, THAP (Trans Housing Atlanta Project), AAOI, the Clayton County HIV Consortium and a host of others.  She travels extensively, educating on the transgender community, HIV, and cultural diversity. 

Ms. Cooper has received numerous awards for her work and is a published author, most recently appearing in print and video for NBC News, Huffington Post, The New York Times, Washington Post, The Advocate, and other periodicals. Her work is featured in a new documentary titled “Silent Epidemic,” talking about the trans community and HIV in the South. She is a staunch believer in health and financial equity for trans people and people living with HIV.

Tori believes that empowerment, education, and opportunity are three important factors in success. She is driven to empower the transgender and the PWHA communities by being a role model and an advocate.
 

Alicia Downes, L.M.S.W.
Alicia Downes serves as the senior program manager on the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Special Project of National Significance (SPNS), which focuses on dissemination of four adapted linkage and retention interventions to improve health outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum.

Alicia got hooked on sociology during her first semester of college despite her family hope for a Computer Science degree. She received her Masters of Social Work from University of Kansas (Rock Chalk Jayhawk!) and has almost 10 years of experience in mental health. Alicia began work in the HIV field almost 20 years ago, when she was hired as a Ryan White Case Manager. Three months later, she was helping her uncle find HIV services, along with educating her family about HIV.

Alicia has experience managing federal grant from SAMHSA, CDC, HRSA, and private foundations. Prior to joining the staff of AIDS United, Alicia worked as a consultant on this project the AIDS United HRSA SPNS project. She also recently served as the Midwest AIDS Education and Training Center of Missouri Site and Peer Program Manager and an instructor, teaching Community Health Worker classes.
 

Sara Duran, MPH, CHES
Sara Durán, MPH, CHES has over a decade of experience in public health, providing program management, clinic administration, and supporting the San Diego Ryan White HIV community-planning process. Ms. Durán currently serves as the Associate Clinic Director for North Park Family Health Centers, a community-based clinic that provides care and support to people who are uninsured, low income, and medically underserved in San Diego County. In previous roles, she coordinated Peer Navigation Services, a nationally recognized, trauma-informed mobile/home-based model utilizing peer-based motivational support to engage and retain women living with HIV in medical care. Ms. Durán has provided capacity building assistance and technical assistance in trauma-informed care and service provision including trauma-informed practices, the neurobiology associated with Complex Trauma as well as cultural and historical trauma issues. She has a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Southern California and is a Certified Health Education Specialist.

Erin C. Falvey-Hogue, PH.D., MFT
Erin C. Falvey-Hogue is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has been practicing therapy in San Diego since 2004. Erin’s therapeutic practice focuses on individual, relational, and community empowerment and she has worked extensively with trauma, the LGBT community, chronic health conditions, and stress management. In 2012, she spearheaded the development of the TIA/CHANGE approach to trauma-informed service provision which was cited by the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) in the Update on Efforts to Address the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence against Women and Girls, and Gender Related Health Disparities report in 2014 and recognized by ONAP at the White House United State of Women in 2016 as furthering the Updated National AIDS Strategy. In addition to numerous presentations for local organizations, she has presented to larger audiences both locally and nationally on trauma-informed care and healthcare engagement for women, children, and families living with HIV/AIDS through multiple peer-reviewed abstracts and invited speaking engagements, the most notable being at the White House Commemoration and Annual Observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day in 2015.

Erin earned her Bachelor's degree in Art from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and her Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Alliant International University, San Diego. She earned her Ph.D. in Education at San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University. She is also a graduate of the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Executive Program.
 

Joshua Fegley, LCSW-BACS
Josh has worked for CrescentCare for 16 years. He has been the Clinic Director for CrescentCare Health and Wellness Center since 2014 and was CrescentCare’s Community Projects Manager in the HIV Prevention Department from 2006-2014.  He is a licensed social worker (LCSW) and Board Approved Clinical Supervisor (BACS).  He has extensive experience implementing and working on Evidence Informed programs; including TWEET where he is currently the Project Co-Coordinator. He also has 10+ years’ experience in program monitoring, evaluation, and CQI.  He holds a Master of Social Work from Tulane University and a BA in Psychology from Susquehanna University.  Josh currently has three dogs and one fiancé, all who expect to Josh to feed them as soon as he gets home from work every day. 

Sheldon D. Fields, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
With more than 25 years of experience in nursing, research, higher education, and health policy analysis, Sheldon D. Fields, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, served as dean of the School of Health Professions until August 2018.

Fields received his Ph.D. in nursing science from the University of Pennsylvania and M.S. and B.S. degrees in nursing from Binghamton (N.Y.) University. He also completed post-doctoral studies at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, and earned a Legal Nurse Consultant certificate from the University of Rochester. He is a nationally board certified Family Nurse Practitioner and an advanced HIV/AIDS certified registered nurse.

Prior to joining NYIT, Fields served as chief wellness officer, dean, and professor of the Mervyn M. Dymally School of Nursing at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, California (2015 – 2016). From 2011 to 2015, he was assistant dean of clinical affairs and health policy, associate professor of nursing, and co-director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program in the Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He also has held faculty positions at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) School of Nursing and Binghamton University. Fields’s extensive research on HIV prevention and treatment among black men has spanned decades, resulting in an impressive record of conference and poster presentations, scholarly articles, book chapters, seminars, invited lectures, webinars, and newspaper articles, as well as radio and television appearances.

In addition to his academic and research accomplishments, Fields was the first ever male registered nurse selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship Program. As a fellow, he worked in Washington, D.C. for United States Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions—Subcommittee on Aging during the historic healthcare reform debates and 2009-10 passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Fields’s professional contributions have been recognized with inductions as a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners; the National Academies of Practice—Nursing Academy; and the American Academy of Nursing. He is a lifetime member of the National Black Nurses Association and a former national director of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC).
 

Oscar Flores, LICSW
My name is Oscar Flores, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW). Graduated from the University of Maryland School of Social Work. I have worked at La Clinica Del Pueblo, a federal qualified health center for over 5 years as a Mental Health Therapist. I provide individual psychotherapy to mainly adults and families with complex trauma. I have extensive experience working with our LGBTQ community, specifically Latinxs with HIV in which I have obtained formal training and multiple years of clinical experience. I also provide behavioral health evaluation and management to patients in our primary care clinic and support the efforts to improve our integrated behavioral health practice.

 

Alex S. Keuroghlian, M.D., M.P.H.
Alex Keuroghlian, M.D., M.P.H., is the Project Director/Principal Investigator for the HRSA-funded Evidence-Informed Interventions Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance, which will disseminate interventions to improve health outcomes among people living with HIV/AIDS at 26 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Sites. In his role as Director of the Division of Education and Training at The Fenway Institute, Dr. Keuroghlian concurrently directs the National LGBT Health Education Center, a HRSA funded cooperative agreement to improve health care for LGBTQ people in community health centers. He works as a clinical psychiatrist within the Behavioral Health Department at Fenway Health. Dr. Keuroghlian holds an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directs the fourth-year clerkship in LGBTQ health at Harvard Medical School. He is the Public and Community Psychiatry Curriculum Director for the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/McLean Hospital psychiatry residency program, and directs the MGH Psychiatry Gender Identity Program. He received his medical degree and Masters in Neurosciences from the Stanford University School of Medicine and completed his psychiatry residency at the MGH/McLean Hospital training program. Dr. Keuroghlian has been selected to receive a 2017 National Institute of Health (NIH) Clinical Center CEO Award for his work on the Gender Identity Affirmation Initiative Team. This award recognizes his exceptional efforts in the development of a gender identity affirmation program, and the development of a training program for NIH staff and tracking mechanism in the Clinical Research Information System (CRIS).
 

Madhuri J. Lad, DO, FACOI, AAHIVS
Dr. Lad is the Assistant Medical Director of OSU Department of Internal Medicine Specialty Services Ryan White HIV Clinic and is certified in the treatment of HIV. Her position on the Tulsa Cares Board, which is a nonprofit organization that provides services to persons living with HIV in Tulsa, keeps her active in the HIV community in Tulsa. Her participation as a presenter at the National Ryan White Conferences and as a presenter for ViiV pharmaceuticals keeps her active with the most recent data in HIV. She is the facilitator for the OSU HIV Project ECHO. Dr. Lad is also a wife as well as a mother to a 7 and 8-year old. She enjoys cooking and traveling.
 

Linda Marc, Sc.D., M.P.H
Linda Marc, Sc.D., M.P.H., is the National Implementation Director for the HRSA-funded Evidence-Informed Interventions Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance. In this role she is responsible for designing and delivering technical assistance to support the implementation of the chosen interventions at 24 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Sites. Prior to this role, Dr. Marc was the Education and Curriculum Development Director within the Preparedness Center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In this capacity she also served as an advisor to the Haitian Ministry of Health on the mental health service needs of LGBT communities in Haiti, following the 2010 earthquake. In preparation for the Convening, Dr. Marc coordinated the rankings of interventions with national experts and community advisory board members, as well as oversaw the Fenway project team that collected scores, analyzed data, and generated the summary report on rankings. Dr. Marc holds an appointment as an Instructor in Biostatistics within the Quantitative Methods Program at Harvard Chan. She received a Doctor of Science in Social Determinants of Health from Harvard Chan, a Master of Public Health from the Yale School of Public Health, and completed post-doctoral training in the Mood Disorders Program and HIV

Clinical Trials Unit at the Weill Medical College of Cornell. As a Research Fellow, her agenda focused on HIV-related health disparities at Brown University through the Initiative on HIV/AIDS in Disadvantage Communities, and within the program on Ethnic Group Differences in Mental Health at Cambridge Health Alliance & Harvard Medical School.
 

Massah Massaquoi, M.P.H
Massah Massaquoi, M.P.H., is the National Implementation Manager for the HRSA-funded Evidence-Informed Interventions Coordinating Center for Technical Assistance. In this role she is responsible for designing and managing communication strategies between collaborators, which includes national experts, community advisory board members, and internal and external partners. Massah is also the Technical Assistance Lead for 13 of the 26 funded sites, she helps support day-to-day concerns of the subawardees as well as monitor and assess implementation activities, implementation strategies, and the core elements of the site-selected interventions via monthly monitoring calls, cohort calls and narrative reports.

Prior to this role, Massah worked at the Fenway Institute as the Research Program Coordinator with the Adolescent Trials Network, where she conducted HIV clinical trials and provided sexual health educational resources for LGBTQ youth and families throughout Boston, MA. Through her various roles at Fenway Health she has worked to create policy and internal institutional change to better serve youth living with HIV through community mobilization and structural change. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Iowa State University and with a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she focused on how behavioral economics and nutritional quality impact HIV health outcomes amongst same gender loving individuals, youth, women and infants.

 

Erin Nortrup, L.C.S.W.
Erin Nortrup is a mission-driven professional with over 20 years of experience in the social services field and 13 years of experience in the HIV field. Erin currently serves as director of program operations at AIDS United, acting as project director on the organization’s Hearth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Special Projects of National Significance initiative and providing oversight to AIDS United’s CDC-funded capacity-building assistance program, Getting to Zero. She previously served as director of support services at Cascade AIDS Project in Portland, Oregon and director of programs at the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) in Washington D.C., where she managed all direct service programs, including HIV testing and counseling, prevention interventions, and linkage to care services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth ages 13-21. Erin has served in a variety of capacities, from youth and family counselor to coordinator of HIV prevention services to clinical supervisor, with a consistent focus on providing high quality services from a position of cultural humility and centering the involvement and leadership of people accessing services. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and completed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Ladder to Leadership program in 2011. Outside of the office, Erin enjoys exploring all that the DC area has to offer while trying to keep up with her energetic two-year-old.

 

Eileen Pagán, MAT, APC
Eileen (they/them) is a proud Queer and Puerto Rican art therapist, who specializes in trauma informed care and integrates anti-oppression frameworks in their healing work. Aside from providing mental health and social services, Eileen volunteers with other grassroots and non-profit organizations and self identifies as a fierce advocate for the community. 

Nicole Pepper
Nicole is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years’ experience working with people with HIV and co-occurring disorders.  She serves as the E2i Project Coordinator and is currently the Social Services Supervisor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Mother Child Adolescent HIV program, as well as a Doctoral Candidate in a joint program through UCSD and San Diego State University (SDSU) in Interdisciplinary Research on Substance Use.  Her practice is rooted in trauma informed care, harm reduction and evidence informed interventions. 

 

Joseph D. Stango
Joseph D Stango is a program manager working on the Using Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve the Health Outcomes Among People Living with HIV initiative (E2i). He joined the AIDS United team in early 2018 after having served at other non-profit organizations.
 

Bryan Thompson
Bryan Thompson is a program associate for the Using Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve the Health Outcomes Among People Living with HIV initiative (E2i).

Bryan is a DC Native who loves their city. That same love is what led them to nonprofit work in the area, starting out at Us Helping Us, People Into Living, an organization that caters towards Gay Black Men and Black People of Trans Experience. Through their experience at Us Helping Us, Bryan developed a passion for public health. They discovered how much joy could come from talking with people about sex, their sexual health, to build community and reduce stigma. They are thrilled to be bringing this passion to the national level in their work at AIDS United.

Outside of their work, Bryan loves Britney Spears, Game of Thrones, and unicorns. In addition, their latest craze has been traveling. They have a goal to visit all 48 U.S. states and territories of the country in what they hope to be an epic road trip around America.

 

Dr. Miguel Vázquez
Dr. Vázquez has a Masters in Research in Clinical Psychology from the Barcelona Autonomous University, and a Masters and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Carlos Albizu University in San Juan, Puerto Rico.   He has researched topics such as sexual and gender diversity, suicide, psychotic disorders, youth risky behaviors, and substance abuse.  He has presented in congresses and symposiums in Puerto Rico, United States, Mexico, Spain, Las Bahamas, Colombia, South Africa, and Peru.  He has published social responsibility essays for local newspapers and magazines, and is the principal editor of the text book, LGBT 101: An introductory look at the community, being the first of its kind in the island, and author of LGBT+ Health: A therapeutic manual to work with the communities.  He works as psychologist and investigator at Centro Ararat and has his private office.   He has been awarded Alumni of the Year 2015 from the Carlos Albizu University, and Psychologist of the Year, 2015 from the Puerto Rico Psychology Association.  He is the developer and coordinator of the 1st LGBT Intervention Certification, education created to sensibilize and educate professionals on LGBT health.
 

Karen Whyte
Karen is the Program Manager of the Tailored MI program at Broward House.  Broward House is a non-for profit organization that serves individuals who have chronic illnesses including HIV.  The organization is located in Ft Lauderdale, FL and has been in existence for over 30 years. Karen started her career as a Ryan White Case Manager with Broward House almost 20 years ago after relocating from New York. She has worked in the social services field for over 25 years and has a BS degree in Community health Education and a MS degree in Occupational Therapy. She enjoys working at Broward House as evident by her number of years with the organization and looks forward to another 20+ years working with clients to achieve better health outcomes.