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 2021-2022 MHA Program Advisory Board include:
Robert Chaloner, MS, MBA, MPH, FACHE
Chief Administrative Officer - Stony Brook Southampton Hospital
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
Darren H.P. Deoraj, MHA
Director of Urology Services - Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Union Square, Mount Sinai Brooklyn - Mount Sinai Health System
Carol A. Gomes, MS, FACHE, CPHQ
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer - Stony Brook Medicine
Kevin McGeachy, MBA, FACHE
Senior Vice President Administration - Mather Memorial Hospital, Northwell Health
Eric Morley, MD, MHA, MS
Clinical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine - Stony Brook University Hospital;
Deputy Chief Medical Information Officer - Stony Brook University Hospital
L. Reuven Pasternak, MD, MPH, MBA
Co-Founder and Principal - Vector 8 Consulting, LLC;
Senior Advisor - National Risk Management Center/CISA, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Alyeah E. Ramjit, MS, MHA
Associate Director and Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief Transformation Officer - Mount Sinai Health System
Fred Sganga, MPH, FACHE, LNHA
Executive Director - Long Island State Veterans Home
Dennis W. Sheridan, MBA, L-FACHE
Retired Senior Healthcare Executive
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Health Professions - Hofstra University
Susan Somerville, RN, MA
Former Vice President of Clinical Transformation and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives - Northwell Health
Associate Director of Health Policy & Management Practice and Concentration Head - Program in Public Health, Stony Brook Medicine
Instructor, Department of Family Population & Preventive Medicine - Stony Brook University
If you are interested in becoming a member of the MHA Program Advisory Board, please contact the MHA Program Director, Julie Agris, PhD, JD, LLM, FACHE at julie.agris@stonybrookmedicine.edu for more information.
