David E. Gagnon, MA, MPH
Consultant
David E. Gagnon has more than thirty-five years of experience working in health care and hospitals. In his career he has worked with numerous state and federal programs in developing and evaluating programs in emergency medical services, substance abuse, long-term care, perinatal care, family planning, and women's health. His administrative capabilities have helped organize neighborhood health centers, establish family planning centers, and manage hospitals. He has conducted numerous research projects on the regionalization of perinatal care and maternal and child health. As Vice President of Women & Infants' Hospital of Rhode Island he planned and implemented an affiliation with Rhode Island Hospital and a new hospital facility on the campus of the affiliate. He was appointed by several Secretaries of Health and Human Services to serve on the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality and the Commission on the National Nursing Shortage.
Mr. Gagnon, founding principal and former President of NPIC/QAS, has also served as President of the National Perinatal Association and Treasurer of both the Ohio and Rhode Island Perinatal Associations. His international experience includes serving as the Partnership Coordinator for several partnership programs in Slovakia, Armenia, and Albania sponsored by the American International Health Alliance and as leader of perinatal delegations to China, Russia, Hungary, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Cuba. He has also evaluated USAID funded projects in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Mr. Gagnon received his Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan and was honored with Doctor of Science from Safarik University in Slovakia. He has had faculty appointments at Holy Cross College, Worcester (MA); Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (OH); and Brown University Program in Medicine (RI).
John V. Hartline, MD
Neonatologist, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development (retired)
Dr. Hartline has served on the Board of the National Perinatal Information Center/Quality Analytic Services since 1987. Dr. Hartline has a wealth of experience in neonatal care and in the planning and implementation of neonatal health services. He was in the private practice of neonatology in Kalamazoo, MI until 2001. He was actively engaged in health care and medical education as a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University School of Human Medicine, and in college education as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy (Medical Ethics) at Western Michigan University. Dr. Hartline has served as President of the National Perinatal Association. Currently, he is engaged in several projects and activities at the American Academy of Pediatrics, including the Pediatric Leadership Alliance, the Section on Perinatal Pediatrics Committee on Practice Management, and as an Editor of NeoReviewsPlus©, an online self-assessment activity for neonatologists for which part 2 MOC credit is available.
John C. Pezzullo, PhD
Consultant
John C. Pezzullo received his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1969 from Providence College, Providence RI. For 27 years he was involved in informatics and clinical research at Rhode Island Hospital as Senior Management Engineer, Database Administrator, Director of Information Systems, and Director of the Information Technology Center. During this time, he also functioned as the hospital's primary biostatistician, assisting researchers in the acquisition, management, and analysis of their data. In 1993, he left Rhode Island to become the Informatics Chief at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Perinatology Research Branch at Georgetown University, Washington DC. In 1998 he became the Informatics and Biostatistics Director for the General Clinical Research Center at Georgetown University, a position he held until his retirement in 2003. At that time, he held faculty appointments as Associate Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Biostatistic, and is now an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University. He has served as a member of research review boards at Rhode Island Hospital (IRB), Georgetown University (GCRC Advisory Committee), and the private Goodwyn IRB, providing critical review of the design and statistical analysis of research protocols.
Dr. Pezzullo has provided ongoing consulting services to the NPIC since its inception in 1986, and to over a dozen biotechnology and healthcare-related companies and organizations throughout the US. As a result of his lifelong interest in computational statistics, he maintains the Interactive Statistical Pages web site (http://StatPages.net), which provides an organized collection of hundreds of online statistical analysis pages, as well as links to statistical software, textbooks, tutorials, interactive demonstrations, and other statistics-related resources. This web site is accessed thousands of times each week by researchers, teachers and students worldwide, and has been cited by the Applied Mathematics Society and by Science Magazine.
Carolyn L. Wood, PhD, RN
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Carolyn Wood is presently serving as a consultant to NPIC/QAS to assist with planning and implementing continuing education programs and providing perinatal clinical expertise. She comes to the NPIC/QAS with over 30 years of teaching experience in a variety of nursing programs. Dr. Wood has been involved in research projects related to maternal child health, nursing internships, nursing program curriculum development and nursing competencies for future health care. She is currently working on evaluating nursing competencies for new graduates and aligning nursing curriculums with national guidelines from the Institute of Medicine, Nurse of the Future Competencies and the Essentials of Baccalaureate Nursing. She is a member of the Professional Development Council at Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, RI, and serves on a number of community health committees. Dr. Wood has a PhD in Education from the University of Connecticut and a Masters Degree in Science from Boston University with a specialty focus in maternal child health.
