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President
George Sweazey is the president of GES Professional Development, Inc. (GESPD). His focus is on leadership education, one-to-one coaching and team development for health care executives from a variety of professional backgrounds.
Formerly, he was one of the founding partners of the Executive Development Group, a leadership development and consulting firm located in Greensboro, North Carolina, Houston, Texas and Columbus, Ohio. He has taught at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.
Before co-founding EDG George spent 12 years at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina and has worked with more than 5000 mid-level to upper level managers. At the Center he was responsible for various aspects of leadership development including needs assessment, program design, leadership training and one-on-one executive coaching. He was also the manager of the “Creating Team Innovation” program, which focused on custom-designed programs for executive teams.
He was also a founding partner of Triangle Associates, a consulting firm which focuses exclusively on the organizational development and leadership development needs of health care practitioners. He has done consulting and training for nurses, physicians, dentists, veterinarians, and pharmacists. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco, and is currently active in designing and conducting the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program and the California Healthcare Foundation Health Care Leadership Program. He has provided leadership training and one-to-one coaching for executives in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Europe, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, China and Australia.
George has an MBA in Financial Management from George Washington University.
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President-Elect
In 2005 Jennie Chin Hansen transitioned as executive director of On Lok, Inc., a nonprofit family of organizations providing comprehensive primary, acute and long-term care community based services, after nearly 25 years of service PACE, the replication of On Lok, is now a federal program in over 35 sites around the country and recently included national rural demonstration legislation. Ms. Hansen has practiced in community and public health nursing in urban and rural settings as well as taught at two California state universities. She is now a Senior Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, Center for the Health Professions, chairing the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Integrated Nurse Leadership Program and is a part time nursing faculty member at San Francisco State University. She has recently been selected as the President-Elect of the 36 million member AARP. She will be its first nurse and boomer president. She is currently a board member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, Lumetra, the CMS California Quality Improvement Organization and the California Regional Health Information Organization (Cal RHIO). She also serves as Commissioner to the General Accounting Office's MedPAC, and advisor to the Institute for the Future of Aging Services. Among Ms. Hansen's awards are the 2004 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Administrator's Achievement Award, the 2002 Gerontological Society of America's Maxwell Pollack Award for Productive Aging, the Women's Healthcare Executive Woman of the Year of Northern California, and Women Who Could be President Honoree from the League of Women Voters of San Francisco. She has also received alumni awards from both the University of California at San Francisco School of Nursing and Boston College She was inducted as a Fellow to the American Academy of Nursing in 2005.
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Associate Dean and Professor
Dr. Tabbush is an Adjunct Professor in Business Economics at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, where he also serves as Associate Dean and Director of the School's Fully Employed MBA Program. He also is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He received his doctorate in Economics from UCLA in 1973.
Professor Tabbush has expertise in health economics and, more broadly, in investments in human capital and in labor economics. He has considerable practical experience in the area of compensation and labor economics, having served as the Chairman of the Official Salaries Authority of the City of Los Angeles, as a Civil Service Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles, and as a Commissioner for the State of California on Worker's Compensation. He serves as a consultant to pharmaceutical companies in the areas of cost-effectiveness, wrongful death, and pricing.
In the area of health care economics and management, he is the co-founder of the UCLA Health Services Management Center and the originator of several executive education programs for health care providers, including the Johnson and Johnson/UCLA Health Care Executive Program for community-based health care organizations and the California Health Care Foundation Leadership Program. He is the faculty director for the Anderson's joint MD-MBA program. He has recently written articles for the Journal of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology on the subject of cost containment in medicine, for The Archives of Internal Medicine on the changing paradigm in medical payment, and on adverse selection for Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology. His chapter on health economics appeared in Medicine and Business, published in 2001 (Aspen). He has conducted research for the State of California on the cost effectiveness of drug and alcohol treatment and prevention programs. His recent health-related consulting has been with, Unipath Diagnostics on the subject of pricing, Eli Lilly, Parke-Davis, Pfizer, Bayer and with SunBridge - focusing on the economic evaluation of clinical interventions.
He has taught at the Wharton School for many years in the SmithKline Beecham Program for Pharmacy Leaders and in the Wharton/Johnson & Johnson Nurse Executive Program on the subject of cost effectiveness and cost benefit analysis. He teaches pricing in the UCLA Medical Marketing Program, a management program for device and pharmaceutical executives. He has been awarded the Outstanding Teacher Prize in all three Anderson MBA programs at UCLA in the last six years.
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Vice President, National Patient Care Services
Marilyn P. Chow, D.N.Sc., R.N., F.A.A.N. is the Vice President, Patient Care Services, Program Office, at Kaiser Permanente. She is also the Program Director for the RWJ Executive Nurse Fellows Program.
A graduate of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Dr. Chow has made significant contributions to nursing throughout her scholarship, leadership, and political and civic involvement. She has served on the San Francisco City and County Social Services Commission and served as its president for two years.
She is recognized for her expertise in leadership, innovation, regulation of nursing practice, work force policy, and primary care. Her career has focused on promoting the role of nurses in primary care, advanced practice, and hospital-based care. She has co-authored four books, including the award-winning Handbook of Pediatric Primary Care. She is the co-PI for the national study, How Do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend Their Time. She has received several awards, including Women’s Honors in Public Health and the UCSF School of Nursing Distinguished Alumni Award. She was recently selected as one of the distinguished 100 graduates and faculty of the UCSF School of Nursing for the Centennial Wall of Fame.
Dr. Chow serves on a number of national boards, including The Joint Commission At-Large Nursing Representative to the Board of Commissioners, the Joint Commission Resources (JCR) Board, and the editorial advisory board of Nurses Week. She chairs The Joint Commission Nursing Advisory Council, and is a non-salaried, Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Community Health Systems. She served on the IOM Committee in 2003 that produced the report, Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Nurses’s Work Environment. She is a former member of the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice of the Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Nursing, Department of Health & Human Services. Dr. Chow is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN).
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consultant
Bobbi Kimball, RN, MBA is a healthcare management consultant and executive coach with 25 years of experience designing and implementing innovative change across the healthcare spectrum. Her professional practice is devoted to assisting organizations and individuals in planning for the future, successfully managing complex implementation projects and transitions that result in growth, empowerment and healing. Prior to starting her own business, Ms. Kimball served as the chief nursing officer at a major tertiary not-for-profit medical center in San Francisco where she was formally recognized as a visionary and advocate for the nursing profession. Her progressive management career includes leadership roles in clinical, educational, research and administrative services that span the continuum of care including acute, tertiary, ambulatory, hospice and a major health plan. Known as an innovative leader and implementer of new consumer-driven services, Ms. Kimball has a proven track record of developing people and business plans to support strategic initiatives.
She currently serves as an advisor to the California Pacific Health Education Initiative Advisory Panel and not-for-profit Renew, and as an officer of a grass-roots neighborhood beautification and safety organization. Ms. Kimball received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Florida and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco. She has additional formal training in facilitation, fundraising, customer service and coaching.
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Executive Vice President, Co-Chief Operating Officer
Karen Cox brings over 20 years of nursing experience in clinical and executive practice. She currently serves as Executive Vice President, Co-Chief Operating Officer at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, a 314 bed academic pediatric medical center in Kansas City, Missouri. Cox led the organization to receive Magnet designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, becoming the first hospital in Kansas and Missouri, and only the third children’s hospital. Dr. Cox also serves as Assistant Dean for Clinical Partnerships at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC).
Dr. Cox started her nursing career as a licensed practical nurse. Subsequent degrees include an Associates degree in Nursing from Excelsior College, a BSN from the University of Kansas, and a MSN from UMKC. In 2002 she completed a PhD in Nursing with a minor in business from UMKC. Her dissertation studied the needs of inpatient Registered Nurses in the work environment.
Dr. Cox has contributed articles to publications including the American Journal of Nursing, Nursing Economics, Seminars for Nurse Managers, Journal of Nursing Administration and Nursing Leadership Forum. She has presented her work nationally at conferences including American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), American Nurses Association (ANA), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and Sigma Theta Tau (STT).
Dr. Cox was named a Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Executive Nurse Fellowship Program 1999-2002. Her leadership project was to conduct a community-wide nursing assessment. Dr. Cox coordinated the nursing focus group section of the report “Health Care’s Human Crisis: The American Nursing Shortage” from the RWJ Foundation in April 2002. She has developed an instrument, the Individual Workload Perception scale, which measures nurses’ perception of their workload. She was awarded the Midwest Nursing Research Society’s Pediatric Research Section Clinical Practice Award, the School of Nursing Alumni Achievement Award, University of Missouri-Kansas City, the Ingram’s Magazine “Heroes of Healthcare” in Administration Award and the Carrie B. Lenburg Alumnae Award, Excelsior College, Albany, New York. Cox holds memberships in ANA, AONE, Society of Pediatric Nurses, and STT International and and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
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Senior Coach
For well over 25 years, Elaine Respass has been helping firms transform the abstract concept of organizational culture into practices that enhance their capacity to grow and develop leaders. Specific areas of expertise include assessment, coaching, team and leadership development, individual and group development consultation, and organizational effectiveness consulting to private and public institutions. She formerly worked as an organization development specialist, staff development director, and education and training manager for companies such as TRW, Xerox, Connecticut Life Insurance, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Ms. Respass held preferred consultant roles for several years with NUMMI-New United Motor, and Cable & Wireless, BWI and Catholic Healthcare West.
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President and John Hilton Knowles Professor
In 2007, Dr. Jan Bellack was named President of the MGH Institute of Health Professions, an independent graduate school and academic affiliate of the Massachusetts General Hospital, located in Boston. As President of the MGH Institute, Jan also holds an academic appointment as John Hilton Knowles Professor. Jan formerly served for seven years as Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost and Professor of Nursing and Health Sciences at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, and prior to that as Associate Provost for Education and Professor of Nursing and Health Professions at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
Jan has been a member of the faculty of the RWJ Executive Nurse Fellows program since 1998 and also is a senior fellow at the UCSF Center for the Health Professions. She served as consultant to the Center for the Health Professions’ Helene Fuld Leadership Initiative for Nursing Education (LINE) Program and member of the Pew Task Force on Accreditation in the Health Professions. Previously, Jan was co-director of the RWJF-funded South Carolina Colleagues in Caring nursing workforce development project, member of the National Advisory Committee of the RWJF-funded Partnerships for Quality Education (PQE) program, and member of the Advisory Committee of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Community-based Learning (CICL) at the Association of Academic Health Centers. She currently serves on the City of Boston Mayor’s Taskforce on Improving Access to Primary Care, and the National Advisory Committee for the RWJF-funded Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education program, and was recently appointed to a 3-year term on the American Council on Education's Commission on Leadership Effectiveness.
Jan is recognized for her work in curriculum development and program evaluation in nursing and the health professions, educational accreditation, interdisciplinary education, and nursing leadership and workforce development. She has received more than $7 million in external funding to support health professions education and workforce development and research, and has directed or co-directed a variety of federal and foundation grants. She has co-authored two editions of a nursing assessment textbook, and has published numerous articles and chapters in the professional literature. Jan also serves as associate editor of the Journal of Nursing Education, and has served on the editorial board and/or review panel of several peer-reviewed professional nursing journals (Journal of Pediatric Nursing, On-line Journal of Nursing Issues, Public Health Nursing, Nursing and Healthcare Perspectives, Journal of Professional Nursing).
Jan received her B.S.N. degree from the University of Virginia, master's degree in pediatric nursing from the University of Florida, and doctoral degree in educational policy and evaluation studies from the University of Kentucky. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and has been honored as Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Florida College of Nursing (1998) and inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame at the University of Kentucky (2002). Most recently, she was named the 2007 Distinguished Alumna of the Year by the University of Virginia, School of Nursing.
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Professor
Richard C. Mac Intyre, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor, School of Nursing, Samuel Merritt University, California. Samuel MerrittUniversity prepares health professionals in six disciplines at its main campus in Oakland and at regional sites in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Sacramento.
After teaching at Samuel Merritt College for 16 years, Dr. Mac Intyre moved to New York where he served six years as the Division Chair for Health Professions at Mercy College. During that time, he was elected Secretary and then President of the Council of Deans of Nursing, Senior Colleges and Universities in New York State. He was a member of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Task Force on the Nursing Faculty Shortage, and served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. He returned to Samuel Merritt and served as the Associate Dean responsible for the College's remote sites and second degree programs from 2005-2007. Dr. Mac Intyre was a member of the original group that developed the ANAC standards for treating anemia in patients with HIV/AIDS and is a frequent national and international lecturer on Complementary and Alternative Medicine and HIV/AIDS. His publications include a book on asymptomatic HIV that he wrote while a Fulbright professor at the University of Tromsø, Norway and was subsequently published by Rutgers University Press. Dr. Mac Intyreis a past chair ofthe American Association of Colleges of Nursing Organizational Leadership Network and is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.
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Community-Based clinical Ethics Consultant and Mediator
Kate Michi Ettinger, JD works as a community-based clinical ethics consultant and mediator; she consults for clinical ethics services on ethics cases, quality improvement, consultation service development, and ethics education programs. Ms. Ettinger envisions robust clinical ethics as a means to rebuild trust in the clinician-patient relationship and seeks to empower clinicians with the reasoning, communication, and advocacy skills necessary to promote their professionalism and outstanding patient care. Ms. Ettinger completed her clinical ethics training at Montefiore Medical Center and holds a law degree with certificates in conflict resolution as well as bioethics and medical humanities. Ms. Ettinger currently serves on the ethics committees at CPMC, SFGH, and OnLok Lifeways.
Areas of interest/expertise:
Cultural Humility, Health Equity & Vulnerable Populations
Clinical & Organizational Ethics Leadership
Elder Ethics in the Community Setting
Communicating Across Difference
Dialogue & Decisions in the Clinical Setting
Volunteer Instructor, Foundations of Patient Care, UCSF
Volunteer Instructor, Ethics Core, UCSF
Education:
Clinical Ethics Training: Montefiore Medical Center
Law School: Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Bachelor of Arts: Johns Hopkins University
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Assistant Professor of School of Health Information Sciences
Dr. Aoki is as an Assistant Professor of School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas – Houston, and hold adjunct faculty positions at several universities in Japan. He also established non-profit organization, The Center for Health Service, Outcomes Research and Development – Japan (CHORD-J), which promotes interdisciplinary healthcare practice, research, development and education in Japan. In addition, he had assisted a program development of Health Communication at the School of Public Health, University of Tokyo, Japan as an associate professor between 2006 and 2008, and introduced the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in health communication education in Japan.
Dr. Aoki is a board certified physician in Internal Medicine and Acute Medicine in Japan, and a fellow member of the American College of Physician (FACP) and the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine (FJSIM). He is also certified Physician Executives (CPE) certified by the American College of Physician Executives. In addition he has three advanced degrees in interdisciplinary area: PhD in clinical epidemiology and decision science, MS in Health Informatics, and MBA in Medical Management. He completed his post-doctoral research in decision science and medical informatics at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, and joined UT-H SHIS in 2002.
Dr. Aoki has conducted wide-ranging collaborative researches locally, nationally and internationally, which resulted more than 50 peer-reviewed original articles. Dr. Aoki has major interests in clinical data analysis to improve process and outcomes of clinical care, which includes data mining, text mining, decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, geographic information systems, and various simulations. He has also done extensive research in decision making /decision support system, especially in extreme environment, such as disasters, trauma care and terrorism. He has also started projects related to medical management, health communication, knowledge management, and edutainment system development utilizing small handheld devices. Recently, he has been involved in prefecture-level community healthcare planning in Japan.
In education, he has developed and deployed interdisciplinary informatics and management education program (Health Informatics and Management Program: HIMAP) in Japan, which is based on Master degree program at the University of Texas – Houston, School of Health Information Sciences. He and his colleagues at CHORD-J plans to develop (1) Health communication education for young physicians, and (2) Leadership / Management education for mid-level physician managers under collaboration with The Center for the Health Professions in 2009.
For more information about Dr. Aoki's academic and professional activities, please visit following web site http://myprofile.cos.com/emerg
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