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
Simon Kimmelman
COO, Woods System of Care
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
COO, Woods System of Care
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
Kim Everett
Health Improvement Partnership
Mark Williams
Board Chair, Woods System of Care
Dr. Mark Wolff
Morton Amsterdam Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
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
Frank Farry
PA State Senator
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.