Drs. Silber and Rawlins Join Partnership
Board of Directors (2/22/07)
Andrea L. Silber, MD, and Wayne S. Rawlins, MD recently were elected to Board of Directors of the Connecticut Cancer Partnership.
Dr. Silber is a medical oncologist who has been active in cancer care in New Haven since 1987. She is currently the director of the oncology clinic at the Father Michael J. McGivney Cancer Center at the Hospital of Saint Raphael that serves a diverse underinsured population, and
she also has a private practice that specializes in breast cancer. Her personal focus is to find innovative strategies to diminish the gap in cancer outcomes seen in economically deprived populations. She developed the Sister-to-Sister program that has provided outreach and inreach to African-American women in New Haven for the past eleven years, and has improved utilization of breast cancer screening services. She has participated in many community initiatives and served on committees devoted to the elimination of cancer health disparities.
Dr. Rawlins is National Medical-Head of Business Planning and Reporting of Aetna’s National Board Services and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut Medical
School. He leads the design, implementation and management of Aetna’s end-of-life-care program (The Aetna Compassionate Care Program), and heads the Aetna Condition Analysis. He also co-leads Aetna’s Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Initiatives, is the clinical lead for corporate pandemic planning, and the corporate clinical lead representing the chief medical officer in crisis and disaster preparedness. Before
joining Aetna, Rawlins was Physician-in-Charge at the Manchester Health Center. He
graduated in 1980 as a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Connecticut Health Center, was Chief Resident at the University of Rochester Associated Hospitals Program, and earned a Master of Business Administration in 2001 from the Lally School of Management and Technology at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is certified in Internal Medicine.
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