About Us

EDWARD W. AHART I ELLA DAVILA AUCHINCLOSS I DONALD M. BERWICK I CLAUDIA A. BRINK I JOHN D. CAMPBELL
ELIZABETH G. CHRISTOPHERSON I RYAN CONWAY I JOY CUSHMAN I VANESSA DILLEN I ELLIOTT S. FISHER  I CATHY FINK
CHANA FITTON I MARSHALL GANZ I DAN GRANDONE I HAHRIE HAN I KATE B. HILTON I GARY HIRSCH I JACK HOMER
C. SHERRY IMMEDIATO I CHRISTINA INGERSOLL I TERRI JOWERS I LAURA K. LANDY I CARRIE ANN LAWRENCE
KIMBERLYN LEARY I JOAN PONG LINTON I AMORY LOVINS I PATRICIA MACBAIN I ERIN MCFEE I MICHAEL D. MCGINNIS
HENRY MILLER I BOBBY MILSTEIN I KAREN MINYARDI MEREDITH MIRA I ALBERT MULLEY JR. I JAY OGLIVY I ABBY O’NEILL
ELINOR OSTROM I LEIGH SCHERRER I PETER M. SENGE I TINA SMITH I JOHN D. STERMAN I DAVID SURRENDA
JUSTIN TROGDON I RICHARD TURNER I RUTH WAGEMAN

Elinor (Lin) Ostrom, MA, PhD, the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, serves as a key advisor to ReThink Health, an initiative of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation. Dr. Ostrom is also Core Faculty of ReThink Health’s project, Managing the Health Commons, which is led by the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Ostrom is Senior Research Director of the Workshop which she established in 1973 with her husband, Vincent Ostrom. She is also Distinguished Professor and Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. Dr. Ostrom is author of Governing the Commons (1990), in which she theorizes that it is possible for users of common pool resources such as forests, fisheries, oil fields, grazing lands, and irrigation systems to work together and avoid a tragic fate by coordinating their resource usage and replenishment activities in a sustainable fashion.  She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Dr. Ostrom is the recipient of numerous other honors. Dr. Ostrom publishes prolifically and since the publication of Governing the Commons, has completed many others, most recently, Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (2010, with Amy Poteete and Marco Janssen). She received her undergraduate degree, MA and PhD from UCLA.

Leigh Scherrer joined the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation as Foundation Associate in 2010. Her primary responsibilities are to support the Foundation’s mission and goals through grants administration, database management, programmatic research, project support, and communications development. She is a key team member of ReThink Health Dynamics, a project of ReThink Health. Previously, Ms. Scherrer was a member of the network development team at Accelerated Inc, a medical scheduling company, where her efforts focused on implementing technological approaches to improve efficiency and reporting. Ms. Scherrer is a graduate of Penn State University where she earned a BA in Sociology. Through her college coursework, she first developed an awareness of the complex issues related to the environment and to population health. Ms. Scherrer is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and Alpha Kappa Delta, the National Sociology Honor Society.

Peter M. Senge, PhD, is a Founding Member and key advisor to ReThink Health, a core initiative of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, and also serves as Core Faculty for Leading for Health, a project of ReThink Health. Dr. Senge is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the Founding Chair of SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning, a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants committed “to increase our capacity to collectively realize our highest aspirations and productively resolve our differences” through the mutual development of people and institutions. Dr. Senge is known worldwide for his groundbreaking book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, which was identified by the Harvard Business Review as one of the seminal management works of the last 75 years, as well as The Necessary Revolution. The Journal of Business Strategy named him a “Strategist of the Century” for his profound impact on the way we conduct business today.

Tina Smith, MPH, is part of the evaluation team for ReThink Health Dynamics, a project of ReThink Health. Ms. Smith is the former Director of the Community Health Systems Development Program at the Georgia Health Policy at Center Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and has been involved in efforts supporting access to care for rural citizens over the past 10 years. Among these efforts is Networks for Rural Health, a program that provides technical assistance and facilitation for rural communities in the development of sustainable local and regional health networks and collaborative partnerships. Her academic and professional experience includes hospital business development, public health program design, grassroots policy research, economic evaluation of existing programs, and community development.  Ms. Smith has made numerous national presentations and provides technical assistance to leaders in other states who wish to support rural communities in improving the health of their residents.

John D. Sterman, PhD, is a Founding Member and key advisor to ReThink Health, a core initiative of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, and also serves as a system modeler for ReThink Health Dynamics. Dr. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Director of MIT’s System Dynamics Group. His research includes systems thinking and organizational learning, computer simulation of corporate strategy, and the theory of nonlinear dynamics. He is the author of many scholarly and popular publications on the challenges and opportunities facing organizations, including Modeling for Organizational Learning and the award-winning textbook Business Dynamics. Dr. Sterman has pioneered the development of “management flight simulators” of corporate and economic systems, now used by corporations and universities around the world. He received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and his PhD from MIT Sloan School of Management.

David Surrenda, PhD, is a Founding Member and key advisor to ReThink Health, a core initiative of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Rippel since January of 2007. Dr. Surrenda was named Chief Executive Officer at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in October 2010. Previously, as a licensed psychologist and founder of his consulting firm, The Leadership Edge, he conducted executive-level, organizational consultation and coaching with business, government, education, and health systems for 30 years. In addition, he was the founder, dean and curriculum director of the Graduate School of Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University. Dr. Surrenda 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. Dr. Surrenda is co-author with Stuart Heller of Retooling on the Run: Real Change for Leaders with No Time (Berkeley: Frog Ltd. Press, 1995).

Justin Trogdon,PhD, a system modeler for ReThink Health Dynamics, a project of ReThink Health, is a health economist in RTI International’s Public Health Economics Program. Dr. Trogdon’s current research includes methods for estimating the cost of disease with applications in obesity, chronic disease, cancer, and tobacco; program evaluation and cost-effectiveness studies; systems modeling of cardiovascular disease; and the impact of social networks on obesity. He has managed projects in these topics for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors, and the American Heart Association. His technical expertise includes a variety of econometric and statistical methods, and his work has been published in many professional journals including the Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, and Health Services Research.

Richard Turner, MBA, MHA, is a member of the evaluation team for ReThink Health Dynamics, a project of ReThink Health. Mr. Turner has more than thirty years of experience in project management and executive leadership, and is a frequent national and state speaker on health information technology. Mr. Turner is owner and CEO of AMJ Enterprises, which provides consulting services with emphases in crisis resolution, project management, evaluation, and HIT implementation. He provides executive oversight for Genoware software, manages the implementation of health information technologies in a statewide clinic, and chairs the eClinicalWorks National Steering Committee.  Mr. Turner has Master’s degrees in both Business and Health Administration and is a Fellow in the American College of Health Care Executives.

Ruth Wageman, PhD, is Director of ReThink Health Research, a project of ReThink Health. Dr. Wageman directs ReThink Health’s suite of projects in the areas of evidence and research design and leads its research and evaluation efforts. With Kate Hilton, she directs Organizing for Health, also a ReThink Health project, which takes a community organizing approach to the transformation of health and health care. Dr. Wageman is Associate Faculty in Psychology at Harvard University, where she specializes in the field of Organizational Behavior, researching the conditions under which people are able to accomplish great things, especially in collaboration with one another. She has published prolifically on a range of subjects in organizational behavior, including Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make Them Great,2008, co-authored with Debra A. Nunes, James Burruss, and Richard Hackman. Dr. Wageman earned a PhD from Harvard’s University’s Joint Doctoral Program in Organizational Behavior in 1994 and a BA in Psychology from Columbia University in 1987, where she later returned to teach at the Graduate School of Business as the first female alum to join Columbia’s faculty. She served on the faculty of Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business and as a Visiting Scholar in Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government.

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