Leadership

Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, JD, FCPP, FAAN, serves as President and CEO of Woods System of Care and Woods Resources. Woods System of Care is a population health management organization that, through its network of providers and partners in PA and NJ and 8,000 staff, provides life-cycle care to meet the lifelong needs of children and adults with intellectual disabilities and autism (ID/A), acquired brain injuries, and /or mental health challenges who may also have complex medical and genetic conditions.

She is a seasoned and successful Healthcare and Human Services Executive with 30 years of experience in C-suite executive leadership, serving in CEO, CSO, and COO roles throughout her career in Nonprofit, Private and Government Organizations. She has founded and led several nationally recognized health, human services, and related trade associations and has secured multi-billion dollars in new business. She is a founder, publisher/facilitator of a social impact/innovation journal and incubator lab.

Tine Hansen-Turton has tremendous content expertise in primary and behavioral health care, Health and Human Services Administration, Disabilities and Behavioral Health, Public and Population Health and Education. She has developed many innovative healthcare programs and business models (i.e. integrated primary and behavioral healthcare specialty clinics, convenient care and retail clinics, nurse-led care centers, specialized population health organizations, and life-cycle care management organizations) throughout her career, including starting dozens of non-profits and private businesses and organizations, such as the popular retail clinic industry association.  Hansen-Turton served as CEO of the National Nurse-led Care Consortium, a non-profit organization supporting the growth and development of over 500 nurse-managed and school health clinics, serving more than 5 million vulnerable people across the country in urban and rural locations. For the past two decades, she has also been instrumental in positioning Nurse Practitioners as primary health care providers globally. Hansen-Turton still serves as the founding Executive Director for the Convenient Care Association (CCA), the national trade association of over 3000 private-sector retail clinic industry, serving 50 million people with basic health care services nationwide.

Hansen-Turton also teaches public and social innovations, leading nonprofits, health policy, and the social innovations lab at the University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government and School of Nursing. She is co-founder and publisher of a social impact/innovation journal and has co-published ten books.

Hansen-Turton received her Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law, a Master of Government/Public Administration from University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government and a BA from Slippery Rock University.  She also studied at the University of Copenhagen Law School.

Simon Kimmelman, Esq., serves as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating and Legal Officer for the Woods System of Care. In his role as Chief Legal Officer, he heads up the Woods Legal Department and oversees all law-related matters for Woods, its affiliates, and related entities. As Chief Operating Officer, he  is directly responsible for implementing the Woods Strategic Plans and coordinating the Woods System of Care operations. Previously, he was a member of Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. and served as Managing Partner of the Firm’s Princeton, New Jersey office.

Mr. Kimmelman’s practice was focused on business bankruptcy, secured transactions, general corporate matters, and commercial litigation. He has represented major entities involved in many of the most significant Chapter 11 cases filed in New Jersey and several other jurisdictions. He served as the bankruptcy trustee for Kiwi International Airlines and John Z. DeLorean. He is admitted to the Bar in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and former Chair of the Bankruptcy Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Lawyers’ Advisory Committee to the New Jersey Bankruptcy Court. Mr. Kimmelman has been involved in various charitable endeavors and most recently served as President of Har Sinai Temple in Pennington, New Jersey. He also served as a long-standing Member and Board Chair of the Woods Resources Board of Trustees. Mr. Kimmelman received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School.

In his financial management role, Tom is a leader in health benefits, finance, information systems, strategy, integration, and affiliate governance.   Tom works closely with the Woods Board of Trustees, reviews affiliate operating and capital budgets, designs and oversees health and retirement benefits, leads treasury operations, negotiates funding agreements, and is responsible for insurance / risk management.

As Chief Information Officer, Tom drives the creation of a data-driven organization supported by common systems in a shared operating environment, including electronic health records and financial systems.  Tom was previously CFO for Woods Services and started his career as an equity research analyst and strategic management consultant.  Tom has an MBA from the University of Virginia and a BA from Davidson College.

Mary Ellen Angelini, Vice President for Administration, brings more than 17 years of nonprofit leadership and expertise in building high-performing teams, leading decision-making processes and fostering collaborations across disciplines and business functions to her work. As Vice President for Administration, she is responsible for providing strategic and operational input to support the successful execution of key administrative services for Woods System of Care. Ms. Angelini serves as the lead on system-wide projects, particularly focusing on the infrastructure, processes and procedures needed to support the operations of the System of Care so that its mission can be effectively carried out.  Areas of focus include strategy, governance, risk management, functional assessment, compliance, and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Angelini has been responsible for large scale change management and process change projects, identifying systems and vendors and managing RFP processes. Ms. Angelini served as Vice President for Administration at Woods Services, Inc. before to moving over to support the System of Care.

Prior to coming to Woods, Ms. Angelini served as Senior Director of Operations and Senior Program Officer for Public Health Management Corporation, managing multiple human services programs that supported children and families in Philadelphia. She received her B.S. in Business Administration and Psychology from Georgetown University, and her M.S. in Educational Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.

Dinetta Armstrong, MBA, Senior Vice President of Woods Healthcare and Executive Director of The Medical Center at Woods, is responsible for advancing Woods’ growth in managed care and value-based reimbursement. Armstrong has more than 25 years of experience working in healthcare administration, including hospitals, managed care, and Federally Qualified Health Centers that provided integrated primary and behavioral healthcare, including wraparound services, to the underserved community in Philadelphia. She has a wealth of experience cultivating new business opportunities to ensure growth, progress, and expansion, as well as working to improve standards of care and quality of service.

Armstrong received her BS in health policy and administration from Penn State University, and her MBA in health care administration from Temple University.

Tinesha Banks, DrPH, MPH, Executive Vice President/Chief Performance & Quality Officer, works  in partnership with affiliates across the enterprise to develop, monitor, share and elevate standards of care for individuals throughout the system by building a data infrastructure that boasts quality outcomes rooted in collective data-driven decision-making.

Dr. Banks joins the System of Care with a Doctorate in Public Health and specific expertise in organizational development and performance management in the nonprofit sector. Moreover, she has dedicated her career to advocating for underserved populations while championing quality leadership practices with over two decades of experience in executive leadership roles herself, which includes her most immediate past role as the President & CEO of Tabor Services, a WSOC affiliate.

Dr. Banks received a doctorate in public health from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a master’s in public health from Temple University, and a bachelor’s in sociology from the State University of New York at Albany. Given her breadth and depth of focus on quality and efficiency throughout WSOC, one of her favorite quotes is “If I were given an hour to save the planet, I would spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and only five minutes thinking about the solution” by Albert Einstein.

Erin Drummond, MS, Vice President of Employee Success and Engagement, creates strategies and frameworks for the full lifecycle of talent across Woods System of Care, including recruiting/talent acquisition, onboarding, employee training and development, career pathways, management and leadership training/development, succession planning, organizational culture, employee engagement, and employee retention. Ms. Drummond oversees Aurora Staffing, Woods Talent Acquisition, and Employee Training and Development. She has more than 20 years of experience in leadership roles, focusing on employee training and development, engagement, program management, team and organizational effectiveness, and leadership coaching. She is committed to driving positive change and helping Woods System of Care thrive through strategic talent management, analysis, innovative process design, and collaboration.

She received a B.A. in Sociology from Bloomsburg University, an MS in Counseling Psychology from Holy Family University, and an MS in Nonprofit Leadership and Population Health Management from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She also holds an ICF-qualifying certificate in Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance through Rutgers University.

Kristen Farry, MS, Executive Vice President of Policy and Strategy, leads Corporate Strategy which includes Government Relations, Communications, Fundraising, Marketing, and Strategy Development. This role ensures comprehensive and consistent internal and external communications and engages with stakeholders from community organizations to international trade associations. She came to Woods Services in 2017 to develop and oversee Woods’ government affairs and advocacy strategies at the national, state and local levels.

Before coming to Woods, she served in senior levels within Pennsylvania’s Executive Branch in two different gubernatorial administrations. She has a history and reputation for developing and managing effective legislative strategies and has been recognized at local, state, and federal levels for these efforts, including as a recipient of ANCOR’s Suellen Galbraith Award for Exemplary Public Policy Work and a recipient of City and State PA’s Government Relations Power 100.

Farry has experience in the non-profit, private, and public sectors, including as a congressional staffer in Washington, a government relations professional in Harrisburg, and a legislative and policy assistant at PAR (Pennsylvania Advocacy and Resources for Autism and Intellectual Disability).

She received her Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Leadership and Population Health Management from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and her BA in Political Science from Lebanon Valley College.

Ryan Garrison, MS, NCC, LP, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Innovation, is responsible for expansion and development of organic and inorganic growth in conformance with the Woods System of Care strategic direction. This role includes identifying, developing and implementing new revenue-generating business and program development opportunities, and oversight of admissions for Woods, WCS and Beechwood. He serves as a liaison to government agencies and funding agencies to create and enhance interest in Woods System of Care’s services and the capacity to partner to develop new innovative services to establish a full continuum of care.

He brings more than 25 years of professional experience in all aspects of behavioral healthcare services, program operations, and business development. Garrison served as the Vice President of Admissions and Clinical Services at Woods Services before moving over to support Woods System of Care. He continues to provide individual and group counseling services at a private practice in Warrington, Pa.

He received his B.A. in Psychology and his M.S. in Mental Health Counseling at Gwynedd Mercy University. He also achieved licensure as a profession counselor.

Elizabeth Hayden, MPH, MA, Vice President of Strategy Development, provides strategic guidance in program and partnership development, bringing together a strategy development team across Woods System of Care to support growth, quality, and thought leadership. She identifies opportunities for collaboration, leads responses to funding opportunities and writes proposals, concept papers, and policy briefs. She brings more than 25 years of project management, program development, and management in public health, healthcare, education, and social services to her role.

Hayden received a Master’s in Public Health from Drexel University, a Master’s in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor’s in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jared Levin, Vice President of Marketing, helps shape the strategic direction and growth of Woods System of Care. He is a marketing professional with over 20 years of diverse experience managing multifaceted initiatives across a broad spectrum of industries. His focus includes brand strategy, product launches, creative messaging, and storytelling. Under his leadership, strategies are executed to raise the awareness and public profile of the Woods System of Care, encouraging new clients to use its services and establishing the organization as a preeminent resource and thought leader for the greater healthcare community.

Levin received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing from The George Washington University.

Sailaja Musunuri, MD, Executive Vice President of Integrative Medicine and Chief of Psychiatry, is an accomplished team leader who has consistently delivered results in numerous clinical settings for more than 20 years, including experience working with children and adults with intellectual disability, autism, and co-occurring psychiatric disorders and other complex medical conditions.

Dr. Musunuri is an experienced and compassionate physician and psychiatrist (double Board Certified in Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry), providing high quality medical and psychiatric care with diverse clinical operations experience. Dr. Musunuri is known for constructively challenging conventional thinking, identifying and implementing innovative ideas, and building stakeholder confidence for mission critical initiatives. She has exhibited these characteristics in thinking creatively to connect the dots between nonprofit health and human services organizations with leaders in the pharmaceutical arena to ensure focus on individuals with intellectual disability that will improve quality of services and health outcomes for this population. She serves as a role model for fostering discussion of complex issues, while promoting the organizational mission and operating procedures. These discussions and partnerships have spanned the globe, as she maintains connections between the U.S. and India for new program development and partnerships which will benefit people with disabilities in both regions.

Dr. Musunuri has leveraged this experience to fulfill one of the strategic goals of Woods System of Care, to disseminate its expertise to others, by founding the Mollie Woods Hare Center for Excellence in Neurodivergence – Intellectual Disability, Autism and Mental Health, which houses Woods’ training and dissemination arm for best practices in the field.

Her role as Board Member of The Network: Toward Unity for Health (TUFH), an international non-state actor of the World Health Organization, is further evidence of Dr. Musunuri’s commitment to ensuring that the most vulnerable populations have access to the services they need. TUFH is an international, intersectoral, intergenerational organization that fosters equitable community-oriented health services, education and research with the goal of improving health locally and globally. They convene innovative health care organizations, universities, community institutions and thought leaders from all over the world. The link between the Mollie Woods Hare Global Center of Excellence and TUFH will serve to extend the reach of both organizations to improve quality of care for individuals with disabilities.

In addition to providing oversight of clinical programs and direct care for individuals with intellectual disability and complex healthcare needs, Dr. Musunuri is a committed mentor who dedicates tremendous energy to training the next generation of child and adolescent psychiatry fellows, adult psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners and other clinical practitioners. Dr. Musunuri serves as Academic Faculty Advisor at Woods for interns and fellows from area health professions schools. A nationally respected leader known for her deep expertise in the field of intellectual disability, Dr. Musunuri is sought after as a premier academic advisor for the interns and fellows she supervises.

Her strong track record of mentoring and partnership development has led her to be invited to serve as a clinical faculty member at Tower Health – Phoenixville Hospital, Temple University Louis Katz School of Medicine and Rider University. Dr. Musunuri oversees integrated healthcare throughout the System of Care, ensuring that all services are interconnected in order to provide whole-person care. She also served as the principal investigator of the Specialized Mental Health Outpatient Program which was launched through federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Prior to Woods, Dr. Musunuri served for nearly twenty years as Medical Director of Devereux, a behavioral health organization serving individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism. Her professional training includes receiving her M.D. from Siddartha MedicalCollege/Nagarjuna University, Vijayawada, India, completing her internship in Psychiatry at Medwin Hopsital, Hyderabad, India, and residencies in Adult and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry respectively at SIU School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, U.S., and Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, U.S. Dr. Musunuri is considered the premier leader in psychiatry in the U.S. for people with intellectual disability and complex psychiatric and other chronic conditions, is a leader in integrated care, and a leader in training the next generation of practitioners who are desperately needed to address the health disparities of this vulnerable and complicated population.

Julia Pfister, MS, Senior Vice President of Human Services, provides vision, collaboration, and strategic leadership for all functions of the Human Resources department.  She holds a Master’s degree in Personnel and Human Resource Management and a B.A. in Business Administration from American University and has over 30 years experience in the field. She served as a Human Resources Executive in several organizations in the technology, education, and banking industries before coming to Woods Services in 2001.

She earned her Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Management and her MS in Personnel and Human Resources Management from American University.

Scott Spreat, EdD, Vice President of Evaluation and Research, leads the Woods National Research and Evaluation Center, which has been developed to promote and conduct policy-related research. Work is done both independently and collaboratively with other research organizations. In addition to conducting research, the mission of the Center is to help inform decision-makers who have an impact on policy and legislation that affect the people served by Woods System of Care.

In recent years, Dr. Spreat has also served as the Research Director for the Center for Disability Information, where his work as focused on the workforce challenges faced by the intellectual disability field.  He was also a member of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disability’s Terminology and Classification Task Force and served in the work group that developed the definition of Intellectual Disability.

Dr. Spreat received his doctorate in Educational Psychology and is a licensed psychologist who worked for Temple University’s Woodhaven Center, conducting research, directing the clinical services department, and serving as the Executive Director of the 284-bed program.