Project HealthDesign Overview

National Program Office and Staff

Patricia Flatley Brennan, R.N., Ph.D.

Gail Casper, R.N., Ph.D.

Lynn Rindfleisch

Linda G. Brei, BA, MAT

National Advisory Committee

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National Program Office and Staff

The University of Wisconsin-Madison serves as the National Program Office (NPO) and provides direction and technical assistance for Project HealthDesign. Patricia Flatley Brennan, R.N., Ph.D., professor of Nursing and Industrial Engineering, serves as the program director.

Support and technical assistance to the NPO is provided by the Health e-Technologies Initiative, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that is located at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass.

Responsible staff members at the NPO include:

• Patricia Flatley Brennan, R.N., Ph.D., National Program Director
• Gail Casper, R.N., Ph.D., Deputy Director
• Lynn Rindfleisch, Project Assistant
• Linda G. Brei, Communications Coordinator

Responsible staff members at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation include:

• Stephen Downs, S.M., Senior Program Officer and Deputy Director, Health Group
• Robert Hughes, Ph.D., Chief Learning Officer
• Susan Promislo, M.A., Communications Officer
• Theresa Kanter, M.U.R.P., Program Associate
• Sophia Kounelias, Grants Administrator

Responsible staff members at the California HealthCare Foundation include:

• Veenu Aulakh, M.P,H., Senior Program Officer, Chronic Disease Care Program