Oscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga
Oscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga is the Chairman of the HHH Executive Board. He
is also the 11th President of Caritas Internationalis. A staunch defender of human rights
and a powerful voice in the global fight against poverty, he was the Vatican's spokesperson
with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on the issue of Third World debt.
Cardinal Rodriguez continues to challenge leaders of the world’s richest nations to keep
their promises to increase and improve development aid to the world’s poorest countries.
Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 1942, he entered the Salesian order in 1961. In 1978, he
was appointed Titular Bishop of Pudenziana and Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa. In 1993 he
was named Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, and in 2001 he became his country’s first cardinal.
He is multilingual, with degrees in philosophy and theology, and a diploma in clinical psychology.
He was President of the Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) from 1995 to 1999. He has also
been a member of several Pontifical Councils, including the Council for Social Communications, the
Council for Justice and Peace and the Commission for Latin America.
Dr. A. Stanley Kosan, D.D.S.
Co-founder and Chairman of Hope for a Healthier Humanity, Dr. Kosan held a
private dental practice from 1954 to 2004 in Staten Island, New York. He has
served as Chief of Dentistry at St. Clare's Hospital, Site Director of Dental
Residency Program. Dr. Kosan was also Chief of Dental Department at Bayley Seton
Hospital and Chief of Dental Clinic and Dental Residency Program at Richmond
Memorial Hospital. He served as Director of Outpatient Department, Assistant
Chief of Dentistry. He was Director of Dental Dentistry Residency Program at
Sea View Hospital.
Dr. Kosan is very active in humanitarian volunteerism. He is Vice-Rector at
the School of Dentistry at the Catholic University of Honduras. He is Co-Founder
and Trustee of the Pan American Catholic Health Care Network (PACHCN). In April
2005, he received the National Recognition Award for Volunteerism from the
Fuerza Aerea of Honduras. Dr. Kosan has also received the ADA Award for
International Volunteerism in Dentistry in June 2005.
Dr. Kosan graduated New York University School of Dentistry in 1950. He was a
member of the faculty of New York Medical College and a Lieutenant Commander
in the U.S. Navy from 1952 to 1954.
Mary Healey-Sedutto, Ph.D.
Founder and the current Executive Director of Hope For A Healthier Humanity,
Dr. Healey-Sedutto has spent the last 35 years of her professional career
dedicated to the advancement of health care, both domestically as well as
internationally.
Dr. Healey-Sedutto has both deep and broad experience working within
the healthcare field, including: healthcare administration, both acute and
long term, program and strategic planning and policy evaluation, international
healthcare advocacy and partnership development, and academia and management. She
was the President of the Catholic Health Care System of New York and the President
of Benefice Health, a PPO insurance plan. In addition to founding Hope for a
Healthier Humanity, she created the Pan American Catholic Health Care Network.
Having served on numerous Boards of Trustees of medical schools, hospitals,
nursing homes and other community agencies, Dr. Healey-Sedutto remains
an active leader in her field.
Dr. Healey-Sedutto earned her M.A., M.P.A. and Ph.D. at New York University.
Lawrence G. Smith, M.D.
Lawrence G. Smith, M.D. was appointed Chief Medical Officer of the North
Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System on September 1, 2006. In his role as
CMO, Dr. Smith serves as the health system’s senior physician, responsible for
the overall professional management of clinical, education, research and
operational issues related to all medical and clinical affairs throughout the
North Shore-LIJ Health System. Dr Smith joined the health system in May 2005
as the Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs.
In that role he oversaw the academic and educational activities across the nation’s
third-largest not-for-profit healthcare system. After graduating from Fordham
University, he earned his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine. His
residency in Internal Medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital was followed by military
service as Captain in the Army Medical Corps, at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center
in Denver.
Dr. Smith practiced General Internal Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook, and became a
full-time faculty member, Director of Education, and Program Director of the
Residency Program in Internal Medicine. He joined the faculty of Mount Sinai School
of Medicine in 1994 as Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Residency
Program Director. In 2002, he was appointed to the position of Dean for Medical
Education. He also founded the Institute for Medical Education at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Smith has held senior leadership positions in national societies for medical
education and residency training, authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in
the area of medical education, and received awards and honors from national and
international organizations.
Mario J. Paredes
Mr. Paredes serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Catholic Association of
Latino Leaders (CALL). He is also the President of the North American Chilean
Chamber of Commerce and the Vice President of the Gabriela Mistral Foundation.
He currently works for the American Bible Society as Presidential Liaison on:
United Nations Initiatives, Roman Catholic Projects as well as Hispanic Ministries.
From 2001 to 2008, Mr. Paredes was appointed to the Corporate Division of Merrill
Lynch, having served as Vice President and then National Director of the U.S.
Hispanic Market for the Multicultural and Diversified Business Development Group.
For 25 years, Mr. Paredes directed the operations of the Roman Catholic Bishops of
the Northeastern USA, where he was the founder and Director of the Northeast
Hispanic Catholic Center. Under Mayor Ed Koch, he was Commissioner for the Charter
Revision of New York City and a Personal Advisor to Cardinal John O’Connor of
New York.
In both national and international roles he acted as a Consultant to the US Hispanic
Secretariat and the World Justice and Peace Committee at the United States Catholic
Conference of Bishops. He additionally served as a Consultant to the Vatican
Commission of Latin America. Under President Reagan, as a White House appointee
and special Latin American envoy, Paredes acted in the capacity of observer of the
democratic process and elections in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Surinam and Haiti.
Mr. Paredes studied at the Catholic University of Chile and graduated from the
Catholic University of Argentina with an M.A. in Philosophy. His Post Graduate
studies were at Georgetown University, New York University and Loyola University.
Jennifer Lee, RN, MPA, CNP
Jennifer Lee is the senior partner of Creative Medical Resources Associates, a partnership established
in New York State in 1990 comprising seasoned health industry professionals with many years combined
experience in the public and private sectors. Services covered include medical chart review,
utilization/claims data analysis and reporting, program evaluation and development, regulatory
compliance, managed care quality assurance, provider credentialing, site assessments and treatment
protocol development.
Ms. Lee is a graduate of the baccalaureate nursing program of Cornell University, and received a
masters degree in public health from the University of North Carolina. Her professional work experience
began as a maternal and child nurse practitioner at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Health Center
(then sponsored by Montefiore Medical Center in New York), followed by a period as a nurse consultant
for the Evaluation Unit of the Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine of the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine in New York where she served under the late Mildred A. Morehead, MD, a pioneer in
auditing quality of care and operations in health programs nationwide for federal, state, local and
private funding agencies. Subsequently, Ms. Lee joined the Professional Standards Review Organization
system which the federal government created to monitor care and costs incurred by beneficiaries in the
Medicare and Medicaid programs. Prior to founding CMRA, Ms. Lee worked at Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield
to plan and start a hospital utilization management program, with fiscal impact for its indemnity
products, under New York’s case-based DRG payment system.
Chris Conley
Chris Conley is currently a Managing Director at Muni Capital Management. He has been working since 1997 to meet the capital needs of acute care, rural healthcare, behavioral healthcare and long-term care facilities through a national funding program. As the manager of the Community Health Facilities Fund, Mr. Conley created the first tax-exempt Collateralized Debt Obligation Program for community based behavioral healthcare providers, which successfully financed over 30 borrowers. Mr. Conley spent over 10 years working at Lehman Brothers, completing over $1 billion of financing for healthcare facilities of all types, including multi-hospital systems, community based hospitals, academic medical centers, behavioral healthcare providers and long-term care facilities. Mr. Conley has worked with a broad range of fixed and floating rate tax-exempt financing instruments and credit enhancement sources. Mr. Conley completed his undergraduate work at the University of Notre Dame and his graduate work at Duke University where he received a Master of Health Administration.
Eileen Mullin
Eileen Mullin is a Director at Muni Capital Management, LLC, located in Manhattan. Ms. Mullin is a member of the group that performs in-depth credit analysis of all potential borrowers in the municipal finance sector for candidates in private investment funds and also leads all surveillance efforts for the borrowers in two separate funds. These funds were acquired from Cohen and Company in 2009. From 2007 to 2009, she was a Director at Cohen and Company, building the portfolios for the two previously mentioned funds. From 2005 to 2007, she was a Director at Nonprofit Capital, LLC, which was a sub-advisor to Cohen and Company and its formation of the two previously mentioned funds, performing the underwriting duties for potential borrowers in the municipal finance sector. Ms. Mullin worked as a health care analyst for Prudential Investment Advisor’s nine tax-exempt funds from 1994 to 1995. She also was a member of Moody’s Investors Service’s Public Finance Division from 1991 to 1994 in the Health Care Group, where she had responsibility for Moody’s new and ongoing health care ratings in thirteen States. Prior to that time, starting in 1987, Ms. Mullin was an investment banker in the health care finance group for both Kidder, Peabody and Co. and Bear, Stearns and Co. From 1985 to 1987, she worked in the Debt Issuance Unit of the New York State Medical Care Facilities Finance Agency, which was the largest health care issuer in the country. She also worked as an independent consultant from 1995 to 2005, providing credit analyses for individuals and companies. Ms. Mullin received her undergraduate degree in Latin American Studies from Smith College and a Master’s in Business Administration from Boston University.
Connie Vance, R.N., E.D.D., F.A.A.N.
Connie Vance is a Professor at the School of Nursing, The College of New Rochelle, where she served as Dean from 1986-1999. She has also taught at Presbyterian-Cornell Medical Center, Columbia University’s Teaching College, New York University, Hunter College-Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing, Borough of Manhattan Community College, and Barnes Hospital School of Nursing. She has been honored with many awards, including the Nursing Education Award from Columbia University. Connie is a member of the American Academy of Nursing, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the American Cancer Society, and the American Nurses’ Association. She is the author of dozens of scholarly publications on a broad range of topics related to the practice of nursing.