Conference Speakers
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Heather Dimeris |
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Stacey Carpenter, Psy. D.Stacey Carpenter, Psy.D., is a Licensed Psychologist and the Director of Integrated Behavioral Health for Family Practice and Counseling Network (FPCN). Dr. Carpenter oversees the Behavioral Health Consultants and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners who provide brief therapeutic services within 4 Federally Qualified Health Care Community Centers. Dr. Carpenter obtained her doctoral degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and has experience working within medical settings providing brief therapy to adults and children with various diagnoses. During her fellowship, she was a mental health consultant who conducted social-emotional groups with preschoolers, parent skills training for the parents, and provided therapy for parents and children. Dr. Carpenter has a certificate in Infant Mental Health from Chatham University. Dr. Carpenter is a founding member and current President of the Pennsylvania Association for Infant Mental Health (PA-AIMH) which is a non-profit, state-wide organization that assists in educating and connecting providers who work with children (ages 0-5yo) and their families. For the last eight years she has organized PA-AIMH’s annual conferences that has grown to about 300 participants and includes nationally recognized keynotes and local expert speakers. Dr. Carpenter is dedicated to educating communities and providers on trauma informed care and improving the social-emotional development among children and families.
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Dr. Howard RabinowitzHoward K. Rabinowitz MD is the Ellen M. and Dale W. Garber Professor of Family Medicine, and Professor of Pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. Since 1976, he has served as Director of Jefferson's Physician Shortage Area Program, a special admissions and educational program that has been successful in increasing the supply and retention of family physicians in rural areas, as detailed in publications in the JAMA and NEJM.
Dr. Rabinowitz is a past-President of the American Board of Family Practice (1992-93). From 1992-2000, he was a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Generalist Physician Initiative. From 1993-94, Dr. Rabinowitz was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the Office of US Senator John D (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D, W. Va.). From 1997-2002, he was national Project Director and Co-Director of HRSA's $8 million "UME-21" project (Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21st Century), a program to develop curricular innovations to better prepare medical students to practice in the changing health care environment. He served on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Fellowships Advisory Board from 2004-2010, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine from 1988-2011. Dr. Rabinowitz is the recipient of the 2008 Curtis G. Hames Research Award, honoring career contributions to family medicine research. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM, formerly known as the Institute of Medicine, IOM). |
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Robert AronsonRobert Aronson is an immigration attorney working at Fredrikson and Byron, located in downtown Minneapolis. In over 30 years of immigration legal practice, he has established himself as one of the leading practitioners specifically in the area of immigration law for physicians and allied healthcare professionals. He speaks and writes widely on the subject and has a long list of achievements attesting to his prominence in the physician immigration space, including having been named as the inaugural recipient of the Roberta Friedman Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to the field of immigration law and policy for International Physicians. Robert holds his JD from the Indiana University School of Law and thereafter was a Fulbright fellow at the law schools of Harvard University and Moscow State University in Russia.
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Rachel BusRachel Bus has been practicing exclusively in the area of immigration law since 2007. While working for boutique firms in Austin, Texas, Rachel handled a variety of immigration matters, including labor and employment based immigration, family based immigration, individual petitions for victims of crime, and deportation defense. Rachel returned to her roots in the Phoenix area in 2014 and joined Brelje and Associates in 2015. She is equipped to handle a wide range of immigration cases, with a particular focus on employment based immigration for physicians and allied health workers throughout the nation.
Prior to starting a career in law, Rachel served as a Volunteer with the United States Peace Corps in Ecuador, South America from 2001 to 2003. Rachel graduated cum laude from the University of Arizona in 2001 with a B.A. in Latin American Studies and earned her J.D. from the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law in 2007. Rachel is a member of the Texas bar, the International Medical Graduate Taskforce and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). She is fluent in English and Spanish. |
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Wendy Hess |
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Ana Lyn Roscetti |
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Mike Berry |
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John Gale |
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Dave Schmitz |
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Craig Kennedy |
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Melissa Ryan |
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Lisa MouscherLisa Mouscher is CEO and Lead Consultant at Sogence Training and Consulting. As a popular and dynamic facilitator, trainer and consultant, Lisa works primarily with leaders, managers and staff from Community Health Centers and other community health focused organizations across the country. She brings her extensive background in management, training and human resources to her work and is a graduate of Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lisa specializes in two areas, providing intensive management skills training to health care organizations, and assisting them to create a culture of customer service. She is known for facilitating immediately applicable results as well as lasting impact to strengthen these organizations for the long-term.
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Mike ShimmensMike Shimmens joined the 3RNet (National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network) as Executive Director on August 1, 2012. In this role he works with a nine member Board of Directors to assist 53 non-profit member organizations in the recruitment and retention of quality health care professionals in rural and underserved areas of our country.
Prior to coming to this position, he worked for 6 years at the Missouri Primary Care Association as Director of Recruitment and Workforce Development and nine years as Director of Medical Staff Development at St. Mary's Health Center in Jefferson City, MO. Mike has a Bachelor’s degree from Missouri State University, a Master’s degree from Western Illinois University and he continues to live in Jefferson City, Missouri with his wife Mary Ellen and daughter Maura. |
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Michelle VarchoMichelle Varcho is the Director of Education Outreach for the National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network (3RNet). In this role, Michelle coordinates education-related activities for 3RNet members and rural facilities across the country including trainings using 3RNet’s educational tools such as the Recruiting for Retention manual, a rural-focused plan and guidebook focused on finding and keeping providers in rural areas.
Prior to joining 3RNet, Michelle was a Human Resources Director for a Federally Qualified Health Center in Jefferson City, Missouri, where she help them grow from five employees in one location to one hundred and ten employees in four locations, serving over 13 counties. The services provided included Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Pain Management, Behavioral Health, Dental and Nutrition counseling. In this role she created and implemented strategies and best practices to overcome the unique barriers to recruiting and retaining providers in the rural health care arena. Michelle has over twenty years of experience in health-care related human resources both at the local and national level. She has an MBA from Williams Woods University and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Columbia College. She holds a Sr. Professional Human Resources certification since 2003. |
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Mark BarclayMark Barclay is the Director of Member Services for 3RNet, the National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network. In this role, Mark serves as the primary support contact for 53 3RNet members, and the over 5,000 rural and underserved facilities across the country that utilize 3RNet. Prior to working for 3RNet, Barclay recruited for 36 Critical Access Hospitals and 4 FQHCs as the Workforce Specialist at the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Barclay also helped establish TruServe, a web-based tracking system used by State Offices of Rural Health and Primary Care Offices nationwide. In 2013, Barclay gained certification as a Fellow of the Association of Staff Physician Recruiters, their highest recognition. Mark has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the University of North Dakota.
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