Advisory Board

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The CIHF Advisory Board is composed of senior-level leaders and CIHF’s Founding and Member Organization representatives.  Through CIHF’s activities and research, the Advisory Board connects with students, faculty, and top-level professionals from other industries, exchanging information, and bridging the fields of hospitality, design thinking, and health management/policy to advance service excellence in healthcare, wellness, senior living, and related areas.

  • Amanda Al-Masri

    Amanda Al-Masri

    Vice President of Wellness | Hilton
    Amanda Al-Masri is the vice president of wellness at Hilton. In this role, she serves as a wellness strategist across Hilton’s global portfolio of 18 world-class brands, enhancing Hilton’s current offerings and programs while developing innovative new, scalable solutions to meet rapidly evolving consumer expectations. A seasoned wellness leader, Amanda brings 20 years of experience Read More...
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    Gérard van Grinsven

    COO & Partner | Waterstone Properties
    Entrepreneurial CEO offering progressive experience in operations leadership. Skilled at identifying and implementing process improvements to drive efficiency, productivity, and maximizing market penetration. Servant leader with proven success, managing cross-functional teams in both the hospitality and healthcare industries. Proud member of teams that have earned an unprecedented two Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards at The Read More...
  • Severine Petras

    Severine Petras

    CEO/Co-Founder | Priority Life Care
    Prior to entering operations in Senior Housing, Sevy’s investment banking career spanned a decade of lending and structuring debt solutions for Senior Housing & Healthcare. She began her career in Public Finance at Natcity Investments and moved to Chicago as an SVP for 5/3 Securities. Later at Merrill Lynch Capital she focused solely on balance sheet lending Read More...
  • Andrew Chen

    Founding Member of CIHF, President | Tyson BioResearch, Inc.
    Andy Chen is a Founding Advisory Member of the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures Family has always been the biggest part of my life and the greatest source of inspiration. I am happily married with a beautiful wife and two young, lovely children, living in Taipei so we can be close to my parents. Bringing Read More...
  • Martin Stallone

    Dr. Martin Stallone is the  President and CEO of Cayuga Medical Center and Cayuga Health System. In 2009, Stallone found himself returning to Ithaca after searching for a job that would provide the opportunity to mix clinical and administrative experience led him to CMC. The hospital was searching for someone to fill the Hospitalist Director Read More...
  • David Schless

    David S. Schless has served as president & CEO of the American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA) since its creation in 1991. ASHA is comprised of senior executives from the nation’s leading developers, owners, operators, and financiers of purpose-built, professionally managed seniors housing.  ASHA provides thought leadership related to quality and innovation, research, strategic business information, Read More...
  • Robert Corona

    Chief Executive Officer | Upstate Medical University
    Robert J. Corona DO, CPE, MBA, FCAP, FASCP Dr. Corona is the Chief Executive Officer of Upstate Medical University Hospital and Community Hospital. He is also the John B Henry Endowed Professor of Experimental Pathology and Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs. Dr. Corona is an emeritus member of the New York State Board for Read More...
  • Tim McCarthy

    Tim McCarthy

    Partner & Managing Principal | Hart Howerton
    As Managing Principal of Hart Howerton, Tim directly engages clients in planning and designing market-driven solutions that produce outstanding business results. His leadership of design teams has guided the implementation of projects in more than twenty countries across four continents. Tim’s commitment to understanding how conditions in the built environment may drive a health and Read More...
  • Ruth

    Ruth C. Browne, SD

    A nationally recognized, highly accomplished leader, business innovator, author, and strategic advocate for value creation in health and education, Dr. Ruth C. Browne is the President and CEO of Ronald McDonald House New York (RMH-NY). Her expertise and innovative approach, developed during her more than 15 years as a CEO in the nonprofit healthcare sector, Read More...
  • Joe Jedlowski

    Joseph Jedlowski, MBA, MHA

    Chairman & Chief Executive Officer | Distinctive Living
    Prior to starting Distinctive Healthcare, Mr. Jedlowski was President and Owner of Milestone Retirement Communities, LLC ® (Vancouver, WA), since2009. Milestone Retirement Communities, served over seven thousand residents, five thousand, three hundred team-members, and in nineteen states. Mr. Jedlowski was responsible for all operational efforts, strategic vision and portfolio growth. He also championed the success Read More...
  • Lynne Rizk

    Lynne Rizk

    Principal, Director of Health, New York | HKS, Inc.
    As Health Practice Leader for New York and Director of HKS’ New York Health Studio, Lynne leads all health thought leadership, planning, programming and design projects including major medical facilities in New York, Connecticut and throughout the Northeast. Lynne has over 30 years of dedicated healthcare experience with a hands-on management style and a personal approach to client relationship building....
  • Peter Yesawich

    Peter Yesawich, Ph.D

    Peter C. Yesawich is Chairman of Hospitable Healthcare Partners, LLC, a marketing advisory firm that serves healthcare service providers, and Vice Chairman, Emeritus of MMGY Global, America’s leading marketing, advertising and public relations agency that serves travel, leisure, and entertainment industry clients from 11 offices across the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. From 2010 Read More...
  • Bradford Perkins

    Bradford Perkins

    Bradford Perkins is an architect and planner and is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Perkins Eastman Architects, a 1000 person firm based in New York City with 15 offices in the US and overseas. He has worked on projects throughout the US and 30 countries around the world. He is particularly well known for Read More...
  • Mary Leary

    Mary Leary

    Chief Executive Officer and President | Mather
    Mary joined Mather as Chief Executive Officer/President in 2002. Previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Classic Residence by Hyatt and has held other executive positions in senior living, health care, and long-term care. Currently a member of the Executive Board of American Seniors Housing Association, Operator Advisory Board of the National Investment Center, and Read More...
  • Melissa Ceriale

    Melissa Ceriale

    Founding Member of CIHF, Board of Trustees | Montefiore Medicine
    Melissa Ceriale is a Founding Advisory Member of the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures, and she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Montefiore Health System since 2013. Melissa brings more than 20 years of experience in hospitality and design to both endeavors. Upon completing her degree at Michigan State University’s School Read More...

 

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