Expert Workgroup

Clark Ruttinger is the Interim Executive Director of the Utah Medical Education Council. In this capacity, Mr. Ruttinger tracks supply, demand and educational program data about Utah’s healthcare workforce and coordinates with stakeholders to develop modeling and usable information to better inform policy and strategic planning decisions. Clark is a past president of the National Forum for State Nursing Workforce Centers. In this capacity he co-authored the 2021 NCSBN National Nursing Sample Survey. He designed and coded a data visualization of the national nursing workforce by state using the survey data. https://clarkruttinger.shinyapps.io/draftboard

Mr. Ruttinger has a Masters of Public Administration with emphasis in Program and Policy Evaluation. He also holds a Masters of Business Administration with a certificate in Information Systems, both from the University of Utah.

Daniel Derksen is the University of Arizona Health Sciences Associate VP for Health Equity, Outreach & Interprofessional Activities. He is a Professor in the Zuckerman College of Public Health with joint appointments in the Colleges of Medicine and Nursing.

Dr. Derksen was born in Phoenix, attended UArizona for both his B.S. (1979) and M.D. (1984) degrees, did his family medicine residency at the University of New Mexico (1987), and was on the UNM School of Medicine faculty for 25 years. He returned to UArizona in 2012. He was the 2019 College of Medicine Alumnus of the Year.

Dr. Derksen completed a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship in 2007-08 with U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (NM). He researched and drafted provisions to improve the supply and distribution of the nation’s health workforce enacted in 2010. Working for Governor Martinez in 2011-12 as Director, NM Office of Health Reform, he established their health insurance exchange, now known as Be Well New Mexico which currently has more than 45,000 enrollees.

Dr. Shawnda Schroeder is an Educator Scholar in the Department of Indigenous Health located within the University of North Dakota’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences. In this role she teaches PhD candidates in qualitative methods, quantitative methods, mixed methods, and program evaluation as they related to Indigenous public health while conducting scholarly research. Prior to this role, Dr. Schroeder was the Associate Director of Research and Evaluation and a Research Associate Professor at the Center for Rural Health, also located at the University of North Dakota’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Schroeder’s research relates to health equity with a focus on access to care and utilization of services. Her area of expertise center of mental health and oral health equity. Dr. Schroeder is the Grand Challenge Champion for the Rural Health and Communities Grand Challenge, is an elected member of the Research Committee for the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Rural Health, and is the recent recipient of the UND Award for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Research and Creative Activity for her work on the Behavioral Health Bridge.

Steve Holloway, MPH, is Branch Chief of the Health Access Branch and Director of the Primary Care Office at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The branch hosts work emphasizing the needs of medically underserved populations and acts through workforce analysis, access to care policy development, health systems data, and practice incentives such as loan repayment. Steve serves on several boards and commissions, which address the needs of the medically underserved including the Colorado Primary Care Payment Reform Collaborative, the Colorado Health Extension Service Steering Committee, and the Sewall Child Development Center where he is Chairman. Steve is a member of the Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research at the Department of Health and Environment and was appointed in 2010 by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve on a Negotiated Rule Making Committee chartered under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Dr. Yetty Shobo is the Director of the Virginia Department of Health Professions Healthcare Workforce Data Center and Data Analytics Division. She was previously the Deputy Director of the Center from November 2015 to April 2022. She holds a doctorate in human science from Saybrook University and a Master’s degree in public and international affairs and a certificate in demography from Princeton University. Her Bachelor’s degree is in mathematics and statistics from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She also holds a professional certificate in Data Science from Duke University.

Dr. Shobo is a data scientist and researcher with several presentations, publications, and podcasts. In her current position, she oversees healthcare workforce research and policies, the regulation of health professions, strategic planning and operations, as well as data governance and analytics in Virginia. She is the creator of several dashboards that provide customizable healthcare workforce data to the public and empower public involvement in healthcare workforce programs and policies. She is a key member of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System Data Governance Committee and the National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers.