Present Advisory Group and Steering Committee members are here.
Cape Care Working Group, 2006
See below for the 2004 Working Group
Various committees are here.
Stephen L. Abbott
President and Chief Executive Officer, Cape Cod Healthcare.
Merton C. Bernstein Esq.
Coles Professor of Law Emeritus at the Washington University School of Law. He is a founding board member of the non-partisan National Academy of Social Insurance and served as principal consultant to the National Commission on Social Security Reform.
Patricia Fairchild
Consultant with John Snow International (Health Care Development).
Cynthia Franklin
MBA in Health Administration, and 25+ years experience in state and federal government agencies, hospitals, and large group practices.
Jon Gilmore
Community development, management planning, project supervision and communications strategies.
Margie Hansen R.N.
Chief Operating Officer of Cape Cod Hospital.
BL Hathaway
Director of Lower/Outer Cape Community Coalition.
Thomas Kosman, Esq.
Directing Attorney, since 1982, of South Coastal Counties Legal Services Elder Law Project (formerly Legal Services of Cape and Islands), which provides free legal assistance to the elders of the Cape and islands.
John Livingstone, M.D.
A child, adolescent, adult psychiatrist trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, and Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center and currently a professor at Harvard Medical School. For many years he conducted research whose goals are to evolve designs of health care delivery systems which are both effective and efficient. Was consultant to The President's Commission on Mental Health in the Carter Administration and now consults to health industries focusing on nurse health coaching and primary care.
Anna Manatis, M.D.
Legislative Liaison for Mass Medical Society House of Delegates, and Primary care internist in Sandwich.
Douglas Marshall
Doug Marshall has a BA in Physical Sciences from Harvard. His career has included a stint in the Navy on destroyers (LCDR Ret.), ownership and operation of a major subcontracting business in construction and most recently service as Executive Vice President for two subcontractor trade and collective bargaining associations representing the corporate interests of 250 companies in New England. Chaired jointly trusteed boards controlling four employee benefit funds, including the Health Benefits Fund, for 4,000 employees: in aggregate, about one third of a billion dollars.
Sarah Savery Marter, M.P.H
in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and 25 years experience in consulting and health data analysis for insurance companies, large corporate purchasers and providers.
Cynthia Mitchell
Director of Island Health Plan (Martha's Vineyard).
Wendy Northcross
Executive Director, Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce.
Brian O'Malley, M.D.
Cape Cod Healthcare Board of Trustees; Chair of Risk Management and Claims Committee; Chair Outer Cape Regional Advisory Council; Medical Director, Cape End Manor Nursing Home. Primary care internist in Provincetown for 29 years. Honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society as a 2007 Community Clinician of the Year
Robin Rowland, M.D.
Vice Pres. for Community Affairs, Cape Cod Healthcare.
Len Stewart
Director, Barnstable County Dept. of Human Services Chair, Lighthouse Health Access Alliance.
Rhonnda Tewes
Chairperson of the Healthcare Committee, Cape Cod League of Women Voters; Retired Director of Personnel at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Sheila Vanderhoef
Cape Cod Healthcare Board of Trustees; Town Manager, Eastham.
Cape Care Working Group, 2004
Brian O'Malley, MD
Chair of Risk Management and Claims Committee at Cape Cod Healthcare Board of Trustees
Chair Outer Cape Regional Advisory Council
Medical Director, Cape End Manor Nursing Home
Primary care internist in Provincetown for 25 years
Len Stewart
Director of Barnstable County Dept of Human Services
Chair, Lighthouse Health Access Alliance
Wendy Northcross
Executive Director of Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce
Sheila Vanderhoef
Cape Cod Healthcare Board of Trustees and Town Manager, Eastham
Robin Rowland, MD
Vice Pres. for Community Services, Cape Cod Healthcare
Margie Hansen RN
Chief Operating Officer of Cape Cod Hospital
Anna Manatis, MD
Legislative Liaison for Mass. Medical Society House of Delegates
Primary care internist in Sandwich
Merton Bernstein, Esq.
Washington Univ. School of Law
Worked high in Kennedy administration on early Medicare planning
BL Hathaway
Director of Lower/Outer Cape Community Coalition
Cynthia Mitchell
Director of Island Health Plan (MV)
Rhonnda Tewes
Head of Health Affairs Div. of Cape Cod League of Women Voters
Brian Toomey
Director of Mid/Upper Cape Community Health Center, Hyannis
Patricia Fairchild
Consultant with John Snow International (Health Care Development)