Community Chair
NYC Hep B Coalition
James S. Park, MD, Director of the Asian Liver Health Program at NYU Langone Medical Center. In this role, Dr. Park will build relationships with coalition members, serve on the advisory board, and represent the coalition at local, state, and national meetings. (Contact: james.park@nyumc.org)
Dr. Park specializes in liver transplantation, gastrointestinal diseases, hepatorenal syndrome, liver diseases, fatty liver, liver cancer, hepatitis,hepatic encephalopathy, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), chronic liver disease, hepatitis A, hepatitis C, liver cirrhosis, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), hepatitis B, and endoscopic surgery.
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Amy Shen Tang, MD
Advisory Board NYC Hep B Coalition Amy Shen Tang, MD, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center (CBWCHC) (astang@cbwchc.org) At CBWCHC, Dr. Tang oversees hepatitis B clinical care, research, community outreach to at-risk communities to reduce perinatal transmission and liver compl...
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Carlos Rosario
Bronx Community Chair NYC Hep C Task Force Carlos Rosario, Hepatitis C Organizer, VOCAL-NY, (carlos@vocal-ny.org) is a Bronx Community Activist working to raise awareness about Hepatitis throughout New York State.
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Christina Tsai
Advisory Board NYC Hep B Coalition Christina Tsai, Clinic Director of the Brooklyn Chinese Family Health Center at Lutheran Healthcare (ctsai@lmcmc.com)
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Colleen Flanigan
Advisory Board NYC Hep C Task Force Colleen Flanigan, NYS DOH, Adult Viral Hepatitis Coordinator (colleen.flanigan@health.ny.gov) serves as the Director of the Viral Hepatitis Section for the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute.
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Daniel Leyva
Advisory Board NYC Hep C Task Force Daniel Leyva, Deputy to the President, Latino Commission on AIDS, (DLeyva@latinoaids.org) is currently Deputy to the President at the Latino Commission on AIDS and founding member of the Hispanic Health Network. He is also the Director of the L...
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Daniel Raymond
Advisory Board NYC Hep C Task Force Daniel Raymond, National Policy Director, Harm Reduction Coalition (raymond@harmreduction.org) works with a broad range of local, state, and national coalitions and advocacy groups to ensure sound harm reduction focused public health policy. He...
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Edward Wake
Advisory Board NYC Hep B Coalition Edward Wake, NYC Health Department (ewake@health.nyc.gov) is the Chief for Adult Immunization at the NYC Health Deparment, and coordinates activities for the NYC Adult Immunization Coalition. He is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pu...
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Eric Rude
Advisory Board NYC Hep C Task Force Eric Rude, Policy and Development , NYC Health Dept. (ERude@health.nyc.gov) is currently working to advance hepatitis C policy in NYC as well as increase funding for viral hepatitis services at the Health Department. Eric Rude served as the CDC...
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Frank Winter
Advisory Board NYC Hep B Coalition Frank Winter, CMS (frank.winter@cms.hhs.gov) works with the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services in External Affairs. Frank works to improve health care access for all.
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Hector Quinones
Advisory Board NYC Hep C Task Force Hector Quinones, Director of Social Services, After Hours Project (hquinones@afterhoursproject.org) has worked in the field of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis for over seventeen years. At After Hours, Hector provides supervision of HIV/STI testing, case...
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Henry Chang
Advisory Board NYC Hep B Coalition | NYC Hep C Task Force Henry Chang, Global Health Consultant (henry.amsterdam@gmail.com) is a public health consultant with more than 25 years of experience in patient advocacy, program development, implementation and evaluation related to HIV/A...
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Hep Free NYC 2018 Goals
At the meeting, Hep Free NYC Ad Board members developed Hep Free NYC goals for 2018.
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James S. Park, MD
Director of the Asian Liver Health Program at NYU Langone Medical Center. In this role, Dr. Park will build relationships with coalition members, serve on the advisory board, and represent the coalition at local, state, and national meetings.
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Jazmin Rivera
Staten Island Community Chair NYC Hep C Task Force Jazmin Rivera – Staten Island Partnership for Community Wellness – Tackling Youth Substance Abuse (jazmin@sipcw.org) leads the Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success grant as Project Coordinator for Tackling ...
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Jeff Weiss
Advisory Board NYC Hep C Task Force Jeff Weiss, Mount Sinai (jeffrey.weiss@mountsinai.org) is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Hepatitis C Clinical and Research Program in the Division of General Internal Med...
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Julie Lazaroff, MPH
Advisory Board NYC Hep B Coalition Julie Lazaroff, MPH, NYC Health Department (jlazarof@health.nyc.gov) is the Coordinator for the Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention Program at the NYC Health Department. She has worked since 2004 to prevent perinatal and horizontal transmission of ...
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Kim Nichols, ScM, MPH
Advisory Board NYC Hep B Coalition Kim Nichols, ScM, MPH (kimn@africanservices.org) is the Co-Executive Director of African Services Committee has been involved in both NYC and global AIDS -and more recently viral hepatitis – advocacy for the past 20 years and has served on man...
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Maria Karlya
Advisory Board NYC Hep B Coalition Maria Karlya, Charles B Wang Community Health Center (mkarlya@cbwchc.org) is the Communications Associate at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center. She manages communications with patients, community members, partner organizations, support...
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Melissa Baker
Harlem Community Chair NYC Hep C Task Force Melissa Baker, National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS (mbaker@nblca.org) is the Vice-President of Administration/Special Projects at NBLCA.
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Nirah Johnson
Nirah Johnson, LCSW, Director of Program Implementation & Capacity Building NYC Health Department, Viral Hepatitis Program
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Ponni Perumalswami, MD
Advisory Board NYC Hep B Coalition Ponni Perumalswami, MD, Mount Sinai (ponni.perumalswami@mountsinai.org) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Liver Diseases at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical interest include cirrhosis, acute/chroni...
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Robert Suarez
Advisory Board NYC Hep C Task Force Robert Suarez, Harm Reduction Community Organizer, VOCAL-NY (robert@vocal-ny.org)
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Sara Soonsik Kim, MPH
Advisory Board NYC Hep B Coalition Sara Soonsik Kim, MPH Korean Community Services (skim@kcsny.org) serves as Interim Director for the Public Health and Research Program at Korean Community Services. She leads the Check Hep B Patient Navigation Program and other projects to meet ...
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Shellyann Vassell
Queens Community Chair NYC Hep C Task Force Shellyann Vassell, Zucker Hillside Hospital (svassell@northwell.edu) is an Assistant Nurse Manager in the Methadone Treatment Program at Zucker Hillside Hospital.
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Simona C Kwon, DPH
Advisory Board NYC Hep B Coalition Simona C. Kwon, DPH, NYU CSAAH (simona.kwon@nyumc.org) is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Population Health and Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine. She directs the NIH National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities...
