Webinar Archive: BeyondMU Lifelong Learning - Community Engagement Conversations Part 2: Pursuing Justice in Public Health and Equity through Community Engagement 032421

Community Engagement Conversations Part 2: Pursuing Justice in Public Health and Equity through Community Engagement

Presented by Agnes Berzsenyi, President and CEO, Women's Health & X-Ray, GE Healthcare; Daniel Guzman King, Council Member for the Oneida Nation; Mary Jessen, Director of Community Benefit, Ascension Wisconsin;
Moderated by Dr. Dora Clayton-Jones, Ph.D., R.N., C.P.N.P.-P.C., Grad ’99, Grad ’14, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, Marquette University

Join us for the second of two Community Engagement Conversations hosted by the Office of Economic Engagement focusing on issues of racial equity, the social determinants of health, and COVID-19.

Prior to the panel discussion, the program will begin with opening remarks by Reggie Newson, Vice President and Chief Advocacy Officer, Ascension Wisconsin, and Peggy Troy, Nurs ’74, President and Chief Executive Officer, Children’s Wisconsin, member of the Marquette University Board of Trustees. Dr. Kimo Ah Yun, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs will present the Community Engaged Award winners and Rev. James Voiss, S.J., Vice President, Mission and Ministry will provide an Ignatian Examen.

Our panelists will consider the broad and significant impacts the pandemic has created and exposed across various sectors. Learn about the approaches their organizations are taking to respond to the public health crisis while advancing equity and justice through their community engagement efforts. Whether addressing public health policies and procedures or leveraging more intentional and strategic programs to elevate opportunities through partnership, panelists will discuss the critical role that community engagement must play in current and future efforts to advance justice in public health and equity.

Agnes Berzsenyi is the President and CEO, Women’s Health & X-ray, GE Healthcare. In this role, Agnes is responsible for driving the strategic and commercial direction for the Women’s Health & Xray portfolios, including mammography, bone densitometry, Xray and services. She is responsible for product innovation, commercial growth and customer collaboration to reshape the mammography experience for women all around the world with innovative products such as Senographe Pristina and Pristina Dueta, the industry’s first wireless remote that allows women to manage their own compression during their mammogram. Senographe Pristina with Dueta was named on top 100 list of best innovations of 2019 by TIME Magazine.

Prior to this role, Agnes was the Formation Leader for GE Healthcare Imaging, an $8 billion business including services and a portfolio of X-Ray, Women’s Health, Interventional, Surgical C-arms, CT, Nuclear Medicine, PET, and MR products. Agnes served as the leader to bring together these businesses under one strategic vision and direction.

Agnes started her career in 1995 in the Technical Leadership Program at GE Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati, OH. Over the next eight years, she held several positions with increasing responsibility including the CF6 Engine Project, Six Sigma, and Marketing/Sales positions. During that time, she moved to Hungary to lead the Customer Satisfaction organization at Engine Services.

She joined GE Healthcare in 2003 as a Regional Service Manager, responsible for Eastern Europe and Russia. In 2005, Agnes was promoted to Vice President of Quality and Lean Six Sigma in Buc, France and in 2007 became Chief Marketing Officer for Clinical Systems. In 2009, Agnes became General Manager, Home Health. Then in 2010, she was promoted to General Manager, Global Primary Care Ultrasound with responsibility for bringing the innovative, pocket-sized ultrasound, Vscan, to market. This product was named grand award winner of “Best of What’s New” by Popular Science. In 2012, Agnes became the General Manager, Dose & Education Services, responsible for working with the regions and modalities to help drive regulatory guidance, clinical evidence and a commercial dose strategy. Then in 2014, she served as Vice President and General Manager, Global Product Management for GE Healthcare Services where she was responsible for leading the Services product management organization.

Agnes is the Executive Sponsor for GE Girls, a company-wide program that engages middle school girls in STEM education. She also is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She recently was recognized with a career achievement award from Rose-Hulman. In 2016, Agnes was named a “Woman of Influence” by the Milwaukee Business Journal and was included in the “Women to Watch” list by The Business Journal, an honor for the top 100 business leaders throughout the country.

Agnes was born in Mateszalka, Hungary and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering and Management from the University of Magdeburg, Germany, and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA. She is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Quality Leader. She is fluent in Hungarian, English and German.

Daniel Guzman King is serving his 2nd term as a Councilman of the Oneida Nation. The Councilman serves as a member of the Legislative Operating Committee; responsible for developing and amending new laws, codes and policy for the Oneida Nation. Daniel will be promoting the Nation’s interest on a tribal, local, state and national level as he has liaison responsibilities to the Oneida Nation’s Airport Hotel Corporation, Community Development Planning Committee, Finance Committee, Quality of Life Committee, Environmental Resource Board, WI Tribal Conservation Advisory Council, Southeastern Wisconsin Tribal Services, and Health Division. In 2019 the Councilman was also selected to served on the Great Lakes Area Tribal Health Board, which is a regional board advocating for health care system improvements on behalf tribal communities in the midwest.

Councilman Guzman King graduated from Seymour High School in 2001. In 2004, he earned his Associates Degree in Hotel/Hospitality Management from Milwaukee Area Technical College. In 2015, Daniel earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from Cardinal Stritch University. Daniel is a graduate of the Latino Nonprofit Leadership Program and also the Philanthropy Incubator Project – Legacy Building in Communities of Color.

Councilman Guzman King is an activist for positive change for the Oneida Community. Daniel stood on the front lines at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to fight for tribal land and water rights that would impact all of Indian Country and understands the importance of exercising the Oneida Nation’s sovereignty. Daniel will continue building a sustainable Nation by supporting reacquisition of the Oneida land base, protecting water resources, enhancing the local food system, supporting a sustainable healthcare system, promoting economic diversification, supporting an optimal education system, strengthening the intergenerational relationships amongst the Oneida community, and promoting the Oneida Language and Culture.

Councilman Guzman King is of the Turtle Clan. His loving family includes his grandparents, the late Peter “Buzzy” and Martha (Skenandore) King; his mother, Joyce King; brother, Lorenzo Guzman; aunties, Louise Cornelius, Margaret King, Susan Reiter and Kathy King; uncle, Peter King Jr.

Mary Jessen is the Director Community Benefit for Ascension Wisconsin. Her role includes identifying and reporting Community Benefit activities and guiding the strategic direction of community health improvement. Ms. Jessen has a Master's of Nursing/Nurse Midwifery from the University of Southern California and has provided care to vulnerable populations for nearly 20 years in Milwaukee as a Certified Nurse Midwife. She helped create a unique clinic experience for underserved families at St. Joseph Hospital in Milwaukee that focused on the social determinants of health. She has previously worked as the Administrative Director of Population Health Management for Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare in which her role was to help integrate population health management in ambulatory care. Her work with underserved families prompted her to obtain a PhD in Public Health at the UWM Zilber School of Public Health. She is scheduled to graduate in May of 2021. Her focus of research is on the associations and impacts of racism on health and healthcare disparities in maternal/infant outcomes. Additionally, she has been an instructor at the UWM College of Nursing where she taught population health, systemic racism, cultural diversity and leadership with a focus on health equity to both graduate and undergraduate students. She sits on both the Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Team and the Milwaukee Fetal/Infant Mortality Review Team.

Dr. Dora Clayton-Jones is an assistant professor at Marquette University in the College of Nursing and an adjunct faculty member for the Medical College of Wisconsin-Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. She completed her Ph.D. and MS degrees in nursing at Marquette University and earned her BSN from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Clayton-Jones is a community engaged scholar. The aim of her program of research is to advance health and health care equity for adolescents and young adults living with chronic illnesses. Using community based participatory research (CBPR) and qualitative research methods, she engages the community and recipients of interventions in developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions that optimize self-management behaviors.

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