Institute Board of Directors and Staff
Governance
As a supporting organization to America’s Essential Hospitals, Essential Hospitals Institute is governed by a 16-member board that consists of both member and outside directors.
The board provides strategic direction and oversight of the Institute. The directors meet periodically to consider and vote on key Institute activities.
Board members, who are appointed by the board of directors for America’s Essential Hospitals, serve staggered, two-year terms and may serve up to three consecutive terms.
View our past Institute board chairs back to 1990.
Learn more about how America’s Essential Hospitals is governed.
Officers
| Chair Delvecchio Finley, MPP CEO Alameda Health System |
Past-Chair Susan Moffatt-Bruce, MD, PhD Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center |
| Secretary and Chair-Elect Christine Neuhoff, JD System Vice President, General Counsel St. Luke’s Health System |
Recording Secretary (Ex Officio) Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH President and CEO America’s Essential Hospitals |
Member Directors
- Rohit Bhalla, MD, MPH, vice president of quality and patient safety, Stamford Hospital, Stamford, Conn.
- Parveen Chand, MHA, chief operating officer, Academic Health Center — Adult Hospitals, Indiana University Health, Indianapolis
- Susan Cooper, MSN, chief integration officer and senior vice president, Regional One Health, Memphis, Tenn.
- Melany Gavulic, RN, MBA, president and CEO, Hurley Medical Center, Flint, Mich.
- Roy Gilbreath, MD, senior vice president and chief system of care integration officer, Navicent Health, Macon, Georgia
- John Jay Shannon, MD, CEO, Cook County Health & Hospitals System, Chicago
Outside Directors
- Melinda Abrams, MS, vice president, director of delivery system reform, The Commonwealth Fund, New York
- Stuart Guterman, independent consultant, Silver Spring, Maryland
- Erica Murray, MPA, president and CEO, CAPH-California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, Oakland, California
- Dale Shaller, MPA, Principal, Shaller Consulting Group, Stillwater, Minnesota
- Kevin Weiss, MD, MPH, MHSA, senior vice president, Institutional Accreditation, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois
Committees
Below find a list of Essential Hospitals Institute standing committees, with links to members-only resources and information.
Visit our About page to access information on America’s Essential Hospitals’ standing committees.
Staff
Kalpana Ramiah
Vice President of Innovation and Director, Essential Hospitals Institute
Dayna Clark
Senior Research Assistant
Elizabeth Frentzel
Manager of Sponsored Projects
Kimberly Green
Manager of Education Programs
Hannah Lambalot
Research Assistant
Maeceon Lewis
Data Reporting Associate
Iti Madan
Research Assistant
Brian Roberson
Manager of Data Analytics
Deborah Roseman
Principal Project Specialist
Jennifer Stephens
Principal Research Associate
Madeline White
Research Associate
Contact the Institute staff
DEPT-EHI@essentialhospitals.org
