Biographies

Kathleen Baldwin, MSW, CSE, CLC

Kathleen Baldwin, MSW, CSE, CLC is the owner of Tell Kathleen Anything LLC, a coaching, training and consulting business. Kathleen is a certified sexuality educator and a certified life coach. She has over 20 years experience providing sexuality education to students of all ages, and training others to promote sexual health and literacy. She teaches Human Sexuality, at Indiana University in Indianapolis, and has written several web-based sexuality-focused teaching and training curricula targeting diverse audiences. She co-founded the Great Lakes Institute for Community Health Education and the SAR Workshop at Waycross. She received her MSW and BSW degrees from Indiana University.

Christopher H. Bates, MPA

Christopher H. Bates was appointed Director for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of HIV/AIDS Policy. He is a Senior Health Program Analyst, who also served as the National Director for a departmental initiative known as the Rapid Assessment Response and Evaluation (RARE). Before joining the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, Mr. Bates worked as a consultant with the John Snow, Inc., conducting a feasibility study on the integration of STD, HIV, and drug abuse services for a proposed national demonstration project. From 1997 through 1998 he served as interim Director of the City of Philadelphia HIV Commission.

From 1991 through 1997, Mr. Bates was the Executive Director of the D.C. Comprehensive AIDS Resources and CARE Consortium. The Consortium is an alliance of local organizations and institutions that provide HIV/AIDS services and education in the District of Columbia. Before 1991, Mr. Bates enjoyed a successful 11-year career as a program director and in various management positions with the District of Columbia government.

Over the past 20 years, Mr. Bates has served on numerous national and local boards and commissions. Mr. Bates is a founding member of the DC Primary Care Association. He also served as a member of the Board of the Washington Consortium of Agencies, a six-year member of the Executive Committee of the Metropolitan Washington Ryan White Title Planning Council, a member of the Mayor's Health Policy Advisory Committee and past chair of the Mayor's AIDS Advisory Committee. He is an acknowledged national advocate for AIDS, as well as a provocative civic, gay/lesbian activist in the District of Columbia. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds an MPA from Southeastern University in Washington, D.C

Danielle Castro

Danielle Castro is the Community Mobilization Specialist at the CoE. The project she is currently working on is CATCH (Coalitions in Action for Transgender Community Health). The CATCH Model guides a community mobilization process that promotes provider networking and community utilization of existing services. The coalitions lead data collection and analysis efforts, prioritize prevention needs, develop a comprehensive plan to strengthen community access to and utilization of health care and HIV prevention services, and decide how to evaluate these efforts.

Danielle is a Latina trans-identified woman born in San Jose, CA, and is pursuing a master's degree in psychology. Danielle is the past HIV Education and Prevention Supervisor for the San Mateo County Public Health Department's STD/HIV Program. Mrs. Castro is a heartfelt and passionate community leader who seeks to create positive change wherever she is. Her efforts include but are not limited to: Co-founder of a transgender youth group at the Billy DeFrank Community Center in San Jose, past Human Relations Commissioner of the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors, past Santa Clara County HIV Planning Council for Prevention and Care Executive Committee member, present Board of Supervisor for ProLatino de San Jose member, past Co-Chair of the San Mateo County PRIDE Initiative, San Jose Transgender Day of Remembrance Co-Producer and steering committee member, transgender service provider cultural sensitivity training educator, HIV test counselor, and Center of Excellence for Transgender Health past Vice-Chair.

Tom Donohoe, MBA

Tom Donohoe, MBA is director and principal investigator for the UCLA/Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC) and is an associate professor of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is also associate director of the UCLA Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. He has worked with the UCLA PAETC since 1990 and has served as volunteer bilingual faculty and helped organize over 20 HIV/AIDS training programs in more than 15 states in the Republic of Mexico. In 2002 he helped organize UMBAST, the US/Mexico Border AETC Steering Team with the Texas/Oklahoma and Mountain Plains AETCs, and the National Resource Center (NRC).

UMBAST currently coordinates US/Mexico border HIV training efforts and includes the website www.aetcborderhealth.org. Tom has been honored for his volunteer work by more than a dozen Mexican cities, states and non-governmental agencies and received special recognition from Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for his commitment and dedication to the field of HIV mental health and substance abuse and his work with the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Mental Health Task Force in Los Angeles. In August, 2006 he received the Ryan White Care Act AETC leadership award in Washington DC.

John Fitch

Prior to becoming the Clinical Coordinator for the Denver STD/HIV Prevention Training Center in 2000, John Fitch was the Director of HIV/AIDS Education at the Denver Public Health Department. Possessing an interest in integrating technology into health, John has been involved in a number of innovative projects over the years including internet-based behavioral intervention, online needs assessment and web-based long-term evaluation of laboratory knowledge and skills. John has a five-year old daughter who wants to be a princess and a two-year old son who wants to be a train.

Thomas E. Freese

Thomas E. Freese (Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, 1995) is currently the Director of Training for UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP) and the Principal Investigator and Director of the Pacific Southwest Addictions Technology Transfer Center (PSATTC). Dr. Freese has also served as Principal Investigators on projects funded by the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to train providers to implement Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT). Dr. Freese has also led several large projects assist providers in implementing integrated treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. He has been a featured presenter at conferences and meetings nationally and internationally on the impact and treatment of methamphetamine and opioid dependence. Dr. Freese has also served as the Project Director on a number of studies including research on methamphetamine use.. He has worked in the addiction field since 1983, and has developed and conducted trainings in 45 states and internationally, providing training and workshops for clinicians-in-training at the all levels.

Durrell J. Fox, BS

Durrell is employed by the New England HIV Education Consortium (NEHEC) at the New England AIDS Education and Training Center (NEAETC), a UMASS Medical School, Commonwealth Medicine, CHPR Program, and the Boston HAPPENS (HIV Adolescent Provider and Peer Education Network for Services) Program at Children's Hospital.

For 20 years he has worked as a Community Health Worker (CHW) at Children's Hospital Boston, with adolescents/young adults living with or at risk for HIV. The early 90's were spent mainly at a community health center affiliated with Children's Hospital called Martha Eliot. The rest of the years have been with the Boston HAPPENS program as Outreach and services coordinator and now as community Liaison. He has provided direct care, counseling-testing and support group facilitation. In his CHW role, Durrell continues to provide outreach to, advocacy and case management support for HIV+ and at risk adolescents. He also worked for 10 years as a street outreach worker/CHW for the Boston Street Youth Outreach Program and drop in center, a project of JRI Health and Children's Hospital. During the 10 years he spent the majority of his time providing evening and nighttime street outreach in downtown Boston, at a downtown Boston youth drop-in center and in surrounding communities/housing developments.

He is one of the founding/ leadership members of the Massachusetts Association of CHWs, the CHW Special Primary Interest Group of the American Public Health Association and the American Association of CHWs. He is a CHW who has been active in the CHW movement on many levels over the last 20 years through his involvement in organizations like the American Association of CHWs (AACHW), American Public Health Association (APHA), Center For Sustainable Health Outreach (CSHO), Lay Health Workers/Promotores National Network, Community Health Worker National Educational Collaborative (CHW NEC), the CHW Initiative of Boston and the Massachusetts Association of CHWs (MACHW). He also has participated in statewide and national meetings focused on CHW workforce development, research, financing and sustainability. During the past 20 years he has done over 100 presentations at conferences/workshops across the US and also in Canada and South Africa.

Sharon Goolsby

Sharon Goolsby, RN has over 28 years of public health experience, specializing in non-traditional settings, with extensive experience working with racial, ethnic and tribal populations. She holds several related training certifications including Master Trainer with the American Red Cross. She is well versed in HIV/AIDS, cultural competency, Effective Black Parenting, and chronic disease states impacting racial, ethnic and tribal populations. Her knowledge and expertise is rooted in the social determinants of health and from a holistic perspective, mind, body, spirit and environment. As the first African American School Nurse for the Lawrence Unified School District from 1988-1995, she established cultural support groups for students who were underrepresented in the modeling of teachers and administrators who reflected them, namely persons from racial and ethnic communities. She was also an active member of the district Diversity Council and the Lawrence Association of Black School Educators during its existence.

She has been involved in the area of health disparities since the initial Populations of Color Health Committee was established in the early 1990's and has been a member of the Kansas Minority Health Advisory Network since it's inception in 2000, whose primary focus was working toward establishing an Office of Minority Health. It is her belief that all persons are entitled to access and quality of healthcare regardless of their race, ethnicity, age and social standing and she will continue to advocate for the underserved and disenfranchised. She previously held the position of Director with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment Center for Health Disparities from September 2005 to September 2009. She is a graduate of the 1993 class of Leadership Lawrence and the Lawrence Police Citizen's Academy. She has received awards from the National and State Red Cross and the KS African American Advisory Commission for Outstanding Leadership. She is a September 2007 Cycle IV Fellow of the KS Public Health Leadership Institute.

As an Ambassador for the American Heart Association Power to End Stroke Campaign, she was recently awarded the 2009 Kansas Ambassador of the Year. She currently holds membership on several statewide committees representing multicultural, underserved populations including but not limited to Sexual and Domestic Violence, Breast Cancer Awareness, Latino Health Initiatives, Patient Advocacy, Faith Based Health Initiatives and the Minority AIDS Coalition. As a native daughter of Lawrence, KS, and a product of the Lawrence public school system, she is the mother of two adult children and three grandchildren. She is an active member of the First Regular Missionary Baptist Church in Lawrence where she conducts health related ministry prevention and outreach programming.

Beth-Anne Jacob, PhD, LCSW

Beth-Anne Jacob, PhD, LCSW, serves as the Evaluation Director for the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC). Dr. Jacob joined MATEC in 2008. She has 15 years of experience as both a program evaluator specializing in HIV/AIDS and substance use and as a clinical social worker at the University of Illinois at Chicago Family Center for Infectious Disease. Dr. Jacob received her MSW from Howard University and her PhD in Social Service Administration from The University of Chicago. Her current areas of evaluation interest include: methodological development and mixed method evaluation approaches.

Kevin Khamarko, MA

Kevin Khamarko, MA, currently serves as the Assistant Director of the AETC National Evaluation Center (AETC NEC), which is housed at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). The AETC NEC provides leadership in the development, design, testing and dissemination of effective evaluation models for assessing the effectiveness of AETC clinical education and training programs. Mr. Khamarko is the former Director of Research and Evaluation for the AETC National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center (NCCC), which includes the National HIV Telephone Consultation Service (Warmline), the National Clinicians' Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Hotline (PEPline), and the National Perinatal HIV Consultation and Referral Service (Perinatal Hotline).

Prior to his work at UCSF, Mr. Khamarko worked as a researcher at the Community Evaluation and Research Center and in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. In those positions, he helped design and implement evaluations of health prevention and intervention programs, community initiatives, and child development programs. He has also served as an evaluation consultant to community-based organizations and a prevention specialist for the Lansing Area AIDS Network.

James R. Knorp, MSW, CAP

Jim Knorp has been a professional in the addictions field for over 30 years and is living in Tallahassee, Florida. He is currently a Project Manager for the Southern Coast ATTC and assists in providing trainings and technical assistance projects within the states of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. He began his career in substance abuse/dependence in 1978 as a counselor trainee at a state funded in-patient treatment program. He has served as a Board Member of the International Credentialing Reciprocity Consortium from 1984 to 1993 and was a board member of the Michigan Certification Board of Addictions Specialists (MCBAS). He is privileged to sit on the board of the Florida School of Addictions Studies and is on the faculty.

Jim is a Certified Addictions Counselor, Certified Addictions Professional and a Certified Relapse Prevention Specialist. He holds a Master of Social Work degree issued from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1997. He has delivered 20 or more rounds of training in the Clinical Supervision curriculum developed by the Northwest Frontier, ATTC. He has also worked with criminal offenders at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. This is the most restrictive mental health setting within the state of Michigan. . Jim has contributed to the development of "TAP 21-A" and is currently working with a National committee to develop a curriculum to train this publication.

Ann Loeffler, MSPH

With over 15 years of public health experience, Ms. Loeffler has worked in federally qualified community health centers, academic medical centers, public health offices, and family planning clinics. As the project director for the Region VIII Family Planning Training Center, she assists with evaluation of clinic efficiency, data analysis, and overall coordination of training efforts regarding reproductive health issues, including needs assessments, and quality improvement.

In her work with JSI, she has assisted numerous organizations with needs assessments, market and data analysis, strategic planning, focus groups, as well other primary and secondary data collection activities. She has worked on projects addressing community-wide safety net systems and development. Ann has a B.S. in Biomedical Policy from Kenyon College and an MSPH from the University of Colorado and currently resides in Boulder, Colorado.

Shelley Miller

Shelley Miller, is Deputy Director of Training and Performance Improvement for TRAINING 3, at the Family Planning Council, in Philadelphia, PA. In her capacity as Deputy Director, Ms. Miller is the Project Director of several regional and local training initiatives. She is also responsible for developing curriculum, training and technical assistance on various family planning topics including: HIV Service integration, Patient Flow Analysis, Cultural Competence, Basic Client-centered Counseling, Clinic Management, Family Involvement, and Options Counseling. Ms. Miller has worked in women's health and HIV/AIDS services for over 30 years, including her role as Director of Patient Services for a large Title X provider agency, and has provided consultation and training both nationally and internationally. Ms. Miller holds a Master's Degree in Science in Counseling and Human Services from Villanova University.

Beth Mullin Rotach, MA

Beth is the Director of the Mountain Plains AETC at the University of Colorado Denver. Beth has a background in public and community health education, and instructional design; including information design and instructional technology. Beth has a Master's degree in Information and Learning Technology.

Ellen Murray, RN, BSN

Ellen has been a nurse for more than 20 years, working primarily in correctional settings with leadership roles in nursing administration, infection control, education and quality improvement. She is currently developing SNTC's training agenda for corrections, including contact investigations and discharge planning and is in the process of working on a PhD in Public Health with a focus on Community Health Education and Corrections. She also serves as a nurse consultant for our medical consultation activities. Prior to joining the SNTC team, Ellen worked as a nurse consultant for the Florida Department of Health, Bureau of TB and Refugee Health, where she coordinated education, training, and communication activities between public health and correctional settings. Currently, Ms. Murray is working on her PhD in Public Health with a focus on Community Health Education and Corrections.

Ed Nuhfer, PhD

Dr. Ed Nuhfer is California State University at Channel Islands' Director of the Center for Faculty Development and the director of Boot Camp for Profs®. Ed is a geologist by training (PhD, University of New Mexico), holds several national awards in geology from the American Institute of Professional Geologists, and in faculty development from the Professional and Organizational Developmental Network (POD). He developed interest in science education as a Shell Merit Fellow at Stanford University in the summer of 1970, and embraced faculty development as a major career interest in 1988 while on sabbatical in Colorado. He describes himself as "a perpetual student and incurable teacher made slightly dangerous by fractals on the brain."

After his sabbatical, he founded and directed the Teaching Excellence Center at UW - Platteville where he created Student Management Teams as a faculty development tool. In 1992, Ed joined CU-Denver as their first Director of Teaching Effectiveness. There he founded Boot Camp for Profs in 1993 with other faculty, invented knowledge surveys, and produced the one-page newsletter, "Nutshell Notes." Ed spent another five years at Idaho State University as Director of their Center for Teaching and Learning before having the good fortune of being recruited to "the land of eternal spring" in Camarillo, CA, which may not quite be heaven, but it's perhaps as close as it gets for his interests.

Ed is a regular columnist for "National Teaching and Learning Forum" and serves on several editorial and review boards. His favorite work week is the Boot Camp for Profs® week spent with guidance of caring professors, mentors, and colleagues in the high mountains of Colorado. Off-work, Ed can be found days on a hiking trail, a bicycle, or with friends on their vintage motorcycles along the Pacific Coast Highway.

Phil Orrick

Phil Orrick has been in the professional fields of Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Health Promotion for thirty years. He has been a counselor, educator, and trainer focusing on counselor training, client advocacy, and conference management. He is currently at the University of Texas/Austin and Director of the Gulf Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Center. In that capacity, he designs, plans, and implements professional development curriculum and programs in three states, Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. The most recent product in development is a trainer's guide for the TIP 34, Brief Interventions and Brief Therapies.

Diana Travieso Palow, MPH, MS, RN

Diana Travieso Palow, MPH, MS, RN is Chief of the HIV Education Branch in the Division of Training and Technical Assistance of the HIV/AIDS Bureau of Health Resources Services Administration. Ms. Travieso Palow has worked in the field of HIV/AIDS for many years as a provider of direct clinical care, administrator for multiple programs providing HIV services, educator, and project officer for Ryan White Programs.

Karen Simpson, MSHSE

With more than 20 years of health education and public health experience, Karen directs the Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center's educational and training activities and is responsible for the development and coordination of all initiatives related to training and education. She previously served as Director of the Florida/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center at the University of Florida. Karen has degrees from the University of Florida in Health Science Education and strong skills in outcomes-based training and program impact evaluation, longitudinal evaluation and needs assessment.

Stephanie Spencer

Stephanie Spencer has worked for the California Department of Public Health Tuberculosis Control Branch for six and a half years. Currently she is the Program Liaison to TB Control Programs in eleven local health departments, providing technical assistance and consultation on program evaluation and improvement.

Stephanie holds BA and MA degrees in anthropology and also completed doctoral studies in socio-cultural anthropology. As part of her doctoral work, she conducted two years of ethnographic research in rural Java, Indonesia. She has also lived in Peru, the Middle East, North Africa, and France, and is functionally proficient in Indonesian, French, and Spanish.

In previous employment, Stephanie conducted site visits of social welfare and community development projects in Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. She has also worked in philanthropy, taught anthropology and sociology at the college level, and done community organizing around multicultural education.

Ryan Springer, MPH

Mr. Ryan Springer is the Director of Training for The Danya Institute/Central East ATTC. In consultation with Central East ATTC's five regional Single State Agencies, he develops, coordinates and schedules addiction treatment related training. He selects speakers, establishes an annual training schedule for the CEATTC, and coordinates CEATTC activities with local universities. Previously, he served as a Capital City Fellow with the District of Columbia's Addiction Prevention & Recovery Administration (APRA)- Center for Performance Improvement and Standards.

He coordinated and managed several of APRA's training initiatives. He coordinated the Certified Addiction Counselor (CAC) training program, several Provider Forums, and a Provider Training Institute. Mr. Springer also rotated as the team leader on the APRA Performance Oversight team. This team conducted site visits to review program records and operations, and provided technical assistance where necessary. Mr. Springer holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology, and a Master of Public Health from Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD.

Dianne Weyer, FNP-BC

Dianne Weyer has been a HIV clinician since March of 1986 with the majority of this time working with the underserved populations and in particular in rural settings. Still sees patients one day a week in a north Georgia rural Ryan White Part C clinic as a Family Nurse Practitioner.

Since 1988 Ms. Weyer has served as a clinical trainer and consultant for the AIDS Education and Training Center for the Southeast which is another arm of the Ryan White Program. This AETC serves six southern, rural and high HIV prevalence populations. The last eight and a half years has been as a fulltime trainer and the Clinical Director for the AETC. She now serves as a consultant for numerous agencies as a HIV clinician trainer and educator in the field of HIV.

Wendy Woods

Wendy Woods has been with the Mountain West ATTC for the past seven years and is currently the Project Manager. The Mountain West ATTC serves Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming sponsoring training, academic programs and technical assistance in substance abuse treatment. She is also the Co-Principal investigator on the NIDA-funded NIDA Enters College Project, a three hour curriculum infusion on the neuroscience of addiction for students in criminal justice, nursing and social work courses. Woods also developed academic courses in the Minor Program for Addiction Treatment Services for online delivery at the University of Nevada, Reno and currently teaches in the program.

Jan Wrolstad

Jan Wrolstad, MDiv, is Associate Director of the Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center (Mid-America ATTC) located at University of Missouri-Kansas City. Mid-America ATTC is one of 14 federally funded regional centers located throughout the United States dedicated to identifying and advancing opportunities for improving treatment of substance use disorders. Wrolstad provides oversight to special events and projects, assists in grant writing and is one of the organization's trainers. She has worked in the field of substance abuse education for over 14 years and has presented at a number of state and regional conferences. Wrolstad has a master's degree in Divinity, and serves as a lay leader in her faith community and board member of the Homeless Services Coalition of Greater Kansas City. One of her passions is working to increase the rights of marginalized minority groups.