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Global Health and Safety Initiative

Board Biographies

The GHS Initiative has a Board of Directors that includes the following individuals:

Gary Cohen, Co-E.D., Health Care Without Harm

Gary Cohen is a founder and Co-Executive Director of Health Care Without Harm, the international campaign for environmentally responsible healthcare. HCWH is working in over 50 countries to transform the way that the healthcare sector builds and operates its facilities, as well as helping hospitals "green" their supply chain. He is also the Executive Director of the Environmental Health Fund, which facilitates coalitions on domestic and global chemical safety issues. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, India, which provides free medical care to the survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal.

Mr. Cohen has been working on environmental health issues for twenty five years. In 2006, he was awarded the Skoll Global Award for Social Entrepeneurship. In 2007, he was awarded the Frank Hatch Enlightened Public Service Award by the John Merck Fund.

Jennifer Daley, C.M.O., Partners Community Healthcare/Partners Healthcare

Dr. Jennifer Daley is the Chief Medical Officer of Partners Community Healthcare Inc., the physician contracting organization for the six thousand physicians employed and/or affiliated with Partners Healthcare System in Boston Massachusetts. Dr. Daley is a nationally recognized physician executive with expertise in patient safety, quality, service excellence, and clinical operational improvement. She is distinguished in the healthcare industry for substantial clinical work redesign leading to quantifiable and sustainable improvements in patient outcomes and reduced costs of care. She has led innovative quality improvement programs nationally in government (Department of Veterans Affairs), for-profit (Tenet Heatlthcare) and not-for-profit delivery systems (Partners Healthcare System, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). These collaborative efforts yielded substantial changes in clinical practice among medical and clinical staff in academic, community, and staff model settings.

Dr. Daley received her Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Brown University and her medical degree at Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed post-graduate training in internal medicine at the New England Medical Center in Boston and her general medicine fellowship at Harvard Medical School. In 2007 she was named one of the top 25 women executives in healthcare by Modern Healthcare and was an inaugural recipient of the US Naval Academy-Harvard Business Review Ethical Leadership Award.

Bob Eisenman, Ph.D., E.D., Global Health and Safety Initiative

Bob has more than forty years experience in public policy and social change including thirty-five years in leadership positions in healthcare. Prior to launching the Global Health and Safety Initiative, Bob worked in public policy and community and government relations leadership positions for Kaiser Permanente and played key roles in affecting legislative and regulatory changes, improvements in quality of care and lower costs for healthcare. Bob was also an Emergency Medical Services Administrator, Health Planner, Assistant Professor of Sociology and U.S. Public Health Services' Officer.

Bob has a Master's of Public Health (MPH) from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University.

Robert J. Henkel, Pres., Healthcare Operations and C.O.O., Ascension Health (Chair)

Robert J. Henkel is the President, Healthcare Operations and Chief Operating Officer at Ascension Health. Prior to his appointment, he served as President of the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic States Operating Group at Ascension Health. Mr. Henkel has held executive positions with numerous other healthcare organizations, including the Daughters of Charity National Health System, St. Louis, Missouri; Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida; SSM Health Care in St. Louis, Missouri; and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York. He currently serves as a Board Member of the Marian Middle School in St. Louis, Missouri; Board member of the CHAN Healthcare Auditors; member of the University of Rochester Graduate School of Business Health Sciences Board; fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives; and member of the Healthcare Executives Network. He has also served as the Chairman of the Columbia St. Mary's Board of Trustees, Milwaukee.

Mr. Henkel received a bachelor's degree in economics from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., and a master's degree in public health from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Robert Jarboe, E.D., Practice Greenhealth

Bob Jarboe is the Executive Director for Practice Greenhealth, the nation's leading membership and networking organization for institutions in the healthcare community that have made a commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly practices. Mr. Jarboe is a seasoned nonprofit executive with a substantial background in creating nonprofits, nonprofit mergers and transitions of government organizations to nonprofit status. His career, stretching some thirty years, includes the creation, building and management of organizations on local, state and national levels.

Debra J. Levin, Pres.& C.E.O., The Center for Health Design

Debra Levin has worked for The Center for Health Design in various roles since 1989, and is currently President and CEO. From 1989-1998, she was primarily responsible for developing and managing the annual Symposium on Healthcare Design and also helped direct The Center's research and advocacy efforts. Under her direction, the Pebble Project research initiative has gained international recognition, growing from four participants to more than 50. She has also been instrumental in developing, launching, and creating the annual Healthcare Design and Environments for Aging conference.

Ms. Levin has a master's degree in management and organizational leadership from the John F. Kennedy School of Management and a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University's College of Architecture. She serves on the advisory boards for Healing HealthCare Systems, Touch Briefings, and the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers. A Fellow of the Jim Whittaker Discovery Camp for Innovation and Leadership, Ms. Levin received an Outstanding Alumni Award from ASU in 1998 and was named one of Twenty People Making Healthcare Better in 2007 by HealthLeaders magazine.

Christine L. Malcolm, S.V.P., Hospital Strategy and National Facilities, Kaiser Permanente (Chair-Elect)

Christine Malcolm leads Kaiser Permanente's National Facilities Services department, and is responsible for managing the company's real estate portfolio, clinical technology, facility maintenance and operations, security, and the design and construction of Kaiser Permanente's medical and administrative facilities. Additionally, Ms. Malcolm develops, coordinates, and reviews organization-wide facilities and operations strategies. Before joining Kaiser Permanente, Ms. Malcolm served as senior vice president of Strategy, Marketing, and Program Development at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center. She has also served as vice president of Healthcare Provider Services for Computer Sciences Corporation, vice president of University HealthSystem Corporation, and as vice president of Planning and Corporate Development at the University of Chicago Hospitals.

Ms. Malcolm has received many prestigious awards throughout her career, including the American Marketing Association's Steuart Henderson Britt Award for leadership at the Planning, Marketing and Corporate Development Group at the University of Chicago Hospitals (1989), the American Society of Health Care Marketing and Public Relations (AHA) Touchstone Award for Excellence in Healthcare Planning and Marketing (1991), and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Spectra Award (1992 and 1993). She has lectured extensively across the nation on health care management and strategy issues. Ms. Malcolm holds an MBA (Health Care Administration Specialization) and a BA in Public Affairs from the University of Chicago.

Stephanie S. McCutcheon, Pres.& C.E.O., Hospital Sisters Health System (Treasurer)

Stephanie S. McCutcheon, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), continues a distinguished career in healthcare administration with the leadership of the 13 HSHS hospitals in Illinois and Wisconsin. Prior to her appointment with HSHS, Ms. McCutcheon served as a Senior Advisor for Health Technology Center of California, and as the Chief Operating Officer of the Maryland-based Bon Secours Health System, Inc., which sponsors 24 hospitals in nine states. As the President and CEO of the Missouri-based SSM Health Care Saint Louis, she led this System through reorganization of governance and ownership from a representative group of aligned hospitals to a single ownership and management. As its Central Regional Vice President, representing 11 hospitals, she transformed SSM from highest to lowest cost provider in St. Louis over a two-year period.

Ms. McCutcheon holds degrees from the University of Missouri, Columbia, including a Master of Business Administration degree in finance and marketing and a Master of Science degree in public health and health administrations. She is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Susan Vickers, R.S.M., V.P. Community Health, Catholic Healthcare West

Sister Susan Vickers is the Vice President of Community Health for Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), a health care delivery system with facilities in California, Arizona, and Nevada. She is responsible for directing and overseeing system-wide community benefit initiatives, corporate social responsibility, and ecology programs. In conjunction with her community health work, Vickers directs CHW's shareholder initiatives. She collaborates with other members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) to raise social responsibility issues with the management of companies in CHW's investment portfolio. Vickers took a leadership role in developing CHW's system-wide commitment to improved environmental performance and in the decision-making process which led CHW to endorse the Ceres Principles for environmental protection and conservation.

Vickers currently serves as board member of Practice Greenhealth, Partners for the Common Good Loan Fund, Mercy Investment Program, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, St. Mary Medical Center Foundation Board, and Mercy High School, Burlingame. She also serves on the Advisory Committee for the Good Steward Fund, the Catholic Health Initiatives SRI Advisory Committee, and the CHRISTUS Health SRI Advisory Committee.

Annette M. Walker, SVP, Strategic Implementation, St. Joseph Health System

Ms. Walker is Senior Vice President, Strategic Implementation for St. Joseph Health System (SJHS). Ms. Walker oversees the development, support and implementation of the processes that manage the strategic objectives and competitive positioning of the health system.

Before joining SJHS, Ms. Walker served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Physician Integration for Memorial Health Services (MHS). Ms. Walker has received many honors for her work, including Modern Healthcare's Innovation in Healthcare Technology Award, the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development Banner Award, the California Hospital Association's Ritz E. Herman Innovator Award, and the Hospitals and Health Networks Innovator Award. Ms. Walker currently serves on the Boards of Trustees for St. Mary Medical Center (another SJHS hospital) and the CSJ Educational Network, as well as on the Board of Directors for two nonprofits, Toby's House and Birth Choice. Ms. Walker holds a master's degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of Minneapolis (1995) and a B.S. in biology from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles (1979).

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