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Ellen Love, MHA Candidate
Ellen
Love will be joining the Mayo Clinic Administrative Fellowship Program in July
2019 upon graduation from the MHA program. She will be based in the Mayo Clinic
Health System in Eau Claire, WI for the two-year, operations focused
fellowship. Ellen is excited for the diverse experiences that the Mayo Clinic
fellowship offers and is looking forward to exploring the areas of patient
experience, accreditation, and service line operations. Prior to joining our
program, Ellen completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Central
Florida in Accounting. She then spent four years working as an in-store HR
leader for Target. While at UNF, Ellen served as president of the Health Administration
Student Association and as a member of the UAB Health Administration Case
Competition team. She also completed internships at Mayo Clinic and Baptist
Health.
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Sara Stophel, MHA Candidate
Sara
Stophel is an MHA and MBA candidate at the University of North Florida
graduating in Spring 2019. She received a Bachelor of Science in Health
Sciences with a Business Certificate from the University of South Florida in
2016. During Sara’s tenure at UNF, she served as the Spring Banquet
Chairman, Vice President of Health Administration Student Association, 2018 UNF
UAB Case Competition Representative, and is currently the President of Upsilon
Phi Delta. Sara will be joining the Revenue Cycle and Financial Management
Fellowship at Duke University Health System in July 2019. This administrative
fellowship will be focused in the Patient Revenue Management Organization,
which is a fully integrated, centralized revenue cycle supporting all of Duke
Health. Sara is excited for this opportunity to learn more about the
complexities of revenue cycle operations management, and how it impacts the
health system’s sustainability and clinical operations.
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Kaitlyn Chana, MHA Candidate
Since Kaitlyn Chana was
knee high, she wanted to be a storyteller; she strives for purpose, brings
truth, and helps others. It’s the crux of why Kaitlyn founded a nonprofit
charitable organization called Reel Stories. Real
People., Inc., in hopes, to tell positive stories of
exceptional work being done in communities through video. Kaitlyn is working to
obtain her master’s degree in Health Administration at the University of North
Florida. She’s working on incorporating narrative storytelling in the health
care industry to improve patient care. Her passion for storytelling cultivated
in her early years after spending time with children with life-threatening
illnesses in hospitals through her previous nonprofit organization, Love
Letters: Random Cards of Kindness, Inc. As a teenager, she traveled the country
speaking about volunteerism as a Congressional Gold Medalist, 2010 Winter
Olympic Torchbearer and as a spokesperson for the clothing store, Aeropostale.
2019 CAHME/Dawn Gideon Foundation Scholarship Honoree
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Dr. Hanadi Hamadi, Associate Professor
Dr. Hanadi Hamadi, a University of North Florida
associate professor of health administration in the Brooks College of Health,
was named a 2019 Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, a
magazine focusing on matters of access and opportunity for all in higher
education. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education first published its Emerging
Scholars edition in 2002, which recognizes 15 minority scholars from around the
country who are making their mark in the academy through teaching, research and
service. She has won several awards, including the 2019 UNF Outstanding
Undergraduate Teaching Award and the UNF Scholars Transforming Academic
Research Symposium Award, to name a few, and has numerous peer-reviewed
publications that represent her dedication to health care research and
education.
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Michael A. Mayo, FACHE
Michael A. Mayo, president of Baptist Medical Center
Jacksonville, recently was selected as one of four new Governors representing
the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), an international
professional society of more than 48,000 health care executives who lead
hospitals, health care systems and other healthcare organizations. Mayo will
serve a three-year term on the Board of Governors, the authority that oversees
ACHE operations and member services. He took office on March 2, 2019, at the
ACHE’s 62nd Congress on Healthcare Leadership in Chicago. Leading as Baptist
Medical Center Jacksonville hospital president since 2011, Mayo is responsible
for the operational and strategic direction of the 489-bed flagship facility of
Baptist Health.
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Mei Zhao, Chair and Professor
Dr. Mei Zhao is named as one of the recipients of the 2019 Edgar C. Hayhow Award along with Aaron C. Spaulding, PhD, Nicholas Edwardson, PhD, for their article "Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Performance: Do Organizational and Market Characteristics Matter?" published in the January/February 2018 issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management. The study employs an institutional theory lens to test whether certain organizational structures and market characteristics mediate hospitals' ability to perform across hospital value-based purchasing domains.
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