Better Health Greater Cleveland - Board of Directors

Better Health Greater Cleveland

Board of Directors

Randall D. Cebul, MD
President

A native Clevelander, Randy Cebul has been Director of Better Health Greater Cleveland since its founding and President since 2008. In addition to his roles in Better Health, Dr. Cebul is Director of the CWRU-MetroHealth System Center for Health Care Research and Policy and professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at CWRU School of Medicine, MetroHealth campus. Cebul serves on the Board of Directors of the Network for Regional Health Improvement, Care Alliance Health Center, and the MetroHealth Foundation. He also serves on the National Quality Forum's Community Health Committee and National Priorities Partnership's Population Health Task Force. Dr. Cebul received his MD from Yale, training in Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and training in epidemiology and decision sciences at Penn's Wharton School.

Barbara Belovich
Secretary-Treasurer

Barbara Belovich has served since 2003 as Executive Director of Health Action Council Ohio, a coalition of 200 self-insured employers representing nearly 2 million covered lives. Representing HAC, Ms. Belovich is a founding Board member of Better Health Greater Cleveland and has served as its Secretary-Treasurer since 2008. Most of her 35-year career has been spent in human resource consulting, 15 years of which were spent with Mercer HR as a firm Principal in the Cleveland and Chicago markets. Before consulting, Ms. Belovich worked in human resources for the Quaker Oats Company and Ferro Corp. She received her B.S. in Medical Communications from The Ohio State University, an M. M. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a C.E.B.S. cosponsored by the International Foundation and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Belovich also serves on the board of Ohio KePRO, the Ohio Quality Improvement Organization.

David Bronson, MD, FACP

David Bronson is President of the nine Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals, leading the Clinic's work to integrate the health system to achieve one high standard of quality, safety, and patient experience that ensures the greatest value to patients and purchasers. Dr. Bronson has served on Better Health Greater Cleveland's Leadership Team since 2007 and as chair of its Clinical Advisory Committee from 2007-2010. At Cleveland Clinic, he has served on the Board of Governors, Board of Trustees and as a member of the Executive Management Team. In addition to his executive management responsibilities at Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Bronson is President-elect of the American College of Physicians and Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. A member of the Joint Commission Board of Commissioners, he is Vice Chair of the Accreditation Committee, Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Group Association, and serves on the American Hospital Association Health Systems Governing Council.

Anita Cook

Anita Cook is Executive Director of the West Side Catholic Center, a nonprofit organization founded 35 years ago on Cleveland’s near west side. The Center provides hot meals at no charge, hospitality, clothing and household goods, emergency services, advocacy, a shelter for women and children, and a program to find housing solutions for those in need, regardless of religious affiliation. Ms. Cook, a Certified Public Accountant, previously served as Chief Financial Officer at the center, a position that followed many years in the financial industry, as well as serving as Finance Director at University Settlement. A resident of Cleveland, she also has served on numerous non-profit social service and community boards. She received her B.S. in Accounting from Miami University and a Master’s in Accounting from Cleveland State University.

Steve Eisenberg, JD

Steve Eisenberg is Vice President and General Counsel of RGH Enterprises Inc., a durable medical equipment company in Twinsburg that he joined in March 2012. Mr. Eisenberg, a health care lawyer, spent the previous 11 years at Baker Hostetler LLP, where he was a partner, advising hospitals, academic medical centers, insurers and other health care companies. Prior to joining Baker, he practiced health care law at McDonald Hopkins, LLC. Steve holds a LL.M. in Health Law from DePaul University College of Law, a J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and a Bachelor’s in Business from Miami University. He is an active member of the American Health Lawyers Association, Ohio State Bar Association and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. He also sits on the Board of Trustees of Bellefaire JCB. He and his family live in Solon.

Christopher J. Hebert, MD, MS

Christopher Hebert is Associate Medical Director of Quality Improvement within Kaiser Permanente, leading improvement efforts in the areas of population health, risk management, patient safety, and quality improvement research. Dr. Hebert currently serves as co-Director of Better Health Greater Cleveland's Learning Collaborative, as a member of the Leadership Team and Clinical Advisory Committee, chairing the CAC subcommittee responsible for setting standards for Hypertension. Dr. Hebert is a graduate of the VA National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program through the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University.

Kevin S. Lauterjung

Kevin Lauterjung is Medical Mutual's Executive Vice President for Managed Care and has served as a member of Better Health Greater Cleveland's Leadership Team since 2008. With Medical Mutual since 1998, Mr. Lauterjung currently oversees the company's Provider Network Management, Care & Pharmacy Management and Managed Care Operations areas. His previous professional experiences include managed care consulting with Medimetrix Group, a national consulting firm, and practice management as Director of Operations for a large multi-specialty physician group practice. In addition to his activities with Better Health, Mr. Lauterjung volunteers on the board of Business Volunteers Unlimited, as a Junior Achievement (JA) instructor, and as a former member of the board for the USO of Northern Ohio and March of Dimes. He received his bachelor's degree in Economics from the United States Military Academy at West Point and his MBA with concentrations in Finance and Health Services Management from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

Jean Polster, RN, MS

Jean Polster has served as Executive Director of Neighborhood Family Practice, a Federally Qualified Health Center, since 2003. She has served as a member of Better Health Greater Cleveland's Leadership Team since 2007. Neighborhood Family Practice provides primary health care to over 12,000 residents of the West Side of Cleveland. Ms. Polster is a past President of the Board of the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers, a network of Ohio community health centers, and has over 25 years of senior management experience in health and human services in both Ohio and California. She has worked as a hospital administrator, in ambulatory care and as an executive in local social services organizations, including Catholic Charities. Ms. Polster received her BSN from the University of North Carolina and her MS in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard University School of Public Health.

JB Silvers, PhD

J.B. Silvers, Ph.D., is the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance and Professor of Banking and Finance at the Weatherhead School of Management of Case Western Reserve University. He also has served on the Better Health Greater Cleveland Leadership Team since 2007. Professor Silvers is faculty Director of the Health Systems Management Center at Weatherhead and for several years served as Senior Associate Dean of Weatherhead. His research in the areas of financial management and health services has been widely published. From 1997 to 2000, while on leave from Weatherhead, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of QualChoice – a health plan and insurance company in Cleveland, Ohio. Professor Silvers currently serves on the board of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and for seven years was a Commissioner on the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, which advises Congress on Medicare payment.

Jim Weisman

Jim Weisman is Vice President of Bioenterprise in Cleveland. BioEnterprise is a business formation, recruitment, and acceleration initiative designed to grow health care companies and commercialize bioscience technologies. Mr. Weisman leads BioEnterprise's efforts to serve and develop start-up health care software and service opportunities. He brings 20 years of experience in general management, having worked in senior management at PepsiCo and Macy's, as well as consulting to major financial institutions while with the First Manhattan Consulting Group. Weisman also served on the management team of HealthSync, a start-up company developing marketplaces for corporate sponsored health insurance and with Glengary Ventures, a fund focused on technology based companies in the biotech industries. Weisman received his B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his Executive MBA from Case Weatherhead School of Management.