Carey H. Gallagher, Principal, CFAR
Carey H. Gallagher, Principal, is skilled at analyzing complex dilemmas and identifying levers that accelerate change within an organization’s existing culture. Her work focuses on practical solutions, helping clients engage and unite diverse stakeholders in small shifts that measurably improve performance and productivity, and foster innovation.
Carey is an experienced speaker and author and has presented to the executive track of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program, and to the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers, among other audiences. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Healthcare Management, has co-authored several series in the Wharton Healthcare Quarterly, and has published a report on increasing the effectiveness of small-scale interventions in the Wallace Foundation’s Knowledge Center.
Carey is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. She has been recognized with the Regent’s Award for Early Career Healthcare Executive and is President-Elect of the Greater Philadelphia chapter of the Healthcare Leadership Network of the Delaware Valley. She also serves as an Advisor to the Management Consulting program of the Fox School of Business at Temple University.
Carey earned a BA in English from Georgetown University and holds an MBA with a concentration in International Business from the Fox School at Temple University.
Contact Carey at: [email protected]
Jennifer Tomasik, SM, FACHE, Vice President and Principal, CFAR
While Jennifer leads CFAR’s Healthcare practice, she has had the privilege of working with mission-oriented leaders across many industries for more than two decades. She is a deep believer in the power of systems-thinking and the role of active engagement of people across all levels of an organization to shape, own, and contribute to their strategic future. Jennifer is proficient at bringing stakeholders together in ways that bridge the organizational and professional boundaries that often impede productive dialogue and strategic change. She helps her clients move from ideas to action, whether that be through individual or team-based coaching or leading large-scale strategy and change work.
Jennifer is an experienced speaker and author, and has presented to numerous client audiences, including the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American Hospital Association, and the American Organization of Nurse Executives, among others. Her published work has appeared in the Wharton Healthcare Quarterly, Healthcare Executive, the American Journal of Medicine, and several books focused on population health and healthcare management. Her most recent publication, Lessons from the Field: Promising Interprofessional Collaboration Practices, was produced as the result of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project that she led to identify effective interprofessional collaboration practices that create a culture of health and improve patient-centered care.
Jennifer is deeply committed to improving healthcare, leadership, and education in her home state of Rhode Island, where she resides with her husband and daughters. She is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and was elected to represent the state on ACHE’s national Board of Regents. In 2011, she won the Regent Award for Early Careerist from the American College of Healthcare Executives Rhode Island (ACHERI), where she serves as a member of the Board. She is the Immediate-Past President of the Board of Trustees of the French American School of Rhode Island, where she led strategic planning, search, transition and governance efforts. Jennifer is a member of the Omicron II class of Leadership Rhode Island.
She earned a BA in American Studies from Tufts University as well as an MS in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is certified as a Predictive Index Practitioner.
Contact Jennifer at: [email protected]
Jim Mahan, Senior Consultant, CFAR
Jim Mahan, Senior Consultant at CFAR, is a thought leader in the healthcare industry, with deep experience developing innovative solutions that improve organizational effectiveness, top line growth, quality improvement, and performance. Jim has consulted with senior leaders on Medicare and Medicaid initiatives, Joint Commission accreditation, and federal and state policy issues. His work has included efforts to create an innovative payment methodology for major Boston hospitals, launch an inaugural Medicare risk program, build a utilization management cost model, and convert an acute hospital to a post-acute care center.
Jim has served in roles across the healthcare continuum, having begun his healthcare career as an Emergency Medical Technician. He has expertise in emergency and trauma care, taught Advanced Trauma Life Support, and was a Certified Emergency Nurse for many years. As a clinician, Jim has served as both Nurse Anesthetist and a certified Adult Nurse Practitioner: in the former, he focused on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, and evaluated national and local professional sports figures and games. He also served as the sideline medical consultant for the City of Worcester, MA and several local high schools. A lifelong learner and educator at heart, Jim has taught and lectured on clinical care topics around intubation techniques, IV therapy, knee and shoulder exams, and emergency fracture management to medical experts. He also worked with the Massachusetts National Guard as a Field Examiner for their emergency medical qualification training. Jim has also served as a Senior Adjunct Faculty as UMass Lowell for over a decade, educating students in doctoral and masters level programs in Nursing, Public Health, and Business to develop and apply innovative approaches in healthcare management.
Prior to joining CFAR, Jim served as Vice President for New Business Development at Vizient/Sg2 where he expanded client relationships across the Northeast region. Before moving over to Sg2, Jim held the position of Vice President of Healthcare Operations for Veteran’s Health Administration New England, where he utilized his healthcare reform and hospital market knowledge to develop strategies for growth, recruitment and retention, and new program development. He implemented transformative programs by combining his clinical background and financial management knowledge with his healthcare industry experience in hospital operations and care.
Jim is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives and Board Member and Chair of Programs for the New England Society for Healthcare Strategists. He has spoken extensively at national and regional organization events on numerous topics in healthcare. He has previously been a member of the Finance Committee for the Organization of Nurse Executives, a two-term Chair of the Pharmacy Affairs Committee, and an ad hoc member of the Federal Affairs Committee for Premier Inc., where he was instrumental in developing a collaborative model of advocacy.
Jim is a Registered Nurse and holds a BS in Nursing from Worcester State University and an MBA with a concentration in finance from Clark University.
Contact Jim at: [email protected]