Improving Access to Mental Health Services: New Employer Solutions

Candice Sherman was appointed CEO of Northeast Business Group on Health (NEBGH) in 2017, after serving as the organization’s Chief Operating Officer for four years. Candice sets NEBGH’s strategic direction in concert with the board of directors and oversees all initiatives including grant-funded projects, educational programs and conferences. She has led NEBGH’s work in the areas of social determinants of health, racial health equity, vaccine friendliness, mental health, cancer and caregiving. She serves as board chair for NEBGH subsidiary HealthPass, a small business health insurance exchange. 

Just prior to her roles at NEBGH, Candice was Chief Operating Officer for St. John’s Well Child and Family Center in South Los Angeles, one of the largest Federally-Qualified Health Clinics in the country. Her business experience includes leading business units at a Wall Street consultancy, Dun & Bradstreet and Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters), and building two technology startups as Chief Operating Officer. She has provided strategic and fundraising assistance to a range of nonprofits throughout her career.

Dr. Cunningham-Hill is an employee health expert known for his ability to create, identify and implement high-quality workplace health programs including prevention and screening, chronic illness interventions, and mental health and wellbeing initiatives. His broad occupational medicine and public health experience encompasses addressing chronic diseases impacting employers, employees and communities within the context of  social, cultural and racial determinants of health.

Mark has served as the Medical Director for Northeast Business Group on Health since early 2018. Until 2017, he served as Senior Director, Global Solutions Center and Head of Occupational Medicine at Johnson & Johnson, Inc . At J&J, Mark led a team of experts covering occupational medicine, health and wellness, personal energy management, EAP and mental wellbeing, and work-life effectiveness, and supported regional operational groups delivering health services to 135,000 employees in 120 companies. Prior to seven years at J&J, Mark spent 17 years at GlaxoSmithKline in both London and Philadelphia, including as Head of Global Operations, Employee Health Management.

Mark received his MB ChB, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at Manchester University in the UK. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, London.

Michelle Martin is senior vice president of total reward experience at ViacomCBS and is responsible for the strategy, design and performance of the company’s health and welfare plans, employee engagement and development of HR policies.

Michelle is a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist with a certification in global benefits management. As a human resources professional with broad experience, Michelle taught a CEBS course at Hofstra University that emphasized key economic, accounting and financial concepts essential in the administration of employee benefit plans.

She holds an MBA from Adelphi University. Michelle is an active member of the human resources community and is on the board of directors of the Northeast Business Group on Health, HealthPass

New York and The Leapfrog Group. She also sits on an advisory board for Covenant House Mother Child Center in New York City.

Dr. Charles Lattarulo, a psychologist with over 20 years of behavioral health experience, is the creator and Global Director of the Healthy Minds program at American Express. Prior to his role at American Express, Dr. Lattarulo served as Director of Behavioral Health at a home care agency, Clinical Director of an international Employee Assistance Program, and Director of Training and Clinical Instructor at a major metropolitan hospital.

His vast expertise includes corporate behavioral health, anxiety and stress, bereavement, and substance abuse issues. Dr. Lattarulo’s diverse role at American Express includes managing the company’s global mental health strategy, onsite EAP counselors, U.S. and global EAP vendor relationships, and behavioral health absence management. He also creates and ensures the viability of the company’s behavioral health programs and works to provide ad-hoc expertise across the organization.

Karim Habibi is Senior Vice President and Chief of Managed Care and Payment Reform Officer at NYU Langone Health in New York City, where he is responsible for developing, negotiating, and implementing direct employer contracts, and payor based fee-for-service and value-based managed care contracts. He has more than 30 years of healthcare experience and he is a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and is certified in the areas of managed care and patient accounts. Mr. Habibi coauthored articles and has spoken at national conferences on managed care, bundled payments, surgical implant cost-containment strategies and cost-effective clinical practices. Mr. Habibi holds a Master of Science degree in Health Services Management from New York University and a Master of Public Health in Health Administration degree from the University of Oklahoma.

Chris Kim joined KKR in 2014 and is the Global Head of Employee Experience. Chris is responsible for managing KKR's global benefit programs as well as developing and advancing a consistent global strategy across health & wellness and retirement plans. Prior to joining KKR, Chris was the global head of benefits and wellness at Bloomberg. He also previously worked at Goldman Sachs in various benefits and compensation roles. He holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.

Karan Singh is the co-founder and chief operations officer at Ginger, where he leads its clinical operations and strategy. He has over 13 years of experience in healthcare from management consulting for biopharma to data analytics, having worked at leading healthcare firms including ZS Associates and Humedica.

Karan is a frequent speaker on the topics of entrepreneurship, health innovation and new models of care. He has served as a scholar at the Aspen Institute, delivered keynotes at the Public Health Institute and the National Institute of Mental Health and been recognized as a rising star in healthcare by LinkedIn's Next Wave.

He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, attended the Harvard Medical School/MIT Health, Science & Technology program, and received bachelor’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Hyong Un, M.D. is the Chief Psychiatric Officer for Aetna and Head of Aetna Employee Assistance Program.  Dr. Un has been with Aetna since January 2002.  In his role, Dr. Un supports the development of behavioral health care strategy as well as the development of innovative behavioral health disease and care management programs that promote overall optimal health and integration of behavioral health with medical management.

Prior to joining Aetna in 2002, Dr. Un was the Psychiatrist-in-Chief of Friends Hospital, the nation’s  first private psychiatric hospital and Chief Medical Officer for Penn-Friends Behavioral Health System of the University of Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Un serves on numerous national committees including advisory board to the Director of NIMH, Workplace Mental Health Board of the APA, and National Centers of Excellence for Depression.  He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association.

Sandi Stein is a managing director - global head of total rewards at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., the last privately held bank in the United States. At BBH, which she joined in March 2012, Stein is responsible for furthering the global rewards agenda to ensure that compensation and benefits align with the organization’s overall business strategy while designing meaningful and competitive programs that motivate and support the workforce.   She leads an award-winning, well-being program. Sandi is also the global chair of BBH’s Pride Network.

Prior to joining BBH, she was vice president of global benefits, including global mobility, at NYSE Euronext, and was responsible for delivering competitive, best-in-class benefits programs for the organization and related subsidiary companies.

Stein joined Securities Industry Automation Corp. in 1991 as a 401(k) benefits specialist. In 2006, the company became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the New York Stock Exchange, where she assumed the lead HR/benefits role.

Stein earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from SUNY Albany and completed coursework as a certified financial planner from New York University.

Dr. Rosenzweig is the Behavioral Chief Medical Officer with Optum and has been with the organization for more than 16 years.  Dr. Rosenzweig has over 20 years of industry experience in behavioral managed care. He has focused his efforts on helping develop customized solutions for employees and payers particularly in the areas of mood disorders and substance use. He has clinical expertise in the area of occupational psychiatry and how to address psychiatric illness in the workplace.

Dr. Rosenzweig also serves as Optum’s national substance use disorders clinical leader.  This allows him to actively develop innovative programs that improve access to quality, evidence-based care for people with substance use disorders, and in particular those most impacted by the current opioid epidemic.  He frequently speaks to national audiences on the topic and consults with regional health plans across the country.

Dr. Rosenzweig is board-certified in psychiatry and a clinical associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is a Graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg, South Africa and completed his residency and psychiatric residency at Pennsylvania hospital and his fellowship in psychopharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Cunningham-Hill is an employee health expert known for his ability to create, identify and implement high-quality workplace health programs including prevention and screening, chronic illness interventions, and mental health and wellbeing initiatives. His broad occupational medicine and public health experience encompasses addressing chronic diseases impacting employers, employees and communities within the context of  social, cultural and racial determinants of health.

Mark has served as the Medical Director for Northeast Business Group on Health since early 2018. Until 2017, he served as Senior Director, Global Solutions Center and Head of Occupational Medicine at Johnson & Johnson, Inc . At J&J, Mark led a team of experts covering occupational medicine, health and wellness, personal energy management, EAP and mental wellbeing, and work-life effectiveness, and supported regional operational groups delivering health services to 135,000 employees in 120 companies. Prior to seven years at J&J, Mark spent 17 years at GlaxoSmithKline in both London and Philadelphia, including as Head of Global Operations, Employee Health Management.

Mark received his MB ChB, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at Manchester University in the UK. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, London.