Marc Altshuler
Marc Altshuler, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Jefferson Medical College. His interests are in working with underserved populations, community health, and refugee health. He is the current Director of the Jefferson Medical College Center for Refugee Health in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.
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Elizabeth D. Barnett
Elizabeth Barnett, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine, and is the Director of the International Clinic’s Section for Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Boston Medical Center.
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Ricardo R. Beato
Ricardo R. Beato, M.S., is a Public Health Advisor in the HIV Prevention Program Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Mothusi Chilume
Mothusi Chilume, M.D., is a family physician at the Whittier Street Health Center in Boston, MA.
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Jennifer Cochran
Jennifer Cochran, M.P.H. is the Director of the Refugee and Immigrant Health Program at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and is the Project Director of the Refugee Health Technical Assistance Center. She served as the 2010-2011 Chair of the Association of Refugee Health Coordinators.
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Sondra S. Crosby
Sondra S. Crosby, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine
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Liz Edghill
Liz Edghill, R.N., B.S.N. is the Refugee Health Educator/Coordinator at Family Health Centers – Americana, a federally qualified community health center in Louisville, KY. Liz served as a health education volunteer with the Peace Corps in Guyana, South America from 1999-2002 and has been working domestically in refugee health and health literacy since 2008.
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Heidi Ellis
Heidi Ellis, Ph.D., is Director of Boston Children’s Hospital Center for Refugee Trauma and Resilience as well as a member of the RHTAC Leadership Team. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with particular expertise in the area of child refugee trauma and intervention development.
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Beth Farmer
Beth Farmer, M.S.W., is the Project Director for the Pathways to Wellness project, a project designed to offer early intervention and support to refugees with depression, anxiety and traumatic stress disorders. She is also the Director of International Counseling and Community Services, a licensed mental health program of Lutheran Community Services Northwest that primarily serves refugees. She has spent over two decades as a social worker, primarily in the fields of women’s health and multicultural issues.
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Paul Geltman
Paul Geltman, M.D., M.P.H., is Assistant Professor at the Harvard Medical School, Medical Director of Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Refugee and Immigrant Health Program, and a RHTAC Leadership Team member. His interests are in behavioral health, nutrition, oral health, and lead poisoning prevention of refugee children and youth.
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Michael Guterbock
Michael Guterbock, M.P.H., is a Public Health Advisor in the Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Health Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  His interests are in immigrant health, health education, tuberculosis, program management, and refugee populations.
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Eric Hardt
Eric Hardt, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine
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Michael Hollifield
Michael Hollifield, M.D., is a research scientist at Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest and evaluation director for Pathways to Wellness, a project partnership that developed and validated the Refugee Health Screener-15 (RHS-15). The RHS-15 is a culturally-responsive, efficient and effective screening instrument that detects anxiety, depression, or PTSD. Dr. Hollifield’s research is about the effects of severe trauma and adverse life events on health, and the development and use of instruments to assess trauma, symptoms and health. He is also a RHTAC Leadership Team member.
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Leslie Hortel
Leslie Hortel, M.A.T. is a health educator at the Refugee Health Clinic in Denver, CO. She has been providing health orientation and education to refugees for three years. She is currently pursuing a Certificate in Global Public Health.
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Jo Hunter Adams
Jo Hunter Adams M.P.H., M.A. coordinated the Somali Oral Study at Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Refugee and Immigrant Health Program from 2009 to 2012. She has worked in refugee health for over ten years and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Health at the University of Cape Town.
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Crista Johnson-Agbakwu
Crista Johnson-Agbakwu, M.D., M.Sc., F.A.C.O.G., is an Obstetrician/ Gynecologist at Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ, where she is Founder and Director of the Refugee Women’s Health Clinic. She is also a Research Assistant Professor of the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center. Her current research addresses health disparities among refugee women across many facets of health including women’s reproductive, preventive, sexual, and mental health.
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Allen Keller
Allen Keller, M.D., is Founder and Director of the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture and a RHTAC Leadership Team member. He has expertise in evaluation and treatment of victims of torture and other human rights abuses. He has conducted research on a variety of health and human rights concerns including the medical and social consequences of landmines, access to health care for prisoners, and medical ethics.
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Sasha Verbillis-Kolp
Sasha Verbillis-Kolp, M.S.W., is trained as a social worker with secondary coursework in International Development and Management and Forced Migration Studies. Sasha has experience in direct service in refugee resettlement, curriculum development, policy and program development, training and group facilitation, international development, and human rights advocacy. Internationally, she researched the needs of women migrant workers in Thailand, and has conducted fieldwork on Buddhism and Cultural Healing in Cambodia. She coordinated the evaluation activities for the Pathways to Wellness project and is currently supporting expansion of the project to Portland, Oregon. She provides technical assistance to sites interested in replicating the model.
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Deborah Lee
Deborah Lee, M.P.H., is an Epidemiologist in the Immigrant, Refugee and Migrant Health Branch, DGMQ/NCEZID, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Marla Lipscomb
Marla Lipscomb, M.S.W. works at Saint Alphonsus CARE (Culturally Appropriate Resources and Education) Maternal and Child Health Program. She provides trauma counseling, support to women during pregnancy and postpartum, and group psychoeducation. In partnership with a diverse group of women who serve as Health Advisors for the CARE Clinic, Marla is working to develop CARE’s Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Prevention, Resources, and Education Program. She also provides community orientations on mental health to all new refugee arrivals at Boise’s English Language Center.
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Georgia Simpson May
Georgia Simpson May, M.S., is the Director of the Office of Health Equity
Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
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Leslie Miller
Leslie Miller M.A. is the Associate Director of Refugee Council USA (RCUSA). In this role, she works to build consensus among NGO member organizations and act as a liaison with other non-governmental organizations, state, and federal partners on refugee resettlement and protection policy issues. Prior to joining RCUSA, Leslie worked with Detention Watch Network to enhance member collaboration on various aspects of detention and deportation. She has previously worked with the National Democratic Institute of International Affairs and Church World Service/Immigration and Refugee Program.
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National Council on Interpreting in Health Care
The National Council on Interpreting in Health Care (NCIHC) is a multidisciplinary organization whose mission is to promote and enhance language access in health care in the United States.
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Barbara Nealon
Barbara Nealon, L.S.W., is the Director of Social Service & Multicultural Services
at Heywood Hospital in Gardner, MA.
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Chioma Nnaji
Chioma Nnaji, M.P.H., M.Ed., is the Program Director of the Multicultural AIDS Coalition in Boston, MA.
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Cindy Roat
Cindy Roat, M.P.H., is a consultant on language access in health care, and is certified by Washington State as a medical and social-service Spanish-English interpreter. In addition to training interpreters and providers and consulting with healthcare administrators, she is the author of a wide array of key resources. Ms. Roat is a founding member of the Washington State Coalition for Language Access (WASCLA) and the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care (NCIHC), where she is a long-time Board member and currently Co-chairs the Standards, Training and Certification Committee.
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Sue Schlotterbeck
Sue Schlotterbeck is the Director of Cultural and Language Services at the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center in Worcester, MA.
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Lauren Schroeder
Lauren Schroeder, M.P.H, is the Well-Being Promotion Program Coordinator at the International Rescue Committee in Tucson, Arizona. Prior to coming to the IRC Tucson Ms. Schroeder worked with CommuniCare Clinics in West Sacramento CA as an HIV/AIDS health educator for at risk youth and adults, and incarcerated youth and adults. Her work at the clinic led her to join the US Peace Corps where she served as a community health volunteer building the capacity of community health workers in rural Zambia for two years
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Kevin Scott
Kevin Scott, M.D., is a Clinical Instructor and Primary Care Research Fellow in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. His areas of research and publication include access to care for vulnerable populations, emergency department utilization, and refugee health.
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William Stauffer
William Stauffer, M.D., M.S.P.H. is an associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Minnesota Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases. He is clinical faculty in Infectious Diseases HealthPartners/Regions Hospital where he works in the Center for International Health an International Travel Clinic providing travel medicine and refugee health. He is also a technical advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Division of Global Health and Migration

Samantha Stewart
Samantha Stewart, M.D., is a Child Psychiatrist at UCLA Department of Psychiatry, affiliated with Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, and a member of the RHTAC Leadership Team. She has extensive experience both overseas and in the U.S. with treatment and psychiatric care for torture survivors.
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