ReThink Health
Who’s Involved
LAURA K. LANDY I KATE B. HILTON I C. SHERRY IMMEDIATO I MICHAEL D. MCGINNIS I BOBBY MILSTEIN
RUTH WAGEMAN I ELLIOTT S. FISHER I ELINOR OSTROM I PETER M. SENGE I JOHN D. STERMAN I DAVID SURRENDA
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.
Key advisors:
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.
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 (Managing the Commons – About Managing the 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.
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 (Leading for Health – About LfH), 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.
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).
Communications, coordination, finance, and project support is provided by the staff of the Rippel Foundation.
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