New members bring backgrounds in advocacy, health care quality, and finance
Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont Health Network Board of Trustees has voted to elect three new members, who bring experience in advocacy, health care quality, and finance to the board.
Trustees voted to elect Sandrine Kibuey, MS; Edmondo Robinson, MD, MBA; and Ian Schmidek. They will each serve four-year terms on the 21-member board, which oversees the UVM Health Network.
Allie Stickney, Chair of the UVM Health Network Board of Trustees, said the new members’ respective areas of expertise will help the board make progress on behalf of patients, staff and communities in today’s health care environment.
“As we move beyond COVID-19 and navigate the many interconnected challenges that have followed, at the Governance level this is a time to refocus on social determinants of health and equitable access to care for our communities,” Stickney said. “We will be working to ensure that the UVM Health Network is able to provide timely, excellent care in modern facilities, support our hardworking staff, advance education and research, participate in health care payment reform, and partner with our communities to reach populations in need in Vermont and the North Country. Each of our new board members will be key in advancing these goals.”
Sandrine Kibuey, MS
Sandrine is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo and moved to Vermont in 2006.
She is the president of the VT New American Advisory Council (VNAAC) and director of the Housing Advocacy Programs Team at the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO). Over the last decade, Sandrine has focused on managing housing support, education and advocacy services to vulnerable communities living in VT, including asylum seekers and mobile home park residents.
Before joining CVOEO, she worked as a project manager in Northern Cameroon for VSO International, demonstrating expertise in project turnaround and overseeing health improvement and development initiatives in rural communities.
Sandrine holds a degree in International Relations from the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an MS in International Community Economic Development and an MS in Organizational Leadership from Southern New Hampshire University.
She actively serves on the boards of CVOEO, Northgate Residents Ownership Corporation (NROC) and Public Assets Institute (PAI).
Edmondo Robinson, MD, MBA, MS
Dr. Edmondo Robinson is a national leader in digital health and innovation with over 25 years of experience in health care delivery, management, and leadership. A practicing academic hospitalist, Dr. Robinson cares for patients while teaching students and trainees as part of the Hospital Medicine service at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
Dr. Robinson is a professor of Medicine and Oncologic Science at the University of South Florida's Morsani College of Medicine. He earned a medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles; an MBA with a healthcare management emphasis from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; and a master's degree in health policy research from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Robinson chairs the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Quality Committee of the Board of Ardent Health, a 30-hospital national health system. Dr. Robinson is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a senior fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine and an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow.
Ian Schmidek
Ian is a Managing Director in the Asset and Wealth Management Division of Goldmans Sachs. He is based in the Boston office. Ian has counseled ultra-high net worth clients and large non-profit pools of capital for over 28 years and co-leads an 18-person investment management practice responsible for 125 family groups. His team is amongst the very largest in the firm based on its significant assets under management.
Beyond his client coverage responsibilities, he serves as a member of the PWM Investment Experience Committee, the PWM Leadership Council Advisory Committee, and on the Consumer Wealth Management Sustainability Council.
He has participated annually in the Goldman Sachs recruiting effort at Harvard College and Harvard Business School. Ian joined Goldman Sachs in 1994 as a financial analyst and was named a Managing Director in 2006. Prior to Goldman Sachs, he worked at CS First Boston in Investment Banking.
Ian’s father was the chief of neurosurgery at Fletcher Allen Medical Center during his childhood. This upbringing in Vermont gave him a unique perspective and helped forge his lifelong commitment to community and environmental stewardship. Ian is a member of the Campaign Committee for Shelburne Farms and The Belmont Hill School Corporation. He served for a decade as a Trustee for the Vermont Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
Ian works closely in support of the Foundation for Fighting Blindness and the Full Frame Initiative. Ian earned an AB in General Studies (History, Economics, and Politics) from Harvard University in 1993.
About the University of Vermont Health Network
The University of Vermont Health Network is an integrated system serving the residents of Vermont and northern New York with a shared mission: working together, we improve people’s lives. The partners are:
· The University of Vermont Medical Center
· The University of Vermont Health Network Medical Group
· The University of Vermont Health Network – Alice Hyde Medical Center
· The University of Vermont Health Network – Central Vermont Medical Center
· The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital
· The University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital
· The University of Vermont Health Network – Porter Medical Center
· The University of Vermont Health Network – Home Health & Hospice
Source: 1.26.2024. BURLINGTON, VT – The University of Vermont Health Network
