Stakeholder Health

Scott Reiner Success to Significance Leader Series Interview: Scott Reiner with host Dr. Dora Barilla "Defining Chapter 2" Stakeholder Health is a voluntary movement of people working within hospital health systems who see in the current policy environment the opportunity to address the underlying causes of poor health in their communities by strategically leverage existing resources and partnering with diverse stakeholders. The movement aspires to identify and activate a menu of proven community health practices and partnerships that work from the top of the mission statement to the bottom line. stakeholderhealth.org   

Phillip Summers began working in community development in 2001, teaching health and physical education in Belize. He holds a Master of Public Health from UNC-Chapel Hill. Phillip is interested in social justice, racial reconciliation, and active living by design. He has more than 30 co-authored publications from community-based participatory research with immigrant farmworkers and construction workers.  While doing community engaged research public transportation captured his imagination and passion for creating systems that enable health. He lives with his family in Winston Salem, NC, and works as a bus driver for the public transportation system.

Phillip Summers began working in community development in 2001, teaching health and physical education in Belize. He holds a Master of Public Health from UNC-Chapel Hill. Phillip is interested in social justice, racial reconciliation, and active living by design. He has more than 30 co-authored publications from community-based participatory research with immigrant farmworkers and construction workers.  While doing community engaged research public transportation captured his imagination and passion for creating systems that enable health. He lives with his family in Winston Salem, NC, and works as a bus driver for the public transportation system.

COVID-19, The Center Holds! Gary Gunderson talks with Lauren Gunderson and Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom, MD. Kimberlydawn is Senior Vice President of Community Health & Equity, and Chief Wellness & Diversity Officer at Henry Ford Health System. She also served as Michigan's First Surgeon General. Lauren Gunderson is a playwright, screenwriter and short story author. For two of the last three years she has also been the most produced playwright in America.

COVID-19, The Center Holds! Gary Gunderson talks with Lauren Gunderson and Dr. Soma Stout. Soma, a primary care internist and pediatrician, is a Vice President at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and serves as Executive Lead of 100 Million Healthier Lives. Lauren Gunderson is a playwright, screenwriter and short story author. For two of the last three years she has also been the most produced playwright in America.

Gary Gunderson talks with Leah McCall Devlin and Lauren Gunderson. Lauren Gunderson is a playwright, screenwriter and short story author. For two of the last three years she has also been the most produced playwright in America. She also happens to be Gary's daughter. Leah is a Professor of the Practice at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is also chair of the board of the CDC Foundation, an independent nonprofit created by Congress to mobilize philanthropic and private-sector resources to support the CDC’s critical work. She has served more than 30 years in public health practice in North Carolina, including 10 years as the state’s Health Director.

Gary Gunderson talks with Scott Burris and Lauren Gunderson. Scott is a Professor of Law at Temple Law School, where he directs the Center for Public Health Law Research. He is also a Professor in Temple’s School of Public Health. Lauren is a playwright, screenwriter and short story author. For two of the last three years she has also been the most produced playwright in America. She also happens to be the daughter of Gary Gunderson.

Lauren Gunderson is a playwright, screenwriter and short story author from Atlanta, GA. She received her BA in English/Creative Writing at Emory University, and her  MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch, where she was also a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. She was named the most produced playwright in America by American Theatre Magazine in 2017 and 2019, was awarded the 2016 Lanford Wilson Award from the Dramatist Guild, the 2016 Otis Gurnsey Award for Emerging Writer, and was awarded the prestigious 2014 and 2018 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for her play, I and You (also a Susan Smith Blackburn Blackburn and John Gassner Award finalist) and The Book of Will. That play was an NNPN Rolling World Premiere that started at Marin Theatre Company and has seen over 40 productions nationwide. She is also a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s 3-Year Residency with Marin Theatre Company. Gene Matthews, JD is a senior investigator at the NC Institute for Public Health, where he conducts legal research and provides technical assistance to public health practitioners on legal topics. He is also the Director of the Southeastern Regional Center of the Network for Public Health Law, which provides legal assistance on a variety of public health topics, enabling practitioners, lawyers and policymakers to apply the law to pressing public health issues. From 1979-2004, Gene worked at the CDC, serving for many years as the Chief Legal Advisor in the Office of General Counsel. Mr. Matthews received both his BA in history and mathematics and his JD from UNC. He co-instructs a course on health law and ethics for the Executive DrPH program    

Stuart M. Butler is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings. Prior to joining Brookings, Butler spent 35 years at The Heritage Foundation, as Director of the Center for Policy Innovation and earlier as Vice-President for Domestic and Economic Policy Studies. He is a member of the editorial board of Health Affairs, an advisory board member of the National Academy of Medicine’s Culture of Health Program, and a board member of Mary’s Center, a group of community health clinics. Most recently, he has played a prominent role in the debate over healthcare reform and addressing social determinants of health. He has also been working on a wide range of audiences, including the future of higher education, economic mobility, budget process reform and federal entitlement reform.

Dr. Maria Hernandez, PhD, is President and COO, Impact4Health and is principal researcher on the Inclusive Leader 360, Inclusion Scorecard for Population Health. Leading Alameda County’s first Pay for Success Asthma Initiative. She serves on the Board of Trustees at Alameda Health System—one of the California’s largest public healthcare systems. She is interviewed by Dora Barilla.

interview by Gary Gunderson

Phillip Summers began working in community development in 2001, teaching health and physical education in Belize. He holds a Master of Public Health from UNC-Chapel Hill. Phillip is interested in social justice, racial reconciliation, and active living by design. While doing community engaged research public transportation captured his imagination and passion for creating systems that enable health. He lives with his family in Winston Salem, NC, and works as a bus driver for the public transportation system.

Neal Halfon Director, CHCFC; Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Dept of Pediatrics; Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Dept of Health Policy and Management; Professor, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Dept of Public Policy Dr. Neal Halfon is a professor of pediatrics, health services, and public policy. Dr. Halfon’s research has spanned clinical, health services, epidemiologic, and health policy domains. For more than a decade, Dr. Halfon has worked with national, state and local initiatives aimed at improving early childhood systems. He has also played a significant role in developing new conceptual frameworks for the study of health and health care, including the Life Course Health Development (LCHD) framework. Dr. Halfon directs the Transforming Early Childhood Community Systems (TECCS) Initiative, a collaborative venture with United Way Worldwide. He is Associate Director of the UCLA Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI). He also served as member of the Board on Children Youth and Families at the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council from 2001-2006. In 2006 he was awarded the annual research award from the Academic Pediatric Association for his contribution to the field of child health research.  

Tyler Norris, MDiv, is chief executive, Well Being Trust, an impact philanthropy with a mission to advance the mental, social and spiritual health of the nation. Over the past three decades, Tyler has shaped health and development initiatives in hundreds of communities in the US and around the world. Interview by Gary Gunderson.

Interview by Gary Gunderson   An emergency physician, healthcare executive, and entrepreneur, Larry McEvoy’s diverse perspective renders him an inspiring, design-oriented leader, strategist, advisor, facilitator, and speaker. His extensive track record of real-life strategic and operational results—and a unique facility with ecosystems, neuroscience, social intelligence, and human networks—helps you understand and capacitate entire systems, small and large, to optimize performance, adaptation, and vitality.  He has wide experience in shaping the challenges of our complex times into outstanding results, rapid learning, and energized professional cultures. Larry’s mission is to deepen the vigor, resilience, and sustainability of leaders, the people they lead, and the organizations they create. Particularly focused on the shared work between executives, clinicians, and clinical leaders, Larry’s experience as both a CEO and a clinician deepens his skill in facilitating dynamic shifts in mindset, method, and performance. His background as a strategic innovator and “designer-in-chaos” has led him to increasing work outside of health care as organizations and corporations seek to create value via both stability andrapid reconfiguration in environments of velocity and volatility. His career has comprised the renewal of multiple environments of distrust, stress, and dispirited dynamics.  He focuses on creating a practical approach to the acceleration of systemic shifts in results, adaptation, and professional vitality; the linkage between leadership evolution, stewardship ethic, and business value; and the activation of “positive epidemics” through the understanding and application of complexity principles, network science, and neuroscience.  As one of his clients puts it, “I learn more from him in an hour than I do from anyone else in a year.  His emotional intelligence is off the charts, and his strategic acumen is of the highest order.” From 2008 to 2012, Larry served as the CEO of Memorial Health System in Colorado Springs, CO, facilitating a $100 million turnaround, the emergence of a culture of collaboration and commitment, and Memorial’s transformation from an at-risk and unfunded municipal hospital to the threshold of its merger with the University of Colorado Health system. Prior to that he was a senior executive and emergency physician at the Billings Clinic in Billings, MT, from 1995 to 2008. He completed his training in emergency medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN, in 1995. After earning a BA in English Writing from Carroll College (MT) in 1987, Larry graduated from Stanford University Medical School in 1992. He serves as an Executive-in-Residence at the Center for Creative Leadership and as a Principal at Brenva Group. He is on the faculty of the American Association of Physician Leaders,The Governance Institute, and The Leadership Development Group, and has presented at the Conference Board, The Executive Development Roundtable, and the American Medical Group Association as well as at numerous health care organizations nationwide. He co-founded PracticingExcellence, a web-based professional collegial community which focuses on the clinician experience as the foundation of healthcare performance, patient experience, and meaning.   Most recently he has founded Epidemic Leadership, where he focuses on the executive work of creating organizations of exponential health and vigor—where performance, learning, and vitality rise in parallel and are abundant, infectious, sustained and sustaining.

Gary Gunderson talks with Soma Stout, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), primary care internist and pediatrician. She serves as Executive Lead of 100 Million Healthier Lives.

Sanne Magnan, co-chair of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, talks with Gary Gunderson.

Gary Gunderson interviews Gerry Winslow.

Lauran Hardin is the Senior Advisor, Partnerships and Technical Assistance, for the National Center for Complex Health and senior director at the Camden Coalition.  

Doug Easterling is a Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine, and served as department chair from 2005-2015. His research and consulting focus on community-based approaches to improving health and quality of life, with a special emphasis on the work of foundations.

Dora Barilla talks with Dr. Rishi Manchanda, President of HealthBegins

Kevin Barnett is a Senior Investigator at the Public Health Institute.  He has led research and fieldwork in hospital community benefit and health workforce diversity at PHI for over two decades, working with hospitals, government agencies, and community stakeholders across the country. Recent work includes a study of community health assessments and implementation strategies for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a national initiative funded by the Kresge Foundation to align and focus investments by hospitals, other health sector stakeholders, and financial institutions in low income communities. Current work includes a partnership with The Governance Institute and Stakeholder Health with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to build place-based population health knowledge among hospital board members and senior leadership, a national study of hospital interventions to address food insecurity, and a partnership with the Carsey School of Public Policy to convene regional meetings of hospital and community teams with community development financial institutions to design intersectoral health improvement strategies. He serves as the Co-Director of the California Health Workforce Alliance, as a member of the Board of Directors of Communities Joined in Action, and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Trinity Health System.

Gary Gunderson & Dora Barilla talk of community health, health systems and the upcoming See2See Road Trip.

 Gary Gunderson interviews Pablo Bravo of Dignity Health 

Susanne Hartung, SP, currently serves as the chief mission integration officer for approximately 11,000 shared services caregivers in the Providence St. Joseph Health system. In her role, she is responsible to ensure that the Mission and Values are integrated in all aspects of the shared services’ teams. She also serves on the faculty for the Formation Programs for Leaders of PSJH. She is passionate about access issues, particularly for the poor and vulnerable, and has addressed this by building partnerships with a wide range of community groups. Her efforts in the community have earned her a number of awards, including the Mothers Against Violence Community Catalyst Award from Mothers Against Violence in America (MAVIA) in 2000, the Joseph A. Maguire, SJ, Distinguished Community Service Award, and the Fort Vancouver National Trust recognition award for her efforts to save Providence Academy. She is interviewed by Dora Barilla, Group Vice President, Community Health Investment for Providence St. Joseph Health, Senior Fellow for the Institute for Health Policy and Fellowship at Loma Linda University Health.

Rhonda Medows, M.D., is executive vice president of Population Health at Providence Health & Services. She oversees the Providence Health Plan, Accountable Care Organizations, Payer Strategy & Contracting, Physician Services, and the affiliated Pacific Medical Group. She also currently serves as a member of the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services on current and future physician payment models. Medows has an extensive background in government health programs including the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid. She is interviewed by Dora Barilla, Group Vice President, Community Health Investment for Providence St. Joseph Health, Senior Fellow for the Institute for Health Policy and Fellowship at Loma Linda University Health.  

Bobby Milstein, PhD, MPH – Director, System Strategy at Rethink Health.  Bobby Milstein leads several ReThink Health projects focused on large-scale institutional change, including ongoing development of the ReThink Health Dynamics Model and other tools that allow leaders to negotiate their own scenarios for transforming regional health. Previously, Bobby spent 20 years planning and evaluating system-oriented initiatives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and was the principal architect of CDC’s framework for program evaluation. He received CDC’s Honor Award for Excellence in Innovation as well as Article of the Year awards for papers published in Health Affairs and Health Promotion Practice. Bobby earned a PhD in public health science from the Union Institute & University, and an MPH from Emory University. He once was a documentary filmmaker and also contributed storylines for The West Wing.  He is interviewed by Gary Gunderson, Vice President for FaithHealth at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Secretary of Stakeholder Health and author of numerous books, including the newly published Speak Life. For a transcript of this conversation go HERE.