Speakers
David Aronstein, President
& Founder, Stonewall Communities
Stephanie Blackwood,
Co-Founder and Accounts Director, Double
Platinum
Tim Blevins,
Head of Clinical Product Integration, Aetna,
Inc.
Rob Falk,
General Counsel, Human Rights
Campaign
Rebecca
Fox, Director, National Coalition for LGBT
Health
Clayton
Keen, Director of Business Development, CVS
Caremark Specialty
Jeffrey Levi, PhD, Senior
Policy Advisor, Trust for America's
Health
Harvey
Makadon, Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School; Director of Education
and Training, Fenway Institute; General
Medicine Staff Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center
Justin Nelson, President
and Co-Founder, National Gay & Lesbian
Chamber of Commerce
Michelle E. Phillips, Esq,
Jackson Lewis, LLP
Timothy Price, M.D., Price
Medical
Randy
Pumphrey, Site Manager for Mental Health
Services, Elizabeth Taylor Medical
Center
Jason E.
Ruff, Esq, Jackson Lewis, LLP
Winnie Stachelberg, Senior
Vice President of External Affairs, Center for
American Progress
Che
Tabisola, Research Center Manager, Human
Rights Campaign
David Aronstein, President & Founder, Stonewall Communities
David M. Aronstein - Founder and President of Stonewall Communities, whose mission is to build community among older LGBTs by creating residential, educational, social, and support opportunities. David was a management consultant to not-for-profit organizations, and has over 25 years experience creating and directing numerous human services programs.
He was part of the senior management of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts from 1985 to 1993. He is a co-founder of the Massachusetts LGBT Aging Project. He holds a BA from Yale, an MSW from Smith College, and is a certified Retirement Housing Professional through the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
Stephanie Blackwood, Co-Founder and Account Director, Double Platinum
In
September 2001, Stephanie co-founded with
Arthur Korant double platinum, a full-service
marketing communications agency that
specializes in the gay and lesbian market and
is affiliated with the Publicis Groupe, a
global network of nearly 1,000 marketing
agencies.
Double Platinum’s award-winning work has supported brands of Fortune 500 clients, including Allstate, IBM, ING, Lexus, Procter & Gamble Pernod Ricard USA, Nationwide and PricewaterhouseCoopers, among others, and highly respected nonprofits such as The Gill Foundation, GLSEN and Lambda Legal. /p>
Stephanie had previously started or partnered in three other GLBT-focused businesses: Spare Parts (1995), Blackwood and Friends Public Relations (1991) and the New York office of The Advocate, where she was associate publisher and vice president directing plans to reposition the nation’s oldest LGBT magazine. Prior to moving to New York, she worked at The Ohio State University, holding communications and management-related positions in women’s athletics, central administration and the University Galleries of Fine Art.
Stephanie speaks frequently at seminars, workshops and universities on GLBT marketing best practices, including the 2003 ANA Multicultural Marketing Conference, 2003, 2004 and 2006 Out and Equal Summits, 2005 Echelon Marketing Conference, 2006 NGLCC Conference in Montreal. In 2007, she has spoke at the NGLCC Annual Conference in Miami, Midwest GLBT Marketing Conference in Minneapolis, AARP Conference on Aging and Diversity in Los Angeles, Pride Company Conference in Amsterdam and IGLCC Conference in Barcelona. She volunteers extensively in the GLBT community and currently serves on the board of directors of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice and Commercial Closet Association. Additionally, she is an advisor to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and Live Out Loud.
Tim Blevins, Head of Clinical Product Integration, Aetna, Inc
Tim Blevins
has 25 years of healthcare management
experience and is currently Head of Clinical
Product and Integration within the Aetna
eHealth and Medical Benefit Product Unit. In
this capacity, Tim provides clinical and
business oversight for the Aetna Health
Connections portfolio, including Aetna’s
Health and Productivity Management Strategy,
Wellness, Aetna Integrated Health SolutionSM,
Integrated Health and Disability, Integrated
Medical and Behavioral Health, Dental/Medical
Integration and Medical/Pharmacy Integration.
He directs and guides strategic, clinical and
promotional development plans for optimal
health and fosters collaboration throughout the
Aetna organization in order to develop programs
and linkages that improve member access to
quality health care services.
During Tim’s tenure at Aetna, he developed Aetna's Focused Psychiatric Review program and the enterprise-wide eProvider Strategic Plan, which resulted in significant improvements in provider-payor electronic transaction capabilities. He served as Director of Behavioral Health Network Management and Area Operations Director for Mid-Atlantic States. Recently, Tim led the development of Aetna’s Enhanced Member Outreach program, which provides identification, outreach and referral services to Aetna’s medical management programs. Tim has an undergraduate degree from Stetson University and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Connecticut. He is a licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Connecticut.
Rob Falk, General Counsel, Human Rights Campaign
Rob Falk serves as the Human Rights Campaign’s general counsel and joined the organization in 2006. He supports the organization’s work by advising both the Human Rights Campaign and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation on legal issues including election and campaign finance law, non-profit tax issues, real estate, human resources matters and intellectual property.
Prior to joining HRC’s staff, Falk served as general counsel of the Whitman-Walker Clinic and acting general counsel at D.C. General Hospital. He has 15 years of private practice experience in prominent national law firms where he concentrated on health care issues. He graduated from Yale Law School and went to Princeton University as an undergraduate. He is also a previous recipient of HRC’s Ally of Justice award.
Rebecca Fox, Director, National Coalition for LGBT Health
Rebecca Fox is the Director of the National Coalition for LGBT Health, leading organizations nationwide to work together to improve the lives and health of LGBT people through advocacy, outreach, and education. She also teaches human sexuality at the George Washington University. She serves on the boards of Choice USA, a national organization that mobilizes and supports the diverse, upcoming generation of leaders who promote and protect reproductive choice, and the Washington Area Clinic Defense Task Force (WACDTF), a local organization working to ensure access for all women to reproductive health services.
Prior to coming to the Coalition, Fox worked as the Assistant Director for Public Policy at SIECUS, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. In this position, she assisted the work of state level groups and coalitions working to ensure comprehensive sexuality education and working to stem the tide of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. Before SIECUS, she worked at the National Partnership for Women and Families where she monitored federal level legislation pertaining to health insurance, gender-based discrimination, and reproductive rights. Her experience includes assisting in a free medical clinic for women and providing services and programming for people living with HIV/AIDS, homeless youth, and children of LGBTQ parents.
Clayton Keen, Director of Business
Development, CVS Caremark Specialty
Mr. Keene has over 14 years experience in specialized healthcare, and is currently the Director of Business Development for CVS Caremark Specialty (Legacy PharmaCare Specialty Pharmacy). Prior to that, Mr. Keene was appointed as the Director of Strategic Planning and Policy in the New York City Mayor’s Office, focusing primarily on infectious disease surveillance, research and planning. Previous work experience includes the Area Vice President of Marketing and Sales for RxStrategies, a federal government drug pricing consulting firm, and National Director of HIV Sales and Marketing for Stadtlander Specialty Pharmacy, LLC. Mr. Keene is a member of the Board of Directors for the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, and holds two Master’s Degrees in Healthcare Management and Social Work, both from New York University.
Jeffrey Levi, P.H.D., Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, George Washington School of Public Health and Health Services
Professor
Levi is at once an activist determined to make
the public health and health care systems more
responsive to those most in need and a teacher
committed to training a new generation of
health policy workers in research and practice.
"I see my academic work as a continuation of
the activist and policy work I have done
throughout my career," he says. "Teaching
forces me to think and communicate more clearly
about how I do my work; my research and
practice keeps my teaching current and relevant
to the future work of our students." Among
other faculty duties, he is director of the MPH
Health Policy concentration.
Professor Levi also serves as senior policy advisor at Trust for America's Health, which works to protect the health of the nation's communities and to make disease prevention a national priority. He has been associate editor of the American Journal of Public Health, where he was responsible for reviewing all HIV-related articles. Prior to coming to GW in 1997, Professor Levi was deputy director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy and served in various executive capacities at the AIDS Action Council, the AIDS Action Foundation and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Harvey Makadon, Director of Education and Training, Fenway Institute
Prior to joining HMI, Dr. Makadon chaired
the HIV/AIDS Curriculum Stewardship Committee
at Harvard Medical School and developed the
primary care based HIV/AIDS program at Beth
Israel Hospital. He was a member of the US
Public Health Service, Health Resources and
Services Administration’s AIDS Advisory
Committee. Dr. Makadon was the founder and
Chair of the Steering Committee of the Boston
AIDS Consortium. He founded and chaired the
AIDS Task Force of the Society of General
Medicine. He was Co-Director of HIV Prevention:
Looking Back, Looking Ahead, collaboration with
the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at UCSF
funded by the Kaiser Family Foundation. He was
a member of the HIV Clinical Practice
Guidelines Panel for the Agency for Health Care
Policy and Research of the US Public Health
Service. He has written numerous articles and
reviews on HIV care and education.
While at HMI, Dr. Makadon founded an NGO in Mumbai that is focused on training caregivers in the art of providing care with people with HIV and AIDS. He is working to develop an HIV Center of Excellence with Sri Ramachandra Medical Center and Research Institute in Chennai, India. He has also been asked to serve as the Chair of the International Medical Advisory Board of Humsafar Trust, the largest MSM organization in Asia, which is also based in Mumbai.
Dr. Makadon is also currently the Director of Education and Training at Fenway Community Health in Boston. He is the lead editor on a book on LGBT health with TFI co-editors Kenneth Mayer and Hilary Goldhammer and Jennifer Potter from BIDMC, that has just been published by the American College of Physicians. He is currently working with colleagues at Fenway and around the country to develop a curriculum on LGBT health for clinicians at all levels.
Michelle E. Phillips, Esq, Partner, Jackson Lewis, LLP
Michelle E.
Phillips is a partner in the White Plains
office of Jackson Lewis LLP. Ms. Phillips
received her bachelor’s degree summa cum
laude, from Clark University in 1985. She was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1984 and she
received her Juris Doctor degree from New York
University School of Law in 1988. She is a
member of the New York Bar and is admitted to
practice in the Southern and Eastern Districts
of New York as well as the United States Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Michelle E. Phillips, is the founder and
Chairperson of Jackson Lewis' GLPG (Gay &
Lesbian Practice Group) as well as a member of
the firm's Diversity Committee. Michelle is a
featured speaker at the National Out &
Equal Workplace Summits, Out & Equal NY
Metro Regional Council, the NY Out
Professionals and at the National Gay &
Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Annual Conferences.
Ms. Phillips conducts training on race, ethnic,
intergenerational, interfaith, LGBT & other
inclusion issues. She is a national speaker on
such issues as an employer's duty to
accommodate the sincerely held religious
beliefs of employees, sexual stereotyping in
the workplace and respecting each individual's
gender identity & expression.
As a former member of the Women in the Courts Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, she organized a Sexual Harassment Seminar in May, 1994 entitled “Sexual Harassment: In Whose Eyes?” that was endorsed by over ten bar associations’ committees and was widely attended by both public and private sector clients. As a former member of the Committee on Military Affairs and Justice from 1997 to 1999, Michelle assisted with a seminar sponsored by the New York City Bar Association concerning Sexual Harassment In The Military in the spring of 1998.
Timothy Price, M.D., Price Medical
Dr. Timothy Price has been working on issues related to gay health for the past 20 years. He trained as an Internal Medicine specialist then completed an Infectious Diseases fellowship at George Washington University. He currently has a private practice, Price Medical, caring for a largely gay male population in Washington DC. He specializes in primary care/internal medicine with a sub-specialty in HIV/AIDS care.
Randy Pumphery, Site Manager for Mental Health Services, Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center
Randy
Pumphrey has worked as a Behavioral Healthcare
provider in Washington DC for over twenty years
as a Board Certified Chaplain and a Licensed
Professional Counselor. Dr. Pumphrey began his
career and worked for 13 years as the
Administrative Chaplain of the Acute
Psychiatric Hospital for the Commission on
Mental Health of the District of Columbia. For
the past nine years he has been the Clinical
Director of the Lambda Center at The
Psychiatric Institute of Washington. Dr.
Pumphrey now works as the Site Manager over
Mental Health Services for the NW Sites of
Whitman Walker Clinic and has a Private
Practice here in Washington DC. He serves on
the Crystal Meth. Working Group and speaks
regularly on issues related to LGBT mental
health and addiction treatment.
Jason E. Ruff, Esq, Associate, Jackson Lewis, LLP
Jason E.
Ruff is an associate in the Morristown, NJ
office of Jackson Lewis LLP. He is a graduate
of Ithaca College (B.A., 1990) and received his
juris doctor degree from The Pennsylvania State
University Dickinson School of Law (cum laude,
2006). He is a member of the New Jersey and
Pennsylvania Bars and is admitted to practice
in the District of New Jersey and the Eastern
and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania. Mr. Ruff
was a Dean’s Scholarship recipient in law
school and served as a senior editor of the
Penn State International Law Review, where he
published an article on sex discrimination law
in the U.S. and the U.K. He currently counsels
employers on how to create and maintain
issue-free workplaces and represents management
in a wide variety of labor and employment law
matters.
Winnie Stachelberg, Senior Vice President of External Affairs, Center for American Progress
Winnie
Stachelberg is the Senior Vice President for
External Affairs at the Center for American
Progress. Prior to joining the Center, she
spent 11 years with the Human Rights Campaign,
the nation's largest gay civil rights
organization. In January 2005 Stachelberg was
appointed to the newly created position of Vice
President of the Human Rights Campaign
Foundation. Charged with revamping HRC's
Foundation, Stachelberg's early priorities
included building a think tank, launching a
religion and faith program and rebuilding the
National Coming Out Project.
Previously, she was HRC's political director, initiating and leading the expansion of HRC's legislative, political and electoral strategies. Stachelberg joined HRC in 1994 as senior health policy advocate and helped to establish the organization as a key advocate in HIV/AIDS, lesbian health and other health care issues affecting the GLBT community.
Before joining HRC, Stachelberg worked at the Office of Management and Budget in both the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations, formulating and reviewing health care policies and budgets for the Department of Health and Human Services. A native New Yorker, Stachelberg taught at George Washington High School after graduating Georgetown University. She received a Master of Public Administration from George Washington University.
Che Tabisola, Research Center Manager, Human Rights Campaign
Before
joining HRC Tabisola served as a Research
Assistant for the Belgian public policy group
Human Rights Without Frontiers, where he
studied conflict mitigation in Nepal and
advocated for protections of North Korean
refugees in China. Following the 2004 Indian
Ocean tsunami, he traveled to Sir Lanka to
research the effects of the humanitarian aid
effort on the country’s ongoing civil
war.
In 2003 he founded the AGT Lifelong Learner Award at Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, a scholarship for working adults returning to university. He also has more than four years experience as a crime and government reporter in Southern California.
Tabisola joined the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in June 2006 as the Research Center Fellow. As Research Center Manager, Tabisola has been charged with overseeing the public opinion research partnership with Hunter College CUNY and the continuing development of the first national archive of opinion polls about LGBT Americans and the issues affecting them. His other responsibilities include working with leading LGBT scholars, coordinating research, and organizing academic symposia. He is a member of the American Political Science Association and American Evaluation Association.
Tabisola holds a master’s degree in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent at Canterbury.