HCP Happenings

The 411 on 180 S U M M E R 2 0 1 2

Save the Date!

Coffee Talks (Please volunteer to

host a future one!)

August 29

10:30am

Sept. 26

10:30am

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Faculty Mtgs

Sept.10

11:30-1:00

October 11

11:30-1:00

November 19

11:30-1:00

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In the Trenches

Sept 14

Jeff Levin-Scherz

11:30am -1:00pm

October 10

Sara Iselin

11:30am-1:00pm

November 26

Julian Harris

11:30-1:00

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Seidman Lecture

October 30

Senator Daschle

4:30-6:00pm

HMS, TMEC

HCP Summer Party—A Quacktastic Event!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the HCP Summer

Party Event on Friday, July 27th! We had a great time rid-

ing/driving the duck boats, blowing our duck whistles, meeting

everyone's family/friends, and socializing at Champions Restau-

rant. We value our department events and are always looking

ahead to the next one, so if you have an idea for a fun outing,

please email Lindsay Craw Camarda.

For more photos please see our internal website.

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It was great to have everyone together at the summer party event, and we

were blown away by the attendance. We are hoping we can say the same

on October 30th at 4:30 when Senator Tom Daschle comes to speak for

HCP ‘s 12th Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture. This lecture is espe-

cially important to the department because it illustrates to the Quad facul-

ty, staff, and students how fascinating health policy is and the impact of

our department. Please know that everyone is strongly encouraged to at-

tend and show your HCP pride! Here is a look into the life of Senator

Daschle:

Born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Tom Daschle graduated from South Da-

kota State University in 1969. Upon graduation, he entered the United

States Air Force where he served as an intelligence officer in the Strategic

Air Command until mid-1972.

Following completion of his military service, Senator Daschle served on

the staff of Senator James Abourezk. In 1978, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives where

he served for eight years. In 1986, he was elected to the U.S. Senate and eight years later became its Dem-

ocratic Leader. Senator Daschle is one of the longest serving Senate Democratic Leaders in history and

the only one to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader. During his tenure, Senator Daschle

navigated the Senate through some of its most historic economic and national security challenges. In

2003, he chronicled some of these experiences in his book, Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and

the Two Years That Changed America Forever.

Today, Senator Daschle is a Senior Policy Advisor to the law firm of DLA Piper where he provides clients

with strategic advice on public policy issues such as climate change, energy, health care, trade, financial

services and telecommunications. Since leaving the Senate, he has distinguished his expertise in health

care through the publication of Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis and GETTING IT

DONE: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate to Make Way for Health Care Reform.

Daschle has continued to be a leader on climate change and renewable energy, as well as a variety of other

public policy challenges.

In 2007, he joined with former Majority Leaders George Mitchell, Bob Dole, and Howard Baker to create

the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization dedicated to finding common ground on some of the pressing

public policy challenges of our time. Senator Daschle serves on the board of the Center for American Pro-

gress, acts as the Vice Chair of the National Democratic Institute, and is a member of the Council of For-

eign Relations. He also is a member of the Health Policy and Management Executive Council at the Har-

vard School of Public Health in addition to the Aspen Global Policy Advisory Council for the Health

Worker Migration Initiative. He is a member of the GE Healthymagination Advisory Board; the Children’s

Heartlink International Advisory Board and Co-Chair of the Executive Council on Development at the

Center for Strategic International Studies. In addition, Senator Daschle’s board memberships include the

Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation Board of Trustees; the Blum Foundation; the US Global Leadership

Coalition Advisory Council and the Advisory Committee on the Trust for National Mall.

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Welcome to our new HCP faculty & employees!

Jesse Smith is a new Research Assistant for Ronald Kessler. She grew

up on the North Shore of Massachusetts and attended Boston College

earning a BA in Psychology. After graduating in 2011, she worked as a

Health Promotion Specialist for Boston College Health Promotion. She

is hoping to pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology in the near future. She

became interested in HCP after working in health promotion, and is ex-

cited to join the Kessler Group. Jesse enjoys tennis, healthy cooking,

meditation, singing, and spending time with family.

Bapu Jena is a new Assistant Professor at HCP. He grew up in

Richmond, VA, went to college at MIT, and lived in Chicago

for 8 years where he went to medical school and earned his

PhD in economics. In addition to his new appointment at HCP,

Bapu will be a practicing hospitalist at MGH, where he just

completed his residency in internal medicine. Bapu’s research

interests include medical malpractice, the economics of medi-

cal innovation and cost-effectiveness, geographic variations in

medical care, and insurance benefit design. His hobbies in-

clude playing soccer and tennis and for summer 2012, will also

include planning for a September wedding and furnishing a

new home in Brookline.

Johan Hong is a new Research Assistant for Michael Cher-

new and Bruce Landon. Johan hails from southern California,

and moved to Massachusetts where he received his BA in so-

ciology from Harvard College. After graduating, he spent time

in Rwanda working with an NGO at the intersection of agri-

culture and nutrition. He is excited to be at HCP and to learn

more about, among other things, Patient Centered Medical

Homes and how incentives to primary care physicians shape

practice behavior. While not working or traveling, Johan

enjoys music, soccer, and running.

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Daryl Caudry’s son, Trevor La Salvia is

picture here at his 8th grade graduation

from Lincoln School in Brookline. In

the fall Trevor will be attending Brook-

line High School.

HCP Family Happenings

Please join us in congratulating Michael and Christina

McWilliams who welcomed a baby girl to their family in

the “wee hours” of the morning on Thursday, June

14th. Their daughter’s name is Isabel Edelen McWilliams

and she was 7lbs 10 oz. at birth, but since then has grown

leaps and bounds. She definitely gets the “Best Baby Hair”

award!

Jean Claude’s daughter, Joann

graduated from the City on the Hill

High School in Boston, and will be

attending Massachusetts College of

the Liberal Arts. Also, seen in the

photo above is Jean-Claude’s wife,

Marie. Some of us at HCP remem-

ber when Joann was first born, so it

is great to watch her achieve these

landmarks.

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Nancy Sampson’s daughter Laura Sampson gradu-

ated with a degree in Statistics from

Harvard College in May. Laura worked at HCP

during summers since she was in high school and

the last few years in college she worked as a student

analyst for the Kessler group. She accepted a posi-

tion working as a SAS analyst for Sandro Galea in

the department of Epidemiology at Columbia Uni-

versity. She loves her job and her new life in New

York. She is interested in eventually attending

graduate school in public health or health care poli-

cy so we might see her back here some day!

HCP Family Happenings (cont’d)

Here is a photo of Tom McGuire’s

grandson, Emmett Aufiero, who is

striking a pose and not at all camera

shy! Emmett is 1.5 years old.

Pictured here is the Grand Canyon

taken by Lindsay Craw Camarda

on her travels out West this summer.

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What is HCP Happenings?

HCP Happenings is an electronic newsletter solely for the Department of Health Care Policy and

is intended to keep HCP employees abreast of important announcements and information about

department events, HCP employees, and campus affairs. Our team of reporters includes: Lindsay

Craw Camarda and Ricardo Espada. If you are unable to commit to the newsletter on a full time

basis, but would still like to submit a news brief or announcement please do so. Also, the commit-

tee would appreciate receiving feedback and will incorporate that feedback into future monthly

issues. If you have comments or an interest in joining the HCP Happenings team, please contact

Lindsay at craw@hcp.med.harvard.edu.

We would also like to congratulate Emily Cioffi, the daughter of Matthew Cioffi, who

baked the Best Birthday Cake for NBC’s Today Show. The cake was called Whimsical

Garden, and it was a chocolate cake with Italian meringue buttercream frosting and

marshmallow fondant. It was deemed as the winner by Martha Stewart who was im-

pressed by the cake’s creativity, neatness, and flavor. Emily thanks everyone at HCP for

their support, and promises to bake a special cake for an upcoming coffee talk. Here is

the Today Show link to view the clip: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47985668/ns/today-

food/t/surprise-martha-judges-today-viewers-birthday-cakes/#.T-3jkNVQSHg

HCP Family Happenings