Transforming Healthcare Consortium
JoAnn Becker, BS, MS, MBA, PMP
JoAnn, founder of the Transforming Healthcare Consortium, began in 2006, has been successfully leading organizational change for 30+ years in a variety of organizations. She was the initial project manager for the formation of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), was on the board of CHEF (Chicago Health Executive Forum), led a strategic review of the Advocate Health Care technology plan, mapped bariatric surgical portal processes, designed enterprise processes for change investments for a five site long-term care organization, designed a three session program to coach the healthcare C-suite on leading change, and is active in teaching organizations how to leverage the multi-generational workforce. She has been adjunct faculty at the University of Illinois Chicago graduates schools of business and nursing, speaker at the Illinois Institute of Technology Stuart School of Business Hospital of the Future conference, speaker at conferences and instructor for organizations such as Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Health and the National Cancer Institute. She is published, and is a sought after speaker at national conferences. Her MBA is from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, MS in Judicial Administration is from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, her BS in Mathematics is from the University of Wisconsin, is an internationally certified project manager and Six Sigma Green Belt Trained from the Chicago Deming Association.
George Cybulski, MD, MBA
George, a leading Chicago surgeon and medical educator, has been a practicing neurosurgeon for over 25 years at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, is Associate Professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and Chairman of the Division of Neurosurgery at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. He has extensive experience with problem solving in challenging healthcare situations including direct patient care, team direction, and program development, and brings intelligence, experience, and humanity to healthcare policy and management. He directs ongoing process improvement with instrument trays for surgery using Lean Process techniques. His MD is from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, his MBA in Health Care Management from the Loyola University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and has served as a Major in the United States Army Medical Corps. He is writing a book on the divide in healthcare delivery between domain knowledge workers (the providers) and managers to bridge this gap and to improve the delivery of healthcare.
Dawn V. Gay, BA, MBA Candidate
Dawn, a business development professional and avid networker, has exceptional client relationships and significant healthcare experience with physicians, hospitals, employers and professional associations. With extensive knowledge in operations management, physician recruitment, sales and marketing, she utilizes “no-box thinkingTM” and strategy to enhance business opportunities. Specializing in Concierge Medicine, she is working with the Soul Children of Chicago, a world renowned youth choir to expand their visibility in the health care corporate market. She also has marketed a web- based benchmarking product for a global technology company, a revenue cycle project of an academic medical center, managed occupational health programs, marketed executive health and corporate health/wellness programs. As a prominent leader, she was the Executive Director for the I.B. of T. Local 705 Teamsters Health Center and built a state-of-the-art ambulatory care center. She serves on the Chicago Health Executives Forum Advisory Board, and Board Member of the National Association of Health Services Executives – Chicago Midwest Chapter. Dawn has a BA in Applied Behavioral Science from the National-Louis University, graduated from the Johns Hopkins University Fellows Program in Community and Organizational Systems, and is working on her MBA.
Jonathan (Jon) C. Dopkeen, AB, MA, PhD
Jon brings over 30 years of improving organizational performance in public and private sectors of healthcare. His policy analysis is grounded in determining strategic and operational impact of organizational and systemic changes through data-driven analysis to drive consensus, and then execution success. His passion for quality healthcare and patient safety, using metrics for providers, payors, and consumers, began while Deputy Commissioner at Boston City Hospital, in consulting, and to the Illinois Department of Public Health. He is well versed in electronic health records and related privacy and security issues, new models of local public health accreditation and value-based initiatives to improve employee health while reducing costs. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. He has an AB in Political Science from Tufts University, an MA in Urban Policy Analysis from the New School for Social Research, and a PhD in Health Policy from Boston University where he was a Pew Doctoral Fellow.
William (Bill) Gonzalez, BA, MBA, MPA, FACHE
Bill is a seasoned healthcare executive with a successful 37+ year career of leading major university/teaching hospitals to preeminence through his track record of transforming organizations from traditional institutions to exemplary integrated systems that serve broad markets in cost-effective manners. As an innovative leader, he has developed a process to design workforce cultures through an Executive Rules Commitment. He consults, delivers seminars and coaching in his areas of passion – Managing the Leadership Process and the role of nursing. He has delivered over 20 presentations to state and national healthcare organizations and published over 7 articles. He consults on the accreditation of university programs in healthcare administration after his work at the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education. He has a BA in Business Administration from Rutgers University, an MBA from Cornell University, an MPA in Mental Health Administration from New York University, and he is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Reginald (Reg) M. Hislop, III, PhDs
Reg has over 24 years experience in healthcare and long-term care, with 16 as the CEO of the largest senior healthcare and housing provider in Wisconsin. He has extensive knowledge in health policy, business development, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, financing, and research. His expertise spans a range of healthcare and post-acute healthcare, and senior hosing including continuing care retirement communities, rehabilitation therapy, hospice, medical, mental health, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, and disease management clinics. He provides expertise to a New York City investment firms for institutional investors on health policy, focused primarily on Medicare, Medicaid, and Managed Care. He is a frequent speaker and nationally recognized healthcare industry speaker and advisor, and has authored over 150 published articles. He has served on numerous Boards of Directors for both non-profit and for-profit organizations. He has PhDs in Business and Management Science and Economics from the University of Toronto.
Jim has been helping executives and their organizations become more effective by making better use of information and communications technologies for over 30 years. He works with senior executives to formulate, structure, and resolve the challenges in the effective use of technology by knowledge workers in complex environments such as healthcare. He is skilled at pattern recognition to understand complex situations, and then to collaborate with clients to design and build new patterns, practices, and cultures that will optimize current situations and future opportunities. He has been a Chief Knowledge Officer and Chief Learning Officer for organizations recognizing the need to design ways for knowledge workers to leverage technology. He has extensive experience in international consulting and a founder of Collaborating Minds, a think tank of a unique collection of diverse and skilled people to solve tough problems in social, business, and technical environments by working together online. He has an AB in Statistics from Princeton University, and MBA and PhD from Harvard Business School.
Diana Molnar, AS, BA
Diana has over 35 years of experience and knowledge in existing, start-up’s and acquisition phases of eldercare and healthcare including: community based, independent living, assisted living, long term care, hospitals, home health, Part B rehabilitation, hospice, and long-term care insurance. She has developed throughout the country, innovative programs for recruitment systems, operational re-alignment, training and business development for eldercare and healthcare organizations interested in culture change, training, and building non-financial partnerships. Her work spans non-profit, private and publicly held organizations who are in the flux of change by bringing them direction, education and Innovation. A sought out resource by CEOs and C-suite members of healthcare, long-term care and eldercare provider, she has served in leadership roles for the boards of Illinois Continuity of Care and the American Cancer Society for over 20 years. She has an AS in Community Service Work from Bemidji State University, and a BA in Psychology from Roosevelt University.
Tom Muscarello, BS, MS, PhD
Tom has assessed, developed, implemented, managed, and commercialized advanced technology in healthcare for government, industry, and academe. Was founder and the Executive Director of DePaul University De-Tech Technology Incubator for technology transfer and commercialization, Chair of Technology Commercialization subcommittee of Mayor Daley’s Council of Technology Advisors, and consultant/advisor to startups, government units, and established businesses, plus corporate experience as Director, CTO and board advisor. He was adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Health Information Sciences for 10 years, and is Associate Professor at DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media with expertise in bioinformatics, computational disease modeling, high performance computing, business intelligence, data warehousing and mining, and digital media distribution. He has a BS in Biological Sciences from UIC, MS in Computer Science from DePaul University, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UIC.
William (Bill) A. Patterson, BS, MBA
Bill has 25+ years of consulting experience supporting for enterprise strategic systems and business re-organizations initiatives for Fortune 500 firms and major public sector organizations. While working for large global firms such as IBM, A.T. Kearney and Covansys, he served as key advisor to over 30 major programs and strategic initiatives spanning complex business and IT environments. His recent innovations include development of Role Based Training and Rapid Deployment frameworks to deliver more sustainable results that are driven by major organizational and cultural changes. His experience also includes development and delivery for training and coaching services to executives and project managers responsible for on improving client services and implementing program delivery strategies. His Northwestern Kellogg graduate School of Management MBA focused on finance, marketing, and quantitative methods and follows his BS in mathematics.
Carl Ververs, MS
Carl has 20+ years experience in both high-performance enterprise systems architecture and organization optimization. He is an expert in Agile methodology for project design and delivery, and the organizational transformation needed to reap the benefits of fast-paced development with intense end-user involvement. His expertise spans leadership coaching, Information Technology strategy development, technology product branding, quality enhancements, and many more. He and JoAnn are developing a model and methodology for Agile Organizational Change customized for Healthcare Management, given amount and pace required for change in healthcare. Both parents were physicians so he grew up discussing healthcare at home, with his mother ran a nursing home. He has an MS in Computer Electronics from Eindhoven Polytechnic in The Netherlands with a specialization in Human Factors ((User Experience Design) from DePaul University.
Edward (Ted) Winslow, MD, MBA
Ted has 30+ years as a practicing preventive cardiologist in over 5 major Chicago hospitals, and an Associate Professor of clinical Medicine/Cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine with noted distinction. He has done consulting for the past 5 years in cardiovascular intelligence for strategy, facility development, and medical staff relationships, and has led several successful hospital/physician relationship improvement initiatives. His focus is healthcare policy, managing the business aspects of a private medical practice, and the culture changes required in today’s environment by physicians and other healthcare providers. Has been recognized as an EMR expert, organized Medical Care for Chicago Marathon for 20+ years, and helped redesign patient care for several organizations. He has written over ten peer-reviewed articles, chapters in cardiology books, co-authored a medical book, and is writing a book on Chicago hospitals after the Chicago Fire. After completing high school in three years and three years of undergraduate school, he earned his MD from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University.