The following TA providers are available to AF4Q alliances for sustainabiilty-specific technical assistance.
In her role as associate director, Renee Baiorunos leads client relationships and engagements, facilitates diverse leadership teams in bold decision making and supports their execution, and contributes to overall strategic firm initiatives. Renee leads client engagements with a core focus on strategy design and implementation, growth planning and stakeholder engagement and management. Renee has partnered with leading organizations to develop bold impact visions on issues such as chronic homelessness, high school graduation rates and the health and well-being of children. Working with these organizations, she has helped to identify and implement financially sustainable strategies to achieve these visions. She has also worked with executives to make the case for funding in support of their new strategies, resulting in both new funding sources and increased funding from existing sources. Renee brings more than ten years of experience from both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. During her time at D.F. King she consulted with Fortune 500 companies on governance issues prioritized by executive boards and activist shareholders to advance governance practices and strategies. Prior to that she was with Edelman Public Relations’ Corporate Social Responsibility Practice where she focused on public-private partner engagements and issues management for clients and thought leadership for the practice.
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, MS, MBAAs Executive Director of HCI3, Mr. de Brantes is responsible for setting and implementing the strategy of the organization. This includes supervising the implementations of Bridges To Excellence and PROMETHEUS Payment pilots, leading the development of new programs, and designing incentive efforts for employers, health plans and provider organizations.
Previously, Mr. de Brantes was the Program Leader for various healthcare initiatives at GE Corporate Health Care Programs, responsible for developing the conceptual framework and the implementation of GE's Active Consumer strategy.
Mr. de Brantes attended the University of Paris IX - Dauphine where he earned a MS in Economics and Finance. After completing his military service as a platoon leader in a Light Cavalry Regiment, he attended the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, where he graduated with an MBA.
Lynn Fick-Cooper brings more than 25 years of experience in leadership positions from a variety of organizations to her role as senior faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). Having served in such senior leadership positions as director of government affairs for the Greensboro Area Chamber of Commerce; public relations director for the International Home Furnishings Representatives Association; chief marketing Officer at Huthwaite, a sales and research training firm; and chief development officer at the Center for Creative Leadership, Ms. Cooper is well versed in the leadership challenges we all encounter on a daily basis. For the past seven years she has been designing and delivering leadership development programs for nonprofit leaders who are trying to improve health and healthcare across the United States. She currently serves as the program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Community Coalition Leadership Program, as well as the lead program designer and delivery faculty for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows Program. She also manages CCL’s relationship with such foundations as the Kate B. Reynolds Trust, the Community Memorial Foundation of Chicago, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of North Carolina. Lynn has presented on a variety of leadership topics including negotiation, influence, and boundary spanning leadership at previous AF4Q meetings.
Dianne Hasselman leads multi-payer and multi-stakeholder
quality improvement initiatives at CHCS. She is currently
directing Reducing Disparities at the Practice Site, an initiative
designed to strengthen the primary care infrastructure of
small, under-resourced primary care practices serving a large
volume of Medicaid beneficiaries and racially/ethnically
diverse populations. She also manages CHCS' involvement
in Aligning Forces for Quality initiative. Ms. Hasselman helped
to spearhead CHCS' Regional Quality Improvement
initiative, which tested the ability of state Medicaid agencies
to lead alignment of quality improvement efforts across
public and private payers and purchasers to improve chronic
care delivery throughout a region. Ms. Hasselman received
her MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, and her BA in communications from the University of
California at San Diego.
Elizabeth Mitchell serves as CEO and president of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, a national network of multi-stakeholder regional health improvement collaboratives with more than 30 members across the United States. Before this, Ms. Mitchell was the CEO of the Maine Health Management Coalition (MHMC), an employer-led, multi-stakeholder coalition working to improve the value of health care services. She also served as the CEO of the Maine Health Management Coalition Foundation, which is dedicated to performance measurement and public reporting and engaging the public in the use of cost and quality information. While at the Coalition, she led many transparency, payment reform, and health system redesign efforts with its many partners. Ms. Mitchell serves on the Board of the National Quality Forum and on the Coordinating Committee of NQF’s Measure Application Partnership, and on the IOM Study Committee on Core Measures for Better Health at Lower Cost. She formerly served on the Board of the National Business Coalition on Health and as chair of its Government Affairs Committee, and as chair of the Board of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement. Before being appointed CEO of MHMC, she worked for MaineHealth, Maine’s largest integrated health system, where she led several transparency and quality improvement efforts. She served two terms in the Maine State legislature, where she chaired the Health and Human Services Committee, and has held posts at the National Academy for State Health Policy and London’s Nuffield Trust. Ms. Mitchell was selected for an Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy by the Commonwealth Fund and the British Council. While in the United Kingdom, she completed the International Health Leadership Program at Cambridge University’s Judge School of Management while also pursuing graduate studies at the London School of Economics.
The Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement is the national organization of leading Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives with more 30 members covering 40 percent of the U.S. population.
As an independent consultant, Ms. Powell provides
coaching to leaders and clinicians in implementing
quality improvement initiatives in healthcare settings and
communities. Her areas include creating systematic care
for patient populations, implementing advanced patient
centered medical homes and developing infrastructure to
spread and sustain quality improvement. She has
convened four Learning Networks to accelerate
knowledge by learning from fellow colleagues working
towards a collaborative aim. Her projects include AF4Q,
the American Academy of Pediatrics Chapter Quality
Network Collaborative, the Safety Net Medical Home
Initiative and the National Fellowship Program for
Family Medicine.
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, MBADavid E. Williams is President of the Health Business Group, where he has extensive experience in strategy and business model development throughout health care and life sciences. He previously worked for ten years in the health care practice of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and as an independent consultant. He began his career at the LEK Partnership, where he was a strategy consultant and mergers and acquisitions advisor in a variety of industries. David is a board member of iCardiac Technologies, a venture-backed ECG-based biomarker company serving the pharmaceutical development and personalized medicine sectors. He writes the Health Business Blog, a highly rated, daily weblog that focuses on the business and policy aspects of health care. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Hearts & Noses Hospital Clown Troupe, which provides professionally trained volunteer clowns to hospitalized children. David holds a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, with First Year Honors. He has acted as an instructor in MIT’s graduate-level Dynamics of Biomedical Technologies course in the Biomedical Enterprise Program and served on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Objective Review panel for Regional Health Information Technology Extension Centers and Beacon Communities.
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, PhD<p>Working with Dale Shaller to provide TA for Patient Experience.</p>