ALICE PECK DAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
- CPCC, Trustee
- Director at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice
Anna Adachi-Mejia is a former course director at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, where she guided, and mentored graduate students on developing scientific grant proposals. She also has more than two decades of experience managing and training survey research teams.
For her doctoral training, Ms. Adachi-Mejia completed her studies at The Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth (now called The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice). She completed her coaching certification with the Co-Active Training Institute. She is a student of the Positive Intelligence program with a cohort of coaches in training with program founder Shirzad Chamine. She is also a student of Improv with The Second City to develop "Yes, And" techniques that can be applied to leadership and to the workplace.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Officers Team
- Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees
- Economist
Charlie Wheelan is the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital and he volunteers at Dartmouth Health and APD with his therapy dog, Caicos.
Charlie Wheelan is an economist, speaker, founder, and co-chairman of The Centrist Project, and author of Naked Statistics, Naked Economics, and Naked Money. He is currently a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. From 1997 to 2002, he was the Midwest correspondent for The Economist. He has also written for the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Yahoo! Finance.
Mr. Wheelan holds a PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago, a Master's in Public Affairs from Princeton University, and a BA from Dartmouth College. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire with his wife and three children.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
Chelsea is an Industrial Organizational Psychology undergraduate of Southern New Hampshire University. She currently works as a People Ops Associate for Donorbox, working on cultivating company culture, fostering employee engagement, and tackling DEIB initiatives.
She has lived in the Upper Valley all of her life, and is a Lebanon High School alumni. Ms. Paige enjoys writing, acting, and traveling in her free time. Currently, she lives in Enfield, NH with her fiancé and two cats.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Officers Team
- Treasurer of the Board of Trustees
- CEO of Mascoma Bank
Clay Adams is the CEO of Mascoma Bank. He was previously with Simon Pearce, a manufacturer and distributor of handcrafted glass products, which he joined as CEO in 2012. Prior to Simon Pearce, he served for a decade as chief operating officer and then CEO with RSG, Inc., a White River Junction-based consulting firm.
Mr. Adams holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and a bachelor's degree in government and environmental studies from Dartmouth. He is also a board member of the Montshire Museum of Science and the Ford Sayre Memorial Ski Council. He is one of several Vermont business leaders chosen by Congressman Peter Welch to serve on the Business Advisory Council, which provides guidance on economic and regulatory issues. Mr. Adams lives in Norwich, Vermont with his family.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
- Associate Director of Education at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD ( NCPTSD ) White River Junction
Cybele Merrick serves as the associate director of education at the department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD (NCPTSD) White River Junction, Vermont. She has been a resident of the Upper Valley for 15 years, having moved to Lyme, New Hampshire from New York City in 2004.
Her career as a librarian in New York was primarily in the nonprofit sector where she worked in organizations focused on social justice, women's employment, and health and wellness. Since relocating to New Hampshire, she has worked at the Executive Division of NCPTSD.
She currently leads a multidisciplinary team that creates online and print products on PTSD and trauma for NCPTSD's diverse public and professional audiences. Ms. Merrick oversees product planning and development, writes requirement documents and assesses vendors' competitive bids, allocates and monitors fiscal resources, and exercises quality control, ensuring all the products NCPTSD develops comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and are fully accessible to people with disabilities. As a member of the Executive Division leadership team, she helps to set policy for the division and the National Center for PTSD as a whole, also working with partners in VA's Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.
Ms. Merrick, holds, a bachelors in English and History, a Masters in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and a master's in library science from Pratt Institute.
Dale Collins Vidal, MD, MS, joined APD as the Executive Director of the Multi-Specialty Clinic (MSC) and member of its Senior Leadership Team in February, 2016.
Vidal spent the previous 21 years practicing at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, where she served as the Chief of Plastic Surgery and the Medical Director of the Center for Shared Decision Making. She also served as a Professor of Surgery at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.
Vidal attended Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA and received her post-doctoral education at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. Vidal also received her Master of Science from the Geisel School of Medicine, Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences (now the Dartmouth Institute.)
David Watts has more than 20 years of human resource experience in healthcare in the Upper Valley, most recently as the Director of Human Resources at Kendal at Hanover. He is a frequent volunteer with area non-profits and can often be found on a bike, on a trail, or in the garden. David and his family live in Vermont and spend considerable time in the Northeast Kingdom. He is currently enrolled in the Chief Human Resource Officer executive education program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
David holds a Bachelor's in Psychology from the University of Connecticut and a Master's in Labor Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
Health services researcher Ellesse-Roselee Akré, PhD, MA, is an assistant professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
Ms. Akré's research portfolio focuses on health inequities, intersectionality, and access to healthcare. She utilizes tools from health services research and population health science to demonstrate how macro-level systems such as heterosexism, sexism, and racism are determinants of health inequities.
She leverages the frameworks of critical race theory and intersectionality perspective to quantitatively study how social, demographic, and policy contexts shape health and healthcare disparities-particularly in Black, indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations.
More recently, Ms. Akré has incorporated older sexual and gender minorities into her research and has also expanded her work to include studies on how social determinants of health during the pandemic have impacted adults and older adults within the LGBT community.
She has an extensive record of teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses, including introductory courses on the foundations of public health and research methods, as well as advanced courses on health systems, leadership and healthcare communication, and coalition building for policy development and advocacy. Ms. Akré is excited to teach courses on the effects of legal and policy contexts on BIPOC and LGBT populations, social determinants of health, health equity, and public health critical race praxis.
Prior to joining Dartmouth, Ms. Akré was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University where she studied LGBT health disparities and aging. Her awards and honors include being inducted into the Lavender Leadership Honor Society in 2019, the first collegiate honor society focusing on leadership for LGBT social justice, and the Delta Omega Honor Society 2020, an honor society for studies in public health.
Ms. Akré earned a BA in psychology with a minor in Africana studies from San Diego State University, an MA in women's health from Suffolk University in Boston, and a PhD in health services research from the University of Maryland's School of Public Health.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
- MHCDS, Trustee
Dr. Blike practiced as an anesthesiologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and is a member of faculty of Anesthesiology and Community Family Medicine in the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College. He received his MD from University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed his residency in anesthesiology at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He has been at Dartmouth since 1992.
Serving as Chief Quality and Value Officer since 2012, Dr. Blike leads enterprise-wide efforts for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock system to continually improve the quality, safety, experience, and value of care. He has direct operational responsibility for the Value Institute, the division supporting both clinical quality improvement and operational excellence including applied systems engineering and implementation/healthcare delivery science. He was instrumental in establishing the Patient Safety and Training Center at D-H that opened in the fall of 2008, a state-of-the-art simulation training facility and center for innovation in systems engineering. He is also responsible for directing many of the quality measurement and reporting activities that drive the enterprise strategy.
He received his master's in the Science of Health Care Delivery from the Dartmouth College (Combined program within Tuck Business School and The Dartmouth Institute) in February 2015. Dr. Blike's research and clinical practice career is devoted to creating patient safety in complex, high hazard domains. He has performed applied human-factors research to improve the safety of pediatric procedural sedation and reduce the risk of pain management in the hospital. He currently serves as a co-investigator on a major AHRQ P30 grant to establish a Patient Safety Learning Lab focused on reducing Failure to Rescue Events at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
His many professional associations include recent board membership of the Foundation for Anesthesia Education Research, past President of the Society for Technology in Anesthesiology, being a founding member of the International Society for Medical Simulation, five years serving as a member of the Research Committee of the National Patient Safety Foundation, Vice Chair of the Board of the Vermont Program for Quality in Healthcare, and Vice Chair of the New Hampshire Foundation for Healthy Communities.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
Dr. Duprat is a graduate of McGill University School of Medicine, and completed his residency training at the University of Montreal in the Departments of Surgery and Radiology. Afterwards he completed a Fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He became an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Montreal, while on staff at Notre Dame Hospital in Montreal.
He entered private practice in Sound Bend, Indiana, joining the medical staff at Memorial Hospital as a Vascular/Interventional radiologist. Over time he served as chair of his group, chief of the Department of Radiology, and president of the Medical Staff. He then guided the integration of the Vascular/Interventional practice with the medical group of the parent health system (Beacon) resulting in superior clinical expertise and diversification of services. Dr. Duprat was instrumental in the creation of an integrated Heart/Vascular/Neuro Collaborative Care Network, becoming its first chair. Later he was appointed chair of the Governance Council of Beacon Medical Group and chair of its Finance Committee. He served as a member of the Memorial Hospital South Bend Board of Trustees, and on the Quality Committees of both Memorial Hospital of South Bend and Beacon Health System. He was also the medical director of Beacon's Accountable Care Organization (ACO).
He left clinical practice in early 2019, the same year he relocated to Hanover, New Hampshire. Since early 2021, he has been a contributing community member of the APDMH Board of Trustees Quality Committee.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
- Chief Business Development Officer at Simbex
Greg Lange is the Chief Business Development Officer at Simbex, a medical device design and development company in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He is an experienced business leader with expertise in medical software, imaging, clinical registries, medical device regulations, and product commercialization. Prior to Simbex, he was at M2S, where he oversaw R&D, sales, quality, regulatory, and operations and served as president and CEO for six years. He helped successfully sell the company in March 2016.
Mr. Lange has a master's in Biomechanics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and spent much of his early career in orthopaedic and biomechanics research and clinical applications. Mr. Lange lives in Lyme, New Hampshire with his wife Heidi and their two children.
Job Titles:
- Mayor
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- President - Elect
- Trustee
- Principal of Mayor
Sloane Mayor is a principal of Mayor + Kennedy Architects, which was formed in 2019. Born and raised in Hanover New Hampshire, she fundamentally understands the culture and climate of the Upper Valley. She has practiced architecture in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and before joining Chris Kennedy to form Mayor and Kennedy Architects, she headed a sole practice in Lebanon, New Hampshire from 2009 to 2018.
Jean Ten Haken joined APD in the winter of 2018. Jean previously served as the Chief Operating Officer at the Elliot Health System in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she also served as the Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer.
After working throughout the United States in direct nursing care, she began her management career at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, where she ultimately became the Director of Intermediate Cardiac Care and Cardiovascular Critical Care Units. Prior to joining the Elliot, Jean was the Vice President of Acute Care Nursing at Concord Hospital. Jean earned her undergraduate degree in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her Master of Science degree in nursing from the University of South Alabama.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Officers Team
- Secretary of the Board of Trustees
Born in New London, New Hampshire and raised in the Upper Valley, Jennifer Schiffman's professional career has primarily involved healthcare and community organizations. She has served in multiple roles at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth since 1997, most recently as the course coordinator for "Patients and Populations: Improving Health and Healthcare." Prior to this position, Ms. Schiffman was the assistant director of the Office of Research and Innovation in Medical Education for seven years at Geisel. She also previously worked for Vital Communities.
Ms. Schiffman has been active in several Upper Valley community organizations. She has served as Chair of both the Lyme Foundation and the Upper Valley Trails Alliance. She was also previously a board member with WISE (Women's Information Service). Ms. Schiffman received her undergraduate degree in biology from Middlebury College and master's degree in public health from Hunter College.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
- Member of Kauffman Fellows Class 26
- Principal at BioVentures Investors
Jenny Barba is a Principal at BioVentures Investors, a MedTech investment fund. Jenny brings more than 20 years of strategic and financial advisory experience from her work with venture backed and growth healthcare companies, primarily focused on medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health.
Ms. Barba is a member of Kauffman Fellows Class 26. She serves as a member of the DRIVEN Accelerator External Advisory Committee, the Steering Committee of the Upper Valley MedTech Collaborative, the Steering Committee of the Upper Valley MedTech Collaborative, and the Steering Committee for the Michigan Life Sciences Innovation Hub and is a guest lecturer at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
Ms. Barba served for three years as the regional Upper Valley Chair of the Go Red Executive Leadership Team, American Heart Association and for six years as a Board Member of the National Nordic Foundation. Jenny climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise educational funding for the Palliative Care Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and as a triathlete on Team in Training, Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Jenny earned her bachelor's in Neuroscience from Colorado College and her MBA and MHSA from the University of Michigan.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Medical Staff President
Dr. Greer joined APD in 2011. She received her medical degree in 2006 from Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, and completed her residency in Pediatrics, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in 2008.
She lives in the Upper Valley with her husband and their two sons who enjoy completely different activities, which include ski jumping, robotics, alpine skiing, forced violin, swimming, and tennis. Her husband is a professor in the Geology Department at Dartmouth College who studies, teaches, and addresses climate change in our community. In her free time, Dr. Greer enjoys horseback riding, cross-country skiing, and reading.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Member of the Officers Team
- Director of Sales and Marketing for Sassafras
Marisa Devlin is the Director of Sales and Marketing for Sassafras, a software company based in Hanover, New Hampshire. Previously, she worked at Aspect Medical in medical device sales, where she enjoyed representing disruptive medical technology and learning about the rewards and challenges of patient care from her clinician customers.
Mrs. Devlin is a graduate of Duke University, holds a patent from the USPTO, and is a pilot enjoying the humbling experience of getting her instrument rating. She lives in Hanover with her husband and four children.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Maryann Caron joined APD in 2013. Previously, Maryann served as the Director of Quality and most recently as the Associate Vice President of Clinic Operations at APD. In her role as Director of Quality, she modernized APD's approach to quality improvement, laying the groundwork for the exceptional quality standards that APD meets today. As the Associate Vice President of Clinic Operations, she contributed to the expansion of primary care and surgical and specialty services.
Maryann earned her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College and received her master's degree in Public Health from the Dartmouth Institute (formerly the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences). She is a Certified Lean Sigma Green Belt and a TeamSTEPPS Trainer.
Job Titles:
- Chief Medical Officer
- Member of the Board of Trustees
Dr. Lynch joined APD in June of 2019. Previously, Dr. Lynch served as Executive Medical Director of Same Day Services at Reliant Medical Group in Worcester, Massachusetts. Prior to Reliant, Dr. Lynch worked clinically as an emergency physician at Concord Hospital in Concord, New Hampshire. He was the Medical Director of Urgent Care and served in multiple leadership roles including the Concord Emergency Medical Associates President and the Chair of Emergency Medicine. In addition, he served as the Chair of the Concord Hospital Charitable Trust.
Dr. Lynch earned his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, received his medical degree from the University of Virginia, and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has also completed a Physician Executive MBA at Brandeis University. In addition to his current administrative work as Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Lynch works clinically in the emergency department at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital and at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He is also on the faculty of the Geisel School of Medicine and serves as a Clinical Instructor.
Patrick F. Jordan, III, MBA, joined Dartmouth Health in November 2017. Prior to that, he served as chief operating officer at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts. He joined Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in 2014, and was responsible for more than 5,000 colleagues, $1.2 billion in operating revenues, 350 inpatient beds, and a vast outpatient enterprise. He was also responsible for the real estate and supply chain areas for the Lahey Health System.
Mr. Jordan served as the chief operating officer of Newton-Wellesley Hospital and as the interim president from August 2012 through September 2013. In these roles, he helped lead the fiscal recovery of this 250-bed community teaching facility. During his tenure, patient satisfaction improved from below the 50th percentile and ranged from the 80th percentile to the 95th percentile across the enterprise. Also, an annual double-digit growth rate more than tripled net patient services revenue from $120 million to $450 million. Prior to his role at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Jordan spent eight years at Massachusetts General Hospital as the director of radiology and as manager of materials management.
He earned an Executive MBA from Suffolk University in May 1996. Mr. Jordan is also a seven-year veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division and the United States Army Special Operations community. Trained as an Airborne Ranger, he was promoted to the rank of captain during the invasion of Panama and was awarded the Bronze Star during the Persian Gulf War.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Lifecare Board Chair
- Lifecare Board of Trustees Chair
- Strategic Consultant to the Couch Family Foundation
Sara Kobylenski is a strategic consultant to the Couch Family Foundation, and works on other initiatives, including projects affiliated with DHMC and the Geisel School of Medicine. From 2009 to 2018, she served as executive director of the Upper Valley Haven. From 2003 to 2009 she worked for the Vermont Agency of Human Services.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Founder and Former Medical Director of the Center for Rural Emergency Services and Trauma
Dr. Rodi is the Interim Section Chief for Emergency Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Dr. Rodi also serves as regional director of Emergency Medicine and regional director of Prehospital Services (DHART) for the Dartmouth Health System. Dr. Rodi is the medical director for TeleED at Dartmouth and currently holds Telemedicine appointments at eight medical centers throughout rural New Hampshire and Vermont.
Dr. Rodi is the founder and former medical director of the Center for Rural Emergency Services and Trauma (CREST), which was developed to advance the education of rural emergency providers, perform research in rural emergency care, and support operational improvements among rural emergency departments in rural northern New England. CREST has received $2.5 million in grants from HRSA since 2009 and currently includes 18 regional hospitals.
In addition to working at Dartmouth-Hitchcock from 2000 to 2015, he served as medical director for hospital services at Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, Vermont, from 2015 to 2017. He has worked as an emergency medicine physician at hospitals in New Hampshire, Vermont, and California.
Dr. Rodi earned his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College and his master's in public health from the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth College. He completed a General Surgery Internship at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California in 1993, was an orthopaedic surgery resident at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, New York from 1993 to 1995, and completed his Emergency Medicine Residency in 1998 at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Rodi earned his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- President
- and under - Secretary of Agriculture Xochitl Torres Small
Dr. Mooney has been the President and CEO of Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital since April of 2013.
She completed her undergraduate degree at Princeton University, her Medical Education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and her residency at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
She joined the Medical Staff at APD in 2000 as a full-time Obstetrician/Gynecologist and continued in that role until 2005 when she took a leave of absence to pursue fellowship training as a Veterans Administration Quality Scholar. During that two-year period of time, she received a Master's Degree in Healthcare Quality Improvement from the Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth (now The Dartmouth Institute). Upon her return to APD, she became the Medical Director of Quality and ultimately the Chief Medical Officer before transitioning to her current role.
Dr. Mooney is passionate about improving the quality of care that APD provides to patients.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Member of the NH Society of CPAs and of the Healthcare Financial Management Association
Tina Naimie joined the finance team at Dartmouth Hitchcock as the Vice President of Corporate Finance in February of 2011. She received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Central Florida and a Master of Healthcare Delivery Science degree from Dartmouth College. She started her career at Ernst & Young, CPA in Orlando Florida focusing on healthcare. After working in the Manchester New Hampshire office of Ernst & Young, she became the Chief Financial Officer at New London Hospital, a critical access hospital in New London, New Hampshire.
Mrs. Naimie is a member of the NH Society of CPAs and of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. She has served as president of the New Hampshire/Vermont Healthcare Financial Management Association Board of Directors, and a board member of Turning Points Network, the Sullivan County Domestic Violence support organization. In addition, she is a graduate of the Leadership NH program. She enjoys cooking, running, and skiing with her husband and two children.
Todd Roberts joined APD in 2013 and served as APD's controller for six years before being promoted to Vice President of Finance in 2020. He is responsible for overall fiscal and financial management of Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital, including fiscal services, materials management, and revenue cycle.
Prior to APD, Todd spent time as the controller at Casella Construction of Mendon, Vermont, and in fiscal services at Mt. Ascutney Hospital in Windsor, Vermont. He earned his BS in business administration with a concentration in accounting at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont.
Todd enjoys spending any spare time with his family and enjoying the outdoors.