Donald L. Ashkenase has been Executive Vice President — Corporate of Montefiore Medical Center since 1987. Montefiore is the University Hospital and Academic Medical Center for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Professor Ashkenase graduated in 1965 from Brooklyn College and served four years in the United States Air Force as a hospital administrator. He received a Masters Degree from Wagner College and spent nine years at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation leaving as First Vice President — Finance and Chief Financial Officer. He left NYCHHC in 1979 to become CFO at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
Professor Ashkenase is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. He is chairman of the board of HealthFirst, and is a member and Chairman of the Board of the HANY'S Insurance Company. He is member and past President of Great Neck Board of Education.
Lawrence D. Brown is Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. A political scientist, he got a Ph.D. in government at Harvard University in 1973. After positions at Harvard, the Brookings Institution, and the University of Michigan, in 1988 he came to Columbia, where he chaired the Department of Health Policy and Management for ten years and the university's Public Policy Consortium for three years. He is the author of Politics and Health Care Organizations: HMOs as Federal Policy (Brookings Institution, 1983) and of articles on the political dimensions of community cost containment, expansion of coverage for the uninsured, national health reform, the role of analysis in the formation of health policy, and cross-national health policy. Mr. Brown edited the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law for five years, has served on several national advisory committees for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has an RWJ Investigators in Health Policy award, and is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Mr. Chaloner was formerly the President and CEO of Cabrini. There, he guided the organization through the post-9/11 traumas, stabilized and rebuilt the revenue cycle functions and cash flow, implemented a major cost reduction, rebuilt medical staff, union and regulatory relationships, and led the Board and Sponsors in the development of a fundamental strategic planning effort to redefine Cabrini for a rapidly evolving healthcare market.
Mr. Chaloner received his undergraduate education at Dartmouth College, where he majored in Government. He pursued graduate work in Health Management and Planning at Columbia University where he received a Master of Public Health and a Master of Science in Urban Planning. He also received a Master of Business Administration from New York University where he majored in Finance.
Mr. Chaloner is an American College of Healthcare Executives Certified Healthcare Executive, and is active on the board of a number of non-profit and community organizations.
Thomas D'Aunno, PhD, focuses his research on the organization and management of healthcare services. He has a particular interest in leadership, organizational change, and performance improvement, and has examined these issues in a variety of national studies of healthcare organizations that have been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Agency for Health Care Quality and Research, and the Pew Memorial Trust. Dr. D'Aunno was previously a faculty member at the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan and, most recently, at INSEAD, where he held the Novartis Chair in Healthcare Management. He has published articles in leading management and health journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Dr. D'Aunno has been a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and the Academy of Management Review. In addition, he has consulted and taught executive education courses on several topics including leadership, performance management, high-performance teams, organizational design, and organizational change. Dr. D'Aunno is a past chairman of the Academy of Management Division of Health Care Management and a recipient of this Division's award for career distinguished service.
Sam Davis, is a Clinical Professor at the School of Public Health at Columbia University, and a Distinguished Service Professor at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His complete knowledge of management and strategic organizational change processes has enabled him to fill a unique niche as both expert and process consultant. With a distinguished record as the leader of the Health Care Practice of the Delta Consulting Group and as the former President, and Chief Executive Officer of The Mount Sinai Hospital, N.Y., Professor Davis was responsible for the acknowledged financial and managerial turnaround of one of the largest academic medical centers in the US. Following the turnaround, he led one of the first successful participative and collaborative large-scale strategy planning efforts for an academic medical center.
Professor Davis has been Chairman of the Board of Versus Technologies Inc, of Traverse City, Michigan, and he currently serves on not-for-profit Boards. He has also served as Special Administrator, Board member, and Chair of the Strategy Committee of Medica Health Plans, at the request of the Minnesota Attorney General.
Thomas Ference, is a Clinical Professor in Health Policy & Management. As a member of the faculty of the Columbia Graduate School of Business, he directed the school's Executive MBA Program from 1974 through 1994 and initiated the Institute for Non-for-Profit Management. He is a founding member and first Chair of the Executive MBA Council. He has a PhD in Organization Theory, from Carnegie Mellon University. His principal interests include strategic management, leadership, the management of professionals, career development and management, and the management of not-for-profit organizations.
Dr. Ference has published numerous books, reports, and articles in professional journals. He is the founder and head of The Riverside Group, a management consulting and executive development firm that does work across many sectors in the United States and abroad. He is past Chair of the Board of the Volunteer Consulting Group and past Chair of the Board of Reality House.
Ms. Katherine Garrett, MBA is a consultant on performance measurement and improvement for not-for-profit organizations and a writer on health care policy and quality. Ms. Garrett has over twenty years' experience in the health care industry including five years as program designer and lead strategist for the 22-facility New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation's Quality Management initiative. Ms. Garrett's recent clients include the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, the Fire Department of the City of New York, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Ms. Garrett is an Adjunct Lecturer in Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University School of Public Health. She is also on the faculty of Columbia Business School's Institute for Not-for-Profit Management. She has an M.B.A. in finance with distinction from New York University and a B.A. cum laude from Harvard University.
Sherry Glied is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. She holds a B.A. in economics from Yale University, an M.A. in economics from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. In 1992-1993, she served as a Senior Economist for health care and labor market policy to the President's Council of Economic Advisers, under both President Bush and President Clinton. In the latter part of her term, she was a participant in President Clinton's Health Care Task Force. Dr. Glied's principal areas of research are in health policy reform and mental health care policy.
Herschel Goldfield is a Senior Counsel in the Health Care Law Department of the law firm Proskauer Rose LLP. He has been a practicing health care lawyer for 15 years following stints in health care consulting and health care finance. His clients are principally institutional providers of health care services, but include a full array of the participants in the health industry. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America (for health care) since 2005. In addition to legal practice, he has taught Public Health Law at several local law schools and serves on the board of Out2Play, a small charity that builds playgrounds for schoolchildren in NYC.
Mr. Goldfield obtained his J.D. from Columbia University, has an M.S. in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a B.A. cum laude (in Sociology) from Harvard University.
Fred Hyde, is a Clinical Professor part time in the Department of Health Policy and Management of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. His academic background includes medical and law degrees from Yale and a business degree from Columbia. He has been a member of the Bar since 1975 and is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Dr. Hyde is a nationally known consultant to hospitals, medical schools and physicians, as well as to unions, community groups and others interested in the health of hospitals, health care facilities and organizations.
Dr. Hyde has served twice as chief executive of a non-profit hospital, once as chief executive of an HMO, as vice president of a major university teaching hospital, director of a medical school faculty practice plan and consulting manager of physician practices. He has also been a consultant to major unions and labor-management benefit funds in the health field.
Dr. Donna Lynne, DrPH, MPA is currently the President of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Colorado Region. From 1998 to April 2005, Dr. Lynne was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Group Health Incorporated, a $2.5 billion managed care organization. In the mid-1990s, she was also the Executive Director of the New York Business Group on Health. Dr. Lynne spent 20 years in various positions in New York City government, including First Deputy Commissioner, Office of Labor Relations; Director, Mayor's Office of Operations; and Senior Vice President, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.
Dr. Lynne is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She holds the designation of Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans/University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. She is also active and on the board of a number of Colorado non-profit and community organizations.
Peter Muennig, MD, MPH focuses his research on reducing socioeconomic disparities through more efficient use of societal resources, providing policymakers with strong and informative evidence upon which to make decisions, and novel scientific approaches to understanding the mechanisms underlying disparities. This interest has led to work in cost-effectiveness analyses, which he uses to explore issues related to the health system, immigrant health, and post-secondary education. It has also led to the study of small area analysis as a policy tool, ways of improving cost-effectiveness methodology, and more recently, interdisciplinary approaches to examining the biological mechanisms linking poverty to morbidity and mortality.
Prior to joining the Mailman School faculty, Dr. Muennig was an assistant professor at the Medical School of the City University of New York. He also directed the Program in Cost-Effectiveness and Outcomes at New School University and consulted for
Health Canada and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Muennig has published numerous studies in the medical literature, has authored a textbook on cost-effectiveness analysis, and has contributed to academic publications and governmental reports.
Dr. Michael P. O'Connor is Executive Associate Dean for Business and Finance at New York University's Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing. Dr. O'Connor is the Chief Business and Financial Officer in charge of comprehensive organizational and operational issues, fiscal management and budget planning, real estate, facilities and construction management, information technology, human resources and faculty services, quality assurance and government relations. He also holds the academic rank of Clinical Professor of Epidemiology & Health Promotion.
Prior to joining NYU, Dr. O'Connor was Vice President & Senior Associate Dean for Organizational & Professional Development and Vice President & Senior Associate Dean for Budget & Finance and CFO at the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). He also served as the Mailman School of Public Health's Vice Dean for Finance and Administration for over 20 years. He has been on the Columbia faculty since 1981 and has taught in the Executive MPH program since its inception.
His areas of professional interest include: organizational development, employment law, ethics in health care delivery, contract negotiations, conflict resolution, higher education finance and administration, leadership, mentoring, and academic public health.
Dr. O'Connor is a native New Yorker and holds a doctoral degree in education from Columbia University and an MPA from the City University of New York.
Dr. Payson has had a thirty year career as Chief Executive Officer of multiple healthcare organizations including two S & P 500 publicly traded companies, and has worked closely with private equity firms in the transformation of underperforming healthcare companies.
Dr. Payson has been Chairman and CEO of Apria Healthcare Group since Blackstone's purchase of the company on October 28, 2008. Apria is the nation's largest home healthcare provider with 12,000 employees and over $2.1 billion in annual revenue.
From November 2005 through 2008 Dr. Payson was chairman of Viant Holdings and its predecessor company, Concentra, Inc. overseeing its strategic restructuring. Concentra is the nation's largest occupational health care provider and is majority owned by Welsh Carson.
From 1998 through 2002 aligned with TPG, Dr. Payson was Chief Executive Officer of Oxford Health Plans. Dr. Payson led the dramatically successful turnaround of this $5 billion health plan.
From 1985 to 1997 Dr. Payson was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Healthsource, Inc., a 3 million member health plan located in 15 states.
From 1980 through 1984 Dr. Payson was CEO of a 120 physician multispecialty group practice.
Dr. Payson is a graduate student lecturer at the Tuck School at Dartmouth, the Columbia University School of Public Health and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Payson is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his MD at Dartmouth Medical School.
Hilda H. Polanco, CPA, managing director/founder of Fiscal Management Associates, LLC. FMA helps nonprofits create and maintain effective fiscal systems, policies and procedures, cost-efficient technologies, and organizational infrastructures to support program, fiscal and operating demands. An adjunct professor for Columbia University's masters programs, Professor Polanco conducts fiscal workshops for Columbia's Institute for Not-for-Profit Management and the NYS Department of Health AIDS Institute, and is an instructor for the Not-for-Profit Services Association's Certified Nonprofit Accounting Professional (CNAP) program. A member of the NYSSCPA and AICPA, Professor Polanco serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Nonprofit Governance and the Not-for-Profit Services Association.
Dr. John Rowe, MD is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Previously, from 2000 until his retirement in late 2006, Dr. Rowe served as Chairman and CEO of Aetna, Inc., one of the nation's leading health care and related benefits organizations. Before his tenure at Aetna, from 1998 to 2000, Dr. Rowe served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mount Sinai NYU Health, one of the nation's largest academic health care organizations. From 1988 to 1998, prior to the Mount Sinai-NYU Health merger, Dr. Rowe was President of the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Before joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Rowe was a Professor of Medicine and the founding Director of the Division on Aging at the Harvard Medical School, as well as Chief of Gerontology at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. He has authored over 200 scientific publications, mostly on the physiology of the aging process, including a leading textbook of geriatric medicine, in addition to more recent publications on health care policy. Dr. Rowe has received many honors and awards for his research and health policy efforts regarding care of the elderly. He was Director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging and is co-author, with Robert Kahn, Ph.D., of Successful Aging (Pantheon, 1998). Currently, Dr. Rowe leads the MacArthur Foundation's Initiative on An Aging Society and chairs the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans. Dr. Rowe was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition, Dr. Rowe serves on the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation and is a former member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). Dr. Rowe is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the University of Connecticut and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Donald E. Sexton is a Professor of Business at Columbia University. Dr. Sexton received his Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and his B.A. from Wesleyan University, all in the fields of economics and mathematics. He has been teaching for more than thirty-five years at Columbia in the areas of marketing, international business, and operations management and is a recipient of the Business School's Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Sexton served as a visiting professor at INSEAD for several years and has also taught at the Beijing Management Institute, the Shanghai University of Finance, the Australian Graduate School of Management, the University of Tehran, Jagiellonian University (Krakow), the U.S. Business School in Prague, and the China Europe International Business School (Shanghai). His articles have appeared in numerous journals such as the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research, and the Journal of Business. His research concerns branding and marketing return on investment.
Dr. Françoise Simon, PhD, MBA is a Professor at the Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Business School and also manages her own international consulting group. Her teaching focuses on graduate and executive programs and won the Chandler Award for Commitment to Excellence from the Columbia Business School. Dr. Simon has over twenty years of experience in consulting and marketing management in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Her clients include many Fortune 500 companies as well as new venture firms, European and Asian multinationals, several governments and the United Nations. Her consulting assignments range from a strategic realignment for a major pharmaceutical company to new venture planning for biotechnology firms, as well as global expansion plans for technology companies and a USAID-funded development strategy for 25 Caribbean governments.
Dr. Simon has published over twenty articles and conducted more than 200 management seminars in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. She is the co-author of Building Global Biobrands: Taking Biotechnology to Market, with Philip Kotler (Free Press, 2003), Winning Strategies for the New Latin Markets, with Fernando Robles and Jerry Haar (Prentice-Hall, 2002), Growing your Business Globally (2000) with Don Andrade and Europe and Latin America in the World Economy with Susan Kaufman Purcell (Rienner, 1995). She is past Vice President and Director of the American Marketing Association, and has served on the International Council of the American Management Association. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is listed in Who's Who in Finance and Industry.
Sheryl Skolnick joined CRT Capital Group in 2006 to provide coverage of health care services companies. In her 18 years on Wall Street, she has been named Wall Street Journal Best on the Street twice (once each for stock picking and estimate accuracy) and has provided health care services investment research at Robertson Stephens and Fulcrum Global Partners, a top independent research boutique, among other sell-and-buy-side firms. Dr. Skolnick holds a Ph.D. in economics from Washington University in St. Louis where she was an Olin Fellow.
Michael S. Sparer is a Professor at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He is the current Editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Brandeis University and a J.D. from the Rutgers School of Law (Newark). Dr. Sparer spent seven years as a litigator for the New York City Law Department, specializing in intergovernmental social welfare litigation. He now studies and writes about the politics of health care with an emphasis on the state and local role in the American health care system. He is the author of Medicaid and the Limits of State Health Reform (Temple University Press, 1996) as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
Steven D. Stellman, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. His research interests include environmental and lifestyle causes of cancer, especially tobacco-related cancers and breast cancer, and the health of Vietnam veterans. He formerly served as Assistant Commissioner of Health for Biostatistics and Epidemiological Research for the New York City Department of Health, and as a designer and associate director of the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study 2 (CPS-2), a prospective study of more than one million American men and women. Dr. Stellman's doctorate is in physical chemistry.
Alan Weinberg is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Biostatistics at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and is jointly appointed by the Department of Surgery at New York Presbyterian. His research interests include survival analysis and mixed modeling for the analysis of repeated measurements. He has taught the introductory course in Biostatistics for the Executive MPH program since its inception. He participated in the landmark REMATCH Clinical Trial investigating the survival and quality of life outcomes for the Left Ventricular Assist Device.
