Posted by ImproveCareNow™ on August 14, 2025
ImproveCareNow’s (ICN) Board of Directors is pleased to kick off their FY 2026 term starting July 2025.
For this fiscal year, the Board remains focused on key strategies for long term sustainability. At the upcoming September Board meeting, they will explore strategies presented by members of a working group convened this past February.
The Board will also review progress on the FY25-28 Strategic Plan and consider additional goals in partnership with ImproveCareNow's new Executive Director, Becky Johnson Rescola. Becky has been meeting with all of our stakeholders to listen and learn from them, and we are grateful for her leadership of the network.
Changes to the Board include:
- We welcome Ashish Patel, MD (care center physician) to the Board.
ImproveCareNow Board of Directors (July 1, 2025)
- Sabina Ali, MD - Care Center Physician
- John Barnard, MD - Institutional Leader (Board Secretary/Treasurer)
- Jennie David, PhD – Care Center Psychologist
- Rachael Fleurence, PhD - Federal Liaison
- John Grunow, MD - Care Center Physician
- Jim Jacobson, JD - Functional Expertise
- Inbal Kavaler - Parent
- Missy Ketchum - Parent (Board Chair)
- Sandra Kim, MD - Care Center Physician
- Karen Murray, MD - Institutional Leader
- Ashish Patel, MD - Care Center Physician
- Becky Woolf - Patient
Learn more about the ImproveCareNow team.
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About ImproveCareNow
ImproveCareNow is a Learning Health Network dedicated to transforming care, health and costs for all children and youth with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis (Inflammatory Bowel Disease or IBD) by building a sustainable collaborative chronic care network. We are enabling patients, families, clinicians, and researchers to work together in a learning health care system to accelerate innovation, discovery and the application of new knowledge. We invite everyone interested in getting kids with IBD better right now to join us and support our work.