Many Hands DC is proudly hosting a Spring Educational Forum on April 26 at Georgetown University. All are welcome. Please email manyhandsdc@gmail.com if you would like to attend or receive additional details.

Wednesday, April 26 at 7 p.m.

Georgetown University
Healey Family Student Center: Idol Family Social Room

Speaking on the topic of health challenges for DC area women and children are:

Moderator: Tricia Neuman, Sc.D.
Senior Vice President, Kaiser Family Foundation

Dora Hughes, MD, MPH
Senior Health Policy Advisor, Sidley, LLP

Stephen J. Teach, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s National Health System

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Dora Hughes, MD, MPH a senior health policy advisor in Sidley Austin’s Government Strategies practice, provides strategic advice to clients across a wide range of issues relating to health coverage, health care quality, innovation, payment policy and reimbursement, and population health. Dora joined Sidley after serving nearly four years as counselor to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to this role, she staffed the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy as deputy director for the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions and former Senator Barack Obama as health policy advisor. Also, Dora has served as a senior program officer at the Commonwealth Fund.

Dora earned her MD from Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine and her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed an internal medicine residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital.

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Tricia Neuman, Sc.D. is a Senior Vice President at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-partisan, health care organization that focuses on health care issues. Before joining the Kaiser, Dr. Neuman served for six years on the staff of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health and for three years at the Senate Special Committee on Aging. Dr. Neuman received her doctorate in health policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

 

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Stephen J. Teach, MD, MPH is the Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences; and Director and Principal Investigator of IMPACT DC (Improving Pediatric Asthma Care in the District of Columbia), a care, research, and advocacy program focused on under-resourced and largely minority children with asthma. Dr. Teach also serves as the Washington, DC, site Principal Investigator for the NIH/NIAID-funded Inner City Asthma Consortium.

Dr. Teach’s primary academic focus is on the disparities evident in the care of inner-city children with asthma, including their over-reliance on urban emergency departments for episodic asthma care.In addition to his work with IMPACT DC (Improving Pediatric Asthma Care in the District of Columbia), Dr. Teach serves as the Washington, DC site Principal Investigator for the NIAID funded Inner City Asthma Consortium.