About Us

Angela Loder, PhD

Dr. Angela Loder is the current vice president of research for the International WELL Building Institute and a member of the WELL faculty. In addition to her work at WELL, Dr. Loder is the director of Greening the City, a Denver-based organization focused on issues related to health, nature, and the urban-built environment. She is also an adjunct faculty member of the University of Denver, where she teaches globalization and geography, environmental management, and sustainable transportation at the graduate level.

A core member of the NIH Health in Buildings Roundtable (HiRB), Dr. Loder is leading health and building policy research. She highlighted the three main areas of study in the field (materials and ventilation, daylighting, and access to nature) in “Healthy buildings: why workers are demanding sustainable offices,” which appeared in The Guardian.

Anthony Stanowski, DHA

Dr. Anthony Stanowski was appointed as the president and CEO of CAHME on June 20, 2016. His initial involvement with CAHME was when he graduated from a CAHME-accredited program in 1984; in 2011, he was appointed as a board member.

Dr. Stanowski has extensive leadership experience in healthcare organizations, including the Aramark Corporation, Thompson Reuters, and several academic and community-based health systems. He has served on the boards of health systems and in governance with the American Hospital Association. Notably, he is a frequent presenter at healthcare conferences and the co-author of “We Have A Match: My Journey through America’s Transplant System,” which details the challenges of providing a positive patient experience in the transplant system.

Bill McGinley, MBA

Bill McGinley serves as the president and CEO of the American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA). He has 35 years of experience as a nursing home administrator, including positions with Greenery Rehabilitation Group, Inc., SALMON Health and Retirement, and New Pond Village.

McGinley earned his MBA from Boston College with a healthcare management specialization. Notably, he’s a Fellow of the America College of Health Care Administrators (FACHCA), a Certified Nursing Home Administrator (CNHA), a Certified Administrator of Sub-Acute Care (CAS), and a Certified Assisted Living Administrator (CALA).

Chad Larson, MBA

Chad Larson is the executive director of the Hospital Accreditation Program at The Joint Commission. Larson holds an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Business (Chicago, IL) with an emphasis in health services administration, and a bachelor of science in kinesiology from Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL) with an emphasis in preventative and rehabilitative exercise science.

Larson is a 15-year veteran of The Joint Commission, having previously served as director of business operations. He also served as a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award examiner, which offers the highest level of recognition for performance excellence that a US organization can achieve. Larson is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).

Chelsea Tersavich

Chelsea Tersavich, PA-C, is a psychiatric clinician with extensive mental health and primary care experience from her military career. During her 11 years of service, Ms. Tersavich treated thousands of soldiers as a battalion physician assistant and specialty clinic medical director. She was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Aviation Provider of the Year awards, among many other accolades.

In her role at Mindbloom, Chelsea Tersavich conducts psychiatric evaluations and has facilitated ketamine therapy sessions for over 250 clients. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from American University and a master’s from the interservice physician assistant program. Ms. Tersavich was also a recipient of the PA Foundation’s 2020 Nutrition Outreach Fellowship.

Christina Gardiner, PhD

Dr. Christina Gardiner has served since 2018 as a Professor in the Department of Healthcare Services Management at the University of Maryland Global Campus, College of Business & Management. She is the President of Summit Healthcare Advisors and has over two decades of executive healthcare experience.

Dr. Gardiner has taught a variety of subjects including healthcare administration, public health, quantitative and qualitative analysis, finance, and business management. She has advised both private firms and nonprofit organizations on issues related to value-based healthcare, healthcare system competition, market allocation, patient safety, and health policy. She is known for being a trusted consultant, educator, and subject matter expert on complex healthcare systems as well as evidence-based interventions that support public health responses.

Dulce Gonzalez

Dulce Gonzalez is a research associate at the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute. She forms part of a team working on the Urban Institute’s Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey. Gonzalez conducts quantitative and qualitative research focused primarily on the social safety net, immigration, and barriers to healthcare access. Her work has also focused on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on nonelderly adults and their families.

Before joining the Urban Institute, Gonzalez worked at the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and at the nonprofit organization Maternal and Child Health Access. Gonzalez holds a BA in economics from California State University, Long Beach, and a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University.

Eric S. Swirsky, JD

Eric S. Swirsky, JD is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where he also serves as director of graduate studies and PhD program director. Using his unique blend of experience and knowledge, Swirsky teaches courses in communication skills, professionalism, and ethics and legal issues in health sciences. His scholarly interests revolve around the ethical conundra attendant to human interaction with computers and data.

As an ethicist-attorney, Swirsky serves on UI Health’s Ethics Committee, the Research Ethics Consultation Service, the editorial board of the American Journal of Bioethics, and the Board of Directors for the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM).

Faina Linkov, PhD

Dr. Faina Linkov is the department chair and associate professor for the John G. Rangos Sr. School of Health Sciences at Duquesne University. She earned her MPH in behavioral and community health science and her PhD in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

Dr. Linkov is a multidisciplinary researcher interested in molecular epidemiology, cancer, prevention, health systems research, global health, scientific communications, and research productivity. She has over 100 original research publications and reviews. She has received grants and awards from the American Cancer Society, Phi Beta Psi Sorority Foundation, the Department of Defense, Scaife Foundation, CDC, Hillman Foundation, USAID, the Government of Kazakhstan, and NATO.

Helen Crunk, RN

Helen Crunk is Chair of the National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) Board of Directors, where she has served since 2011. She is also the Executive Director of Pemberly Place Management and Archer Place Medical Clinic, both in Lincoln, Nebraska. Prior to this role, she owned her own consulting firm and assisted living community.

With more than 25 years of experience in long-term care, Crunk specializes in facility management in assisted living and direct care staff education. Notably, she is the only two-time winner of the NCAL Administrator of the Year Award.

Janice Sabin, PhD

Dr. Janice Sabin is a leading researcher and educator on the science of implicit bias and its effect on medical care, health equity, and social determinants of health. With an MSW in health/mental health and a PhD in social welfare, she has long been at the forefront of applying this science to healthcare disparities research.

Dr. Sabin’s expertise ranges from pediatricians' racial bias to discrimination against lesbian women and gay men, as well as designing and evaluating health disparities education for faculty members, graduate medical students, and nursing trainees. Currently, she is a research associate professor in biomedical informatics and medical education at the University of Washington.

John Richey, MBA

John Richey has served in a number of roles at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), most recently as the 2015 chair of the VLab Strategic Advisory Committee, member of the Council for Excellence in Education’s Faculty Development Workgroup, and member of the Global Health Workforce Council’s AHIMA Workgroup.

Richey is also the past president and distinguished member of the Ohio Health Information Management Association (OHIMA).

Joy D. Calloway, MBA

Joy D. Calloway is the Interim Executive Director of the National Association of Health Services Executives. She earned both her MBA and her MHSA from the University of Michigan. Drawing on her 25-plus year career in professional leadership, she’s now an in-demand speaker, trainer, and facilitator with a client list that includes the Michigan Primary Care Association, Healthy Start, and the American Heart Association.

She is currently finalizing a workplace training curriculum that identifies and arrests unconscious bias throughout the HR lifecycle.

Leighton Ku, PhD

Dr. Leighton Ku is a professor and director of the Center for Health Policy Research at the George Washington University School of Public Health. As a health policy researcher, public policy analyst, and advocate, his career has been built around understanding and improving access to affordable healthcare for vulnerable populations.

Among his areas of expertise are national and state health reforms, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), immigrant health, and healthcare financing and budgets, emphasizing strengthening the healthcare safety net.

Dr. Ku has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and 200 other policy and translational health policy research reports. As a member of the community, he has helped develop and guide the District of Columbia's health insurance marketplace since 2012 as a member of its Executive Board. He has also served as a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which focuses on improving policies for low- and moderate-income Americans; as a principal researcher at the Urban Institute; and as a policy and budget analyst for the federal Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program.

Lisa P. Shock, DrPH

Dr. Lisa P. Shock is a member of the clinical leadership team at Evolent Health. As vice president of clinical strategy and operations of value-based services, she is responsible for working with Evolent’s accountable care organization partners to realize clinical and economic outcomes.

As a certified physician assistant with subspecialties in geriatrics and rural health, Dr. Shock currently practices outpatient medicine in a skilled nursing facility in rural North Carolina. She also serves as part-time medical director for WakeMed Key Community Care (WKCC), where she works directly with health system leaders and an interdisciplinary team and oversees the delivery of tailored programs that improve quality and outcomes while simultaneously lowering costs. She serves on several boards and committees, including the North Carolina Institute of Medicine Board of Directors and the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation, and is a guest lecturer at Campbell University’s physician assistant program.

Dr. Shock earned her doctoral degree in public health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Colgate University and a master’s and physician assistant certificate from Duke University.

Michael Schiller, CMRP

Michael Schiller is the Senior Director of Supply Chain for the Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM), a professional membership group of the American Hospital Association (AHA).

Schiller is a leading healthcare professional who models successful engagement with executives and leaders from across the healthcare field, including those from the provider and supplier communities, regulatory agencies, standards organizations, industry associations, analyst firms, health IT, and academic institutions.

As AHRMM’s subject matter expert, Schiller brings more than 30 years of healthcare supply chain experience to his role. In this capacity, he provides vision and direction for the association's educational content and collaborates with industry leaders across the healthcare ecosystem on various healthcare, supply chain, and advocacy initiatives. Schiller was awarded the George R. Gossett Leadership Award in 2021.

Rita A. Jablonski, PhD

Dr. Rita A. Jablonski is a tenured professor at one of the top nursing programs in the country, the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing, and a nurse practitioner in UAB’s Memory Disorders Clinic. She received her BSN from Holy Family College, her MSN from LaSalle University, her post-master’s NP certificate from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD from the University of Virginia.

Dr. Jablonski is particularly passionate about helping individuals with dementia who reside in nursing homes and aims to create a pipeline of future nurse researchers interested in dementia care and the needs of family caregivers.

Robert Malte, MBA

Robert (Bob) Malte is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Health Services and practitioner-in-residence for the MHA program at the University of Washington. His academic interests include strategy, leadership organizational systems, and governance. He retired in 2018 as the CEO of EvergreenHealth, a top-ranked healthcare system, capping a 40-year management career to help teach the next generation of healthcare leaders.

Malte previously served as president and CEO of Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in Denver and also held senior leadership positions with ThedaCare, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Loyola University Medical Center, and Illinois Masonic Medical Center. Bob served on multiple boards, including the Washington State Hospital Association, where he is a past chair. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Lake Washington Institute of Technology in Kirkland. Malte holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Sarah Maytum, MBA

Sarah Maytum is the vice president of human resources at Texas Children’s Hospital—the largest children’s hospital in the U.S. and one of the most consistently top-rated, according to the U.S. News & World Report. Her responsibilities include talent acquisition, community human resources, employee relations, compensation and employee records, organizational development, and performance management.

Maytum holds a master’s in education and administration from the University of Houston and a master’s in business administration from the University of Texas at Tyler. She took on the position of vice president of HR at the hospital in January 2019, prior to which, she held a variety of leadership and staff roles in operations. In total, Maytum has been with the Texas Children’s Hospital for 22 years.

Sheila Guston, CHDS

Sheila Guston is the interim CEO of the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), where she has served on the Board of Directors since 2014.

Over a nearly two-decade career at Spectrum Health, Guston has worked as a healthcare documentation specialist, and most recently a leader of their HIM Document Integrity program. She is a fellow of AHDI and a Certified Healthcare Documentation Specialist (CHDS).

Susan Hedlund, MSW

Susan Hedlund has been a leader in patient/family support services at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Knight Cancer Institute for eight years, but her experience in the field of social work in oncology goes back 30 years. She began her career by earning a bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Davis, and continued on to the MSW at Portland State University.

Hedlund now specializes in the development and provision of psychosocial support services for people with cancer and their loved ones at hospitals at OHSU. She’s taken on leadership roles such as director of the cancer counseling program at Cancer Care Resources and director of the Palliative Care Program in Hospice and Palliative Care of Washington County.

Suzanne Wood, PhD

Dr. Suzanne Wood is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington. A lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve, she has 25 years of healthcare experience, with expertise in international business strategy and healthcare management. Dr. Wood has served as a consultant for numerous strategic planning initiatives for the military health system, public and nonprofit service organizations, and foreign governments.

At the University of Washington, she teaches courses on applied research and healthcare strategy and conducts translational research on healthcare strategy, business operations, and service delivery. She is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Dr. Wood has a PhD in business administration from Old Dominion University.

Tara Sklar, JD

Tara Sklar is a professor of health law and the director of the health law & policy program at the University of Arizona. Her research examines the role of laws, regulations, and policies in influencing the health and well-being of older adults.

Professor Sklar holds a master’s in public health law from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center and her J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center. Sklar’s research has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and Jurimetrics, among others.

Wylecia Wiggs Harris, PhD

Dr. Wylecia Wiggs Harris serves as the CEO of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). She previously was the COO at the American Nurses Association, the executive director of the Center for American Nurses, executive director of the Sister to Sister Foundation, and senior VP and executive director of the American Heart Association.

Dr. Harris earned a PhD in organizational development; an honorary doctorate of humane letters; and a master of management. She also is a certified executive director through the American Society of Association Executives, as well as a certified facilitator for leadership assessments through the Center for Creative Leadership.

Yossi Pollack, MBA

Sight Diagnostics CEO and co-founder Yossi Pollak began his career as an algorithm developer and project leader for an Intel subsidiary, Mobileye, a leader in the emerging, autonomous MaaS (mobility as a service) industry.

Pollack has a bachelor’s of science degree in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, Île-de-France. His first-place win at the school’s Business Venture Competition laid the groundwork for the launching of Sight Diagnostics, which now has offices in London, New York City, and Tel Aviv.