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 | Stephen A. Holve MD
Chief Clinical Consultant in Pediatrics, Indian Health Service
Chief of Pediatrics, Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation
Dr. Steve Holve is the Chief Clinical Consultant in Pediatrics for the Indian Health Service. He has undergraduate degree in Religious Studies from Stanford University, attended medical school at UC San Diego, and completed his pediatric residency at the University of Colorado. He has worked in clinical pediatrics on the Navajo Nation for the past 30 years and is also Chief of Pediatrics at the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation. His areas of interest include desert envenomations, heritable illnesses in Native Americans, pediatric oral health, and the Reach Out and Read program. | | |  | Alana D. Knudson PhD, EdM
Principal Research Scientist and Co-Director, Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
NORC at the University of Chicago
Alana Knudson, PhD, is a Program Area Director in the Public Health Research department and is the Co-Director of the Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis at NORC. Dr. Knudson has 20 years of experience implementing and directing public health programs, leading health services and health policy research projects, and evaluating the impact of programs. She currently serves as Deputy Director for the Rural Health Reform Policy Research Center, which is a partnership with the University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health, one of seven rural health research centers funded by the federal Office of Rural Health Policy. She is also the Co-PI on the USDA-AFRI Rural Communities and Regional Development Program Area grant, Linking Health Care Reform to Economic Development in the Agriculture Sector, a four-year study with partners from the University of Vermont to investigate how ACA reforms and implementation will impact farm families and their enterprises. In addition, Dr. Knudson leads the evaluation design of the workforce component for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s Evaluation of the Health Care Innovation Award of the Complex/High Risk Patient Targeting Portfolio. | | |  | Janice C. Probst PhD
Director, South Carolina Rural Health Research Center; Professor, Department of Health Services Policy and Management
Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
Janice C. Probst, MS, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Health Services Policy and Management, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, and Director of the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center (SCRHRC). The SCRHRC receives its core funding from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy. Dr. Probst received her undergraduate training at Duke University and her graduate training at Purdue University (MS) and the University of South Carolina (PhD). Dr. Probst has extensive experience in health services research, with an emphasis on rural and vulnerable populations. She has more than 100 papers in the peer reviewed literature. Awards for her rural minority health work include the 2008 National Rural Health Association “outstanding researcher” award, the University of South Carolina Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Justice Award, and an honorary doctorate from A.T. Still University for Health Sciences. | | |
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