C-TAC is pleased to announce that three healthcare leaders have joined our Board of Directors: Lois Quam, Mark Schoeberl, and Mark Sterling. Each of our new directors brings a unique perspective on the movement and are united in their support and commitment to C-TAC’s mission.
“These are extraordinary people who bring a wide breadth of experience to our mission,” says C-TAC Co-Chair and Co-Founder Tom Koutsoumpas. “We welcome Lois Quam, Mark Schoeberl, and Mark Sterling to the Board as changemakers dedicated to improving the lives of those with serious illness.”
Lois Quam
Lois Quam
Named three times to FORTUNE’s list of the most influential women leaders in business, Lois Quam is the Chief Executive Officer of Pathfinder, a global health organization operating in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Quam was selected by President Obama to head his signature Global Health Initiative at the Department of State. Reporting directly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, she advanced a comprehensive strategy to increase US global health diplomacy, created a $200 million public private partnership, and introduced integrated systems approaches for global health problems. Prior to her work in the public sector, Lois was a senior executive at UnitedHealth Group for 18 years. In that capacity, she built and led a $32 billion segment providing services to older Americans and low-income families through the Medicare and Medicaid program. She also established and led United’s partnership with AARP.
Mark Schoeberl
Mark Schoeberl
Mark serves as the Executive Vice President of Advocacy for the American Heart Association, the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. Schoeberl oversees the organization’s advocacy efforts in Washington, DC, state capitals, and communities across the country. Internationally, Mark leads AHA’s advocacy engagement with the World Health Organization, Non-Communicable Disease Alliance, World Heart Federation, and others collaborating on key global policy issues. From the creation of its first government affairs office in Washington in 1982, the Association established a reputation as a science and evidence-based nonpartisan resource for lawmakers and policymakers. With its 50-state presence and nationwide grassroots reach, the Association is uniquely positioned to inform, influence and support policies at the federal, state, local, and global levels that advance the Association’s mission to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.
Mark Sterling
Mark Sterling
Mark is the Chief Innovations Officer at C-TAC, and co-founder of the “Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy” at Harvard’s Petrie-Flom Center, where he was the inaugural Senior Fellow and now serves on its Advisory Board. Sterling is also a senior strategic advisor to Respecting Choices, which guides organizations to know and honor each person’s health preferences and decisions. For more than four decades, Mark has advised mission-driven healthcare organizations on a broad range of health policy, care delivery, and payment issues. He is in his element when helping leaders navigate uncharted terrain, to break new ground, and realize their vision. Mark has worked to develop and expand innovative programs focused on healthy aging and end-of-life, including PACE, home care, and hospice programs, and has structured public-private partnerships to establish new biomedical and genomic research institutes
These new Board members will play a pivotal role in helping our movement reach the Moonshot goal of ensuring that 12 million people living with serious illness have a high quality of life by 2030. They join a board of nationally recognized leaders and advocates from across the healthcare sector who have successfully built a coalition of changemakers to improve the healthcare system through public policy, workforce reform, community-engagement, developing new models of care, and tracking metrics for quality-of-life for patients and family caregivers. Meet all our distinguished board members at the C-TAC – CAPC Leadership Summit on October 23-24 in Washington, DC.
