New Leadership for Today's Health Care

Dr. Louis G. Rubino is Professor and Chair of the Health Sciences Department at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). In the community, he serves as a governing board member at St. Francis Medical Center and is Chair of their Quality and Patient Safety Subcommittee. Prior to academia, Dr. Rubino served for 20 years as a hospital administrator and health system executive. Dr. Rubino holds a master's degree and PhD in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. His expertise is the study of integrated systems with special emphasis on the operation of acute hospitals, international comparative studies in hospital administration, and leadership. He is a recertified Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is the coeditor of Collaboration Across the Disciplines in Health Care. Dr. Salvador J. Esparza has been teaching full-time in the Health Administration Program at California State University, Northridge since 2006. Prior to this time, Dr. Esparza was a practicing healthcare executive with extensive experience in hospital and ambulatory operations for a variety of healthcare organizations within and outside of California. He is a board-certified executive and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Dr. Esparza started his career as a registered nurse and as a result has a great appreciation for the role and contribution of clinicians in healthcare organizations and the strategic value they provide for the effective delivery of healthcare services. He serves on the board of a local, not-for-profit medical foundation and has contributed his governance expertise to other organizations in his community. Yolanda (Linda) S. Reid Chassiakos, MD, FAAP, is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Georgetown University, and served as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy and the Assistant Head of the Ambulatory Branch of the Pediatric Department at the Naval Hospital Bethesda, as well as an Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She then served as the Director of the Preventive Services Initiative for the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC; and a medical editor and correspondent for the CBS affiliate in Washington. Dr. Chassiakos served as a medical editor for Lifetime Medical Television Continuing Education programs, and then joined UCLA and subsequently became Chair of the Medical Staff of its Ashe Health and Wellness Center. Dr. Chassiakos is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a founding member and former chair of its Media Resource Team, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA. She is currently the Director of the Klotz Student Health Center at California State University Northridge, a full-service ambulatory care center with over 60,000 patient visits per year.