Get to know a few of our experts
Contact Public Relations Manager Abby Mayo at [email protected] or 617-272-0592.
Rola Aamar, PhD
is a partner for behavioral health solutions. Her expertise is in:
- Maternal health and mortality
- Emergency Department
- Behavioral health
- Healthcare operations
- Patient safety and high reliability
- Clinical operation and strategy
- Virtual reality technology
Vince Baiera, BSN
is a nurse and healthcare executive focused on post-acute care. His expertise is in:
- Skilled nursing education
- ICU and skilled nursing facility nursing
- Nursing innovation
- Staffing and retention
- Supply chain
- Clinical outcomes
- Healthcare operations
Johnny Bethea, BSPharm, RPh
is a pharmacist and clinical services executive. His expertise is in:
- Medication therapy management
- Clinical quality measure and health outcomes
Cheri DiStefano, BSN, RN
is a nurse and client success leader. Her expertise is in:
- Neonatal nursing
- Mother and baby nursing
- Maternal safety
Nellie Galindo, MSW, MSPH
is a product marketing manager. Her expertise is in:
- Social work
- Public health
- Disability advocacy
- Sexual health education
- Violence and abuse prevention
- Equitable healthcare services
John Harrington, CMI
is vice president of our clinical solutions team. His training is in medicine and visual arts, and he is one of fewer than 400 individuals who holds a board certification in biomedical communications. His expertise is in
- Patient safety and quality
- Risk management
- Litigation support and demonstrative evidence
- TeamSTEPPS training
- Maternal health and obstetrics
- Acute care
- Provider and nursing shortage
- Staff satisfaction and retention
- Virtual reality
- Orthopedics
- Neurology
Vicki Ittel, PhD, MBA
is a licensed psychologist by training, healthcare executive, and entrepreneur. Her expertise is in:
- Behavioral health
- Opioid use disorder
- Program/business development
- Public health administration
- Health plan management
- Population health
Cara Lunsford, RN
is a nurse and vice president of community at Nurse.com by Relias. Her expertise is in:
- Healthcare innovation
- Nursing retention
- Nurse support
- Pediatric oncology
- Home health
- Hospice
Ron Orth, BA, RN
is a nurse certified in healthcare compliance and director of curriculum design for post-acute care. His expertise is in:
- Medicare regulations
- Prospective Payment System (PPS)
- Minimum Data Set (MDS) process for Medicare/Medicaid
- Long-term care
- ICD-10
Felicia Sadler, MJ, BSN, RN, CPHQ, LSSBB
is a nurse and clinical effectiveness consultant. Her expertise is in:
- Operational excellence/Baldridge framework
- Nurse residency and onboarding programs
- Professional and career growth strategies
- Transformational and authentic nurse leadership
- Nurse satisfaction and resilience
- Nurse recruitment and retention
- Organization-wide training and program development
- Continuous quality improvement
- Quality data and analytics
- Lean methodologies and principles
- Regulatory and accreditation
- CMS value-based purchasing models
Lora Sparkman, MHA, BSN, RN
is a nurse and clinical effectiveness consultant. Her expertise is in:
- Maternal health and mortality
- Emergency department
- Behavioral health
- Healthcare operations
- Patient safety and high reliability
- Clinical operations and strategy
- Virtual reality
Leigh Steiner, PhD
is partner of behavioral health solutions. Her expertise is in:
- Organizational development
- Culture of learning
- Executive coaching
- Public mental health
- Speech communications
Elise Valdes, PhD
is director of research. Her expertise is in:
- Aging studies
- Neuroscience
- Research methodology
- Alzheimer’s and mild cognitive impairment
- Cognitive training