The Board of Directors ensures alignment of the direction and growth of The Carol Emmott Foundation and its programs with its mission.
BARBARA ANDERMAN, MA
Leadership Council Chair
Former Executive Search Consultant, Russell Reynolds Associates
Barbara Anderman serves as a governing board member and leadership council chair for the Carol Emmott Foundation. Barbara is also a former executive search consultant with Russell Reynolds Associates Health Services practice. Throughout her 12 plus years, she dedicated her time to the health services practice, working within for-profit and non-profit sectors. She was also a leader in the health transformation practice, specializing in recruiting key digital talent into executive leadership roles, with a focus on clinical and technology leadership positions. Additionally, Barbara is known for her work leading several leadership and succession assignments within complex healthcare organizations.
Prior to joining Russell Reynolds, Barbara was COO of a large, non-profit, VP of operations for a national post-acute health services company and a director of rehabilitation for a market-leading hospital. In 1998, Barbara began working for a leading global recruiting firm, specializing in healthcare services. She joined Russell Reynolds Associates in 2004, retiring from the firm in October 2016.
Barbara received her B.A. from Long Island University and her master’s degree from the University of Colorado.
AFIA ASAMOAH, JD, MPP
At Large Member
Former Co-Founder, Head of Legal and People, Corporate Secretary
Waymark, Inc.
Afia Asamoah is a global business executive and advisor with over 18 years of experience in strategy and risk management, focused on ensuring equitable healthcare for vulnerable populations. She has served in leadership roles in government and global companies. In 2021, after nearly eight years in senior health roles at Google, Afia co-founded Waymark to focus on improving care delivery to people with Medicaid benefits. She was Head of Legal and People, Corporate Secretary until September 2026. Previously she served as Special Assistant in the U.S. FDA Commissioner’s Office during the Obama Administration. Afia received her JD from Harvard Law School, her Master of Public Policy from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and her BA from Harvard University. She serves as board director for Lucille Packard Stanford Children’s Hospital and the Public Health Institute.
DAVID BLUMENTHAL, MD, MPP
Board Chair and Executive & Finance Committee Chair
Former President of The Commonwealth Fund; Professor, Practice Public Health Harvard Chan School of Public Health
David Blumenthal MD, MPP chairs the Board of The Carol Emmott Foundation. He is professor of practice of public health at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He was formerly the president of the Commonwealth Fund of New York City 2013 to 2023. Dr. Blumenthal is also Samuel O. Thier professor of medicine emeritus at Harvard Medical School and was formerly the National Coordinator for Health Care Technology under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2011.
ODETTE C. BOLANO, FACHE, MHA, BSN
Governance Committee Chair
Former CEO West Region, Trinity Health – Idaho, Oregon, California
Odette Bolano was the CEO for the west region of Trinity Health. Prior to her promotion as CEO for the west region, she was the president and CEO of Saint Alphonsus Health System, and provided executive leadership, strategic and operational oversight for a 582 bed, five-hospital system across the two states of Idaho and Oregon. Immediately prior to this role, she served as president of Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center with responsibility for strategic and operational oversight for the medical center. Bolano has been in senior leadership health care positions in for-profit, non-profit, and fully integrated health systems. Prior to joining Saint Alphonsus, she served as senior vice president of Kaiser Permanente – East Bay. Prior to Kaiser, she served in several senior executive positions with Ascension Health, including president and CEO of St. Joseph Health System in Texas.
GAYLE CAPOZZALO, MPH
Executive Director, The Equity Collaborative- The Carol Emmott Foundation
President and CEO of JGF Strategies LLC
Gayle Capozzalo is the executive director of The Equity Collaborative, a program of The Carol Emmott Foundation which focuses on fully inclusive gender equity in health care leadership and governance. She is also the president and CEO of JGF Strategies LLC, providing strategy guidance to health care organizations. She retired in July 2018 as the executive vice president/chief strategy officer of Yale New Haven Health System. She joined the System in 1997 and was primarily responsible for System strategy development and execution, marketing, community and government relations, innovation, business development, and mergers and acquisitions.
SHERRI NEAL CROWLEY
At Large Member
Chief Culture and Values Officer
HCA Healthcare
Sherri Crowley is chief culture and values officer for HCA Healthcare and is responsible for creating a culture that values the unique and intrinsic worth of individuals, positively impacting patients, colleagues and communities.
Her focus has resulted in strategies to increase access for all and unlocked opportunities for colleagues through multiple award-winning models that advanced HCA’s commitment to a respectful workplace. Her team actively supports the military community and their transition to civilian life, consistently earning the organization designation as a military friendly and “Best for Vets” employer. Through her team’s efforts, HCA Healthcare was named a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion.” In addition, the company received industry recognition for the HCA Healthcare Scholars 365 Program, BRAVE Conversations program, and education and training modules.
Sherri’s commitment to improving the health of communities is visible through her strategic partnerships with educational universities that enable the organization to secure a strong pipeline of healthcare leaders who understand the communities it serves as well as helping to identify national organizations for collaboration.
Sherri has a BS from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Science in Sustainable Management also from the University of Wisconsin (Superior).
MONICA DAVY
At Large Member
Senior Vice President and Chief Culture, Belonging, and Impact Officer
Vizient, Inc
As the Chief Culture, Belonging and Impact Officer at Vizient, Inc., Monica Davy guides overarching strategy, program implementation and ongoing support for the company’s Culture, Engagement, Belonging, Community Impact and Corporate Responsibility initiatives.
Prior to joining Vizient, Davy served as the Director of the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, responsible for promoting, monitoring and enforcing diversity and equal employment opportunity standards at NCUA. She oversaw the diversity requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act within NCUA’s business practices and among regulated entities.
Davy has more than 30 years of workforce diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, supplier diversity, cultural transformation, EEO, civil rights and alternative dispute resolution experience. Prior to joining
NCUA, Davy served as executive director of the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Internal Revenue Service. Her previous work included leading the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of
Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Management as acting director and serving as senior trial attorney at the Department of Health and Human Services where she litigated cases involving employment
discrimination and federal personnel matters.
Davy holds degrees from Howard University School of Law and George Mason University. She sits on the Board of the National Kidney Foundation and the Advisory Board of Children’s National Foundation.
SARAH EMMOTT
Marketing Consultant & Advisor
Vice President of Marketing, Sword Health
Sarah Emmott is a marketing and brand consultant specializing in helping companies clarify their brand positioning and drive growth. Most recently, she served as VP of Marketing at Sword Health, a digital health company working to free people from pain through AI-powered solutions.
Throughout her 18+ year career at companies including Sword Health, Atlassian, and Block, Sarah has built marketing teams and led brand initiatives that helped organizations scale from startup to global enterprise. Her work spans the full spectrum of marketing—from brand and go-to-market strategy to demand generation and product marketing—with a focus on creating clarity from complexity.
Sarah is deeply committed to developing the next generation of leaders in health and technology. She advises early-stage health startups and mentors emerging professionals through First Round Capital. She is honored to serve on the board of the Carol Emmott Foundation, named for her late mother-in-law, supporting its mission to advance women’s leadership in health.
WENDY FIELDING, MBA
Treasurer
Chief Financial Officer for Dartmouth-Hitchcock and System Vice President for Finance for Dartmouth Health, Dartmouth Health
Wendy Fielding was appointed chief financial officer and system vice president for finance in 2021. Fielding’s responsibilities include providing business and analytical decision support, overseeing the annual financial planning cycle for the organization, and developing long-term financial projections that align with the system’s strategic vision. Prior to joining D-H, Fielding held positions as the chief financial officer at Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, Maine, and director of financial reporting and analysis at Boston Medical Center. She is a trustee at New London Hospital. A 2015 graduate of the Leadership New Hampshire program, she holds a Master of Business Administration in healthcare management from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Bentley University.
MARISSA KIEFER, MHSA
Fellowship Network Chair
Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital
Marissa Kiefer accepted the position of senior vice president and CEO of Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, as of March 2021. Previous, she was vice president of strategy at Riley Children’s Health and was responsible for developing the statewide strategic platform for maternal and pediatric healthcare that distinguished Riley Children’s Health as the provider of choice for the full spectrum of care in the state of Indiana for expectant moms and children. Kiefer was a part of the IU Health organization since 2005 and started with the employed physician practice group, IU Health Physicians. Prior to IU Health, Kiefer held a variety of roles at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Kiefer received her Bachelor of Science in Public Health, majoring in health administration, from Indiana University in Bloomington and her Master of Health Services Administration from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
ANNE MCCUNE, CHIC, PCC
Chief Executive Officer, The Carol Emmott Foundation
President, Anne McCune, LLC
Anne McCune is a nationally-recognized health care leader, consultant, and executive coach with twenty-five years of senior leadership experience across all sectors– corporate, public, and nonprofit. She is the CEO of The Carol Emmott Foundation and has a led distinguished career as a senior executive for several renowned pediatric and academic health systems and as a managing director in consulting.
JAEWON RYU, MD, JD
Vice Chair
CEO, Risant Health
Jaewon Ryu, MD, JD, is the CEO of Risant Health, a nonprofit formed by Kaiser Permanente to accelerate the adoption and success of value-based care among like-minded subsidiary health systems. Prior to assuming his role at Risant, he was the president and CEO of Geisinger, an integrated delivery system with a clinical enterprise, health plan, the Geisinger College of Health Sciences, and research and innovation institutes. Dr. Ryu came to Geisinger in 2016 from Humana, where he was responsible for the company’s care delivery assets, and previously, he held various leadership roles at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, Kaiser Permanente, and in government at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He started his career as a practicing corporate healthcare attorney.
Dr. Ryu serves on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, a body legislatively tasked with advising Congress on policies governing health plans and providers serving Medicare beneficiaries. He also serves on the boards of various organizations including the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the Commonwealth Fund.
Dr. Ryu earned his B.A. from Yale University and his M.D. and J.D. from the University of Chicago. He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
PAMELA SUTTON-WALLACE, MPH
At Large Member
President, Yale-New Haven Health
Pamela Sutton-Wallace, MPH, is the CEO of Yale-New Haven Health. Prior to joining YNHH, she was the group senior vice president and COO, Weill Cornell Division of New York-Presbyterian (NYP), where she provided executive strategic and operational oversight to NYP hospitals in Brooklyn and Queens, as well as the NYP Medical Groups. Prior to joining NYP, she served as the CEO of University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, VA. She also held several leadership positions at Duke University Health System, including as Senior Vice President of Hospital Operations. Sutton-Wallace was named one of the top 25 women leaders and one of the top 25 minorities in healthcare by Modern Healthcare, as well as one of Becker’s Top 50 African-American Health Care Executives. She earned her BA at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and her MPH at Yale University.
SUSAN TURNEY MD, MS, FACP, FACMPE
At Large Member
Former CEO, Marshfield Clinic Health System
Dr. Susan Turney completed her internal medicine residency at Marshfield Clinic/St. Joseph’s Hospital and subsequently joined the staff at the Marshfield Clinic, where she practiced for 22 years and served as chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Director of Patient Financial Services. In 2004, she became the CEO and executive vice president of the Wisconsin Medical Society, and in 2011, she became the president and CEO of MGMA-ACMPE. In 2014, Dr. Turney became the first CEO of Marshfield Clinic Health System. She has served on committees for the National Quality Forum and the American Medical Association and fulfilled appointments by the Wisconsin governor and the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary.
