Trudy Brown Ripin, MPH, Founder and President Ms. Ripin is a graduate of Stanford University and the Harvard School of Public Health.  She is in her nineteenth year as an independent community health center consultant and the owner of Shoreline Health Solutions.    Prior to her consulting work, Ms. Ripin spent three years in leadership at a community health center. In this role, she coordinated all grant activities, prepared grant applications, facilitated the Joint Commission accreditation process, coordinated HIV and wellness programs, managed the quality improvement program, and served as team leader for the HRSA Diabetes Collaborative program.  Ms. Ripin also previously worked for a Medicaid Managed Care organization in Massachusetts, providing services to their membership of over 70 community health centers.  In this role, she was the coordinator for their domestic violence screening and outreach program, as well as their HIV counseling and testing programs.     As a consultant, she has provided direct technical assistance to more than 80 community health centers and primary care associations throughout the country.  This includes strategic/business planning; FQHC and Ryan White grant writing; grant application reviews; FQHC compliance and preparation assistance; quality improvement program design/implementation, including peer review, incident management, and sentinel event response; Joint Commission accreditation preparation; development of policy and procedure manuals; and staff / Board training activities.



Molly K. Gwisc, MPH, Partner Ms. Gwisc has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Connecticut, where she was awarded the Graduate Program Committee Fellowship to conduct a web-based public health research study.  Prior to her community health center work, Ms. Gwisc worked for a statewide community health agency and at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, where she obtained large grant funding awards from the Allstate Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.    Ms. Gwisc has been working with community health centers through Shoreline since 2002.  Throughout her tenure with Shoreline, Ms. Gwisc has worked with health centers throughout the country to improve access to health care for under-served populations.  She is an experienced grant writer, with extensive knowledge of FQHC requirements, FQHC program structure, FQHC Look-Alike status, FQHC compliance preparation, and obtaining 330 funding.  Ms. Gwisc has additional expertise in Joint Commission accreditation survey preparation, community needs assessments, and development of policies and procedures.