Jillian Lampert, PhD
Chief Strategy Officer
The Emily Program
William Maples, MD
President & CEO
The Institute for Healthcare Excellence
Nick Dawson
Executive Director of Innovation
Kaiser Permanente
Kevin Stranberg, CPXP
Director of Strategy and Patient Experience
Memorial Medical Center
Alma Leslie Gomez MartInez, MD
Integrative Medicine
Vickie Rice
Vice President of Innovative Strategies
CareATC
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JILLIAN LAMPERT, PHD | Chief Strategy Officer | The Emily Program
Dr. Lampert brings a level of passionate commitment matched only by her experience and dedication to the field of eating disorders. Her degrees and accreditations—PhD, MPH, RD, LD, FAED—only tell part of the story. She serves as Chief Strategy Officer at The Emily Program, a national leader in fostering eating disorder awareness, treatment and lifetime recovery. Dr. Lampert co-founded and serves as president of the Residential Eating Disorders Consortium, an organization that aims to ensure access to care and elevate standards of practice across treatment programs by working collaboratively to address issues that impact the eating disorder treatment community.
She is also treasurer of the Eating Disorders Coalition, a Washington DC-based national organization for eating disorders policy and advocacy. She is a past president and current board member of With All (formerly The Emily Program Foundation), a Minnesota based organization promoting eating disorder education and advocacy. She holds an adjunct graduate faculty position in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Lampert completed her doctorate degree in Nutrition and Epidemiology and Master of Public Health degree in Public Health Nutrition at the University of Minnesota. She earned a Master of Science degree in Nutrition at the University of Vermont and completed her dietetic internship at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics. She has an expansive range of policy, clinical, research, education, teaching and program development experience in the area of eating disorders.
She has served on the board of directors of the Academy for Eating Disorders as the Electronic Media Portfolio Director and co-chair of the Academy for Eating Disorders Nutrition Special Interest Group. She is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders (FAED) and a member of the Academy for Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association), and BHN (Behavioral Health Nutrition) dietetic practice group. Dr. Lampert is the author of numerous book chapters and articles addressing nutritional treatment of eating disorders, body image, sports participation, adolescent health and disordered eating. She regularly speaks regionally and nationally on numerous eating disorder related topics.
One of her primary goals in life is to have her fourteen-year-old daughter grow up loving her body and herself.
WILLIAM MAPLES, MD | President & CEO | The Institute for Healthcare Excellence
William Maples, MD, leads The Institute for Healthcare Excellence (IHE), where he and the faculty work with healthcare organizations to nurture the relational skills necessary to create a culture which embraces trust, respect, compassion and teamwork. This in turn creates an environment where quality, safety and efficiency efforts flourish.
Dr. Maples earned his undergraduate, Masters in Oncology and medical degrees at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He completed his residency and fellowship in Medical Oncology at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. Maples practiced medical oncology for 25 years at Mayo Clinic and helped lead the Mayo Clinic quality, safety and experience journey. He then served as Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer at Mission Health in Asheville, North Carolina, where he helped Mission Health navigate cultural transformation and become a leading healthcare organization recognized for its impeccable quality and safety. Dr. Maples more recently served as Chief Medical Officer of Professional Research Consultants, Inc. He is an Associate Professor of Oncology at the Mayo College of Medicine, and a Clinical Professor at Brooks College of Health at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
NICK DAWSON | National Executive Director of Innovation | Kaiser Permanente
As the executive innovation director for the largest non-profit healthcare provider in the United States, Nick guides innovation, emerging tech and strategic partnerships for Kaiser Permanente’s 13 million members, workers and providers.
Nick is a designer and has been at the forefront of bringing human-centered design to health care as a way to solve our most intractable, wicked problems. Previously, he led the Innovation Hub at Johns Hopkins Medicine, one of the first design-based innovation studios in a community hospital setting. In the Hub, Nick built and led a design team focused on reimagining patient care and community health. He also worked with President Obama’s White House to bring patient co-design to the forefront of health policy and national innovation efforts, including: the 2015 ebola response, President Obama’s precision medicine initiative, and the response to our opioid crisis.
Nick also serves as the Program Chair of Stanford’s Medicine X program in the Stanford School of Medicine. He skis in the winter, runs most days, and is forever restoring his antique Land Rover.
KEVIN STRANBERG, CPXP | Director of Strategy & Patient Experience | Memorial Medical Center
Kevin Stranberg is highly regarded and recognized for his work as a speaker, strategist, trainer and facilitator. Stranberg serves as the Director of Strategy and Patient Experience for Memorial Medical Center; President of Stranberg & Associates; and Senior Consultant with The Baird Group.
He has served in leadership roles for the Wisconsin Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society (WHPRMS) and the Society of Healthcare Strategy and Market Development, an AHA affiliate. He has presented at conference for the Beryl Institute, the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development and the Forum for Healthcare Strategists. Stranberg is the recipient of the Professional Excellence Award from the WHPRMS and is a Certified Patient Experience Professional (CPXP).
Dr. A. Leslie Gomez Martínez believes that healing can come in many forms and that in order to heal a disease, we have to address the person as a whole being by treating the emotional, mental and physical body—all connected to the spiritual. Because the emotional trauma of our ancestors and our own families has an impact on our health, it is crucial to address the past to release the body from biological conflict so it can heal.
Leslie is from Mexico City, where she received her medical degree from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico in 2000 and a pediatric degree from Hospital Español/Universidad La Salle in 2003. In 2006, she became head of the pediatric department of Hospiten Cancun Hospital. But Leslie’s spiritual journey began in 2003 with her partner who was a medical acupuncturist and who became her teacher. Leslie learned the connection between the organs and emotion, energy medicine and integrative medicine. It was during this training that Leslie discovered a surprising tool for healing children: by also healing their mothers’ minds and hearts. Leslie understood the incredible connection between mothers and their children, especially the first seven years of their lives and how the negative emotions affect the health of the child. She began helping the mothers of sick children with homeopathy, Bach flower remedies, acupuncture and other forms of energy medicine to release pain and past trauma. The result: mothers would become well, and their children would also heal.
Several years ago, Leslie joined Hope4cancer in Cancun, a worldwide leader in holistic and integrative oncology. She runs the BEST program (Behavior Emotional Spiritual Therapy) for the institute’s patients, providing emotional healing techniques using energy medicine and Recall Healing therapy. Leslie believes that cancer is often a messenger to resolve an unresolved conflict and can be passed along through ancestry.
For physicians, who have the highest rate of suicide of any profession in the United States, self care is vital to the work. Leslie practices emotional healing therapy for herself so that she is able to maintain such close bonds with her patients and can continue to serve, as she puts it, “as a little instrument in God’s orchestra.” With an open heart and trusting that God is the one that placed her where she is now, Leslie wants to share how crucial it is to address the emotional healing needed when one experiences a physical challenge. Leslie still works as a pediatrician, is a mother to a wonderful 5-year-old girl and, along with her husband, rescues street dogs and cats.
VICKIE RICE | Vice President of Innovative Strategies | CareATC
As a 20-year veteran of the benefits business and an expert in healthcare claims, analytics and product management, Vickie Rice is passionate about using data and technology to help save lives.
Rice spent a decade in key administrative roles at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma and then served as Product Manager for Data and Analytics at Benefitfocus, where she helped create innovative data tools to help both benefits administrators and consumers make fact-based decisions about their healthcare benefits.
In 2015, she joined CareATC as the Director of Analytics to use her years of claim and data analytics experience to help develop industry-leading reporting for her clients—as well as to support clinical staff and the patients they care for with analytic tools that allow CareATC doctors to make well-informed decisions about the best treatment options.
In her current role as VP of Innovative Strategies for CareATC, Rice has brought her passion for using data and technology to help patients live their healthiest lives to the organization’s Product Strategy team, leading them in their mission of offering world class healthcare services and solutions to their patients, providers and employer clients.
