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About
Laura C. McKieran, DrPH, earned her Doctor of Public Health degree (Health Services Organization) in 1998 from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. Her Master of Public Health (Community Health Practice) was also earned at UTHSC-H, and her Bachelor of Science (Microbiology) was awarded by the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. A Bell County native and fifth-generation Texan, she is very grateful to have gone to all that school when in-state tuition was $25 per credit hour. After interning one summer in Washington, DC, Dr. McKieran joined the United Way of America in Alexandria, Virginia, developing educational resources for and coordinating trainings in program- and community-level outcome measurement. She later moved to the Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health at the New York Academy of Medicine, where she provided technical assistance to communities working to broaden participation in health-related decisionmaking. During her time in New York she also worked with Columbia University on an $11.5 million capital campaign to build the Robert K. Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life and with National Medical Fellowships to research and cultivate prospects to support scholarships and fellowship opportunities for minority medical students. But digging her car out of the snow was not all that much fun, so she came home and settled in San Antonio. Between 2001 and 2008 she held various positions in planning, evaluation, health informatics, grants management, and management of a $17 million capital campaign at CentroMed, a Federally Qualified Health Center serving 55,000 medical, dental, and mental health patients each year, two-thirds of whom are uninsured. Since launching her own business she has been blessed with the chance to serve a variety of for- and not-for-profit agencies working in the areas of health care, animal welfare, health informatics, and community collaboration for health and well-being. A devoted Inner-Looper, Laura lives in near-northside San Antonio with an assortment of formerly-homeless cats and dogs, the number of which varies but is definitely always below the legal limit. She serves on a number of community boards and does other volunteer work when she can. In her spare time she - oh, wait... there isn't any of that anymore. But she loves serving organizations that are working to improve our world, ease suffering, and build better ways of doing things, and she is grateful to have the opportunity to earn a living doing so. And she does occasionally find time to play the fiddle badly and tennis slightly less badly. |
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