​The Series highlights the journeys and contributions of various women leaders in healthcare and STEM, who share their insights on a range of topics impacting healthcare, our communities, and their role in shaping the future.
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The Insights from Women Leaders series was launched in October of 2020 as a platinum platform to hear from women leaders with varied backgrounds and perspectives on leadership, addressing current and future challenges, what skills we need moving forward, and how their experiences have shaped their outlook. 

​The guests have included leaders from various prestigious and reputable institutions from across the globe, their backgrounds are diverse, their accomplishments many, and the insights and perspectives have provided have been extremely valuable. 
The goal is to learn from women thought leaders and decision-makers to empower current and future leaders, both men and women, to positively impact organizations and communities.

​Diversity of thought, experiences, industries, education and training is important to us as it highlights the mosaic of perspectives that are represented in different settings that helps drive decision-making, and positive change.
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February 12th, 2021
 “We must have the tenacity to lay bricks everyday, while never losing our vision of the cathedral. Sustained action with intention paves the way for extraordinary outcomes.”
- Aashima Gupta
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Aashima Gupta on February 12th, as a guest leader in the Series.  

​During the event, Aashima spoke about what legacy means to her, initiatives that have emerged during the pandemic, telehealth, and future challenges. She highlighted her commitment to interoperability and information sharing in healthcare and her outlook on leadership. 
Aashima Gupta spearheads Healthcare strategy and solutions for Google Cloud. In this role, she sets the direction for the transformative Healthcare solutions and leads engagement with healthcare key executives in helping transform their business strategies that define new models for care, revenue generation and improved care experiences.
She founded and led Healthcare vertical and interoperability efforts at Apigee and is a passionate advocate for Open Data and the use of APIs to overcome Healthcare data. Previously, she led Digital Health Incubations at Kaiser Permanente and brought several frameshifting opportunities to life. Aashima serves on the HIMSS Board and was recognized as Most Influential Women in Healthcare IT by HIMSS and won Top 100 Women in Fem Tech and Health Tech award. Aashima received her BS in Computer Science and a Masters in Computer Applications from Delhi University, India.
February 19th, 2021
 “Leader: A visionary person who adds value by leading people from within and show them the way.  They have the willingness to respect, serve their people and listen to them. Their wisdom, integrity, ethics and respect to people are their values. They can make a difference wherever they go.” ​
- Dr. Rola Hammoud
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Dr. Rola Hammoud on February 19th, as a guest leader in the Series.  
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During the event, Dr. Hammoud spoke about how her values, commitment, and willingness to learn have driven her decisions and outlook. She discussed how her interests and experiences grew throughout her career and brought her to where she is today. She highlighted her commitment to patient care, transitions of care, and how taking holistic, ethical, supportive, and diverse perspectives will advance healthcare. She provided advice for current and future leaders as they look to make a difference in others' lives.
Dr. Rola Hammoud brings over 25 years of experience in Anesthesiology and 14 years of experience in Healthcare management and consultancy on governance, strategy and quality service delivery at a global level. She founded the “Lebanese Society for Quality & Safety in Healthcare” in 2012 and was elected twice as its President.
 In addition, she is an academic Lecturer on Patient Safety and Risk Management and a reviewer for anesthesia and quality journals. She is a national & regional speaker on Healthcare Quality and Accreditation. Expert on the national committee for the Lebanese accreditation standards development and a training faculty for the Surveyors of the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health. She graduated as Medical Doctor from “Universite Libre de Bruxelles”, and as anesthesiologist from the American University of Beirut. Dr. Hammoud is American Board Certified in Healthcare Management from the American College of Healthcare Executives and is certified from the Harvard Business School in the “Management of health care delivery for executives”. She Holds a Masters in Hospital Management from ESA business school and University Paris VII (France), a Teaching diploma and a Mediation diploma.
February 26th, 2021
“A leader is someone that can create an environment and vision for everyone to succeed. One who paves a path that may not be visible to others and lays down one brick at the time together with the team.” 
- Dr. Rose Martin
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Dr. Rose Martin on February 26th, as a guest leader in the Series.  

​Dr. Martin discussed her vision and passion for addressing access to healthcare issues and optimizing telehealth. She discussed numerous topics, including hindsight bias, mindset, points of intersection, qualities of a good leader, and how thinking and training like an athlete can contribute to professional success. She highlighted her experience as both a Karate athlete and coach for Olympic athletes and how that has shaped her outlook. 
Dr. Rose Martin is the Senior Vice President of Operations for Tabula Rasa HealthCare.  Dr. Martin began her tenure with the organization in 2007 as one of the founding Clinical Pharmacists for the Medication Management Center (MMC), the predecessor of SinfoníaRx.
Prior to her current position as SVP of Operations, Dr. Martin progressively advanced in various roles, including Chief Operating Office of SinfoniaRx in 2019, the Vice President of Pharmacy Operations in 2017, and Clinical Pharmacy Director for the MMC in 2013.  As a key member of the organization’s Leadership, Dr. Martin is dedicated to the continual strategic alignment of TRHC - SinfoníaRx’s core clinical services, business relationships, and operational procedures. Dr. Martin graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry in 2003 and completed her PharmD degree in 2007 from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. Outside out her professional duties, Dr. Martin coaches and trains future Olympic athletes in the sport of Karate with her experience as a former U.S. Karate Team member.
March 5th, 2021
“A leader is someone who provides the inspiration and vision to empower people to do their best work.” 
- Dr. Claire Bloomfield
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Dr. Claire Bloomfield on March 5th, as a guest leader in the Series.  

During the event, Dr. Bloomfield highlighted the work of NCIMI and her commitment of engaging diverse stakeholders to work towards solutions. She discussed how she defines success, the power of self-reflection, and how she creates trusting environments that focus on encouraging and uplifting her teams, and so much more.
Dr. Claire Bloomfield is the CEO of the world-leading Consortium of Artificial Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI) at the University of Oxford — NCIMI is Oxford’s new and revolutionary launchpad to improve the healthcare industry through the use of AI.
The NCIMI consortium is led from the University, where Claire is successfully managing partnerships with 14 NHS hospitals, clinical leaders, industry experts, academic researchers, patient groups and philanthropic organizations. Claire’s own research has been focused on Neuroscience and she has held research fellowships at Oxford University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Following her academic research career and before becoming the CEO of the NCIMI Consortium, Claire returned to Oxford as the Head of Strategy and Innovation for the Cancer Research UK Centre. Claire's role placed her at the nexus of cancer activity within the university community and the UK overall, affording unique opportunities to work on cross-departmental and pan-divisional projects resulting in raising more than 250 million pounds to further UK cancer research. Claire’s particular interest in imaging and AI focuses on supporting the ecosystem to develop effective collaborations that generate value for all stakeholders, andensuring equity and diversity in both the development and application of healthcare AI.
March 12th, 2021
“An effective leader has an evolving adaptable vision, continually earned trust, and the courage of their convictions. Empowering strengths of individuals and collaborative relationships is a must.”
- Dr. Jan D. Hirsch
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Dr. Jan D. Hirsch on March 12th, as a guest leader in the Series.  

During the event, Dr. Hirsch highlighted how pharmacy education is changing, prioritizing equitable access to healthcare and medicine, and what challenges keeps her up at night. She discussed the essential qualities of a leader and the need for viewing the journey as an adventure. She stressed that trust, adding skills and experiences, asking questions, and seeking advice are critical to creating environments of success.
Dr. Jan Hirsch is Founding Dean of the University of California Irvine School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences where she is also Professor of Clinical Pharmacy. She is a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in Pharmacy, and Distinguished Fellow of the Get the Medications Right (GTMRx) Institute, and joined UC Irvine in January of 2019.  ​
Previously she was Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Chair of the Division of Clinical Pharmacy at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, at the University of California, San Diego.  She was also Executive Director of Partners in Medication Therapy (PMT), an outreach program of the school providing medication therapy management services in the community.  She received her B.S. in Pharmacy and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Pharmacy Administration from the University of South Carolina, College of Pharmacy.  Prior to returning to academia, she spent 14 years in the pharmaceutical and managed care industries where she was responsible for establishing and managing outcomes research departments for two pharmaceutical companies (Glaxo Group Research in Greenford (UK) and Allergan (US)) and a pharmacy benefit management company (Prescription Solutions (US)).  Dr. Hirsch’s research interests are focused in the areas of pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research.
March 19th, 2021
“You are here. You are important. You are valuable. You are meant to do something. And when you are taking on a big challenge, you are taking on what is placed in front of you. You do what you can - to the best that you can. Whatever I do, I do it with other people. How can I, with others, keep moving it forward?” - Dr. Joan Reede
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Dr. Joan Reede on March 19th, as a guest leader in the Series.  

During the event, Dr. Reede highlighted her professional journey, the need to be impact-driven, and the power of leveraging diverse expertise and perspectives. She discussed her thoughts on leadership and the necessary foundation for which leaders must prioritize. She provided advice for those interested in health equity,  social determinants of health, diversity in the workplace, and leading teams.
Dr. Joan Reede  is Harvard Medical School’s first Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, responsible for the development and management of a comprehensive program that provides leadership, guidance, and support to promote the increased recruitment, retention, and advancement of underrepresented minority faculty.
Dr. Joan Reede has a lifelong passion for and experience with mentoring and supporting diversity in the biosciences. She also serves in a number of other positions, including Faculty Director of Community Outreach at HMS, Professor at HMS and at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Assistant in Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. While at HMS, Joan created more than 20 diversity and leadership-focused programs, including founding the HMS Minority Faculty Development Program and the Biomedical Science Careers Program. Before joining Harvard, she served as the medical director of a Boston community health center and worked as a pediatrician in community and academic health centers, juvenile prisons, and public schools. She has held a number of advisory roles including serving on the Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Minority Health and the Secretary’s Advisory Committee to the Director of NIH. In 2020, she became an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. Dr. Reede graduated from Brown University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She holds an MPH and an MS in Health Policy Management from Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and an MBA from Boston University.
March 26th, 2021
"The best leaders exist to lift up those around them and unlock their full potential. Leadership is about practicing vulnerability, empathy, and authenticity and inspiring others to do the same.”
- Shweta Maniar
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Shweta Maniar on March 26th, as a guest leader in the Series.  

During the event, Shweta highlighted her journey, work with diverse stakeholder, and the future of life sciences. She discussed her thoughts on leadership, prioritization, and tackling challenges. She provided advice on various communication strategies, the art of the owning your successes, and the power of uplifting others.
Shweta Maniar is Global Leader, BioPharma at Google Cloud. She has led deals with F100 companies and has architected the commercial strategy for Google Cloud.
Shweta is a proven commercial executive, and leader, who brings extensive operating experience spanning Digital Health & Technology, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and large Hospital Systems. She is passionate about keeping current with trends in medical devices, data, wearables, IoT, EHR, and machine learning. At Google, Shweta Leads the rapidly growing business within the most strategic, transformational Healthcare accounts globally. She leads the vision, strategy, and execution of the industry product strategy and go-to-market (GTM) model. Shweta drives business transformation innovation with emerging products, “beyond the pill/device,” value addition initiatives and first-of-kind deals by parsing industry trends to recommend, plan for and address core market opportunities with new solutions. 

Earlier in her career, Shweta spent several years in Northeast Ohio at the Cleveland Clinic primarily in a research capacity and at the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron where she brought together 3 community hospitals and 2 universities for tech transfer, primarily focused on medical devices and minimally invasive therapeutics. At Summa Health System and led the Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics (MIS). There she led MIS efforts around research, education and innovation. She later moved to San Francisco to join Genentech/Roche, leading market growth strategies relevant to technology accelerators for therapies and diagnostics. She brings an eye for detail, winning contract negotiations, and financial insight to support her commercial partnership strategy expertise.In addition, Shweta has been the recipient of the Most Valuable Person award.  Shweta is a frequent speaker at industry events such as Bio-IT, HIMSS, RockHealth, Precision World Medical Conference as well as is a strategic partner of the California Life Sciences Association. Recent speaking topics include delivering on the digital transformation, retail transparency in life sciences, patient experience, leveraging technology to bridge healthcare inequities, women in tech, and meeting compliance and security requirements through use of cloud technology. Shweta is an Indian classical dancer and instructor. Prior to 2020, she was a regular international traveler with a goal to try local foods wherever she goes. She is an avid almond farmer. 
April 2nd, 2021
“Success is in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I have the power to define myself as the beholder in that sentence! I've been fortunate to work in a lot of different types of environments. Necessary leadership skills that were common despite this are: tolerance of ambiguity and the vision to see complex change as a system.”
- Dr. Tina Brock
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Dr. Tina Brock on April 2nd, as a guest leader in the Series.  

During the event, Dr. Brock spoke about the necessity of learning across disciplines, the power of acknowledging and sharing failures, and how to approach difficult situations. She discussed her own professional journey and aspirations for the future. She also provided advice to those within academia and across settings as they look to make an impact in whatever it is they are working on, and so many other topics!
Dr. Tina Brock is Professor of Pharmacy Education and Practice in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University where she leads the team implementing an innovative approach to pharmacy training.
She has previously served as the Associate Dean for Global Health and Educational Innovations at the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy; the Director of Capacity Building and Performance Improvement at Management Sciences for Health; the Co-Course Director for the MSc in International Practice and Policy at University College London; and the Director of Student Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She is a Fellow of the International Pharmaceutical Federation and the American Pharmacists Association Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science. Tina’s key areas of expertise are educational design, global health capacity building, leadership development, interprofessional models, and good tomatoes. She is a storyteller and likes getting people excited about the things she is excited about.
April 9th, 2021
"The reason why it can be difficult to describe a leader is that it is often so difficult to be a leader. A good leader is one who can set a clear path ahead and bring their team alongside to advise, support and ensure everyone is on board, even when that path changes direction. A good leader is one who can do this with charm, humility and clarity and who learns along the way. Learning to be a leader, and a good leader at that, is a lifelong endeavour that never ends." - Dr. Catherine Duggan 
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Dr. Catherine Duggan on April 9th, as a guest leader in the Series.  

During the event, Dr. Duggan spoke about how to continuously spot opportunities to learn and add value. She discussed her own professional journey, the successes and the roadblocks, and how that has shaped her outlook on both her professional and personal life. She also provided advice to current and emerging leaders across the world and shared how her team has stepped up and delivered valuable content during the pandemic.
Dr. Catherine Duggan is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Pharmaceutical Federation.
Dr. Duggan is responsible for visionary leadership, support, development, advocacy and growth across the 150 member organisations and the four million members FIP represents. She is responsible for developing and delivery the strategy, planning and working across global organisations such as WHO, UN, and other international professional groups.  In 2019, Dr. Duggan chaired the World Professions Health Alliance which represents 31 million health professionals across medicine, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy and pharmacy. She also signed the FIP MOU with WHO in May 2019 at the World Health Assembly meeting which consolidates the collaboration and secures how pharmacy contributes to Primary Health Care to deliver Universal Health Coverage. She was awarded an honorary Professorship from the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham. She has been awarded Fellowships of both the RPS and the UCL School of Pharmacy and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In November 2020, Catherine was awarded the APSTJ Nagai International Woman Scientist Award 2021, on behalf of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Japan.
April 16th, 2021
“Strong leaders are passionate about their organization’s mission and understand the critical role that their team members play in realizing that mission.” - Betsy Lane
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Betsy Lane on April 16th, as a guest leader in the Series.  

During the event, Betsy spoke about how her passion for marketing grew, where she hopes to make an impact, her thoughts on leadership, as well as the exciting initiatives she’s working on. She also provided advice to diverse professionals looking to build their skills, among many other topics. 
Betsy Lane is senior director and chief marketing and communications officer of ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research.
She has more than 30 years of leadership experience in healthcare. Betsy built ISPOR’s marketing and communications department and led the Society’s rebranding campaign and website redesign that was launched in 2018. Previously, Betsy was senior vice president of marketing and communications for Publicis Touchpoint Solutions (then a division of Publicis Healthcare). Prior to Touchpoint, Betsy worked for several medical communications agencies and led teams that launched a number of new specialty products in the oncology, radiology, endocrinology, dermatology, and CNS markets. She began her career as a pharmaceutical sales representative. Working for Johnson and Johnson’s Ortho/McNeil Pharmaceuticals, she advanced to divisional manager and product manager roles before moving into medical communications.
Resources mentioned during the event by Betsy include: ISPOR (www.ispor.org), Women in HEOR (www.ispor.org/WomenInHEOR) and Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (www.hbanet.org). 
April 23rd, 2021
"A leader serves others with a genuine goal of helping them to discover and achieve their full potential.  When the focus is building people, a successful organization will be the result."
- Dr. Samantha Bastow
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Dr. Samantha Bastow on April 23rd, as a guest leader in the Series.  

During the event, Dr. Bastow about her professional journey, thus far, including the successes and challenges. She discussed her vision to constantly think big and improve health outcomes across the globe. She also provided leadership advice, actionable strategies to build an effective team, and what tools we need to address current and future challenges. 
Dr. Samantha Bastow is Senior Manager, Medical Affairs at Becton Dickinson
Dr. Samantha Bastow received her BS in Biomedical Sciences from the University of South Florida and her PharmD from Palm Beach Atlantic University College of Pharmacy.  She completed two years of postgraduate training and specialized in Emergency Medicine Pharmacy at Boston Medical Center.  While serving as an Emergency Medicine Pharmaceutical Care Specialist at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, her interests in leadership and health administration grew.  The next step in her career was at the University of Chicago Medical Center where she started as the Clinical Pharmacy Manager for Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Surgery and later expanded her role to Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services which included oversight of all clinical pharmacy programs across the adult and pediatric hospitals.  In this role Samantha also served as Chair of the Drug Shortage Management Task Force, PGY2 Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director and focused on support of initiatives aimed to drive more value in the pharmaceutical care provided.  To continue her work on a more global scale, she took a position at a startup product with a goal of supporting health systems across the US to reduce cost of care, care variability and improve patient outcomes.  During that experience, Samantha also received her MBA from the University of Illinois with a focus in data analytics.  Her current position is Senior Manager, Medical Affairs at Becton Dickinson where she can combine her greatest professional passions – healthcare, business strategy and innovation.
April 30th, 2021
“Effective leaders have civility and humility without losing strength in conviction, passion and purpose.  Having those characteristics demonstrate that one truly cares about those they lead. Effective leaders listen well so they understand all sides and can explain their decisions with respect to those with a differing opinion. This is done based on logical thinking, and empathy and not with anger or emotion. With these leadership characteristics others will follow because they know their voice will be heard and they know even in disagreement the leaders care about how they think and feel.” - Dr. Mary Ann Kliethermes
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Dr. Mary Ann Kliethermes on April 30th as a guest leader in the Series. 

During the event, Dr. Kliethermes discussed the need to break silos within disciplines and strive to achieve specific items or metrics (rather than pursuing positions) when mapping out your own personal and professional aspirations. She also provided leadership advice, elaborated on her thought-process on various topics, and discussed what we could learn from medication safety.
Dr. Mary Ann Kliethermes is Director of Medication Safety and Quality at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
Dr. Kliethermes received a BS in pharmacy from the University of Michigan in 1977 her Doctor of Pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science in 1981. Her career includes clinical practice and management in hospital, home infusion, ambulatory practice and academia.  Her current position is Director of Medication Safety and Quality at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Her expertise is in pharmacist reimbursement, medication optimization, safety and quality attainment associated pharmacist services; particularly in new health care models and value-based payment systems.  She has served as Chair of the Section of Ambulatory Care for ASHP , represented ASHP at the Joint Commission Ambulatory Professional and Technical Advisory Group, the Care Transitions Work Group of the PCPI and the Ambulatory Patient Safety Technical Advisory Panel for ASPE/HHS. She is a member of the ASHP SAG on Clinical Practice Advancement.  Mary Ann has contributed to the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) since its inception. She has served as Chair, Executive Committee and Board member of PQA. She is past chair for the APhA PCMH/ACO SIG. Mary Ann has been awarded Pharmacist of the Year, Shining Star Award and the Amy Lodolce Mentorship Award from ICHP, the Distinguished Service Award and Distinguished Leadership in Health-System Pharmacy Practice from ASHP, CCP Outstanding Faculty Award and the Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence award from APhA.
May 21st, 2021
Mikelle Moore is the Senior Vice President and Chief Community Health Officer.
As Senior Vice President and Chief Community Health Officer, Mikelle leads Intermountain Healthcare’s community and population health efforts.  In this role, she engages Intermountain and community assets to address complex community health issues and to improve underlying social determinants of health. Mikelle joined Intermountain as the Administrative Fellow in 1998, later moving on to serve as Assistant Administrator and Operations Officer.  In 2004 she became the first female Administrator of LDS Hospital, the original flagship hospital in the healthcare system. Mikelle is active both nationally and locally in transforming healthcare and improving the health and well-being of communities.  She serves on the Steering Committee of National Alliance to impact Social Determinants of Health and the Population and Community Health Advisory Board for the American Hospital Association.  She is also active in many local community initiatives, serving as chair of the United Way of Salt Lake as well as a member of several other not-for-profit boards. Mikelle earned her master’s degrees in business administration and health services administration from Arizona State University, along with a bachelor’s degree in physiology from the University of Arizona.
May 28th, 2021
"The most effective leaders combine humility with purpose. Caring for each other and facilitiating a team's full potential involves leveraging every member's abilities and passion, so that the team can realize it's full capabilities. Thoughful leaders are able to harness this energy, while navigating teams toward a shared, common goal." - Dr. Joy Bhosai
Dr. Joy Bhosai is the CEO and Founder of Pluto Health.
Dr. Joy Bhosai is inspired by innovations that address gaps in access to high-quality care. As an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, she is the co-founder/CEO of Pluto Health, a company focused on improving patient access and addressing care gaps through a health platform that bridges siloed real world data (RWD).  She previously served as Chief of Digital Health and Strategy for the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Through previous public health work in Africa and Asia, she developed innovations focused on improving access to health services that were used for clinical trials, which then lead to her founding a health tech organization dedicated to developing patient safety and communication tools deployed across both academic and private health system settings.  She has also worked with Health 2.0, directing a program that paired large industry leaders with health tech startups. Joy is an alumni of Pomona College, where she studied anthropology and neuroscience,  and a previous Fulbright Scholar. She received a Masters of Public Health from Yale, focusing on global health management, an MD with distinction from UCSF, where she completed the global health pathways concentration, and completed the management and leadership residency program at Duke. 
June 4th, 2021
“Great leaders inspire those around them with confidence, vision, and the will to excel. They measure their success not by what they alone achieve, but by what they help others achieve.” - Susan Cantrell
Susan A. Cantrell is the Chief Executive Officer at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP).
Susan Cantrell joined AMCP as Chief Executive Officer in 2016. In this role, she leads the organization in fulfilling its mission to improve patient health by ensuring access to high-quality, cost-effective medications and other therapies. She works to advance AMCP’s policies to address rising health care costs and facilitates work to shift toward paying for value in health care. In 2019, she oversaw the award-winning AMCP rebranding effort. A former practicing pharmacist in hospital, home infusion, and specialty pharmacy, Susan has spent much of her career in the health care association industry, serving as vice president of resource development at the American Society of Health‐System Pharmacists (ASHP) and senior vice president and managing director, Americas, for the Drug Information Association (DIA) before joining AMCP. She is a graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and completed a Certificate in Public Health from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health. She frequently speaks on health policy issues and topics related to quality and value in health care and is currently chair of the USP Biologics Sector and a member of the board of directors of the Pharmacy Quality Alliance. Reflecting her passion for mentorship and support of student pharmacists and young practitioners, Susan is co-author of two books providing career advice for pharmacists: “Letters to A Young Pharmacist: Sage Advice on Life and Career from Extraordinary Pharmacists” (2014), and “Letters from Rising Pharmacy Stars: Advice on Creating and Advancing Your Career in a Changing Profession” (2017).
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2020 Guest Leaders
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DR. LUCINDA MAINE
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF PHARMACY
DR. SANDRA LEAL
SINFONÍARX, A TRHC SOLUTION & AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION
DR. ERIN FOX
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH
DR. CHARLENE HOPE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE
DR. FATIMA CODY STANFORD
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL &  HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
KATE KLEIN, MA, MPH
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
SHERLAENDER "LANI" PHILLIPS
MICROSOFT
DR. ASHTI DOOBAY-PERSAUD
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
NILHAN UZMAN, PHARM
INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL FEDERATION ​​​​
DR. TINA MOEN
IBM WATSON

Inaugural Event

October 16th, 2020 
“The pandemic has provided us, in pharmacy associations, an unprecedented opportunity to collaborate. In the pandemic, fourteen national associations have come together –  and we work together at least every week on how are we going to make sure that the pharmacy profession has been positioned effectively to take advantage of the opportunities that this pandemic has unfortunately or fortunately presented.”  
- Dr. Lucinda Maine
Dr. Lucinda Maine joined Dr. Rola Kaakeh for our inaugural Insights from Women Leaders event on October 16, 2020.  

To a global audience, Dr. Maine shared her professional journey and insights on a range of topics impacting pharmacy, healthcare, women, leadership, among many others. 
Dr. Lucinda L. Maine serves as executive vice president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Prior to assuming her current role in July 2002, Maine served as senior vice president for policy, planning and communications with the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). Maine has been active in leadership roles in and out of the profession. Prior to joining the APhA staff she served as speaker of the APhA House of Delegates and as an APhA trustee. 
She has been honored with several prestigious awards, including the University of Minnesota Outstanding Alumnus Award, the Linwood Tice Friend of APhA-ASP Award and the Gloria Niemeyer Francke Leadership Mentor Award from the American Pharmacists Association. In 2017 she was installed in the Alabama Pharmacy Hall of Fame. In March 2019, Lucinda received the Remington Honor Medal, the professions’ highest honor presented annually by APhA.

Previous Events

December 16th, 2020 
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Dr. Tina Moen on December 16th, as a guest leader in the Series.  

​During the event, Dr. Moen spoke about the power of introspection, what shaped her career, and what legacy she hopes to leave behind. She discussed the role of technology in the future and the significance of the human element delivered by providers in healthcare. She also highlighted the need for accurate and reliable information representative of our diverse population. Throughout the conversation, she provided recommendations for communicating with stakeholders and some lessons learned in leadership.
Dr. Tina Moen has spent the last 18 years in the healthcare information technology industry providing clinical leadership to colleagues and clients in the US and abroad.   Dr. Moen serves as Senior Deputy Chief Health Officer & Chief Pharmacy Officer within IBM.  In this role, Tina leads a team working across the business to provide clinical leadership and support for strategy and sales.  
She also leads a Strategic Relations team responsible for engaging healthcare and business leaders in IBM led advisory councils, networks, and panels with the goal of fostering robust discussion and ideation for technology’s role and opportunity to advance health and healthcare around the globe.  Prior to IBM, she was VP of Client Strategy for Health Language, part of Wolters Kluwer Health.  Previously, Tina worked at Truven Health Analytics in a variety of roles.  She served as the VP of Provider Analytics, leading a team of data scientists and researchers responsible for creating/maintaining data and methodologies.   Prior to moving into the healthcare information technology industry, she worked as a clinical pharmacist in the specialty areas of pediatrics, home healthcare, HIV, and organ transplantation.  ​
December 15th, 2020 
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Nilhan Uzman on December 15th, as a guest leader in the Insights from Women Leaders Series.  

During the event, Nilhan spoke on the importance of a growth mindset, the strategies that got her to where she is today, and what skills we need moving forward. She discussed the current work of FIP-WiSE, a group and campaign focused on the empowerment of women both within and beyond the workforce. She provided valuable insights on servant leadership, having a colorful mindset, and how to create an environment for success through building each other up and connecting individuals globally. 
Nilhan Uzman is the Global Lead for Education Policy and Implementation at the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). She is a pharmacist trained in Turkey.
Her primary focus is developing and delivering FIP’s strategy towards advancing pharmaceutical education globally, regionally and at country level by working closely with academics, educators, pharmacy schools, professional associations, health and education partners as well as young professionals and pharmacy students. Nilhan has established FIP’s-Women in Science and Education – FIP WiSE initiative to empower women in these fields to achieve their full potential. She is leading the FIP UNESCO-UNITWIN Programme, which aims at improving academic capacity, implementing needs-based education strategies and establishing enabling advocacy environments through educational partnerships to advance education and the profession with focus on LMICs. She is leading FIP’s Digital health in pharmacy education workstream.
December 9th, 2020 
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Ashti Doobay-Persaud (MD) on December 9th, as a guest leader in the Insights from Women Leaders Series.  

​During the event, Dr. Doobay-Persaud spoke on how focusing on the present helped her craft the spaces and environments necessary to pursue global health and lead her to where she is today. She discussed a new initiative her and her team are working on, how she defines a leader, and gave advice to how to take action to assist the communities you serve. 
Dr. Ashti Doobay-Persaud is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Medical Education and the Co-Director of the Center for Global Health Education at the Institute for Global Health in Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. 
She is the founder and director of the McGaw Global Health Clinical Scholars Program for graduate medical trainees, faculty director for the online Master of Science in Global Health through the School of Professional Studies, the global health elective director and is one of the leaders in the health and society curriculum for the medical school . She earned her BA/MD at Tufts University School of Medicine and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital and is an active member in the Consortium of Universities for Global Health where she has held leadership positions in education subcommittees. Throughout her work Dr. Doobay-Persaud has become an expert and leader in global health pedagogy, particularly ethical practice, and competency-based curriculum development and is dedicated to teaching social medicine.
December 9th, 2020 
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Sherlaender "Lani" Phillips on December 9th, as a guest leader in the Insights from Women Leaders Series.  

​During the event, Lani spoke on the power of communication, focusing on your people, having courage, and creating your environments for success. She shared a personal story that shaped her path towards a legacy of influence. She provided insights on the essential skills and tools needed to be an authentic and compassionate leader. 
Lani Phillips brings over 20 years’ experience in the technology industry as a technology executive. Lani currently serves as Vice President of Channel Sales at Microsoft Corporation. Her team supports our customers’ digital transformation efforts by accelerating co-selling partnerships with the Microsoft partner ecosystem representing a $40B business. 
Previously, Lani has held numerous senior leadership roles across Microsoft, including Chief Transformation Officer for Microsoft’s Enterprise Partner Group, where she led the largest global sales transformation in Microsoft’s history. Prior to that Lani led the Enterprise Partner Group in the Midwest Region delivering on both revenue and scorecard goals across our top enterprise customers. Lani was recognized as one of the Top 10 Most Influential Women in Cloud in Insights Success Magazine. She also was awarded the 2020 Executive Impact Award from Linkage and the CRN 2020 Women in Channel “Leading Fearlessly in a Time of Crisis” featuring the top women in the channel. Complementing her work in the technology industry, Lani founded the Women Executive Channel Advisory Board (WECAB) comprised of all female executives. They are focused on creating more opportunities for women in the tech industry. She also serves on the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Board. Lani has a passion for educating inspiring and transforming leaders. In her spare time, she enjoys sharing her leadership journey with others, blogging, and is currently writing her first leadership book to be released in 2021.

December 3rd, 2020 
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Kate Klein (MA, MPH) on December 3rd, as a guest leader in the Insights from Women Leaders Series.  

​During the event, Kate spoke to the importance of understanding the context in every situation, prioritizing sustainable solutions, the power of building strong teams, and the significance of being generous with your time and ideas to create a successful career. She shared several exciting new initiatives she's working on and what she believes we've  learned from the current pandemic. 
Kate Klein, MA, MPH, serves as the senior associate director at the Institute for Global Health. She is responsible for the effective operations of the institute's research and administrative activities as well as the development, oversight and management of international education in clinical medicine and research opportunities for Feinberg School of Medicine students. 
She oversees the integration of all international educational programs for Feinberg and is responsible for developing and maintaining the school’s global educational partnerships. Prior to joining the Institute, she worked on the Zika virus response at the American Academy of Pediatrics. She also worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Vietnam country office and at headquarters in Atlanta on the Global Health Security Agenda. She also served as the associate director for the Program of African Studies at Northwestern. She holds a master's of public health from Northwestern University and a master's degree in anthropology from American University.
November 23rd, 2020 
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Dr. Fatima Stanford (MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FTOS) on November 23rd, as a guest leader in the Insights from Women Leaders Series.  

​During the event, Dr. Stanford highlighted the enormous challenge of our times, including racial inequities and obesity, among many others. She discussed her thoughts on being a trailblazer, what  narratives she would like to contribute to, the significance of emotional intelligence, and the need to recognize that you cannot do everything alone. 
Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford practices and teaches at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/ Harvard Medical School (HMS) as one of the first fellowship-trained obesity medicine physician in the world. Dr. Stanford received her BS and MPH from Emory University as a MLK Scholar, her MD from the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine as a Stoney Scholar, and her MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Zuckerman Fellow in the Harvard Center for Public Leadership.
She completed her Obesity Medicine & Nutrition Fellowship at MGH/HMS after completing her internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of South Carolina. She has served as a health communications fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as a behavioral sciences intern at the American Cancer Society. Upon completion of her MPH, she received the Gold Congressional Award, the highest honor that Congress bestows upon America’s youth. Dr. Stanford has completed a medicine and media internship at the Discovery Channel. An American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Leadership Award recipient in 2005, an AMA Paul Ambrose Award for national leadership among resident physicians in 2009, she was selected for the AMA Inspirational Physician Award in 2015. The American College of Physicians (ACP) selected her as the 2013 recipient of the Joseph E. Johnson Leadership Award and the Massachusetts ACP selected her for the Young Leadership Award in 2015. She is the 2017 recipient of the HMS Amos Diversity Award and Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) Award for Women’s Health. In 2019, she was selected as the Suffolk District Community Clinician of the Year and for the Reducing Health Disparities Award for MMS. She was selected for The Obesity Society Clinician of the Year in 2020. 
November 11th, 2020 
“Don’t allow perfection to prevent you from taking advantage of a role. You will figure it out. Be yourself, take courage, and shoot for the stars.”
​– Dr. Charlene Hope
Dr. Charlene Hope joined Dr. Rola Kaakeh for another inaugural Insights from Women Leaders event on November 11th, 2020.  

To a global audience and diverse, Dr. Hope shared her professional journey and insights on a range of topics impacting quality and safety in healthcare, the importance of developing current and future skills, the power of networking, the need to focus on communication, and building her legacy through her professional contributions and small acts of kindness - among numerous others. 
Dr. Charlene Hope is the Chief Pharmacy Quality and Medication Safety Officer at the University of Chicago Medicine.  She is a graduate of Midwestern University - Chicago College of Pharmacy. Dr. Hope is formally trained in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety achieving a Master’s degree from Northwestern University and is a Certified Professional in Patient Safety. Over the course of her career she has focused on developing effective implementation strategies of patient safety and quality improvement initiatives.  
She led a system-wide initiative focused on the implementation of anticoagulation national patient safety goals within hospitals across the United States.  Dr. Hope has worked with interprofessional teams to successfully implement safety strategies to reduce hospital-wide hypoglycemia rates and employed quality improvement methodologies to improve immunization rates. She is a frequent lecturer at the state and national level on medication safety and pharmacy quality topics.  Her current professional pursuits include team dynamics contribution to safety culture, human factors, and re-designing healthcare delivery to error-proof complex systems.
November 6th, 2020 
“Good leaders still want to inspire teamwork, want to get out of the way of their teams, and need to be flexible. Those qualities are important in any sector. I think in healthcare though, layered on top of your role as a leader, you still need to be very clinically savy. You have an extra layer of things you need to be competent in. Healthcare is different in that in many cases you’re layering your role as a healthcare professional on top of being a leader.” – Dr. Erin Fox
Salus Vitae Group spoke with Dr. Erin Fox (PharmD, BCPS, FASHP) on November 6th, as a guest leader in the Insights from Women Leaders Series.  

​During the event, Dr. Fox highlights the need to focus on your teams, decision-making, advocacy, leadership, growth through getting out of your comfort zone, the power of saying yes, what makes great leaders, accomplishing our goals to make things better for patients, and of course, her commitment to eliminating drug shortages. 
“The one thing we can all do for each other is support. Make sure that if you’re part of a search committee and there are amazing women out there, make sure those women names get added to the list.” – Dr. Erin Fox
Dr. Erin Fox is senior pharmacy director of Drug Information and Support Services at the University of Utah Health Care and Associate Professor (Adjunct), at the Department of Pharmacotherapy, University of Utah College of Pharmacy. She is active in both state and national pharmacy and health-related societies serving in a variety of volunteer and elected positions. The University of Utah Drug Information Service provides content for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Drug Shortage Resource Center with some support from Vizient. 
She serves as a media resource and advocate for changes to improve the ongoing drug shortage situation and rising drug costs. In December 2015, Dr. Fox testified for the Senate Aging Committee regarding the impact of sudden price increases on health systems. She is recognized as an expert in drug shortages and has received the ISMP Cheers Award and ASHP Award of Excellence in recognition for her work on drug shortages. She has also received the ASHP Award of Excellence for raising awareness about the problem of increasing drug prices and was recently honored with the William A. Zellmer lecture award for her advocacy efforts.   
October 23rd, 2020 
“When you’re in a boardroom and you’re the only woman speaking for a whole bunch of women that don’t get to sit there because they haven’t had the opportunity – when you look at every aspect of our lives there are things that you will bring to the table that you can represent that are not being represented.” ​– Dr. Sandra Leal
Dr. Sandra Leal joined Salus Vitae Group for the second Insights from Women Leaders event on October 23rd. 

During the event, Dr. Leal highlights her current initiatives, including a medication risk stratification score, value-based care, and creating a diabetes prevention program available digitally, among many others. Other topics discussed included social determinants of health, the role of pharmacists, the power of critical thinking and being intentional of critiquing information, telehealth, accessible points of care, underserved communities, social justice, using our voice, being mission-driven, finding and being a mentor, advocacy, leadership, and so many more.   
“I don’t want to be a best practice. I want to be a standard of care. That is what drives me – to make sure that every patient has the opportunity to always have that pharmacist proactively managing their care.”  
–​ Dr. Sandra Leal
Dr. Sandra Leal is the Executive Vice President for SinfoníaRx, A TRHC Solution. Dr. Leal is responsible for oversight and expansion of progressive pharmacists’ services that focus on outcomes, access, and quality. Her work has been published in Diabetes Care, Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease, American Journal of Health- System Pharmacy, Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, Annals of Internal Medicines and a discussion paper published by the Institute of Medicine entitled, “Patients and Health Care Teams Forging Effective Partnerships”. 
Her programs are a two-time recipient of the American Pharmacists Associations (APhA) Foundation Pinnacle Award, ASHP Best Practice Award in Health-System Pharmacy and the National Association of Community Health Centers Innovative Research in Primary Care Award. Dr. Leal was recognized as APhA’s Good Government Pharmacist-of-the-Year for her advocacy work on pharmacist provider status and was installed as President-Elect for the American Pharmacists Association for the 2020-2022 term.
Host
Dr. Rola Kaakeh the CEO of Salus Vitae Group. She is a fellowship-trained, licensed pharmacist with over thirteen years of experience in various settings (pharmacy practice, managed care, health systems, administration, public health and higher education). She teaches at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and is also affiliate faculty at the Northwestern University Institute for Global Health and Institute for Public Health and Medicine. She advises organizations globally on health system development, and has engaged with various institutions within the public and private sectors, non-governmental agencies such as the United Nations, universities, startups, and professional associations.  
Her work highlighting the burden of drug shortages in the US has been cited over 200 times and used as supporting data for national policies and regulations.  She has presented on numerous global, impactful stages to address the most pressing issues of our time – including her recent TEDx on “The Struggle to Access to Medications.” She has received a number of awards and is actively engaged with the community and the profession on a local, national and international level in several capacities to numerous professional and nonprofit organizations. Dr. Kaakeh started university at the age of 10 as a gifted child, holds a Doctorate in Pharmacy with a minor in Organizational Leadership from Purdue University, and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Health Services Research from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, College of Pharmacy, and the School of Medicine. In addition, she holds several healthcare licenses and certifications.
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