TEAM UP TAKE ACTION CONFERENCE
In partnership with Dartmouth Health and the Vermont PHA
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2023 I 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM I Hanover Inn Dartmouth
SCHEDULE & SPEAKERSWHY ATTEND?
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Friday, December 1, 2023
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8:00 - 8:45 AM
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Continental Breakfast
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8:45 - 9:00 AM
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Welcome Remarks
Rosemary Caron, PhD, MPH - Conference EMCEE Dean, School of Healthcare Leadership MGH Institute of Health Professions |
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9:00 - 10:30 AM
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Opening Keynote Panel: The Road to Health Equity: State-wide and Healthcare System Initiatives
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light significant health disparities in the United States caused by structural and social determinants such as racism and misguided policies on health, housing, and education. Therefore, as a society, it is imperative to provide medical care to all, and it is essential to treat all individuals based on their health needs irrespective of their insurance status, race or ethnicity, immigration status, and other attributes. The opening keynote panel convenes leaders to discuss initiatives and actions to advance and achieve health equity and improve health outcomes on state-wide and healthcare system levels. Moderator Rosemary Caron, PhD, MPH, Dean for MGH Institute’s School of Healthcare Leadership Panelists
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10:30 - 10:45 AM
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Refreshment Break
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10:45 - 11:45 AM
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Morning Breakout Sessions
TBA on October 4th |
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11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
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Morning Breakout Sessions (Cont.)
TBA on October 4th |
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12:45 - 2:15 PM
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Luncheon Keynote Panel: Advancing Health Equity through Advocacy and Policy
Achieving health equity requires close attention to policies that impact the conditions in which people live, learn, work, play, and worship. In this session, lawmakers and health advocates will examine the 2023 legislative session, identify trends, challenges, and takeaways, and explore key issues to watch in the 2024 legislative session. Moderator James Monahan, President, The Dupont Group & White Birch Communications Panelists
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2:15 - 3:15 PM
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Afternoon Breakout Sessions
TBA on October 4th |
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3:15 - 3:30 PM
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Refreshment Break
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3:30 - 4:30 PM
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Afternoon Breakout Sessions (Cont.)
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4:30 - 5:30 PM
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Closing Keynote Panel: Leveraging Community Expertise to Advance Health Equity
The session examines how governments and organizations adopt community engagement approaches to foster collaboration and equitable power-sharing with communities that experience health disparities. Moderator Rosemary Caron, PhD, MPH, Dean for MGH Institute’s School of Healthcare Leadership Panelists
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Rosemary Caron, PhD, MPH - Conference EMCEE
Rosemary Caron, PhD, MPH, is the Dean of School of Healthcare Leadership at the
MGH Institute of Health Professions. Dr. Rosemary has over 25 years of professional experience in academic leadership and public health practice. During her 17 years prior at UNH, Dr. Caron excelled in academic leadership roles, including Director of it's Master’s in Public Health program, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Chairperson of the Department of Health Management and Policy. She also served as adjunct associate professor of Pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. A leading voice in building healthier communities, Caron was a public health practitioner before entering academia. |
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Susan Mooney, MD, MS, FACOG, President and Chief Executive Officer, Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital
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Jeffrey C. Fetter, MD, Chief Medical Officer, New Hampshire Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Jeffrey C. Fetter, MD attended Johns Hopkins University, received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, and is board certified in psychiatry and internal medicine. Dr. Fetter also completed the University of New Hampshire Physician Leadership Development Program. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth who has focused his career on addressing clinical care at the interface of psychiatry and general medicine.
Dr. Fetter began his practice at New Hampshire Hospital, as a staff psychiatrist leading a psychiatric team treating medically ill patients, and a multidisciplinary Cardiometabolic Consultation Service. He moved to Concord Hospital where he headed the Consultation-Liaison Service, but also practiced in the Emergency Department, ECT service, inpatient unit, and a cardiometabolic psychiatry clinic. As Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at the NH Department of Corrections he oversaw primary care of over 2000 inmates in three prisons and three halfway houses. He managed a substantial influenza outbreak in 2015, and established a prison hospice program. He also practiced psychiatry in the Residential Treatment Unit and the Special Housing Unit (solitary confinement). At Riverbend Community Mental Health Center, Dr. Fetter served as CMO overseeing psychiatric care in settings including the Community Support Program, integrated primary care/mental health settings, and residential services. He provided direct patient care on the ACT team. He led the agency’s response to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently CMO of New Hampshire Hospital, Dr. Fetter is responsible for oversight of clinical services. He participates in educational programs for trainees and staff and has been active in the NH state mental health system’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Fetter has published several articles on clinical and public health management of COVID-19 in community mental health and psychiatric hospital settings. Dr. Fetter is the recipient of the Abraham Lenzner, MD Award in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry’s Martin Fenton, MD Award, the NH Public Health Association’s Friend of Public Health Award, the NH Psychiatric Society’s Leadership Award in 2021, and the National Alliance for Mental Illness’ Exemplary Psychiatrist for 2023. He is also a scout leader and plays fiddle in an old-time string band. |
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Matthew D. Gibb, MD, MHCDS, Chief Clinical Officer, Concord Hospital Health System
Dr. Matthew Gibb is the Chief Clinical Officer at Concord Hospital Health System. He is an accomplished physician executive with a long track record of successful physician leadership. In his current role, Dr. Gibb leads the provider enterprise and work with the senior team to guide the transformation of CHMG to an integrated delivery structure which will thrive in a value heath care environment. He has thirty years of experience in healthcare with a background ranging from patient care in a variety of diverse settings to the boardroom in both civilian and military environments. In past role as System CMO for the Carle Health System, Dr. Gibb led a group of 500 physicians with additional responsibilities including health plan medical management, research, graduate medical education, quality, risk management, development of the new Carle Illinois College of Medicine, analytics and information management, provider recruitment, and population health strategies.
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VT House Representative Leslie Goldman, RN, NP
Leslie Goldman came to Bellows Falls in 1982 as a newly graduated Family Nurse Practitioner with her husband, Dr. Matthew Peake, to start a primary care medical practice at the Rockingham Memorial Hospital. They went into private practice in 1986 and operated their small business until Rockingham Memorial Hospital closed in 1990. Out patient services were taken over by Springfield Hospital and she worked in Primary Care in Bellows Falls until 2008. In 2008, Goldman completed a master’s of public health at the Dartmouth Medical School with a focus on systems thinking and quality improvement, and then went on to practice primary care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene, where she gained an understanding of large, complex organizations. After 37 years in medicine, she retired in 2018. Goldman served on the Bellows Falls Union High School Board for 12 years and on the Rockingham Selectboard for three years, where she learned the skill of crafting a budget. She believes a budget is a statement of philosophy and limited funds requires choosing one program over another. Goldman served as a board member of Parks Place, a nonprofit organization supporting vulnerable and marginalized populations in Bellows Falls, was a founding member of The Compass School, a grade 7–12 independent school, and is currently on the board of The Nature Museum in Grafton. She feels renewed by singing with the Hallowell Hospice Choir and The River Singers. She and her husband have two grown sons and a granddaughter living in California. She is a member of the House of Representatives since 2021.
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Reuben Hampton, MBA, Director, Office of Health Equity, NH DHHS
Reuben Hampton, MBA, is the Director of the Office of Health Equity at the New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS). His work focuses on identifying and addressing health disparities for marginalized populations across the state, and ensuring equitable access to effective, quality DHHS programs and services for all clients. Reuben previously worked as a program manager and consultant, where he has taken on leadership roles on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives including policy, strategic plan development and implementation, as well as community engagement. He has been a board member of the The Family Place, an Upper Valley family resource center, since 2019 and serves as the board's treasurer and DEI committee chair. Reuben received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his masters degree from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he is a member of the school's Inclusion, Diversity, Equity in Action (IDEA) committee.
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Theo Kennedy, Esq., MPH, General Practitioner & Public Policy Attorney, Otis & Kennedy
Mr. Kennedy was born in Brunswick, Maine, and grew up mostly in New York. He graduated cum laude in 1983 from Middlebury College. Theo received his Juris Doctor in 1991, and a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Environmental Health in 1994 from Boston University. Theo was licensed to practice law in Massachusetts in 1994, working in real property, banking, and debtor-creditor law as a title examiner and lender counsel performing closings, as well as handling a motion practice and banking litigation support for a private law firm in Boston. He also spent a year with a sole practitioner doing plaintiff-side personal injury law before returning to the areas of banking and real property as a senior counselor for a statewide not-for-profit in Massachusetts that assisted elders in financial distress and foreclosure. Intent on returning to Vermont, he joined the Vermont Department of Public Service in the Consumer Affairs and Public Information Division in January 1999, becoming conversant in public utility regulatory and consumer matters. In 2001, he joined the Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration as a Staff Attorney and Director of Health Rates and Forms, where he developed expertise in the health insurance industry and legislative and regulatory healthcare issues. Prior to joining Otis & Kennedy in July 2010, Theo helped oversee legislative, regulatory, data analysis, and policy matters for seven years in the Vermont Department for Children and Families as Director of Planning, Policy, and Regulation.
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Mark Levine, MD, Health Commissioner
Dr. Mark Levine was appointed commissioner of health by Governor Phil Scott and began service on March 6, 2017. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Levine was a professor of medicine at the University of Vermont – a position he still holds, associate dean for graduate medical education, and designated institutional official at the College of Medicine and UVM Medical Center. He also served as vice chair for education in the Department of Medicine.
Dr. Levine received his B.A. in biology from the University of Connecticut and M.D. from the University of Rochester. He completed his internal medicine residency and chief resident year at the University of Vermont, and a fellowship in general internal medicine at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Levine’s general internal medicine practice focused on health promotion and disease prevention, preventative health screening and clinical nutrition, chronic disease management, and solving complex diagnostic dilemmas. With this experience, Dr. Levine understands the challenges our health care system holds for both patients and physicians. This informs his interest in improving public health through policies that foster a culture of health. Dr. Levine has served on the American College of Physicians Board of Regents, and as governor of its Vermont chapter; as vice president and president-elect of the Vermont Medical Society; and was a longstanding member of the Vermont Department of Health’s Primary Care-Public Health Integration Workgroup. He successfully directed large NIH and HRSA educational grants related to nutrition-preventive medicine competencies for general physicians. |
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NH House Representative David Nagel, MD
Dr. David Nagel is a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation who, for the past thirty years, has specialized in pain management, acupuncture, and interventional pain management in Concord, New Hampshire. His interests include doctor-patient communication and advocacy and social justice for those who suffer from chronic pain. He is the author of the critically reviewed book Needless Suffering; How Society Fails Those with Chronic Pain. Described as a “self-help book for society” with “the potential to change the way we talk about pain in America." Needless Suffering offers a broad sociological look at how we, as a culture, treat those who suffer, too often needlessly harming them, and how, through public policy and personal behavior, we can do much better. Dr. Nagel is one of the founders of the New Hampshire Pain Collaborative and the President and founder of the Nagel Pain Community, non-profit organizations dedicated to the education of the public, health professionals, and legislators on the needs of those who suffer from chronic pain. He is a member/Ambassador of the US Pain Foundation and the Pain Connection, both patient advocacy groups. He is a member of the NFL Players’ Association Pain Committee and the co-chair of the pain management best practices sub-committee, one of several endeavors outlining best practices for pain management that he is a part of.
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Max Perkins, Senior Policy Manager, Unite Us
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Beth Shrader, Director of Programs, Prevention Works! VT
Beth has worked in the substance misuse prevention field in Vermont since 2004 starting as the Director of the Brattleboro Area Prevention Coalition. Prior to joining PW! VT as a full-time staff member in July 2023, Beth worked for PW! VT as a consultant for two and a half years. As the Director of Programs, she coordinates workforce and professional development projects, networking opportunities, and other programming. Beth is also the principal of a consulting
organization serving non-profit organizations in the Northeast whose clients included hospitals and health services organization, law enforcement agencies, local government as well as substance abuse prevention coalitions. Before moving to Vermont two decades ago, Beth had been involved in non-profit management, higher education and volunteer administration for twenty plus in New Jersey. Beth holds a degree from Rutgers University and attended North Carolina State University. |
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