Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Rising Star Women Leaders in Healthcare for 2025
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Rising Star Women Leaders in Healthcare for 2025. These extraordinary women represent the future of healthcare, bringing passion, empathy, and innovation to their fields. Known as natural mentors, they have a love for educating others, a gift for thinking outside the box, and a steadfast commitment to ethical practices.
Among our rising stars is Charlsey Graham, Director of Contracting for Pharmacy Clinical Services at Walmart. Graham develops and maintains a pharmacy clinical services contracting playbook, which includes a strategic roadmap, process flowcharts, procedures, a governance structure, internal education materials, and a pitch deck. She defines the annual state prioritization for contracting by conducting feasibility analyses on Medicaid enrollment, market penetration, and regulatory factors to expand Walmart's payer partnership footprint nationwide.
We also recognize Ilana Adler, Director of Behavioral Health Quality at UnitedHealth Group. Adler brings over 20 years of experience leading teams and driving innovation in the healthcare industry, with a proven track record of establishing and nurturing beneficial internal and external business relationships. Self-motivated and proactive, she excels at taking initiative and solving complex problems.
Finally, we celebrate Victoria Strickland, Director of the Health Industries Advisory at PwC. Strickland has over 12 years of healthcare industry experience driving payer back-office IT and business transformations for large and regional insurers. Her professional experience focuses on multi-platform transformations for commercial and government businesses, including Health Insurance Exchanges and Medicare and Medicaid Programs.
Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of The Rising Star Women Leaders in Healthcare for 2025.
Connie Smith (Loblaw Companies Limited), Whitney Frost (The Rylie Center for Hope & Healing), Ashlee Edwards (10X Health System), Narjust Florez, MD, FASCO (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Founder, Florez Laboratory), Rebeccah Farfan (CommonSpirit Health), Ashley Ackerman (Baptist Health System KY & IN), Dr. Winnie Sun (Ontario Tech University and Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences), Jovelyn Castellanos, MHA (Health Wildcatters), Dayna Dixon (The Mount Sinai Hospital), Gwinette Cowan (Prime Healthcare), Shaunda Grisby (Ochsner Lafayette General), Amy Waterman (Houston Methodist), Alyssa Schommer (Ascension), Charlsey Graham (Walmart), Ilana Adler (UnitedHealth Group), Caroline Kaker (Sodexo), Victoria Strickland (PwC), Phyllis Harris-Jones (Kaiser Permanente), Kelly Caron (Durham VA Medical Center), Christine Kolehmainen (US Department of Veterans Affairs), Cari Levy (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus), Amber Jolly (CVS Health), Azita Pournaghmeh (Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Montgomery), Rachael Pavlik (Advocare), Bev Holland (Trinity Health FirstChoice), and many others.
To view the full list, visit https://thewomenweadmire.com/2025/02/the-rising-star-women-leaders-in-healthcare-for-2025/
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