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2025 Awardees
UCLA HPMAA is honored to celebrate our 2025 Awardees below:
2025 Leader of Today Awardee:
Dustin Corcoran, MBA, Chief Executive Officer of the California Medical Association
2025 Ira Alpert Service Awardee:
Leah J. Vriesman, Ph.D., MHA, MBA, Associate Dean of Academic & Faculty Affairs at UCLA Extension and Professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management
What is the Leaders of Today, Leaders of Tomorrow dinner?
For the past three decades the HPMAA has been honoring a “Leader of Today” as well as our Fielding School of Public Health graduating class, the “Leaders of Tomorrow”, during an annual dinner widely attended by healthcare professionals from throughout the U.S.
For more information about this year's event and full sponsorship details, click here. For other frequently asked questions click here.
About the Leader of Today Award
The Leader of Today Honoree is an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of Health Policy and Management. He or she demonstrates superior leadership quality and service to the community throughout the course of their career. The Leader of Today Honoree has gone above and beyond to advocate for public health, engage their community and provider leadership in health services. The origins of this award date back to 1988, and have since recognized a long line of women and men who have made a lasting impact in healthcare. As an alumni association, we strive to recognize the top leaders in healthcare and honor them for their work and contributions to advancing the health of all populations.
Previous Awardees:
2024 Annette M. Walker, MHA
2023 Erik G. Wexler
2022 Amar Desai, MD, MPH
2021 David Carlisle, MD, PhD
2019 John Baackes
2018 Elizabeth Forer, MSW, MPH
2017 Linda Burnes Bolton, Dr.PH, RN, FAAN
2016 Paul Viviano, MP
2015 Kim Belshe, MPP
2014 Peter Lee, JD
2013 Jonathan Fielding, MD, MPH, MA, MBA
2012 Benjamin K. Chu, MD, MPH, MACP
2011 Molly Coye, MD, MPH
2011 Robert Brook, MD, ScD
2010 Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH
2010 Howard A. Kahn
2009 Ralph R. Salimpour, MD, DCH, FAAP
2009 Mark Chassin, MD, MPP, MPH
2007 Bruce Bodaken, MA
2006 C. Duane Dauner
2005 Alfred Mann, MS
2004 Leonard Schaeffer
2003 Carl Weissburg
2002 David Lawrence, MD, MPH
2001 Thomas Priselac, MPH
2000 Diana Bonta, DrPH
1999 Jack Schlosser, MPH
1998 James Barber, MPH
1997 Arthur Southam, MD
1996 Paul Torrens, MD, MPH
1995 W. Mark Jasper, MPH
1993 James Lester
1991 Stephen Shortell, PhD, MPH, MBA
1990 Terry Hartshorn
1989 Walter Noce, Jr., MPH
1988 James Haden, MPH
About the Ira Alpert Award
Almost 40 years ago, as the first graduates of the Department, Ira Alpert (Class of 1966) and several members of the Class of 1965 achieved their goal of creating the Department’s first alumni association. Through vision and perseverance, Mr. Alpert did more than most to establish and strengthen today’s 1,000 member strong Health Policy and Management Alumni Association (HPMAA), formerly the Health Services Alumni Association. It is for this reason that the HPMAA wishes to honor Mr. Alpert’s effort and contribution by granting the Ira Alpert Service Award to an individual who has helped sustain, grow and broaden the leadership role of the Association. To Mr. Alpert, the Association was the means to ensure that the Department endured over time. Mr. Alpert and all the Department’s alumni have a vested interest in the continuation of their graduate program, in the maintenance of its high quality standards, and in the accomplishments of its renowned faculty. Alumni continue to be interested in stimulating interest in the program from prospective students and in ensuring that the achievements of its alumni and the department are recognized. The origins of this award date back to 1992, when Mr. Alpert was given the first Health Services Management Service Award for his vision and long term commitment to the Alumni Association and to improving and supporting the Department of Health Policy and Management, the School of Public Health and the UCLA Foundation. In receiving this inaugural award, Mr. Alpert created a legacy that, to this day, remains difficult to emulate.
Previous Awardees:
2024 Louise McCarthy, MPP
2023 Jean Balgrosky, PhD, MPH, RHIA
2022 Ozzie Martinez, MPH
2021 Lara Khouri, MBA, MPH
2019 Caitlin Beck Stella, MPH
2018 Julie Croner, MPH
2017 Avram Kaplan, MPH
2016 Richard Sinaiko, MPH
2015 Frank Matricardi, Dr, MPH
2014 Allen Miller, MPH
2013 Diana Hilberman, DrPH
2012 Paul Torrens, M.D., M.P.H.
2011 Tom Gordon
2010 Lori Pelliccioni, JD, PhD
2009 Jack Schlosser, MPH
2007 Raymond Goodman, MPH
2006 Jennifer Kozakowski, MPH
2005 David Krasnow, OD, MPH, MBA
2005 Michael Galper, MPH
2004 Bob Blair, MPH
1992 Ira Alpert, MSPH
Lifetime Achievement Award
Previous Awardees:
2019 Thomas Gordon
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