Dr. Mark Koday graduated from Indiana University School of Dentistry in 1978 and served as a Commissioned Officer with the USPHS at the Fort Belknap and Blackfeet Indian Reservations in Montana. In 1986, he completed an Advanced Clinical Dental Residency at the Naval Dental School in Bethesda, MD. From 1986 to the present, he has served as the dental director of the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic (YVFWC), a large community health center serving communities across eastern Washington and Oregon.

 

Dr. Koday was a founding member of both the Washington State Oral Health Coalition and the Yakima County Oral Health Coalition. In the early 1990’s, he partnered with the U. of Washington School of Dentistry in preventative research projects that led to the first published fluoride varnish research in the United States. From 2001 to the present, Dr. Koday has been a Commission member of the Washington State Dental Quality Assurance Commission. In 2004, he worked with the U. of WA on a project that expanded its Pediatric Dental Residency bringing the program east of the Cascades Mountains for the first time. The YVFWC is now the home of the school’s newest dental pediatric residency site with three pediatric dentists and five residents. In 2005, he developed and is now the Director of the Northwest Dental Residency. This is an AEGD residency with eight residents in clinics across eastern Washington and is designed to encourage graduating dentists into practicing in underserved areas of our country.

 

In 1998, Dr. Koday developed the YVFWC’s dental mobile van program. That project provides preventative, restorative and emergency services for difficult to access patients and communities in rural parts of the state.

 

 

Susan Kraenzle has been involved in Women’s and Children’s healthcare since she began her career in Nursing in 1974. She currently manages the Joanne Knight Breast Health Center at the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis, MO. A key component of her role in the Breast Health Center is the management of Siteman’s Mobile Mammography Unit, the oldest such program west of the Mississippi. Under Ms. Kraenzle’s direction, the Outreach Program at Siteman has expanded to become the largest in the State of Missouri. The mobile unit is vital to the success of this very important effort to reach underserved women.

 

In 2006, Ms. Kraenzle led the effort to replace an aging van, equipped with analog technology and a processor, to a state-of-the art mammography unit complete with full-field digital equipment and wireless connectivity to the hospital. She was intimately involved with every facet of the project, from philanthropic fund raising to equipment procurement and implementation. Ms. Kraenzle considers this project one of the highest accomplishments of her career.

 

 

Capi Landreneau began her service with March of Dimes in 2004 as the Director of Program Services for the Louisiana Chapter where her duties were to develop, market, implement, and evaluate programs in the area of public and professional education, grants, community services and public affairs. In 2005, she served as the point person for March of Dimes hurricane response in Louisiana. She currently holds the position of Director of Mobile Health Care for March of Dimes Foundation. Her duties include developing and managing partnerships and operations in the deployment of four mobile health centers on the Gulf Coast as part of March of Dimes commitment to those displaced from their homes and communities.

 

Capi earned her Masters in Social Work from Louisiana State University and has clinical experience serving dually diagnosed and adolescent clients in individual and group settings. For the past six years she has served in administrative roles providing guidance and programmatic direction.

 

Capi remains active in the clinical community and serves on the Executive Board of the Louisiana Group Psychotherapy Society. Her professional interests include group psychotherapy and the application of core principles to address organizational group dynamics.

 

 

Dr. Levy currently serves as Medical Director of the Community Pediatrics Program, the KIDS Mobile Medical Clinic and the HOYA clinic at Georgetown University Hospital where he has held this position since 2000. He is also an associate professor of clinical pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine. From 1999-2001, he was the Fellow in Community Pediatrics and Child Advocacy at Georgetown. He is also a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Levy has served on the board of the DC AAP chapter since 2003 as nomination committee member, chair of the nomination committee, School Health Committee Representative and currently as treasurer.

 

In 2006, Dr. Levy was given a special achievement award for Distinguished Service by the DC Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has also served on the Board of DC Primary Care Association from 2000-2007. He continues to work on system-based electronic health record changes for pediatric care with the DC Partnership to Improve Children’s Health Care Quality.

 

 

 

Dr. Anthony Vavasis completed his undergraduate and medical school training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He completed his residency training in Family Medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY in 1994. While in residency, Anthony focused on learning to work in underserved urban communities. During the time of his residency training, the HIV epidemic was at its peak in the Bronx. As a result, he developed skills in providing primary care both to indigent families and to patients infected with HIV.

 

During his third year of residency, Anthony worked with the Health Outreach to Teens (HOTT) Program as his assigned adolescent medicine rotation. HOTT is a grant-funded program that provides free or low-cost healthcare to high-risk adolescents and young adults. Their program operates out of a community health center and has a mobile medical van on which it provides medical care to homeless and other high-risk youth. Having decided that his passion is working with young people, Anthony’s work with HOTT continues and he is now the Program Clinical Director.

 

Anthony’s primary interest in healthcare is in integrating the principles of harm reduction theory into the practice of medicine. He has spoken on this topic extensively and has participated in numerous panels related to HIV testing and prevention for young people.

 

Anthony is a passionate and dedicated advocate of mobile healthcare as a viable means for increasing access to care for des-enfranchised populations. As a result of his working with the HOTT mobile medical van, Anthony became interested in working to support mobile healthcare more broadly and in 2005 he joined with other mobile health providers in establishing the Mobile Health Clinics Network (MHCN) and currently serves as Chair of the national Advisory Board. Partnering with Dr. Nancy Oriol of The Family Van at Harvard Medical School, Anthony is developing an online tool that identifies mobile health programs nationally, strives to measure outcomes, and creates universal benchmarks of operation and efficacy. Collaborations for this initiative include MHCN, Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities/Care Mobile Program.

 

 

Rebecca Wiseman joined the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Governor’s Wellmobile Program in 2002. Rebecca earned a BSN from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; a MSN from the University of Pennsylvania; and, a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

 

Dr. Wiseman received the John M. Dennis Award for Community Service from the Western Maryland Area Health Education Center in June 2006. In October 2006, she received the University of Maryland Baltimore Founder’s Day Award for Public Service.

 

In September, 2005, Dr. Wiseman was deployed with a team of 10 healthcare personnel with 2 mobile units to Mississippi to provide primary care services in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The entire team received the Governor’s Citations in October 2005 for their service on behalf of the state of Maryland.