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Danny TK Avula醫師是美國維吉尼亞州社會福利部部長，領導著該州13,000名在州部門和120個地方社福部門服務的同仁，並與宗教和非營利組織合作，以促進維吉尼亞州內家庭及兒童的福祉，並致力於確保弱勢族群能夠獲得最好的服務和福利。

Dr. Avula是一名專攻兒科和預防醫學的公共衛生醫師，並持續以兒科整合醫療照護醫師之身分於臨床服務。Avula醫師在2021年領導空前的COVID-19疫苗接種工作，使維吉尼亞州成為疫苗接種率最高的前十州之一。在此之前，他曾擔任里奇蒙和亨利科郡的衛生局局長。

從維吉尼亞大學畢業後，他在維吉尼亞聯邦大學獲得醫學學位，並在維吉尼亞大學和約翰霍普金斯大學完成住院醫師培訓並獲得公共衛生的碩士學位。他亦是維吉尼亞大學的兼職教授，時常擔任研究生和醫學生的顧問及導師。

Dr. Avula於2013至2021年被任命為州衛生福利委員會成員，並於2017至2019年擔任委員會主席，同時也是里奇蒙紀念健康基金會前主席。自2013年起，他每年都被評選為里奇蒙的頂級醫師並獲得許多獎項，包括維吉尼亞包容性社區中心人道主義獎、2019年里奇蒙時報年度風雲人物獎、2020年Style週刊年度里奇蒙人。他的事蹟已被紐約時報、全國公共廣播電台和美國公共電視網新聞時刻廣泛報導在全州和全國的媒體上，也可在TED巡迴演講中找到他的「依賴不是禁語 (Dependence Isn't a Dirty Word)」演講。

Dr. Danny TK Avula is the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS), leading 13,000 human services professionals at the state and 120 local departments of social services and partnering with faith-based and non-profit organizations to promote the well-being of families and children statewide. VDSS strives to ensure that Virginia's most vulnerable residents have access to the best services and benefits available to them.

Dr. Avula is a public health physician specializing in pediatrics and preventive medicine and continues to practice clinically as a Pediatric Hospitalist. He spent 2021 leading Virginia's unprecedented COVID-19 vaccination effort, and helping Virginia become one of the top ten most vaccinated states in the country. Prior to that, he served as the Director of the Richmond City and Henrico County Health Departments.

After graduating from the University of Virginia, he earned his medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. He completed residencies at VCU and Johns Hopkins University, where he also earned a Master of Public Health. He is an Affiliate Faculty member at VCU, where he regularly serves as an advisor and preceptor to graduate and medical students.

Dr. Avula was appointed to the State Board of Social Services from 2013-2021, and he served as Board Chair from 2017 to 2019. He is also a former Board Chair of the Richmond Memorial Health Foundation. He has been named one of Richmond's “Top Docs'' annually since 2013, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Virginia Center for Inclusive Community's Humanitarian Award, a Richmond Times-Dispatch Person of the Year honoree in 2019, and Style Weekly's "Richmonder of the Year" in 2020. His work has been covered extensively in the statewide and national media, by outlets like The New York Times, NPR, and PBS Newshour, and he can be found on the TED circuit with his TEDx talk entitled "Dependence Isn't a Dirty Word."

Sonja Gaines 擔任美國德州衛生福利部副部長，致力於行為健康服務。她擁有超過25年的社區心理健康領導經驗，負責身心政策與督導社區服務之實踐，同時為具有行為健康需求的人提供協助。

自2014年加入德州衛生福利部以來，Gaines副部長引領23個德州政府機關，建立了第一個全州行為健康協調委員會，同時制定了第一個五年期身心健康戰略計畫，藉此消弭行為健康系統的落差。近期更將計畫升級，讓有行為健康需求觸法者能從刑事司法系統移轉出去。在她的帶領下，她的團隊負責執行德州超過13億美元預算之行為健康服務，包含藥物濫用及心理健康服務、退伍軍人補助計畫，以及聯邦政府補助之德州鴉片類藥物應變政策等。

她富有遠見，為行為健康服務建立統一管道，以確保能在正確的時間和地點提供正確的照護，同時透過專業整合照護、居家及社區服務、復能門診，以及聯邦醫療補助的同儕支持等，擴大提供服務。除此之外，Gaines副部長監督優化mentalhealthtx.org網站的重新設計，使該網站在2022年的流量增加了158%。此外，她透過由合格的社區行為健康診所提供優質可近之心理健康服務，並努力消除社區心理健康患者的就醫等待名單，帶領德州模式獲得全國推崇。

Sonja Gaines serves as the Deputy Executive Commissioner for Behavioral Health Services at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). With more than 25 years of community mental health leadership experience, she oversees the policy and delivery of community-based services and supports for people with behavioral health conditions.

Since joining HHSC in 2014, Commissioner Gaines has spearheaded the establishment of the first Statewide Behavioral Health Coordinating Council across 23 state agencies, as well as the development of the first five-year Statewide Behavioral Health Strategic plan designed to address gaps in the behavioral health system, and most recently, an updated edition with a plan to divert people with behavioral health needs from the criminal justice system. Under her leadership, her team manages more than $1.3B of statewide behavioral health services, including substance use and mental health services, veterans matching grant programs, and the Texas Opioid Response federal grant.

Through her vision to creating a unified approach to behavioral health services that ensures access to the right care at the right time and place, services have been expanded to meet the need of Texans through Coordinated Specialty Care, Home and Community-Based Services, Outpatient Competency Restoration, and Peer Services as a Medicaid benefit. Gaines has also overseen the redesign of the mentalhealthtx.org website, which resulted in a 158% increase in traffic in 2022. Additionally, she led efforts to eliminate the community mental health wait list and steered Texas to national recognition by providing quality accessible statewide mental health services through Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics.

On a national level, Commissioner Gaines has received appointments to various behavioral health related boards and councils. She also serves on the Texas Judicial Commission on Mental Health and Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium. She holds a master's degree in business administration from Texas Women's University, as well as bachelor's degrees in psychology and sociology from the University of Maryland and William Paterson University, respectively.

林教授是杜克大學政策與組織管理研究中心共同主任，市場和管理學程、心理和腦神經科學系之教授。林教授授課課程含概行銷管理、服務品質、消費者心理學、國際企業等課程。她個人研究專長為消費者洞察、社會和健康行為、決策科學、經濟學等多元領域的研究。同時，她也是杜克大學跨學門研究計畫重點項目之一－Bass Connections 計畫的主持人。

林教授在高階經理人培訓的創新學習課程設計有多年的經驗。她並曾擔任杜克大學富爾布萊特獎學金(Fulbright Fellowship)的評審委員。她也曾獲美國廣告教育基金會邀請為訪問教授。除了學術生涯以外，林教授曾受Chapel Hill市市議會聘為市區發展董事會之董事達六年。該董事會旨在協助發展該市之經濟繁榮。林教授目前亦擔任醫療財團法人辜公亮基金會和信治癌中心醫院基因資料庫與醫學倫理審議委員及McKinney集團的多元化諮詢委員會委員。2010 年和 2018 年，林教授分別獲得臺灣衛生福利部所頒發的衛生獎章。

林教授擁有北卡羅萊納大學Chapel Hill分校教育與企管博士學位，杜克大學經濟學碩士，以及加州大學柏克萊分校經濟學學士學位。

Dr. Cheryl Lin is Co-Director of the Policy and Organizational Management Program and on the faculty of the Markets & Management Program and the Psychology & Neuroscience Department at Duke University. She teaches marketing management, service quality, consumer psychology, health research, and international business. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary approach to consumer insights, social and health behavior, decision science, and economics. She has been the faculty lead of Bass Connections projects, part of Duke's cross-departmental research initiatives.

Professor Lin has extensive experience in innovative program development and curriculum design for executive training. She served as a reviewer for Fulbright Fellowship at Duke University and was awarded a visiting professorship at the American Advertising Education Foundation.

In addition to her academic endeavor, Dr. Lin served on the board of directors of the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership for six years, appointed by the City Council to help promote economic prosperity. She is a board member of the Koo Foundation's Cancer Center Biobank and Ethics Review Board and McKinney's Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board. In 2010 and 2018, Dr. Lin received the prestigious Health Services Medals from the Taiwan Department of Health and the Ministry of Health and Welfare respectively.

Dr. Lin holds a doctorate in education and business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master's degree in economics from Duke University, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jilma Meneses是華盛頓州最大的政府機構社福及醫療服務部部長，該機構每兩年編列預算為170億美元，共有近1萬6千名員工和2萬3千多家簽約服務協力機構，每年服務2至3百萬華盛頓居民。身為部長，Meneses部長致力於幫助他人改善生活因而成功改變生命。她為社福及醫療服務部提供行政策略及政策指導，同時透過資訊科技服務、人力資源、溝通、創新與策略、官方紀錄、多樣性和包容、印地安政策以及其他關鍵的中央和全州服務，支持所有計畫的成功。

Meneses部長在灣區和太平洋西北地區獲得了富有遠見的領導者和社群融合者的美譽。在任職於華盛頓州社福及醫療服務部之前，她曾是舊金山、馬林、聖馬特奧天主教慈善機構的首席執行長，在那裡她領導了30多個直接服務民眾的計畫，為家庭、青年、年長者、殘障者、移民者、HIV感染者、無家可歸者和來自低收入戶的多元性別族群提供社會服務、移民法律服務、行為健康、食品安全、受教機會以及健康成長與發展的機會。在新冠疫情大爆發期間，她透過提供連續不斷的照護，包括預防無家可歸的補助計畫、提供外展服務以解決無家可歸家庭困境、提供庇護所安置及支持性住房，大幅提升了整個地區的福祉。

Meneses部長曾在俄勒岡州波特蘭市的康考迪亞大學擔任執行副校長、首席營運長和法務長。她的經歷包含了資訊科技、人力資源、緊急應變、風險管控以及法律服務，同時也曾擔任法學院代理院長。她是波特蘭大學第一位首席多元文化長，優化了組織文化並使商業、學術成果多元性及包容性的整合。她也擔任了俄勒岡健康與科學大學風險管控、公正平權行動、平等機會的高階職位，並為運營執行及病人品質保證帶來創新的變革。

Meneses部長曾創立、擔任人道主義組織董事會成員，並為許多相似團體提供指導，其中包含了非洲的Our Family、The Forgotten International、Latino Network、Adelante Mujeres和United Way。在剛果共和國為孤兒提供人道救援、法律服務、教育、健康照護和食品安全成為她的快樂來源之一。

Meneses部長在路易斯及克拉克法學院獲得法律學位，並在加州大學柏克萊分校獲得政治學學士學位。

Jilma Meneses is Secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services, Washington's largest state agency with a biennial budget of $17 billion, nearly 16,000 employees, and 23,000 contracted service providers, serving between 2 and 3 million Washington residents annually. As Secretary, Jilma is committed to transforming lives by helping those who serve succeed. She provides executive level strategic and policy direction for DSHS while supporting the success of all programs through information technology services, human resources, communications, innovation and strategy, public records, diversity and inclusion, Indian policy and other critical central and statewide services.

Jilma has earned a reputation as a visionary leader and community collaborator in both the Bay Area and the Pacific NW. Prior to DSHS, she was chief executive officer for Catholic Charities of San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo where she led 30+ direct human services programs that provided families, youth, aging adults, adults with disabilities, immigrants, HIV-positive, homeless, and LGBTQ+ individuals from low income households with social services, immigration legal services, behavioral health, food security, access to education, and opportunities for healthy growth and development. During the COVID-19 pandemic she led efforts to substantially increase services to thousands of clients throughout the region by providing a continuum of care, from subsidy programs to prevent homelessness, street outreach for problem solving with homeless families, to shelter placement and supportive housing.

Jilma previously served as executive vice president, chief operating officer and general counsel at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. Her portfolio included information technology, human resources, emergency preparedness, risk management, legal services, and the law school, where she served as interim dean. She was the first chief diversity officer at Portland State University where she worked across the university to optimize organizational culture and align diversity and inclusion goals with business and academic outcomes. She also held executive positions in risk management and affirmative action and equal opportunity at Oregon Health Sciences University where she led innovative change in operations and patient quality assurance.

Jilma has either founded, served on boards, or provided guidance to many humanitarian organizations, including Our Family in Africa, The Forgotten International, Latino Network, Adelante Mujeres, and United Way. One of her joys has been serving orphans in the Democratic Republic of Congo with humanitarian aid, legal services, education, health care and food security.

Jilma earned her law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School and her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Lisa Piercey醫師是美國備受尊敬的醫療公衛高階領導者，是Tristela Strategies的創始人兼首席執行官。Dr. Piercey在健康照護生態系統中具有豐富的公私部門行政營運經驗，包括門診、住院、行為健康以及急性後期照護，尤其著重於偏鄉與弱勢群體的照護。

Dr. Piercey於2019年1月至2022年6月曾擔任田納西州的衛生部部長，管理70億美元的預算並領導4,300多名員工。她與該州的醫療補助機構TennCare以及參眾議員和政策制定者合作，推進關鍵政策和預算，例如偏鄉醫療保健服務的建置、為沒有醫療保險民眾提供口腔照護，以及全面改革TANF儲備基金。她更是在國家與國際媒體平台上代表全美各州首席衛生官員，並且在美國兩屆總統任期內多次與白宮交流與互動。

在從事公共服務之前，Dr. Piercey擔任了近二十年的資深運營主管，在大型醫療集團和衛生系統運營中提供臨床及行政領導，成功推動具有成本效益的照護策略，特別是在服務不足和高風險族群中。作為營運收入超過10億美元、擁有7,000名員工的美國第九大公共且非營利衛生系統--West Tennessee Healthcare 的執行副總裁，她對該系統的所有偏鄉醫院、行為健康服務線以及急性後期照護服務有監護責任，包括以6.7億美元收購三家同行醫院。她還茁壯了該州最大的遠距精神病醫療網絡，並啟動了該系統的第一個藥物輔助治療計畫。

在她的整個職業生涯中，Dr. Piercey 因其在健康照護行政運營方面的領導能力受到眾多醫院、醫生和公共衛生組織的尊崇，獲得多項殊榮，包含Delta Dental Smile Power Award(Delta牙科微笑力量獎)和American College of Healthcare Executives(美國醫療保健高階主管學會)的多元化和正義獎。此外，她致力於確保在整個COVID-19大流行期間傳達清楚且可行的公共衛生訊息，這使該部門在她任職州政府期間獲得了John Seigenthaler Media Award(約翰·塞根塔勒媒體獎)，以及其公益廣告的三項艾美獎提名。

在利普斯柯姆大學獲得化學學士學位後，Dr. Piercey在東田納西州立大學獲得醫學學位，並在伯特利大學獲得工商管理碩士學位。她擁有一般兒科與被虐待兒童專科的認證，並繼續積極評估幫助疑似遭受虐待和被忽視的兒童。Dr. Piercey亦是范德比爾特大學醫學院的臨床教授以及田納西大學健康科學中心的兼職教授。

Lisa Piercey, MD, MBA, Founder and CEO of Tristela Strategies, is nationally recognized physician executive with extensive operational experience across the healthcare ecosystem, including ambulatory, inpatient, behavioral health, and post-acute settings, with an emphasis on access to care in rural and vulnerable populations.

Dr. Piercey served as Commissioner of Health for the State of Tennessee in January 2019 through June 2022, managing a $700MM budget and leading over 4,300 employees. She collaborated with TennCare, the state's Medicaid agency, as well as legislators and policymakers, to advance pivotal policy and budgetary initiatives, such as rural healthcare access, dental care for the uninsured, and the overhaul of the state's TANF reserve fund. She also represented state health officials across national and international media platforms and in multiple interactions with the White House during two presidential administrations.

Prior to her public service, Dr. Piercey spent nearly two decades as a senior-level operational executive, providing clinical and administrative leadership in large medical group and health system operations, driving strategies for access to cost-efficient care, particularly in underserved and high-risk populations. As Executive Vice President of West Tennessee Healthcare, the nation's 9th largest public, not-for-profit health system with over $1B in revenue and 7,000 employees, she had fiduciary responsibility for all of the system's rural hospitals, behavioral health service lines, and post-acute services, including a $67MM acquisition of three for-profit competitor hospitals. She also organically grew the state's largest telepsychiatry network and launched the system's first medication assisted treatment program.

Throughout her career, Dr. Piercey has been recognized by numerous hospital, physician, and public health organizations for her healthcare executive operational leadership, including the Delta Dental Smile Power Award and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Regent's Award for Diversity and Justice. Additionally, her commitment to ensuring clear and actionable public health messaging throughout the pandemic resulted in the department receiving the John Seigenthaler Media Award, as well as three Emmy nominations for its PSAs, during her tenure in state government.

After earning her B.S. in Chemistry from Lipscomb University, Dr. Piercey received her M.D. from East Tennessee State University and an M.B.A. from Bethel University. She is board certified in both General Pediatrics and Child Abuse Pediatrics and continues to actively evaluate children who are suspected victims of abuse and neglect. Dr. Piercey has been on the clinical faculty at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine as well as adjunct faculty for the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center.

Elizabeth Tilson自2017年起擔任北卡羅來納州衛福部首席醫療總監。在此職位上，她促進公共衛生和疾病預防，並就各種跨部門及領域問題提供指引和監督，包括新冠肺炎大流行的應對、鴉片類藥物的流行、兒童早期健康、醫療補助轉型以及解決影響健康的社會驅動因素。

作為北卡羅來納州的首席醫師，Dr. Tilson認為“所有人都應該有機會獲得健康”，並在該州對全人健康的定義、提供、協調和支付等方面的轉型發揮了重要作用。過去，Dr. Tilson曾擔任維克和約翰斯頓縣的社區照護醫療主任，以及北卡羅來納州的社區照護首席網絡醫療主任。Dr. Tilson 從事家醫兒科照護工作長達26年，並持續在許多地方、州和國家的兒科、公共衛生和預防醫學組織中擔任領導職務。

在獲得達特茅斯大學生物學學士學位、約翰霍普金斯大學醫學學位，以及兒科住院醫師訓練後，Dr. Tilson在北卡羅來納大學教堂山分校獲得了公共衛生碩士學位，並在那裡完成了住院醫師訓練，並獲得兒科和一般預防醫學/公共衛生的認證。她曾擔任杜克大學醫學中心的助理諮詢教授和癌症控制專家，以及北卡羅來納大學的臨床兒科研究員。2018年，她的公共服務和領導力獲得了約翰霍普金斯大學校友會頒發的伍德羅威爾遜獎。

Elizabeth Tilson serves North Carolina as the State Health Director and the Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services sine 2017. In this role, she promotes public health and prevention activities, as well as provides guidance and oversight on a variety of cross-Departmental issues including the COVID-19 Pandemic Response, the Opioid Epidemic, Early Childhood, Medicaid Transformation, and addressing Social Drivers of Health.

As the top doc of North Carolina, Dr. Tilson believes that “all people deserve the opportunity for health” and has been instrumental in transforming how the state defines, delivers, coordinates, and pays for whole-person health. Prior roles include serving as the Medical Director of Community Care of Wake and Johnston Counties, and Chief Network Medical Director for Community Care of North Carolina. Dr. Tilson practiced primary care pediatrics for 26 years and has been active in leadership roles in many local, state, and national pediatric, public health and preventive medicine organizations.

After obtaining her Dartmouth bachelor's degree in biology, her Johns Hopkins medical degree and completing her pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins, Tilson earned a master's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also completed her residency and is board certified in both Pediatrics and General Preventive Medicine/Public Health. She previously served as an assistant consulting professor and cancer control specialist at Duke University Medical Center and a clinical pediatric fellow at UNC. In 2018, her public service and leadership were honored with a Woodrow Wilson Award from the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association.

涂教授是美國杜克大學之政策與組織管理研究中心主任及國際研究、市場和管理學程之教授。杜克大學以優質教育、研究以及醫療保健等項目聞名世界，是全美排名前十大名校。涂教授的授課與研究方向結合廣泛領域，包含國際發展政策、公私部門策略規劃、健康與組織行為及領導學。

在涂教授的領導下，其研究中心結合國際級的產官學界發展研究專案，並針對政府官員及民間企業的高階領導人，就公部門管理、領導統御、全球衛生、品質及績效評估、顧客關係與行銷 、危機管理、量化方法論、及教育等相關議題上提供量身定製的課程設計和訓練。 此中心以全方位的整合作法，結合不同領域與跨科系之教學與研究，輔以實地參與和實務交流的授課執行方法，為其特色。

涂教授在為美國及多國政府機構設計高階主管進修課程有超過二十五年的豐富經驗，主持過數個杜克大學與國家元首、大使及各國政要合作的計畫。她的經驗還包括與國際組織、跨國研究機構、非政府組織、公共機構和民間企業的顧問，目前並擔任環境品質文教基金會的董事。涂教授也熱心參予地方公共事務，並曾擔任北卡州教堂山市人事爭議審議委員會委員六年及公教員工給與委員會委員。

涂教授擁有北卡羅萊納大學教堂山分校教育領導學博士學位，專攻組織與社會行為，同時也擁有杜克大學國際發展政策碩士與拉丁美洲研究證書，及聖塔克拉拉大學食品與農經企管碩士的學位。

Dr. Pikuei Tu is director of Duke University's Policy and Organizational Management Program and a faculty member at the International Studies and Markets & Management Studies. Duke University is world-renown for its excellence in education, research, and medical care. Professor Tu's teaching and research encompass international development policy, public and private sector strategies, health behavior, organizational behavior, and leadership.

Under Dr. Tu's leadership, the Policy and Organizational Management Program develops and conducts research projects with academic, public and private institutions; it also provides customized executive education and initiative design for ranking international government officials and private enterprises on a range of topics, including public management, leadership, global health, quality and performance evaluation, relationship marketing, crisis management, quantitative methods, and education. The unique approach of comprehensively integrating a variety of disciplines and methodologies in teaching, research, exchange, and practice is a distinctive feature of the Program.

Professor Tu has more than 25 years of experience in designing custom programs and working directly with international dignitaries such as former Presidents of Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia, Constitution Justice of South Africa, and U.S. ambassadors. Her experience also includes consultations with international organizations and research institutes, non-governmental organizations, public agencies, and corporations. She serves as a board director to the Environmental Quality Protection Foundation. Dr. Tu has also been involved in public service in the local area. She served on the Personnel Appeals Committee and the Pay Plan Review Committee at the Town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Professor Tu received her doctorate in educational leadership with a concentration on organizations and social behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a master's degree in international development policy as well as a graduate certificate in Latin American Studies from Duke University, and an MBA with a food and agribusiness focus from Santa Clara University.