Data for Better Health^® Virtual Leadership Summit

Speaker

Shawn Rossi, DHA, FACHE, Vice President of Communication & Member Engagement, Mississippi Hospital Association

Shawn Rossi, DHA, FACHE, serves as the Vice President of Communications and Member Engagement for the Mississippi Hospital Association and an assistant professor in the Doctor of Health Administration (DHA) program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). She is a board-certified Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). She also serves on the Boards of Directors for the Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency, the Mississippi Public Health Association, the Mississippi Society of Association Executives, and the American College of Healthcare Executives of Mississippi. She is a member of the University of Southern Mississippi’s (USM’s) Community Health Advisory Board, the Age-Friendly Mississippi Advisory Council, and the Mississippi Early Childhood Investment Council.

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Henna Qureshi, DO, FAAP, Physician Lead, SDOH, Inova Health

Dr. Henna Qureshi is a Pediatrician at the Inova Cares Clinic for Children as well as the Associate Ambulatory Pediatric Clerkship Director for UVA SOM Inova Campus. She is the Physician Lead for SDOH under the Division of Community Health at Inova Health System. She is a member of the Inclusion Council responsible for promoting Inclusion and Belonging initiatives across the health system. She serves on the boards of MCCP and Obat Helpers promoting heath equity and access to care as well as performing international humanitarian work, disaster relief, and refugee medicine. Passionate about social drivers of health, Dr. Qureshi has led the Inova system wide healthcare screening. 

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Thea Campbell, Vice President, Revenue Cycle Management, Stanford Health

Thea Campbell is an innovative servant leader committed to achieving top performance by leveraging a compelling vision of efficiency, growth, and diversity. As an executive, she excels in setting a compelling strategic vision and leveraging tools and diverse talent to achieve results by creating a high trust and psychologically safety environment that fosters collaboration and innovation. Thea enjoys mentoring others in the growth of their careers and leadership skills.

Thea has functioned as a health information and healthcare revenue cycle executive leader for more than 20 years, and most recently as the vice president of Mid Revenue Cycle for Cedars Sinai. She is currently serving in an interim capacity of the same scope at Stanford Health. Additionally, she is the president elect for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

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Animesh Sabnis, MD, MSHS, MFA, FAAP, Director of Health Equity Analytics and Strategy for UCLA Health System

Animesh Sabnis, MD, MSHS, MFA, FAAP, is the inaugural Director of Health Equity Analytics and Strategy for UCLA Health System. In this role, Dr. Sabnis works with partners across the health system to implement system-wide solutions for health inequities experienced by patient populations at UCLA Health and beyond. Dr. Sabnis led UCLA Health in becoming the first health system in the western United States to earn Health Care Equity Certification from The Joint Commission. He serves as chair of the Equitable Care Committee, which develops institutional clinical equity strategy and sets priorities for equitable clinical care, as well as the chair of the Health Equity Informatics Insights & Innovations Taskforce, which provides guidance to advance health equity in clinical informatics and information technology systems

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Lynnae Messner, CPhT, Director of Operations for Meritus Health

Lynnae Messner, CPhT serves as Director of Operations for Meritus Health. Lynnae began her career at Meritus Health in 2008 as a student intern and was hired in 2009 as a pharmacy technician later advancing to various leadership roles including pharmacy supervisor, Epic project manager, data steward, administrative fellow, director of outpatient care management, and is currently supporting cardiopulmonary services, dialysis services, John R. Marsh Cancer Center, IV Infusion Services, and the Wound Center. Lynnae received her MBA from the University of Maryland Global Campus in 2018.

Moderator

Maria Caban Alizondo, PhD, RHIT, FAHIMA

AHIMA President/Chair

Maria is the director of health informatics and information management services for UCLA Health System in Los Angeles, CA. She has been president of the California Health Information Association, and CA delegate to AHIMA, and has served the association through her engagement on the AHIMA Future of the House Taskforce and the AHIMA Envisioning Collaborative and is a proud AHIMA Mentor. Maria looks for opportunities to bring people together on emerging topics and technologies in the healthcare space and is engaged in advanced thought leadership in health IT governance, data integrity and innovative technologies that aim to improve patients’ experience in navigating their healthcare journey. 

Moderator

Lauren Riplinger, JD, Chief Public Policy and Impact Officer, AHIMA

Lauren serves as AHIMA’s Chief Public Policy and Impact Officer. In this capacity, she is responsible for providing strategic and operational oversight over AHIMA’s advocacy and programmatic strategy to demonstrate mission impact. With two decades of healthcare policy experience, Lauren previously worked on Capitol Hill where she served many roles including Chief of Staff. Lauren received her JD from American University Washington College of Law and undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University. She is admitted to practice law in New York.