The 25th Annual Kovner-Behrman Health Forum

Shockwaves from "The Great Resignation” of 2021 have been felt across the public service landscape. Employees, having discovered a new attitude to work or feeling burnout, are leaving their jobs,  accelerating their retirement plans, or are actively seeking permanent telework options. Healthcare, already facing a predicted labor shortage, has been acutely impacted by these shifts and staffing departures.

NYU Wagner’s 25th Annual Kovner-Behrman Health Forum will address “The Great Resignation’s” impact on healthcare. What are nuances unique to this sector? What are potential solutions for healthcare leaders to address the persistent labor issues?  What is to come as the industry continues to battle an ongoing pandemic? 

On Thursday, March 24, join the conversation with Gail R. Wilensky  along with Anu Ashok (MPA 2004) and  Jane Maksoud (MPA 1997). This critical discussion will be moderated by Carla Jackie Sampson, Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Health Policy and Management Program and Online Master of Health Administration Program at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. 

SPEAKERS

Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D

Gail R. Wilensky is a senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health foundation and a nonresident fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center. She also co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center’s initiative on the future of healthcare. She directed the Medicare and Medicaid programs, served in the White House as a senior adviser on health and welfare issues to President GHW Bush and was the first chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Her expertise focuses on strategies to reform health care, Medicare, comparative effectiveness research and military healthcare.

Dr. Wilensky currently serves as a trustee of the Combined Benefits Fund of the United Mine Workers of America and the National Opinion Research Center, and is on the board of directors of the Geisinger Health System Foundation, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health and Project HOPE. She is also on the Council of Directors of the Henry Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine. She is a director of Unitedhealth HealthGroup, Quest Diagnostics and ViewRay and is a former chair of the board of directors of Academy Health and numerous other not for profit organizations. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and served two terms on its governing council. She has testified many times before congressional committees and has been an adviser to members of Congress and other elected officials. She received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a Ph.D in economics at the University of Michigan as well as several honorary degrees including the 2019 Adam Yarmolinsky medal by the National Academy of Medicine.

Anu Ashok (MPA 2004)

Anu Ashok is the associate vice president for Graduate Medical Education and Physician Workforce Policy at the Greater New York Hospital Association. In this role, Ms. Ashok oversees various Graduate Medical Education (GME) and physician workforce programmatic initiatives, works with residency programs at over 160 member hospitals and health systems on accreditation and regulatory requirements, advocates for the development of policy recommendations at both the state and federal level, and assists in the development of public materials that further the GME and workforce mission of GNYHA teaching hospitals.

Prior to joining GNYHA in 2010, Ms. Ashok was the assistant vice president for professional affairs at NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn (formerly Lutheran Medical Center). In that role she had oversight of the hospital’s GME programs, medical school clerkship program, continuing medical education program and medical staff credentialing office. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Rutgers University and a Master of Public Administration specializing in Health Care Management from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Jane Maksoud (MPA 1997)

Jane Maksoud is the Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for the Mount Sinai Health System (New York City). Jane oversees a broad array of human resources functions, including faculty and employee relations, talent acquisition, talent learning and development, compensation and benefits, executive and physician compensation, workforce analytics,  international personnel, recreation, and wellness. Jane is passionate about continuously innovating talent strategies to attract, onboard, develop, and retain top clinical and administrative talent in a highly competitive labor market. Leveraging cutting-edge data analytics and other evaluative tools, Ms. Maksoud is reinventing the process and criterion by which top talent earns the privilege to wear the Mount Sinai badge. She has recently chartered a cross-functional improvement committee to conceive of new care delivery models to address the current talent shortage over the short and long terms.

Jane has held several clinical and administrative positions in her almost 40-year tenure at Mount Sinai.  Prior to Ms. Maksoud’s career in human resources, she was the Maternal Child Health Bureau’s Region II Coordinator for the 16 Hemophilia Treatment Centers in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as well as a nurse clinician in ambulatory care and the cardiothoracic ICU. She recently received the Healthcare HR Innovation Award from HRO Today.

Ms. Maksoud received her MPA in Health Care Administration from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a B.S.N. in nursing from the College of Mount St. Vincent.

MODERATOR

Carla Jackie Sampson

Carla Jackie Sampson, PhD, MBA, FACHE, is a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Health Policy and Management Program and online Master of Health Administration Program at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Dr. Sampson is board certified in healthcare management and is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.