ReThink Health New Jersey
Who’s Involved
Project Director:
Laura K. Landy, MBA, 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, a core initiative of the Rippel Foundation which seeks to foster the thinking, understanding, leadership, tools and models that will lead to a sustainable health system for all Americans. 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.
Project Advisor:
Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH, a Founding Member and key advisor of ReThink Health, a core initiative of the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, joined the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation Board of Trustees in the fall of 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 master’s 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 the 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. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine.