RFP DP Team Description
CO-TEAM LEADERS
Duke Faculty
Gloria Trujillo, MD, Medical Director Duke Family Medicine (DFM) teaches chronic disease management to students and residents. Assists with IT development via feedback of chronic disease management working group for electronic disease registry development and leads the Diabetes Collaborative at DFM.
Kathy Trotter, MSN, CNM, FNP is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Duke University School of Nursing. She is a national Centering Healthcare Institute trainer in group healthcare methods. She practices in the Duke Breast Clinics and developed the first Breast Cancer Survivor Clinic at Duke Oncology in Spring, 2008. This innovative multidisciplinary group healthcare model has been well received. She has practiced full scope midwifery for 18 years, and worked in primary care for 10 years.
Community Leaders
Nicole Weedon, MSW, Durham County Social Services is a community social worker currently targeting high risk patients with diabetes in the community and works with the Diabetes Collaborative at DFM.
Michele Easterling, MPH, RD, LDN,Clinical Nutrition Program Manager, Durham County Health Department. She currently oversees medical nutrition therapy services in clinics and home visit settings. Experienced in community assessment, program planning, administration and evaluation and conducting individual and group interventions.
PROJECT MANAGER
Allison Vorderstrasse, DNSc, APRN is an Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Nursing. She is an Adult NP with a specialty in diabetes care and has experience in behavioral diabetes research, specifically working with African American women.
DUKE PHYSICIAN
Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, MD, FAAFP, Assistant Professor & Associate Residency Director DFM. She teaches and implements resident training in chronic disease management. She is also a community trained faculty for Duke community sites in DurhamCounty.
DUKE NURSE
Katherine Pereira, MSN, FNP, ADM-BC is a nurse practitioner in the Division of Endocrinology at Duke PDC, and assistant clinical professor at the Duke School of Nursing. She has over 6 years experience in the clinical care of patients with complicated diabetes, and is board certified in Advanced Diabetes Management. She also teaches the Advanced Diabetes Management class for nurse practitioner students at the SON.
Jacqueline Tatum, MSN, RNhas held, and continues in clinical leadership and community-based public health roles for more than thirty years, currently at the DurhamVA. This afforded the opportunity to gain experience in the planning of care and interventions for special populations, including the education of multidisciplinary health care teams that care for diverse populations. She serves as the Patient Health Education Coordinator at the DurhamVeteransAffairsMedicalCenter.
DUKE ADMINISTRATOR
Fran Mauney,BSN, MEd, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Duke School of Nursing, has extensive, varied background in development and implementation of health care programs across all sectors of the community. She has been and will continue to be closely involved in the planning process.
TEAM MEMBERS
Sarah McBane, PharmD, Campbell University/DFM faculty. She teaches pharmD, family medicine residents, PA students, and medical students in chronic disease pharmacy management and sits on the Diabetes Collaborative at DFM. Played major role in initial development of in-office group care.
Bettina Karpathianis an RN case manager working with Latch/ Project Access since November 2008. Her role on the project is representing LATCH, PADC, and DARA (Hispanic support group at LincolnHospital) and the patients they assist. In her role at DARA, she coordinates a volunteer run community based health support group for Latinos with a focus on diabetes, which has met monthly at Lincoln since 2004.
Kelly O'Daniel, MPHis a Health Educator with the Diabetes Empowerment Program at LincolnCommunityHealthCenter. She provides one-on-one education and glucometer use training for diabetic patients; organizes and facilitates diabetes group classes; and works with Lincoln’s Hispanic Diabetes Support Group and Lincoln Walk Club.
Neil Williams is a clinical pharmacist who is co-founder of and Vice President of Clinical Services for Medication Management, LLC, a clinical pharmacy practice specializing in the management of chronic diseases. He is also licensed with the North Carolina Medical Board as a Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner. Neil is also the project manager for the North Carolina ePrescribing initiative which is a collaborative effort with Community Care of North Carolina and Blue Cross Blue Shield aimed at promoting and supporting electronic prescribing throughout the state.