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Volume 1, Number 3 — May/June 2009

Programs' Progress

Executive Nurse Fellows Meet in

Washington
Foundation Focus
In April, more than 40 nurses from the Robert
I'm pleased to welcome David Krol, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P., as senior program officer and team
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director of the Human Capital Portfolio. Not only does he bring outstanding clinical and research
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credentials to the post, but he has been a tireless leader in the areas of health advocacy, policy and
of seminars, issue briefings and meetings with
practice. As a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar, he also brings the grantee
members of Congress and their aides. The
perspective to the job.
Fellows' message for Capitol Hill: the debate over

coming health reform legislation must include the David has been a devoted advocate for children's oral health, focusing on the interface between

views and voices of America's nurses, and reform dentistry and primary care pediatrics. He has provided pediatric primary care to the underserved in

must address the looming nursing shortage. Connecticut, Ohio and New York; published in scientific journals on children's oral health and health

Continued >> workforce policy, among other topics; and testified on children's behalf before numerous legislative

bodies.
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As a 2002-2004 recipient of a Soros Advocacy Fellowship for Physicians, David partnered with the

Children's Dental Health Project in Washington, D.C. This endeavor gave prominence to child oral
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health in the pediatric community. It also improved oral-health treatment skills among pediatricians
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and other non-dental health professionals and advocated for increasing the level of oral-health
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education in medical schools. It's no surprise, then, that David was named a Pediatric Leader of the
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He received his Masters of Public Health from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public
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Health, and was a Bush Fellow in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University. His

pediatric training took place at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.

David is also a former professional baseball player with the Minnesota Twins. As a college player, he

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was inducted into the Varsity 'T' Hall of Fame at the University of Toledo. David is a well-rounded
Inside Intelligence person and a multifaceted specialist. We are glad to have him join the Human Capital Team.

Best regards,
Do you have an important interview with the

media coming up? Or want to be prepared when

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a reporter calls? The RWJF media guidebook for
Senior Communications Officer
health and science experts, You: A Valuable

Media Source, is available for download at Research Roundup

http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/ mediatraining.

pdf. It's full of practical tips and tools to make Health & Society Scholars
your next meeting with the media a success—

and it's free. Kate Strully, Ph.D., ('07), published an article in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of

Demography. “Job Loss and Health in the U.S. Labor Market” states that job loss caused through

no fault of one's own, such as an establishment closure, increases one's risk of developing a new
Communication Corner health problem. Even when people find a new job quickly, there is an increased risk of developing a

Using Fear Itself: How to Let new health problem such as hypertension, heart disease, heart attack, stroke or diabetes as a result

Nervousness Work for You of the job loss. Strully's study received media coverage in the New York Times, USA Today,

When it's time to give a talk, many speakers get a Time, CNN, and ABC News, among others.

little nervous. But anxiety can become a real

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problem if it distracts you from the task of

communicating. Here are some tips to help you

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Scholars in Health Policy Research

Alumni

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Three alumni of the Scholars in Health Policy Research program are currently serving on President

Do you have an article that will be published in a Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. Cecilia Rouse, Ph.D., (former NAC member), Theodore A.

journal within the next 30 to 60 days? Would you Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, is on leave while she

like ideas, suggestions, or support to promote this serves on the Council. Michael Greenstone, Ph.D., (Cohort 5 – Berkeley/UCSF) is serving as the

research? Contact humancapital@iqsolutions. Council's Chief Economist; he is 3M Professor of Economics on leave from MIT. Scott J. Adams, Ph.

com or 240-221-4055. D., M.A., (Cohort 7 – Michigan), associate professor of economics on leave from the University of

Wisconsin—Milwaukee, is serving as senior economist for labor, education, and welfare at the
Have you taken a new job? Released a new
Council.
publication? Received an award? Or have some

other piece of news to share with the network?

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Please submit suggestions for the next edition of

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About these Human Capital programs: Annual Meetings and Seminars

● Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development ● Executive Nurse Fellows, Denver, Colo., Oct. 6–10

● Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research ● Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program,

● Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Miami, Oct. 7–9

Generation of Community Health Leaders ● Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research, San

● Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Diego, Calif., Oct. 7–10

Program® ● Health Policy Fellows Alumni, Washington, D.C., Oct. 13

● Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community ● Clinical Scholars, San Diego, Calif., Nov. 3–6

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Health Leaders ● Nurse Faculty Scholars, TBD, Dec. 1–3

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