Leigh Ann Eagle
Leigh Ann Eagle, BS, is the Director of the Health & Wellness Program at MAC, Inc. and the Chief Operating Officer of the Living Well Center of Excellence (LWCE). Under her leadership, LWCE is connecting healthcare organizations with the AAA’s and other community resources throughout the state. Ms. Eagle has been responsible for all aspects of program design and management for MAC, Inc. Health & Wellness Center. She was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the MD Chapter of the American Trauma Society and was recognized by Susan G. Komen, Maryland with the Maryland Affiliate: Promise of One Award” in 2010. She is a Master Trainer for the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management and Cancer Thriving and Surviving and the Stepping On programs. She is certified in Patient Navigation. Ms. Eagle was appointed to the Leadership Committee, MD Department on Aging, is a member of the State Leadership Team for the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program, DHMH Minority Health & Health Disparities, promoting healthy equity & eliminating health disparities. She has managed a wide range of federal, state, and private foundation grants.
Our Team
Sue Lachenmayr
MPH CHES
State Program Coordinator for Maryland Living Well Center of Excellence-MAC, Inc. Sue has 25 years of knowledge and expertise in training, implementing, evaluating and sustaining evidence-based healthy aging/self-management programs. She establishes partnerships between healthcare entities and community-based organizations to expand access and sustainability of these programs across the State of Maryland. Previously, she served as Senior Director of the National Council on Aging (NCOA) Center for Healthy Aging Technical Assistance Center. Prior to that, Sue oversaw evidence-based program implementation across New Jersey for the Department of Health and Senior Services. Sue is a Master Trainer for the SMRC Self-Management Programs, Stepping On, PEARLS, and Stepping Up Your Nutrition.
Wendy Farthing
Community Integration Director
Director of Community Integration, Wendy Farthing has served the LWCE since 2016. She is the lead community liaison between Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs), local health departments, physician practices, healthcare clinics, multi-cultural and other Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) throughout the state of Maryland. Creating and maintaining business relationships with statewide health care entities increases access to and use of evidence-based interventions assisting older adults and adults with disabilities to live longer and healthier lives.
She supports the management of all aspects of program development and implementation creating new reimbursement models to sustain evidence-based programs. Providing day-to-day management and oversight of multiple projects ensuring contract deliverables are met, to include marketing, communication, technical assistance, support, and guidance to state and community organizations for CDSME, dementia, caregiving, falls prevention and other evidence-based programs.
Ms. Farthing created and currently manages the Maryland LWCE Virtual HUB for statewide launch of evidence-based programs and training courses to support disease prevention program activities to outreach and engage rural and underserved minority communities. She oversees the leader pool, marketing, website design, QRCodes, workshop recruitment, retention and reporting. Since 2019, she has coordinated statewide leader training for volunteers and professionals to include fifty-five training courses to over 565 leaders.
Felicia Skinner
Data Systems
As Data Systems Manager Felicia oversees all data related processes for CDSME including data collection and data entry into MD Living Well database; ensures data reporting accuracy; data distribution. She prepares quarterly data reports on demographics and quality assurance reports to health systems, Area Agencies on Aging and other network partners and maintains credentialing status of MTs and Peer leaders.
Jill Kenney
Coordinator
As the Living Well Coordinator Jill Kenney, MS, BS, AA is a MT for CDSMP, DSMP, CPSMP, and CT & S. Jill Kenney is a Living Well Coordinator at Mac Inc., Living Well Center of Excellence. The Living Well program under Jill Kenney’s leadership connects individuals suffering with Chronic Disease to essential community resources throughout the counties of Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset.
Matthew Lee Smith
PHD, Consultant
Recognizing health status is influenced by a vast and interconnected set of determinants, Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, PhD, MPH, CHES, FAAHB, FGSA, has devoted his career to creating synergistic partnerships and initiatives to encourage positive lifestyles and reduce rates of preventable morbidity and mortality. As an evaluator and survey methodologist, he has initiated many projects to better understand risky health behavior and develop scalable interventions to evoke behavior modification. Dr. Smith’s involvement in local, state, and national evaluation initiatives have been integral to fostering understanding about the reach, adoption, implementation, effectiveness, and maintenance of different evidence-based programs. His ability to form interdisciplinary collaborations affords him opportunities to apply his translational research and evaluation experience to bridge research and practice issues among the healthcare sector, aging services network, and public health system. Dr. Smith is the Co-Director of the Texas A&M Center for Population Health and Aging and holds faculty positions in the Texas A&M School of Public Health and University of Georgia College of Public Health.
Timothy McNeill
Consultant
Timothy P. McNeill is the founder of Freedmen’s Health, a Washington, DC healthcare consulting firm specializing in implementation of innovative models of care. Mr. McNeill has led the firm’s consulting efforts serving customers including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA)/Administration for Community Living (ACL), the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, and various Foundations and National Non-profit organizations. Under an HHS/ACL contract, Mr. McNeill has been the lead technical assistance provider to establish and support integrated networks to deliver new models of care that address medical risks and social determinants of health supporting value-based contracting in 26 States.
The Freedmen’s Health Team is currently deploying statewide care innovation models in the following States and Regions – Maryland, Alabama, Western New York, Houston, TX, and Dallas, TX.
Mr. McNeill has started or expanded multiple sustainable health programs including two Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACOs, an IPA made up of FQHCs and independent physicians, a network of community-based free clinics, managed the operations of a network of Federally Qualified Health Centers, and established multiple regional networks to deliver Long-Term Services and Supports, contracting with MCOs, in support of State Medicaid Waiver implementation.
Mr. McNeill is a Registered Nurse with a bachelor’s degree from Howard University and a Master of Public Health from Eastern Virginia Medical School. Mr. McNeill is also a U.S. Navy Nurse Corps Officer Veteran.