The Series highlights the journeys and contributions of various women leaders in healthcare, who share their insights on a range of topics impacting healthcare, our communities, and their role in shaping the future.
2021 Upcoming Leaders
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First 2021 Guest Leader: Aashima Gupta
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2020 Guest Leaders
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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
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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. |
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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.
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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
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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. |
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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.
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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
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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. |
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Nilhan Uzman is the Global Lead for Education Policy and Implementation at the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). She is a pharmacist trained in Turkey.
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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
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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. |
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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.
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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
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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. |
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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.
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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
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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. |
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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.
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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
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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. |
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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.
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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
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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. |
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. |
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“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
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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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