Bassett Awards the 2020 Streck Fellowships in Health Policy and Management
July 23, 2021Categories: Bassett News
Drs. Kanica Yashi, Juan Jose Delgado Hurtado, and Brian White have been awarded the 2020 Streck Fellowship in Health Policy and Management. Fellowship recipients use the award to attend conferences or engage in projects that will advance their leadership in health care management and policy development both within and outside the Bassett network.
Kanica Yashi, MD, MPH, an internist at Norwich Health Center, has been awarded the 2020 William F. Streck Fellowship in Health Policy and Management. This past January and February, Dr. Yashi completed an eight-week certification program in cooperation with Cornell University to earn the University's Diversity and Inclusion Certificate. The program is designed to educate attendees about the perceptual, institutional, and psychological processes that impact the ways people interact with each other to make an organization a more supportive and engaging place to work.
"As a health care professional team member, I strive to model values of workplace sensitivity and regularly reflect on unconscious bias," Yashi wrote in her fellowship application. "As a physician leader, I wish to actively create spaces that enable inclusion."
Dr. Yashi is committed to accomplishing ongoing work and assessments with Bassett Healthcare Network's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion workgroup.
Juan Jose Delgado Hurtado, MD, MPH, an endocrinologist at Bassett Medical Center, is a recipient of the 2020 William F. Streck Fellowship in Health Policy and Management. Dr. Hurtado attended the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Forum on Quality Improvement in December 2020, an event that brings together clinicians nationwide embarking on work to make health care equitable for all.
"I am a new provider at Bassett Healthcare Network interested in leadership, quality improvement, and population health," says Dr. Delgado. "I am committed to providing great quality care and facilitating quality improvement at the system level.
"Long term, I hope to have a leadership role within Bassett Healthcare Network. As an effective leader, you have to be knowledgeable on topics such as those covered in the IHI Forum – good leadership skills, improvement science, addressing value, cost and quality, and patient-centered care."
Brian White, DO, an interventional physiatrist in Bassett's Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, has been awarded the 2020 William F. Streck Fellowship in Health Policy Management. Dr. White is currently completing Cornell University's 12-week online Critical Thinking Certificate Program, a curriculum that facilitates improved problem-solving and critical thinking. Dr. White serves on the network CEO practitioner advisory council and is deeply involved in work as a member of three committees of the Medical Society for the State of New York. Dr. White is also active on two Spine Intervention Society committees.
"Dr. White, who interned with me over 15 years ago, has demonstrated significant leadership in our institution and on behalf of the Medical Society of the State of New York," says Dr. James Dalton, Bassett Healthcare Network's director of Medical Education and a member of the 2020 Fellowship recipient committee. "That commitment is deserving of his continued leadership development."
The Streck Fellowship was created in 2014 in honor of former Bassett President and CEO William F. Streck. It is typically awarded to just one or two Bassett employees. This is the first year the committee has selected three recipients.
