Brooke Hollis is Associate Director of the Sloan Program in Health Administration (Sloan) at Cornell’s College of Human Ecology as well as co-founder and Executive Director Emeritus of the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF). He also holds appointed faculty positions at CIHF and Sloan, where he teaches courses related to management, planning, and entrepreneurship, and advises students on career issues. Prior to Cornell, Mr. Hollis’s career spanned three decades working in both the public and private sectors, serving in senior management positions in a number of organizations in the health and financial advisory/consulting fields. His experience includes being an owner and growing, then later selling, a group of professional services corporations providing direct clinical services and outsourced contract services to hospitals and other groups in three states.
Beyond his appointment at Sloan, Mr. Hollis’s ongoing professional consulting activities straddle the area of M&A and management consulting, primarily for health and professional services firms. A past president of the Sloan Alumni Association and member of the advisory boards of the College of Human Ecology and the Cornell Club of Greater Hartford, he was recently appointed to the Cayuga Health System board. Mr. Hollis completed his MBA and Sloan Certificate in Health Services Management at Cornell. He also received a B.A. “With Distinction” from DePauw University and a Master’s degree from Washington University in St Louis.
Healthy Futures
Event Overview
Join the thought leaders from the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF) to explore how life will change in response to the pandemic along with suggestions for transforming the challenging experiences of the past year into positive lessons. This session will highlight key takeaways from a new collaborative CIHF white paper focusing on COVID-19’s lasting impacts on healthy work, healthcare and hospitality environments; food access; and the senior living experience.
What You'll Learn
- Why social equity is a necessary guiding principle for healthy futures
- Trends in telework and legislation that impact healthy employee outcomes
- How specific changes in the built environments of healthcare and hospitality facilities can improve social and community activities
- Innovations in food systems to address food insecurity and social justice issues exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic
- Ways providers can enhance socialization and other important aspects of the senior living experience
Speakers
Heather Kolakowski is a lecturer in food and beverage management at Cornell’s Nolan School of Hotel Administration and Associate Director of the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures. She teaches several food and beverage courses, including “Restaurant Management” and “Nonprofit Social Enterprise and Food Justice.” Ms. Kolakowski is also the faculty advisor for Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC), the student-run hospitality showcase conference that allows students the opportunity to put theory into practice each spring while taking on leadership responsibilities. She is the recipient of the 2017 Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship for her dedication to service learning.
Dr. Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, B.A., M.Arch., M.A., D.Arch., is a professor at Cornell University and chair of the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis as well as Associate Director in the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures. She previously served as professor at Texas A&M University (TAMU) and was director of the TAMU Center for Health Systems & Design from 2004-2014. Dr. Shepley is a fellow in the American Institute of Architects and the American College of Healthcare Architects. She is LEED and EDAC certified.
Dr. Shepley has authored/co-authored six books, including “Healthcare Environments for Children and their Families” (1998), “A Practitioner’s Guide to Evidence-Based Design” (2008), “Design for Critical Care” (2009), “Health Facility Evaluation for Design Practitioners” (2010), “Design for Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care” (2014), and “Design for Mental & Behavioral Health” (2017). Her papers have been published in Healthcare Management Review; Indoor and Built Environment; Journal of Perinatology; Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Health Environments Design & Research; World Health Design; Children, Youth & Environments; Journal of Housing for the Elderly; Journal of Environmental Psychology; General Hospital Psychiatry; Building Research Information; Evidence-Based Medicine; Journal of Applied Gerontology; Journal of Interior Design; Child Health Care; Senior Housing & Care; Environment & Behavior; and Perceptual & Motor Skills, among other peer-reviewed venues. To enhance the link between research and practice, Dr. Shepley worked 16 years in practice prior to joining TAMU and has regularly served as a consultant to architectural firms since 2000. She is founder of ART+Science, design research consultants.
Nicolas Ziebarth is Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management in the Sloan Program in Health Administration (Sloan) at Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. He also serves as Associate Director of the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF). Dr. Ziebarth is an economist whose research focuses on health, public, and labor economics. He studies the interaction of (social) insurance systems with labor markets and population health. In particular, Dr. Ziebarth is an international expert on the economics of sick leave; his research on sick leave has been featured by the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Ziebarth has received several awards for his research, and his work was cited as a reason for the Healthy Families Act and the initial Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) emergency sick leave provision as well as its extension. Before coming to Cornell, he was a research associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Dr. Ziebarth earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin) in 2011; his thesis was awarded the Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award. Dr. Ziebarth is also a Research Fellow for the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
Brooke Hollis is Associate Director of the Sloan Program in Health Administration (Sloan) at Cornell’s College of Human Ecology as well as co-founder and Executive Director Emeritus of the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF). He also holds appointed faculty positions at CIHF and Sloan, where he teaches courses related to management, planning, and entrepreneurship, and advises students on career issues. Prior to Cornell, Mr. Hollis’s career spanned three decades working in both the public and private sectors, serving in senior management positions in a number of organizations in the health and financial advisory/consulting fields. His experience includes being an owner and growing, then later selling, a group of professional services corporations providing direct clinical services and outsourced contract services to hospitals and other groups in three states.
Beyond his appointment at Sloan, Mr. Hollis’s ongoing professional consulting activities straddle the area of M&A and management consulting, primarily for health and professional services firms. A past president of the Sloan Alumni Association and member of the advisory boards of the College of Human Ecology and the Cornell Club of Greater Hartford, he was recently appointed to the Cayuga Health System board. Mr. Hollis completed his MBA and Sloan Certificate in Health Services Management at Cornell. He also received a B.A. “With Distinction” from DePauw University and a Master’s degree from Washington University in St Louis.
Heather Kolakowski is a lecturer in food and beverage management at Cornell’s Nolan School of Hotel Administration and Associate Director of the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures. She teaches several food and beverage courses, including “Restaurant Management” and “Nonprofit Social Enterprise and Food Justice.” Ms. Kolakowski is also the faculty advisor for Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC), the student-run hospitality showcase conference that allows students the opportunity to put theory into practice each spring while taking on leadership responsibilities. She is the recipient of the 2017 Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship for her dedication to service learning.
Dr. Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, B.A., M.Arch., M.A., D.Arch., is a professor at Cornell University and chair of the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis as well as Associate Director in the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures. She previously served as professor at Texas A&M University (TAMU) and was director of the TAMU Center for Health Systems & Design from 2004-2014. Dr. Shepley is a fellow in the American Institute of Architects and the American College of Healthcare Architects. She is LEED and EDAC certified.
Dr. Shepley has authored/co-authored six books, including “Healthcare Environments for Children and their Families” (1998), “A Practitioner’s Guide to Evidence-Based Design” (2008), “Design for Critical Care” (2009), “Health Facility Evaluation for Design Practitioners” (2010), “Design for Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care” (2014), and “Design for Mental & Behavioral Health” (2017). Her papers have been published in Healthcare Management Review; Indoor and Built Environment; Journal of Perinatology; Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Health Environments Design & Research; World Health Design; Children, Youth & Environments; Journal of Housing for the Elderly; Journal of Environmental Psychology; General Hospital Psychiatry; Building Research Information; Evidence-Based Medicine; Journal of Applied Gerontology; Journal of Interior Design; Child Health Care; Senior Housing & Care; Environment & Behavior; and Perceptual & Motor Skills, among other peer-reviewed venues. To enhance the link between research and practice, Dr. Shepley worked 16 years in practice prior to joining TAMU and has regularly served as a consultant to architectural firms since 2000. She is founder of ART+Science, design research consultants.
Nicolas Ziebarth is Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management in the Sloan Program in Health Administration (Sloan) at Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. He also serves as Associate Director of the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF). Dr. Ziebarth is an economist whose research focuses on health, public, and labor economics. He studies the interaction of (social) insurance systems with labor markets and population health. In particular, Dr. Ziebarth is an international expert on the economics of sick leave; his research on sick leave has been featured by the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Ziebarth has received several awards for his research, and his work was cited as a reason for the Healthy Families Act and the initial Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) emergency sick leave provision as well as its extension. Before coming to Cornell, he was a research associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Dr. Ziebarth earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin) in 2011; his thesis was awarded the Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award. Dr. Ziebarth is also a Research Fellow for the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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