New Leadership for Today's Health Care Professionals

Dr. Louis G. Rubino is Professor and Chair of the Health Sciences Department at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). In the community, he serves as a governing board member at St. Francis Medical Center and is Chair of their Quality and Patient Safety Subcommittee. Prior to academia, Dr. Rubino served for 20 years as a hospital administrator and health system executive. Dr. Rubino holds a master's degree and PhD in Public Administration from the University of Southern California. His expertise is the study of integrated systems with special emphasis on the operation of acute hospitals, international comparative studies in hospital administration, and leadership. He is a recertified Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is the coeditor of Collaboration Across the Disciplines in Health Care.

Dr. Salvador J. Esparza has been teaching full-time in the Health Administration Program at California State University, Northridge since 2006. Prior to this time, Dr. Esparza was a practicing healthcare executive with extensive experience in hospital and ambulatory operations for a variety of healthcare organizations within and outside of California. He is a board-certified executive and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Dr. Esparza started his career as a registered nurse and as a result has a great appreciation for the role and contribution of clinicians in healthcare organizations and the strategic value they provide for the effective delivery of healthcare services. He serves on the board of a local, not-for-profit medical foundation and has contributed his governance expertise to other organizations in his community.

Dr. Yolanda S. Reid Chassiakos is the Director of the Klotz Student Health Center at California State University, Northridge, and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American College of Physicians and serves on the Executive Committee of the AAP Council on Communications and Media. Dr. Chassiakos has also served as the Assistant Head of the Ambulatory Branch of the Department of Pediatrics at the Naval Hospital Bethesda, as the Project Director of the Preventive Services Initiative at the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and as the Chair of the Medical Staff at the Ashe Health and Wellness Center, UCLA. She is the co-editor of Collaboration Across the Disciplines in Health Care.