Edenbridge PACE at Skyland Town Center

nana yaw adu-sarkodie

MD, MPH
MEDICAL DIRECTOR, EDENBRIDGE PACE OF WEST BALTIMORE

Nana Yaw Adu-Sarkodie is a clinical Geriatrician and Family Medicine physician, with expertise in the medical care of older adults. His clinical interests include dementia care and caregiver well-being. He brings to PACE his experiences in home-based primary care, community living centers, as well as ambulatory older adult clinics.

He has served as Medical Director for VA Maryland’s home based primary care program, and most recently served as the Deputy Director for the Geriatrics and Extended Care Clinical Center at VA Maryland Health Care System. He has taught medical students, medical and nurse practitioner residents, and geriatric fellows on geriatric care.

Dr. Adu-Sarkodie holds a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and an MD from Ross University School of Medicine. He completed both his residency in Family Medicine and his fellowship in geriatrics at the Louisiana State Health Science Center in New Orleans. Inspired by his late grandmother who was a nurse, Dr. Adu-Sarkodie chose Family Medicine and the Geriatrics specialty because he found that older adult populations have a tremendous amount of insight and wisdom, love to chat, and often present with complex health concerns that require the coordination of a multidisciplinary team to achieve successful health outcomes.

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stephanie bruce

MD, FACP
MEDICAL DIRECTOR, EDENBRIDGE PACE AT SKYLAND TOWN CENTER

Stephanie Bruce, MD, is a is a clinical Geriatrician and internist, with extensive experience in the medical care of elders, especially those with frailty or functional impairment. She bringS to PACE more than 15 years of experience in home-based primary care and inpatient geriatrics Washington, DC.

Dr. Bruce grew up in Florida before attending Georgetown University and Columbia University. She received her MD from Duke University School of Medicine and completed her internship and residency at Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC. In 2004 she completed a clinical fellowship in Geriatrics at Johns Hopkins University Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, and a Fellow in the American College of Physicians. She is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine.

In 2011 she received the “House Call Physician of the Year” award from the American Academy of Home Care Physicians. In 2011 she was named one of 72 “Innovation Advisors” to Medicare’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and is a former recipient of the Practice Change Leader grant from Hartford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies.

Her clinical interests include safety in hospitalized elders, social needs in aging, and aging in place.

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david liu

MBA
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

David Liu is an experienced healthcare executive who has guided operations innovation and transformation for more than 20 years. David’s passion is improving access to high-quality care for medically complex and chronically ill populations. A mission-driven leader, David has extensive experience building high-performing teams working in value-based arrangements between risk-bearing providers and payors serving vulnerable populations.

In executive roles at DaVita, ChenMed, and Landmark Health, David led payor-provider partnerships and the national expansion businesses into new geographies, accelerating membership growth and optimizing clinical and central operations. Prior to joining Edenbridge, David was COO of the Nevada Medical Group at Intermountain Health, where he led the flagship multi-specialty group of more than 70 sites and a network of more than 2,000 providers. Under his leadership, Medicare Advantage membership grew to more than 80,000 members, creating unprecedented access for older adults in underserved areas while also earning gold-medal awards in the “Best of Las Vegas” categories of Senior-Focused Care and Women’s Health.

Before launching his career in healthcare, David worked as part of a multinational team distributing humanitarian aid in Romania. David is fluent in Romanian and conversationally proficient in Mandarin Chinese. He enjoys learning languages and has knowledge of Spanish, German, and French, and is currently learning Italian. He is a volunteer hockey coach and is committed to philanthropy and community leadership and service. David holds a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Yale School of Management.

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john billingsley

MBA
Real Estate

In a career spanning more than three decades, John has been a key executive with several path-breaking organizations, participating in all levels of the real estate concept development process.

Starting in an operations role for a small bakery chain in Boston and growing into increasingly senior roles in a variety of organizations, John is a seasoned development leader with strong problem-solving skills, coupled with the ability to plan, design, and implement successful real estate initiatives. John has led the successful expansion of multiple fast-casual restaurant chains, executing on both company owned and franchise strategies leveraging geographic and channel growth yielding above average returns. While at Trammel Crow company, he executed a global outsourcing business model, servicing multiple Fortune 50 companies, including CVS/Pharmacy, Exxon/Mobil, Bank of America and Walgreens.

In addition to driving new unit growth initiatives, John has led the concept revitalization of several restaurant chains providing a renewed platform to drive incremental sales and profits. His innovative repositioning model became the go-forward growth vehicle for two companies. John partnered in a successful management buyout and subsequent turnaround of a successful fast-casual brand and provided leadership in sales and profit growth which led to a successful recapitalization in thirty-six months.

John holds a B.S. degree from the University of Dayton, and an MBA from Suffolk University. He participated on the Greater Boston Catholic Charities Board of Trustees for many years and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Yawkey House of Possibilities.

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alan abrams

MD, MPH
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER

Alan Abrams has been a practicing geriatrician, physician executive and leader in geriatric education for more than 30 years. His career has been marked by leadership positions at the intersection of the provider and payer spaces. During his time as chief of geriatrics at Cambridge Health Alliance, he helped launch one of the early PACE programs in Massachusetts. He is nationally recognized for designing and implementing model geriatric health care delivery programs for culturally diverse, low-income populations. He most recently served as chief medical officer of the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization at Beth Israel Deaconess, which included Medicare shared savings risk contracts covering 70,000 lives.

Alan has served as medical director of UnitedHealth’s Special Needs Plan for People Living in Nursing Homes, and the Cambridge Health Alliance Center for Excellence for Senior Health, which included a PACE program. He served for 11 years as the director of the geriatric fellowship program at Harvard Medical School, and has been involved in the training of hundreds of practicing geriatricians. He is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and continues to teach geriatric fellows as well as speak internationally on geriatrics, education, and health care delivery for older adults.

Alan holds a Master in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and an MD from the New York University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his fellowship in geriatrics at Harvard Medical School.

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nicholas joseph

MD
VICE PRESIDENT, PACE PROGRAMS AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CHERRY BLOSSOM PACE

After graduating with a degree in Accounting and Business Management, Nick spent his early years as a consultant with PwC and Deloitte providing business and tax strategy plans for Fortune 100 companies. Recognizing a passion to serve the underserved, he left consulting to pursue a career in medicine. He attended Medical School at Wayne State University and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Henry Ford Health System, located in the city of Detroit. He completed his training with a fellowship in geriatric medicine and clinical epidemiology at Yale University before returning to Michigan to join a Metro Detroit PACE Program, where he oversaw the development of six clinics and 1,200 participants as medical director.

Nick enjoys combining his clinical and business background to drive high performance of PACE programs with strong impact on both quantitative and qualitative measures for the participants and care team members. His focus on providing care to the underserved is at the forefront of everything he does. His knowledge of the impact PACE brings to communities fuels his drive to build and expand these programs, be a voice for the vulnerable, and create innovative care that is mission-driven and operationally sustainable.

His passion for serving the community extends beyond healthcare and aging adults to his participation in educational initiatives focused on improving literacy rates and mentoring within the community.

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Tom’s mother was a PACE participant. His involvement with PACE from the family side has helped to shape Tom’s focus on providing comprehensive, compassionate care.

thomas reiter

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, PACE OPERATIONS

Tom Reiter has worked in healthcare for nearly 30 years in a variety of settings, including mental health, geriatrics, and integrated healthcare models. Tom has extensive experience working with capitation and risk through the PACE model, and in developing an accountable care organization and medical homes.

During his 18 years leading PACE programs, Tom served as executive director of Gary and Mary West PACE of Northern San Diego, where he led the development of West Health’s first PACE program; and as president and CEO of Rocky Mountain Health Care Services, where he led the organization’s development and expansion. While at Rocky Mountain, Tom oversaw growth of the PACE program from 143 to 500 participants and the renovation of a 24,000-square-foot building to become a state-of-the-art PACE facility. Prior to Rocky Mountain, Tom led the PACE program for the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tom has served on the board of directors of the National PACE Association and as faculty for the PACE 2.0 Initiative, which focuses on accelerating growth of the PACE model.

Tom is deeply invested in working with communities to evolve services and systems to support their residents’ healthcare needs. He has also served on multiple boards including Community Health Partnership, Rocky Mountain Options for Long Term Care, Innovations in Aging, and The Foundation for Senior Wellbeing. Tom earned a BS in Psychology from the University of Toledo, Ohio. He is a LEAN Six Sigma Green Belt.

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A pivotal moment in Stephen’s life was seeing his beloved great-grandmother placed in a nursing home when he was just eleven years old. Seeing her experience early-stage dementia and living in an institutionalized setting, he felt her humanity was being taken from her. This led to a lifelong desire to create lasting change in elder care.

stephen gordon

MD, MBA
FOUNDER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Stephen Gordon is a board-certified geriatrician with a lifelong passion for improving the care of older adults. He founded Edenbridge Health in 2016 after spending two years working as a primary care geriatrician at the Program for All- Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) at Upham’s Corner Health Center in Dorchester, Massachusetts, as well as director of the Iora Health Fellowship in Primary Care Innovation, where he specialized in clinical systems design, care planning, and provider development. He continues to practice on a limited basis at Upham’s Corner PACE. He is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and holds clinical appointments at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, and Hebrew SeniorLife, where he teaches in the Harvard Multi-Campus Fellowship in Geriatrics. He is a supervising physician for United Community Health Plan, where he oversees more than 30 nurse practitioners caring for nursing home patients across the Boston area.

Stephen’s career has spanned the worlds of medicine and business. After graduating from Harvard College, he spent four years as a consultant for the Advisory Board Company, where he worked on issues relating to hospital strategy and operations, including service line growth, facility design, primary care strategy, and physician-hospital relations. After a year at the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement, focusing on issues of healthcare leadership, he earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he double-majored in health care systems and operations. Subsequently, he attended the Yale School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, followed by a two-year fellowship in geriatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Stephen has consulted for the Leapfrog Group, the Clinton Foundation, the Governments of Ukraine and Nigeria, the City of Cape Town Clinics in South Africa, Renaissance Health, as well as hospitals and health systems across the U.S.

He lives near Boston, Massachusetts with his wife and three children. He is the only person in the house who does not speak Cantonese.

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Edenbridge PACE at Skyland Town Center

nana yaw adu-sarkodie

teesa banks

stephanie bruce

david liu

sally white

jessica petro

trina lorch

emily hurst

micaela conte

robrette vaden

judy mackey

nina wurster

john billingsley

will kerrigan

shaelin cullin

alicia dalton

casey dicocco

brian mckaig

eric cheung

amanda davis

alan abrams

bruce vladeck

robyn stone

stephen ryan

joanne lynn

jessica santos

victoria cleveland

blakely calabrese

estenieau jean

zac stillerman

simon laganiere

nicholas joseph

peter dreyfus

thomas reiter

robert kramer

jennie chin hansen

alexandra drane

john gorman

rushika fernanadopulle

jeremy elkins

jo mcchesney

stephen gordon