Take Five
Take Five with Commissioner Elnahal
Shereef M. Elnahal, M.D., M.B.A. The son of physicians who grew up in Atlantic County, Dr. Elnahal became Acting Health Commissioner in January after serving in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Quality, Safety, and Value. He received a dual-degree M.D. and M.B.A. with Distinction from Harvard…Read More…
Take Five with Virginia Tesser
Virginia Tesser has joined the Quality Institute as Membership Coordinator Can you describe your new role at the Quality Institute? I support Tyla Housman, the Vice President of External Affairs, to develop and engage our membership. That means reaching out to potential new members and strengthening our engagement with existing members. I also will…Read More…
Take Five with Kevin Kelleher
Kevin Kelleher, Director of Research and Economic Services at New Jersey Education Association, the union representing New Jersey’s professional educators. As a member of the School Employee Health Benefits Design Committee, can you tell us how you tried to make the health care benefits program more effective and efficient? The charge of the committee is…Read More…
Take Five with Stacey Flanagan
Stacey Flanagan, Director of the Jersey City Department of Health & Human Services, will be a panelist at the Quality Institute’s Breakfast on Population Health on February 27. Jersey City is one of three New Jersey communities working with the Healthy Communities create Healthy Citizens (HCHC) initiative, funded by the United Health Foundation and the…Read More…
Take Five with Dr. Richard J. Baron
Dr. Richard J. Baron, President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation, will deliver the Keynote Address at “Innovation Showcase: Technology Tools for the Medical Neighborhood,” on March 15. Dr. Baron will discuss the origins of the Choosing Wisely campaign, a nationwide effort to reduce waste and overuse in…Read More…
Take Five with Sajid Syed
Sajid Syed is the Founder and Chairman of Medina Community Clinic, which provides specialty medical care to people in the Trenton area who are uninsured and under-insured. Can you tell us the origins of Medina Community Clinic? My background is as an entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry, and I was fortunate to have had a…Read More…
Take Five with Rob Robinson
Rob Robinson is the former Senior Director of Global Learning and Development at Johnson & Johnson Worldwide Government Affairs & Policy. He is a founder of Health Care Policy 360, an executive training program organized for businesses developed by the Quality Institute and run in partnership with the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor…Read More…
Take Five with Heather Howard
Heather Howard, JD, a Quality Institute board member, is director of State Health and Values Strategies and a Lecturer in Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. You just returned from testifying before the California legislature. Can you tell us why you traveled to California? I was invited by the Assembly Select…Read More…
Take Five with Tucker Woods
Tucker Woods, DO, is the Chief Medical Officer at CarePoint Health-Christ Hospital in Jersey City. Dr. Woods also provides oversight for the three CarePoint Health Emergency Departments. You oversee the emergency departments at CarePoint Health and are making a push to reduce the use of opioids in emergency care. How much of the problems linked…Read More…
Take Five with Niall Brennan
Niall Brennan, former Chief Data Officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, is President and Executive Director of the Health Care Cost Institute. Brennan will be the keynote speaker at the Quality Institute’s Winter All Council Conference on December 8. You have spoken about how, as CMS chief data officer, you oversaw the…Read More…