Symposium Panelist STEPHEN BROWN Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital Stephen Brown, MSW LCSW, is a faculty member and Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System (UI Health). Stephen came to the department in 2011 to establish a program to identify and manage healthcare super- utilizers. He is the Program Director for Better Health Through Housing, a demonstration pilot that raises awareness for the need to recognize homelessness as a dangerous social condition and to scale the nationally- validated Housing First model, which transitions patients who are chronically homeless into permanent supportive housing.
Symposium Panelist DANIEL J. FIELD Executive Director, Community Health & External Affairs, Kaiser Permanente Dan leads Kaiser Permanente Northwest’s (KPNW) Community Health and External Affairs functions in Oregon and SW Washington. He is accountable for oversight of the community programs that comprise KPNW’s community benefit spending of approximately $150+ million annually. He also leads KPNW’s government relations, public relations and corporate communications teams, which work closely with community, business and elected stakeholders to support the mission and enhance and protect Kaiser Permanente’s reputation.
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