Richard Foster ’63, ’66 PhD, Special Advisor to President Salovey for Health Care Innovation, will lead a panel discussion on where New Haven might be headed in 2024 in terms of primary care delivery, analyzing big data, and will private practices still exist.
Panelists are:
- Marna P. Borgstrom, MPH '79, Chief Executive Officer of Yale-New Haven Hospital and President and CEO of the Yale New Haven Health System
- Paul D. Cleary, PhD, Dean of the Yale School of Public Health and the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health
- Margaret Grey, DrPH, RN, FAAN, Dean of the Yale School of Nursing, and Annie Goodrich Professor
This panel will occur at 10:15 am in Harkness Auditorium, and follows Dr. Foster's 9 am presentation on "Current Issues Facing Healthcare in Connecticut and Beyond." Both sessions are open to the Yale and YNHH community, without advance reservations. For more information about the YSM Reunion Weekend visit our website.
Panelist Biographies:
Marna Borgstrom, MPH '79, Chief Executive Officer of Yale-New Haven Hospital and President and CEO of the Yale New Haven Health System
Marna Borgstrom is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) and Chief Executive Officer of Yale-New Haven Hospital. YNHHS includes Bridgeport, Greenwich and Yale-New Haven hospitals and their related businesses, as well as a physician foundation, Northeast Medical Group. Yale-New Haven Hospital is the 1,541-bed primary teaching hospital for Yale School of Medicine.
She began her career at Yale-New Haven Hospital more than 30 years ago. Her varied roles have taken her from a post-graduate fellowship, to various staff and management roles, to her 1994 promotion to the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. She assumed her current position in 2005.
Marna holds a Master of Public Health degree in Hospital Administration from Yale School of Medicine and a Bachelors degree in Human Biology from Stanford University. She is a lecturer in Yale University’s Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Health Policy & Administration Division.
She serves on several national and local boards, including VHA, Inc. in Dallas, the Association of American Medical Colleges, The Coalition to Protect America’s Healthcare and the Connecticut Hospital Association.
Marna has been the recipient of several awards recognizing her community involvement: the AHA Grassroots Champion Award, the Anti-Defamation League Torch of Liberty Award, the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Community Leadership Award and Business New Haven Business Person of the Year. In May of 2011 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Quinnipiac University, and an honorary Doctor of Business Administration by the University of New Haven in January of 2014.
Paul D. Cleary, PhD, Dean of the Yale School of Public Health and the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health
Dr. Cleary is a member of the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM), a member of the Connecticut Academy for Science and Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1996, he was selected as a distinguished fellow of the Association for Health Services Research, and in 2002, received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy. In 2010, Dr. Cleary was awarded the Picker Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Patient-Centered Care by the Picker Institute.
Dr. Cleary has conducted a national study of how organizational characteristics affect the costs and quality of care for persons with AIDS; a national evaluation of a continuous quality improvement initiative in clinics providing care to HIV infected individuals; and a study of the long-term impact of patient-centered hospital care. He is Principal Investigator of one of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to develop information gathering surveys for consumers regarding their health plans and services. He also is Principal Investigator and Director of the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). He has published more than 300 journal articles and book chapters describing his research.
Margaret Grey, DrPH, RN, FAAN, Dean of the Yale School of Nursing, and Annie Goodrich Professor
Dr. Grey is the author of over 280 journal articles, chapters, and abstracts and has received numerous regional and national honors for her research. She was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005. She is the recipient of the Richard R. Rubin Award for Outstanding Contributions to Behavioral Medicine from the American Diabetes Association, the Pathfinder Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research, Outstanding Nurse Scientist Award from the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, the Excellence in Nursing Research Award from the Association of Faculties of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Programs, the Achievement in Research Award from the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, the Outstanding Nurse Researcher Award from the Eastern Nursing Research Society, and the Virginia Henderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nursing Research from the Connecticut Nurses' Association, among other awards. Dr. Grey is also a Distinguished Fellow of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Nurse Practitioners, and a Fellow in the Society of Behavioral Medicine. She was elected to the American Academy of Nursing in 1990.
Moderator: Richard N. Foster, '63, '66 PhD, Lecturer in Management, Yale School of Management
Richard Foster ’63, ’66 PhD is the newly-appointed Special Advisor to President Salovey for Health Care Innovation. In this role, he is interviewing university healthcare educators and administrators as well as collaborating with state officials to advise on the future of healthcare at Yale and beyond. Dr. Foster is an emeritus director of McKinsey & Company, Inc. where he was a Director and Senior Partner. While at McKinsey he founded several practices including the healthcare practice and the private equity practices, the technology practice and innovation practice. Since retirement from there, he has been active in many healthcare-related activities, including being on boards with Memorial Sloan-Kettering, the medical committee of the Keck Foundation, and the Dean’s Council for YSM. At Yale, Dr. Foster teaches "Managing in Times of Rapid Change" at the School of Management and serves as the Executive in Residence at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute.