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Melissa Chadwick
Web
Master/Administrative Assistant
Melissa earned
her Bachelors degree in Media Arts and Animation from The Art
Institute of Fort Lauderdale. She has extensive experience as an
Administrative Assistant and has worked for the USM Muskie
School with the Mainely Nutrition Network and Central Maine
Power to name a few. She handles the maintenance of the website,
graphic design, and provides administrative support to the staff
and consultants of MCPH. |
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Kim Dube
Director of Finance &
Administration
Kim earned Bachelor degrees in Accounting and Business
Administration from Husson College. She handles all finances,
human resources, and IT for MCPH. Her previous experience ranges
from managing a satellite office for a manufacturing company to
working with employee benefits in the insurance industry. She
also holds a license in Life and Health Insurance. |
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Karen Foster
Interim Chief
Executive Officer
Karen Foster has an independent
consulting practice serving clients in the arts, social
services, healthcare, land management and education. She
focuses on helping nonprofit boards with strategic planning,
governance and board development. She also specializes in
executive transitions and has served as interim executive
director for Frannie Peabody Center, Maine Civil Liberties
Union, Portland Symphony Orchestra and Abbe Museum. She has
served on numerous nonprofit boards and has designed and
delivered board development workshops for The Board Network and
Institute for Civic Leadership.
Between 1978
and 2000, Karen held multiple management and senior executive
positions at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine where she was
responsible, at various times, for strategic and business
planning, product development, market research, sales and
marketing, benefit plan consulting, and worksite wellness
programs.
She has a
bachelor of science degree in Occupational Therapy from the
University of New Hampshire. |
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Melissa Furtado, MPH
Evaluation Specialist
Melissa Furtado is an
Evaluation Specialist at MCPH. She earned her BS degree in
Biology from the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, and
MPH degree in Global Health and Infectious Disease Epidemiology
from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. While pursuing her
graduate degree, she worked with the WHO Global Salmonella
Surveillance Group at CDC Atlanta on evaluation of international
training courses on laboratory-based detection and surveillance
of enteric pathogens, and with the Karnataka Health Promotion
Trust in India on a baseline Integrated Behavioral and
Biological Assessment of HIV and other STIs in the MSM
population in Mysore district. |
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Sarah Levin Martin, PhD
Research Associate
Sarah has over 20 years of
experience in the Public Health arena, beginning with the
Pawtucket Heart Health Project in RI in the late 1980's.
She has a doctoral degree in epidemiology, and specializes in
the program evaluation. Sarah is the lead author of the
"Physical Activity Evaluation Handbook" which she wrote in her
tenure as a health scientist for the CDC's Physical Activity and
Health Branch. Her career spans health promotion and research
projects with youth in the Northeast, Native Americans in the
Southwest, African Americans in the Southeast, the Catawba
Indian Tribe of the Carolinas, and the entire nation in her role
with the federal government. Sarah is the lead author of
over 25 peer-reviewed journal articles. |
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Carry Oostveen-Buterbaugh, MS
Senior Evaluator
Carry Buterbaugh is a Senior
Evaluator at MCPH. Currently she is an evaluator for the Maine
Asthma Plan. For multiple years Carry worked as a graduate
research analyst on public health projects through the
Muskie School of Public Service. She also provided technical
assistance to education and outreach efforts conducted through
the Gulf of Maine Census of Marine Life - project. Prior to
moving to Maine Carry worked on several community based outreach
initiatives while working as an Extension Specialist at Clemson
University, and Extension Educator at Cornell University. She
earned her Bachelor's degree in Business Economics in the The
Netherlands, her Master's degree in Applied Economics and
Statistics from Clemson University, and is currently finishing
up her PhD in Public Policy at the Muskie School at the
University of Southern Maine. |
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RuthAnne Spence, PhD
Lead Evaluator/Research Associate
RuthAnne provides lead evaluation
and research expertise to a variety of programs at the MCPH. RuthAnne
is working with both state government and community-based
programs to improve health and welfare outcomes for the citizens
of Maine. Working across multiple systems and disciplines has
been the hallmark of RuthAnne’s extensive experience in
teaching, social services administration, research, and program
development and evaluation. She holds a PhD from the Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Policy at Syracuse University,
and MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and a
BS from the University of Maine at Orono. Prior to joining the
MCPH this year, RuthAnne spent eight years at the Muskie School
of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine developing
interdisciplinary case management systems and integrated funding
models for youth with disabilities. Before returning home to
Maine in 1998, she spent five years at Syracuse University
teaching social work and cross-disciplinary women’s studies
courses and serving as the interim associate director of Women’s
Studies.
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