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A national view of rural health workforce issues in the USA
qualifications: DrPH
contribution: wrote the first draft
position: Research associate professor/ Assistant director
United States
Martin MacDowell, DrPH, MBA is a Research Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Family and Community Medicine at UIC College of Medicine - Rockford. He participated in the curriculum development, evaluation, and teaching of students in the rural physician and pharmacy (RMED and R-Pharm) programs. He also participated in the development of interdisciplinary courses, presentations, and curriculum related to all rural health professions. He was a faculty member in the public health program. His publications have been cited over 900 times.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: wrote the first draft
position: Research associate professor/ Associate dean
United States
Associate Dean for Rural Health Professions and a medical sociologist with research interests in primary care services, rural health, mental health (particularly depression), patient-provider-older adult triads, and interprofessional education.
qualifications: PsyD
contribution: original concept
position: AHEC Director
United States
Workforce analysis
qualifications: MPH
contribution: literature review
position: Research associate
United States
qualifications: MD
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Associate professor/ RMED director
United States
Dr. Hunsaker is a Family Physician working primarly in rural workforce education, leading the Rural Medical Education Program (RMED), at National Center for Rural Health Professions, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford. He speaks internationally on the topic of developing sustainable primary care training programs for rural areas. Principal international projects currently include concept and curriculum support of the development of a rural medical school in southern Thailand, now in its fourth year. He provides consultation to several domestic rural medicine programs as well.
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