Board of Directors
Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., M.D., received his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and is currently Professor of Surgery and Professor of Health Policy in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Previously, he held the Chairmanship of the Department of Surgery of The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City (1974-1996), served as a Trustee of the New York Academy of Medicine (1991-1999) and has been a member of the New York State Transplant Council since its inception in 1991. He is a Past-President of the American College of Gastroenterology, the Association of Program Directors in Surgery, and the New York Surgical Society, and has also held leadership positions in the American College of Surgeons, the American Surgical Association and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. Dr. Aufses has published more than 240 papers and book chapters including two volumes on the history of Mount Sinai; his major clinical and research interests have been in inflammatory bowel disease and surgical education.
Micki M. Chen is general counsel for Verizon Long Distance. She is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and on the board of directors of Renovation in Music Education, a non-profit organization that provides music education to underprivileged children. Ms. Chen is a graduate of the Harvard Law School.
Daniel A. DeVito, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, is an expert litigator in intellectual property matters and is a registered patent attorney specializing in software, business method and e-commerce patents. Mr. DeVito is a graduate of St. John’s University School of Law.
Edith Everett is the president of the Everett Foundation. Mrs. Everett and her late husband, Henry, created this family foundation in 1955. For over thirty years Mrs. Everett was a senior vice president of Investments at Gruntal & Co., a New York Stock Exchange member firm. She entered the male-dominated world of Wall Street in 1961, becoming one of the few women of her generation to work in this field. Prior to her career in the financial world, Mrs. Everett was an elementary school teacher in New York City.
Salomeh Keyhani, M.D. (Secretary) is Assistant Professor of Health Policy and General Internal Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Dr. Keyhani graduated from the UC Davis Medical School and went on to complete residency training in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar program at Johns Hopkins. She is a practicing primary care internist and a health services researcher.
Alan Lubin (Treasurer) is the executive vice president of the New York State United Teachers, the 500,000 member union of educators in the state. He also serves as a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers and is a member of the executive committee of the New York State AFL-CIO. Mr. Lubin is a trustee of the NYSUT Member Benefits Fund, the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund, and the Nurses Benefit Fund.
Marilyn Moon is vice president and director of the Health Program at the American Institutes for Research. One of the nations’s leading health care economists, Dr. Moon has also served as a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and as a public trustee for the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. She was also a senior analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, and the founding director of AARP’s Public Policy Institute. Dr. Moon earned a Ph.D. in economics and was an associate professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin.
Joel L. Olah is executive director of Aging Resources of Central Iowa located in Des Moines. Dr. Olah has over 30 years of professional service experience in aging and health care administration, and is a frequent lecturer on public policy and aging for universities, medical schools and health centers. He holds a Master's degree, Specialist in Aging, and a doctorate in Educational Gerontology from the University of Michigan.
Donna Regenstreif (Vice President) retired from full-time employment at the John A Hartford Foundation in 2005, and is currently consulting in geriatrics and gerontology. (She can be reached at donna@geroconcepts.com). Before her tenure at the Hartford Foundation, Dr. Regenstreif held a variety of positions in health care and higher education, including teaching anthropology at the undergraduate level; academic administration; development and management of hospital-based primary care medical practice and other ambulatory services; and management of implementation and R&D for a community-wide hospital financing demonstration. Dr. Regenstreif earned her masters and doctoral degrees in Cultural Anthropology from Cornell University.
Bruce Vladeck (President) is an Executive Director at Ernst & Young's Health Sciences Advisory Services (HSAS) practice. Prior to assuming this position, he served for sixteen months as Interim President of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). Dr. Vladeck was at Ernst & Young's HSAS from 2004 to 2006 as Senior Health Policy Advisor and the East Coast Director for the firm's Academic Medical Center (AMC) service line. Prior to joining E&Y, Dr. Vladeck was Professor of Health Policy and Geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He is a member of the NYC Board of Health, a Trustee of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, and a member of the Editorial Board of Health Affairs. From 1993 through 1997, Dr. Vladeck was Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA-now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Subsequent to his service at HCFA, Dr. Vladeck was appointed by President Clinton to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Dr. Vladeck has served as President of the United Hospital Fund of New York, and has held senior positions at Columbia University and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; from 1979 through 1982 he was Assistant Commissioner of the New Jersey State Department of Health. At the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected in 1986, Dr. Vladeck chaired the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People. Among many other honors and awards, Dr. Vladeck received the 1995 National Public Service Award and the 2005 Robert M. Ball Award of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Dr. Vladeck has published widely, perhaps most notably his book, Unloving Care: The Nursing Home Tragedy (Basic Books: 1980). He received his BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard College; and an MA and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan.