MHA Program Advisory Board
The MHA Program is guided by an Advisory Board comprised of healthcare executives and managers from the Long Island and New York Metropolitan area. The Advisory Board meets twice annually to review critical issues in the health administration field and to identify areas of improvement in the MHA Program curriculum, further preparing MHA Program graduates to meet the changing demands of the health services industry.
The members of the 2024-2025 MHA Program Advisory Board include:
Andrew Danziger, MHA
Assistant Administrator, Department of Orthopaedics, Stony Brook Medicine
MHA alumni
Wendy Darwell, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer - Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council, Inc. and Northern Metropolitan Hospital Association, Suburban Hospital Alliance of New York State
Lawrence E. Eisenstein, MD, MPH, FACP
Vice President & Chief Public and Community Health Officer, Catholic Health
Kenneth W. Gow, MD, MHA, FACS, FAAP
Pediatric Surgeon in Chief
Division Chief, Pediatric Surgery
Knapp Swezey Endowed Chair of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stony Brook Medicine
John Hutter, MBA, MS, FACHE, FACMPE
Executive Administrative Officer - Stony Brook Clinical Practice Management Plan (CPMP)
Stony Brook Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Executive – Stony Brook Medicine; Executive Director for the Stony Brook Medicine Clinically Integrated Network (CIN)
Gerald Kelly, DO
Chief Information Officer, Stony Brook Medicine
Cynthia Khan, MBA
Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning - Northwell Health
Lauren Leace, PHR
Associate Executive Director, Human Resources - Peconic Bay Medical, Northwell Health
Maxine Legall, MBA, MSW, CPXP
CEO/Founder, Thrive Inclusively
Kevin McGeachy, MBA, FACHE
President, Mather Memorial Hospital, Northwell Health
Randi Mednick, MHA
Vice President, Corporate Strategic Planning - Catholic Health
Eric Morley, MD, MHA, MS, CPHQ
Chief Quality Officer, Stony Brook Medicine
MHA alumni
Jaclyn Mucaria, MPA, FACHE
Hospital President, New York-Presbyterian (NYP) Queens Hospital
Lisa O'Connor, RN, BSN, MS
Senior Managing Director - FTI Consulting
L. Reuven Pasternak, MD, MPH, MBA
President - Sempart, Inc.
Fred Sganga, MPH, FACHE, LNHA
Executive Director - Long Island State Veterans Home
Mike Vita, MHA
Health System Interoperability Architect - Stony Brook Southampton Hospital
MHA alumni
Yi Wang, MHA, PMP, CPHQ
Associate Technical Director, Immunology/Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics, Stony Brook Medicine
MHA alumna
If you are interested in becoming a member of the MHA Program Advisory Board, please contact Susan Somerville, Associate Director of Health Management Practice, Program in Public Health at susan.somerville@stonybrookmedicine.edu for more information.
