MHA Speaker Series
Designed to explore current topics in healthcare leadership and the diverse career paths available to our students, the MHA Speaker Series program brings executives, managers, leaders, and innovators from diverse healthcare settings and career tracks to campus to explore key challenges and opportunities in today's healthcare environment. We invite you to register to attend our speaker events, or sign up to receive video recordings.
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Current Speaker Events Heading link
![Jan 25: Andy Witt, MHA, Director of Quality at Northwestern Medicine (UIC MHA, 2015)](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2022/12/Andy-Witt.jpeg)
![Melanie Tan, MHSA, VP of Strategy and Growth, Medical Home Network](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2023/01/Melanie-Tan-Speaker-Series.jpeg)
![Febr 8: Arshia Wajid MBA, MPH, Director of Strategy & Care Transformation, Founder of American Muslim Health Professionals](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2022/12/Arshia-Wajid.jpeg)
![Feb 15: Peter Burkiewicz, MHSA, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Business Development, Chief Strategy Officer – Community Based Practice, UI Health](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2022/12/Peter-Burkiewicz.jpeg)
Current Speaker Events Heading link
![February 22: Sarah Carter, MHA, Division Administrator at Northwestern Medicine (UIC MHA, 2014)](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2022/12/Sarah-Carter_397x600-500x396.jpg)
![March 1: Maureen Benjamins, PhD, Senior Research Fellow at Sinai Urban Health Institute](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2022/12/Maureen-Benjamins.jpeg)
![March 8: UIC MHA Alum Vizient Panel (Shivani Shah, 2020; Marina Isaac, 2008; Shireen Nanavati, 2017; Mansi Mehta, 2021; Michelle Leblanc, 2018)](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2022/12/Vizent.jpeg)
![March 15: Jerry Krishnan, MD, PhD, Associate Vice Chancellor for Population Health Sciences, UI Health](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2022/12/Jerry-Krishnan.jpeg)
Current Speaker Events Heading link
![March 29: Zeeshan Pasha, MD, MPH, MHA, Ph.D., Clinical Operations Clinical Operations, Amazon](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2022/12/Zeeshan-Pasha_397x600-500x396.jpg)
![April 5: Heriberto Cruz, MBA, FACHE, VP of Operations, Access Community Health Network](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2022/12/Heriberto-Cruz_397x600-500x397.jpg)
![Sameer Shah, PharmD, MHA, CSSBB, FACHE, System Vice President, Clinical and Professional Services, Sinai Chicago](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2023/01/Sameer-Shah-Speaker-Series.jpeg)
![Karen Teitelbaum photo.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2021/01/teitelbaum-karen-600-688-500x500.jpg)
Previous Speaker Events Heading link
![Ellington Jones photo.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2021/07/mha-jones-ellington-2-500x500.jpg)
![Sohail Azeem headshot.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2021/07/azeem-sohail--500x500.jpg)
![Jay Bhatt photo.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2021/01/bhatt-jay-600-688-500x500.jpg)
![Karen Teitelbaum photo.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2021/01/teitelbaum-karen-600-688-500x500.jpg)
![Rani Morrison headshot.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2021/07/morrison-rani-500x500.jpg)
![Stephen Brown photo.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2020/08/brown-stephen-400-579-400x500.jpg)
![Amy Lulich headshot.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2021/07/lulich-amy-500x500.jpg)
![Ryan West headshot.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2021/07/west-ryan-2.jpg)
Speaker lineup, continued. Heading link
![Jason Montrie headshot.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2021/08/image.png)
![Emily Jackaki headshot.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2021/07/jackaki-emily-mha.jpg)
![Melanie Tan headshot.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2021/07/tan-melanie-500x500.jpg)
![Kenneth Jones headshot.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2021/07/jones-kenneth.jpg)
2020 Speakers Heading link
Elizabeth Early
Regional vice president of professional and support services at Loyola Medicine.
Heather Afriyie, MHA '18
Healthcare services account manager in the Commercial Leadership Program at GE Healthcare.
Emily Town, MHA '19
Senior nurse manager for clinical services and operations at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta.
Min Zhu, MHA '12
Executive director of strategy at UCSF Health at the University of California at San Francisco.
David Buchanan
Chief clinical officer and executive medical director at Oak Street Health.
Sarah Janvier
Director of primary care, orthopedics and neuroscience service lines at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital.
Georgia Casciato
Managing director of healthcare at Syntegrity, a healthcare consultancy.
![Quint Studer headshot.](https://publichealth.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/302/2020/11/studer-quint-1080-1080-550x550.jpg)
Confronting stress and burnout in healthcare Heading link
The MHA program welcomed Quint Studer, a healthcare executive known for strengthening hospitals and healthcare systems, for a discussion on strategies for addressing stress and burnout among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Quint’s career has included leading Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago to Hospitals Magazine’s Great Comeback award and helping Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Florida, place in the top one percent nationwide in patient and employee satisfaction.