NEPRA Annual Educational Symposium 2018November 4 – 6, 2018 • Newport, Rhode Island

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Accommodations & Meeting LocationThe Newport Marriott25 America’s Cup Avenue, Newport, RI 02840

To make a room reservation, please visit (https://tinyurl.com/NEPRA2018) or call (401) 849-1000 and request the NEPRA Educational Symposium 2018 group rate.

Directions to the Newport Marriott Hotel (www.newportmarriott.com)

Driving From the west or New York City, take I-95 to US Route 1 to RI Route 138 east. Route 138 crossesthe Jamestown Bridge and the small island of Jamestown and continues across the ClaibornePell Newport Bridge to Newport. Coming from a point due east like Cape Cod, take I-195toward Providence, RI, then in Fall River, MA, switch to Route 24 south. This takes you ontoAquidneck Island across the Sakonnet River Bridge. After crossing the bridge, switch to Route138 south and proceed to Newport. Coming from the northwest and Providence, take I-195 eastand then switch to Route 114 south. This takes you across the Mount Hope Bridge and intoNewport.

By AirSeveral national and regional airlines fly into T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, RI, 30 milesnorthwest of Newport.

By BusPeter Pan and Bonanza Bus Lines provide service to Newport (www.discovernewport.org)

Dress is Business Casual

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Local AttractionsMansion ToursNewport is famous for its mansions, built as summer homesin the 1850s to 1900 by wealthy tycoons of New York andPhiladelphia. These massive houses, including thespectacular Rosecliff, Marble House, the Breakers, the Elms,Rough Point, are open to the public, offering fascinating andinformative tours. The Breakers is probably the first amongequals of Newport mansions. Cornelius Vanderbilt II directedarchitect Richard Morris Hunt in 1893 to design the Breakers,an Italian Renaissance-style palazzo.

Vineyard VisitsThe northern part of Aquidneck Island, where Newportresides, has three fabulous vineyards that are open for tours,tastings, and events like clambakes or art shows. You willneed a car or a ride to get to the vineyards from Newport,but they are not far at all.

Walks and HikesThe Cliff Walk is a memorable walk with outstanding vistas. Itis a 3.5-mile elevated and paved path along the shoreline,passing grand mansion properties, with vast views of theAtlantic. Several entry points allow you to do only a portion ifyou wish. And, by all means, just walk around the town! Inthe old downtown, narrow streets are lined with should-to-shoulder clapboarded houses, many bearing plaques withthe date of construction – some from the 1700s -- and theowner's name.

ShoppingBannister's Wharf, on Newport's harbor front, off America'sCup Avenue, is the hub of Newport activities, including apier and views of the Bay; access to boat cruises; docking forboats; good dining and shopping; live music and dancing.The wharf has 20 stores, galleries and restaurants, featuringRhode Island maritime merchandise and cuisine.

International Tennis Hall of FameIt honors players and contributors to the sport of tennis andincludes a museum and grass tennis courts.

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RestaurantsThe Black PearlBannister's Wharf • (401) 846-5264www.blackpearlnewport.com

The Black Pearl is one of Newport's best-known and best-loved restaurants. From the warmambience and classic cuisine of our Commodore's Room and Tavern to the al-fresco charm of our Waterside Patio and raw bar, the Black Pearl has something to offer everyone.

Bowen’s Wine Bar & Grille22 Bowen’s Wharf • (401) 841-8884www.22bowens.com

Prime steaks and New England’s finest seafood on historic Bowen’s Wharf.

The Deck1 Waites Wharf • (401) 846-3600www.waiteswharf.com

Fresh, local seafood items and New England summer favorites, as well as daily specials and raw bar.

Aquidneck Lobster Bar31 Bowen’s Wharf • (401) 619-2890www.Lobsterbarri.com

Located in the center of downtown Newport at the very end of historic Bowen’s Wharf, Aquidneckprovides 180 degrees of unobstructed harbor views.

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Program ScheduleSunday, November 43:00-6:00 pm Registration for Members and Vendors – Main Lobby

5:30-6:00 pm New Member Reception – Skiff Bar

6:00 pm Welcome Reception – Skiff Bar

Monday, November 57:45 - 8:30 am Breakfast with Sponsors – Salons 3&48:30-8:45 am Welcome remarks – Lynn Hogan, President of NEPRA – Salon 28:45-10:00 am Keynote - Overcoming Challenges - Lisa Fenn, ESPN Producer &

Motivational Speaker 10:00-10:30 am BREAK with Sponsors – Salons 3&410:30-11:30 am Measuring ROI for Advertisement and Social Media Utilization –

Connor Rockwell, Physician Recruiter, Dartmouth-Hitchcock – Salon 211:30-12:30 pm Addressing Physician/Provider Burnout: The Road to Well-Being

Karim Awad, MD, Associate Medical Director of the Department ofClinical Affairs & Chief of Sleep Medicine, Atrius HealthJoshua Frank, Recruitment Manager, New England Geriatrics

12:30-1:15 pm LUNCH – Salons 3&41:15-2:15 pm HOT TOPICS (Closed session – members only)

Facilitators: Alison Nathanson, Director, MaineHealth PhysicianRecruitment Center & Gina Mallozzi, Physician Recruiter, Maine MedicalPartners

2:15-3:45 pm Advanced Practice Provider Presentations & Panel Q&AThe Changing Role of Advanced Practice Providers: TheDifferences between NPs and PAs in levels of supervision,curriculum, certification & licensureCo-Presenters: Jen Hixon, PA, Program Director for the PA Program,Westfield State University and Jean Demartinis, DNP, Program Director,DNP Program at UMA Worcester – Salon 2From Clinical Practice to Clinical Operations – ChristopherAnderson, Assistant Director, PA Services, New York University

3:45 – 4:00 pm BREAK with Sponsors – Salons 3&44:00-5:00 pm NEPRA Business Meeting (Closed Session – Members only) – Salon 2

Dinner on your Own – Explore Newport’s Amazing Selection of Restaurants!

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NEPRA Annual Educational Symposium 2018November 4 – 6, 2018 • Newport, Rhode Island

Program ScheduleTuesday, November 67:45-8:30 am Breakfast with Sponsors – Salons 3&4

8:30-9:30 am Keynote – Leading Change: Thriving in 2018 and Beyond – Debra

Zabloudil, FACHE, CAE, President and CEO, The Learning Studio, Inc. –

Salon 2

9:30-10:00 am BREAK with Sponsors – Salons 3&4

10:00-10:30 am Welcome – New NEPRA President & NEPRA Committee ChairReports – Salon 2

10:30-11:30 am IGNITE Session - Debra Zabloudil, President & CEO, The Learning

Studio, Inc. – See IGNITE Session below

11:30 – NOON Raffle (please note you must be present to win)

12:15 pm Adjourn

New this year! IGNITE!

Join your colleagues on a unique adventure in live speaking as they take their best shot at

educating and entertaining you. Speakers are strictly limited to ten minutes and no more than 20

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NEPRA Annual Educational Symposium 2018November 4 – 6, 2018 • Newport, Rhode Island

Special Thank Youto the 2018 Education Committee

• Christine Bourbeau, Director of Physician Recruitment, St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center• Louis Caligiuri, Director, Physician Services, North Shore Physicians Group• Carolina Mallea Chaves, Talent Acquisition Manager, Signature Healthcare• Melissa Hale, Physician & Advanced Practitioner Recruitment, Baystate Health• Lynn Hogan, NEPRA President,Corporate Director of Physician Recruitment,

Hackensack Meridian• Gina Mallozzi, Physician Recruiter, Maine Medical Partners• Alison Nathanson, Director, The MaineHealth Physician Recruitment Center• Tiffiny Parker, Physician Recruitment Specialist, MaineGeneral Medical Center• Brenda Reed, Director, Physician & Medical Staff Recruitment, Atrius Health• Laura Schofield, Senior Physician and Recruitment Consultant, Atrius Health• Laura Screeney, FASPR, Director, Physician Recruitment, NewYork-Presbyterian • Stacie Swanson, MHA, Executive Director, Physician Services, Lowell General Hospital• Renee Theobald, Physician Recruiter, Hackensack Meridian Health• Lynne Zeeman, Physician Recruiter, FASPR, NewYork-Presbyterian

Special Thanks to our 2018 Speaker, Break and Promotional Sponsors

Brochure Sponsor

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Conner Rockwell

Speaker BiographiesLisa FennLisa Fenn was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Cornell University, where sheearned her communications degree. Lisa went on to work as a feature producer at ESPN forthirteen years. Her work at ESPN earned six Emmy Awards and three Edward R. Murrow awardsfor excellence in journalism. She has been featured on ESPN, Good Morning America, and WorldNews Tonight.

In 2016, Lisa released her memoir entitled Carry On: A Story of Resilience, Redemption, and anUnlikely Family. This deeply moving memoir examines the unexpected bonds that wouldtransform three lives. Carry On is a touching tale of an unlikely family forged through barriers ofrace, class, and disability. It is a powerful memoir about grit, love, hope, and faith—and thecourage to carry on, even in the most extraordinary circumstances. Carry On has won numerousawards, including a Friends of American Literature Award, a Christopher Award and was anNAACP Image Award finalist.

Today Lisa is a sought-after public presenter, speaking on leadership, poverty, and disability, inaddition to her faith and its relevance in both her media career and her daily life. Lisa resides inthe Boston area with her husband and two young children.

Conner RockwellConnor Rockwell is a Physician Recruiter at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. He brings five years ofhealthcare experience to the organization and utilizes various tools and dashboards to aid withstaffing plans and creative recruitment strategies to ensure successful recruitment and retention.Working within New Hampshire’s only level 1 trauma academic health system, Connor focuses hisefforts on collaborating with direct business partners and stakeholders to strategically recruitoptimal fits for the organization and communities he serves. An avid outdoor enthusiast, Connortakes full advantage of the four-season lifestyle and spends his free time with his wife anddaughter.

Connor earned his B.A. in Marketing from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and is currentlypursuing his MBA with a concentration in project management from Norwich University inNorthfield, Vermont. Resilience

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Karim Awad, MDKarim Awad, MD is the Associate Medical Director of the Department of Clinical Affairs and theChief of Sleep Medicine at Atrius Health. He joined Atrius Health in 2012 after completing aNeurology Residency at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham &Women’s Hospital (BWH) and a Sleep Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, BWH. Dr.Awad is on two statewide workgroups in Massachusetts to help tackle the problem of clinicianburnout, one with CRICO (a leader in medical professional liability) and one with MassachusettsMedical Society-Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association.

Finally, Dr. Awad is the Chair of the Clinical Advisory Council and is an ex officio member of theBoard of Trustees at Atrius Health. Dr. Awad is dedicated to helping improve clinician well-being.

Joshua FrankAs the Recruitment Manager for New England Geriatrics, Joshua Frank combines his passions ofrelationship building, and strategic marketing to support business deplovelopment efforts. In hisrole at New England Geriatrics Josh is responsible for the recruitment and retention strategy of230 behavioral health clinical positions throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. Through thecollaboration of recruitment, HR, and finance New England Geriatrics has been able to drop theirturnover rate by 13% over the past 3 years. Since his time at NEG, Josh has executed two websitere-designs, developed marketing videos and social media strategy, created a recruitment &retention budget, and most recently oversaw hiring for the company’s first ever expansion intoConnecticut. Josh enjoys “cutting the red tape” that can culturally exist between departments toimprove recruitment and retention strategy.

Outside of his professional life, Josh enjoys spending time with family, friends, and his beloveddog Brandi! He is currently a MBA candidate at Bay Path University, with an expected graduationdate of December, 2018.

Jennifer HixonJennifer Hixon became a faculty member and program director at the Springfield CollegePhysician Assistant Program for 12 years and subsequently appointed Dean at the MassachusettsCollege of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Dr. Hixon completed a Master of Science in IndustrialPsychology from Springfield College and a Doctorate of Health Sciences from Nova SoutheasternUniversity. She has been a local, regional and national speaker and consultant in the area oforthopedics, leadership, and the Physician Assistant Profession and continues to practice as a PAin the region. Dr. Hixon is currently the Chair of the Health Sciences and Founding ProgramDirector of the Westfield State University Physician Assistant Program.

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Jean DeMartinis, PhD, FNP-BCJean DeMartinis, PhD, FNP-BC is a tenured Associate Professor at the University ofMassachusetts, Amherst, College of Nursing and founding Director of the Doctor of NursingPractice (DNP) and Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) Graduate Programs. She has been anacademician for many years and a Family Nurse Practitioner with over 20 years of primary care andcardiology in-patient and out-patient experiences with theoretical underpinnings in transculturalnursing. She is the Ambassador for the CON Telehealth Initiative and has developed expertise inteaching telehealth technology to nurse practitioner students. She has worked deliveringculturally congruent care within a Federally Funded Indigent Health clinic for families, theSalvation Army, a Homeless Shelter clinic, and a Veterans Home, all primary care sites located inrural or urban Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs). Currently, she also works part-time as anAssociate Professional Staff member of Baystate Medical Practices (BMP), Baystate HealthSystems (BHS) in their Heart and Vascular Medicine Department Stress Testing Laboratories withinthe region.

Christopher AndersonChristopher Anderson is the Assistant Director of Physician Assistant Services at NYU LangoneHealth, New York City, NY. Mr. Anderson received both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree fromTouro College in Physician Assistant studies, and more recently completed his MBA in HealthServices Management from Hofstra University. After completing his Physician Assistant studies,Christopher completed a postgraduate residency in surgery at Montefiore Medical Center, NYand proceeded on to a position at Jacobi Medical Center, NY assigned to the Surgical ICU. In2013, he was recruited by Northwell Health to develop a trauma and acute care surgery programat Southside Hospital, Bay Shore, NY. In this role, he was able to facilitate the recruitment andtraining of over 25 advanced practitioners, as well as 7 trauma surgeons. The hospital became oneof the first verified trauma centers in New York State, and the first on Long Island. After 4 yearswith Northwell, he accepted his current position at NYU to further develop the Physician Assistant(PA) services department. In this role, Christopher is responsible for the majority of the operationsof Physician Assistants; which includes recruitment and onboarding, privileging, credentialing,professional practice evaluations and professional development. NYU recently accepted theaward as 2018 Employer of Excellence by the American Academy of Physician Assistants. Christopher Anderson

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Debra Zabloudil, CAE, FACHEDebra Zabloudil serves as the President and founder of the Learning Studio, which serves theassociation community in a variety of consulting, thought leadership and training needs.

On a day to day basis, Debra and her team can be found serving clients around the globe,producing educational content for leaders in hundreds of different industries or professions,running consulting projects for professional and trade associations and speaking, facilitating anddesigning workshops and learning labs for customers, members and staffs of organizationsworldwide. Debra is a frequent speaker and writer on all topics related to adult education andhow to create high quality, and profitable, education offerings for members.

Debra works regularly with a number of well-known organizations such as The Young PresidentsOrganization (YPO), International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, The AmericanHospital Association, the American Planning Association, The Association Forum and more.

Debra is a Certified Association Executive and a Fellow of the American College of HealthcareExecutives. She is also an Association Forum John T. Thiel award winner, a PCMA “Best in Class”speaker and a graduate of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute.

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