Who We Are
Contributing Fellows
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Jennifer Bell is a Senior Policy Advisor for Patton Boggs, LLP in Washington DC, she provides strategic counsel regarding legislative initiatives and regulatory policy to Fortune 500 companies, coalitions, and trade associations. She has a proven track record of success in each major health care bill enacted in the last decade, through her ability to persuasively communicate complex concepts and programs at the highest level of government and business. With a thorough understanding of the legislative process, she has strong bipartisan relationships within the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate HELP Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee, as well as the Senate and House leadership.
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IN MEMORIAM |
Richard Hoerl was an extraordinary man in so many ways. We at Estes Park Institute found in him a colleague, counselor, friend and a reconciling voice with a pragmatic edge. The many hospitals who attended Estes Park over these many years found much more.
Dick seemed always to be trying to help hospitals and their physicians find their souls. From the ashes of contentiousness and discord he forged for many of them a way to reopen dialogue, share ideas, respect one another’s personhood and ultimately find a common ground from which meaningful and lasting solutions could be articulated and then implemented. What he offered to them worked because of his infusion of practicality and realism. Within this framework he honored the past that each of them brought to the table. He never set before them an imposed solution, preferring to help them uncover their native capacities to identify, correct and cure the impediments to their mutual success.
He seemed to be one who, in another day, would comfortably have walked into the “School of Athens”, a renaissance individual equally at home with science and its institutions as he was in his faith life. There was a faith that his fellow professionals would ultimately seek to do what was right and in the best interest of their patients. But of singular moment to him, and all who knew him, was his Faith in his Lord and the moral compass this provided.
In private, his most productive time was in the discussions of his beliefs and how they created the foundation for his professional life. It was his contention that these foundational insights would, in a small part, have saved us from our primal stupidity. That is to say, they would guide us to move from self-serving concerns to concerns for a collective good.
He was called to heal relationships that had been alienated and sundered. He saw it as an endless project, but one worthy as his life’s effort. The entire health care community is the better because of his life and his ministrations to it. He will be missed by many.
Each of us at Estes Park, having found his presence so valued, will face his death with both the sadness of loss and with the challenge to assure that what he taught, what he cared about, what he stood for, remain within our mission.
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Estes Park Institute Senior Fellow
Physician Hospital Relations Horty, Springer & Mattern, PC |
Mr. Mulholland is a senior partner in the Pittsburgh law firm Horty, Spring & Mattern, P.C. Named in 1997 by the National Law Journal as one of 40 health care attorneys who have made their mark and listed in The Best Lawyers in America, he has spoken and written extensively on a wide variety of health law topics. He regularly advises clients on hospital medical staff, corporate tax fraud and abuse, and compliance matters.
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Mr. Norris is co-Founder of Community Initiatives Inc, dedicated to measurably improving population health status and the vitality of places. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to Kaiser Permanente’s Community Benefit department, as a Fellow of the Public Health Institute, and as Head Coach of the YMCA of the USA’s Activate America initiative. Over the past two decades he has helped grow the healthy communities movement in the US and internationally.
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Dr. Ronald A. Stewart holds a Doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies - Organizational Leadership and Management from The Union Institute and University, a Master of Arts in Nonprofit Organizations from Case Western Reserve University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric and Communications from Kent State University.
Dr. Stewart is passionately engaged in service to the nonprofit and public sectors having served as senior staff to both large and small organizations. A significant portion of Dr. Stewart’s current focus is concentrated within the continuum of care for America’s homeless people in search of practical solutions to the advocacy, housing, and supportive services needs of these disenfranchised persons.
Among the hallmarks of Dr. Stewart’s consultation work within the nonprofit and public sectors are his tailored and practical solutions for organizations, staff, and volunteers alike. His services include a wide array of capacity building interventions such as executive coaching, executive search, board development, planning, evaluation, discussion facilitation, and fundraising. Dr. Stewart is a skilled grant writer and has assisted numerous organizations both large and small in securing federal, state, and local grant resources. Over two thousand persons drawn from academia, nonprofit and public institutions have received training from in grant development techniques by Dr. Stewart.
Serving as adjunct faculty at the graduate level Dr. Stewart engages learners on topics such as program planning, evaluation, and grant writing.
A native of rural Ohio Dr. Stewart is keenly aware of the need to engage young people, especially those from Appalachia, in the consideration of contemporary global issues and to encourage their participation in the delivery of community based solutions inspired by these increased awarenesses. In 2004 Dr. Stewart established the Service Learning Opportunity Fund through the Stark Community Foundation and the Carroll County Foundation to award qualified young people with scholarship assistance so that they may engage in service learning projects around the globe.
Dr. Stewart currently resides in the greater Los Angeles area.
Dr. Stewart is passionately engaged in service to the nonprofit and public sectors having served as senior staff to both large and small organizations. A significant portion of Dr. Stewart’s current focus is concentrated within the continuum of care for America’s homeless people in search of practical solutions to the advocacy, housing, and supportive services needs of these disenfranchised persons.
Among the hallmarks of Dr. Stewart’s consultation work within the nonprofit and public sectors are his tailored and practical solutions for organizations, staff, and volunteers alike. His services include a wide array of capacity building interventions such as executive coaching, executive search, board development, planning, evaluation, discussion facilitation, and fundraising. Dr. Stewart is a skilled grant writer and has assisted numerous organizations both large and small in securing federal, state, and local grant resources. Over two thousand persons drawn from academia, nonprofit and public institutions have received training from in grant development techniques by Dr. Stewart.
Serving as adjunct faculty at the graduate level Dr. Stewart engages learners on topics such as program planning, evaluation, and grant writing.
A native of rural Ohio Dr. Stewart is keenly aware of the need to engage young people, especially those from Appalachia, in the consideration of contemporary global issues and to encourage their participation in the delivery of community based solutions inspired by these increased awarenesses. In 2004 Dr. Stewart established the Service Learning Opportunity Fund through the Stark Community Foundation and the Carroll County Foundation to award qualified young people with scholarship assistance so that they may engage in service learning projects around the globe.
Dr. Stewart currently resides in the greater Los Angeles area.