Leadership
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Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Christopher E. Laxton, Chair
Executive Director
AMDA – Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine™
www.amda.com
Jay Sackman, Past Chair
Representative
The New Jewish Home
www.jewishhome.org
CC Andrews, Vice Chair
President
Quantum Age Collaborative
www.quantum-age.com
Theresa Schmidt, Secretary
Director
Discern Health
www.discernhealth.com
Dheeraj Mahajan, Treasurer
MD, FACP, CMD, CIC, CHCQM
Individual Member
Members at Large
Barbara Bowers
Helen Denne Schulte Professor/ Associate Dean for Research, University of Wisconsin Madison
AANNET – American Academy of Nursing
www.aannet.org
David Gifford, MD
Senior Vice President, Quality & Regulatory Affairs
AHCA - American Health Care Association
www.ahcancal.org
Steve Fromm
Immediate Past Chair
ACHCA – American College of Health Care Administrators
www.achca.org
Janine Boyle Finck
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
LeadingAge
leadingage.org
Penny Cooke
Executive Director
Pioneer Network
pioneernetwork.net
Randy Lindner
President and CEO
Foundation of the National Association of LTC Administrator Boards
www.nabweb.org
Legacy of Leaders
In addition to its diverse membership, Advancing Excellence has a legacy of active and engaged leadership. Board chairs have included:
2006 – 2009
Larry Minnix, former President & CEO, LeadingAge
2009 – 2012
Mary Jane Koren, MD, MPH, former Vice President of Delivery System Reform, The Commonwealth Fund
2012 – 2014
David Gifford, Senior Vice President, Quality & Regulatory Affairs, American Health Care Association
Cheryl Phillips, Senior Vice President, Public Policy & Advocacy, LeadingAge
2014 – 2016
Beverley Laubert, Ohio State LTC Ombudsman; past-president, National Association of State LTC Ombudsman Programs
2016 – present
Jay Sackman, Representative, The New Jewish Home