Lauren has been a healthcare quality improvement professional since 2011, and held multiple roles at Boston Children’s Hospital as a Quality Improvement (QI) Coordinator, QI Data Analyst, and QI Consultant. Lauren is currently a Senior Program Manager in Population Health Management at Point32Health, where she uses QI and project management methodology to implement, evaluate, and continuously improve population health programs. Lauren received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Mary Washington and completed a Master of Public Health at Boston University. Lauren lives in North Attleboro, MA with her husband and their dog.

Aliysa Rajwani, BDS, MPH currently works as the Assistant Director of Performance Improvement at Tufts Medical Center. Prior to that Aliysa worked at Cambridge Health Alliance in the areas of process improvement, value-based care and population health. Aliysa is trained as a dentist from Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai and practiced clinically prior to working full time in Quality Improvement. She also holds a Master in Public Health degree with a focus in Health Management from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Performance Management & Quality Improvement at MA Department of Public Health

Director of Performance Improvement at Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital in Westborough, MA since 2006. Involved with quality and patient safety initiatives, risk management, and accreditation at the long term acute care hospital.

Quality Project Leader at Tufts Medical Center working with teams to improve the quality and safety of clinical care. Primarily responsible for regulatory readiness and Pay-for-Performance programs, including electronic clinical quality measures. On the Board of Directors of the New England Association for Healthcare Quality (NEAHQ) since 2006. Qualified instructor for Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) examination preparation courses. Prior experience in critical care, nursing management, case management, risk management and quality management in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Sr. Transplant Quality Manager at Tufts Medical Center

Senior Performance Improvement Consultant at Cambridge Health Alliance

Jay Spitulnik has been managing and teaching in the corporate and academic communities for more than 35 years. Since 2003, his focus has been on healthcare and since 2014 more specifically on healthcare informatics. Currently, he directs a graduate program at Northeastern University that prepares people to work as health informatics professionals. He also teaches a project management course that is designed for full-time project managers, for those whose project management assignments will only be part of their work, and for anyone who will be managing change initiatives in any type of organization. Jay holds Bachelors and Master’s degrees from Boston University and a PhD in Organizational Psychology from Walden University. He is certified as a Green Belt by the American Society for Quality and as a Certified Performance Technologist by the International Society for Performance Improvement. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the New England Chapter of the Health Information Management and Systems Society and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Participatory Medicine.

Kwaniyah Tuffour is a senior community health student, with a focus on special populations, at the University of Maryland, College Park. She minors in humanities, health, and medicine. Kwaniyah takes great interest in women's health, health disparities, and infectious diseases. After undergrad, Kwaniyah intends to get her master’s in health communications. She aspires to work in healthcare marketing.