March 15, 2021 • 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET

Yener Balan, MD, DFAPA is a board-certified psychiatrist and is currently the Vice President of Behavioral Health and Specialty Services for Kaiser Permanente, Northern California.

He provides health plan oversight and direction to the NCAL Behavioral Health Program and Specialty Services as they develop an integrated model of 21st century health care – investing in technology, people and research to drive market leading performance; engaging members and families in quality improvement efforts; implementing processes that focus on proactive intervention and prevention; and engaging with organizations in the community to help shape the growth, education, and training of the behavioral health and specialty services workforce.

Yener received his medical degree from Albany Medical College and completed his residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has been recognized as a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Yener is a graduate of the KP Executive Leadership Program. He also serves on the board of directors for Health Right 360, has extensive years of experience working in high volume community emergency departments, is an expert on hospital operations, and has given lectures and workshops worldwide.

He is the bestselling author of the “Big Book of Emergency Department Psychiatry: A Guide to Patient Centered Operational Improvement.”

Dr. Balan was born and raised in New York City, and while he still misses the East Coast, has made a home for himself in Oakland, CA, where he lives with his wife and son.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Staff- Cleveland Clinic 9/28/2015-present
Medical Director, Specialty Integration 2021-Present
Associate Medical Director, Specialty Integration 2019-2020
Regional Support Team Lead Physician (East Region) 2018-2019
Quality Officer Beachwood Hillcrest Community Internal Medicine 2016-Present

• Collaborate with Neurology Institute to redesign BHSW workflow and integrate BHSWs in Population Health Management.
• Collaborate with specialty institutes to develop various medical neighborhoods.
• Physician lead for both quality and utilization improvement, East Region. 2018-2019

Chief Clinical Officer, 06/2014- 6/2015, Columbus Neighborhood Health Center, Columbus, Ohio:
Medical Director, CNHC, 01/2014-05/2014
Internal Medicine Physician, CNHC-9/2008-6/2015

• Patient Centered Medical Home: CNHC was a certified Level 3 PCMH Facility (Certified 2011 and 08/2014).
• Quality improvement including collaborative diabetes care.
• Introduction of the Clinical Pharmacist program for uncontrolled hypertension and smoking cessation.
• Collaboration and integration of behavioral health management services with different mental health facilities.

Adjunct Attending, Internal Medicine, Bronx Lebanon Hospital and Special Care Center, Bronx, NY: 2006-2008.

EDUCATION

• Residency, Internal Medicine, New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY: 2004-2006.
• Internship, Internal Medicine, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY: 2003-2004
• Residency, Ophthalmology, BHU, India: 1998-2000
• Medical School, MBBS, Calcutta Medical College., India: 1997

BOARD CERTIFICATION

• ABIM Recertification 5/2016
• American Board of Internal Medicine: 2006

LICENSURE

• Ohio Medical License: Valid through 2021 (active)
• DEA: Valid through 2021 (active)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT

• Clinical Assistant Professor-Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic. 2016-present
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University, 2014-2017
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine: 2014-2017.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Preceptor of Medical students, Y1 and 2, Lerner College. CCF. 2016-present.
• Ambulatory preceptor-Y1-3 Medical Residents, Internal Medicine, CCF 2016-present
• Mentor for resident QI project 2017-present

RESEARCH INTEREST/PRESENTATIONS

• FEED study in underserved Diabetic population.
• PCMH Experience- Oral presentation, OACHC fall conference, 2012

Pamela Greenberg is the President and CEO of the Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness (ABHW). She joined the association in 1998 and since that time has become a nationally recognized leader on managed behavioral health care policy.

ABHW is the leading association working to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and advance federal policy to improve mental health and addiction care. ABHW represents major national and regional health plans who care for more than 200 million people.

Pamela has extensive experience with mental health parity, including testifying before Congress and federal agencies, and Chairing the Coalition for Fairness in Mental Illness Coverage, one of the leading Coalitions that helped develop, advocate for, and get the Wellstone-Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 signed in to law. She also currently serves on the Joint Commission’s Behavioral Health Care Accreditation Advisory Council, URAC’s Health Standards Committee and Parity Advisory Council, and innovaTel Telepsychiatry’s Strategic Advisory Board.

Prior to joining ABHW Pamela was the Deputy Director of Federal Affairs for America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Before joining AHIP Ms. Greenberg was a Legislative Assistant at Capitol Associates, a healthcare consulting firm in Washington, D.C.

Pamela has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University.

James A. Laughman, M.S.W., L.S.W., is President of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Solutions for AmeriHealth Caritas. Additionally, he is President of PerformCare, the organization’s full-service behavioral health managed care organization. Prior to his current appointment, he served as Executive Director of PerformCare in Pennsylvania. As President of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Solutions, Mr. Laughman will lead the team that coordinates care and social services for members with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Mr. Laughman joined AmeriHealth Caritas in 2014. He has devoted the majority of his career to improving the quality of life for people with behavioral, intellectual, or developmental challenges. His experience includes serving as Administrator of Behavioral Health and Developmental Service in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, for nearly 10 years. Other notable achievements include his leadership with the Lancaster County Public Health Partnership and his state appointment as Trustee on the Board for Norristown State Hospital. He has also dedicated many years of service to breaking the cycle of homelessness. As Lead Administrator for the Coalition to End Homelessness in Lancaster County, Mr. Laughman oversaw the successful application for $2.2 million in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding, and the implementation of that award to provide permanent housing for families most in need.

Through Mr. Laughman’s leadership as County Human Services Administrator, Lancaster County implemented an efficiency program featuring innovative software for human services programs administration that reduced service duplications and increased access to information that helped the county save more than $600,000 and improve response time. Mr. Laughman continues to work to lower costs and improve care. He encourages state and federal lawmakers to fund efforts to help revitalize neighborhoods and improve social determinants that impact health and wellness, such as housing, neighborhood safety, and health care. He is also a passionate advocate in helping to combat the opioid epidemic.

Evian Gordon, PhD, MD, is the Executive Chairman and Chief Medical Officer of Total Brain. He established an “Integrative Neuroscience” approach, grounded in the use of standardized methods across multiple types of brain data in a single platform, with over a million data sets. He founded the Brain Resource Company that created the first standardized international database on the human brain (over 300 publications). The database is the asset which shaped Total Brain for mental health, and is used in over 30 Fortune 500 Companies by over 750,000 employees. The first genetics test using this methodology (in 1,700 patients) for treatment prediction in depression is currently being completed for potential use in clinical practice. He has published over 300 scientific papers and three books.

Eric Bailly is currently a Business Solutions Director at Anthem, Inc. In his 13th year at Anthem, Eric’s role is focused on the enterprise substance use disorder strategy, with an emphasis on the enterprise opioid strategy.

Eric earned a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN in 1993, and a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Colorado at Denver in 1996.

Eric is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the states of ND and CO, and is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor in the state of MN. Eric has worked as a behavioral health clinician in several settings including Outpatient Substance Use Disorder treatment services at both Kaiser Permanente and the Jefferson County Department of Health and Environment, both in the Denver, CO metro area.

Lili Brillstein is a nationally recognized thought leader in the advancement of Episodes of Care as a value-based approach for specialty care. She is the founder and CEO of BCollaborative (Brillstein Collaborative Consulting, which works with stakeholders across the healthcare continuum to successfully make the move from fee for service to value based healthcare.

She was formerly the Director of Specialty Care Value Based Models for Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, and, under her leadership, built the largest, most progressive and most collaborative Episodes of Care program for commercially insured patients in the country.

Lili is a passionate advocate of Episodes of Care/Bundled Payments as a strategy to successfully migrate from fee for service to quality- & value-based models that rewards providers for excellent outcomes and patient experience, while reducing the overall cost of healthcare. One of the hallmarks of her perspective is the criticality of beginning with models that do not include a risk transfer to providers until all of the stakeholders have worked together in a retrospective, no risk model and achieved success. The goal is cultivate true partnerships aligned around the patient and improve their experiences and outcomes, and ultimately reduce unnecessary care and waste.

Lili is a guest lecturer on episodes of care/bundled payments at the Harvard Business School working with Michael Porter and team, and has authored several articles on the subject of Episodes and value based care models. In addition, Lili has served as an Advisor to CMS on bundled payments, and is on the Advisory Boards of the US Women’s Health Alliance and the Quality Cancer Care Alliance; both national coalitions focused on advancing value based care to improve quality and cost of care delivery. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at The Rutgers School of Pharmacy, and a member of the Board of Directors for the NJ Coalition to End Domestic Violence.

Lili’s expertise at cultivating functionally collaborative relationships between payers and providers across the full continuum of health care has allowed not only the pillars of the triple aim to be achieved, but the spirit of the relationships to shift from one of adversaries to one of collaborators.

Amanda Brooks is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor. Having served as both clinical provider and administrator, Amanda is an expert in developing and executing sustainable integrated mental health, substance use, and care management programs.

Most recently Amanda served as Chief Population Health Officer for a multi-site FQHC specializing in the Primary Care Behavioral Health model of integrated care. In this role, Amanda developed and implemented Chicago’s largest integrated chemical dependency treatment program, including an outpatient prenatal and substance abuse treatment program for women with opioid use disorder. Amanda was a collaborator and content contributor to the Chicago Department of Public Health Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Learning Collaborative, supporting both administrators and clinicians in developing evidence-based MAT treatment models within their organizations. Amanda now serves as Managing Principle of Brooks Integrated Health Solutions, whose mission is to support organizations in executing sustainable whole person innovations that promote quality patient outcomes and organizational wellness.