Anthes serves as the William C. and Elizabeth M. Treuhaft Chair in Health Planning and leads Community Solutions’ Center for Medicaid Policy. He has significant public and private sector experience and has worked extensively with both legislative and executive branches of local, state and federal governments.

Casapulla has 30 years of experience in a variety of educational settings and capacities including teaching, professional development, curriculum development, educational research and program evaluation. Currently, Casapulla is the director of the Rural and Urban Scholars Pathways (RUSP) program in the Office of Rural and Underserved Programs at the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine at Ohio University. Her research and service include work in and with rural and urban communities locally in southeastern Ohio and internationally.

Cronin has expertise in health care delivery and health care policy, with his research largely focusing on using quantitative data and administrative records to explore population health issues. He has particular interest in how health care organizations, policy, and environment promote or detract from health and health care access.

Dr. Melinda Ford is an experienced primary care physician and medical educator who has firsthand clinical knowledge of the challenges of treating drug-dependent patients. In addition to her assistant professorship at the Heritage College, she works for OhioHealth Physician Group Heritage College as a family medicine and addiction physician.

“People are sometimes surprised to learn that a political scientist is on faculty at a medical school,” Skinner said. “But politics is at the heart of the policy process, and shapes everything from how professional relationships are formed to changes in our health care system. We need to be politically astute to make good policy, and we need physicians to be involved in these decisions.”

Jeff Russell is not your everyday athletic trainer. Rather than working with athletes who compete in sports, Dr. Russell works with another type of athlete — performing artists. In late 2001, a dancer came to him asking for help with an injury. After he cared for her, word spread that he would help address injuries related to all performers at the university where he was working at the time.

Dr. Brian Clark is an internationally prominent scientist whose research examines the effects of exercise, drugs and nonsurgical medical interventions on the human body. The overarching goal of his work is finding ways to remedy the weakness and restriction of movement that come with aging and physical disability – an issue of obvious relevance to health care costs and quality of life given America’s aging demographic.

Dr. McCall focuses her research on the role of innate immunity and toll-like receptor (TLR) — the proteins that activate immune responses in cells — signaling in the development of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and cancer. The autoimmune and inflammatory diseases that McCall’s research currently focuses on include: Type I and Type II Diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), vascular complications of Type I and II Diabetes and cancers associated with chronic inflammation and obesity.

Dr. Alexander Sergeev undertakes an epidemiologic approach to investigating various aspects of cardiovascular disease - the risk factors involved and different treatment options available for patients living with the disease.

Dr. Erin Murphy's research focuses on understanding the regulatory mechanisms governing the expression of genes encoding bacterial virulence determinants. In other words, Murphy's research centralizes around bacterial pathways - investigating how bacteria regulate the expression of specific genes in response to environmental conditions encountered within the human host.