Faculty
David Braddock, PhD
Executive Director of Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, University of Colorado
David Braddock, PhD, is Senior Associate Vice President of the University of Colorado (CU) System and Executive Director of the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities. He holds the endowed Coleman-Turner Chair in Cognitive Disability and is a professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at CU’s Anschutz Medical Campus. His research interests include long-term care policy, health promotion and disease prevention, and public spending for developmental disabilities.
Prior to coming to Colorado in 2001, he was also founding head of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) Department of Disability and Human Development and director of its Research Institute. At UIC, he was instrumental in establishing the nation's first PhD Program in Disability Studies and was founding director of UIC’s federally chartered Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. Earlier in his career, he worked in governmental affairs and research in Washington, D.C. at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare’s Secretary's Committee on Mental Retardation, and at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). Prior to Washington, Braddock worked at two state institutions for people with intellectual disabilities in Texas and Missouri as a research technician and classroom teacher.
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Tom Schramski
Founder of Vertess
Tom Schramski is a Certified Merger+Acquisition Advisor (CMAA), consultant, and entrepreneur with over 35 years of very successful leadership experience in the healthcare marketplace, including co-founding and building a $25 million human services company, Vertess. Mr. Schramski's M+A background has incorporated national seller and buyer representation across the healthcare spectrum. He was recognized for his executive leadership in the 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year issue of Inc., as well as the Harvard Business School Press publication, Equity. As the Founder of Vertess, Mr. Schramski's focus is on helping owners build remarkable value in their companies and maximizing value in the transaction process. He also works as a strategic consultant to various healthcare entities, including non-profits, as they look for creative ways to thrive in the healthcare new normal. In addition, Mr. Schramski is the Editor for the Vertess bi-weekly publication, SalientValue, and the author of Selling Your Baby (2nd Edition), as well as national presenter.
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Matt Pettinelli
President/CEO of CapGrow Partners
Matt Pettinelli is the Founder and President/CEO of CapGrow Partners. Matt comes from a family with deep roots in providing exceptional services and resources to consumers with behavioral health needs, and is very proud to carry on a decades-long family tradition. Prior to founding CapGrow, Matt worked on national and international advertising and marketing campaigns for both Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB) and Leo Burnett Company, two of the world’s largest and most successful advertising agencies. Matt earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Studies from the College of Wooster and both a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in finance and a Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communication from Loyola University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. Matt is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) Windy City Chapter in Chicago. Matt enjoys spending time with his wife and two children.
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Monica E. Oss
Chief Executive Officer & Senior Associate of OPEN MINDS
Monica E. Oss, M.S. is the founder of OPEN MINDS. For the past two decades, Ms. Oss has led the OPEN MINDS team and its research on health and human service market trends and its national consulting practice. Ms. Oss is well known for her numerous books and articles focused on the strategic and marketing implications of the evolving health and human service field. She has unique expertise in payer financing models, provider rate setting, and service pricing. She has led numerous engagements with state Medicaid plans, county governments, private insurers, managed care programs, service provider organizations, technology vendors, neurotechnology and pharmaceutical organizations, and investment banking firms – with a focus on the implications of financing changes on delivery system design.
Prior to founding OPEN MINDS, Ms. Oss served as an executive with a national managed behavioral health organization, with responsibility for market development and for actuarial analysis and capitation-based rate setting. She also held a position as a vice president of the U.S. risk management and underwriting division of an international insurance company.
Ms. Oss has been the keynote speaker at the conferences of dozens of national associations and has been published in a wide range of professional journals and trade publications. She has provided Congressional and state legislative testimony on issues as diverse as the financial impact of parity and payer medication access policies.
Ms. Oss has led a range of industry research and management consultation initiatives, serving as principal investigator on research projects that include (but are certainly not limited to) examination of national managed behavioral health enrollment patterns; development of provider rate structures for government entities; creation of a return-on-investment analysis model for technology investments; design of performance-based compensation models for service providers and managed care entities within public and private health plans; and analysis of the economic impact to health systems and health plans of changes in benefit design, adoption of evidence-based practices, and new technologies.
Ms. Oss is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. She serves on the advisory boards of the Shippensburg University Health & Human Service Management Program and the Institute for Behavioral Health Informatics.
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Josh Boynton
Co-Founder of The Boynton Group
Josh and his wife Rachel started LifeShare in 1996 with the intention of creating an organization that supports people of all abilities with dignity and respect. Josh is a steadfast advocate of equality for all people and believes strongly that everyone can and should live and work in the community. Josh passionately believes independence and self-determination is not a privilege but a civil right for all.
LifeShare was acquired by the Centene Corporation a Fortune #124 company in 2013 and Josh stayed on as President & CEO during the integration. He is currently serving as Chairman Emeritus.
Most recently, Josh is the Co-Founder of the newly formed The Boynton Group (TBG) a specialty healthcare solutions group based in Florida. TBG will be working nationally with providers, payors and other organizations to develop sustainable, qualitative, data driven and value based innovations in today’s rapidly evolving health care market by bridging the gap between the traditional health care system and social determinants of health that exist today.
Josh received his Bachelor’s Degree from Keene State College in Psychology, with a concentration in Clinical Psychology and graduated magna cum laude with a Masters in Management/Leadership from New England College. Josh was recently nominated and selected by Centene’s Chairman, President and CEO, to join the REACH program (graduated Spring 2016). REACH is a Health Care Executive Leadership program affiliated with Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and The Brookings Institute in Washington, DC. During his time with Centene, Josh was on the Board of Directors of Centene’s HealthCare Enterprises and served as the Chair from 2014-2016.
Under Josh’s entrepreneurial leadership, he grew LifeShare into a nationally recognized, COA accredited, multi-state, multi- multi-million-dollar enterprise. Collectively, Josh developed sustainable and scalable “go to market strategies” around person-centered, and whole-person health plan solutions, including a fully integrated managed care program for individuals with developmental disabilities. Josh was instrumental in developing cutting edge products and innovations including Pathways, Visions for an Integrated Life, RCRS (Rapid Crisis Response System) now known as BeyondCrisis a behavioral health suite of services serving over 100,000 people today. Josh also led the integration of the Cenpatico Schools division into the newly formed LifeShare Educational Resources division. Today, LifeShare employs hundreds of people in several states all over the country.
Josh was named to the 40 under 40 Class of 2007 which honors influential people in NH under the age of 40 and was given a Citation by Governor John Lynch. Josh was also awarded the prestigious Keene State College Alumni Inspiration Award.
Josh is often asked to advise business and political leaders nationally and locally on a broad range of healthcare and disability policy issues. Josh was selected as a member of Leadership NH Class of 2008-2009. In 2009, Josh was named by Business NH Magazine’s one of 25 leaders to watch in the next 25 years and was appointed by Governor Lynch as a Commissioner for the NH Commission for Human Rights. Josh was appointed by Governor Craig Benson to serve on the NH Developmental Disability Council and was appointed by Governor Jeanne Shaheen to serve on the Statewide Independent Living Council (SILC) and served as the chairperson for 4 years. Josh has served in various leadership positions in the disability community over the past twenty years.
Josh is a national speaker, writer and consultant on the most current issues facing organizations and leaders today ranging from leadership, strategy, innovation, systems change, change management, restraint- free programs, and community based support.
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George Klauser
Executive Director of Altair ACO
Mr. Klauser is a Senior Executive with a proven track record of leadership, success, and contribution in challenging business environments. He has a proven ability to build cohesive teams motivating them to achieve record setting performance. Former positions include Vice President of Service and Operations for Xiotech Corporation, Chief Operation Officer and Vice President of Virtual Growth, Inc., and President and Executive Vice President of Ceridian Employer Services. As Executive Director of the Altair Accountable Care Organization, Mr. Klauser brings 15 years of non-profit disability services experience to the collaborative, most recently with Opportunity Partners as President and CEO, board member, and volunteer. Other community work has included the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, United Way, and Courage Center. Mr. Klauser currently serves on the Allina Silos to Circles Task Force as a core team member, is an advisor and grant reviewer to Community Housing Services, and is an advisor to the Behavioral Health Homes Task Force for the State of Minnesota. He currently co-chairs the Roadmap Social Service Committee and has been selected to participate on the SIM Community Advisory Task Force.
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John Sheehan
President & CEO of Harbor
John M. Sheehan currently serves as President/CEO for Harbor since August, 2013. Prior to joining Harbor he was a consultant for All Tier Health Care Consulting (2011-2013) working on health care integration projects for various organizations around the country. Mr. Sheehan served as Vice President of Behavioral Health Services for BayCare Health System (Clearwater, FL) from 2001 - 2011. In his position at BayCare, he reported to the System President and oversaw community and hospital based behavioral health operations which included 250 inpatient beds and 43 outpatient treatment sites covering 5 counties in west central Florida. Mr. Sheehan was responsible for the administration of programs with annual revenues of approximately $75 million and 800+ employees. John also has experience in being the Director of Case Management (Assertive Community Treatment) and as a federal grant writer.
Mr. Sheehan received his undergraduate degree from Florida State University and his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. John holds a certification as a Six Sigma Green Belt and is an American College of Healthcare Executives Fellow.
John has over 20 years experience in the health and human services arena and has refined his knowledge, skills and abilities in the areas of defining and measuring clinical excellence, strategic planning, growth, operational performance and human resources management. As the current President/Chief Executive Officer of Harbor, Mr. Sheehan has grown the company through a merger with Behavioral Connections of Wood County, expanding services to cover Lucas, Defiance, and Wood counties. His leadership has helped Harbor form a Joint Operating Company with ProMedica Health System in order to enhance care through a more integrated, coordinated healthcare model and meet growing community mental health needs. Mr. Sheehan is married to Bethany, they have three children Hannah, Jack and Gabrielle and grandchildren Lilly and Wyatt.
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Nathan Tyler
Chief Operating Officer of SimplyConnectHIE
Nathan Tyler is currently the Chief Operating Officer of SimplyConnectHIE, previously known as Eldermark. Simply Connect Health Information Exchange, or HIE, is the interoperable electronic transmission of health-related information among care providers, communities, vendors, and other relevant organizations - all according to nationally recognized standards. Prior to joining SimplyConnectHIE, Mr. Tyler served as a consultant for the national digital and technology consultancy, RBA, Inc. Over the last 13 years, Mr. Tyler has served in numerous IT consulting and management positions.
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Linda Lusis
Vice President of Customer Success of Mozzaz Corporation
Linda Lusis is currently the Vice President of Customer Success at Mozzaz Corporation, where since 2012, she has been instrumental in the company’s growth and mission to bring digital health to individuals with complex care needs. With over 20 years of healthcare experience, her leadership and collaborative approach to human and health services has helped deliver solutions to several large managed health care plans including Amerigroup, Anthem, Managed LTSS (MLTSS) services and State programs across TennCare, Virginia and Mississippi. In addition, Linda works very closely with several of the nation’s progressive behavioral health providers including Project Transition, Elwyn, Bancroft, Youth Villages, Vinfen and Maximus in delivering “tech-enabled” care across IDD and complex care programs to support person-centered outcome models. Linda is active with community mental health and social services, and recently served as the Vice President of the Board of Directors for Traverse Independence, an organization that assists adults with acquired brain injuries (ABI) and physical disabilities traverse the distance between where they are today and where they dream of being - independent and self sufficient. Linda’s commitment and dedication in helping healthcare providers deliver services that maximize their clients' abilities to live independently and to support them on their journey of growth is one of passion and mission.
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J Auer
Chief Executive Officer of Rise Services Inc.
J Auer is the CEO of Opportunity Management Group/RISE, an organization providing diverse supports to people with I/DD in multiple states through a unique configuration of nonprofit and for-profit subsidiaries. During his decade-plus tenure he has led the development of technology that has enabled one subsidiary, Acumen, to become the leader in providing innovative fiscal intermediary services across the US. He has also been instrumental in the formation of Direct Care Innovations, a single platform that allows I/DD providers to more effectively manage operations and services to individuals and families. His passions are improving the life experience of people with disabilities, their families and the people who support them through the use of technology.
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