Robert H. Ross has extensive experience in ministry, education, research, and healthcare. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University and M.Div. from Bangor Theological Seminary. Currently he serves as the Dean of the Maine School of Ministry and Associate Minister for Outreach at West Parish Congregational Church (UCC). His background also includes appointments in academic research focusing on public health, healthcare administration, and health promotion/disease prevention programs.

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ROBERT H. ROSS
P.O. Box 68, Waterford, Maine 04088. Cell 978-505-8892. Email roberthross@msn.com.
FOCUS: Oriented to Pastoral care, Outreach/mission, Theological education. I come to ministry understanding that
“Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted.” (Ps 127:1)
EDUCATION
BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Bangor, Maine M.Div. Religion 2013
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Connecticut Ph.D. Sociology 1987
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts Ed.M. Education 1973
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, New York, New York No degree Religion 1968-70
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hanover, New Hampshire B.A. Philosophy 1968
Ordination: Oxford Union Association, Maine Conference, United Church of Christ (UCC), October 26, 2014.
(http://maineucc.org/wordpress/maine-conference-united-church-of-christ/associations-2/oxford-union/)
Doctoral dissertation: Reform Politics and Elite Perceptions in the Italian Transition from “Elite” to “Mass” Higher
Education by ROSS, ROBERT HENRY, III Ph.D., Yale University, 1987, 731 pages; AAT 8729138
CHURCH APPOINTMENTS
MAINE CONFERENCE, UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, AUGUSTA, MAINE 2015-
Dean, Maine School of Ministry. “The Maine School of Ministry [was] formed in response to the growing need for a
regionally-based, low cost, and educationally sound program for preparing pastoral leaders for our churches, and to
provide opportunities for individuals in congregations to engage in spiritual formation and theological education.”
(http://maineucc.org/wordpress/building-relationships-home/maine-school-ministry/)
WEST PARISH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (UCC), BETHEL, MAINE 2014 -
Associate Minister for Outreach. “As we gather to sing hymns from our rich heritage, to pray for healing of people and
the earth, and to hear an inspiring message from our pastor, we are thankful for our legacy and for Christ's call to
lovingly serve God and neighbor. In response to that call, we cheerfully support both global and local outreach to people
in need.” (http://www.bethelcongregationalchurch.org/ )
GRACE-STREET MINISTRY, PORTLAND, MAINE 2014 -
Co-Pastor. “We are an outreach ministry offering a consistent, compassionate, pastoral presence to the homeless and
marginalized in downtown Portland, Maine - to relieve suffering, to address the spiritual needs in this ever shifting
community and to decrease the prejudice between the housed and the homeless through preaching, education and
experience.” (http://gracestreetministry.blogspot.com/p/vision.html)
MAINE CONFERENCE, UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 2013 - 14
Member, Spiritual Life Commission. “The Commission shall focus on areas of ministry relating to God through: Christian
study and nurture; leadership development and renewal of clergy and laity; pastoral care; worship life; theological
education; church and ministry; interim ministry; in consultation with the Coordinating Council, new or emerging
ministries.” (http://www.maineucc.org/commissions/csl/slcfrontpage.html)
WATERFORD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (UCC), WATERFORD, MAINE 2012 -
Trustee. “We seek to serve the community through outreach, education programs, and community building projects. We
also seek to heed Jesus' call to minister to our brothers and sisters everywhere through various mission projects, local,
national, and global. We are concerned about faithful stewardship of the environment and work to be responsible
dwellers in the global village.” (https://www.facebook.com/waterfordchurchucc)
MAINE CONFERENCE, UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, OXFORD UNION ASSOCIATION 2008 - 2014
Member-in-Discernment. “When a member’s call leads to consideration of authorized ministry, the church and that
member together seek to discern the particular shape of the call. … This new practice is the process to be followed for all
forms of authorization (ordination, licensure, commissioning).” Covenant of Discernment and Formation. The Process of
Preparing for Authorized Ministry in the United Church of Christ. (http://www.ucc.org/seminarians/Covenant-of-
Discernment-and-Formation-brochure.pdf).
CHRIST CHURCH PRESBYTERIAN, BURLINGTON, VERMONT 1999 - 2001
Deacon. “The ministry of deacon as set forth in Scripture is one of compassion, witness, and service, sharing in the
redeeming love of Jesus Christ for the poor, the hungry, the sick, the lost, the friendless, the oppressed, those burdened

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by unjust policies or structures, or anyone in distress.” Book of Order 2011/2013, G-2.0201, p. 26.
(http://www.synod.org/pcusa/pdf/book-of-order2011-2013.pdf)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS (post-doctorate)
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND , BIDDEFORD, PORTLAND, MAINE 2010-2013
• Research Associate Professor. Westbrook College of Health Professions (2012-2013).
• Research Associate Professor. College of Graduate Studies-Public Health (2010-2012).
• Instructor. Graduate Programs in Public Health, GPH 706 “Public Health Administration” (2012, 3 credits).
UNIVERITY OF VERMONT, BURLINGTON, VERMONT 2000 - 2007
• Research Assistant Professor. College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Department of Medical Laboratory and
Radiation Sciences (2004-2007).
• Research Assistant Professor. College of Medicine, Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation (2000-2003).
TUFTS UNIVERSITY-NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL CENTER, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 1996 - 1998
Assistant Clinical Professor. School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1994 - 1995
Teaching Fellow. Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Health and Social Behavior.
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 1989 - 1991
Research Associate. College of Education, New England Resource Center for Higher Education.
UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA, BOLOGNA, ITALY 1989 - 1990
Interview Director, University Rector’s Office.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE, WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS 1988 - 1989
Assistant Professor. Department of Sociology.
HARVARD COLLEGE, CMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1987 - 1988
Teaching Fellow. Core Curriculum (“Social Analysis,” Dr. Brendan Maher).
RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS (post-doctorate)
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND, BIDDEFORD, PORTLAND, MAINE 2012 - 2013
Evaluator. Westbrook College of Health Professions, CHANNELS Project. Grant no. UD7HP25065, U.S. DHHS, HRSA, BHP,
Division of Nursing. Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Program – Interprofessional Collaborative
Practice. Project Director: Jennifer Morton, DNP, MPH, APHN
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND , BIDDEFORD, PORTLAND, MAINE 2012 - 2013
Director. College of Graduate Studies-Public Health, Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Initiative. University-wide
initiative to develop CTS capacity of health sciences faculty by means of two-semester eight-topic Faculty seminar and
two-call per annum Awards program featuring intramural Pilot Project and Mentored Career Development awards.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND , BIDDEFORD, PORTLAND, MAINE 2011 - 2012
Director. Center for Community and Public Health, Office of Patient and Population Oriented Research. University-wide
exploratory/developmental patient and population health sciences research development initiative launched February
21, 2011 by the Office of the Vice President for Research, located at the Center for Community and Public Health.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 2007 - 2011
Scientific Director. Harvard School of Public Health, Maine-Harvard Prevention Research Center. Project development,
technical assistance, grants procurement in work-, school-, and community-based health promotion/disease prevention.
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, BURLINGTON, VERMONT 2004 - 2007
Research Assistant Professor. College of Nursing and Health Sciences. Conducted (P.I.) CDC HPRI R01 DP000108
“Worksites overweight/obesity control/prevention trial;” co-conducted HRSA R1CRH03426 “Supply/demand surveillance
system for Vermont healthcare workforce.”
EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER, NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS 2003 - 2004
Special Assistant for Development (Managing Project Director). Health and Human Development Programs. Developed
health promotion/disease prevention program grants, domestic and global, across seven Health and Human
Development centers; cultivated new business; built grants-writing capacity.
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, BURLINGTON, VERMONT 1997 - 2003
Director. Fletcher Allen Health Care, Office of Patient Oriented Research. Developed patient oriented hospital-, practice-
and community-based outcomes research across the medical, nursing, health sciences faculties; leveraged intramural

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pilot project awards into extramural grants; conducted (P.I.) CDC NIOSH R21 OH07339 “Outcomes of injured employee
health status assessment.”
TUFTS UNIVERSITY-NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL CENTER, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 1994 - 1997
Research Associate. The Health Institute. Assessed applicants and awardees to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research program; surveyed successive cohorts of awardees; wrote and presented
progress reports; organized conferences.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1991 - 1994
Research Associate. Harvard School of Public Health, Dean’s Office. Analyzed curriculum reform process, perceptions of
reform problems/solutions at ten (10) U.S. and Canadian medical schools for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Surveyed one hundred fifty (150) administrators, faculty, students; wrote monograph, article, and book.
RESEARCH GRANTS (Principal Investigator)
• U.S. DHHS CDC NCCDPHP (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion). R.H. Ross, P.I. R01
DP000108, 04/01/2004-09/29/2007, $887,025, “Worksites overweight/obesity control/prevention trial.”
• U.S. DHHS CDC NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health). R.H. Ross, P.I. R21 OH07339,
09/30/2000-05/29/2003, $187,548, “Outcomes of injured employee health status assessment.”
BOOKS (author, translator)
• Robert H. Ross and Harvey V. Fineberg, 1996. Innovators in Physician Education: The Process and Pattern of Reform
in North American Medical Schools. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
• Andrea Cammelli and Robert H. Ross, 1991. From the States to the Alma Mater. U.S. Medical Graduates of the
University of Bologna from 1945 to the Present Day. Social Origins, Professional Instruction, Career Development.
Bologna: CLUEB.
• Robert H. Ross (translation, introduction) 1982. Marzio Barbagli, Educating for Unemployment: Politics, Labor
Markets, and the School System--Italy, 1859-1973. New York: Columbia University Press (Marzio Barbagli,
Disoccupazione intelletuale e sistema scolastico in Italia: 1859-1973. Bologna: II Mulino, 1974.
ARTICLES (peer-reviewed)
• Martin MW, Martin SL, Ross RH. “Health Care Providers’ Smoking Cessation Advice Among Pregnant Smokers.”
American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, May 2010 vol. 4 no. 3 253-258.
http://ajl.sagepub.com/content/4/3/253.abstract
• Ross RH, Callas PW, Sargent JQ, Amick BC, Rooney T. Incorporating Injured Employee Outcomes into Physical and
Occupational Therapists’ Practice: A Controlled Trial of the Worker-Based Outcomes Assessment System. J Occup
Rehabil. 2006 Dec;16(4):607-629. PMID: 17115273. At http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10926-006-9060-1.
• Rubin AS, Littenberg B, Ross R, Wehry S, Jones M. Effects on processes and costs of care associated with the addition
of an internist to an inpatient psychiatry team. Psychiatric Services, 2005 Apr;56(4):463-7. PMID: 15812098.
• Laramee AS, Levinsky SK, Sargent J, Ross R, Callas P. Randomized trial of case management in a heterogeneous
congestive heart failure population. Archives of Internal Medicine, 2003 Apr 14;163(7):809-17. PMID: 12695272.
• Ross RH, Fineberg HV. Medical students' evaluations of curriculum innovations at ten North American medical
schools. Academic Medicine, 1998 Mar;73(3):258-65. PMID: 9526452.
BOOK REVIEWS
• Robert H. Ross. Review of Jonathan Barnett, ed. Smart Growth in a Changing World (Chicago and
Washington DC: Planners Press, American Planning Association, 2007). Online Journal of Population Health
2009-2010, OJPH Volume 2, Issue 1-2009. At http://www.une.edu/publichealth/ojph/upload/Ross.pdf.
PEER REVIEW
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CD09-001(Panel D) "Translating Research to Protect Health through
Health Promotion, Prevention, and Preparedness" Peer Review Meeting, July 21-22, 2009, Atlanta GA
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Panel B2) “CDC Special Emphasis Panel for Obesity, Nutrition SIP's
004, 009, 010 and 025,” Peer Review Meeting, August 3-4, 2009, Atlanta GA
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CD08-001 (Panels A and A-1) “Elimination of Health Disparities
through Translation Research,” Peer Review Meeting, August 6, 2008, Atlanta GA

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• State of Pennsylvania, Department of Health PA DOH 2006, Obesity Research Merit Review, January 2006,
Philadelphia PA
• For the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM)
• For Occupational Health Southern Africa (OHSA, a journal), Online Journal of Population Health.
REPORTS (recent, unpublished, available)
• “Outcomes of the Worksites overweight/obesity control/prevention trial (Vermont worksite wellness project).
Write-up of U.S. DHHS CDC NCCDPHP, R01 DP000108, R.H. Ross, P.I., July 1, 2014.
• CHANNELS Project. Grant no. UD7HP25065, U.S. DHHS, HRSA, BHP, Division of Nursing. Nurse Education, Practice,
Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Program – Interprofessional Collaborative Practice. Evaluator: Robert H. Ross, PhD
o “Results from the PRE-/POST-TRAINING EVALUATION INSTRUMENT for the “Interprofessional education and
practice” Training Session July 12, 2013. 20 January 2014.
o “Results from the PRE-/POST-TRAINING EVALUATION INSTRUMENT for the “Interprofessional education and
practice” Training Session March 8, 2013. 20 January 2014.
o “Key Project Personnel Survey (Working Group Leaders)—Baseline and Follow-up Perceptions and Evaluations of
Year One Project Process.” 23 August 2013.
o “Key Project Personnel Survey (Working Group Members)—Baseline and Follow-up Perceptions and Evaluations
of Year One Project Process.” 23 August 2013.
• “Outcomes of the ‘Youth Obesity in Maine: Present-day Economic cost and Academic consequences’ Project.”
Robert H. Ross, Ph.D. A Report to Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership, Portland, Maine, July 28, 2011.
• “Results from the Maine Worksite Wellness Initiative (MWWI) End-of-Year 1 (July 2010) Member Canvass.” Robert
H. Ross, Ph.D., Scientific Director, Maine-Harvard Prevention Research Center, 28 September 2010.
• “Evaluation Project Report: The Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation From the First Tooth Program Pilot, Year 1
(2008).” Robert H. Ross, Ph.D., Scientific Director-Maine Harvard Prevention Research Center, April 15, 2009.
• “Evaluation Report: Take Time! Physical Activity in Schools Initiative, Year 3 (2006-2007).” Robert H. Ross, Ph.D.,
Maine-Harvard Prevention Research Center, 29 January 2008.
PRESENTATIONS (recent, unpublished, available)
• “What do Injury and Healing look like? A Reflection at the intersection of Family systems theory and Franciscan
spirituality on one Photograph taken in late October of a ‘Communal triangle’.” Presentation, January 28, 2012,
Bangor Theological Seminary, Portland, Maine.
• “The Diabetes Epidemic in the United States and in Maine.” Presentation, December 1, 2011, Bangor Theological
Seminary, Portland, Maine.
• “The Community Hospital and its Healthcare Workforce: A Societal Case for Keeping the (Older, Night shift) Working
Nurse Fit,” Prepared for Meeting 3 of the Year 2 Maine Worksite Wellness Initiative, January 13, 2011, University of
New England, Portland campus, Linnell Hall Room 200.
• “The Organizational Risk Assessment (ORA) Version 2.0: Training Session 1: Foundations, Training Session 2:
Instruments, Training Session 3: Conduct and Deployment, Training Session 4: Re-Cap and Practicum.” Prepared for
the 83rd
Annual Maine Safety and Health Conference, Augusta, Maine, 21-23 September 2010.
• “Three Propositions for PA(N) Program Building and Effectiveness at the Worksite: Organize, Organize, Organize.”
Prepared for “Using Policy and Environmental Approaches to Improve Hospital Environments: A Systems Approach
to Food, Physical Activity, Breastfeeding, and Tobacco in Hospitals Nationwide,” Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, August 23-24, 2010.
• “The Child Overweight/Obesity in Maine Schools (COOMS) Survey Pilot.” Presentation to the Eighth Annual Hanley
Center Leadership Forum, Hilton Garden Inn, Auburn, Maine, 30 June 2010.
• “Foundations of the Social-ecological Approach to Employee Health Risk Factor Reduction in the Workplace.”
Presentation to Meeting 4 of the Year 1 Maine Worksite Wellness Initiative, Maine Center for Public Health,
Augusta, Maine, 25 February 2010.
• “Child Overweight/Obesity 101.” Presentation to the 2009 – 2010 Health Leadership Development Program of the
Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership, Hallowell, Maine, November 19, 2009.

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• The Vermont Worksite Wellness Project: Clinical and Claims Outcomes.” Prepared for the 2009 Annual Meeting of
the Maine Center for Public Health “Optimizing Cost-Effective Wellness for Productive Worksites,” Augusta, Maine,
March 10, 2009.
• “Evidence-based Practice: What does it mean? Why do we care?” Address to the Maine CDC PAN Training Series,
Session 1, Bangor ME, December 11, 2007.
• “The Vermont Worksite Wellness Project and Some Midterm Biometric Findings: Implications Down East?”
Presentation to the Maine Health Alliance, Augusta, Maine, 7 December 2007.
• “The Vermont Worksite Wellness Project: Design, Implementation, Midterm Biometric Findings.” Presentation to
the 7th
Annual Maine-Harvard Prevention Research Center Workshop “What’s New? Putting recent obesity
research to work in Maine,” Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, Maine, November 27, 2007.
• “The Vermont Worksite Wellness Project: The Project and Some Preliminary Findings.” CDC NIOSH WorkLife
Symposium, Bethesda MD, September 10-11, 2007.
• “The Vermont Worksite Wellness Project: The Project and Some Midterm Biometric Findings.” Blue Cross Blue
Shield Association, Distinctively Blue and Focus on Providers Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 15-17, 2007
(rescheduled to September 25, 2007).
• “The Vermont Worksite Wellness Project: Design, Intervention, Outcomes, and a Digression on the ‘CHEW’.” World
Research Group Conference “Achieving ROI for Wellness,” San Diego CA, October 23-25, 2006.
• “Outcomes into Practice: Controlled Trial of the Worker-Based Outcomes Assessment System.” Medical
Sociology section, American Sociological Association 101st
Annual Meeting, Montreal, August 11-14, 2006.
• “Health Professional Workforce Dynamics Across Four Professions in a Small Rural State.” Eastern Nursing
Research Society (ENRS, Philadelphia PA) 18th
Annual Scientific Sessions “New Momentum for Nursing
Research: Multidisciplinary Alliances,” April 20-22, 2006. With B. Rambur, MV Palumbo, B. Wilcke Jr.
• “The Bite in the ‘CHEW’: Preliminary Findings from the ‘Worksites Overweight/Obesity Control/ Prevention
Trial’” (CDC HPRI). International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health, Session C36 “Innovations
in Worksite Strategies for Promoting Physical Activity,” Atlanta GA, April 19, 2006.
LANGUAGES: English (native), French and Italian (elementary)
AWARDS AND HONORS (post-baccalaureate)
Taft Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 1988-89 (declined).
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, Italy, 1979-80.
Social Science Research Council Dissertation Research Fellowship, Italy, 1979-80.
Yale Higher Education Research Group Stipend, 1976-77.
Yale Graduate School Tuition Fellowship, 1974-75, 1975-76.
Dartmouth College Nominee, Luce Fellowship Program, 1973.
PRE-DOCTORAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Dissertation Research Fellow. Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies and
L’Universita’ Statale di Bologna, Istituto delle scienze d’educazione, Bologna, Italy 1979-1980
Trainee. Yale University, Department of Sociology, Comparative Sociology Program, London, England Summer 1975
Research Assistant. Harvard Graduate School of Education, Center for Educational Policy Research 1973-74
Teacher, Off-Campus Projects Director. The Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts 1971-72
Trainer, Quaker Project on Community Conflict, New York, New York Fall 1970
Peace Education Associate. American Friends Service Committee, Michigan Area Office (Ann Arbor) 1969-70/71
Actor. The Poor Peoples Theater, New York, New York 1968-69
Tutor. Dartmouth College, ABC (A Better Chance) Program, Hanover, New Hampshire Summer 1969
Volunteer. Dartmouth-Talladega College Head Start-Vista Program, West Halifax, Vermont Summer 1967
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born: February 1, 1947, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Married: Patricia Ann Ross, MSW.
Children: Kayvon Christopher Ross, b.September 2, 1981); Elliott Deem Ross, b. November 6, 1996.