Healthcare Workforce Data Advisory Committee Profiles
Kathy Baker, RN MSN
Director Resource Management/Adjunct Faculty
VCU Health System/VCU School of Nursing
Current Job Position
Director Resource Management – VCU Health System
Responsibilities include: Office of Bed Management; Clinical Administrators;
Department of Supplemental Staffing; Department of Transportation and Office
of Nursing Budget and Finance
Current Educational Program
PhD candidate VCU School of Nursing - Research focus- Discretionary Nurse
Decision Making
Current Faculty Appointment
Adjunct faculty in VCU School of Nursing - Nursing Administration and Leadership
Program
Recent Publications
Deanda A Jr., Baker KM, Roseff SD, Green JA, McCarthy H, Aron T, Spiess,
BD, “ Developing a blood conservation program in cardiac surgery.”
American Journal of Medical Quality. Jul-Aug 2006 21 (4): 230-7.
Baker, K and Flattery, M. “HIT: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment” Journal of Progressive Cardiovascular Nursing, Winter 2006.
Recent Invited Presentations
Baker K., Flattery, M. Salyer, J. Haugh, K. “The Lived Experience
of Caregivers of Patients with LVAD Therapy. Southern Nursing Research Society.
2008. Birmingham Alabama.
June 2008 - Three Things You Can Do About Staffing Today. VCUHS
Mid-Atlantic Leadership Conference. Richmond, VA.
Professional Affiliations
Southern Nursing Research Society
Virginia Organization of Nurse Executives Legislative Representative
Advisory Council for VCU School of Nursing – Nursing Leadership Program.
VNA Council for Safe Staffing Practices
Elizabeth A. Carter, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Virginia Board of Health Professions
Elizabeth Carter is the Executive Director for the Virginia Board of Health Professions where she has served since 2002. Between 1994 and 2002, she was its Deputy Director. Also, since 1992, she has served as the Executive Director for the Virginia Board of Optometry and the Virginia Board of Veterinary Medicine. Her responsibilities include overseeing policy research and advising on issues pertaining to the regulation of health professions and on the operations of the Virginia Department of Health Professions as well as managing the licensure, disciplinary, and policymaking activities for the two health regulatory boards. Dr. Carter earned her doctorate in experimental psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1986 and has since conducted and overseen numerous health and professional regulatory policy reviews. Between academia and state government, she served as a senior compensation analyst for William M. Mercer, Meidinger, Hansen Inc. (now William M. Mercer, Inc.), an international human resources consulting firm. Among her professional affiliations, she is an active member of the Association for Psychological Science and the Virginia Executive Institute Alumni Association.
Ingram Haley
Director of Financial Policy
Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association (VHHA)
Ingram Haley serves as director of financial policy for VHHA. He provides the VHHA almost six years of Virginia state budget and legislative experience, including directing the reengineering and implementation of strategic planning processes with the Commonwealth of Virginia, managing the state’s fiscal impact analysis of legislation, and serving as a budget and policy analyst with the Virginia Department of Planning and Budget. With VHHA, Ingram manages the development and implementation of PricePoint, develops a Medicare rate analysis, and works on other policy related budgetary and legislative issues.
Prior to state government, he developed manufacturing quality programs for Hooker Furniture Company in Martinsville, Virginia. He holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in history and political science from James Madison University (1997) and a Master’s of Public Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University (2004).
Timothy Owen Kestner
Economist
Virginia Employment Commission
Tim has been a staff research economist at the Virginia Employment Commission for seventeen years. He is responsible for tracking and reporting on Virginia’s economy as it relates to the workforce, along with developing economic impact assessments of existing and declining industries.
Tim has authored numerous articles regarding industrial changes in Virginia,
and has tracked and reported on the Defense Base Closure and Realignment
Commission (BRAC) for the past decade.
He recently worked with U.S. Senator John Warner, U.S. Congressman Randy
Forbes, Fort Lee, Defense Supply Center Richmond, the College of William
and Mary, and the University of Virginia in the provision of economic impact
analyses.
Tim is the current President of the Virginia Association of Economists,
and has served as Vice President and President of the Richmond Association
of Business Economists.
Tim is an adjucnt professor of International Studies at Virginia Commonwealth
University, where he received his undergraduate degree. His graduate degree
was earned at the University of Richmond.
Marina Moschos
Assistant Director of Data Warehousing
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV)
Marina Moschos is Assistant Director of Data Warehousing for the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), Virginia’s higher education coordinating agency, where she has been since 1999.
As Assistant Director of Data Warehousing, Ms. Moschos’ responsibilities include overseeing, enhancing and maintaining the development of the postsecondary education data warehouse. This includes the managing of relevant staff and the data collection system, developing, maintaining on-line reports and analytical tools for agency and public use, managing the standard data collections for all required Virginia institutions (public and private-for-profit), and assisting the Director in maintaining and ensuring the security of individual student records collected and maintained by the agency.
Ms. Moschos previously served as research specialist and student affairs analyst at SCHEV. Additionally, she worked as a research analyst at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection where she assisted in the developed and production of the Secretary’s Quarterly Performance Report, compiled and conducted statistical analysis on performance data, and tracked and reported on the activities being conducted pursuant to the Department’s Performance Partnership Agreement with the US EPA Region IV.
Ms. Moschos holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Florida State University, and a Bachelor’s of Arts in Political Science from Hope College, in Holland Michigan.
Ann Peton
Director, Center for Rural Health Policy, Education and Research
National Center for the Analysis of Healthcare Data (NCAHD)
Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Ann Peton is the Director, of the Center for Rural Health, Education and Research and the National Center for the Analysis of Healthcare Data (NCAHD) both located at the Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia. She holds a B.S. in Geography and has spent over 25 years working with local, state and national entities and individuals on using data more effectively through technology in the decision-making process, including a 4-year stint as the Director of RUPRI’s Community Information Resources Center (CIRC). More recently, Ms. Peton has partnered with healthcare providers, State Offices of Rural Health, the AMA and AOA in looking at effective and innovative ways to use mapping and data analysis to better identify solutions to a multitude of healthcare workforce policy issues.
Kenneth E. Studer, Ph.D.
Social Epidemiology and Shortage Designations Manager
Virginia Department of Health
Ken is currently the Social Epidemiology and Shortage Designations Manager for the Office of Minority Health and Public Health Policy. In his current position he is spearheading the department’s analysis of multilevel spatially referenced social, demographic, and health and health care data to provide support for community interventions and public health policy. He is also actively involved in the development of models of care for rural communities in the Commonwealth and has provided consultative support for rural health clinics, community health centers and critical access hospitals. His current research focuses on the development of targeted intervention strategies, access to health care and increase health care delivery effectiveness in rural and inner city areas.
Ken received his Ph.D. from Cornell University where his doctoral dissertation was an NIH funded evaluation of the federal “War on Cancer.” This research was later published as The Cancer Mission. Ken was also the Executive Director for the Central Virginia Health Planning Agency, the Vice-President of Health Planning for Brian Center Management Corporation and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Tanya Wanchek
Economist and Research Associate
Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
University of Virginia
Education
J.D. University of Virginia, May 2006
Ph.D. Economics, University of Washington, Seattle, Oct. 2003
B.A. University of California, Davis, 1997
Expertise
Law and Economics
Government Regulation
Economic Development
Trade and Export Development
Major Projects
Council for Virginia’s Future
Comparison of economic, environmental, and social regulation across states
Experience
Summer Associate, King & Spalding LLP, New York
Visiting Scholar, International Center for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka
Economics Instructor, University of Washington
Economics Lecturer/ Fellow, Civic Education Project, Bulgaria
Election Monitor, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Bosnia
and Herzegovina
Research Assistant, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington,
D.C.
Publications
"Why We Are Losing the Fight Against Obesity", The Virginia News
Letter, Vol. 83 No. 2, December 2007