Advisory Organizing Committee

William Burdick

The Network: Towards Unity For Health (TUFH)

William Burdick, MD, MSEd, is Secretary General of The Network: Towards Unity for Health, an organization of community oriented health professions schools and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. As the former Vice President for Education at FAIMER, he was responsible for creation of global faculty development programs for health professions educators. He has received awards for excellence in teaching, including the Lindbach Award and the Trustees Award in his capacity as Professor of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. A graduate of Oberlin College, Weill Cornell University College of Medicine, and University of Pennsylvania, he completed residency training in Internal Medicine and is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and American Board of Internal Medicine.

Nicholas Torres

The Network: Towards Unity For Health (TUFH

Nicholas Torres (M.Ed.) is the Executive Director of TUFH and works at the cross section between the private sector, government, and not-for-profits and aligns them toward collective social impact goals and public policy. Nick has over 20 years of experience in executive management. Nick founded and currently leads a social sector “think-tank” organization; and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.

Aricia De Kempeneer

The Network: Towards Unity For Health (TUFH)

Aricia De Kempeneer, M. Sc., is the Operations and Programming Director for The Network: Towards Unity For Health. She is responsible for managing the annual conferences, virtual regional conferences, TUFH Symposiums and Workshops, TUFH Academies, ISAT, iSTEP, Digital Aspects, Social Media, Newsletter, Communications and Membership. In addition, Aricia is the liaison to the Student Network Organization.

Aricia holds a Masters in Health Education and Promotion from Ghent University and a Bachelor in Midwifery from Erasmus Hogeschool. She works as an independent midwife in Belgium and gives prenatal lessons, prenatal care, and postnatal follow-up.
Prior to The Network: TUFH Aricia worked as a midwife in Gambia, Finland, United Kingdom, and Belgium in low-risk birthing units. She co-founded and was the first president of the Student Network Organization in 2015. She has been attending TUFH annual conferences since 2012

Mike Haggerty

CEO, Allies

Mike Haggerty has supported children and adults with Intellectual and developmental disabilities in a variety of settings throughout his 40-year career. He has served in numerous leadership roles within the Woods System of Care, most recently as the Chief Executive Officer of Allies, Inc, a community-based provider of IDD services in New Jersey.

Allies has been affiliated with the Woods System since 2012 and is recognized as a leader among the New Jersey system of community providers with residential, day habilitation, and supported employment services delivered in 19 counties throughout the state.

Mike provides vision, leadership, management and execution of Allies’ community-based residential services, supportive living programs, and community-based habilitation and vocational development/supported employment services programs throughout New Jersey. Since 2020, Mike has led the Allies team in the expansion and enhancement of Allies service delivery system to help individuals with IDD and co-occurring physical and behavioral health complexity realize meaningful community integration.

Mike holds a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Leadership from Lasalle University and a Bachelor’s degree in Mental Health technology from Hahnemann University.

Simon Kimmelman

Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating and Legal Officer

Simon Kimmelman, Esq., serves as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating and Legal Officer for the Woods System of Care. In his role as Chief Legal Officer, he heads up the Woods Legal Department and oversees all law-related matters for Woods, its affiliates, and related entities. As Chief Operating Officer, he  is directly responsible for implementing the Woods Strategic Plans and coordinating the Woods System of Care operations. Previously, he was a member of Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. and served as Managing Partner of the Firm’s Princeton, New Jersey office.

Mr. Kimmelman’s practice was focused on business bankruptcy, secured transactions, general corporate matters, and commercial litigation. He has represented major entities involved in many of the most significant Chapter 11 cases filed in New Jersey and several other jurisdictions. He served as the bankruptcy trustee for Kiwi International Airlines and John Z. DeLorean. He is admitted to the Bar in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and former Chair of the Bankruptcy Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Lawyers’ Advisory Committee to the New Jersey Bankruptcy Court. Mr. Kimmelman has been involved in various charitable endeavors and most recently served as President of Har Sinai Temple in Pennington, New Jersey. He also served as a long-standing Member and Board Chair of the Woods Resources Board of Trustees. Mr. Kimmelman received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School.

Dawn Diamond

CEO, Woods Services

Dawn Diamond is a seasoned professional with 30 years of experience working with vulnerable and at-risk populations. She started her career at Woods in 1997 and most recently served in the role of Executive Vice President of Operations for Woods. She builds high-performing, diverse teams who develop quality, outcome-based programs and services. Energized by challenges and driven by a genuine desire to help others, she is a creative problem-solver, a thought leader, and a staunch advocate for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In her current role, she is responsible for continuing to drive Woods forward and inspiring a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

She holds an Master’s in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Florida Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Salisbury State University in Salisbury,

Monica Moser

CEO, Woods Community Services

Monica Moser serves as the inaugural CEO of Woods Community Services (WCS), bringing over 15 years of experience in the human services field. Since the inception of WCS, Monica has successfully driven organizational growth and innovative service delivery that prioritizes person-centered care and community integration. Ms. Moser has a strong foundation in nonprofit leadership, program operations, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and risk management. Monica is passionate about creating safe and supportive environments that promote the well-being and growth of the individuals served, while ensuring high-quality programs designed to ensure success and fulfillment. Monica also takes pride in her commitment to cultivating a positive culture for employees, prioritizing growth, wellness, and professional development.

Lori Plunkett

CEO, Brian’s House

Lori Plunkett’s dedication is evident in her over 40 years of service at Brian’s House, where she has played a key role in helping individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities live fulfilling lives. Lori’s journey began as a Direct Care Counselor and progressed to her current position as CEO, which she has held since 1999. Throughout her tenure, she has been instrumental in the growth and development of Brian’s House. 

Lori earned her Master’s degree in Administration from West Chester University and her Bachelor’s degree in Special Education from Millersville University. Additionally, she is an active member of PAR (Pennsylvania Advocacy and Resources). 

Kim Everett

Health Improvement Partnership

Experienced Executive Director with a demonstrated history of working in public health and the healthcare industry. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Program Development, and Healthcare Management. Strong business development professional with a Master’s degree focused in Health Science from The College of New Jersey.

Mark Williams

Board Chair, Woods System of Care

Mark T. Williams, BSN, RN-BC, has touched thousands of people throughout his career as a Psychiatric Nurse, and decades as an ally to anyone who needed his support. He serves as the Chair of the Woods System of Care Board of Trustees,  President of the NAMI NJ Board of Trustees, as well as Trustee of the Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services Board. Mark has tirelessly advocated for the elimination of the social stigma that so often accompanies a mental health diagnosis.

Dr. Mark Wolff

Morton Amsterdam Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine

Dr. Wolff has completed numerous international research and oral health assessment programs and has been a lifelong advocate and dental provider for individuals with physical, intellectual, and developmental disabilities of all ages. He has served as the principal or co-principal investigator on multiple benchtop and clinical research projects, investigating dental caries, novel remineralizing agents, dental erosion, periodontal disease, dental materials, and dentinal hypersensitivity. He has published over 100 scientific papers, text chapters, and edited multiple textbooks. Dr. Wolff lectures worldwide and is a frequent consultant to the industry. He has been the principal or co-principal investigator on nearly $9 million in industrial and National Institute of Health-funded research.

Dr. Sailaja Musunuri

EVP of Integrative Medicine, Woods System of Care

Sailaja Musunuri, MD, Executive Vice President of Integrative Medicine and Chief of Psychiatry, is an accomplished team leader who has consistently delivered results in numerous clinical settings for more than 20 years, including experience working with children and adults with intellectual disability, autism, and co-occurring psychiatric disorders and other complex medical conditions.

Dr. Musunuri is an experienced and compassionate physician and psychiatrist (double Board Certified in Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry), providing high quality medical and psychiatric care with diverse clinical operations experience. Dr. Musunuri is known for constructively challenging conventional thinking, identifying and implementing innovative ideas, and building stakeholder confidence for mission critical initiatives. She has exhibited these characteristics in thinking creatively to connect the dots between nonprofit health and human services organizations with leaders in the pharmaceutical arena to ensure focus on individuals with intellectual disability that will improve quality of services and health outcomes for this population. She serves as a role model for fostering discussion of complex issues, while promoting the organizational mission and operating procedures. These discussions and partnerships have spanned the globe, as she maintains connections between the U.S. and India for new program development and partnerships which will benefit people with disabilities in both regions.

Dr. Musunuri has leveraged this experience to fulfill one of the strategic goals of Woods System of Care, to disseminate its expertise to others, by founding the Mollie Woods Hare Center for Excellence in Neurodivergence – Intellectual Disability, Autism and Mental Health, which houses Woods’ training and dissemination arm for best practices in the field.

Her role as Board Member of The Network: Toward Unity for Health (TUFH), an international non-state actor of the World Health Organization, is further evidence of Dr. Musunuri’s commitment to ensuring that the most vulnerable populations have access to the services they need. TUFH is an international, intersectoral, intergenerational organization that fosters equitable community-oriented health services, education and research with the goal of improving health locally and globally. They convene innovative health care organizations, universities, community institutions and thought leaders from all over the world. The link between the Mollie Woods Hare Global Center of Excellence and TUFH will serve to extend the reach of both organizations to improve quality of care for individuals with disabilities.

In addition to providing oversight of clinical programs and direct care for individuals with intellectual disability and complex healthcare needs, Dr. Musunuri is a committed mentor who dedicates tremendous energy to training the next generation of child and adolescent psychiatry fellows, adult psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners and other clinical practitioners. Dr. Musunuri serves as Academic Faculty Advisor at Woods for interns and fellows from area health professions schools. A nationally respected leader known for her deep expertise in the field of intellectual disability, Dr. Musunuri is sought after as a premier academic advisor for the interns and fellows she supervises.

Her strong track record of mentoring and partnership development has led her to be invited to serve as a clinical faculty member at Tower Health – Phoenixville Hospital, Temple University Louis Katz School of Medicine and Rider University. Dr. Musunuri oversees integrated healthcare throughout the System of Care, ensuring that all services are interconnected in order to provide whole-person care. She also served as the principal investigator of the Specialized Mental Health Outpatient Program which was launched through federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Prior to Woods, Dr. Musunuri served for nearly twenty years as Medical Director of Devereux, a behavioral health organization serving individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism. Her professional training includes receiving her M.D. from Siddartha MedicalCollege/Nagarjuna University, Vijayawada, India, completing her internship in Psychiatry at Medwin Hopsital, Hyderabad, India, and residencies in Adult and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry respectively at SIU School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, U.S., and Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, U.S. Dr. Musunuri is considered the premier leader in psychiatry in the U.S. for people with intellectual disability and complex psychiatric and other chronic conditions, is a leader in integrated care, and a leader in training the next generation of practitioners who are desperately needed to address the health disparities of this vulnerable and complicated population.

Tine Hansen-Turton

President and CEO, Woods System of Care

Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, JD, FCPP, FAAN, serves as President and CEO of Woods System of Care and Woods Resources. Woods System of Care is a population health management organization that, through its network of providers and partners in PA and NJ and 8,000 staff, provides life-cycle care to meet the lifelong needs of children and adults with intellectual disabilities and autism (ID/A), acquired brain injuries, and /or mental health challenges who may also have complex medical and genetic conditions.

She is a seasoned and successful Healthcare and Human Services Executive with 30 years of experience in C-suite executive leadership, serving in CEO, CSO, and COO roles throughout her career in Nonprofit, Private and Government Organizations. She has founded and led several nationally recognized health, human services, and related trade associations and has secured multi-billion dollars in new business. She is a founder, publisher/facilitator of a social impact/innovation journal and incubator lab.

Tine Hansen-Turton has tremendous content expertise in primary and behavioral health care, Health and Human Services Administration, Disabilities and Behavioral Health, Public and Population Health and Education. She has developed many innovative healthcare programs and business models (i.e. integrated primary and behavioral healthcare specialty clinics, convenient care and retail clinics, nurse-led care centers, specialized population health organizations, and life-cycle care management organizations) throughout her career, including starting dozens of non-profits and private businesses and organizations, such as the popular retail clinic industry association.  Hansen-Turton served as CEO of the National Nurse-led Care Consortium, a non-profit organization supporting the growth and development of over 500 nurse-managed and school health clinics, serving more than 5 million vulnerable people across the country in urban and rural locations. For the past two decades, she has also been instrumental in positioning Nurse Practitioners as primary health care providers globally. Hansen-Turton still serves as the founding Executive Director for the Convenient Care Association (CCA), the national trade association of over 3000 private-sector retail clinic industry, serving 50 million people with basic health care services nationwide.

Hansen-Turton also teaches public and social innovations, leading nonprofits, health policy, and the social innovations lab at the University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government and School of Nursing. She is co-founder and publisher of a social impact/innovation journal and has co-published ten books.

Hansen-Turton received her Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law, a Master of Government/Public Administration from University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government and a BA from Slippery Rock University.  She also studied at the University of Copenhagen Law School.

Honorable Brian Fitzpatrick

US Congressman

For 14 years prior to representing his hometown of Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District, Brian Fitzpatrick served our nation both as an FBI Special Agent and Federal Prosecutor, fighting both domestic and international political corruption, and supporting global counterterrorism and counterintelligence efforts – including being embedded with U.S. Special Forces as part Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Working to promote freedom and democracy at home and abroad, Brian also served as National Director for the FBI’s Campaign Finance and Election Crimes Enforcement Program and as a National Supervisor for the FBI’s Public Corruption Unit at FBI Headquarters, where he was recognized as an expert in restoring integrity to governmental institutions.

In the 118^th Congress, Congressman Fitzpatrick sits on the Ways and Means Committee and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In addition, he co-chairs the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, Congressional Ukraine Caucus, and Bipartisan Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Task Force, while also serving on the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

Congressman Fitzpatrick is a licensed attorney, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).

Frank Farry

PA State Senator

Frank Farry was elected to the Senate of Pennsylvania in November 2022 to represent the 6th Senate District in Bucks County after serving in the House of Representatives for seven terms. Farry has authored more than 30 pieces of legislation.  His advocacy focus has been on veterans’ and armed forces groups, the disability community, animal welfare groups, first responder community, senior citizen concerns, health care, addiction and recovery issues, ensuring a quality education, and protecting taxpayers.

As a lifelong resident of Bucks County, Farry has been serving his community his entire career.  He has been the chief of Langhorne-Middletown Fire Company since 2001, and a member of the organization for over three decades.  He served his hometown of Middletown Township for more than seven years in various roles, including assistant township manager, director of community services, acting township manager, public information officer and emergency management team member. He currently serves on the board of trustees for Bucks County Community College and has served on numerous township and county boards and commissions.

Kristen Farry

EVP, Policy and Strategy, Woods System of Care

Kristen Farry, MS, Executive Vice President of Policy and Strategy, leads Corporate Strategy which includes Government Relations, Communications, Fundraising, Marketing, and Strategy Development. This role ensures comprehensive and consistent internal and external communications and engages with stakeholders from community organizations to international trade associations. She came to Woods Services in 2017 to develop and oversee Woods’ government affairs and advocacy strategies at the national, state and local levels.

Before coming to Woods, she served in senior levels within Pennsylvania’s Executive Branch in two different gubernatorial administrations. She has a history and reputation for developing and managing effective legislative strategies and has been recognized at local, state, and federal levels for these efforts, including as a recipient of ANCOR’s Suellen Galbraith Award for Exemplary Public Policy Work and a recipient of City and State PA’s Government Relations Power 100.

Farry has experience in the non-profit, private, and public sectors, including as a congressional staffer in Washington, a government relations professional in Harrisburg, and a legislative and policy assistant at PAR (Pennsylvania Advocacy and Resources for Autism and Intellectual Disability).

She received her Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Leadership and Population Health Management from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and her BA in Political Science from Lebanon Valley College.

Dr. Frank Ghinassi

President and CEO, Rutgers Health University Behavioral Health Care, Robert Woods Johnson Barnabus Health System

Frank A. Ghinassi, PhD, ABPP is President and CEO of Rutgers Health University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC) and Senior Vice President of the Behavioral Health and Addictions Service Line at RWJBarnabas Health.  As President and CEO, Dr. Ghinassi is responsible for the strategic oversight and direction of a statewide system of academic, behavioral health,  addiction services, training, and funded research. UBHC, one of the largest providers of behavioral health and addictions healthcare in the country, offers a wide range of clinical and support services across all diagnosis, and across the lifespan. These services include inpatient units, partial hospitalization programs, intensive outpatient programming, case management, traditional outpatient treatment, correctional health care, several Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers, a wide range of peer specialist helplines including ones for military service members, veterans, mothers of children with special needs, law enforcement officers, child protection workers, a statewide suicide prevention hotline, a clinical research and training institute, as well as an array of other specialty and care and support services. In his role as Senior Vice President, Dr. Ghinassi directs the strategic development and operations of behavioral health and addictions, fostering synergies between Rutgers Health and RWJBarnabas to enhance high-quality, fully-integrated and interdisciplinary academic care throughout New Jersey.

Karen Coleman

Tabor CEO

Karen Coleman is an experienced business leader and social welfare advocate. In addition to having a heart dedicated to assisting children and families, Ms. Coleman possesses executive experience in organizational, policy, business development, strategic planning, and fiscal management.

In 2017, Coleman accepted the position of CUA Director for Tabor Community Partners and managed the highly successful CUA Case Management and Prevention Programs. During her time in this position, she created a performance-focused culture and achieved a 22% increase in CUA service quality. In addition, Coleman was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2020 to oversee operational excellence in the organization’s efficiency and productivity.

Observing that medical compliance is a significant opportunity in child welfare, Coleman appointed a specialized team dedicated to prioritizing mental and physical medical concerns for children, youth, and families. Her medical model is in the process of being evaluated in consideration of becoming a prototype for other family services organizations.

Ms. Coleman holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Planning and Administration from Pennsylvania State College, a Masters of Social Work from Temple University, a Masters of Science in Project Management from Drexel University. She is currently a Doctor of Healthcare Management candidate from Virginia University of Lynchburg.