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Board Members
Charles Phillips, MEd - Chairman
CMC-NorthEast/Cabarrus Health Alliance
Mr. Phillips received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill. He also received a
Master of Education in Technical Education from NC State University with a major in administration and
a minor in organic chemistry. Mr. Phillips has served on various local, regional, and state boards and
study groups relating to laboratory medicine and public health. He has been Chairman of the Cabarrus Health
Alliance Board for over 10 years, and a resident of Concord for almost 20 years. Mr. Phillips is employed at
CMC-NorthEast as a clinical laboratory consultant to physicians (the Lab Answer Guy). His last publication
was in Liver Transplantation on the impact of different analytic methods on interinstitutional variation in MELD scores.
Andrew Harver, PhD - Vice Chairman
UNCC/Charlotte Research Institute
Andrew Harver joined the UNC Charlotte faculty in 1991 as a member of the Department of Psychology in the
College of Arts and Sciences where he achieved the rank of full professor in 2001; since 2002 he has been
a Faculty Associate in the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics. Dr. Harver was a founding member
and chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Administration established in 2002 as part of the
reorganization of the College of Health and Human Services. In 2007 the Department was renamed to Public
Health Sciences to better reflect the unit's larger-scale set of current and planned research programs,
degree offerings, and service activities that are relevant to contemporary public health. Before moving
to Charlotte he completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Department of Physiology at Dartmouth
Medical School (1984-1987) and held teaching and research positions at the State University of New York
at Stony Brook (1987-1991). Harver holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in Seattle,
and master's and doctoral degrees in experimental psychology from Ohio University in Athens.
Harver's research program results from a blend of training and interests in experimental psychology,
respiratory physiology, and pulmonary medicine. He has published 50 peer-reviewed journal articles
and book chapters; and made over 100 presentations at national and international scientific meetings.
His work examines factors that affect the perception of dyspnea, or shortness of breath, in patients with
obstructive lung disease, as well as the impact of these factors on the management of disease. His research
is currently supported by a major grant from the National Institutes of Health, Project on TRAC: Improving
Asthma Control in Children. He is co-editor (with Harry Kotses) of the volume, Self-Management of Asthma
(1998); and, is currently preparing (with Harry Kotses) a second volume, Asthma, Health, and Society.
Steven H. Zeisel, MD, PhD
UNC Nutrition Research Institute
Steven Zeisel is the Kenan Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Nutrition in the Gillings
School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also the Director
of the UNC's Clinical Nutrition Center and is the Director of the UNC's School of Public Health's Nutrition
Research Institute at the newly formed North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
He served as chair of the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
from 1990-2005. He is a recent past- president of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, and
is currently a member of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and the American
College of Nutrition and the Society for Pediatric Research, among others. He has served on the Annual
Review of Nutrition's editorial committee and continues to serve on the FASEB Journal editorial board.
Dr. Zeisel is a member of the World Cancer Research Fund's Expert Panel on "Food, Nutrition and the
Prevention of Cancer: a global perspective." He serves as the principal investigator on multiple federally
funded research projects that focus on human requirements for choline and the effects of this nutrient
on brain development. He has authored more than 260 scientific publications. Dr. Zeisel earned his M.D.
from Harvard Medical School in 1975, was a resident in pediatrics at Yale University from 1975-1977,
and earned his Ph.D. in nutrition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.
David C. Nieman, DrPH, FACSM
Appalachian State University Human Performance Lab
David Nieman is a professor of health and exercise science, and director of the Human Performance Labs at
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, and the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, NC. Dr.
Nieman is a pioneer in the research area of exercise immunology and helped establish that regular moderate
exercise lowers upper respiratory tract infection rates while improving immunosurveillance, and that heavy
exertion increases infection rates while causing immune dysfunction. His current research is focused on
nutritional countermeasures to exercise-induced immune dysfunction including unique plant molecules such
as quercetin, isoquercetin, epigallocatechin 3-gallate, and beta-glucan. Dr. Nieman has received $4.1
million in research grants and published more than 230 peer-reviewed publications in journals and books,
and sits on nine journal editorial boards including the Journal of Applied Physiology and Medicine and
Science in Sports and Exercise. He is the author of nine books on health, exercise physiology, and nutrition,
including Exercise Testing and Prescription: A Health-Related Approach (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010, now in
its 7th edition). Dr. Nieman has served two terms as president of the International Society of Exercise
and Immunology, and is currently running for Vice-President of the American College of Sports Medicine.
He has run 58 marathons and ultramarathons, and was an acrobatic gymnast and coach for 10 years.
His marathon PR is 2:37, and he has run the Pikes Peak Marathon twice, with a 16th place finish.
Ryan Brown, MD
NorthEast Inpatient Services
Ryan Brown was born and raised in the Washington DC area. Dr. Brown graduated college from Duke University
and went to medical school at UNC Chapel Hill (yes, I cheer for my undergraduate school). He completed his
residency training at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Internal Medicine. Dr. Brown served 4 years in the
US Navy as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences School
of Medicine then as Chief of the Internal Medicine Department at Corpus Christi Medical Center. After
leaving the military, he came to Concord where he joined the NorthEast Inpatient Services and has served
as the medical director for the last 7 years. Dr. Brown has served on the Board of Directors for First
Assembly Christian School, the Board of Directors for Cabarrus County Hospice, and the Strategic Planning
Committee for the NEMC Board of Directors. Dr. Brown is married with 2 young girls, ages 8 and 12, who
are his heart and soul, and also enjoys playing golf.
Faye Calhoun, DPA, MS
North Carolina Central University JLC-Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute
Faye J. Calhoun joined North Carolina Central University in January 2009 as Interim Director, Julius L. Chambers
Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute. Dr. Calhoun retired from the position of Deputy Director of the
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), where she cultivated and fostered partnerships
with other agencies and organizations, both national and international. Prior to that she served as Director
of the Office of Collaborative Research at NIAAA, where she guided a wide range of alcohol-related programs,
including the National Alcohol Screening Day, Alcohol Research Centers and institutional training grants,
programs in alcohol and HIV/AIDS research, and programs addressing health disparities. She created and
chaired the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, co-chaired the Advisory Committee
for the SAMHSA-sponsored Center for Excellence on FAS and served as the continuing member on the government's
National Task Force on FAS. She received a lifetime achievement award for her work in this area. Her 25
years with NIH included service as the Deputy Chief of Review for the Division of Research Grants,
renamed the Center for Scientific Review. Her career included positions with the Food and Drug
Administration and the National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. She received her doctoral degree in Public Administration from the
University of Southern California and her MS degree in endocrinology and biochemistry from Howard
University. She is the recipient of the NIH Director's Award and the Research Society on Alcoholism
(RSA) Sexias Award for Distinguished Service, among many other awards.
Victoria Christian
Duke University/M.U.R.D.O.C.K. Study
Victoria Christian has worked in healthcare and research settings since 1975 when she took her first job as a
recreational therapist at New York Hospital. Victoria has worked in areas including experimental psychology,
crisis intervention, women's health, clinical research in cardiac electrophysiology, and translational research
in environments spanning academic medicine, the global contract research and pharmaceutical sectors, and by founding
a start-up company in 2003. She currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of the Duke Translational Research
Institute and oversees Duke activities on the NCRC.
Paige Waldrop, MSPH - Secretary
PHRI Director
Paige Waldrop is the Executive Director of Cabarrus Health Alliance's new Cabarrus Public Health Research Institute (PHRI).
Ms. Waldrop also serves as the Program Manager for the NC Regional Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program, and the
Healthy Lives, Healthy Futures Program at CHA. She possesses a Bachelor's degree in Health Promotion from Appalachian
State University and a Master's degree in Public Health with a focus in Epidemiology from the University of South Carolina. Her work focuses primarily on community outreach and prevention programming, as well as systems-level policy and environmental changes related to chronic disease risk factors and prevention. She has been with CHA for over four years. Ms. Waldrop also played a lead role on CHA’s 2007-2008 team that participated in UNC Chapel Hill’s Management Academy for Public Health, where she developed the concept and co-created the business plan for KIWEE Institute (Kids Involved in Wellness, Education, and Enrichment), the model healthy child care center proposed be located on the North Carolina Research Campus.
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