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Ann Ford, Chair
Ann Ford is an attorney at Malecki Brooks Ford with over 25 years providing legal and advisory services to clients in the healthcare industry. Ms. Ford’s extensive healthcare career and breadth of experience informs her client-focused approach to providing legal and advisory services. Her legal experience began in private practice at Lord Bissell and Brook and then with Anderson Rasor and Partners. Building on that experience, Ms. Ford became Vice President, General Counsel for Rush North Shore Medical Center followed by Vice President, General Counsel for Rush Copley Medical Center. In 2010, Ms. Ford joined Medline Industries, Inc. as Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer rounding out her corporate experience. Prior to joining Malecki Brooks, Ms. Ford was a partner at Hall Prangle and Schoonveld, LLC and Managing Director of its consulting arm, HPS Advise, advising healthcare organizations, hospital systems and medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers in areas of compliance, risk management, governance, physician contracts and credentialing.
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Carla Robinson, Vice-Chair
Carla Robinson is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Canary Telehealth, a telehealth services company working with payers and providers to increase access to care and detect issues early for high-risk patients. Her firm works extensively in the home setting—providing services such as in-home diabetic retinopathy screening, remote monitoring, health risk screening, and other digital health solutions. Previously,as a McKinsey & Company consultant, Carla worked in management consulting, serving some of the world’s largest organizations. She worked extensively with healthcare clients in areas such as medical devices, wellness, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and nanobiotechnology. Her work included markets in the United States, China, Japan, Australia and France. Robinson holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she was named an Austin Scholar. She received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Howard University with honors.
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Sheryl Tatar Dacso: Secretary
Sheryl Tatar Dacso works with health care organizations, hospitals, and physicians on health care compliance, regulations, and transactions, including physician practice formation, mergers, acquisitions, and business ventures as well as digital health and telemedicine. A Texas Board Certified Health Care Lawyer with more than three decades of experience, her practice includes the representation of nonprofit organizations such as federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, certified nonprofit health corporations, medical education foundations, and research organizations. She often advises on employer or retail-based clinics, joint ventures involving exempt and nonexempt organizations and addresses issues associated with health organization governance and regulatory compliance.
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Dr. Richard Bernstein
As Professor of Neurology, Northwestern Medicine, Richard Bernstein focuses on neurovascular critical care, stroke, stroke of unknown cause, stroke in young people, acute stroke therapy, atrial fibrillation, and stem cell therapy for stroke. He received his doctorate from Cornell Weill Medical College in 1996 and interned at Mount Sinai Hospital, Illinois. He was a resident at New York Presbyterian Hospital as a neurologist Neurology and a fellow at the University of California-San Francisco Medical Center. He is Board Certified in Neurology and in Vascular Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
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Erin Dougherty Foley
Erin Foley is a partner at Seyforth. Attracting, retaining, and managing the performance of employees presents unique and often demanding challenges to employers. Erin provides her clients with proactive and practical advice on how to navigate these challenges. She is also a seasoned employment defense trial lawyer who understands the importance of preparation and partnership with her clients to achieve the right outcome for the situation and the client.
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Elizabeth Connolly
Elizabeth Connolly is currently General Counsel and Executive Vice President at Sinai Health System, a safety net healthcare system serving the west and southwest sides of Chicago. Prior to her time as a healthcare lawyer, Connolly served as a registered nurse. Her careers in both healthcare and the legal system provide insight into numerous programs within the colleges at Roosevelt. Before joining the Board of Trustees, Connolly was also a member of the University’s Women’s Leadership Council. As a healthcare lawyer, Connolly has represented hospitals and health care professionals in a variety of matters, providing practical advice to Senior Management and the Board. She is devoted to promoting equity in health outcomes and uses her legal expertise in furtherance of this goal. Connolly is also dedicated to the pursuits of diversity, equity, and inclusion, with an eye on the capabilities of higher education to positively impact the health and wellbeing of the community. She is eager to join the board of such a diverse university that champions social justice as a tenet of education.
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LaDale George
LaDale George is a partner at Perkins Coie. Pregulatory compliance practice on advising healthcare clients and his transactional counsel on healthcare and non-healthcare corporate matters. He guides clients engaged in traditional and innovative healthcare businesses through complicated regulatory frameworks, including FDA, OHRP, NIH, and ORI regulated clinical research, clinical development, and post-approval marketing compliance; telehealth/telemedicine and multi-state provider licensing compliance; Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute compliance; FTC and CMS regulated clinical integration, and federal research grant management compliance. His corporate practice focuses on representing healthcare and non-healthcare businesses in corporate formations and governance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, licensing arrangements, and joint ventures, including strategic affiliations and clinical integrations.
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Angie Grover
Angie Grover is a co-founder of Metopio. Metopio was created by data scientists, healthcare executives and public health champions who needed a tool that could deliver and communicate actionable insights about places and populations to drive better policy and business decisions. The platform is a start-to-finish, analytics as a service tool that brings together data, analytics and insights into one place so you can ask a question, get an answer, and accelerate your impact. Prior to launching Metopio, she served as the Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy at AMITA Health, the largest health system based in Illinois which includes 19 hospitals, 230 sites of care powered by more than 26,000 dedicated employees serving over 6 million patients in the Chicagoland area. Angie identified opportunities for the health system to make a difference, and won awards for her work to advance telehealth in the state.
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Rick Hindmand
Rick is Counsel at McDonald Hopkins where he helps healthcare professionals, organizations and advisers structure their operations and arrangements to address legal, compliance and business challenges while advancing and protecting their interests. He focuses his practice on healthcare regulatory, data privacy, cybersecurity, corporate, and transactional matters. Rick represents physicians and other healthcare providers and organizations in structuring group practices, joint ventures, ambulatory surgery centers, provider networks, physician/ hospital affiliations and accountable care organizations (ACOs), as well as arrangements to provide ancillary services, telehealth, chronic care management, remote patient monitoring, and physician in-office dispensing of prescription drugs. His services extend to various corporate and transactional matters, including practice acquisitions and managed care, billing, management, compensation, employment, independent contractor, and other service arrangements. Rick is active in the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys.
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Laura Hepp Kessel
Laura Hepp Kessel, MSW, is the Director of Telehealth Services for the SIU School of Medicine. In her role with SIU, Laura is responsible for managing SIU’s telehealth activities. Laura represents SIU as a member of the Governor’s Rural Affairs Council (GRAC), as the West Central District Chair with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Illinois Chapter, and as the Chair of Rural Partners (the state’s rural development council). She previously worked at the Illinois State Board of Education, for Illinois Lt. Governor Sheila Simon, and as a community organizer in southern Illinois. Laura earned a Master Degree in Social Work from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis as well as a Bachelor Degree of Science in Social Work from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale. Laura grew up in southern Illinois but currently lives in Canton.
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Thomas Kiesau
Thomas Kiesau is a Director with The Chartis Group and the Leader of Chartis Digital, the firm’s business unit dedicated to digital transformation planning and execution across the healthcare arena. Prior to assuming leadership of Chartis Digital, he led the firm’s Strategy Practice Area. With more than 20 years of experience, Mr. Kiesau has served as an advisor to many of the nation’s leading children’s hospitals, academic health centers, faculty practice groups, integrated health systems and community hospitals. He directs consulting engagements in the areas of: digital transformation, enterprise strategic planning, clinical partnership development, next-generation service line growth strategy and economic alignment. Mr. Kiesau has also participated in the development of corporate strategy and product development strategy for multiple integrated business process and technology firms that serve the healthcare industry.
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Lisa Mazur, Chair
Lisa Schmitz Mazur is a partner of the Chicago office of McDermott Will and Emery. She advises health care providers and technology companies on a variety of legal, regulatory and compliance matters with a particular focus on digital health topics, including telehealth, telemedicine, mobile health and consumer wellness. In addition to extensive writing on matters related to her digital health practice, Lisa has spoken at numerous conferences on a variety of digital health topics. She is a co-editor of McDermott’s Of Digital Interest blog, co-chairs the Interstate Collaboration in Healthcare Stakeholder Group and chairs the Illinois Telehealth Law Forum Program Planning Committee. Lisa also co-leads the Firm’s Digital Health affinity group, bringing together McDermott Health lawyers to develop thought leadership, share information and collaborate on best practices.
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Laura Messineo
Laura Messineo, Vice President for Virtual Health, Highmark Health, is a dynamic nursing leader in the healthcare industry. Her innovative nursing leadership skills enable her to successfully align corporate strategic goals to operationalize clinical and financial targets. With over a decade of experience within the telemedicine industry, Laura has proven successes implementing telehealth solutions to drive performance and financial metrics. Laura speaks nationally on a variety of topics and sits on various professional boards.
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Bruce Montgomery
Bruce Montgomery is the CEO of Technology Access Television (TATV.org) and hosts the longest running local technology-based television show in Chicago. He is Director and Co-Founder of the Chicago New Media Summit (CNMS08), and a member of the Board of the Illinois Technology Association. Bruce has also been a regular participant and contributor to the Governor’s Broadband Deployment Council since its inception in 2005. He is producer and host of “Critics in Black,” a weekly entertainment review TV talk show that covers film video, music and nightlife in Chicago and around the world.
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