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The Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal Experts on Healthcare bring together some of the Philadelphia region's most innovative healthcare thought leaders. These individuals are known for blending their practice with research and are living their respective innovative solutions within the broad public health sector. The Journal's Healthcare Experts have assembled to provide a forum for Greater Philadelphia to engage with some of the region's healthcare leaders who have put theory into practice and are achieving results. Objectives are to:
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Laurie ColbornLaurie Ann Colborn, MSN, is a community health nurse working in the preventive health department of a local healthcare company where she collaborates in the development of innovative prevention and health promotion programs. Laurie has a strong interest in environmental health (EH) nursing and EH policy. She is a graduate of the Environmental Leadership Program in Philadelphia and often guest lectures on environmental health topics for undergraduate and graduate nursing students in the Philadelphia area. Laurie has been recognized as a nurse luminary for her teaching of this subject by The Luminary Project. She is a past Vice President of Sigma Theta Tau, Delta Tau-At-Large Nursing Honor Society, and has written several articles for various nursing magazines. She currently assists with the implementation of an award winning nursing internship program at her company and has been a mentor for undergraduate nursing student participants. She is a member of her corporate volunteer advisory board and is an avid volunteer within her community. Laurie has recently been recruited as a young leader in her local United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council. She currently holds a masters degree in community health nursing, with a focus on nursing education from Holy Family University in Philadelphia. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Carol Lynn DalyCarol Lynn Daly is Director of Marketing for Lourdes Health System, which includes both Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County. Her duties include advertising, consumer and physician marketing communications, and oversight of the System’s call center. Previously, she was Communications Director for the Delaware Valley Healthcare Council, a trade association representing more than 150 hospitals, health systems and health organizations in the tri-state area. Prior to that, she was a partner in a healthcare communications agency and had worked for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital managing public relations and medical communications as well as creative services for Jefferson Health System. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Joanne GrossiJoanne Grossi is Executive Director of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Formerly, she served as Director of Office of Women’s Services, Department of Public Welfare. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Bob GrovesBob Groves has over 35 years experience in health and human services. He was Executive Director of the Health Promotion Council of Southeastern Pennsylvania (HPC) from 1984 to 2005. Under his leadership, HPC grew from four-persons devoted solely to blood pressure control to an organization with over sixty employees addressing a broad range of health promotion and disease prevention issues. Special emphasis was always given to those with the greatest needs and least resources. Since 2006, Bob has worked in the field of aging services. He has significant experience in strategic planning and non-profit organizational mergers. Bob holds a Masters Degree in Urban Affairs from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Masters Degree in Public Health (policy and management) from the University of Massachusetts. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Lynne HopperLynne Hopper, a licensed social worker, is the Vice President of Program Operations for WES Health System. She attended New York University where she obtained her Masters of Social Work. Prior to coming to Philadelphia, Lynne worked in New York City primarily in the field of adolescent substance abuse. There, she supervised inpatient and outpatient programs, an alternative school, as well as developed Project 5-7-9 a collaborative prevention project between substance abuse providers and the 5th, 7th and 9th Police Districts in NYC. Her experiences in Philadelphia include management of a residential treatment facility and child and adolescent psychiatric hospital. Most recently, Lynne has been a part of the initial implementation and continued growth of the school based behavioral health programs in both Philadelphia and Chicago Public School Systems. Her presentations at national school based conferences include: A successful growth model beyond medication and behavior modification, Beyond Medication and Evidence-Based Practices and The Role of Cultural Competence and Resilience in the Successful Clinical Engagement of Ethnically Diverse Children. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Andrea KenyonAndrea Kenyon is the Director of Public Health and Community Outreach at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. She has over twenty eight years of experience working to improve access to and understanding of health and medical issues through information and education. Ms. Kenyon has a wide range of experience in consumer health librarianship, public health and community outreach. She is responsible for public health activities at the College and works with its Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine to implement programs for health care professionals and the public. Ms. Kenyon is also the Director of the College’s PhillyHealthInfo.org, a regionally-focused consumer health information website and community outreach project serving Philadelphia and its surrounding counties. Ms. Kenyon earned a BA in English from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania and a Masters in Library Science from the University of Michigan. She created and manages a consumer health information listserv for librarians called CAPHIS and is the author of numerous consumer information focused publications and is co-author of The Public Librarian's Guide to Providing Consumer Health Information published by the Public Library Association, which was recently translated and published in Japan. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Katherine KinseyKatherine Kinsey holds a BSN, a MSN, and a PhD in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a BS in Education from Millersville University. Dr. Kinsey is the Administrator and Principal Investigator of the Philadelphia Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) Collaborative at the National Nursing Centers Consortium. She has extensive background in maternal child health, home care, school health, nursing education, grantsmanship, and program evaluation. She holds certifications in Community Health Nursing and School Health. Her work includes consultation to nurse-managed centers, public health and community based social service agencies, and she serves on several non-profit boards. Dr. Kinsey has a keen interest in advancing public health workforce opportunities for nurses, and nurse-managed health centers as mainstream health care providers in the 21st century. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Natalie LevkovichNatalie Levkovich has held the position of Executive Director of the Health Federation of Philadelphia since 1987 and served as Director of Program Development for the three year prior to that. As the leader of a nonprofit public health organization that serves as a consortium of community health centers, including those operated by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Ms Levkovich has played a critical role in convening and connecting organizations in the public and private sectors and mobilizing resources to expand capacity and increase access to care. As a result, the Health Federation has grown to include 10 member organizations with 38 health center sites serving more that 260,000 individuals annually and has a budget that has grown from less that $200,000 to more than $12 million. Through leadership and creativity in program development, advocacy, training and coalition building, Ms. Levkovich has been responsible for a number of initiatives to change practice standards and increase efficiency of delivery models. HFP initiatives are based on best practices, business strategy, effective organizing and sustained leadership focused on addressing community needs. The work of the Health Federation of Philadelphia, led by Ms. Levkovich, has been carried out through formal and informal collaborations with government agencies, funders, universities, medical providers, community based organizations and consumers.
Laval Miller-WilsonLaval Miller-Wilson is Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Health Law Project, which is a nationally recognized expert and consultant on access to health care for low-income consumers, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. For more than two decades, PHLP has engaged in direct advocacy on behalf of individual consumers while working on the kinds of health policy changes that promise the most to the Pennsylvanians in greatest need. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Kerstin PalombaroKerstin Palombaro is the Community Engagement Coordinator at the Widener University Institute for Physical Therapy Education, where she develops and supervises community engagement opportunities for and teaches community health content to Doctor of Physical Therapy Students. She serves as a faculty advisor to the Chester Community Physical Therapy Clinic, a student-run physical therapy clinic for the uninsured and underinsured in Chester. She has practiced physical therapy for 14 years, primarily in home health. Her research focuses on osteoporosis; she has co-authored articles published in Physical Therapy, The Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy and the Journal of Women’s Health Physical Therapy. Palombaro earned her Bachelors of Science in Psychology from Saint Joseph’s University, her Masters of Science in Physical Therapy from Columbia University, and holds a PhD in Physical Therapy from Temple University. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Donna TorrisiDonna L. Torrisi graduated from Villanova University with a B.S.N. in 1972. She received her M.S.N. in 1976 from the University of Pennsylvania as a Family Nurse Practitioner. In 1991 she co-wrote a National Bureau of Primary Health Care/Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA) grant to provide health care to residents of public housing. She became the director of this project and opened a nurse-managed health center in the Abbottsford Public Housing Development in Philadelphia in 1992. Since then her program has received three expansion grants one in 1994, 2002, and 2003. They currently serve over 13,000 primarily low income people with primary care, behavioral health and oral health. The sites have been recipients of multiple awards including the HRSA National Models that Work Award and the Smith Kline Beecham Community Impact Award. Ms. Torrisi received the Villanova University Leadership in Nursing award, the University of Pa. Lillian Brunner Sholstis award for Excellence in Nursing Practice, the Pa. Nurses Association Leadership award for Innovative Practice, and the National Alliance for Resident Services in Affordable and Assisted Housing, Practitioner of the Year Award. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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