PHL Health Advisors Task Force

Updated: October 14, 2021

The PHL Health Advisors represent a wide range of expertise in fields like public health, infectious disease, medical research, and mental health among many others. The subcommittee serves as a trusted resource of accurate and timely medical information and local medical advancements in the fight against COVID-19.

• Marguerite Ambrose, PhD, RN, APRN-BC, CNE
  Assistant Professor of Graduate Nursing, West Chester University
• Jonathan Epstein, MD
  Executive Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
• Shara I. Epstein, MD
  Medical Director, COVID Containment Unit, City of Philadelphia
• Leonard Friedland, MD
  Vice President, Director Scientific Affairs and Public Health, GSK Vaccines
• Loretta Sweet Jemmott, PhD, RN, FAAN
  Vice President, Health and Health Equity; Professor, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University.
• T. Dianne Langford, PhD
  Assistant Dean, Research, Lewis Katz School of Medicine Temple University
• Betty Long, RN, MHA
  President and CEO, Guardian Nurses
• Edith Mitchell, MD, MACP, FCPP
  Clinical Professor, Oncologist, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
• Christopher Molineaux
  President, Life Sciences Pennsylvania
• Sharon Murphy-Potts
  Medical Case Manager, Genex Services
• David B. Nash, MD, MBA
  Founding Dean Emeritus, Dr. Raymnd C. & Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy, Thomas Jefferson College of Population Health
• Shawn O’Brien
  CEO, Genomind
• Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, MPH
  Executive Director, Center for Public Health Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania
• Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD
  President and Chief Executive Officer, ECRI Institute
• Jared M. Shinabery, MPH
  Deputy Secretary for Health Resources and Services/Chief Business Analytics Officer, Pennsylvania Department of Health
• Kenny Simansky, PhD
  Vice Dean for Research, Professor of Pharmacology, Drexel College of Medicine
• Heather Steinman, PhD, MBA
  Vice President for Business Development and Executive Director of Technology Transfer, The Wistar Institute
• Edgar Vesga-Arias, MPR, CMI
  President, Philadelphia International Medicine
• Barbara Wadsworth, DNP, RN, FACHE, FAAN, NEA-BC
  Senior Vice President & Chief Nursing Officer
• Michelle Washko
  President, Life Sciences Innovations
• Darryl Williams, PhD
  Vice President of Science and Education, The Franklin Institute