Staff

Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, Principal Investigator

Fitzhugh Mullan, MD is the Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and a Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He is also a member of the medical staff at the Upper Cardozo Community Health Center in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Mullan graduated from Harvard University and from the University of Chicago Medical School and is board certified in pediatrics. He served 23 years in the United States Public Health Service starting as a physician in the National Health Service Corps and later as director of the program. He subsequently worked at the NIH, served on the staff of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, directed the Bureau of Health Professions, and attained the rank of Assistant Surgeon General. During his PHS tenure he also served as Secretary of Health and Environment for the Sate of New Mexico, as a member of the Council on Graduate Medical Education, and on the President's Task Force on Health Care Reform.

Since 1998, Dr. Mullan has been on faculty at George Washington University. His research focuses on health workforce policy in the United States and globally. He has written widely for both professional and general audiences on medical and health policy topics. He is a contributing editor to the policy journal Health Affairs and the editor of that journal's "Narrative Matters" section. His books include White Coat Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American Physician, Vital Signs: A Young Doctor's Struggle with Cancer, Plagues and Politics: The Story of the United States Public Health Service, Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care. He is the senior editor of the Institute of Medicine 2005 report, Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to Human Resource Crisis in the HIV/AIDS and Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health.

Dr. Mullan is the Founding President of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. He serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Health Museum and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Candice Chen, MD MPH, Co-Principal Investigator

Candice Chen, MD MPH is the Co-Principal Investigator of the Medical Education Futures Study at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services and an Attending Physician at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Chen received her MD from Baylor College of Medicine and her MPH from George Washington University with a concentration in Community Oriented Primary Care. In her clinical work, she provides primary care to an underserved population in Southeast, D.C. and is investigating the role of medical education in developing a socially responsible physician workforce.

Dr. Chen has also developed an online advocacy education site, www.AdvocacyOnCall.org, to increase resident and physician basic knowledge on federal programs affecting the health and well-being children and a community campaign to increase youth participation in after-school activities with the goal of reducing high-risk behaviors.

Gretchen Kolsky, MPH CHES, Research Project Director

Gretchen Kolsky, MPH is the Research Project Director for the Medical Education Futures Study at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
Ms. Kolsky received her MPH with honors from George Washington University with a concentration in maternal and child health, her BA from Wesleyan University, and completed the Health Careers Program at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Medical Education Futures Study, her work focused on mental health and substance abuse, health issues of children in the public child welfare system, and state Medicaid policy and programs. In the past she worked with Dr. Mullan as an editorial and research assistant at the policy journal Health Affairs.

Sarah Diamond, Senior Research Assistant

Sarah Diamond is the Senior Research Assistant for the Medical Education Futures Study at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. The majority of Sarah's work is with the Beyond Flexner project and the GME Outcomes project. She will receive her MPH in Global Health from The George Washington University in May 2012.