Leadership Action Board

Leadership Action Board

Advancing value-based care through candid conversations
Advancing value-based care through candid conversations

The Wellvana Leadership Action Board (LAB) is not your standard advisory group. Yes, it’s a place for partners to advise. And a place for Wellvana leadership to listen. But unlike advisory boards, it wasn’t established so its members could poke around the edges of the most important challenges facing our ACO community. It was founded because we wanted to solve them.

The Wellvana Leadership Action Board (LAB) is not your standard advisory group. Yes, it’s a place for partners to advise. And a place for Wellvana leadership to listen. But unlike advisory boards, it wasn’t established so its members could poke around the edges of the most important challenges facing our ACO community. It was founded because we wanted to solve them.

Membership

Membership

Comprised of a diverse group of clinical and operational leaders across Wellvana’s network, this partner-led group meet regularly to talk candidly about what’s working within Wellvana at-large, what’s not, what Wellvana can do to help accelerate the move from problem to strategy to execution, and to align on organizational business priorities. In short, it’s a group of doers, not just talkers.

Comprised of a diverse group of clinical and operational leaders across Wellvana’s network, this partner-led group meet regularly to talk candidly about what’s working within Wellvana at-large, what’s not, what Wellvana can do to help accelerate the move from problem to strategy to execution, and to align on organizational business priorities. In short, it’s a group of doers, not just talkers.

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“I feel like we’re sharing the dirty details of how we do this work. That itself could be something that Wellvana very intentionally does — build that playbook. Let’s get dirty. Let’s share all of how we are doing what we are doing.”
“I feel like we’re sharing the dirty details of how we do this work. That itself could be something that Wellvana very intentionally does — build that playbook. Let’s get dirty. Let’s share all of how we are doing what we are doing.”

Joanna Loomis North Country Initiative, New York

Joanna Loomis North Country Initiative, New York

Current Members

Current Members

Current Members

Current Members

Paul Aslin
Paul Aslin

Executive Director
TORCH Clinically Integrated Network
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David Basel, MD
David Basel, MD

VP, Avera Medical Group Clinical Quality
Avera Health
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Jodi Biller
Jodi Biller

Director of Clinical Improvement, MHC ACO
Marshall Health Network
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Tiffany Clark
Tiffany Clark

Director of Patient Integration
Owensboro Health 
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Robert Cunningham
Robert Cunningham

Chief Operating Officer
Olmsted Medical Center
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Vallery Mae Geulen
Vallery Mae Geulen

Director, ACO Clinical Operations
Holy Name Medical Center
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T. Avery Gibbs, MD
T. Avery Gibbs, MD

Medical Director, Population Health
& Primary Care Quality
Valley Health
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Jennifer Jackson
Jennifer Jackson

SVP & Chief Population Health Officer
AdventHealth
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Billie Kester
Billie Kester

VP, Ambulatory Care & Service Lines
Reid Health
LinkedIn

Nadim Khatib, MD
Nadim Khatib, MD

Board Certified Family Physician
Khatib Family Practice
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Kate Klefstad
Kate Klefstad

Director of Population Health & ACO Operations
UI Healthcare
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Joanna Loomis
Joanna Loomis

Deputy Director
North Country Initiative
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"Healthcare is a relationship business. The question is how do we create the time and space for those relationships to flourish. To me, that’s the holy grail.”
"Healthcare is a relationship business. The question is how do we create the time and space for those relationships to flourish. To me, that’s the holy grail.”

Amy Scanlan, MD Trinsic, Clinically Integrated Network

Amy Scanlan, MD Trinsic, Clinically Integrated Network

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Current Members

Current Members

Current Members

Current Members

Erik Mikaitis, MD
Erik Mikaitis, MD

Chief Executive Officer
Cook County Health
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Christine Papineau
Christine Papineau

VP, Value-Based Care & Employee Health Plan Monument Health
LinkedIn

Susan Pleasants, MD
Susan Pleasants, MD

SVP, Optimal Care
Fairview Health Services
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Khadija Poitras-Rhea
Khadija Poitras-Rhea

AVP of Population Health
UConn Health
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Amy Scanlan, MD
Amy Scanlan, MD

Chief Medical Officer
Trinsic, Clinically Integrated Network
LinkedIn

Rachelle Schultz
Rachelle Schultz

President/Chief Executive Officer
Winona Health
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Eloy Sena
Eloy Sena

AVP, Value-Based Contracts & Operations
Ardent Health Services
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Traci Thibodeaux
Traci Thibodeaux

Chief Executive Officer
Beauregard Health System
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Dave Thompson
Dave Thompson

Chief Growth Officer & President of Population Health
Mercy
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April Venable
April Venable

SVP, Operations Strategy & Transformation
Inspira Health
LinkedIn

Dana Weaver
Dana Weaver

Director
Henry County Memorial Hospital
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Interested in joining LAB?

Interested in joining LAB?

Membership in LAB is determined by nomination. More details on the nomination process will be revealed in May 2026 at the Accountable Care Symposium.
Membership in LAB is determined by nomination. More details on the nomination process will be revealed in May 2026 at the Accountable Care Symposium.

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