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Our Living the Mission Awards

IEHP’s Living the Mission Awards honor providers, community partners, and entities whose actions and contributions embody IEHP’s Mission, Vision and Values. The nomination window opens each year from the first of December through mid-February.

Four different Living the Mission Awards are conferred each year at the IEHP Annual Mission Conference in May.

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This award honors a Provider, entity, or Community Partner that exemplifies IEHP’s Mission, “We heal and inspire the human spirit.” This is demonstrated by:

  • Having compassion that extends to all the people they serve
  • Investing time and energy in their community through acts of service
  • Inspiring and motivating others to serve and to be their best
  • Being a servant-leader that others want to follow and emulate

This award honors a Provider, entity, or Community Partner that exemplifies engagement with the well-being and joyful life of the residents of the Inland Empire. This is demonstrated by:

  • Passionate participation in raising awareness of and reducing the social determinants of ill-health
  • Actively supporting core individual and community needs such as food security, shelter and safety
  • Working to ensure health and well-being are equitably experienced across our diverse communities

This award honors a Provider or entity that exemplifies world-class care and outcomes in preventive care, chronic care or hospital care. This includes clinical outcome data review and Member’s experience data review. This is demonstrated by:

  • Clinical care and outcomes that exceed national benchmarks and consistently follow best practice
  • Care that is seamlessly coordinated from prevention – across the whole care continuum
  • Care that is built on cultural humility and respectful, holistic, human-centered experiences

This award honors a Provider, entity, or Community Partner that exemplifies the courage to “break the mold” in pursuit of innovative ways to address the health concerns of the residents of the Inland Empire. This is demonstrated by:

  • Daring to experiment and do something to truly shift the paradigm
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Barry Bittman, MD

CEO of Yamaha Music and Wellness Institute

Presentation: Physician Musician

Bio: Barry Bittman, MD is a neurologist, author, international speaker, researcher and population health innovator who serves as the Chief Population Health and Quality Officer for the Inland Empire Foundation for Medical Care (IEFMC) in Riverside California.

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Tait Shanafelt, MD

Chief Wellness Officer and Associate Dean at Stanford Medicine

Presentation: Organizational Efforts to Cultivate Healthcare Professional Well-Being: Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bio: Dr. Tait Shanafelt is the chief wellness officer, associate dean, and Jeanie and Stewart Richie Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Shanafelt’s is a hematologist/oncologist whose clinical work focuses on the care of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. He served a 7-year term on the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Leukemia Steering Committee from 2014-2020 and has been principle investigator on four R01 grants from the NCI, including two active R01s. He has been the principle investigator on numerous clinical trials testing new treatments for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia including two national phase three trials for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG). He has published >475 peer review manuscripts and commentaries in addition to more than 200 abstracts and book chapters.

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Sheri Prentiss, MD

Chief Medical Officer and Public Health Lead at CIEN+

Presentation: Not Just Surviving but Living and Thriving

Bio: Dr. Sheri (pronounced Sher-Ree) Prentiss is a proven visionary, best-selling author, and highly sought-after physician leader. Since 2017, she has served as Chief Medical Officer and Public Health Lead at CIEN+ to bring both an inclusive and evidence-driven approach to promoting health equity and better outcomes. She is an occupational & environmental medicine physician, public health expert, professional speaker—CSP® (Certified Speaking Professional™), and a breast cancer survivor. She has served as National Spokesperson for Susan G. Komen as well as their National Ambassador for Health Equity.

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The 2022 conference brought together healthcare CEOs, hospital board members and other medical industry leaders from across the state to share in collectively preparing for the future in a post-pandemic world.

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When:

Date: Friday, May 5, 2023
Registration & Coffee: 8:30 a.m.
Program: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

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Where:

IEHP Headquarters
10801 Sixth Street
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730

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Sheri Prentiss, MD

Chief Medical Officer and Public Health Lead at CIEN+

Presentation: Not Just Surviving but Living and Thriving

Bio: Dr. Sheri (pronounced Sher-Ree) Prentiss is a proven visionary, best-selling author, and highly sought-after physician leader. Since 2017, she has served as Chief Medical Officer and Public Health Lead at CIEN+ to bring both an inclusive and evidence-driven approach to promoting health equity and better outcomes. She is an occupational & environmental medicine physician, public health expert, professional speaker—CSP® (Certified Speaking Professional™), and a breast cancer survivor. She has served as National Spokesperson for Susan G. Komen as well as their National Ambassador for Health Equity.

After breast cancer treatment left her disabled from lymphedema in her right upper extremity, stripping her of her life-long dream of being a practicing physician, she re-invented herself and went on to become a national public figure, professional speaker, and entrepreneur/owner of her own healthcare consulting business. She has been the catalyst for transformation in the space of cultural and workplace diversity for a myriad of organizations for more than two decades.

In addition to helping patients and healthcare practitioners transform how healthcare is delivered and experienced she also shares her story, her voice, her life, and her victory in awe-inspiring and motivational ways. Dr. Sheri brings the unique perspective of being a patient and a physician to her impassioned and captivating speeches. Her remarkable story of pain, loss, and change has inspired hundreds of thousands of people across the country and abroad. As an expert in transformative medicine, a natural extension of her personal vision and mission in life is to educate consumers that healthcare and being healthy should be experienced joyfully. As such she has become the Queen of How to Let Go & LIVE and creator of Medicine Meets Ministry: Dr. Sheri’s Blueprint on How to Let Go & LIVETM, a step-by-step program that teaches individuals how to shift their focus from what they’ve lost to what remains in order to bring a new vision, path, and purpose for their life into view.

She has been featured in The New England Journal of Medicine, MORE, Essence, Oxygen, Today’s Chicago Woman, Weinberg Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune among other notable publications. She has also been featured in hundreds of television and radio interviews reaching millions with her expertise in helping individuals unlock their potential, boost their self-esteem, set new directions, and prepare for life-long achievements. Dr. Sheri is the founder of the LIVE Today Foundation, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization meeting the needs of under-resourced cancer patients and survivors living with lymphedema. Dr. Sheri is also the creator and host of The LIVE Today Show, which airs on CANTV Channel 21. She is the creator of the one of its kind podcast, “Where Medicine Meets Ministry: Dr. Sheri Talks Faith & Facts” addressing fundamental questions when it comes to spirituality, health, medicine, death, dying, and faith using a combination of a solo-cast, case studies, testimonies, and interviews with guest experts.

Dr. Prentiss obtained the following degrees: BA, with honors, Northwestern University 1989; MD, with honors, Loyola Stritch School of Medicine 1993; MPH, with a 5.0 GPA University of Illinois School of Public Health 1998; CPE (Certified Physician Executive), CCMM 2007; CSP® (Certified Speaking Professional™), National Speakers Association. She is a member of the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine as well as a Fellow, Former Director of the Board, and CPE Tutorial teaching Fellow of the American Association for Physician Leadership.

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Tait Shanafelt, MD

Chief Wellness Officer and Associate Dean at Stanford Medicine

Presentation: Organizational Efforts to Cultivate Healthcare Professional Well-Being: Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bio: Dr. Tait Shanafelt is the chief wellness officer, associate dean, and Jeanie and Stewart Richie Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Shanafelt’s is a hematologist/oncologist whose clinical work focuses on the care of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.  He served a 7-year term on the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Leukemia Steering Committee from 2014-2020 and has been principle investigator on four R01 grants from the NCI, including two active R01s.  He has been the principle investigator on numerous clinical trials testing new treatments for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia including two national phase three trials for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG).  He has published >475 peer review manuscripts and commentaries in addition to more than 200 abstracts and book chapters.

In addition to his leukemia research, Tait is an international thought leader and researcher in the field of physician well-being and its implications for quality of care.  His pioneering studies in this area over 20 years ago are credited with helping launch the entire field of organizational efforts to promote physician well-being. He previously served as the founding director of the Mayo Clinic Program on Physician Well-being and served a 3-year term as the president of the Mayo Clinic Voting Staff from 2013- 2016.  In 2017, he moved to Stanford where he leads the WellMD Center.  He is a member of the American College of Physicians Taskforce on Physician Well-being and the National Academy of Medicine Committee on System Approaches to Support Clinician Well-being.  He has helped hundreds of organizations and their leaders work to improve burnout and promote professional fulfillment for physicians. Dr. Shanafelt has served as a keynote speaker to the AMA, ACGME, AAMC, and ABIM.  Tait’s studies in this area have also been cited in CNN, USA Today, U.S. News, and the New York Times. In 2018, he was named by TIME Magazine as one of the 50 most influential people in healthcare.

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Barry Bittman, MD

CEO of the Yamaha Music & Wellness Institute

Presentation: Physician Musician

Bio: Barry Bittman, MD is a neurologist, author, international speaker, researcher and population health innovator who serves as the Chief Population Health and Quality Officer for the Inland Empire Foundation for Medical Care (IEFMC) in Riverside California.

Working with physicians, hospitals, healthcare institutions and health plans, he is a recognized thought leader for healthcare transformation. Dr. Bittman’s healthcare initiatives include the development of community care networks and accountable care organizations, as well as the optimization of medical practice workflows and continuous care protocols for physicians, hospitals and health systems throughout the nation.

Dr. Bittman serves as the Faculty Chair of the Population Health Management Academy, as well as for the nation’s first Population Health Fellowship Program that began in 2021.

Bittman also serves as Chairman and CEO of the Yamaha Music and Wellness Institute, a non-profit organization actively engaged in both education and research arenas. He is widely published — having served as the Principal Investigator for several peer-reviewed scientific publications including two molecular research studies focusing on stress reduction on the genomic level utilizing novel creative music expression strategies. His research entitled, Recreational music-making alters gene expression pathways in patients with coronary heart disease, was performed with researchers from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Dr. Bittman’s latest peer-reviewed research investigation entitled, Gospel Music: a catalyst for retention, engagement and positive health outcomes for African Americans in a cardiovascular prevention and treatment program, has received national attention as an effective strategy for boosting people’s engagement in the pursuit of health (2020). He has presented his work at leading conferences throughout the world.

As the former host of the first nationally-syndicated integrative medicine weekly Public Radio program, Mind-Body Matters, Dr. Bittman interviewed 115 of the world’s leading visionaries. His program featured cutting-edge in-depth perspectives that scientifically substantiate the utilization of integrative strategies within conventional healthcare. Dr. Bittman’s more than 250 articles on a host of integrative medical topics have been published in his newspaper column, Mind Over Matter.

His work has been featured on CNN Headline News and in numerous leading publications throughout the world, including USA Today, Business Week, Time, Prevention, Discover, O (Oprah Magazine), the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, Scientific American, Men’s Fitness and others.

Dr. Bittman has also received several patents for his work in human physiology and disease exacerbation predictive modeling.