Health Care Power 50 N-Z.

Byline: Jessica Perry

Donna Nickitas

Heading the Rutgers University School of Nursing Camden, Nickitas brings a proven history of advocacy for equitable health care, expertise in academic nursing education, and an ability to foster a culture of cross-sector engagement. Nickitas is the editor of Nursing Economic$, a journal focused on advancing nursing leadership and innovation. She believes that nurses serve society and do public good by advancing health, driving public policy, and promoting access to quality, patient-centered care.

Frank Pallone

Now in his 16th full term in Congress, Pallone serves as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The panel's broad remit includes health care, an issue that will place Pallone in the middle of House debates over whether to expand Medicare or bolster the Affordable Care Act. During an event in his district earlier this year, Pallone suggested that Medicare for all the rallying cry of newly elected progressives likely would not attract sufficient support this term. Instead, Pallone pointed to bills his committee is considering that would boost enrollment in the ACA and cut costs. He will have to draw upon his 30-plus years of congressional experience to navigate those policy waters.

Dean Paranicas

As the third president and chief executive officer of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey, Paranicas oversees the trade association for the research-based biopharmaceutical and medical technology industry. HINJ serves as a unified voice for New Jersey's life sciences industry and seeks to build awareness of this industry's impact on New Jersey's quality of life and economic well-being. Before joining HINJ, Paranicas was vice president, corporate secretary and public policy at Becton Dickinson.

Donald Parker

Donald Parker, a licensed clinical social worker, is president and chief hospital executive of Hackensack Meridian Health Carrier Clinic, the largest nonprofit behavioral health system in New Jersey, and president of Hackensack Meridian Health Behavioral Health Care Transformation Services/Integrative Medicine. In business for more than a century, Carrier Clinic operates an acute care mental health hospital, a residential treatment center for adolescents, a fully accredited special needs school for students grades 7 through 12, and the Blake Recovery Center, an inpatient unit focused on addiction recovery. As a key opinion leader, Parker can offer unique insights into the 25 percent increase in suicide rates across the country; industry challenges, including the battle against opioid abuse; the latest industry practices; emerging urgent care services in addiction and behavioral health; hospital and mental health center mergers; and behavioral health center redesigns: a new functionality. Before joining Carrier in 2013, Parker served as the vice president for physician services and ambulatory care at St. Joseph's Health System in Paterson.

Andrew Pecora

As chief innovation officer and vice president of cancer services at Hackensack Meridian Health, Pecora has a lot on his plate. But he is apparently up to the various tasks. HMH credits him with elevating the status of the hospital system's Theurer Cancer Center to one of the top 50 such...

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