Sheila Cromer presently serves on the Copernicus Group IRB Institutional Board as a Board Member and member of their Satety Review Committee. In 2008/09 she worked as a nurse consultant with Eastern AHEC working on the CDC Quality Improvement Grant in Eastern North Carolina to improve Perinatal Testing of Pregnant Women.

Prior to these roles she served the Women’s and Children’s Health Section in the North Carolina Division of Public Health for almost 15 years in different roles. Sheila is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, the most recent one being North Carolina Order of the Long Leaf Pine. She was selected as the MCH Nurse of the Year by the NC Nurses Association/March of Dimes Awards Committee in 1997. She also serves on a variety of councils and boards such as American Nursing Association, North Carolina Nursing Association, Wake ARC, and World Games Special Olympics, Inc. She is a graduate of Sandhills Community College, NC (A.D.N), University of Florida (W.H.N.P), University of North Carolina – Greensboro (B.S.N) and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (M.S.P.H).

Lloyd F. Novick is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health at the Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University. He has served as the Commissioner of Health and Secretary for Human Services of Vermont, Director of Health Services for Arizona and Director of the Office of Public Health for New York State. Previous academic positions include Professor and Director of the Preventive Medicine Program for SUNY Upstate Medical University, Professor and Chair of Epidemiology at the University of Albany School of Public Health, and Clinical Professor and Director of the Teaching Program in Epidemiology and Public health at the University of Vermont, College of Medicine. As Chair of the Council on Linkages between Academia and Public Health Practice, and as a consultant member of the United States Public Health Services Task Force on Community Preventive Services, he led national efforts to develop evidence-based practice guidelines for public health.

Dr. Novick is editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. He is also editor of five books including Public Health Administration: Principles for Population-Based Management; Public Health Issues in Disaster Preparedness; Community-Based Prevention Programs that Work; Public Health Leaders Tell Their Stories; and Health Problems in the Prison Setting. He is past president of a number of national and statewide public health associations including the Association of Teachers of Prevention and Research (APTR), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), New York Association of County Health Officials (NYSACHO), and the New York City Public Health Association (NYCPHA).

He has received a number of national awards including Special Recognition Award, American College of Preventive Medicine (2005); Duncan Clark Award, Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (2003); Yale University Distinguished Service Award (2003); Excellence in Health Administration, American Public Health Association (2001); and the Arthur T. McCormack Award, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (1992). He is a graduate of Colgate University (BA); New York University (MD) and Yale University (MPH).

In January 2009, Kellan was hired as Care Share's Executive Director. She is responsible for the overall strategic direction, management, fundraising and evaluation for the organization. Kellan has more than 20 years of experience working with nonprofits and corporations. Prior to joining Care Share, she worked as the program manager for the health of vulnerable populations with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation. She has also served in corporate communications/foundation with Progress Energy, and as president/founder of a private consulting company that helped nonprofits with strategic planning, fundraising and marketing.

Kellan earned a Bachelor of Science in Communication from Ohio University and a Master's in Public Health from the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is the 2010 recipient of "Jacob Koomen Public Health Practice Award," presented by the faculty of UNC's Department of Health Policy and Management.

Ilona Page is a Staff Accountant at William H. Bunch, CPA in Chapel Hill. Prior to her career in accounting, she gained more than nine years’ experience successfully marketing and meeting the business management needs of a non-profit literary magazine. She holds a Master of Accounting and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dorothy Cilenti is currently Deputy Director of the North Carolina Institute for Public Health and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health at Chapel Hill. Dorothy was previously the Local Health Director of Alamance and Chatham counties in North Carolina. Under her leadership, both health departments attained accreditation. She also served as the Deputy Director of the NC Division of Public Health prior to assuming her local positions. She received her master's in public health and social work from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1989. In 2009, she completed a doctoral program in Health Policy and Management at the Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Dr. Leah Devlin received her dental degree and masters degree in public health administration at the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus. At UNC she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and the School of Public Health’s honor society. In 2008 she was recognized with the UNC Distinguished Alumni Award.

Dr. Devlin began her professional career at the Wake County Department of Health where she served as Director for ten years. Dr. Devlin joined the NC Department of Health & Human Services in 1996 and began serving as State Health Director in 2001. She is Past President of the NC Association of Local Health Directors, Past President of the NC Public Health Association and Past President of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). In 2009 Dr. Devlin became a Gillings Visiting Professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

David Gardner is the Section Chief for Healthy Schools at the NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Dr. Gardner joined the Healthy Schools Section at DPI in December 2008 after 22 years on the management staff of WakeMed Health and Hospitals. Dr. Gardner has taught at the secondary and college/university levels, developed and directed worksite wellness, cardiac rehabilitation and adult wellness programs and has served on numerous local, state and national boards, councils, committees and collaboratives related to schools, community health and obesity prevention.

Dr. Gardner is a Raleigh native and received his BS and Master’s degrees in Health and Physical Education at Appalachian State University and his Doctoral degree in Physical Education Pedagogy at Middle Tennessee State University.

Sherry Lehman currently works for North Carolina Division of Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch. With the Division, Sherry is a part-time school consultant for the Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide Prevention Grant. Sherry transitioned into public health from the Department of Public Instruction, Healthy Schools where she was the Section Chief with expertise in Coordinated School Health. Previously, Sherry worked for 14 years in corporate and hospital based worksite wellness. Sherry has an under graduate degree in exercise science and a master’s degree in counselor education and is a Licensed Professional Counselor in North Carolina.

Harriett Smalls received her law degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1999. Ms. Smalls provides legal services to a variety of health care providers. Ms. Smalls' health care practice includes patient confidentiality, disclosure of medical records, certificate of need, medical malpractice, regulatory and administrative issues, licensure and certification and fraud and abuse issues. She is also a certified mediator. Ms. Smalls has 22 years of experience as a registered nurse, including 18 years as a Certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. She continues to work on a PRN basis as a neonatal nurse practitioner at Forsyth Medical Center.

She currently serves on the following boards:

• Moses Cone Wesley Long Community Health Foundation, Board of Directors 2008-present
• University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Law Foundation 2007- present
• National Conference of Women's Bar Associations, Board of Directors 2007- present
• Triad March of Dimes Board of Directors 2007- present
• Bell House Board of Directors, President 2004-2006, Immediate Past-President 2006-2007
• NC Society of Health Care Attorneys 2009- present
• Genesis Baptist Church Board of Trustees, Vice Chair

She is the president-elect of the 18th Judicial District Bar, which is the state district bar for the judges and lawyers of Guilford County. Ms. Smalls has made presentations concerning HIPAA, documentation, confidentiality of medical records and consent of minors.

She was recently named the 2009 Outstanding Recent Graduate by the UNC Law Alumni Association and in 2008 was awarded the Health Care Hero award for non-physicians by High Point Regional Hospital and Mag Mutual.

In 2003, James V. Taggart left a successful career as a high-technology sales and marketing executive to start Physicians Pharmacy Alliance (PPA), a private, non-retail pharmacy catering to patients on chronic, long-term, multi –drug regimens. As Founder and CEO, Taggart has led his team of pharmacists, sales executives, and specialty staff to become the state's largest private Medicaid provider. Taggart's company has been lauded by numerous North Carolina healthcare agencies for its efforts and has been publicly recognized in publications across North Carolina, including the Raleigh News & Observer. In 2007, 2008, and 2009 Physicians Pharmacy Alliance won a Triangle Business Journal Fast 50 Award and earned the recognition of being listed as one of the top 10 fastest growing companies in the Triangle area. Before starting Physicians Pharmacy Alliance, Taggart enjoyed 19 years of vocational success at IBM, Tangram Enterprise Solutions Inc., and MicroMass Communications.