Health Legacy Partnership

Leadership

Sheldon P. Kottle, MD, MPH, FACP
CEO, Health Legacy Partnership

Dr. Sheldon Kottle has served on the front lines of medicine as a practicing physician, medical director, and consultant. Trained in nephrology at Emory University, Dr. Kottle opened his practice followed by a succession of dialysis centers in Louisiana. Recently, Dr. Kottle returned to obtain a Master’s in Public Health at Harvard in Hospital Management and medical system development and then served as medical director of Scottsdale Healthcare in Arizona. He now teaches medical students. Dr. Kottle has dedicated his career to enhancing health care delivery and implementing effective quality systems to reduce medical oversights and disparities.

After observing physicians overburdened and limited by available resources, Dr. Kottle developed Patients Always First (PAF). PAF provided patients/designees previously unavailable ability to access personal health information online 24/7. This system proved especially helpful to patients while traveling and physicians unfamiliar with the patient and included the patient’s prior medical histories, medications, allergies, and contacts for his/her physicians.

As Chief Executive Officer of Health Legacy Partnership (HELP), Dr. Kottle has expanded his commitment to diminishing disparities in health care delivery. In addition to facilitating the collection of medical outcomes data, Dr. Kottle conceived of the Joseph H. Kanter Prize as an approach to uncovering solutions to disparities and rewarding dedicated physicians.

Janet Marchibroda
Senior Advisor, Health Legacy Partnership

Janet Marchibroda is the Chief Executive Officer of the eHealth Initiative and its Foundation, both Washington, D.C.-based independent, national non-profit organizations whose missions are to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology.

Ms. Marchibroda previously served as the Executive Director of Connecting for Health—a public-private sector initiative funded and led by the Markle Foundation and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—which is designed to catalyze actions on a national basis to drive electronic connectivity and create an interconnected, electronic health information infrastructure.

Prior to the eHealth Initiative, Ms. Marchibroda co-founded and served as COO for two health care information organizations and served as the Chief Operating Officer of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Ms. Marchibroda holds a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia and an MBA with a concentration in organizational development from George Washington University. In 2005, she was recognized as one of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare magazine and in 2006 for the Federal Computer Week Top 100 Award.

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