Board of Directors

Jack Connors, Jr. is a founding partner and former CEO of Hill Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc., a full-service marketing communications company. Under his leadership, Hill Holliday evolved from a one-room shop to one of the top 20 advertising firms in the United States. Mr. Connors also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners HealthCare System) for 16 years. He is a member of the Board of Fellows at Harvard Medical School. Active in leading philanthropic efforts and civic campaigns in Boston, Mr. Connors is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Camp Harbor View, Chairman of the Board of the Campaign for Catholic Schools and a member of the Board of the Atrius Health Equity Foundation.

Michael Curry is chief executive officer of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, representing 52 health centers serving over one million patients. Prior to joining the League, Mr. Curry worked at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, primarily as senior policy advisor in the corporate affairs division.
Mr. Curry is the past president of the Boston Branch of the NAACP (2011-2016) and has been a member of the national NAACP board of directors since 2014. He has served on the transition teams for former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and was involved in the passage of Massachusetts Health Reform and the Affordable Care Act.

In addition to NAACP and RIZE, Mr. Curry serves on the boards of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center and Massachusetts Nonprofit Network.

Chris Hager was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the regional director of region I of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she oversaw the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in New England from 2010-2014. Prior to her service in the Obama Administration, she was chief health counsel to the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives during the development and implementation of the Massachusetts health reform law enacted in 2006.

Ms. Hager has also served in senior executive roles at Beacon Health Options, a national behavioral health organization. From 2019-2021 she led a full-time consulting engagement at MassHealth as director of behavioral health, focusing on the COVID-19 public health emergency response and community-based system reform.

Doris is a registered nurse who is certified in community health and holds certificates in bioethics and gerontology.  Specializing in long term care during her professional career and as a business owner, Doris is always advocating for families, helping them navigate the healthcare systems, obtaining insurance benefits, providing assessments, developing quality ratings for providers and licensing providers.  Doris continues to support the MetroEast Reserve Corps under FEMA with providing vaccinations and emergency preparedness for her local community.

While her son has been in long term recovery, Doris remains active and committed to helping family members learn about the disease of addiction and recovery.  As a member of Learn to Cope, Doris has facilitated meetings in Cambridge for more than ten years.  In addition to providing peer support and training family members on naloxone, Doris was appointed to Governor Baker’s 2016 Commission on Licensed Addiction Treatment Centers, demonstrated at the Dept of Justice in Washington in December 2021, and accepted an appointment to the Falmouth Commission on Substance Use in 2022.

Doris joined the staff of Learn to Cope in June of 2022 with the goal of establishing a Cape Cod family resource center to provide services for families impacted by substance use disorder (SUD). Her initial efforts will focus on reducing stigma, saving lives, and providing education by bringing Naloxboxes to municipalities and schools in Barnstable County, assisting in post overdose resources and addressing SUD in seniors, an often overlooked and underserved population.  

Patty Ma is executive vice president & chief legal officer at CareQuest Institute for Oral Health. Ms. Ma has more than 25 years of experience in navigating health care legal, regulatory and compliance matters. She has served in executive leadership roles and as general counsel for both private and publicly traded health care companies.
Before joining CareQuest Institute, Ms. Ma was general counsel and chief compliance officer for Active Day, the country’s largest operator of adult day health centers. Prior to that, Ms. Ma held leadership roles at Zelis Healthcare, DentaQuest, an affiliate of CareQuest Institute, and Gentiva Health Services.

As the president of DentaQuest, Steve Pollock leads the nation’s largest provider of Medicaid dental benefits and spearheads the team’s mission to improve the oral health of all. Mr. Pollock has successfully built an organization that drives market growth and opportunity for clients while also advancing the oral health industry to achieve better outcomes and equitable access for every American. Under Mr. Pollock’s stewardship, DentaQuest developed Preventistry®, an inclusive approach to quality care and expanded access that prioritizes prevention-focused oral health.

During his 20-year tenure at DentaQuest, he has held several other senior leadership positions, including chief executive officer, chief operating officer, executive vice president, and general counsel.

Mr. Pollock is a member of CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion, the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, and the state bar of Wisconsin.

Joy Rosen serves as the vice president for behavioral health at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). In this capacity, she oversees program development, business planning, administrative and clinical operations, research management, and finance for four departments/institutes at MGH — the Department of Psychiatry, the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, the Home Base Program, and provides executive oversight for the Center for Community Health Improvement. She also serves as a liaison for the MGH and Mass General Brigham on various government relations matters. Previously, Ms. Rosen served as the director of government relations for Partners HealthCare, overseeing advocacy efforts with the state and federal governments on healthcare reform legislation and the Massachusetts Stem Cell Bill. She served for 12 years as the Department of Public Health’s assistant commissioner for management, seven years overseeing residential programs at the Department of Mental Health, and worked as a senior policy analyst on health care issues for the Senate Committee on Ways and Means. Ms. Rosen has a BA from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a MS from Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

Michael Tang, MD, MBA, is head of behavioral health at Cityblock Health, and a pediatrician, child psychiatrist, and adult psychiatrist. Dr. Tang completed his residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center, and residency and fellowship in adult and child psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. He also served two years as the Boston site director of Health Leads, a nonprofit addressing social determinants of health, and is currently the co-chair of the Child Mental Health Taskforce at the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Tang is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and the Brandeis Heller School for Social Policy and Management.