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Veronica Gillispie-Bell, MD, is a board certified obstetrician and gynecologist with Ochsner Health in New Orleans. She serves as senior site lead and section head of obstetrics and gynecology at Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner. She is director of quality for women’s services for Ochsner Health System and medical director of the Ochsner Center for the Minimally Invasive Treatment of Uterine Fibroids. She also serves as medical director of the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative and as pregnancy-associated mortality review for the Louisiana Department of Health.
Dr. Gillispie-Bell performs advanced laparoscopic and robotic assisted laparoscopic procedures. She has participated in clinical trials for treatment options for uterine fibroids and is a national speaker and consultant on heavy menstrual bleeding associated with fibroids. She was a presenter at the inaugural Maternal Health Day of Action in 2021 hosted by the White House and has testified before Congress on maternal health. Her work with national media includes USA Today, ABC's "Good Morning America," MSNBC and The New York Times' "The 1619 Project" docuseries. 
Dr. Gillispie-Bell earned a medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and completed residency training at Ochsner Health System. She earned a master's degree in patient safety and healthcare quality from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. She earned certification in diversity and inclusion from Cornell University in New York.
 

Karen Tabb Dina, PhD, MSW is professor in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Social Work and faculty affiliate at Carle Foundation Hospital, the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies, and the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives. Her research agenda focuses identifying risk factors for morbidity and mortality among perinatal women and clinical factors to improve minority health. Dr. Tabb has authored over 80 publications, including articles in journals such as Ethnicity & Health, General Hospital Psychiatry, The Journal of Affective Disorders and the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. She is an expert collaborator (in the areas of diabetes, mental health, maternal health, and North America) for the Global Burden of Disease Study where she contributes in estimating population morbidity and mortality for 188 countries. She serves on the board of directors for the National Association of Perinatal Social Workers.
Dr. Tabb has received research and training support from several state and federal agencies including the Illinois DHS, the NIH and PCORI.  She has sustained a multi-site PCORI-funded project to engage pregnant and postpartum women as collaborators in perinatal depression research. Currently, she is Principal Investigator (PI) on an Illinois DHS project to improve outcomes in the first 1,000 days of life for 11 counties through systems development efforts.
Her research and commentary have appeared in numerous television, radio and print sources, including TEDx, WILL, WTAX, WCIA, WJBC, WRSP, WBBM, WTTW, InStyle Magazine, and the Washington Post Syndicate to name a few. In 2019, Dr. Tabb received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Thought Leader Award for Leading in Peer-Reviewed Publications, the New Connections Program’s premier honor for early career faculty. 
Karen Tabb Dina received her PhD in Social Welfare and a Certificate in Demographic Methods from the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her Master of Social Work, concentrating in Social Policy and Evaluation, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Eastern Michigan University.

Education

BA, Sociology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
MSW, Social Policy & Evaluation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
PhD, Social Welfare and Social Demography, University of Washington, Seattle

Dr. Zaman has over 10 years of research experience in implementing, managing, monitoring and evaluating health projects and research studies on infectious and chronic diseases. His research focuses on the use of community health workers, strengthening health systems and promotion of m-health technology in prevention and diagnosis of chronic disease. He has worked with multidisciplinary research teams across both developing and developed countries, including Bangladesh, Nepal, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Thailand and Germany. 
Given his scientific contributions, Dr. Zaman has authored, co-authored or edited over 100 peer-reviewed papers, with more than 50,000 career citations, and has presented 20+ abstracts at international conferences. Currently, he is working with the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services (IIHHS) at JMU in collaboration with Virginia Department of Health (VDH) to evaluate the impact of chronic disease projects in Virginia. 

Dr. Kristin Tully is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is Associate Faculty at Ariadne Labs, which is a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Additionally, she Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. Her expertise is engaging perinatal patients, family members, and clinicians to understand and address their health needs. Broadly, this work advances health equity by strengthening systems of care to address what individuals need to know, feel, and have happen over time to be safe and well.
Dr. Tully’s program of research leverages community engagement, mixed methods, and human factors engineering to iteratively shape understanding of healthcare strengths/problems and co-develop solutions for effectiveness, sustainability, and spread. She led development of a patented medical device for use with mother-newborn couplets during inpatient postpartum care, the Couplet Care Bassinet. Currently, Dr. Tully represents the UNC Collaborative for Maternal and Infant Health at the National Quality Forum.
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