Name: 

Joseph Bart Venâncio Arrington, MBA

Board Role:

President & Treasurer, Board Chair

Professional Title:

CEO | COO - Beacon Sleep Solutions, Inc.
Academic Physician Operations Specialist - Intermountain Healthcare
Doctoral Candidate - Business Administration (DBA)
Masters - Business Administration (MBA)
BS - Exercise and Sport Science, Minor in Pediatric Clinical Research
AS - General Studies

Organization:

Intermountain Healthcare

Bio:

Joseph B.V. Arrington currently works as the chief officer of the biotech start-up Beacon Sleep Solutions, working to help underserved patients in sleep medicine by creating and advancing sleep technology to supplement the care given to them by their health providers. He also works in administration at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, helping with operations for physicians who have a combination of clinical, research, and leadership responsibilities and the intricacies associated with their complicated roles.

After having received his Associate's Degree from Ensign College and going through the majority of his bachelors at the University of Utah, Joseph began his career in medicine working as an intern research associate at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah during his senior year. During this time, he worked mostly in the pediatric Emergency Department where he was able to see firsthand the relationship existing between clinical medicine, hospital administration, and academic research. Not only did he acquire a love for healthcare, but also a passion to help improve it through understanding its business side.

After attaining his bachelor's, he started his MBA studies at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. During this time he founded a biotech company, published three academic peer-reviewed papers with medical teams he worked on at the University of Utah School of Medicine, had two innovative pieces of technology become patent pending, served as Executive Director of Social Media on the student government Executive Board (2017-2018), and was honored as a Service Scholar by the time he graduated. He also served as a Scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America, as well as various roles in his religious group.

Upon graduating, Joseph started working at a home-health organization to give care to elderly patients. During his time in management, he was in charge of staffing, scheduling, training all CNAs, supervising patient care, and would also work as a caregiver. He created new marketing materials and surveys, leading to his initiative to create an employee advisory board to better help caregivers share their insights from the frontlines. Meanwhile, he continued his research at the University of Utah and had become a Senior Research Analyst, wherein he helped create a new protocol for a research project to ensure nurses' voices were heard and taken into account when creating research protocols in the Emergency Department.

He then began work in healthcare administration at Intermountain Medical Center, helping to streamline processes in academic operations leading to better transparency for physician-scientist-leaders, as well as helping in credentialing, and other operational, changes which had occurred as a result of the One Intermountain Initiative. His current work involves maintaining these new portions of operations, as well as helping with finances.

Shortly thereafter, Joseph was selected as a Doctorate in Business Administration candidate for Drexel University's Executive Program, wherein he would continue living and working in Utah while traveling 8 times a year for his in-person courses in concentrated blocks, then work on research and program objectives from home. During his time at Drexel, he was elected as the Chair of Academics for the Graduate Student Association's (GSA) Executive Board (2021-2022), which has oversight over all graduate programs in the campus. He began an initiative there called the Academic Affairs Committee, acting essentially as an advisory council to the GSA so students from various programs and backgrounds could help create bridges and initiatives between all of the graduate programs that were not there before, also giving more students the ability to lead and serve that beforehand did not exist. For his research, his dissertation work was on analyzing factors in healthcare surrounding the bottleneck in clinical adoption of innovative treatments.

Toward the end of his MBA training was when Joseph got involved in non-profit work. Over the years he has become more involved, working to serve others and give back to his community. He has served on the Board of Directors for the West High Alumni Association from 2017 to present (VP since 2021), West View Media from 2017 to present (President since 2021), League of United Latin American Citizens - Utah from 2020 to present (Treasurer since 2020), American Red Cross GSLAC from 2020 to present (Chair of Mission and Chair of Diversity/Inclusion since 2020), Westside Coalition (VP since 2021, Chair of Jordan Meadows Executive Board since 2020), and National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives from 2021 to present (President since 2021). He is also a member of, and serves with, other professional organizations, including the American College of Healthcare Executives (for which his Fellow ranking is pending), Rotary International, the American Physician Scientists Association, Westminster College Alumni Association, and the Student National Medical Association.

Joseph is a certified Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt, certified personal trainer, and certified nutrition coach. He is an avid weightlifter and former marathon runner/triathlete, the latter of which he stopped after a cycling accident in 2016. He is slowly getting back into triathlon shape and hopes to be competing again in a few years. He played football, lacrosse, wrestled, threw shot-put, and played the trombone in high school and keeps a fond place in his heart for all of them.

After having lived on the West Side of Salt Lake City in Utah for two decades, he (with his family) moved to Tooele, Utah and has been there since 2020. He married the love of his life, Krischa, in 2009 and together they have six children: Brianne (2010), Madison (2012), Dinah (2015), Audrey (2017), Adam (2020), and Declan (2021).

Name: 

Luciana Cid Povoa, MHA, DPT

Board Role:

Secretary, Board Member

Professional Title:

Physical Therapist, DPT
Osteopathic Practitioner
Master Degree in Healthcare Administration (MHA)
Academic Master Degree in Science of Rehabilitation

Organization:

Intermountain Healthcare

Bio:

Following 28+ years of experience and board certification in Brazil with excellent track record of extraordinary care, emphasizing on improvement in quality of life and rehabilitation, Luciana moved to the U.S. in 2017, later graduating with a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) in 2019.

In 2020, after a long process of education equivalency, she earned a title of US board-certified DPT. She currently works as a pediatric inpatient and orthopedic outpatient physical therapist in two hospital locations for Intermountain Healthcare in the state of Utah. Luciana speaks Portuguese and English.

Most recently she joined NALHE Utah as the Secretary. As a board member of NAHLE, she would like to assist Latin descendants who have immigrated to the US and are attempting to transfer their education and credentials to the US system, as well as assist them to get into the workforce. Luciana hopes to use her personal and professional experiences to deliver the best care and guidance to those either initiating, or in the middle of, the process to develop their careers in the US healthcare system.

Name: 

Caren Trujillo, RN, MSN, AHN-BC

Board Role:

Chair of Programs and Education, Board Member

Professional Title:

Nursing Adjunct Instructor
Associate Program Manager, Clinical Care Program
M.S. – Nursing

Organization:

Ameritech College
Castlight Health

Bio:

Caren Trujillo, RN, MSN, AHN-BC is a nursing adjunct instructor at Ameritech College and also works at Castlight Health as an associate program manager for the clinical care program. She obtained her Master of Science in Nursing with a concentration in nursing and health care education from the University of Phoenix in 2016 and completed her nursing undergraduate degree at the University of Barcelona. She is the chair of education at the NALHE Utah chapter. Her nursing passion is in hospice, holistic nursing and disease prevention. She is a Board Certified Advanced Holistic Nurse through the AHNCC, she is a certified Health Coach and Yoga Teacher. Caren’s other professional passions reside in quality improvement and evidence-based practice. She obtained her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate from the University of Utah in 2017.

In her free time, Caren likes to hike, cook, dance and practice yoga. Caren enjoys teaching yoga and has taught yoga to Hispanic women in the Salt Lake City community since 2017.

Name: 

Adrien M. Barrios

Board Role:

Chair of Membership and Advancement, Board Member

Professional Title:

Program Specialist II, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships in Medical Education
M.Ed. Candidate – Educational Leadership & Policy, Student Affairs
B.S. – Nutrition Science in Public Health

Organization:

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

Bio:

Adrien M. Barrios is the current Program Specialist II of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships in the Academic Affairs Department at the Association of American Medical Colleges. Adrien holds a wealth of experience in strategic community relationships that advance Hispanic and multicultural communities, and foster diversity, equity, and inclusion.

During his undergraduate career at UC Davis, Adrien leveraged service-learning opportunities to respond to the demonstrated health and social service needs of diverse communities. Adrien applied the knowledge he gained from coursework in community nutrition, sociology, epidemiology, and human behavior to facilitate nutrition workshops for youth and families with instruction in both English and Spanish.

These community-based experiences launched him into a career in academic medicine with his first, full-time role as a Community Health Specialist in the Public Health Initiatives Department at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). In this position, Adrien identified and developed partnerships with non-profit organizations, medical schools and teaching hospitals in the Washington, DC area. Programming focused on key aspects of youth education, mentorship, and housing insecurity to appropriately address the needs in the community.

Adrien currently is a veteran member of the AAMC Community Grants Committee. The goal of the AAMC Community Grants Program is to award grant funding to a variety of non-profits for a range of projects and activities throughout the District of Columbia that meet a demonstrated need in the community, directly serve the community and its residents, and focus on improving the health and/or welfare of the community, in support of the AAMC's mission “…to improve the health of people everywhere.”

Additionally, Adrien is deeply engaged in managing several projects that impact medical education and student affairs at medical schools and teaching hospitals across the U.S. and Canada. For example, he is the primary project manager for a major AAMC strategic initiative designed to provide educators at member medical schools and teaching institutions with the tools and resources they need to address racist practices and policies in the learning environment. For over 2 years, Adrien has coordinated activities of the AAMC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Competencies Advisory Committee which is in the near-final stages of designing competencies to guide curricular and professional development, performance assessment, and improvement in health care services and outcomes. These cross-continuum competencies can be used as guideposts for educators to structure curricula to integrate learning in DEI and anti-racism for medical students, resident physicians, and faculty physicians. Adrien is currently pursuing a M.Ed. degree in Educational Leadership & Policy with a focus in student affairs at the University of Utah.