Spring Networking Event in Boston!
Please join your colleagues and friends for this exciting networking event! This is the first WHCM event being held in the heart of the Boston Longwood Medical area. It’s a valuable opportunity to meet new colleagues and connect with one anther. Come to hear about WHCM’s upcoming professioinal programs and events.
We anticipate new WHCM attendees from the Boston area given this venue. Appetizers will be included and a cash bar is available.
Parking is validated after 5PM for $8.00. We recommend that you register in advance. The cost for non-members is $10, but if they are accompanied by a member, the fee is waived. We look forward to seeing you there!
Spring Forum 2012: Social Media in Health Care; Three Perspectives
Social Media is changing the way we communicate—and not just teenagers on Twitter.
Join your colleagues to hear three leaders in health care discuss how their organizations are using Social Media to revolutionize health delivery and communication. Hear from a large medical group, a medical center, and a health plan about their use of social media, its benefits and pitfalls, and how the well-rounded executive of the future will need to have at least a working understanding of this emerging form of communication, marketing, and healthcare delivery.
Moderator:
Wendy Weitzner, Vice President with Innova Group
Panelists:
Donna Tolley, Director of Marketing at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Rhonda Mann, Chief Marketing Officer at BIDMC
Kathleen Damaso-Azzarone, Web Content Manager, Corporate Communications, Fallon Community Health Plan
Mary Pietrowski, Sr. Director of Digital Strategy & Marketing for Hologic, Inc.
A light dinner will be served starting at 5:30pm, event will be held from 6-8PM.
Winter 2012 Networking Event
Join us for the first networking event of 2012. Warm up your toes, meet new colleagues and re-acquaint with old ones. Hearty appetizers and cash bar will be available. We look forward to seeing you there!
Because there is a limited capacity for this event, we recommend advanced registration.
Fall Forum: A Conversation with Kate Walsh
A Conversation with Kate Walsh: President and CEO, Boston Medical Center
Please join your colleagues and friends for this unique Forum led by Nancy O’Hare, WHCM Board member and Health Care Strategist for Winchester Hospital. She will interview using a fireside chat style to encourage a relaxed, informal, interactive discussion with Kate Walsh. Attendees will have an opportunity to hear about Kate’s career path, environmental influences that supported her decisions, and how she manages the challenges of the changing health care arena. Her extensive background prior to her current position at BMC includes serving as Executive VP and COO at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and COO for Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.
About Kate Walsh:
Kate Walsh became the president and CEO of Boston Medical Center (BMC) on March 1, 2010.
BMC is a private, not-for-profit, 508-bed, academic medical center with a community-based focus. The primary teaching affiliate of Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center has approximately 5,000 employees, 1,300 physicians and an annual operating budget of roughly $1 billion. BMC is a founder of Boston HealthNet, a network affiliation of the Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine and 15 community health centers. Boston HealthNet, is an integrated health care delivery system whose partners provide outreach, prevention, primary care, specialty care and dental services at sites located throughout Boston’s neighborhoods and Quincy.
In addition to the Medical Center and its affiliated health community health centers, BMC owns and operates the BMC HealthNet Plan, a statewide Medicaid Managed Care Organization with more than 250,000 members across the Commonwealth.
Prior to her appointment at Boston Medical Center, Ms. Walsh served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Brigham and Women’s Hospital for five years. During her tenure, Brigham and Women’s Hospital moved its patient satisfaction scores to the 95th percentile of benchmark institutions nationally, produced strong operating results based on consistent ambulatory and inpatient growth and set a new standard in patient-focused multidisciplinary care with the opening of the Carl J and Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular Center.
She served previously as the chief operating officer for Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.
Ms. Walsh began her career in health care as a summer intern at Brookside Health Center in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. Upon finishing graduate school, she worked as a shift supervisor in the emergency department at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center in the Bronx. From there Ms. Walsh moved to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Saint Luke’s – Roosevelt Hospital Center and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. She relocated to Boston and joined Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as an assistant general director in medical services and was promoted to vice president of medical services and primary care and then to senior vice president of medical services and the MGH Cancer Center.
Ms. Walsh received her bachelor’s of arts degree and a master’s degree in public health from Yale University. She also is a member of the Board of Visitors for Northeastern University’s School of Business and is on the Board of Trustees at Emmanuel College.
Ms. Walsh, a native of Brookline, is married and has two children.
Fall Networking Social
Please join your friends and colleagues of WHCM for our Fall Networking Event. Appetizers are included with a cash bar available. We look forward to seeing you there!
Welcome Summer Networking Event
Welcome Summer Networking Event
Please join your friends and colleagues of WHCM for our Welcome Summer Networking Event. Be part of this exciting “WHCM Women Connect” event by joining old friends and new at Joe’s Bar & Grill in Dedham. Appetizers are included with a cash bar available. We look forward to seeing you there!
Building Flexibility and Foresight in a Challenging Job market
Please join us for the Women in Health Care Management Spring Leadership Forum to hear four distinguished leaders in health care share their strategies and professional experience as they navigated their career paths through challenging times. As they share their “stories”, you will not only hear about how they advanced their careers, but also the techniques they used to manage the stress of change and how they created their individual brand.
Register now for the event.
Moderator
Wendy Weitzner, Chair of WHCM Nominating Committee is VP with Innova Group in Boston, a healthcare planning consultancy.
Panelists
Amy McNulty, President if MacNulty Consulting, L.L.C., a healthcare consulting firm that provides strategy and planning services to healthcare organizations. She is currently Project Director for Community Links.
Linda Battaglini, Healthcare Strategist working with Emerson Hospital and other organizations to develop the structures and policies to enhance Professional Board leadership.
Afsana Akhter, Chair of WHCM Technology Committee, is the Vice President of Business Development at Medullan,Inc, a rapid-growth technology services firm for the Healthcare Industry.
Jennifer Groves,WHCM Board Member, is the Process Improvement Specialist with Umass Memorial Healthcare in their Center for Innovation and Transformational Change
Dinner and Networking will begin at 5:30pm.
Welcome Spring Networking Event – March 21, 2011
Please join your friends and colleagues of WHCM for our Welcome Spring
Networking Event. Be part of the exciting “WHCM Women Connect” and hear
about upcoming events on Networking as well as the Spring Forum
scheduled for May 5th. Appetizers are included with a cash bar
available. We look forward to seeing you there! Click here
to register online and reserve your seat.
WHCM Fall Networking Event
Start off your fall with a fun WHCM networking event! Re-acquaint with old friends and make new ones. Appetizers and cash bar. If you join WHCM or renew your membership that evening, there is no charge for the event.
Fall Forum: New Rules, New Opportunities
New Rules, New Opportunities: How Health Care Reform will Change the Professional Landscape
WHCM presents five dynamic health care leaders leading a panel discussion on how health care reform is bringing new opportunities to the health care profession.
Moderators Emily Brower, Senior Director for Harvard Vanguard and Amy MacNulty of MacNulty Consulting will lead this powerful, thought provoking discussion on how different health care organizations are embracing the changes brought in by health care reform.
Panelists include:
Cara Babachicos; VP/CIO, Partners Continuing Care, Partners Healthcare
Margaret (Marge) Houy, JD, MBA; Senior Consultant, Bailit Health Purchasing, LLC
Ann Marie O’Connell; VP of Human Resources, Visiting Nurse Association of Boston
A light networking dinner will be available beginning at 5:30 PM
Networking 5:30PM – 6:PM
Business Meeting 6:00PM – 6:30PM
Panel Discussion 6:30PM – 8:00PM