Webinar: SDoH Change Moves at the Speed of Trust—Connecting medical, behavioral and social providers for person-centered care

Jacob Reider, MD
CEO
Alliance for Better Health

Jacob Reider, MD, FAAFP works at the intersection of health and IT to motivate and empower communities to think differently about how they can best promote the health of their members. As chief executive officer at Alliance for Better Health, Jacob focuses on galvanizing the medical community to realize and capture the potential of the evolution from volume-based care to value-based health. A family doctor since the early 1990s, he understands the challenges medical providers face and leverages technology to foster improved communication and data-driven solutions for population health needs.

In addition to practicing family medicine, Jacob is experienced working and teaching in academia, launching multiple successful start-up organizations, collaborating with entrepreneurs and investors and working in the state and federal governments. While deputy national coordinator and chief medical officer of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology, a staff division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Jacob helped to design and build the nation’s electronic medical records system. He has also consulted with the New York State Department of Health on health IT strategies, where he was first introduced to DSRIP and Alliance. Jacob holds a Doctor of Medicine from Albany Medical College and a Bachelor of Arts in cognitive science from Hampshire College.

Jacob passionately promotes innovation; seeing experimentation and risk-taking as critical to forming new business models that will shift the economics of health. As Alliance continues to foster collaborative environments in which physicians, nurses, care team members and patients are encouraged to be creative, each achievement will be a powerful endorsement, regionally and globally, of the power of innovation.

Kristen Scholl
VP Strategic Partnerships
Alliance for Better Health

Kristen Scholl joined Alliance for Better Health over three years ago with one objective – to improve the health of Medicaid members by trying new and innovative programs. A visionary, Kristen remains a firm believer that the work she does is a phenomenal opportunity to make a measurable difference in the health of the community using federal and state funds.

In her current role, success means facilitating the integration of technology and service solutions and guiding collaboration and innovation among health care and social care providers. Sometimes, just bringing the right people together in a room can result in discussion and workflow redesign that fosters meaningful change in the community. Kristen’s focus has been on implementing programs that specifically address social determinants of health including the Healthy Together suite of programs consisting of the Unite Us closed loop community referral system, Circulation web-based transportation platform using the Lyft network and City Health Works, a chronic disease health coaching program.

Prior to joining Alliance in January 2016, Kristen was introduced to Medicaid Redesign from the perspective of a Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO). Most recently, she was the Medicaid Operations Director at MVP Health Care. Kristen has more than 20 years of experience in various roles with MCOs which has provided her with the expertise to contribute to the Alliance goal of improving the health of the community while preparing partners for success in a value-based payment environment.

Natasha Pernicka
Executive Director
The Food Pantries for the Capital District

Natasha Pernicka has been leading The Food Pantries for the Capital District as Executive Director since 2011. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. In addition, she is a graduate of the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Tech Valley program.

With more than 18 years in the nonprofit sector Natasha has developed and implemented new programs, improved and created growth in community engagement efforts, and led strategic initiatives throughout her career. Her work with The Food Pantries includes increasing programmatic impact for more than 65 food pantries serving 57,000 people for 3.2 million meals annually, as well as leading the Filling the Gap Food Pantry System and Community Needs Assessment, Food Connect Digital Pantry System project, and Community Food Assistance Network Food is Medicine initiative.

In addition, Natasha is Chair of the Nonprofit Business Advisory Group of the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce, serves on the New York eHealth Collaborative CBO and VBP Advisory Group, the Albany and Rensselaer County FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Boards, the Steering Committee for the Greater Capital Region Food System Assessment, the Advisory Committee for the Rockefeller College Nonprofit Community Engagement Series, and has been a reviewer for the New York State Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program grant process through the Regional Food Bank. She is a guest lecturer on hunger, nonprofit leadership, and management and has presented at events such as the New York State Anti-Hunger Conference and for the New York State Hunger and Food Policy Council and NYeHealth Collaborative.

Kimberly Kilby, MD
Sr. Leader, Regional Medical Directors – MVP Health Care

Dr. Kimberly Kilby is a family and preventive medicine physician, leading the team of Regional Medical Directors at MVP Health Care and working in collaboration with physicians across New York State to support the transition to value-based payment.

Dr. Kilby previously served as Associate Dean for Academic & Student Affairs at Albany Medical College and practiced clinically at AMC Bariatrics and Nutrition Group. She has also served as the Director of the Bureau of Communicable Disease Control for the NYSDOH where she directed the statewide surveillance for the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

Dr. Kilby was named the 2015 Family Practice Educator of the Year by the New York State Academy of Family Physicians.