Board of Directors

Officers

Jodi M. Sturgeon | Board Chair
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Donna Lichti, BS RN C | Board Vice Chair
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Lizanne Fontaine, JD, RN | Secretary
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Paul L. Wilder | Treasurer
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Directors

Dorian Alexander, MD

Amelia Corbie, MBA

Lionell G. Jackson, MBA

Neil Leibowitz, MD, JD

Tina (HsinTing) Liu, CPA, MBA

Lilliam Perez

Peter Rivera, JD

Althea Serrant

Chairs Emeriti

William Bifulco, MBA

Charles L. Burgess

Amanda Heron Parsons, MD, MBA

Directors Emeriti

Virginia Bird

Laura Parsons, PsyD

William M. Trust, Jr.

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Jodi M. Sturgeon is President of PHI, a nonprofit committed to improving quality care for older adults and people with disabilities by creating quality jobs for direct care workers—including the country’s four million home health aides, personal care aides, and certified nursing assistants. Under Jodi’s leadership, PHI has worked with hundreds of employers and achieved state and national policy victories elevating compensation for millions of home care workers. PHI sees investing in training, support, fair compensation, and advancement for caregivers as not only a social justice issue, but as essential to strengthening the U.S. health care system.

Jodi has worked in nonprofit management for 30 years. She previously held Vice President and Chief Operating and Financial Officer roles at PHI, introducing innovations that strengthened the organization’s infrastructure and programs. Prior to PHI, Jodi served as Vice President of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, where she directed investment in housing, jobs, and services for low-income individuals and families. Jodi is currently the Board Chair of VIP Community Services, a Bronx-based integrated medical, behavioral, housing, and social service organization and Board Treasurer of both Cooperative Home Care Associates in the Bronx, the largest worker-owned company in the country and Home Care Associates in Philadelphia.

Jodi received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Franklin Pierce University. She received an Advanced Certificate in Governmental Finance Administration from Southern New Hampshire University and completed the Senior Leaders Program for Nonprofit Professionals at Columbia Business School, Executive Education.

Donna Lichti is currently CEO of a Woman-Owned construction firm, Duro Electrical Contracting, Corp, specializing in commercial, retail, and government sponsored housing projects. The family run entity has been in business for over 30 years and she recently took the helm after the passing of her husband Charles, the founder.

Ms. Lichti was the Principal Consultant in a Women–Owned business, Strategic Healthcare Resources, LLC until 2022. SHR provided experienced healthcare leaders to organizations trying to solve an array of business issues including growth, niche markets and payer/provider transformation. Her client base ranged from technology firms in the health delivery and UM arena, post-acute providers, care management organizations and health plans redeveloping care management services.

Ms. Lichti acted as Senior Vice President of Market Development for VNSN,Y from 2012-2016, the country’s largest not-for-profit organization providing in-home nursing care, therapy and hospice, palliative services and managed health plan services to New Yorkers. Ms. Lichti led the growth of business by working across the entire organization to promote VNSNY as the optimum solution to address the needs of business-to-business customers, innovating care delivery and supporting the needs of integrated health systems, physician organizations, nursing facilities, community based organizations and commercial and government payors. Ms. Lichti established the VNSNY strategic approach to New York State DSRIP activities and led the efforts to develop a bid for lead PPS status. Eventually appointed as a lead PPS but withdrawing to partner with hospital based organizations, VNSNY carved out roles in 11 downstate PPS’s and Ms. Lichti became an executive committee member of two Lead PPS’s.

Previously, as the Senior Director, Channel Strategies and Innovation for Pfizer Inc’s Corporate and Government Customers, she primarily led strategic research and innovation for the managed markets channels of Pfizer Inc. Her focus was in care delivery, PCMH and ACO development and partnerships. She led program and resource development addressing market trends, partner development, policy and public relations activities. In prior years at Pfizer she led Strategic Initiatives and International Projects for Pfizer Health Solutions Inc (PHS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer Inc.

She led operational management of State Medicaid related programs for the chronically ill and underserved, managed partnerships with the State of Arkansas for childhood obesity and a 10 year disease and care management program with the State of Florida Medicaid division. Ms. Lichti designed innovative projects in the Employer and Government Channels as well as commercial health plans space. Ms. Lichti’s team had assisted in the development of projects in disease management and health improvement in the U.K., Italy and Finland.

Prior to joining Pfizer in 2002, Ms. Lichti held the position of Director of Business Development, Marketing and Sales for United Health Care’s Evercare Division in New York. She was primarily responsible for the care management product focusing on the institutionalized frail elderly and partnered with highly regarded nursing facilities in the Greater NY area.

Ms. Lichti’s prior experiences range from software development, communications and marketing to development of specialty healthcare business models. Ms. Lichti owned and operated home health care businesses in the North East and founded one of the first “infusion” based nursing services in the country.

Ms. Lichti acted as a board member of the newly formed Healthix, a health information exchange serving greater New York. Ms. Lichti is a graduate of Pace University Leinhard School of Nursing and is a Registered Nurse, graduated from SUNY with a Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration. She completed a Global Health Leadership Certification program through UCLA Berkeley School of Public Health and her Executive MBA Certificate from Notre Dame, Medozza College of Business.

A graduate of Dartmouth College, Lizanne received a law degree from the New York University School of Law. She began her career as a litigator at a large, New York City-based law firm, and subsequently began writing about legal developments involving high tech companies. After returning to NYU for a degree in nursing, Lizanne worked as counsel to the Chief Physician for the New York City Department of Education, and, for five years, as a nurse on a mobile medical clinic in underserved areas of Brooklyn.

Lizanne then worked in administrative capacities at several federally qualified health centers, and ultimately as Counsel at VIP Community Services, from which she retired. 

Lizanne has served on the board of several not-for-profits, including the Brooklyn Museum, Saint Ann’s School, and BRIC, an arts and media organization which she chaired for six years during the building of its home in downtown Brooklyn. She currently serves on the board of the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation, which supports nursing innovation and excellence; on the advisory board of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College; and as the board chair of The Brooklyn Hospital Center.

Paul L Wilder is Executive Director of CommonWell Health Alliance where he is leading the organization into a new chapter empowering clinicians, practitioners, and individuals with nationwide interoperability services. With over two decades in health IT, Paul has focused on imaging, clinical informatics, and interoperability.


Before CommonWell, Paul was Vice President of Strategy & Business Development for Philips Interoperability Solutions. He also spent nearly a decade at the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) as Chief Information Officer, VP of Product Management, and Program Director for the Regional Extension Center. At NYeC, he helped almost 10,000 primary care providers attest to Meaningful Use, establishing New York as a leader in health IT adoption.

 

Earlier, Paul worked at McKesson, Fujifilm Medical Systems, and GE Healthcare. He holds an MBA from New York University with a focus on Finance and Operations and dual bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Biomedical Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Paul lives in the New York area with his wife, two daughters, and their dog Penny.

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