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Section Contents: Links: A Challenge: Build the Best Health System Executive Summaries of Contest Entries |
Contest Judges
The O’ConnorReport will not serve as a judge. Instead we selected 9 people to serve as judges for the contest:
Thomas D. Aschenbrener, M. Ed., President, NW Health Foundation, Portland, OR
Mr. Aschenbrener has more than 25 years of experience with foundations and grantmaking. He currently serves as president of the Northwest Health Foundation, which was organized under his leadership in 1998. Prior to joining the Foundation, he started a company that advised high-income individuals and families on charitable giving and consulted with corporations and organizations establishing philanthropic foundations.
Mr. Aschenbrener has served in a variety of health education and management positions, including founder and director of the physician’s assistant program at the University of Iowa School of Medicine; grants program officer in the federal government’s Division of Medicine; director of the governor of Georgia’s statewide health coordinating council; director of professional affairs at the American Podiatric Medical Association; and vice president for institutional advancement at the California College of Podiatric Medicine.
He holds a BA from the University of Iowa and an M.Ed. in medical education from the University of Illinois, where he was a Kellogg Foundation fellow. He is also a graduate of the Duke University physician’s assistant training program.
Clement Bezold, Ph.D., President of the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) and President of IAF's for-profit subsidiary, Alternative Futures Associates (AFA).
Dr. Bezold established IAF in 1977 with Dr. James Dator and Alvin Toffler, to encourage "Anticipatory Democracy." He started AFA in 1982 to assist corporations in their strategic planning. Trained as a political scientist, he has been a major developer of foresight techniques - applying futures research and strategic planning methods in both the public and private sectors. Dr. Bezold has worked with a large variety of successful and growing corporations and designed numerous workshops and projects to study future environments for corporations, and he has also consulted on strategic processes for new product development.
He is a frequent speaker on the future for voluntary organizations, corporations, and health care and education groups including such groups as AARP (American Association of Retired Persons); the United Cerebral Palsy Association; United Way of America; the National Conference of State Legislatures; the Hawaii, Connecticut, and Florida state legislatures; the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce; and Governors or their staffs in California, Colorado, and North Carolina.
In the health area, Dr. Bezold has worked with groups to consider the future role of hospitals, pharmaceuticals, medical technology, and voluntary organizations.
In 1991, Dr. Bezold co-founded and chaired the International Health Futures Network, at the request of WHO/Europe and the European Community. Dr. Bezold is presently overseeing a major process for the Department of Defense on the future of military medicine. He is also consulting with both WHO/Geneva and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on enhancing their ability to use health futures in their operations to support WHO's vision of health for all.
Dr. Bezold is published extensively. His book, The Future of Work and Health , co-authored with Rick Carlson and Jonathan Peck, received the American Health magazine book award as one of the best health books.
Other works include Horizons 2013—Longer, Better Life Without Cancer, in collaboration with the American Cancer Society; Future Care: Responding to the Demand for Change; Anticipatory Democracy; Health Care Information Standards and Technologies; Pharmaceuticals in the Year 2000; Nursing in the 21st Century; Judging the Future: Alternative Futures and the Legal System; and The Information Millennium: Alternative Futures. His latest book, The Future of Health in Latin America: The Prospects for Achieving Health For All was released in April 1998.
Two major reports, The Future of Complementary and Alternative Approaches (CAAs) in US Health Care and The Future of Chiropractic: Optimizing Health Gains, were released in July 1998. Dr. Bezold has published in magazines such as The Futurist, Business and Health, Modern Healthcare, Quality Progress, Healthcare Forum Journal, Pharmaceutical Executive and the National Journal. He is government editor of The Futurist, and is on the editorial board of Futures Research Quarterly.
Dr. Bezold has a BA in International Affairs from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and he received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Florida
He has also served as the Assistant Director of the Center for Governmental Responsibility, was a Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and a consultant to the Rockefeller Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, the Commission on the Operation of the Senate; and numerous state and local governments as well as several corporations.
Gerald Coe, JD. Attorney at Law, Seattle, WA
Mr. Coe is an attorney in private practice, providing legal services to health insurers, self-funded health and welfare benefit plans and administrators, facilities and providers in matters relating to health insurance, regulatory compliance, health care reimbursement including Medicare and Medicaid, non-judicial dispute resolution, and general business and administrative law. He has served as President of Sisters of Providence Health Plans in Washington and as Acting CEO and General Counsel for Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. He has also served on the boards of numerous national and local health care organizations, including the Group Health Association of America, the National Managed Health Care Congress, and the National Health Lawyers Association.
Mr. Coe is a graduate of the University of Washington Law School and has served on the clinical faculties of both the University of Washington’s Law School, and the School of Public Health’s Masters in Health Administration program. He is not a lobbyist.
Rheba de Tornyay, Ed D., Professor and Dean Emeritus at the School of Nursing, University of Washington.
Dr. de Tornyay has over fifty years of experience in health related institutions including experience in long term care, acute care, community health, and nursing education. She is a graduate of Mount Zion Medical Center School of Nursing in San Francisco, California, she received her bachelor’s degree in nursing and her master’s degree in education from San Francisco State University. In addition to her earned doctoral degree in education from Stanford University, she holds three honorary doctorates.
Her professional associations include being a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Nursing which designated her as a “Living Legend” for her lifetime achievement and contributions to the nursing profession. She is a trustee emeritus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation having served for ten years as the first woman trustee.
Her primary interest is in aging and long term care. She was a member of the San Francisco Institute on Aging for many years, and currently serves on the Regional Advisory Board of the Northwest Geriatric Education Center. She served as the co-chair of the University of Washington Retirement Association Housing Facility Committee, to develop a residential retirement community for the retirees of the University of Washington. With Heather Young, a gerontology nurse practitioner, she co-authored Choices: Making a Good Move to a Retirement Community to help older adults decide whether or where to move.
Dave Garets, Executive Vice President, HealthLink, Houston, TX
Mr. Garets has 25 years of experience in information technology. Prior to HealthLink, Mr. Garets served as Group Vice President, Healthcare Industry Research & Advisory Services for Gartner, Inc. and as Senior Manager for Emerging Practices with First Consulting Group. He has also served as the CIO of Magic Valley Regional Medical Center in Twin Falls, ID.
Prior to coming to the health care industry, Mr. Garets spent thirteen years in various management capacities for AT&T. Since 1992, he has served as a Course Director and faculty member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Information Management Executive Courses, held at the University of Michigan. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of six health care information technology journals and magazines. He is a Fellow, Board member and Chair-elect of HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems and Society) , the healthcare IT industry professional society. He is an internationally known author and speaker on information technologies, strategies, benchmarking, and the future of healthcare.
Jose Gonzalez, MHA, President and CEO, Latino Health Care, Long Beach, CA
Mr. Gonzalez founded Latino Health Care in 1996, to create a network of Latino health care providers so he could provide access to quality health care services for the Latino community in Southern California. Latino Health Care now includes 25 hospitals, 2,300 doctors and 35,000 members and manages capitated revenues of $25 million.
Prior to founding Latino Health Care, Mr. Gonzalez had his own successful consulting business, was President and CEO of Universal Medi-Co, which developed and managed ambulatory health care delivery networks and was Director of Planning, Community Affairs and Development for St. Francis Medical Center in Lynnwood, California. He has also served as the Assistant Medical Director, University of California, Irvine Medical Center.
Mr. Gonzalez was born in Mexico and immigrated to the US in 1954. He holds a BA from California State University, Long Beach, California and an MHA from Pepperdine University. He was featured in “Ten Who Dared—Hispanic Entrepreneurs Who Have Succeeded Against the Odds” in 1996 Hispanic Business.
He was most recently appointed to serve on the California Commission on the Solvency of Health Plans.
Andrew Holtz, Principal, The Holtz Report, Portland, OR and President, Association of Health Care Journalists
Mr. Holtz is the former CNN Medical Correspondent, Me. Holtz is an independent journalist covering health and medicine from Portland, Oregon. His work appears on the PBS television program HealthWeek, The Learning Channel's Medical Detectives, InTouch magazine, and websites including WebMD and Reuters Health Information.
Mr. Holtz is the host and co-producer of Taking the Pulse, a series of health policy programs that debuted on Oregon Public Broadcasting in June 2001. He was a 1998 Kaiser Media Fellow. The Kaiser Family Foundation grant supported research into tobacco control campaigns, in conjunction with Masters of Public Health studies at Portland State University and the Oregon Health Sciences University.
He also serves as President of the Association of Health Care Journalists. The Association of Health Care Journalists is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing public understanding of health care issues. Its mission is to improve the quality, accuracy and visibility of health care reporting, writing and editing.
Edward F. Howard, JD, Executive Vice President, Alliance for Health Reform, Washington DC
Mr. Howard has headed up the Alliance since its formation in 1991. Previously, he served as general counsel for the Pepper Commission, a bipartisan congressional panel convened to plan for providing health coverage to all Americans. Before that, he directed public policy at the Villers Foundation and at the National Council on the Aging, where he served as general counsel to the House Select Committee on Aging. He holds a juris doctor (JD) degree from Harvard University.
The Alliance is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that offers a full array of resources and viewpoints, in a number of formats, to elected officials and their staffs, journalists, policy analysts and advocates. The Alliance believes that all in the U.S. should have health coverage at a reasonable cost. But it does not lobby for any particular blueprint, nor does it take positions on legislation. Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, a national leader in health policy, chairs the Alliance's board of directors and Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, a key policy maker and a heart and lung transplant surgeon, serves as the vice chairman. Since 1990, the Alliance has held over 200 forums in Washington DC and around the nation and has developed several different press resource guides and issue briefs.
Sandral Hullett, MD, MPH, Interim Executive Officer, Jefferson Health System, Birmingham, AL
Dr. Sandral Hullett is the newly appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer/Medical Director for the Jefferson Health System consisting of Cooper Green Hospital and Jefferson Outpatient Care. Jefferson Health System’s primary focus is service to the underserved populations of Jefferson County. Dr. Hullett was most recently Executive Director of the Family HealthCare of Alabama, which is headquartered in Eutaw, Alabama, and it provided services to patients of west central Alabama.
A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Hullett earned her undergraduate degree in biology at Alabama A&M University, her medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and her Master’s in Public Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Since completing her residency in Family Practice and fulfilling a National Health Services Corporation obligation, she developed an interest in rural health care including health care planning and delivery to the underserved, underinsured, and poor of this area.
Dr. Hullett has extensive experience in research, clinical trials, community outreach and teaching direct care delivery. She serves as project director and principle investigator for several grants funded by the National Cancer Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the Ford Foundation.
Dr. Hullett serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, and the Board of Directors of UAB Health System. She is active in local, state, and national organizations such as the Alabama Women Hall of Fame Board of Directors, Leadership of America, Family Practice Rural Health Board, Greene County Hospital, the Rural Coalition, the Rural Environmental Justice Board, and the Nursing Home Board. Dr. Hullett also serves as a member of the Practicing Physicians Advisory Council for the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, Intercultural Cancer Council, the Steering Committee for the Alabama Partnership for Cancer Control in Underserved Populations, the Advisory Committee for the Minority Medical Education Program, the Institute of Medicine Committee on Environmental Justice and the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Changing Market, Managed Care and the Future Viability of Safety Net Providers.
Dr. Hullett is the co-author of several nationally published articles on health care issues among rural primary care communities. For her efforts in rural health, Dr. Hullett’s honors include the Rural Practitioner of the Year Award in 1988 by the National Rural Health Association, the Clinical Recognition Award for Education and Training in 1993 by the National Association of Community Health Center, the Distinguished Leadership Award in 1996 by Leadership of Alabama, Rural Leadership Image Award in 1998 by the National Black Churches Family Council, Public Health Hero Award for Year 2000 by the UAB School of Public Health, and for her years of dedication to improving and protecting the health of Alabamians, she was recognized and inducted in the Alabama Academy of Honor by the Alabama Department Achieves and History in August of 2000.
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