Advisors

Peter Geithner, Senior Advisor in Management

Linda H. Aiken is an authority on causes, consequences, and solutions for nurse shortages in the United States and around the world. She directs the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, and is The Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing, Professor of Sociology, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She co-directs the National Council on Physician and Nurse Supply which aims to develop viable strategies to address national and global shortages of health professionals. Dr. Aiken is winner of the 2006 Baxter International Foundation's William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, the 2006 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Award from Research!America for Sustained National Leadership in Health Research, and the 2005AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award in Health Services Research. She won the 2003 Individual Earnest A. Codman Award from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) for her leadership utilizing performance measures to demonstrate relationships between nursing care and patient outcomes. Dr. Aiken leads the International Hospital Outcomes Consortium studying the impact of nursing shortages on patient outcomes in 16 countries, including Japan, Thailand, and South Korea. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel guiding the World Alliance for Patient Safety. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and she is a former president of the American Academy of Nursing, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom.

Piya Hanvoravongchai, Southeast Asian Regional Coordinator

Piya Hanvoravongchai is a physician with interests in international health policy and health economics.  His work focuses on the areas of health system development, healthcare financing, health workforce management, and health policy. He currently serves as CMB’s Southeast Asian Regional Coordinator. He also is a lecturer in health policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  He previously was the coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Alliance on Human Resources for Health and a research fellow at International Policy Program of Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health. Dr. Hanvorayongchai also has conducted research on health system performance assessment at the World Health Organization and global health workforce policy development at the Global Equity Initiative of Harvard University.  He received his M.D. from Mahidol University in Thailand, M.Sc. in international health policy

Jean Hogan, Financial Management Advisor

Jean Hogan is a senior management advisor. She served as Vice President for Administration and Assistant Treasurer to the China Medical Board for 38 years, working with five different presidents before retiring in January 2009. Upon joining the China Medical Board in 1968, she was initially employed as a bookkeeper with her primary responsibility as a check writer for the Board's extensive program in fellowships. In 1974 she was appointed Assistant Treasurer and her responsibilities included the maintenance of the financial records. In addition she worked closely with the grants manager in maintaining the grant database. In 1986 the additional title of Vice President of Administration was awarded in recognition of her administrative office duties. Based in New York city, Jean now provides senior advisory services on an ad hoc basis, especially in finance and management.

Shaojun Ma, Honorary Advisor in Tobacco Control

Shaojun Ma joined the China Medical Board in April 2009. Based in Beijing, Dr. Ma is the project director of China Medical Tobacco Initiative and is responsible for project implementation and management. Dr. Ma has served as the Project Supervisor for the "Towards a Smoke-Free China" project, a collaborative initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and involving the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Peking Union Medical College and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. During 1995-2002, Dr. Ma worked for Gansu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, and acted as the deputy director of the Department of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control from 2001-2002. Dr. Ma earned his doctoral degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Peking Union Medical College in 2005, master's degree in Epidemiology at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2001, and bachelor's degree in Public Health at Western China University of Medical Sciences in 1995.

Michael Phillips, CMB-Lancet ChinaHealth21 Initiative

Dr. Phillips is a Canadian citizen who has been a permanent resident of China for more than 20 years. He received a BSc (psychology) from McGill University, an MD from McMaster University and an MA (anthropology) and MPH (epidemiology) from the University of Washington. He completed his psychiatry residency training at the University of Washington followed by a two-year Robert Wood Johnson Research Training Fellowship. He is currently the Executive Director of the Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center and Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention at Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University (USA), Visiting Professor at Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), Vice-Chairperson of the Chinese Society for Injury Prevention and Control, Chairperson of the Expert Committee on Research Methods of the Chinese Society of Psychiatry, Chairperson of the Expert Committee on Crisis Intervention of the Beijing Mental Health Association, advisor on mental health issues in China for the WHO, and the China Representative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. Dr. Phillips is currently PI on a number of multi - center collaborative projects on suicide, depression and schizophrenia. With the assistance of the 60 full-time staff at his Center, Dr. Phillips runs a number of research training courses each year, supervises Chinese and foreign graduate students, helps coordinate WHO mental health activities in China, promotes increased awareness of the importance of addressing China's huge suicide problem and advocates improving the quality, comprehensiveness and access to mental health services around the country.

Anne Phelan, Communications Advisor

Anne Phelan is a communications consultant to nonprofit organizations.  She draws on 20 years of nonprofit experience to research, draft, and refine communication materials appropriate to an organization’s mission and target audience.  She previously worked at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations on communications, program development, and event management.  She has a B.A. in international relations and M.A. in East Asian studies from George Washington University.