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JCPH Masterclass Webinar Series

The JCPH Masterclass Webinar Series: Unlocking the Power of Data and Evidence-Based Approaches to Drive Change is designed to equip healthcare professionals, researchers, and policy makers with the tools, strategies, and insights needed to navigate the evolving healthcare landscape. This free series will delve into key topics that bridge data analysis, program evaluation, quality improvement, and patient-centered care. 

2026 Masterclass Webinars

February 3, 2026
12:00 - 1:00 pm ET 

Learn about complexity science where healthcare is described as adaptive networks of interconnected agents and parts  (patients, staff, units, tech) that interact in non-linear ways to create outcomes that emerge from the system.  Discover how these dynamic realities force us to move beyond ‘simple fixes’ towards more enlightened solutions for improvement in quality and safety.

Presenter

Doron Schneider, MD, MBA, FACP 

Dr. Doron Schneider is a practicing internist with over 25 years of leadership experience in population health, value-based care, patient safety and healthcare quality. At Abington Health, Doron was Chief Safety and Quality Officer and led the organization in performance excellence to multiple state and national awards. His efforts were recognized in driving such metrics  aspotentially preventable readmissions, and reduction of harm events such as inpatient falls, CAUTI and pressure ulcers and understanding the sociotechnical nature of complex adaptive systems. He also led development and oversight of EMR based techniques such as optimal design of orders and order sets, development of interruptive/passive alerts and other clinical decision support tools.

Doron now serves as a Physician Market Consultant for Archwell Health. In this role he brings his background as a primary care physician and expertise in population health together to driveimprovement in the care of seniors over age 60 in multiple states.Previously, at Tandigm Health Doron held several executive roles including Vice President for Population Health and Clinical Strategy. Doron led multiple departments and had operational responsibility over the network engagement team that directly supported a network of hundreds of PCPs, the quality team that was responsible for driving HEDIS/STARSperformance, and the patient experience team that oversaw CAHPS performance.

Doron has extensive experience as a clinician-educator. He has built and executed national training programs in quality improvement for the American College of Physicians aimed at primary care physicians and health systems and has multiple peer reviewed publications. Doron has coached dozens of practices across the United States in quality improvement, team-based care and quadruple aim goals.

He currently serves as the Deputy Editor for the Clinical Diabetes Journal and the Section Lead for Quality Improvement with the goal of identifying and spreading improvement stories. Additionally, Doron lectures at the Jefferson College of  Population Health on Complexity Science. Finally, having been health reporter for WPVI (Channel 6 in Philadelphia), Doron brings expertise and experience communicating directly with, and educating the public. An adaptive leader, Doron uses the principles of high reliability, implementation and complexity science, appreciative inquiry, and quality improvement tools and techniques (amongst others) to drive change. He is known for combining his knowledge of the science of improvement, facility with data/analytics,and understanding of clinical workflows, processes and culture to engage multidisciplinary stakeholders and catalyze change.

February 17, 2026
12:00 - 1:00 pm ET 

This webinar will cover the scope of substance use in the United States and how it impacts the health of the public.  An overview of harm reduction approaches that are used to mitigate some of the harms associated with substance use will be covered. 

Presenter

Megan Reed, PhD, MPH 

Dr. Reed is currently Research Assistant Professor at the College of Population Health and in Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University.  Dr. Reed is a harm reduction researcher interested in designing and evaluating structural interventions in partnership with people who use drugs. Her areas of research are overdose prevention, structural barriers to engaging in risk reduction strategies, community-based participatory research, and drug-checking. Her work with incarcerated people living with HIV has been funded by the NIH. Previously, she worked as a housing organizer in New York City, researched violence against LGBTQI communities, and helped develop harm reduction initiatives for peer-delivered syringe exchange and syringe disposal kiosks. She received her PhD from Drexel University in Community Health and Prevention. 

March 24, 2026
12:00 - 1:00 pm ET 

This webinar will provide an overview of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications help value-based care provider organizations improve clinical and financial performance. From improved clinical documentation, coding and risk stratification, to agentic AI and AI-powered data analysis, there is a wide range of tools, each in a different state of maturity. VBC organizations can only be successful and competitive when they deploy strategic AI applications into the workflow of their clinicians. 

Presenter

Harm Scherpbier, MD, MS

Dr. Harm Scherpbier is an Adjunct Instructor at the College of Population Health where he teaches Health Informatics and Population Health Analytics. He is a Health IT Analyst and Physician Leader at Scherpbier.health. He works with Health IT firms and healthcare provider organizations to set strategies for marketing and product direction—from concept development to concrete implementation.  Projects include EMR design, implementation and optimization, Population Health Management Systems, Health Data Exchange and interoperability, and Population Health Intelligence.  Dr. Scherpbier is also the Chief Medical Information Officer at HSX, the Philadelphia Region Health Information Exchange. Dr. Scherpbier previously was Chief Medical Information Officer at Main Line Health, a five-hospital Integrated Health Network near Philadelphia, PA, where he was responsible for the implementation of healthcare information systems and electronic patient records for physicians, nurses and other clinicians throughout the health system. He held positions in software engineering and product design and development at Siemens Health Services, CareScience, Aetna US Healthcare and SMS.

April 14, 2026
12:00 - 1:00 pm ET 

This Masterclass explores the essential skills, mindsets, and strategies required to serve as an effective change agent within organizations. Through practical examples and leadership frameworks, attendees will learn how to influence others, build momentum, and drive meaningful transformation, regardless of their formal authority. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how to lead change with clarity, confidence, and intention.

Presenter

Maima W. Radcliffe, MPH, CPH, PMP 

Maima is an Adjunct Instructor in the College of Population Health with over 15 years of experience in program oversight, community engagement, and change management working in the not-for-profit, State, public, and private sectors. She has worked with school-aged children in oral health, child nutrition, and immunization programs as well as in the Medicaid managed space as a health equity subject matter expert. She currently serves the Greater Philadelphia community as the Program Director of A Better Start (ABS) at Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital. ABS is designed to address nutrition-related barriers through USDA SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education) support & guidance. In her role, she manages several program initiatives related to nutrition security, education, access, and equity.

April 28, 2026
12:00 - 1:00 pm ET 

This Masterclass will focus on Digital Quality and the future of healthcare measurement and performance improvement.  This session will explore how digital quality measures (dQMs), interoperability standards like FHIR and CQL, and AI-driven workflows are transforming quality reporting, reducing administrative burden, and enabling real-time insights for better patient outcomes. Participants will learn practical strategies to implement digital quality initiatives that align with CMS mandates and value-based care models.

Presenter

Amy Berk, DNP, MSN, APRN 

Dr. Berk is an Adjunct Instructor at the College of Population Health Amy Berk is currently Director of Population Health at Microsoft.  As a dedicated, results oriented healthcare executive, she is  experienced in program directorship of large, complex healthcare programs and initiatives including the design and implementation of clinical transformation related programs including: Population Health Management; Care Management, Utilization Management, Transitions of Care; Clinical / Operational Performance Improvement,  Value-Based Care Initiatives; ACOs; and Clinical Informatics. Dr. Berk's primary expertise lies in Population Health; bridging data for optimal clinical outcomes, and the broader framework of optimizing care delivery and clinical transformation. She hsa previously served as Director Care Management, Population Health at Tufts Health Plan. Dr. Berk's  26 years of healthcare experience also includes strategic, operational and policy consulting on a global level, having worked for IBM, Accenture and Optum spanning notable, innovative projects with:   US (Office of National Coordinator and Military Health Affairs), Germany (with the US Department of Defense), France (APHP), Czech Republic. (Ministry of Health), India (Max Healthcare), Switzerland (Ministry of Health), Abu Dhabi (Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi), and Qatar (Supreme Council of Health), and the Republic of South Korea (Ministry of Health).

June 9, 2026
12:00 - 1:00 pm ET 

This webinar will offer a high-level overview of the core areas of health law, which will include the applicable bodies of law (federal and state), the various regulatory agencies that enforce them, and the various aspects of licensing; fraud and abuse (Stark/Anti-Kickback Statute); privacy (HIPAA and beyond); reimbursement (Medicare/Medicaid and payer contracting); and health law in practice (what its like to be a practice health care attorney), opportunities to practice, and where one is likely to encounter/work with attorneys.

Presenter

Logan C. Geen, MHA, Esq., CSPR, CHC

Logan Geen is a health care attorney and Adjunct Instructor at the College of Population HEalth.  After earning his Master of Health Administration from the Sloan Program at Cornell University, and his Juris Doctor from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, he spent 5 years in private practice at firms in upstate NY. During this time he was outside compliance counsel to a large integrated delivery system; worked onsite in the legal department of an academic medical center; and gained extensive experience working with health care providers across the spectrum of care (physician practices, hospitals, nursing homes, and home health agencies) on a wide range of legal matters, including the areas of corporate, litigation, government relations, regulatory, and compliance. He then spent 4 years as in-house counsel to Excellus BlueCross BlueShield/Univera Healthcare, a regional health insurer, where he provided support to the plan’s government programs (Medicare, Medicaid, Child Health Plus, etc.).

Geen joined the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) Legal Department as Corporate Counsel for Managed Care Contracting in 2024, and following LVHN’s merger with Jefferson Health, now serves in the Jefferson Enterprise Office of Legal Affairs. He primarily supports revenue cycle, payer relations and contracting, and Jefferson’s clinical population health enterprise.

A resident of upstate NY, Geen previously taught at his undergraduate alma mater, Roberts Wesleyan University. He has experience developing practical guidance materials for LexisNexis, and volunteers at St. Joseph’s Neighborhood Center in Rochester, NY. His research interests include LGBTQIA+ healthcare, technology innovation, and identifying ways to help the general public successfully navigate the healthcare system

Schedule at-a-Glance 2026

Date  Topic 
Jan.  13  AI in Healthcare Quality - Advancing Excellence Through Innovation 
Feb. 3  Complexity Science 
Feb. 17 Harm Reduction & Public Health 
March 10  High Technology Assessment Principles 
March 24  Artificial Intelligence in Population Health & Value-Based Care
April 14  How to Be a Change Agent 
April 28  Ditial Health Quality 
June 9 Health Law 

Past Sessions & Recordings

2026

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