HCPF Hospital Transformation Program Learning Symposium

Dr. Elizabeth Harry is the Senior Medical Director of Well-being for UCHealth, Assistant Dean of Faculty Well-being for the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital School of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She has practiced internal medicine for 10 years, both inpatient and outpatient. In addition to the University of Colorado, Dr. Harry practiced at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for four years where she was the Assistant Medical Director: Director of Faculty Development and Well-being for the Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization as well as the faculty liaison for graduate medical education well-being for Partners Healthcare GME programs. Personally, she has three children ages five, eight, and ten and her husband is a clinical pathologist at the University of Colorado Hospital.

Alex Barrera is a healthcare consultant with a deep passion for continuous improvement. Alex is a graduate of Arizona State University where he received a degree in Psychology. Throughout his academic studies, Alex was very involved and passionate with music and as a result co-founded his own non-profit, Flux Percussion Organization Inc., alongside his friend Dakota McConnell, to show others the impact of music.

Alex’s healthcare passion has been driven by his experience working in behavioral health and supporting families throughout challenging circumstances. With a strong interest in social determinants of health, Alex believes using a whole-body approach to healthcare is critical for achieving the best possible health outcomes.

Currently, Alex serves as the Program Manager for HTP across all 5 Banner hospitals. Alex prides himself in his ability to drive change by implementing creative, yet simple solutions, to solve complex problems and organize large cross-functional teams.

As a panelist in the upcoming HTP symposium, Alex is excited to discuss his strategy for driving sustainable change in this program.

Kellee Beckworth is a Sr. Project Manager who leads the vision to expand Medicaid clinical quality interventions through the Hospital Transformation Program (HTP) at UCHealth. She enjoys building relationships among our community partners while supporting the people who directly impact our patients’ lives. 

Previously, she was a Clinical Project Manager at Colorado Access supporting the Accountable Care Collaborative (ACC) Program in Aurora, CO. Originally she was a native Texan, prior to her time in Colorado, who worked at UT Southwestern Medical Center as a Project Manager for the 1115 Waiver better known as Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Program in Dallas, TX. Prior to her time dedicated to the Medicaid population, she was a Manager of Clinic Operations, Divisions of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care at Baylor Scott & White Health in Temple, TX. Moreover, Kellee holds a Masters’ in Business Administration from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, TX. She has achieved several certifications consisting of the following:

•Project Management Professional (PMP) through Project Management Institute (PMI)

•Certified Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB) through American Society for Quality (ASQ)

•Fellowship of Academic Medical Practice Executive (FACMPE) through Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)

Furthermore, Kellee enjoys listening to live music and two stepping with her husband anytime she has the chance. She is delighted to volunteer on the planning committee at her church for the various local women’s events. Ultimately, running, hiking, and exploring the outdoors with her husband and two daughters is pure bliss.

Sherri Corey is the Director of Community Relations at Quality Health Network (QHN). Sherri joined QHN in March of 2009, and she has over 25 years of progressive experience in the healthcare industry and practice management. Her current role primarily focuses on supporting relationships with prospective and current QHN participants to leverage the utilization of QHN systems to improve care coordination and patient outcomes. She also leads a team of Community Advisors who keep QHN and CRN participants connected to the latest solutions QHN has to offer the western slope. During her tenure at QHN, Sherri worked as an advisor with the Office of the National Coordinators for Health Information Technology (ONC) on a variety of projects and was part of the Regional Extension Center (REC) project, which served to support and assisting practices with Meaningful Use. She has also worked as an advisor with the Office of Behavioral Health on projects around Health Information Exchange in the justice system. Sherri currently serves on many clinical advisory committee workgroups; she is a member of the Garfield County Human Services Commissions and vice-chairs the board at West Mountain Regional Health Alliance. She enjoys camping, hiking, boating, and everything about the great outdoors. She also enjoys spending time with her 6, soon to be 7, grandchildren.

 
Jennifer Dori is the Director of Integration for Contexture’s Colorado market. She oversees a team of engineers and solutions managers responsible for onboarding new inbound HL7 and CCD interfaces, integrating with downstream participants to route results and Notifications, and implementing the custom developed products and platforms. She joined CORHIO as a Project Manager in 2013 where she quickly learned the value in exchange of electronic health data after a prior role implementing hospital HIM modules as an EHR vendor. Early in her CORHIO tenure, she was on the project team responsible for implementing a significant platform upgrade that gave her considerable exposure to HL7 and the technical details specific to each hospital’s build. From there, she migrated to CORHIO’s Quality Assurance team helping to implement ITIL-based Change Management and grow the structure around repeatable testing. In 2019, she officially joined the Integration department where she has had the joy of working, in some capacity, with many clients and nearly every product in the Colorado suite of services. Her special interests include data quality, implementation repeatability, change management and system reliability.