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Health Partners Fellowship Program
Fellows, Class of 2000-2002The International Center for Health Leadership Development, a strategic alliance between University of Illinois at Chicago and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, is proud to introduce its second class of Health Partners Fellows, a diverse group of leaders who began a two-year leadership experience in September 2000. The program is designed to further develop leaders capable of and committed to creating organizational collaborations between communities and health-related institutions to improve the health of communities. The fellowship program carries out the mission of the International Center for Health Leadership Development, which is to conduct leadership development activities that help build relationships between communities and institutions. We define health as the well-being of individuals, families and communities. Throughout the two year program, the Health Partners Fellows will focus on the exploration of the nature of communities, academic institutions, the linkages between them, and strategies for successfully leading a redirection of health professions education and health services. The overall approach is to foster the development of a group learnign process and to establish a network of colleagues and ongoing support to improve bridge-building skills. Their learning experiences will include multiple immersion seminars throughout each year on topics such as knowing your partner, coalition building, multiculturalism, and attending to public policy, regular site visits to and analysis of community-institutional partnerships around the country, self-directed learning plan, and networking opportunities at national meetings. After a national and international recruitment effort, the International Center for Health Leadership Development offered positions to twelve individuals to serve as Health Partners Fellows for two years. The
Health Partners Fellows 
Executive Director Interfaith House. Chicago, Illinois Arturo Valdivia Bendixen works with persons who are homeless in the Chicago area. In 1994, he helped to establish the first respite center for the ill and injured who were homeless it the Midwest. He presently serves as its second executive director. Interfaith House partners with medical care providers and various universities to offer residential, support and health services to homeless adults. Arturo has helped shape an organization that is an innovative and low cost model for supporting homeless adults through complete medical recovery plans addressing issues that led them into homelessness. Arturo also teaches at DePaul University and works extensively with other community agencies and organizations to improve services for persons who are homeless as well as to advocate an end to homelessness. He is a native of Lima, Peru whose family moved to the US when he was 10 years old. Arturo has a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the Univerity of Louvain in Belguim, and graduate degrees in theology and administration from the Catholic University of America, Washington DC, and in social work from the University of Illinois at Chicago. 
Associate
Professor and Director, Health Promotion Center Fairlfield University, School of Nursing Fairfield, Connecticut Dr. Philip Greiner is beginning his fifth year at the Fairfield University School of Nursing, where he is a tenured associate professor. He teaches health promotion, community health nursing, nursing research, and aging issues in both graduate and undergraduate programs. He is also the director of the School of Nursing's Health Promotion Center, a community nursing center providing health education, screening, referral and follow-up services to underserved people in Bridgeport, CT. Philip attended Albright College and the Reading Hospital School of Nursing (Reading, PA) and received a baccalaureate degree in nursing , a master's degree in community health nursing, and a Doctor of Nursing Science Degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. He completed postdoctoral work in nursing, epidemiology, and aging research at the University of Kentucky. His research focuses on the loss of independence in physical function and on the self-rating of function and health by older adults. He is coinvestigator on the Nun Study, a National Institute on Aging-funded study on Alzheimer's disease and aging based at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging in Lexington, Kentucky. In addition to his academic work, Philip serves on the board of directors for the Southwest Community Health Center and on the advisory board for the Southwestern Connecticut Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and on the Harding High School Health Magnet Program. He is the lay leader for his church and sings in the chancel choir. Philip is married to Lydia H. Greiner; they have two children, Jake (17) and Katie (13). 
Chief
Operating Officer
Cherokee Health Systems, Inc. Talbott, Tennessee Joel Hornberger's
current position as Chief Operating Officer allows him to lead a team
of staff committed to providing critically needed medical, dental, and
mental health services in underserved rural areas of East Tennessee.
His company is unique in its commitment to Joel has extensive
experience in strategic planning for nonprofit organizations. In addition
to facilitating his own organization's strategic planning, he has facilitated
strategic planning for nonprofits dealing with domestic violence, youth
emergency services, Hispanic alliances, United Way services, and rural
primary care. Prior to his involvement in health care, Joel served as a VISTA volunteer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he organized an adult literacy program. He has traveled to Romania and Mexico on church-related medical and construction trips and has a strong interest in international health, particularly child health. He has served as
an adjunct professor at Pellissippi State and at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Hygiene and Public Health. Joel earned a Bachelor of Science
degree from Lebanon Valley College and a Master of Health Science in
health services administration and planning from the Johns Hopkins University
School of Hygiene and Public Health. Community Development Coordinator Community Health
Academy Anthony Leach was
born in Greenwood, Mississippi. He resides in Oakland, California, and
has lived in the Bay area for more than 23 years. For the past 19 years,
he has been involved with community Anthony is an ordained minister specializing in community empowerment and community organization. He creates local economies, facilitates groups organizing ideas, implements group concepts from start to finish, and works with residents to establish "structural villages." He believes neighborhoods and residents have the capacity to build, enrich, and enhance their own well being. Anthony is one of
the founding members of the Computer Street Academy (1996) which empowers
neighborhoods through technology. TheComputer Executive Director National Trust for the Development of African-American Men Riverdale, Maryland Dr. Garry A. Mendez,
Jr., is currently the president of the National Trust for the Development
of African-American Men. He founded the National Trust in response to
the litany of problems faced by For twelve years, Garry held the position of director of the Administration of Justice for the National Urban League. He has also worked as a drug counselor and a street worker in New York City. Garry earned his doctorate at the University of Michigan. 
Research Assistant, Family Medical Department American University Hospital Beirut, Lebanon Rima Nakkash is
the coordinator of the community-based cardiovascular disease prevention
program conducted by the American University of Beirut Medical Center
and Health Behavior and Education Department in her hometown Beirut,
Lebanon. The project is jointly funded by the European Commission and
the World Health Organization and builds on Rima has been successful
in bringing together various members of the community, who represent
its different sectors, in a coalition that works toward fulfilling the
objectives of the project. She has been involved in all the phases of
the project, starting with the needs Rima believes in
the importance of preventive medicine and wishes to pursue a career
in promoting disease prevention through building and sustaining successful
partnerships between academia and hard-to-reach 
Juvenile Crime. Alcohol and Drug Prevention Coordinator Commission on Children and Families (Benton County) Corvallis, Oregon Elizabeth Rink is
a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Oregon with a master's
degree in social work from the University of Washington School of Social
Work. Elizabeth has served as a child survival officer in the United
States Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa, Currently, Elizabeth
is the juvenile crime/alcohol and drug prevention coordinator for the
Commission on Children and Families in Benton County, Oregon. In this
role, Elizabeth works with community coalitions, government agencies,
and nonprofit organizations to build partnerships and coordinate services
that reduce juvenile crime and substance abuse in Benton County. Her
areas of professional interest are the therapeutic use of wilderness
for treating dual diagnosis adolescents, youth and community involvement
in policy planning and implementation, and developing strength-based
programs that build assets in youth. In addition to her work as the
juvenile crime/alcohol and drug prevention coordinator, Elizabeth works
one Associate Professor,
Nursing; Coordinator, Nurse-Midwifery Columbia, Missouri Dr. Donna Scheideberg
is an associate professor of nursing at the University of Missouri-Columbia's
Sinclair School of Nursing. She received her nurse-midwifery certificate
from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, her master's degree
in maternal-child The major love in
Donna's nursing career is nurse-midwifery; she has been a certified
nurse-midwife for over 20 years. As the coordinator of nurse-midwifery
education and practice at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Donna
actively practices nurse-midwifery two days per week. She co-teaches
the five nurse-midwifery courses as well as graduate nursing theory.
She has developed a service-learning component on domestic violence
for nurse-midwifery students in Medical Director Low County Rural Health Network Orangeburg, South Carolina Dr. Monnie Singleton
currently serves as medical director for the developing Low Country
Rural Health Network and provides clinical services at Family Health
Centers, Inc., a community health center Monnie was instrumental
in the Bamberg County Multidisciplinary Committee receiving a Community
Care Network Demonstration Grant from the Hospital Research and Education
Trust of the American Hospital Association which connects local health
care providers, schools, and law enforcement via the internet. He chairs
the Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality of Health and Human
Services Committee of the Governor's Information Resource Council. He
serves on the governing boards of two Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
health care Project Director,
Communities Reducing Adolescent Pregnancies University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Nursing Chicago, Illinois Nancy Tartt currently
is employed by the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing's
Community Health Division. She is the project director for the Communities
R.A.P. (Communities Reducing Adolescent Pregnancies) project. Communities
R.A.P. is one of 13 federally funded projects through the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, focusing on teen pregnancy and prevention
from a youth Originally from
New York City, Nancy has lived and traveled nationally as well as internationally.
Her work experience is broadly focused within the social service field
and has included positions in mental health administration, mental health
assessment, counseling, Nancy currently serves on the board of directors of the West Side Future and has served as a board member at the Girls Best Friend Foundation, the United Way of Evanston, and the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Assistant Professor, College of Health Sciences and Human Services Saint Paul University Tuguegarao City, Philippines Janice Teodoro serves
as an instructor for the community immersion program at the undergraduate
level, a position she had held since 1995. Her early exposure to the
plight of deprived and underserved Currently, Janice
serves as training coordinator for the St. Paul University Primary Health
Care Resource Center and speaker in Community Organizing Participatory
Action Research (COPAR) training Associate Professor of Psychiatry Western Phsychiatric Institute and Clinic Pittsburg, Pennsylvania Dr. Kenneth S. Thompson
grew up as a fan of Roberto Clemente and went to meetings of the Medical
Committee for Human Rights in the mid-1960s with this father, a physician
who was on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Kenneth received
his undergraduate degree from Kenyon College and from there he went
on to Boston University Medical School, where he was a National Health
Service Scholarship recipient. He did his residency in psychiatry at
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, during which time he served as
psychiatric Nine years ago,
Kenneth, a board certified psychiatrist, joined the faculty of the Department
of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh where he is now an associate
professor of psychiatry. He is the director of the Institute for Public
Health and Psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
(WPIC). He focuses his energies on the mental health needs of persons
and communities forced to live in the margins of our society-in poverty
and under oppressive conditions. In addition, he is the medical director
of community services and training at WPIC. He has had a leadership
role in developing systems of mental health care for underserved and/or
stigmatized and arginalized populations. He is currently working in
a satellite clinic of WPIC located in the Hill District, an economically
distressed, predominently African-American community. He has extensive
experience in state/community/university collaborations including having
been principal investigator on an NIAAA research demonstration project
at Yale University entitled "Research on Services for Homeless
Substance Abusers." In Pittsburgh, Kenneth was the leader of WPIC's
Unified Systems Project, creating community In addition, Kenneth is associate editor of The Community Psychiatrist, the newsletter of the American Association for Community Psychiatrists. He and his wife, Andrea Fox, have three children. About the International Center for Health Leadership Development The International Center for Health Leadership Development was established to foster the development of those who seek to create health partnerships. The center conducts leadership development activities that help to better prepare leaders from communities, community health centers and health professions education to build linkages between communities and institutions. The center's approach is to help individuals discover their leadership capabilities, and to help them see that leadership is, in many ways, a function of the relationship between leaders and followers. To accomplish this task, the center is involved in several activities: consulting services, fellowship programs, short courses, policy briefs and research. For further information about the center or its activities, please call us at (312) 355-1087.
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