Clinical committee members

The eleven appointed members bring a diverse set of experiences, clinical expertise, practice specialties, advanced education, and knowledge of using evidence in health care. The members are:

John Bramhall, MD, PhD

John Bramhall is board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology. He specializes in the treatment of trauma patients at Harborview Medical Center, where he is also Associate Medical Director.

Bramhall received his PhD in biochemistry from Birmingham in the UK. He came to United States as a Fulbright scholar at UCLA before undertaking postgraduate training at the Max Planck Institutes in Tübingen, Germany and Stanford University. He returned to UCLA as a faculty member and established a research laboratory to investigate the structural properties of biological membranes. His medical training was completed at UCSD in La Jolla, CA and Virginia Mason in Seattle. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Washington where he is actively involved in the training and education of residents. He has over fifty research publications in the fields of membrane biophysics and immunology.

Bramhall is actively involved in clinical front-line work, in the establishment of organizational structures to facilitate safe, effective, and efficient care models and in the provision of surgical care for the underserved. He is a delegate to the American Society of Anesthesiology and is a trustee of the Washington State Medical Association.

Clinton Daniels, DC, MS

Clinton Daniels is the chiropractic section chief in Rehabilitation Care Services at Veterans Affairs (VA) Puget Sound Health Care System. He is the VA Puget Sound Chiropractic Resident Program director and serves as the research coordinator for the VA Chiropractic Field Advisory Committee. He has an adjunct appointment to University of Western States, Portland, Oregon, is a board member for Clinical Compass and member of their scientific commission.

He received his undergraduate degree from Purdue University, Doctor of Chiropractic degree, and masters of science in sports rehabilitation from Logan University, Chesterfield, Missouri. In 2015, he was a member of the inaugural VA chiropractic residency program graduating class at VA St. Louis Health Care System.

His clinical interests include providing conservative nonpharmacologic spine and musculoskeletal care to the veteran population. His research interests include chiropractic integration into academic and hospital-based settings, conservative management of persistent postsurgical spine pain syndromes, systematic reviews, and chiropractic profession best practices.

Janna Friedly, MD, MPH, Chair

Janna Friedly is an associate professor in the department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington. She received her medical degree at Oregon Health and Sciences University in 2001 and completed her residency training in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) at the University of Washington in 2005. Her clinical expertise is in the rehabilitation of people with limb loss and she currently serves as the medical director for the limb preservation and amputation service at Harborview Medical Center.

Friedly's research focuses on the comparative effectiveness, cost, and outcomes related to treatments for chronic pain (primarily low back pain and pain related to amputation). She has published a number of studies related to noninvasive treatments for low back pain, including epidemiological studies, reviews and clinical trials related to the use of physical therapy, epidural injections and other noninvasive spine treatments.

In addition to her research, she is the editor-in-chief of PM&R, the official medical journal of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and co-director of the Comparative Effectiveness, Cost and Outcomes Research Center at the University of Washington.

Rache Mureau-Haines, DNP

Rache Mureau-Haines is board certified as an adult-gerontology nurse practitioner and adult acute- and critical-care clinical nurse specialist. She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Portland in 2011, and her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from the University of Washington (UW) in 2016. She completed a nurse practitioner Center of Excellence residency at the Seattle Veterans Administration Medical Center, the UW Afya Bora Global Health Leadership fellowship at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Kenya, and the UW Cardiovascular Nurse Practitioner Fellowship.

She is a teaching associate at UW Medical Center and works clinically as a nurse practitioner in the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit. As an assistant clinical professor, Mureau-Haines taught at the UW School of Nursing and continues to precept nurse practitioner students in clinical settings. She focuses on implementation of evidence-based practice in both the US and abroad to decrease health inequality and improve patient outcomes. Her interest in providing healthcare to under-served populations has taken her to Kenya, Tanzania, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Nepal, where she focuses on capacity building and nursing education.

Evan Oakes, MD, MPH

Evan Oakes is the Chief Health Officer at HealthPoint, a Federally Qualified Health Center organization serving communities in King County, Washington. He has worked and served as a Family Physician and in leadership roles at HealthPoint for over 20 years. He is currently board certified in Family Medicine. After completing his undergraduate education at the University of Washington, Dr. Oakes attended and graduated from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1996. He completed his Family Medicine Residency at Providence Family Medicine in 1999 and earned a Master of Public Health through the University of Washington in 2004. Dr. Oakes is an advocate for applying the principles of evidence based medicine to his work as a leader in healthcare in Washington State.

Corey R. O'Brien, MD

Corey R. O'Brien is a board-certified internist/adult hospitalist and works at EvergreenHealth Medical Center in Kirkland, Washington. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences at Cornell University, a medical degree from Georgetown University, and completed his internal medicine residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He serves on the quality improvement committee and is head of the journal club committee at EvergreenHealth. He is also a clinical instructor at the University of Washington Medical Center. His clinical interests include process improvement in electronic medical records, providing high-value care to inpatients, and organizing continuous medical education for his colleagues.

Amy Occhino, MD

Amy Occhino is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist who has significant experience in both outpatient care and inpatient high risk obstetric medicine. She earned her medical degree at Northeastern Ohio Medical University and continued her residency in Ohio at the Cleveland Clinic – Akron General Medical Center. She was in private practice OB/GYN for 10 years before founding the OB Hospitalist Program at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, WA in 2007. After 15+ years as lead physician of the high risk OB Hospitalist program, she stepped down to pursue other opportunities to promote positive changes in health care. She has served as the Maternal Transport Director for Northwest MedSTAR/Lifeflight and is currently a panelist on the Washington State Maternal Mortality Review Panel. Dr. Occhino has a passion for teaching and is faculty at both University of Washington School of Medicine – Spokane campus and Washington State University, Elson Floyd College of Medicine. She enjoys sharing her medical knowledge and expertise with the next generation of physicians both as a classroom teacher and as a clinician.

Jonathan Staloff, MD, MSc

Jonathan A. Staloff, MD, MSc, is a family medicine physician at Harborview Family Medicine Clinic and faculty at the University of Washington (UW). There, he also serves as the Medical Director of Population Health for Value Management, supporting value-based care initiatives across the UW Medicine enterprise. Dr. Staloff is a health services researcher focused on primary care-related issues, including payment reform, telemedicine, and behavioral health integration; he also serves as an associate editor for Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation.

Dr. Staloff has been actively engaged in primary care policy, co-chairing the Washington Advisory Committee on Primary Care and serving on the American Academy of Family Physicians Commission on Federal and State Policy. He attended medical school and completed a Master of Science in Population Medicine at Brown University, family medicine residency at UW, and an advanced fellowship in health systems research through the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

Erin Sweet, ND

Erin Sweet is an associate clinical scientist and co-director of the Office of Research Integrity at Bastyr University, and teaches courses on research methods and public health. She earned her Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (ND) from Bastyr University and a Master of Public Health (MPH) in epidemiology from the University of Washington. She completed her residency training at the National University of Natural Medicine followed by an NIH postdoctoral research fellowship. Her clinical expertise is in integrative oncology and she is a Fellow of the American Board of Naturopathic Oncology (FABNO), board-certified in naturopathic oncology.

Sweet’s research focuses on studying the effects of integrative oncology (conventional oncology treatment in conjunction with evidence-informed supportive naturopathic care) on health-related quality of life and clinical outcomes in people living with cancer, along with educational program development and clinical research training in complementary and integrative health (CIH) institutions.

In addition to her research, she is a member scientist of the RAND REACH Center and RAND REACH Scholar. She serves on the Institute of Natural Medicine Research Committee and is a board member of the American Board of Naturopathic Medical Examiners.