CHAI Affiliate Faculty
- CHAI Advocacy Education
- Meet the Team
- CHAI Affiliate Faculty
- CHAI Advocacy Education
- Meet the Team
- CHAI Affiliate Faculty
- Initiatives
About the CHAI Affiliate Faculty Program
CHAI Affiliate Faculty are faculty members of Children’s National Hospital and/or George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and School of Nursing who are contributing substantially to CHAI’s mission of advancing "policy and systems changes to achieve health equity for all children."
Specifically, CHAI Affiliate Faculty members participate and lead in advocacy education, legislative advocacy, community benefit programs and other CHAI initiatives. CHAI Affiliate Faculty applications are accepted on an annual basis and then renewed annually by CHAI Medical Directors based on the individual’s involvement within CHAI’s priority activities. Affiliate members are not required to have salary support from CHAI.
Leadership
Lee Ann Savio Beers, MD
Lee Ann Savio Beers, MD
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Danielle Goodman Dooley, MD, MPhil
Danielle Goodman Dooley, MD, MPhil
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Olanrewaju Omolayo Falusi, MD
Olanrewaju Omolayo Falusi, MD
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Desiree de la Torre
Desiree de la Torre
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- English
Biography
Desiree de la Torre is the executive director of community and government affairs and she leads the organization’s population health improvement planning process, including support for community-based organizations, health equity, and compliance with federal community benefit regulations.
Faculty
Anisha Anna Abraham, MD
Anisha Anna Abraham, MD
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Kaushalendra Amatya, PhD
Anne Andrews, MD
Shaunte Yvette Anum-Addo, MD
Shaunte Yvette Anum-Addo, MD
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Nathaniel Beers, MD, MPA, FAAP
Nathaniel Beers, MD, MPA, FAAP
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- English
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Priti D. Bhansali, MD
Nia Imani Bodrick, MD
Claire O'Connell Boogaard, MD, MPH
Claire O'Connell Boogaard, MD, MPH
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Kathleen Marie Brown, MD
Kathleen Marie Brown, MD
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Celina Brunson, MD
Celina Brunson, MD
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Deepika Saxena Darbari, MD
Deepika Saxena Darbari, MD
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Ashley Darcy-Mahoney
Ashley Darcy-Mahoney
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- English
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Ashley Darcy-Mahoney, Ph.D., N.N.P., FAAN, is an affiliate faculty member of the Child Health Advocacy Institute and a neonatal nurse practitioner and researcher. She has worked throughout her career to advance nursing research, education and practice, with a focus on neonatology, infant health and developmental pediatrics. Her research has led to the creation of programs that improve health and developmental outcomes for at-risk and preterm infants.
As an associate professor of nursing and the director of infant research at the George Washington University's Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute, Dr. Darcy-Mahoney advances the body of research in infant health and developmental outcomes in high-risk infants with a focus on understanding the early brain and development trajectories in this population. In addition to her work with the institute, she conducts interdisciplinary research through "Talk With Me Baby" a multi-agency initiative using the nursing workforce to educate parents in the importance of talking and engaging with their babies in early infancy. Her research seeks to improve early-childhood outcomes for these infants, most recently through language interventions that improve future literacy and cognitive development.
She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nurses, the 2020 National Academy of Medicine Scholar and a 2017 Josiah Macy Scholar.
Gabrina LaTria Dixon, MD, MED
Katie Ann Donnelly, MD
Katie Ann Donnelly, MD
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Melissa Renee Dvorsky, PhD
Melissa Renee Dvorsky, PhD
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Kathleen Teresa Ferrer, MD
Kathleen Teresa Ferrer, MD
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Eduardo Raul Fox, MD
Eduardo Raul Fox, MD
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Tamara Laurel Gayle, MD
Tamara Laurel Gayle, MD
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Theiline Twehdi Gborkorquellie, MD
Theiline Twehdi Gborkorquellie, MD
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Anandapadmanaba Gourishankar, MD
Monika Kumari Goyal, MD
Monika Kumari Goyal, MD
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Serene Irene Habayeb, PhD
Rana Farouk Hamdy, MD, MPH, MSCE
Rana Farouk Hamdy, MD, MPH, MSCE
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Amanda Elizabeth Hastings, PsyD
Amanda Elizabeth Hastings, PsyD
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Linda Jones Herbert, PhD
Qadira Ali Huff, MD
Anne Pradella Inge, PhD
Anne Pradella Inge, PhD
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Allison McCarley Jackson, MD, MPH
Allison McCarley Jackson, MD, MPH
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Lenore Renee Jarvis, MD
Lenore Renee Jarvis, MD
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Simmy King
Simmy King
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- English