Health Leader Forge

Mark Bonica

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The Health Leader Forge is a long form podcast featuring in-depth interviews with leaders who work in health and healthcare. In each interview, we explore the leader's career, discuss their current role and organization, and then conclude with their views on leadership. healthleaderforge.substack.com

08/08/2024

Jen Gilkie, Chief Marketing Officer for Dartmouth Health

Today’s guest is Jen Gilkie, Chief Marketing Officer for Dartmouth Health, one of the largest health systems in northern New England. Jen has had a fascinating and surprising career journey from studying theater here at the University of New Hampshire to being the chief of staff for the 2014 Super Bowl Host Committee to finding her way to healthcare and marketing. In this podcast we discuss rebranding, messaging during COVID, and more. Thank you for reading Health Leader Forge. This post is public so feel free to share it. Links discussed in this podcast: Dartmouth Health https://www.dartmouth-health.org/ NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital https://www.nyp.org/ UNH Theatre and Dance https://cola.unh.edu/theatre-dance Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts https://www.lincolncenter.org/home Other options to listen to this podcast: YouTube: Apple Podcasts: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healthleaderforge.substack.com

1h 14m
07/11/2024

Chris Dougherty, CEO, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

Today’s guest is Chris Dougherty, President and CEO of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont. Chris knew from a young age that he wanted to be a healthcare leader to serve the most vulnerable in our communities. He has done exactly that, having been a hospital CEO on both coasts and in Texas. In this podcast, Chris shares his career journey and the lessons he learned from working in different types of hospitals and in different geographies, leading up to his current role as CEO of a community hospital here in northern New England. Thanks for reading Health Leader Forge! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Links discussed in this podcast: Brattleboro Memorial Hospital https://www.bmhvt.org/ Shriners for Children Medical Center in Pasadena, CA https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/locations/southern-california Covenant Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Lakeside Campus https://www.providence.org/locations/covenant-health/childrens-hospital Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia https://www.chop.edu/ Other options to listen to this podcast: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healthleaderforge.substack.com

1h 31m
03/15/2024

Darin Roark, President of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital

Today’s guest is Darin Roark, President and Chief Operating Officer of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, New Hampshire. Darin has an unusual path, from working in an insurance company to becoming a nurse specialized in emergency medicine and intensive care, to leading large organizations. His path also took him from Illinois to Florida to Dover, New Hampshire, just one town over from UNH. I really enjoyed hearing Darin’s story and learning about his deep commitment to patient care while also incorporating a deep understanding of business. Thanks for reading Health Leader Forge! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Links discussed on this podcast: * Wentworth-Douglass Hospital https://www.wdhospital.org/wdh * Mass General Brigham https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en * Baptist Medical Center Clay https://www.baptistjax.com/locations/baptist-medical-center-clay * Advocate Health Care https://www.advocatehealth.com/ * Carle Foundation Hospital https://carle.org/locations/carle-foundation-hospital Other options to listen to the podcast: Spotify Apple Podcasts * YouTube https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWAR9LUGZi4mT4d01Lo_VqU4TxJKoW0Fu&si=FtHyR4Nym9bQSGRV This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healthleaderforge.substack.com

1h 25m
01/15/2024

Kelly Barton, President of Maine Behavioral Healthcare

Today’s guest is Kelly Barton, President of Maine Behavioral Healthcare, part of the MaineHealth System. Maine Behavioral Healthcare offers a full spectrum of behavioral health care, from community-based counseling and rehabilitation to a dedicated behavioral health hospital. In this podcast we talk about Kelly’s career journey starting as a unit coordinator in the emergency department through leadership roles in a variety of organizations. We discuss some of the challenges facing behavioral health providers currently, and we close on a discussion of leadership. Links discussed on this podcast: * Maine Behavioral Healthcare https://www.mainehealth.org/maine-behavioral-healthcare * MaineHealth https://www.mainehealth.org/ * Community Health Network https://www.ecommunity.com/ * Gundersen Health System https://www.gundersenhealth.org/ Other options to listen to the podcast: * Apple Podcasts * YouTube: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healthleaderforge.substack.com

1h 5m
12/18/2023

Paul Forte, PhD, CEO of FedPoint

Today’s guest is Paul E. Fort, the CEO of FedPoint. FedPoint is a fast-growing provider of benefit administration and technology solutions for large institutional sponsors, with focus on the federal government of the United States and its numerous departments and agencies. In this podcast we talk about Paul’s unusual career journey to become an insurance executive – he first earned a PhD in Renaissance English Literature before making his way into the insurance industry. Paul began working in the long-term care insurance space in the late ‘80’s, and has been a leader in the field for decades. Not only has he led FedPoint’s growth, but he has also published a number of articles making recommendations to the industry on how to reform long-term care insurance to make it more affordable and sustainable. We close on a discussion of leadership. Links to podcast: Spotify YouTube: Apple Podcasts: Links to Topics Discussed: FedPoint NYT/KFF article discussed: Facing Financial Ruin as Costs Soar for Elder Care Paul Forte, Realigning LTCI—Private Long-Term Care Insurance and the Health Care Continuum Richard Hooker Wikipedia Site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healthleaderforge.substack.com

1h 19m
10/25/2022

Dr. Jeffrey Fetter, Chief Medical Officer, New Hampshire State Hospital

Today’s guest is Dr. Jeffrey Fetter, the Chief Medical Officer for the New Hampshire State Hospital. Dr. Fetter is a board-certified physician in both internal medicine and psychiatry, and has spent his career caring for some of the most vulnerable patients in New Hampshire. The New Hampshire State Hospital is a secure, inpatient psychiatric hospital for patients with serious mental illness. In this podcast we talk about Dr. Fetter’s journey through medicine, including how he was sure the one specialty he would not do was psychiatry, to his previous roles as the chief medical officer for a community mental health clinic and chief medical officer for the New Hampshire state prison system. This is a great conversation about the practice of medicine, but also about the importance of physician leadership. For more information, please see our website, https://healthleaderforge.blogspot.com/2022/10/dr-jeffrey-fetter-md-chief-medical.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healthleaderforge.substack.com

1h 31m
09/15/2022

Jason Dupuis, Chief Patient Experience Officer, PM Pediatrics Health

Today’s guest is Jason Dupuis, the Chief Patient Experience Officer for PM Pediatrics Health. In this podcast we talk about his early career at Boston Children’s where he rose to the director of the Emergency Department before he was thirty, and then how he got a job with PM Pediatrics when it was an emerging pediatrics urgent care chain because he had written his master’s thesis on the need for pediatrics urgent care in Massachusetts. When the founders heard what he had written, they told him to write his own job description. I had a lot of fun with this interview because Jason is also an alumni of my department’s undergraduate program and I’ve known him for several years, though I had never had the chance to hear his whole story. For more information, please see our website: https://healthleaderforge.blogspot.com/2022/09/jason-dupuis-chief-patient-experience.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healthleaderforge.substack.com

1h 32m
08/18/2022

Dr. Bill Hudenko, PhD, Global Head of Mental Health at K Health

Today’s guest is Dr. Bill Hudenko. Dr. Hudenko is a licensed psychologist who has extensive clinical experience working with children who have disruptive-behavior disorders and autism-spectrum disorders. Dr. Hudenko is is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of clinical psychology at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine. He is also an entrepreneur and innovator in the area text-based behavioral health care. In this interview, we talk about how he came to the field of psychology, his research into laughter, and how his love of technology, and desire for an iPad, led him to explore text-based psychotherapy, and ultimately set him on the road to being an entrepreneur in the field of behavioral health. You’ll hear me say, “wow!” a lot in this interview because Dr. Hudenko’s research and entrepreneurial efforts, especially now with his role at K-Health, seem to promise real improvements in cost, access, and quality for healthcare. For more information, please go to https://healthleaderforge.blogspot.com/2022/08/dr-bill-hudenko-phd-global-head-of.html This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit healthleaderforge.substack.com

1h 40m

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The Health Leader Forge is a long form podcast featuring in-depth interviews with leaders who work in health and healthcare. In each interview, we explore the leader's career, discuss their current role and organization, and then conclude with their views on leadership. healthleaderforge.substack.com

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Mark Bonica
Years Active

2015 - 2024
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144
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