About Us

JOHN D. CAMPBELL I EDWARD W. AHART I ELIZABETH G. CHRISTOPHERSON
ELLIOTT S. FISHER I LAURA K. LANDY I DAVID S. SURRENDA
Elliott S. Fisher, Trustee

Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH, joined the Rippel Foundation Board in 2011. Dr. Fisher is a professor at the Dartmouth Medical School and Director for Population Health and Policy at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Clinical Practice. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington, where he also was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and received a masters in Public Health. At Dartmouth, he was a founding director and is now Senior Associate of the VA Outcomes Group, teaches in undergraduate and graduate programs, and is Co-Principal Investigator on the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care.

Dr. Fisher’s research focuses on exploring the causes of the twofold differences in spending observed across U.S. regions and health care systems and the impact of the variations on the quality, outcomes and costs of care. He is also actively involved in national efforts to improve measures of health system performance and to reform payment systems. Dr. Fisher has served on major national committees with the National Quality Forum and the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Fisher is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Laura K. Landy, Trustee, President & CEO

Laura K. Landy was named President and CEO of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation in 2006 and has served as a member of the Board of Trustees since 1998. She is also the founder and chair of ReThink Health, an initiative of the Rippel Foundation.

Throughout her career, Ms. Landy has brought sound business and strategic thinking to creating sustainable solutions to pressing social issues. As President of Applied Concepts, a consulting firm she established in 1983, her efforts focused on the changing dynamics in health, higher education, finance, social services and culture. Among her health-related activities have been relationships with Pfizer, the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, AT&T and urban health systems.

Ms. Landy’s expertise in entrepreneurship and corporate venturing led her to create and direct the Institute for Nonprofit Entrepreneurship at NYU’s Stern School of Business, where she also taught and served as Associate Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. She has also been a member of the adjunct faculty of Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon, the New School, and Fairleigh Dickinson. Ms. Landy received her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis. After graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, she received her MBA from New York University. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

David S. Surrenda, Trustee

David Surrenda, PhD, joined the Fannie E. Rippel Board of Trustees in January 2007. He became Chief Executive Officer at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in October 2010. Prior to joining Kripalu, Mr. Surrenda, a licensed psychologist, had been engaged in executive-level, organizational consultation and coaching with health systems, business, government, and education for 30 years. Through his consulting firm, The Leadership Edge, he employed creative change strategies in his work with leaders to generate sustainable solutions for the complex challenges facing organizations. Dr. Surrenda is the author of three books, most recently with co-author Stuart Heller, of Retooling on the Run: Real Change for Leaders with No Time (Berkeley: Frog Ltd. Press, 1995), a unique roadmap for cultivating versatility of leadership action styles.

Mr. Surrenda had been the founder, dean and curriculum director of the Graduate School of Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University. He served as the co-CEO of a training and research corporation, developing innovations in conflict resolution and crisis intervention. He also served as the Executive Director of The Natural Step, an environmental organization that provides consultation to major industries about the efficient utilization of natural resources as part of a coherent strategy for long-term business development.

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