Take Five
Take Five Interview with Julie DeSimone, LSW
As program officer for the Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC), Julie DeSimone, LSW, provides mayors and community leaders with valuable tools and expertise to help residents live healthier lives. Can you tell us about the wide-ranging experience that supports your work with the Quality Institute’s Mayors Wellness Campaign? After finishing my Master of Social Work, with…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Brittany Lee, LMSW
Brittany Lee, LMSW, recently joined the Quality Institute as a policy associate. In this Take Five, Brittany discusses the focus of her work. Can you tell us how you will advance the Quality Institute’s mission? I joined the Quality Institute primarily to concentrate on reproductive health issues. There is a significant need to improve education…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Christine Nazarenus
Christine Nazarenus is Chief Vision Officer and Co-Founder of Medical Marijuana 411, which provides online resources for medical cannabis education. You were working in a technology company and founded your first start up in 1998. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was your first client and later you developed a company focused on the character driven…Read More…
Legacy Take Five Interview with Jon Dolan
This week’s newsletter includes our third Legacy Take Five interview. Throughout the year, we’ll interview some of our longstanding members who will share how their partnership with the Quality Institute helps them advance the mission we all share: improving the safety, quality, and affordability of health care for everyone. Jon Dolan is President…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Joshua Rothenberg, COO of Dialyze Direct
Joshua Rothenberg is the Chief Operating Officer for Dialyze Direct, which is based in Neptune, New Jersey, and provides hemodialysis to people in nursing homes, with plans to expand to residential homes. Recently, President Donald Trump announced an executive order to transform kidney care and shift more than 80 percent of patients on kidney dialysis…Read More…
Legacy Take Five Interview with Kevin Conlin
Kevin Conlin, President & Chief Executive Officer of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has been a member of the Quality Institute for almost 20 years and is one of our earliest members. Can you tell us why the organization values its membership? Improving…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Donald Parker, MSW
Donald Parker, MSW, President and CEO of Carrier Clinic. Parker addressed the need for more mental health services in New Jersey and other issues in the field in this newsletter’s Take Five interview. What drew you to lead an organization that specializes in psychiatric and addiction medicine? My academic background has been in social…Read More…
Legacy Take Five Interview with Alfred F. Tallia, MD, MPH
Alfred Tallia with Quality Institute Board Member. Alfred F. Tallia, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University. You recently were named Chair of the National Board of Medical Examiners. What critical differences do you see between your medical school…Read More…
Take Five Interview with Jim Towey
Jim Towey, Founder of Aging With Dignity and President of Ave Maria University in Florida, will deliver the keynote address at the Conversation of Your Life (COYL) Quality Breakfast on June 13 (open to Quality Institute and COYL Task Force members only, including Mayors participating in COYL). Towey also is co-author of the Five Wishes…Read More…
Take Five Interview With Tiffani Johnson, MD., MSc.
Tiffani Johnson, MD, MSc, is a leading researcher of racial bias in health care. Dr. Johnson is a researcher at PolicyLab, a pediatrician and assistant professor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She will be our keynote speaker at the Quality Institute’s Spring All Council Conference on May 21. The topic is Racial Bias…Read More…