MIRIAM HOSPITAL - Key Persons

Alan Litwin

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Vice Chairman of the Lifespan Board of Directors

Alexis Devine

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Lifespan Workforce Development Program Manager

Alexis Devine is dedicated to creating access to job opportunities for underrepresented populations and providing the skills to sustain employment. In 2004, Devine co-created Lifespan's nationally recognized Summer Youth Employment (SYE) program, which hires at-risk youth to work paid summer jobs in Lifespan affiliates and attend work-readiness training. In addition, Devine designed the Lifespan Workforce Solutions, Training, and Teamwork (S.T.A.T.) program in 2013. The S.T.A.T. program is modeled after SYE; however, it serves unemployed adults and offers free education and on-the-job learning to become certified for hard-to-fill healthcare positions. The S.T.A.T. programs are fully comprehensive, offering on-site learning, job skill training, financial support for barriers to employment, and case management services. In her nearly 20 years at Lifespan, Devine secured over five million dollars in private and state funding to serve 2,200 Rhode Islanders from underserved communities. She has a passion for addressing barriers to employment, providing support services, improving outcomes for those in need through employment and the diversifying healthcare workforce. She is known to say, "Jobs save lives and provide a sense of purpose, belonging, and self-efficacy." Prior to joining Lifespan, Devine earned her bachelor of arts in public health from Brown University. Devine has continued her connection with Brown University as an assistant faculty member at The Warren Alpert Medical School.

Ana Almeida-DoRosário

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Community Outreach Coordinator

Anthony Thigpen

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Community Health Worker

Arianna Wolanski

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Program Coordinator
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Arianna Wolanski earned her bachelor's degree in public health sciences from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is currently pursuing a master's in healthcare administration from Suffolk University. Prior to joining the team, Wolanski was a case manager assisting homeless young adults in securing housing and intervening in times of crisis to assist and connect clients with the appropriate resources. In her current role at Lifespan, she is a program coordinator for the Workforce S.T.A.T. Nursing Assistant and Pharmacy Technician programs.

Athena Poppas

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Interim President, Lifespan Physician Group Chief of Cardiology and Director, Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute

Babar Khokhar - EVP

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Chief
Executive Vice President
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Executive Vice President and Chief Physician Officer, Lifespan

Babar Khokhar, MD, MBA, is executive vice president and chief physician officer at Lifespan. Dr. Khokar oversees medical affairs, physician practices, outpatient care locations, and community health services. He also serves as associate dean for clinical affairs (Lifespan) at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Khokhar came to Lifespan from Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Health System in Connecticut, where he served as chief medical officer at Yale Medicine and chief ambulatory medical officer at Yale-New Haven Health System. He previously served as the chief clinical transformation officer and interim chief executive officer at Yale Medicine. While at Yale, Dr. Khokhar also held academic and clinical positions as associate dean for clinical affairs at the Yale School of Medicine and vice chair for operations in the department of neurology. Dr. Khokhar holds a BA in neuroscience and economics from Johns Hopkins University, and an MD and MBA from Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed an internship in internal medicine and a residency in neurology at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he was chief resident. He also completed a fellowship in neuromuscular medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.

Carmen Garcia

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Nursing Assistant

Carrie Bridges Feliz

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Director

Cedric J. Priebe

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Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Lifespan

Cedric Priebe, MD, is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Lifespan. Prior to joining Lifespan, he was the CIO at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, and the Brigham and Women's Physician Organization, where he was responsible for the implementation of the Epic system. He has also held Chief Medical Information Officer and CIO roles at the Care New England Health System, and leadership positions with IDX Systems Corporation, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, and McKesson Health Solutions. Dr. Priebe is a 1984 graduate of Harvard College and a 1988 graduate of Harvard Medical School. He is a pediatrician and has supervised and taught pediatric residents and medical students as clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Chris Cocks

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Member of the Lifespan Board of Directors

Christin Zollicoffer

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Chief
Officer
Chief Belonging and Equity Officer, Lifespan
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Christin Zollicoffer is chief belonging and equity officer at Lifespan. In this role, Zollicoffer leads Lifespan's strategy for developing as a diverse, inclusive and culturally responsive health care system. As Lifespan's chief belonging and equity officer, Zollicoffer is responsible for a comprehensive plan for increasing diverse representation at all levels of the organization, and for ensuring that belonging and equity considerations are incorporated into decision-making processes with the goal of fair and equitable treatment for all. She partners with human resources to increase focus on ownership and accountability for plans related to belonging and equity at Lifespan, and also cultivates strategic relationships to ensure that Lifespan serves as an agent for transformative change in the community. Zollicoffer previously served as vice president for community health and well-being and a regional director for diversity, equity and inclusion at Trinity Health in Michigan, where she led belonging and equity strategy and implementation for a 2,270-bed, 45,000-employee geographic region. She initiated innovative training, deployed belonging and equity measures and process changes that achieved priority strategic goals for the region, and trained executives and leaders to recognize and address unconscious bias.

Cindy Peterson

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Executive Vice President of Ambulatory, Lifespan

As executive vice president of ambulatory, Cindy Peterson, MBA is responsible for the overall leadership of Lifespan's clinical ambulatory services, including practices, clinics and urgent care centers. Peterson has decades of experience in ambulatory operations and growth. Prior to joining Lifespan, she was vice president of regional ambulatory operations and business development at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. In that position, Peterson was responsible for expanding Brigham's ambulatory offerings and driving ambulatory growth, resource management and operational excellence across competitive markets. Peterson holds a BA from Amherst College, an MBA in healthcare management from Boston University, and has completed the Brigham Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.

Claudia Arroyave

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Registered Nurse

Crista F. Durand

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President of Newport Hospital

Crista F. Durand was appointed President of Newport Hospital in 2014. She was previously vice president of strategic planning, marketing, and business development at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut. She holds a bachelor's degree in financial management from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island and a master's in business administration from Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts. She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Edward Feldstein

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Member of the Lifespan Board of Directors

Elizabeth Grant

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Elizabeth Grant, BSN, RN, is a registered nurse and a nurse educator for the Lifespan Nursing Assistant School. Mentoring and helping train aspiring nurses has been a passion throughout her 28-year career. Her approach to both patient care and teaching is founded on positivity, shared knowledge and experience, and a love of the profession. Grant has extensive experience creating onboarding processes and orientation materials for preceptors and new nurses. She enjoys mentoring and derives great satisfaction from seeing her fellow nurses realize their own professional goals. Most recently, she worked at an ambulatory surgical center in a variety of roles, including admitting, pre-admission testing, and the operating room. Prior to that, she was a critical care nurse and worked in the emergency department at Rhode Island Hospital. Grant earned an associate degree in nursing from Community College of Rhode Island and a bachelor's degree in nursing from Rhode Island College.

Emanuel Barrows

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Member of the Lifespan Board of Directors

Evelyn Infante

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Training Center Assistant

Geraldine Mejia

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Nursing Assistant

Henry T. Sachs III - President

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President

Hilda Castillo

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Program Coordinator

Janelle Amoako

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Registered Nurse

Jay Benitez

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Program Coordinator
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Development Program Coordinator for the Pharmacy Technician II and Pathway to Employment

Jay Benitez is a workforce development program coordinator for the Pharmacy Technician II and Pathway to Employment programs. He has 12 years of workforce development experience in the nonprofit sector and has spent his career working to create education and employment equity for vulnerable and underserved populations. Benitez received a bachelor's degree in public administration from California State University, Chico, and a master's degree in human service administration from Antioch University.