VP, Strategy and Partnerships
Cordata Healthcare Innovations, LLC
Cincinnati, OH
Dr. Kelly Firesheets is the vice president for strategy and partnerships for Cordata Community Community Services. She leads the Cordata Community suite of services which includes software, coaching and technical support that improves public health interventions for the opioid crisis. In this role, Kelly provides expertise to Cordata's community partners, including sites in West Virginia, Ohio, Connecticut, Virginia, Minnesota, and several other states. An evaluator by training, Kelly has spent the past decade supporting community-facing, data-informed solutions to the opioid crisis. Kelly is known as an expert in the implementation and evaluation of public health/public safety collaborations, including Quick Response Teams and other models of deflection. She is an active memember of the Public Safety, Treatment and Community Collaborative (PTACC), where she co-chairs the Research Committee. Through PTACC, Kelly also co-facilitates the State Leaders Enhancing Deflection (SLED) Network - a learning community for state leaders and policymakers who are interesting in supporting deflection initiatives at scale.
Prior to joining Cordata, Kelly was a senior project director with BrightView Health, where she managed special projects and initiatives to improve transitions of care and increase access to medication assisted treatment. Most notably, this included a collaborative, state-wide pilot to improve Emergency Department response to opioid use disorder. Kelly holds a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) in Clinical Psychology with a certificate in organizational concepts and management from Xavier University.
Cordata Healthcare, LLC (Major Stockholder (not including mutual funds), Employee)
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM ET