OSAP-NIOSH BBP Grant Committee Roster
NIOSH Project Officer:
Susan McCrone PhD PMHCNS-BC RN
West Virginia University
Wqd5@cdc.gov
smccrone@wvu.edu
Helen Ristic PhD
American Dental Association
Chicago, IL
(800) 621-8099 x2553
ristich@ada.org
OSAP Project Officer:
Beverly Isman RDH MPH ELS
Davis, CA
(530) 758-1456
Bev.isman@comcast.net
Olivia Wann RDA BS JD
Modern Practice Solutions
Dover, TN
(931) 232-7738
Olivia@modernpracticesol.com
Committee Chair:
Kandis Garland RDH MS
Idaho State University
Pocatello, ID
(208) 282-6461
garlkand@isu.edu
Committee Consultants:
Kathy Eklund RDH MHP (OSAP Board Liaison)
Forsyth Institute
Boston, MA
(617) 892-8216
keklund@forsyth.org
Committee Members:
Helene Bednarsh RDH MPH
Boston Public Health Commission
Boston, MA
(617) 534-3737
Helene_bednarsh@bphc.org
Shira Kramer PhD
Epidemiology International
Baltimore, MD
410-581-9450
shira.kramer@gmail.com
Amy Collins MPH BS BSN
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Atlanta, GA
(770) 488-5808
acollns@cdc.gov
Therese Long MBA CAE
OSAP
Annapolis, MD
(800) 298-6727
tlong@osap.org
BIOSKETCHES:
Eve Cuny MS
Pacific University School of Dentistry
San Francisco, CA
(415) 929-6610
Ecuny@uop.edu
Karen Gregory RN
Total Medical Compliance
Charlotte, NC
(980) 233-1543
karen@totalmedicalcompliance.com
Angela Laramie MPH
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Boston, MA
(617) 624-5641
Angela.laramie@state.ma.us
Beverly Isman RDH MPH ELS
Dental public health consultant currently serving as the
Cooperative Agreement Manager for the Association of
State and Territorial Dental Directors and as Faculty for
the ATSU School of Health Management’s online MPH
program. Previously she was a Public Health Advisor
with the Indian Health Service; Director of the Division of
Dental Health, Maine Bureau of Health; Associate
Professor in Applied Dentistry at the University of
Colorado School of Dentistry; Chief of Dental Hygiene,
JFK Child Development Center at the University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center; and Program
Associate, Institute for the Study of Mental Retardation
and Related Disabilities in Ann Arbor, MI. She has
worked extensively with community-based programs for
young children, children and adults with special health
care needs, migrant families, elders, and homeless
families.
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Helene Bednarsh RDH MPH
Kandis Garland RDH MS
Director of the HIV Dental Ombudsperson Program,
Boston Public Health Commission. She received a B.S.
and a Certificate in Dental Hygiene from the University of
Michigan and a Masters in Public Health from the
University of Texas, Health Sciences Center at Houston.
She is Vice President of HIVDENT. She is a member of
the New England AIDS Education and Training Center
faculty and serves as their Dental Director. She was a
member of the ADA/DAAC special workgroup on the
Management of Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne
Pathogens and Evaluation of Occupational Exposure to
TB.
Assistant Professor, First-Year Clinical Coordinator, and
Health & Safety Coordinator in the Department of Dental
Hygiene, Idaho State University. With 14 years of clinical
dental hygiene experience, she serves as a content
expert on the American Dental Association National
Board Dental Hygiene Test Construction Committee.
Professor Garland's research focuses on infection
control topics and has been published in refereed and
peer-reviewed journals. She has presented her research
at local, state, national, and international meetings.
Amy Collins, MPH, BS, BSN CAPT, USPHS
Director of Compliance and Education for Total Medical
Compliance, Inc. where she is responsible for the
development and supervision of compliance programs
within the organization. TMC provides onsite OSHA,
infection control, HIPAA compliance solutions to dental
and medical practices as well as seminars and webinars
on various compliance issues. She has over 20 years’
experience working in the outpatient environment, both
at the front line delivering patient care and in the
management arena.
Epidemiologist, Dental Infection Control, Division of Oral
Health, CDC. CAPT Collins worked as a research
microbiologist at the Uniformed Services University of
Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD; critical care nurse
with certification in emergency nursing in the United
States Navy; and practiced hospital epidemiology and
infection control at the National Institutes of Health
Clinical Center. In 2005, she was bestowed the Florence
Nightingale Award by the International Committee of the
Red Cross. She obtained bachelor’s degrees in
microbiology from Georgia State University, nursing from
the University of Maryland, and a master’s degree in
public health in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins
University.
Eve Cuny MS
Director of Environmental Health and Safety and
Assistant Professor in the department of Dental Practice
at Pacific Dugoni School of Dentistry. Ms. Cuny is a
consultant to the ADA Council on Scientific Affairs and
the FDI Education Committee. She has served as an
expert reviewer and advisor to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and is past chairperson of the
Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention
(OSAP). She is an internationally recognized expert in
infection control in dentistry; publishing, consulting and
lecturing throughout North America, Latin America,
Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Kathy Eklund RDH MHP
Director of Infection Control and Occupational Health,
and Research Subject and Patient Safety Advocate at
the Forsyth Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. She is
an adjunct associate professor at the Massachusetts
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Forsyth
School of Dental Hygiene, where she teaches senior
level courses in oral health research. She has published
numerous articles and contributed to several texts and
educational learning modules on infection prevention
and control. She is one of the authors of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guidelines for
Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings- 2003.
Karen Gregory RN
Shira Kramer PhD
Founder and President of EI, has over 30 years of
diverse public health experience in all aspects and
phases of epidemiological research. She is the co-author
of two textbooks on epidemiology and has highly
specialized expertise in environmental and occupational
risk factors for chronic diseases. Her goal is to move
away from the traditional risk model of epidemiology as a
science that simply measures associations between
exposure and disease, to a focus on using data and
knowledge to improve community health.
Angela Laramie MPH
An epidemiologist with the Sharps Injury Surveillance
Project in the Occupational Health Surveillance Program
at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. She
has participated in national workgroups addressing
sharps injuries and has presented findings from the
Sharps Injury Surveillance Project at national and
international meetings. She has collaborated with the
CDC, piloting a web-based system for bloodborne
pathogen exposure surveillance as well as the
Workbook for Designing, Implementing and Evaluating a
Sharps Injury Prevention Program. She also works
closely with hospitals across the state providing
technical assistance regarding sharps injury surveillance
and prevention. In addition to sharps injury prevention,
her work also focuses on musculoskeletal disorders
among healthcare workers. She received her MPH from
Boston University School of Public Health and has spent
nearly her entire career addressing work-related injuries
among health care workers.
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Helen Ristic PhD
Director of Scientific Information with the American
Dental Association since 2004. Helen came to the ADA
in 2000 as the assistant director of the Seal of
Acceptance Program. Before coming to the ADA, Helen
was a research professor in the department of
Neurology at Northwestern University. She completed
post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Michigan in
the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology
after receiving a PhD in Pharmacology at the University
of Illinois at Chicago. She has over 20 years of
experience in basic, applied and clinical research, and
publishing in peer-reviewed journals.
Olivia Wann RDA BS JD
Founder and owner of Modern Practice Solutions
consulting with the dental profession on compliance
issues. She originally was a Dental Office Manager,
later serving as a Dental Software Support Technician
and continues to maintain a current license as a
Registered Dental Assistant. She participated in Georgia
Tech's Course in Occupational Safety & Health
Standards for General Industry and is authorized by the
Department of Labor as an OSHA Outreach Trainer. She
earned a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Health Care
Administration and a Doctorate in Jurisprudence.
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