MHQP Welcomes Three New Board Members

(January 2025)

MHQP is pleased to welcome three accomplished individuals to its Board of Directors — Pam Ressler, Jeff Levin-Scherz and Tak Tang.

“We are absolutely thrilled to have Pam, Jeff and Tak on the board to help guide the organization into its future,” said Julita Mir, Chair of the MHQP Board of Directors. “Their unique perspectives and valued expertise will be much appreciated as MHQP seeks to expand its impact over the next few years.”

Pamela Ressler, RN, MS, HNB-BC

Pam is the founder of StressResources.com and a recognized leader in resilience, mindfulness, and patient advocacy. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan School of Nursing and a graduate degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Pain Research, Education, and Policy. Pam co-chairs the American Nurses Association (ANA) Innovation Committee on Business, Entrepreneurship, and Intrapreneurship, where she works to empower nurses in leading healthcare innovation. She also serves on the board of directors for ChildKind International, a global nonprofit focused on improving pain management for children in healthcare settings.

Pam’s professional journey is deeply intertwined with her personal experience as a parent navigating the healthcare system. Her son’s chronic illness and death played a central role in shaping her understanding of the emotional and physical challenges faced by patients and families. This perspective fuels her passion for patient advocacy and enhancing communication around chronic illness.

She was the first nurse appointed to Stanford University’s prestigious Medicine X program, which focuses on the intersection of healthcare, technology, and patient experience, empowering collaboration between patients, clinicians, and innovators to transform the future of healthcare. Pam’s involvement with this program underscores her commitment to driving patient-centered healthcare innovations and highlights the value she places on integrating resilience and mindfulness into the evolving landscape of health technologies. Additionally, Pam has served as an advisor to several patient-focused startups.

Pam is the current Chair and a long-term member of MHQP’s Consumer Health Council.

Jeff Levin-Scherz, MD, MBA

Jeff is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, and a managing director and the Population Health Leader for WTW’s North American Health and Benefits Practice. He teaches courses on managing health care costs and provider payment and consults with companies about their investments in the health of their employees.

Jeff has a broad range of experience in health care delivery and finance. He has served as a physician executive leader of several provider organizations, including the Mount Auburn Cambridge IPA, Partners Community HealthCare, Inc, Atrius Health, and One Medical. He also served for seven years as a vice president at Tufts Health Plan. Jeff has been a participant in technical expert panels convened by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Institute of Medicine URAC and the Urban Institute, and worked on a 2017 project on behavioral economics and noncommunicable diseases for the World Economic Forum.

Jeff has written and spoken widely on health care policy, especially around the COVID-19 pandemic, adoption of disruptive innovation, evaluating medical management programs, and the use of behavioral economics. His writing has been published in JAMA, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, StatNews and the Harvard Business Review. He has given guest lectures at MIT, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tak Tang, CPA, CGMA

Tak is an accomplished accounting and financial management executive with over thirty years of diverse public and private accounting and managerial experiences from the Big 4 public accounting firms and multinational publicly-traded, privately-held, nonprofit, startup, and development stage organizations.

He began his career as an auditor with KPMG, and an audit manager with Ernst & Young. He devoted over eight years in the Big 4 public accounting firms serving various clients in the healthcare, life science, manufacturing, and insurance industries. Tak sharpened his skills as an accounting and financial management executive in leadership roles in the accounting and finance departments of various organizations.

Tak became a Certified Public Accountant in 1997 and a Chartered Global Management Accountant in 2012. He is a member of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.