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C-CORE leadership team

C-CORE is a partnership involving four cornerstones of children's health and education in Boston:

Leadership team members

Deborah Allen, C-CORE Community Research Associate, Director of Bureau of Child, Adolescent & Family Health, BPHC
Laura Bogart, C-CORE Associate Director and Research Team Co-Leader, Research Director, Division of General Pediatrics, BCH & Associate Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
April Allen, C-CORE Center Manager, Division of General Pediatrics, BCH
Jill Carter, C-Core Education Team Co-Leader, Executive Director of Health & Wellness, BPS
Paula McNichols, C-CORE Dissemination Team Co-Leader, Board Member, MLCHC & Executive Director, Brookside Community Health Center
Shari Nethersole, C-CORE Education Team Co-Leader and Co-Community Liaison, Medical Director for Community Health, BCH & Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
John Riordan, C-CORE Co-Community Liaison, Director of Community Partnerships, BCH
Snehal Shah, C-CORE Research Team Co-Leader, Director of Research and Evaluation, BPCH

Research team

Laura Bogart, C-CORE Research Team Co-Leader
Snehal Shah, C-CORE Research Team Co-Leader

Education team

Jill Carter, C-CORE Education Team Co-Leader
Shari Nethersole, C-CORE Education Team Co-Leader

Dissemination team

Paula McNichols, C-CORE Dissemination Team Leader

C-CORE administration

Diana Santiago, C-CORE Project Manager, Bureau of Child, Adolescent and Family Health, BPHC
Dorothy McLeod, C-CORE Research Assistant, Division of General Pediatrics, BCH

Advisory Boards

C-CORE activities are guided by a Community-Academic Advisory Board (CAAB) of diverse representatives from Boston community organizations/agencies and local academic experts.

The CAAB:

helps to identify community health research priorities and needs
facilitates and maintains relationships between C-CORE staff and community partners
develops, implements, and interprets results of research projects
develops plans for dissemination of successful research;
educates researchers on community issues
integrates research findings into community programs
provides ongoing feedback to staff on C-CORE activities

The Mayor’s Youth Council (MYC), which is composed of high school students representing every Boston neighborhood, advises C-CORE on youth health priorities. In addition, C-CORE works with other youth advisory boards throughout the City of Boston.

Community-Academic Advisory Board (CAAB) members

Bette Bohlke-O'Gara, Executive Director, KeySteps Boston, Inc.
Shari Davis, Director, Mayor's Youth Council (MYC)
Sarah de Ferranti, Director, Preventive Cardiology Clinic, BCH & Assistant Professor, HMS
Charles Deutsch, Deputy Director, Community Health Innovations & Research Program, Harvard Catalyst
Luba Feigenberg, Associate Director of Research & Evaluation, Boston Children’s Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships (BCHNP) & Instructor in Psychiatry, HMS
Jon Finkelstein, Vice Chair for Quality and Outcomes, Department of Medicine, BCH & Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Population Medicine, HMS
Elmer Freeman, Executive Director, Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc.
Donna Friedman, Director, Center for Social Policy, UMass Boston McCormack Graduate School
Steve Gortmaker, Professor & Director of Prevention Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Daphne Griffin, Chief of Human Services, City of Boston
Rev. Gregory Groover Sr., Vice President, Board of the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston
Karen Hacker, Director, CBPR Consulting Program, Harvard Catalyst & Executive Director, Institute for Community Health
Esther Lopez, Executive Director, Martha Eliot Health Center
Carolyn Leung-Rubin, Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Claudio Martinez, Executive Director, Hyde Square Task Force
Jorge Martinez Sr., Executive Director, Project Right
Margaret Noce, Executive Director, Jamaica Plain Coalition: Tree of Life/Arbol de Vida
Voula Osganian, Director, Clinical Research Program, BCH & Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
Judith Palfrey, Senior Associate in Medicine, BCH & Professor, HMS & HSPH
Deborah Jean Parsons, Director of Policy, Parent/Professional Advocacy League
Wanda Phipatanakul, Associate Physician in Allergy and Immunology, BCH & Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
Joan Reede, Dean of Diversity and Community Partnership, HMS
Sharon Scott-Chandler, Vice President, Action for Boston Community Development
Nandini Sengupta, Clinical Director of Pediatrics, The Dimock Center
Michael Silverstein, Associate Professor, Boston University
Georgia Simpson May, Director, Office of Health Equity, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Lauren Smith, Medical Director, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Neil Sullivan, Executive Director, Boston Private Industry Council
Roland Tang, Pediatrician, South Cove Community Health Center & Pediatric Physicians' Organization at Children's (PPOC)
Sara Toomey, Instructor in Pediatrics, BCH & HMS
Jane Tewksbury, Executive Director, Thrive in 5
Karen Van Unen, Chief Operating Officer, Dotwell
John Verre, Assistant Superintendent of Special Education, BPS
Ralph Vetters, Medical Director, Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center
Bill Walczak, President, Caritas Carney Hospital
Elizabeth Woods, Associate Chief of Adolescent Medicine, CHB & Associate Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
Abdirahman Yusuf, Executive Director, Somali Development Corporation

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