Leadership and Staffing

Dr. Lisa McCormick serves as the Alabama LTC Strike Team Program Administrator and Principal Investigator where she is responsible for the overall project implementation and administration. She is also an Associate Professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health (Department of Environmental Health Sciences) and Associate Dean for Public Health Practice.

Dr. Natalie Baker serves as the LTC Strike Team’s Infection Prevention Supervisor. Dr. Natalie Baker is an Associate Professor at UAB School of Nursing, teaching in the adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner program and doctoral leadership course. She is a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and American Academy of Nursing. She is a recognized Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing by the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence. In 2021, Dr. Baker was named a Visionary Leader alumnus by the UAB School of Nursing.

Dr. Baker maintains a nurse practitioner practice at a rural skilled nursing facility in northern Alabama. She is an advocate for the rights of vulnerable older adults, championing changes in care delivery in long-term care facilities. She is the President of the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA), an advanced practice nursing organization dedicated to improving care delivery of older adults. She has worked on health policy initiatives and represented GAPNA at numerous national forums and disseminated her work through peer-reviewed publications and national presentations.

Dr. Rachael Lee serves as the Alabama LTC Strike Team’s Medical Director Supervisor. She is the Team’s overall clinical/medical advisor and provides direct oversight and guidance of medical/content input. Dr. Lee is a healthcare epidemiologist and infectious disease physician who is an expert in infection prevention and multi-drug resistant pathogens in relation to infection control. She is an assistant professor in the UAB Division of Infectious Diseases, a UAB Healthcare Epidemiologist, and Birmingham VA Medical Center Associate Healthcare Epidemiologist