Trustees

Fred Cerise, MD, MPH, has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Parkland Health since 2014. His previous roles include the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and the Vice President for Health Affairs and Medical Education of the Louisiana State University System.

Fred holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Notre Dame and earned his Medical Degree at Louisiana State University, New Orleans. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and earned a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University School of Public Health.

He served as a Commissioner on the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, and he serves on the board of KFF.

As of May 2024, Dr. Cerise reported the following external relationships:

Dr. Cerise serves as a board member for the following organizations, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:

• KFF, board member, with reimbursement for travel expenses
• Parkland Community Health Plan, board member, without compensation
• Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, board member, without compensation
• Parkland Foundation; board member, without compensation
• Teaching Hospitals of Texas, board member, without compensation
• Jubilee Park Community Center, Dallas, without compensation

Bruce Leff, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he is the Director of the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Department of Community and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.

His research focuses on novel models of care delivery for older adults and issues related to multi-morbidity, risk prediction, performance measurement, and quality measurement and improvement, with an emphasis on home and community-based models of care. He has authored more than 175 peer-reviewed publications, 35 book chapters, and 2 textbooks on home-based medical care. Dr. Leff has served on multiple National Quality Forum, National Committee for Quality Assurance, and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Technical Expert Panels. He is past-director of the JHOME (home-based primary care) Program at Johns Hopkins, cares for patients in the acute, ambulatory and home settings, and is an award-winning teacher and mentor.

He the past-Chair of the Geriatric Medicine Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and past-Chair of the ABIM Council. He is also past-President of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians, where he helped develop and implement the Independence at Home Demonstration (section 3024 of the Affordable Care Act). He is a past member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians and serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr. Leff received his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine, completed residency in primary care internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and a fellowship in geriatric medicine and gerontology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and served as a medical officer in the US Army.

As of May 2024, Dr. Leff reported the following external relationships:

• Aligned Health Group, with compensation
• Honor/Home Instead, advisory board member, with compensation
• Dispatch Health, clinical advisor, with compensation
• Kenes, planning committee member, with compensation
• MedZed, advisory board member, with compensation
• Chartis Group, clinical advisor, with compensation
• Medically Home, clinical advisor, with compensation
• Patina Health, advisory board member, with compensation
• Koko, advisory board member, with compensation
• West Health Institute, consultant, with compensation
• Pager, advisory board member, with compensation
• Ascension Health, quality and safety committee member, with compensation
• Research Institute for Home Care, board member, no compensation

Odette C. Bolano, FACHE, MHA, BSN, is an experienced CEO and expert in health care strategy and operations who has spent more than 35 years leading and growing large scale health systems through strategic partnerships, acquisitive growth, and adjacent growth strategies. As a nurse executive, she has deep operations experience in developing high performing multi-disciplinary teams and executing business strategy to deliver transformative business and healthcare solutions for local communities.

Ms. Bolano is a well-known strategic advisor to health care CEOs and corporate executives, leading complex strategies to bring value and growth and enhance community health and well-being. With strong roots as a clinical operating leader, she has served in executive leadership roles in for-profit health care, non-profit health care and fully integrated health system, spending more than 11 years with Columbia/HCA, 16 years in Catholic Healthcare with Ascension Health and Trinity Health, and two years with Kaiser Permanente.

Ms. Bolano is Colombian, with extensive governance experience including public company experience and serving on audit and compensation committees for several boards, including the Idaho Power/IDACORP, a NASDAQ listed public utility company serving Idaho and Eastern Oregon with a market cap of $5.12B. She has served on hospital association boards in Texas, California, and Idaho, where she is currently Chairperson- Elect.

Ms. Bolano brings a successful track record in business development, clinically integrated network development, and change management in for-profit and non-profit health systems. She is a proven operating executive driving results through technology-enabled telehealth solutions, physician partnerships, clinically integrated network development, marketing and consumer engagement, and mergers, acquisitions and partnerships. She is an experienced CEO with a successful track record as President/CEO of several health systems in Texas, Arizona, California, Idaho, and Oregon with operating revenues of $1-3 billion.

She collaborates with senior leaders to ensure achievement of their strategic and operating priorities and as a national corporate officer, has led multiple multi-million-dollar operations improvement initiatives, including clinical quality, productivity, workforce management, and clinical service standardization. Under her leadership, the flagship Medical Center in Boise became the most advanced Trauma Center Level II in Idaho, created the most comprehensive high quality cardiovascular and neurosciences service lines in the region with focus on patient satisfaction, cost efficiencies and reduction of community members having to leave the region for high level, complex care.

In addition, she successfully led her organization through the pandemic and post-pandemic period.

She served as leader of the Idaho/Oregon/California Region for Trinity Health, a national Catholic health system. There, she led major initiatives, including virtual Connect Care, which incorporated virtual nursing in the acute care setting and the TogetherSafe initiative around patient and colleague safety. She was responsible for the strategic and operational performance of two regions (Idaho/Oregon and California) that included six hospitals, more than 100 clinics, a Clinically Integrated Network in the Idaho/Oregon Region, employed medical groups with more than 700 providers, two free-standing emergency departments with more than 10,000 colleagues, and 13 Joint Ventures.

As an active civic and community member she serves on many community boards including the Boise Commerce Chamber where she has served as Chairperson, The Carol Emmott Foundation Board, Boise State University Foundation Board, Boise Valley Development Economic and the Idaho Business for Education Board Partnership.

She has been recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare in 2021, Top 25 Women in Healthcare in 2020 and 2021 and as one of the nation’s most influential 50 Clinical Executives in Healthcare in 2020. She has also been recognized in Idaho by the Idaho Business Review as ICON Award Winner in 2020, #1 in Idaho Business Review’s Power 25 List in 2021, and Woman of the Year in 2021.

Ms. Bolano received her bachelor’s in nursing at Texas Christian University, followed by a master’s in healthcare administration at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. She is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Ms. Bolano is a member of the Latino Corporate Directors Association, and International Women’s Forum.

As of May 2024, Ms. Bolano reported the following external relationships:

• Idaho Power/IDA Corporation, board member, with compensation
• Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce, board member, no compensation
• Idaho Hospital Association, board member, no compensation
• Carol Emmott Fellowship Foundation, board member, no compensation

Richard J. Baron, MD, MACP, board certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation. He was a former Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Board of Directors and served on the ABIM Foundation Board of Trustees.

Dr. Baron practiced general internal medicine and geriatrics for almost 30 years at Greenhouse Internists, P.C., located in Philadelphia. Greenhouse was a pioneer in the comprehensive adoption of electronic health records in the small-practice environment. Following that, from 2011 to 2013, he served as Group Director of Seamless Care Models at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center, where he led efforts related to accountable care organizations and primary care. Until joining the federal government, Dr. Baron also served on the board of the National Quality Forum and its Health Information Technology Advisory Committee, as well as the Standards Committee of the National Committee for Quality Assurance.

Dr. Baron served as Chief Medical Officer of Health Partners, a not-for-profit Medicaid HMO set up by four teaching hospitals in Philadelphia, from 1988 to 1996. He was the architect of the Best Clinical and Administrative Practices program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Center for Health Care Strategies, working with the medical leadership of Medicaid health plans around the country in learning collaboratives to improve the quality of care for their members. This program reached plans serving more than half of the Medicaid managed care population in the United States. He is a member of the Aspen Institute Health Strategy Group.

Dr. Baron received a bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard College and his medical degree from Yale University. He completed house staff training at New York University-Bellevue Medical Center and served a three-year commitment in the National Health Service Corps in rural Tennessee.

As of October 2023, Dr. Baron reported no external relationships.

David L. Coleman, MD, a board certified internist and infectious diseases specialist, is a Research Professor and Interim Director at the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation and an Emeritus Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine. He has had a long-standing interest in basic mechanisms of macrophage function and the role of cytokines in regulating host defenses. His recent work has focused on medical professionalism in medical education and clinical practice.

Prior to assuming his current position, Dr. Coleman was the John Wade Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at Boston Medical Center. Earlier in his career, he was Chief of Medical Service at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System and Interim Chair of the Department of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine.

Dr. Coleman is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and is the Chair of the ABIM Foundation Board of Trustees.

A graduate of Stanford University, Dr. Coleman completed his medical degree at the University of California at San Francisco. He was a resident and fellow in the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he also served as Chief Resident.

As of May 2024, Dr. Coleman reported no external relationships.

Susan Edgman-Levitan, PA, is Executive Director of the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital, a lecturer in the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and an Associate in Health Policy, Harvard Medical School. The Stoeckle Center is deeply involved in leading primary care transformation across the Partners Healthcare System in New England, now known as Mass General Brigham. Prior to MGH, Susan was the founding President of the Picker Institute. A constant advocate of understanding the patient’s perspective on healthcare, she has been the co-principal investigator on the Yale/Harvard Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) study and is a member of the Lucian Leape Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). She is an editor of Through the Patient’s Eyes, a book on creating and sustaining patient-centered care, The CAHPS Improvement Guide, and co-authored the Institute of Medicine 2006 report, The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public. She is a founding member of the MA Primary Care Alliance for Patients, a statewide collation working with the Massachusetts legislature to fund enhanced payments for primary care services and to support practices that are at risk because of the COVID pandemic. She also co-chairs the MassGeneralBrigham Patient Experience Leaders Committee.

Ms. Edgman-Levitan serves on several boards and national advisory committees, including the AHRQ National Advisory Council, the ABIM Foundation Board of Trustees, and the Primary Care Collaborative. In 2007, she received the Leadership and Innovation Award from the Center for Information Therapy and the 2016 Inaugural Richard Nesson award from the Massachusetts Health Quality Partnership. In 2020 she received the Partners Healthcare System Nesson award for System Collaboration. Susan holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the Duke University Physician Assistant program, where she received the Distinguished Alumni Award and inducted into the Duke University Medical Center Hall of Fame in 2004.

As of October 2023,  Ms. Edgman-Levitan reported the following external relationships:

• Harvard Medical School, faculty honoraria
• Harvard Chan School of Public Health, faculty honoraria
• Primary Care Collaborative, board member, no compensation
• Patient Experience Policy Forum, board member, no compensation

Yul D. Ejnes, MD, MACP, a board certified internal medicine specialist, is in outpatient practice at Coastal Medical in Cranston, Rhode Island, which he co-founded in 1995. Prior to joining the Lifespan health system in 2021, Coastal Medical was Rhode Island's largest private practice. It is a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home and a Medicare accountable care organization.

In addition to practicing full-time, Dr. Ejnes is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Dr. Ejnes is a member of the American College of Physicians' (ACP) delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates and its Medical Informatics Committee. At ACP, Dr. Ejnes served as Chair of the Board of Regents, Chair of the Board of Governors, Rhode Island Chapter Governor. He also sat on the AMA Relative Value Scale Update Committee for a term. Among his local leadership activities, he is a past President of the Rhode Island Medical Society and the Rhode Island Society of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Ejnes earned his medical degree from Brown Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island in 1985 and did his internal medicine residency and chief medical residency at Rhode Island Hospital, also in Providence.

As of October 2023, Dr. Ejnes reported the following external relationships:

• American College of Physicians, member of executive council and delegation to the AMA House of Delegates, with compensation
• ACP Services Political Action committee, board member, with reimbursement for expenses

Margaret Flinter, APRN, PhD, FAAN, FAANP, is the Senior Vice President and Clinical Director of the Moses Weitzman Health System and its Community Health Center, Inc. She has been a board-certified family nurse practitioner since 1980.

She earned her BSN from the University of Connecticut, MSN from Yale University, and PhD from the University of Connecticut.

After her initial years of practice in public health nursing, Dr. Flinter completed her MSN in community health/ family nurse practitioner track at the Yale School of Nursing. A National Health Service Corps (NHSC) scholar, she joined the Community Health Center (CHCI) in 1980 as a primary care provider and its first nurse practitioner. She fully embraced its founding (1972) commitment to health care as a right, not a privilege, and its zest for innovation, growth, and collaboration. At CHCI, she has held both clinical and executive leadership roles as she co-led its growth from a single site to a statewide organization and one of the largest FQHCs in the U.S. In 2023, CHCI created the Moses-Weitzman Health System as the parent organization of CHCI as well as three other subsidiary organizations, each created by CHCI as an innovation to address specific challenges in health care (Community eConsult Network (CECN), the National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (NIMAA) and the Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers (CAPP)).

She has led local, state and national initiatives focused on improving access to the highest quality primary care, particularly for underserved and key populations. In 2005, Dr. Flinter established the Weitzman Center, now known as the Weitzman Institute, as the research, innovation, and training arm of CHCI, and she currently serves as senior faculty of the Institute. One of her initial projects at the Weitzman Center was the development and launch (2007) of a model of formal postgraduate residency and fellowship training for new nurse practitioners. Now a national model, Dr. Flinter serves as the Chairperson of the Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers, which accredits and advocates for NP and NP/PA postgraduate training programs. She has served as PI/co-PI on numerous funded initiatives with a current focus on clinical workforce development, improving maternity outcomes, and optimizing virtual care. Dr. Flinter is also the co-host of “Conversations on Health Care,” a radio show and podcast about health reform, innovation and policy.

Dr. Flinter was the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellowship from 2002-2005. In 2021, she was honored with Yale University’s Jefferson Award for public service. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

As of July 2023, Dr. Flinter reported the following external relationships:

• Consortium for Advanced Practice Providers, chairperson, no compensation

Rajeev Jain, MD, FACP, FASGE, AGAF, is a board certified gastroenterologist who has been in private practice in Dallas, Texas since 1999. He is a partner at Texas Digestive Disease Consultants. He served as Chief of Gastroenterology at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas from 2000-2020.

Dr. Jain is Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine Board of Directors. He served on the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Governing Board as a Clinical Councilor and Chair of the AGA Practice Management and Economics Committee. He has participated in clinical guideline development at both the AGA and American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), where he served on the Standards of Practice Committee from 2008-2010. Additionally, Dr. Jain was a member of the task force that created the AGA colonoscopy bundle framework, and was co-Director of the GI Outlook 2013 Practice Management Course co-sponsored by the AGA and ASGE. Dr. Jain is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, AGA and ASGE. Dr. Jain is a member of the ABIM Foundation Board of Trustees.

Dr. Jain received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He completed his residency training in internal medicine and fellowship in gastroenterology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.

As of May 2024, Dr. Jain reported the following external relationships:

• Dallas County Medical Society, board member, no compensation

Dr. Jain also reported receiving travel reimbursement from Texas Digestive Disease Consultants for attending meetings.

Ali Khan, MD, MPP, FACP, is the Chief Medical Officer - Medicare at Aetna/CVS Health. Prior to that, he was the Chief Medical Officer, Value Based Care Strategy at Oak Street Health, where he led efforts in managed care strategy and operations, clinical design and public policy. Dr. Khan joined Oak Street Health in 2019 as Executive Medical Director of the Heartland Division and continues to practice general internal medicine.

Prior to Oak Street, he served as CareMore Health's Clinical Design Officer and in leadership roles at Iora Health.

Dr. Khan serves on the clinical faculty of the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine and is a Director of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Internal Medicine Specialty Board and the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation. Dr. Khan was recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Emerging Leaders in 2021 and Crain’s Chicago Business’ Notable Executives of Color in Health Care in 2022. He is a fellow of the California Health Care Foundation and Leadership Greater Chicago.

Dr. Khan completed his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and VCU’s Medical College of Virginia, earning joint M.D. and M.P.P. degrees as a Harvard Public Service Fellow, and VCU’s B.S./M.D. Guaranteed Admissions Program in Medicine.

As of October 2023, Dr. Khan reported the following external relationships:

• American Board of Internal Medicine, Director, IM Specialty Board, with compensation

Reginald Tucker Seeley, MA, ScM, ScD, is the principal and owner of Health Equity Strategies and Solutions.  He completed master and doctoral degrees in public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and a postdoctoral fellowship in cancer prevention and control at HSPH and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).  His research has focused on social determinants of health across the life course, such as the association between the neighborhood environment and health behavior; and on individual-level socioeconomic determinants of multi-morbidity, mortality, self-rated physical, mental, and oral health. His research has also investigated the association of financial hardship with health across the chronic disease continuum from prevention to end-of-life care.

Dr. Tucker-Seeley has a longstanding interest in the impact of health policy and social policy on racial/ethnic minorities and across socioeconomic groups. He was previously the Vice-President of Health Equity at ZERO-The End of Prostate Cancer.  In this role, he led the development and implementation of ZERO’s health equity strategy to reduce racial/ethnic and place-based disparities in prostate cancer.  He has experience working on local and state level health disparities policy, and he has developed and taught courses focused on measuring and reporting health disparities. In 2017-2018, Dr. Tucker-Seeley was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with a placement in the United States Senate.  Prior to joining ZERO, he was the inaugural holder of the Edward L. Schneider chair in gerontology and Assistant Professor in the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California (USC).  Prior to joining USC, he was an Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at DFCI and HSPH.

As of October 2023, Dr. Tucker-Seeley reported the following external relationships:

• National Patient Advocacy Foundation, board member, with reimbursement for expenses

Asher A. Tulsky, MD, is a board certified internist. He is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and Associate Chief of Education in the section of General Internal Medicine. He directs communication skills training at the Boston Medical Center Solomont Simulation Center. He has expertise in health and wellness coaching and is active in the professional development of early and mid-career faculty.

Previously, he was Associate Program Director at the University of Pittsburgh Internal Medicine Residency program, directed their community-based residency program, established and directed the International Scholars Program for gifted and accomplished international medical graduates pursuing academic medicine careers and was the principal consultant in a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and the Teine Keijinkai Hospital in Sapporo, Japan, in establishing a U.S.-modeled internal medicine residency program.

Dr. Tulsky is former chair of the ABIM Council and of the ABIM Internal Medicine Specialty Board and served for eight years on the ABIM Internal Medicine Board Exam Committee. He is also an active member of the Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Tulsky earned his medical degree from the Chicago Medical School in Illinois, completed internal medicine residency training at the Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, also in Chicago, and fellowship in general internal medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York.

As of May 2024, Dr. Tulsky reported no external relationships.

Irving Washington is Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the Health Misinformation and Trust Initiative at KFF, where he leads a new initiative focused on identifying health misinformation to improve understanding of critical health news and research and build trust among communities.

Before joining KFF, Mr. Washington was the CEO of the Online News Association (ONA), one of the world’s largest membership organizations for digital journalists. At ONA, he led efforts to build a foundation for journalism’s future by leveraging the power of new media technologies to raise up the next generation of diverse media leaders, which doubled the organization in size, scope, and reach. His leadership also advanced the mandate for protecting the integrity of online news.

He began his career at the Radio Television Digital News Foundation, where he focused on improving internal systems to address equity gaps. Later, Mr. Washington advocated for black journalists working at the National Association of Black Journalists as part of a broader effort to shape diversity and inclusion in the media.

Mr. Washington is an advisor to the American Journalism Project, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Internews, and the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). He’s also active in ASAE as a Fellow, a designation reserved for the nation’s top one percent of association executives, and a Diversity Executive Leadership Program (DELP) Scholar.

He’s participated in the prestigious Punch Sulzberger Media Executive Leadership Program through Columbia University and served as an Executive Fellow through the Open Society Foundations’ New Executive Fund and Fellowship.

Mr. Washington holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ball State University. He is also a Certified Association Executive (CAE).

Heather Comer Yun, MD, FACP, FIDSA, a board certified internist and infectious disease specialist, is an active duty Colonel in the United States Air Force. She is a Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at UTHealth San Antonio. She currently serves as the Deputy Commander for Medical Services at Brooke Army Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas. She is also the Chief of Medical Services for the San Antonio Market of the Defense Health Agency.

Her active areas of investigation target infections in vulnerable military populations, including combat casualties and basic military trainees. Her research has focused on multidrug-resistant bacteria, infection prevention and hospital epidemiology, travel- and deployment-related infections, and respiratory viral infections. She has served as Medical Director of Infection Prevention at two referral military hospitals and while deployed to Afghanistan.

Dr. Yun currently serves on the IDWeek Program Committee and previously served on the ABIM Infectious Disease Board and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America, and has received numerous teaching and leadership awards.

Dr. Yun earned her bachelor’s degree at Colorado College and her medical degree at Yale University. She completed residency and infectious disease fellowship training at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium.

As of May 2024, Dr. Yun reported the following external relationships:

• Infectious Diseases Society of America, board member, with reimbursement for expenses