Amber Weiseth, DNP, MSN, RNC-OB, is Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative (DDI) at Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The Quality Institute, NJ Department of Health, and Ariadne Labs are jointly implementing New Jersey TeamBirth, a shared…Read More…

Patricia Simino Boyce, PhD, RN, is the University Dean for Health and Human Services at the City University of New York (CUNY). She will deliver the keynote address at the Quality Institute’s Spring All Council Conference, Building a Health Care Workforce for the Future, on May 18.   In your role at CUNY, how do…Read More…

Commissioner Christine Norbut Beyer, MSW, is Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families.  The Department of Children and Families is prevention-focused, promoting strong and healthy families, and providing evidence-based support and services to keep all New Jerseyans safe, healthy, and connected.   How is your department designing the Universal Voluntary Nurse Home…Read More…

Michelle A. Gentek-Mayer is the Surrogate of Camden County Surrogate Court. She works closely with the Quality Institute’s Conversation of Your Life (COYL) and was the first surrogate in the state to integrate COYL programming into community outreach and education.   You’ve been involved with our Conversation of Your Life (COYL) program since its launch in 2015….Read More…

Taylor Justice is Co-Founder and President of Unite Us, a technology company that connects health and social services. The organization recently acquired NowPow, a Chicago-based referral platform grounded in science and community. Unite Us is a member of the Quality Institute’s Professional & Technology Council.   Since the acquisition of Now Pow, Unite Us is…Read More…

Heather Howard, JD, a member of the Quality Institute’s Board of Directors, is a Professor at Princeton University. She is also co-director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing’s Global Health Program and director of State Health and Value Strategies, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded program assisting states with transforming their health care systems to…Read More…

Christopher Koller is president of the Milbank Memorial Fund, a 117-year operating foundation that improves population health by connecting leaders with the best information and experience. Before joining the Fund, Koller was Rhode Island’s first health insurance commissioner. Koller was the keynote speaker at the Quality Institute’s recent conference on increasing investment in high quality…Read More…

Dana Gelb Safran, ScM and ScD, is President and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF). NQF serves as the steward of the nation’s portfolio of quality measures, and, in this role, is responsible for convening and leading consensus processes to evaluate health care quality measures to determine their scientific and clinical merits for endorsement…Read More…

Steven Kairys, MD, is Principal Investigator of New Jersey Integrated Care for Kids (InCK), a new pilot program in Ocean and Monmouth Counties, and a pediatrician at Hackensack Meridian Health, a member of the Quality Institute. The NJ InCK pilot is led by Hackensack Meridian Health with the Quality Institute and VNA Health Group as co-leads.   …Read More…

Douglas Forrester is Chairman of Integrity Health, a health care benefits management company that operates Partnership Health Centers. Integrity Health is a member of the Quality Institute.   Partnership Health Centers employs a unique patient-centered model of care. What makes your model different? I’m not aware of any organization with an outpatient setting that has…Read More…