Healthcare Management Track
The Healthcare Management Track aims to bring together emerging healthcare management professionals and public health leaders interested in learning about the complexities of the healthcare system. Multi-sectoral professionals and cross-institutional students will join efforts to provide valuable insight and skills. It will highlight the importance of cross-sectional collaboration and adaptability by centering its discussion around efficient solutions to current issues in the field. In addition, this track will:
- Discuss the current challenges facing healthcare managers
- Highlight the rapidly evolving sector and the gaps in the system
- Offer solutions to minimize the gaps in the system made evident by COVID
- Reveal the effects that poor coordination and incentives have on employee workload/employee morale
- Provide insight that will inspire action towards meaningful change
Schedule Overview
Session (1 PM – 2PM): Healthcare Management Career Panel
This panel aims to provide firsthand insight into what it takes to prepare for a career in Healthcare Management and provide an overview of healthcare management while highlighting emerging challenges and insight into the following aims:
- The current challenges facing healthcare managers
- Highlight the rapidly evolving sector and the gaps in the system
- Offer solutions to minimize the gaps in the system made evident by COVID
- Reveal the effects that poor coordination and incentives have on employee workload/employee morale
- Provide insight that will inspire action towards meaningful change
Panelists
Michele Sasso, Director of Clinical Programs & Technology, Department of Accountable Care & Clinical Integration (DACCI)
Dr. Wanda Montalvo is an innovative nurse leader and avid public health advocate. Highly skilled at collaborating with diverse stakeholders from academia, philanthropy, federal agencies, and community-based organizations. She had led many state and national initiatives to decrease health disparities, to advance the profession of nursing, and research. As a Senior Fellow for Public Health Integration, and Innovation at the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), Dr. Montalvo provides technical support for public health systems change with a focus on peer learning, health disparities, health equity, and transforming new models of care. Dr. Montalvo earned her PhD from Columbia University School of Nursing and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing with several peer-reviewed publications. She has served on national advisory committees for federal and philanthropic organizations, and currently serves on the Development Committee for the American Academy of Nursing. She believes health professionals must be proactive on social media to advocate for and amplify topics related to public and community health, funding support, and the nursing profession beyond the bedside. Follow her on Twitter @Montalvo501
Jonathan Uy is a member of the National Association of Community Health Center’s Public Health Integration Team as a Project Specialist, helping to manage a portfolio of projects aiming to build the clinical and data capacity of health centers in the US. Prior to this role, he served in the Peace Corps, working in Rwanda as a Maternal and Child Health Volunteer and then as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer supporting the COVID-19 Community Vaccination Mission in Maryland and Nevada. He obtained his Master’s of Public Health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health with a focus on health policy and management with a specialization in global public health and international development.
Donna Lynne, DrPH, is the Chief Operating Officer of Columbia University Medical Center and the CEO of Columbia Doctors. Donna also serves as the University’s COVID-19 Director. Until January 2019, she was Colorado’s 49th Lieutenant Governor and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to assuming her roles in Colorado state government, Dr. Lynne served as the executive vice president of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, and as group president responsible for its Colorado, Pacific Northwest and Hawaii regions – overseeing an $8 billion budget, 1.4 million members and 16,000 employees. She participated in numerous boards and commissions during her time at Kaiser Permanente, including the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, the Denver Public Schools Foundation Board, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and many others.
She has been recognized as one of the top women business leaders in Denver and one of the top 25 Women in Healthcare in the nation. Dr. Lynne also spent 20 years working in various positions in New York City government including First Deputy Commissioner at the Office of Labor Relations, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Operations, and Senior Vice President of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science from University of New Hampshire, a Masters of Public Administration from George Washington University, and a Doctor of Public Health from Columbia University. In 2014, Dr. Lynne received an honorary doctorate of public service from the University of Denver, and in 2017 an honorary bachelor of science degree in nursing from Colorado Mountain College. She has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University since 2005. She resides in New York and enjoys activities such as climbing all of Colorado’s fourteeners, participating in Ride the Rockies and going on ski challenges around the world.