Dive Brief:
- The President’s Commission on White House Fellowships has announced the 2015-2016 class of White House Fellows.
- Out of 16 appointees, seven are healthcare and medical professionals.
- Created in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Fellows program is an education program designed to broaden leadership, policy, and current affairs knowledge.
Dive Insight:
The highly competitive fellowship has led to leadership posts across a number of fields, including healthcare. This year's fellows from healthclare are:
- Dr. Teeb Al-Samarrai, a physician and epidemiologist from Oakland, CA
- Dr. Alexander Billioux, an internist from Simpsonville, SC
- Sara Bleich of Baltimore, a former associate professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
- Dr. Shereef Elnahal, on leave from residency in radiation oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
- Rayden Llano of Miami, a former program director of Health Policy and Economics at LSE Enterprise.
- Dr. Jennifer Macdonald, a family medical physician at UCLA who served for 11 years in the Minnesota Army National Guard, including a tour abroad in Iraq.
- Dr. Kamillah Wood of Washington, who served as the associate medical director of Mobile Health Programs at Children’s National Health System.