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Board List
Harold D. Cox, MSW
Associate Dean for Public Health Practice
Boston University School of Public Health |
Fay Donohue
President & CEO
Dental Services of Massachusetts (DSM) |
Chester
Douglass
DMD, Ph.D.
Professor - Oral Health Policy at HSDM
Professor - Epidemiology at HSPH |
Neil
B. Epstein
DMD, MA
Pediatric Dentist |
Ralph Fuccillo
President - Oral Health Foundation |
Shepard Goldstein
DMD
Endodontist in private practice |
Douglas B. Harding
MBA
Chief Administrative Officer - Lahey Clinic, retired |
Judith A. Jones
DDS, MPH, DScD
Chairman, Department of General Dentistry
BU Goldman School of Dental Medicine |
Roderick K. King
MD
Division Director
Health Resources and Service Administration |
Clare D. McGorrian
Esq.
Attorney in Private Practice
Health Law Counsel and Consulting |
Mike Nacey
Esq.
President, Weston Partners |
Shannon P. O'Brien
Chief Executive Officer Girl Scouts, Patriots' Trail Council, Inc. |
Scott F. O'Gorman
Chief Financial Officer
Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island
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Marylou Sudders
ACSW
President, MSPCC |
Board Biographies
Harold D. Cox, MSW – Member of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Harold Cox is the Associate Dean for Public Health Practice at the Boston University School of Public Health. Prior to that, he was the Chief Public Health Officer for Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was responsible for managing all aspects of the City's Health Department including public health planning, service delivery, and regulatory activities. Mr. Cox has more than 25 years of professional experience in direct services, administration, and advocacy in a variety of public health settings. Prior to the Cambridge post, he served as the Director of Client Services at the AIDS Action Committee, and several positions serving the disabled population.
Cox is the President of the Massachusetts Public Health Association, member of the Massachusetts Commission on Health Disparities, and member of the Network Health Board of Directors.
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Fay Donohue – Member of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Ms. Donohue is President & CEO of Dental Service of Massachusetts (DSM). DSM serves over eleven million people in eighteen states and Washington, DC, with both commercial and government dental programs. With over 25 years of experience, she has held positions as Chief Executive Officer of DentaQuest, Executive Vice President of Delta Dental Plan of Massachusetts, Vice President of Marketing at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Vice President of Planning and Marketing at Chartwell Home Therapies.
Ms. Donohue is a trustee of the Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, a member of the board of Operation ABLE, a trustee of the Mass Taxpayers Association, and a former member of the board of the National Association of Dental Plans.
Ms. Donohue earned a B.A. at Bryn Mawr, an M.A. at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and an M.B.A. at Boston College.
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Chester W. Douglass, DMD, Ph.D
- Chair of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Chet is Professor of Oral Health Policy at Harvard University School
of Dental Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at the University's
School of Public Health. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor
of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina
Dental School.
He received his DMD from Temple Dental School in Philadelphia and
his Ph.D from the University of Michigan.
Chet is a member of the American Dental Association, the American
Dental Education Association, and the Massachusetts Public Health
Association. Chet served on DSM's Board from 1980 through 2000.
He currently serves on the boards of the Medical Foundation, Quintiles
Transnational, and is the Chairman of the American Boychoir School
in Princeton, NJ.
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Neil B. Epstein, DMD, MA - Member
of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Neil is a retired pediatric dentist. He attended Rutgers University,
received his DMD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental
Medicine and his certificate in Pediatric Dentistry from Columbia.
He also earned a masters degree from Columbia University.
Neil is a member of the American Dental Association, the Valley
District Dental Society, the American Society of Dentistry for Children,
and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry,
and the American Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped. He has
been a member of the DSM Board since 1983. He served as Vice Chairman
from 2000-2002, when he became Chairman.
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Ralph Fuccillo
- President, Member of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Ralph Fuccillo, before joining the Foundation in 2006, directed the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation. As it's Executive Director, Mr. Fuccillo was responsible for the oversight of its investments and partnerships in community health promotion through the Community Service Programs, and the training and development activities conducted by the Institute for Linguistic and Cultural Skills.
Mr. Fuccillo has contributed to the field of prevention through more than 30 years of professional and volunteer experience in education, health and human services, and organizational development in the non-profit sector. Through his collaborative leadership approach, he has focused on the social determinants of health, policy development, and behavior change models to reduce injury and violence, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, and other preventable illnesses.
Mr. Fuccillo serves on the Board of several non-profit organizations, such as the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Program, Elderhostel, Neighborhood Health Plan, and Funders Concerned about AIDS. He is the immediate past President of the AIDS Action Committee Board of Directors and the current President of the MA Health Council. As a member of the Dimock Community Health Center Board of Visitors, he is an advocate and funder for the underserved and the network of community health centers.
Mr. Fuccillo received his masters degree from Fordham University and his bachelors degree from University of Massachusetts.
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Shepard Goldstein, DMD - Member
of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Shep graduated from Tufts Dental School in 1966 and followed this
with two years as a dentist in the United States Airforce. In 1970
he completed his endodontic training at The Einstein Medical Center
in Philadelphia and joined an active private practice limited to
endodontics in Framingham, Massachusetts. At that time a new endodontic
post doctoral program was starting at Harvard/ Forsyth and he took
a position on the endodontic faculty. He continue to be a faculty
member at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
For the last twenty-plus years he has taken an active role in organized
dentistry serving as general chairman of 1995 Yankee Dental Congress,
president of the Massachusetts Dental Society from 2002-2003 and
currently he holds the position of vice-president of the American
Association of Endodontists.
He lives in Boston with his wife, Carole. He has two married children
and four grandchildren.
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Douglas B. Harding, MBA - Member
of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Doug is retired from the position of Chief Administrative Officer
at Lahey Clinic in Burlington. Prior to this he held the position
of senior consultant at Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart (now Deloitte
and Touche). He is also a director of Lahey Clinic Insurance Co.
Ltd. in Bermuda and Home Health and Hospice Care of Nashua, NH.
He received both his BA and MBA from Harvard University.
Doug is a member of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs, The Treasurers
Club, and the Medical Group Managers Association. He also serves
as the Conservation Commissioner for the town of Lincoln. He has
been a member of the DSM Board since 1990.
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Judith A. Jones, DDS, MPH, DScD
- Member of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Judy is Professor and Chair of the Department of General Dentistry
at the Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine and faculty
in the Outcomes Section at the VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes
and Economic Research, located at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial
Veterans Hospital in Bedford, MA.
She received her certificate in Dental Hygiene from the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor where she also completed her pre-dental
studies. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina's
School of Dentistry and the School of Public Health. She completed
her Doctor of Science in Dentistry (Dental Public Health) at Boston
University and became Certified by the American Board of Dental
Public Health in 2001.
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Roderick K. King, MD - Member
of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Roderick is the past Division Director of the Boston Regional Division
of US Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and
Services Administration. He is a member of the US Public Health
Service Commissioned Corp. and is a practicing pediatrician at Boston's
Children's Hospital. Roderick also is an instructor at Harvard Medical
School in the Department of Social Medicine and does extensive work at the MGH Disparities Solutions Center.
Roderick is a member of the board for Massachusetts Citizen's for
Children. He is also a member of the American Public Health Association,
the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association,
National Medical Association and the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Roderick received his BA from The Johns Hopkins University, his
MD from Cornell University and his MPH from Harvard School of Public
Health. He joined the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors in 2003.
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Clare D. McGorrian, Esq. - Member
of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Clare is in private legal practice specializing
in consumer-focused health care law and policy. Prior to opening
her practice she was a senior staff attorney with Health Law Advocates
in Boston. She was a key player on the organization's legal and
policy team and the lead counsel for Health Care For All vs. Romney,
the successful federal lawsuit to improve access to dental care
for children on MassHealth. Clare was adjunct faculty at Suffolk
Law School until 1999 and has been practicing law since 1991.
Clare earned her law degree from Northeastern University School
of Law, and her BA from Harvard College.
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Michael Nacey, Esq. - Member
of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Mike is President of Weston Partners, a consulting company specializing
in executive and sales compensation, and benefit planning. From
1967 to 1992 he was Vice President and member of the Management
Committee of Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. where he managed a wide
variety of activities. In addition, he was the managing trustee
of the company's 401(k) plan which had over $200 million in assets.
In the past five years, working through the Executive Service Corps,
he has consulted with over a dozen non-profit organizations ranging
in size from the New England Aquarium to Julie's Family Services.
Projects have included development of compensation plans and HR
policies, Board development and strategic planning.
Mike obtained his undergraduate degree from MIT and, after military
service in the Army Security in Eritrea, obtained his law degree
from Boston College Law School. He is a member of the Massachusetts
Bar Association and served on DSM's Board of Directors from 1976
to 2005.
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Shannon P. O’Brien – Member of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Shannon O’Brien is Chief Executive Officer for the Girl Scouts, Patriots’ Trail Council, Inc. Serving one in seven girls between the ages of 5 and 17 in 65 communities in Greater Boston, the Patriots Trail Council has a seven million dollar budget, more than 250 full time and seasonal employees, and more than 10,000 volunteers.
A former state legislator from Easthampton, O’Brien is the only woman in Massachusetts history to be elected State Treasurer. She is a graduate of Yale University and Boston University School of Law. O’Brien lives in Whitman with her husband Emmet Hayes and has two daughters, Jill and Regan.
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Scott F. O’Gorman – Member of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Scott O’Gorman is currently Chief Financial Officer for the Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island. Since 1986, Scott O’Gorman has held various positions at Delta Dental Plan of Massachusetts such as Senior Vice President, Vice President for Marketing and Director of Underwriting. He most recently served as Chief Financial Officer/EVP.
Scott is a member of Financial Executives International, Boston Chapter and Board Member for Delta Plans Service Corporation. He has a BA from Amherst College and an MBA from Boston College.
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Marylou Sudders, ACSW - Member
of the Oral Health Foundation Board of Directors
Marylou is the President and CEO of the Massachusetts Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. MSPCC is a private, non profit
society dedicated to leadership in protecting and promoting the
rights and well-being of children and families. One of the largest
child and family agencies in the state, MSPCC provides an array
of child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention programs
and mental health treatment to 30,000 families a year. In addition,
MSPCC advocates on issues affecting families and children. In 2004,
MSPCC issued "Oral Health & the Commonwealth's Most Vulnerable
Children: A State of Decay" highlighting the dental care access
crisis for children with Medicaid coverage. Previously, she served
as Commissioner of Mental Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
for seven years. In this role, she oversaw the public mental health
system in the state, providing services to more than 24,000 adults
with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional
disturbances. The recipient of many awards, in 2005, Ms. Sudders
received the National Association of Social Workers highest award
for mental health policy. Ms. Sudders has a master's degree in social
work and bachelor's degree with honors from Boston University.
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