The Stratis Health Board of Directors is an independent, community-based board comprised of professionals representing a broad array of interests, skills, and perspectives. The end of the current term for each board member is noted in parentheses after each Board member’s name.

Stratis Health Board members include: 

Jesse Bethke Gomez, MMA (2025): Mr. Bethke Gomez is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan Center for Independent Living. He has been recognized as one of Minnesota’s 100 Most Influential Leaders in Healthcare. Mr. Bethke Gomez was recently appointed by the Minnesota Supreme Court for an eight-year term on the state’s Judicial Selection Commission.

 

Jamie Carsello (2025): As vice president-chief informatics officer for UCare Minnesota, Mr. Carsello has more than 20 years of experience in health care economics. His experience includes leading clinical, quality, provider, and financial analytics; data warehouse strategy and development; business intelligence development, pricing/actuarial, revenue, and risk adjustment.

 

Kelly Fluharty, MPH (2025): As care transformation manager for Winona Health, Ms. Fluharty contributes to the development and implementation of organizational payer strategy related to value-based contracts. She serves as project manager for its Medicare and Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations, and stewards multiple population health improvement initiatives.

 

Abigail Greenheck (2025): Ms. Greenheck serves as Group Senior Vice President, Beehive Strategic Communication. As a communications leader, she partners with clients to develop context-specific and multi-channel strategies for engaging key audiences including underrepresented populations. Ms. Greenheck serves as a crossover member from the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS) board to Stratis Health.

 

Jeremy Hanson WillisJeremy Hanson Willis (2026): Mr. Willis is the Chief Executive Officer for Rainbow Health. As a trusted executive, he has expanded Rainbow Health’s mental and chemical health services and launched a virtual HIV/STI pharmacy and aging services for older LGBTQ+ adults and people with HIV. Jeremy brings more than two decades of public and private sector work experience, and he will play a crucial role in leveraging Stratis Health’s strengths in driving change toward equitable health outcomes.

 

Peter Hayden, PhD (2025): Dr. Hayden is the founder and president of Turning Point, Inc., a Minneapolis-based nonprofit agency devoted to integrated holistic health services programs. Dr. Hayden is the recipient of the General Mills Foundation/United Negro College Fund Martin Luther King Jr. “Legends” award. He is also Chair of the National Black Alcoholism and Addictions Council (NBAC), where he has strongly influenced the design of effective long-term community health programming. Dr. Hayden serves as one of two consumer members of the Stratis Health board.

 

Heidi Holste (ex officio, nonvoting): Ms. Holste is executive director, Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS). She has extensive experience as a nonprofit executive director in the service industry sector and as a board member. She brings over 20 years of experience in government relations work at the state, federal, and local levels.

 

Karen Monsen, PhD, RN, FAMIA, FAAN (2025): Dr. Monsen is a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing where she leads the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Nursing Informatics specialty and directs the Center for Nursing Informatics. She is an internationally known expert in nursing informatics and intervention effectiveness research. Monsen leads the practice-based research network, the Omaha System Community of Practice.

 

Reuben Moore, EdD, MBA (2026): Mr. Moore is president and executive officer for Minnesota Community Care. He helps organizations in the public and private sectors rethink strategies, execution methods, and value concepts. As a community leader and former chair of the MNsure health industry advisory committee, he has driven strategies and policies that improve health care access for all Minnesotans. Mr. Moore has led public health initiatives under the Minnesota Department of Health and served as board treasurer for Southside Community Health Services, the Minnesota Association of Community Health Centers, a board of trustee of North Memorial Health, and on the boards of several colleges and universities.

 

Pamela ParkerPamela Parker (2026): Ms. Parker has been the Medicare Medicaid Integration Consultant to SNP Alliance since 2014. With over 35 years in Minnesota State Department of Human Services (DHS) management positions, Pamela has an extensive track record of developing/managing state health & long-term care programs (LTC) & rate development. As a transformative leader, Pamela was responsible for developing and implementing the first integrated Medicare and Medicaid demonstration for people with dual eligibility. At Stratis Health, she will be an asset to how Stratis Health improves care for older adults and will serve as one of two designated consumer representatives on the board.

 

Patina Park, JD (2024): Ms. Park is the executive director of Tribal-State Relations for the State of Minnesota, serving as a direct link between the Office of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor and Minnesota’s eleven tribal nations and tribal communities. She facilitates active learning communities and executive coaching to create a safe space for deepening the proficiency of state leaders engaging in tribal-state relations. She has also held leadership positions with the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, Falmouth Institute, Minneapolis Division of Indian Work, and the Ho-Chunk Nation Department of Justice.

 

David Satin, MD (2025): Dr. Satin is a practicing physician and associate professor in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Within the Medical School, he directs the core courses in Ethics, Law, Policy, Healthcare Finance, and Quality Improvement. He has served on several AMA workgroups making quality measures for CMS and has consulted internationally on issues in Pay-for-Performance. He currently chairs the Risk Adjustment and Segmentation Committee of Minnesota Community Measurement. His research interests span the field of health systems science, with publications on quality improvement, public health, behavioral economics, shared decision-making, and topics in bioethics.

 

Ruby Schoen, DNP, APRN, CNP, A-GNP-C (Board Chair, 2024): Ms. Schoen is a clinical education specialist and geriatric long-term care nurse practitioner at Genevive. She has worked across the care continuum with the geriatric population for more than two decades. Her interests include healthy aging, functional health, chronic condition management, palliative care, and end-of-life planning. Ms. Schoen serves as an advisor to CareChoice Cooperative, Metro Alliance of Geriatric Providers, and the Minnesota Association of Geriatrics Inspired Clinicians. 

 

Janet Silversmith (2026): Ms. Silversmith is the CEO of the Minnesota Medical Association (MMA), the state’s oldest and largest professional association for physicians and physicians-in-training. Previously, she served as the MMA’s Director of Health Policy. In that position, she was responsible for providing leadership for MMA advocacy strategy and the analysis and development of MMA policy. Janet has more than 25 years of experience in health policy and a background in health disparities research. Janet joined the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS) Board of Directors in July 2018 and has served as Secretary/Treasurer. As one of the cross-over members from the MAPS board to Stratis Health, Janet will provide unique insights on how Stratis Health’s patient safety work can be more targeted and impactful.

 

Todd A. Stivland, MD (2026): Dr. Stivland, as CEO and founder of Bluestone Physician Services, developed and implemented an innovative model to provide high-quality primary care services onsite to residential care facilities and group homes. He has practiced the full scope of family medicine, including onsite home visits, inpatient hospital care, OB, and general office practice. Dr. Stivland is active in state and national health care reform and has served on the Minnesota Governors Health Care Finance Task Force.

 

Stratis Health Board members are elected for three-year terms of service, with a cap of two three-year terms. Potential Board members are identified by a nominating committee when there are vacancies on the board. New Board members are approved and elected by the full board. Board members do not receive compensation for their service on the Stratis Health Board.