Transitional Board of Directors

 

Mallory Curran, JD

Director of Health and Government Benefits
Manhattan Legal Services

Until 2010, Mallory was the legal director of the Community Advocacy Program (CAP), a medical-legal partnership (MLP) of the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and the MetroHealth System which serves children, the elderly, immigrants, and formerly incarcerated people in Cleveland, Ohio. Ms. Curran attended the first-ever MLP conference in Boston in September 2001, and co-founded CAP in 2002. Currently, Ms. Curran coordinates an MLP with Manhattan Legal Services, South Brooklyn Legal Services, and the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center which serves LGBTQ patients in New York City.

 

Tom Koutsoumpas
Executive Director of the Mintz Levin Center for Health Law & Policy
Senior Vice President, ML Strategies
Mintz, Levin

Tom has more than 35 years of experience in government, public policy, and issue advocacy at the federal and state levels. Before joining Mintz Levin/ML Strategies, he served as Corporate Vice President with UnitedHealth Group, where he oversaw the organization's federal government affairs and operations. Prior to his work with UnitedHealth Group, he was Executive Vice President and Chief of Public Affairs at VITAS Healthcare Corporation, the nation's largest provider of hospice care. Tom has provided invaluable advisory assistance to the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership.

 

Edward Paul, MD
Associate Professor
Family & Community Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine

Dr. Paul is a board certified actively practicing family physician who has been a residency program director at both University and community hospital settings and in residency education for most of his career. He was the medical director of Tucson Family Advocacy program based at The University of Arizona, Department of Family Medicine Residency Program and he has written about the importance of including MLP training in primary care residency curricula. Dr. Paul is a strong advocate of the Patient Centered Medical Home and including MLP’s as part of the interdisciplinary patient care team.

 

Robert Pettignano, MD

Dr. Pettignano is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at EmoryUniversityand medical champion of the Health Law Partnership at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding. He has practiced both in the private and academic sectors. Dr. Pettignano completed medical school at RossUniversity(Dominica, West Indies), his pediatric residency at NewarkBethIsraelMedicalCenter, his pediatric critical care fellowship at Egleston Children’s Hospital at EmoryUniversity, and his MBA at KennesawStateUniversity. He was elected to the AmericanCollegeof Critical Care in 200, and has been recognized EmoryUniversitypediatric residents and Orlando Regional Healthcare as Teach of the Year. In addition to his role on the Transitional Advisory Board, Dr. Pettignano serves on the MLP Network Advisory Council.

Anne Sowell, LISW-S, ACSW

Former Manager of Behavioral Health Services

Center for Community Health, MetroHealth Medical Center

 

Anne Sowell formerly directed the Community Advocacy Program, a medical-legal partnership with the MetroHealth System in Cleveland, OH.
 

Woody Thorne, MSEd

Vice President, Community Affairs
Southern Illinois Healthcare

William Russel "Woody" Thorne serves as the Vice President of Community Affairs for Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH). SIH is an integrated health care system comprised of three hospitals, multi-specialty physician facilities, and clinics with the mission of improving the health and well being of all of those residing in the communities served by SIH facilities. Thorne oversees the organization's marketing and communications functions, charitable foundation, and community health improvement work through their Community Benefits department. Thorne is an active volunteer and board member on numerous community and regional economic development and health planning organizations.

 

Liz Tobin Tyler, JD, MA
Director of Public Service and Community Partnerships
Roger Williams University School of Law

Liz Tobin Tyler is the Director of Public Service and Community Partnerships and a Lecturer in Public Interest Law at Roger Williams University School of Law. Since 2003, she has taught a joint medical-legal course with faculty from Brown University Medical School on social justice advocacy through medical-legal partnership. She is the senior editor of Poverty, Health and Law: Readings and Cases for Medical-Legal Partnership, published by Carolina Academic Press in August 2011. In 2006, she was honored by the Legal Services Corporation for her work in developing the Rhode Island Medical-Legal Partnership for Children at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, one of the first MLPs in the country.