Dr. Susan Beane

Vice President and Executive Medical Director – Healthfirst.

Dr. Susan Beane joined Healthfirst in 2009, bringing with her extensive professional experience in managed care. As Vice President and Executive Medical Director at Healthfirst, Dr. Beane focuses on care management and clinical provider partnerships, especially programs designed to improve the delivery of vital, evidence-based healthcare to our members. Dr. Beane, is a dedicated primary care physician and board-certified internist, she is a strong proponent of collaborating with and engaging providers to improve health outcomes.  Most of all Dr. Beane is a woman of faith, one who believes in the power of Healing through Hope, prayer and by living a Healthful life.

Dr. Daniel Chen

Dr. Daniel Chen received his psychiatry residency training at North Shore University Hospital, NYU School of Medicine. He has been working at the Departments of Psychiatry of Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and Flushing Hospital Medical Center since he finished his residency training in 2001. Administratively, Dr. Daniel Chen serves as the Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction Services at Flushing Hospital Medical Center. He is the Director of the Asian Behavioral Health Program.  He served as the Director of the Mental Health Clinic from 2003 to 2018.

Academically, Dr. Chen is Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and is Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Ross University School of Medicine. As the Chairman of the Institutional Review Board at Flushing Hospital Medical Center, Dr. Chen oversees all of the research activities at the hospital. He was the PI of the three NYS Integrated Physical Health and Mental Health Care Projects, and has done a number of other research projects including the APA’s DSM-5 Field Trial. He has had several publications and has presented his studies nationally and internationally.

Clinically, Dr. Chen has expanded the Asian Behavioral Health Services and strengthened the multicultural treatment programs. Under Dr. Chen’s initiative and leadership, Flushing Hospital was granted by the State of New York for one of the ten integrated physical health and mental health care licenses at the Mental Health Clinic and the Reflections Addictions Clinic. Dr. Chen has also been serving as the Medical Director at Hamilton-Madison House since 2002. Dr. Chen served as the Co-President of the 5^th World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry in NYC from 2015 to 2018 which the Congress was successfully held in NYC from Oct 10 to Oct 13, 2018.

Paul C. Amajor, MD, MS-HSM

Newark, NJ 07103  ·  862.600.0050

chibuikemamajor@gmail.com  · linkedin.com/in/paul-c-amajor-md-ms-hsm-b67662162

Dr. Paul Amajor, MD, MS-HSM, is a Consultant with Healthfirst, the largest non-profit healthcare insurance provider in New York. In his current role, Dr. Amajor works on systemic change to improve the medical and health outcomes for New York’s most vulnerable. He also works to improve access to care and addresses issues surrounding Social Determinants of Health for the most vulnerable. As a consultant at Healthfirst, Dr. Amajor actively supports the ongoing efforts to stand up the Healthfirst Foundation.

Dr. Amajor engages partners, secular, and non-secular, to implement strategies that address the social needs encountered by their member population that negatively influences their health outcomes.

Dr. Amajor is the lead Physician Consultant on the “Whole You Program.” An initiative built to address the HIV epidemic. In this role, Dr. Amajor handles building strategies to improve PrEP uptake, ARV therapy compliance, and increasing testing. Dr. Amajor also actively supports various efforts to improve the Covid-19 vaccination education and uptake, as well as improve vaccination access.

Before joining Healthfirst, Dr. Amajor was a Senior Consultant and Clinical SME with COPE Health Solutions and Consensus Health Consultants. He provided vital insights and a strategic approach in designing and incorporating social determinants of health data into a core digital product. His expertise provided actionable insights required for patient stratification and innovative SDOH initiative design with this digital tool.

Dr. Amajor received his Medical Degree and Master’s in Health Science from the University of Oradea, Faculty of Medicine, in Romania. He also has a Specialized Business Master’s in Healthcare Management which he received from the Rutgers Business School in Newark/New Brunswick. Dr. Amajor also holds a certificate from HarvardX in improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety.

He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee). And is a Beta Gamma Sigma member – International Business Honor Society. Dr. Amajor also sits on the Board of the DO in the making Scholarship Fund. He is active in mentoring today’s youths in pursuing their academic and professional goals.