Board of Directors
Thomas Rees
Tom brings 50 years of experience in healthcare management and administration (including 20 years as a Chief Executive Officer), hospital/healthcare system planning, clinical service planning, clinical resource management data system development and hospital performance improvement consultation. Major accomplishments include: leading nine hospital turnaround projects (7 in Geisinger owned or managed hospitals); clinical service planning consultation with major academic medical centers and catholic health systems throughout the United States; development and implementation of a unique clinical resource management process; participating in performance improvement efforts in multiple major hospitals and hospital systems, and providing interim leadership services to a major southeastern hospital heart and vascular institute.
Christopher Pearson is a political organizer who runs an independent consultant business. Until 2022 he was a Chittenden County State Senator and prior to that, served in the House where he sat on the House Health Care committee. Throughout his fourteen years in the statehouse, Pearson gained expertise in election reform, climate policy and healthcare. He and his spouse have two daughters and live in Burlington. Before joining the legislature, Pearson was Director of the Presidential Election Reform program at FairVote. He began working in politics in 1998 as a campaign and Congressional aide for then-Congressman Bernard Sanders (I–VT).
Christopher Pearson
Cheryl Mitchell lives on a three-generation sheep farm; home base for her teaching, research, and social justice work. Her particular interests are issues that affect vulnerable families (child care, health care, education, social policy, housing, immigration, youth justice and economic justice). She is fascinated by the relationships between people, place, spirit, and social action. She co-created the Addison County Parent/Child Center, the Vermont Parent/Child Center Network, the Addison County Community Trust (a housing and land preservation trust), the Vermont Children’s Forum (now Voices for Vermont’s Children), the Vermont Early Childhood Educator Licensure Project, and the Addison County Farm Worker Coalition. She served for ten years as Deputy Secretary of the Agency of Human Services under Governor Howard Dean. She is currently on the Board of Treleven, Inc. the Early Care and Learning Partnership, Inc. Nomadicare, and Beacon Hill Friends House. She has served on the Boards of Lets Grow Kids, the Vermont Community Foundation and the Vermont Children’s Hospital.
Cheryl Mitchell
Beth Tanzman, MSW led reforms at the Vermont Department of Mental Health for 17 years, including serving as Deputy Commissioner. In 2011 she joined the Vermont Blueprint for Health and was part of the team responsible for state-wide implementation of patient centered primary care and community health teams. She led the design and execution of the Hub and Spoke system for opioid addiction. In 2016 she became the Executive Director of the Blueprint for Health. Prior to working for the State, Beth worked for a national technical assistance and training center focused on housing and community-based support for people with mental illness. Since 2021 Beth has been a caregiver to her beloved husband, brother and parents who are all now deceased. Beth serves as Secretary to the Board of the Vermont Retired State Employees Association (VRSEA) and also represents VRSEA on the Retirement Board of the Treasurer's Office.
Beth Tanzman
Schubart, educated in Morrisville Public Schools, Phillips Exeter, Kenyon College, and the University of Vermont is fluent in French language and culture which he taught before entering communications as an entrepreneur. He and his brother Michael Couture founded Philo Records in 1972 and then founded Resolution, Inc. in 1982. Schubart has chaired a number of statewide organizations including Fletcher Allen Hospital, The Vt. Business Roundtable, VT Public Radio, VT Arts Council, VT College of Fine Arts, The VT Board of Libraries and others. Schubart is the author of ten books of literary fiction, writes and speaks extensively on the media and other civic issues and has spoken at numerous industry and media events. He was formerly a regular commentator on Vermont Public Radio and now writes a biweekly column for VTDigger.org. More.
Bill Schubart
Mark Hage is the Director of Benefit Programs for the Vermont-National Education Association, and in that capacity is the union’s trust administrator for the Vermont Education Health Initiative. Mark is also a former public-school teacher of the humanities in Vermont. He lives in Montpelier.
Mark Hage
Craig Jones most recently served in an advisory role with Deloitte to assist the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) on strategies to use data and health information in their new cross model approach to supporting value-based healthcare transformation, building on previous advisory work with Deloitte to support CMMIs Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) and Primary Care First (PCF) models. He is a member of the Learning Action Network Health Equity Advisory Team (LAN HEAT) to advise on how Alternative Payment Models can address health equity. Previously, he served in an advisory role to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology assisting states with Health Information Technology and Data initiatives to support their State Innovation Models, and as the Chief Medical and Innovation Officer for the Idaho Health Data Exchange. Prior to this he served for ten years as the Executive Director of the Vermont Blueprint for Health to guide statewide multi-payer healthcare transformation focused on advanced community oriented primary care. He has published in a number of journals, served on committees with the National Academy of Medicine, and on the faculty of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
