About us

Jenni Gudapati MBA RN works for Boise State University’s College of Health Sciences as the Value-Based Healthcare Program Director. Jenni has dedicated her career to combining both her clinical nursing and passion for business development, growth, and lean management. She has served on both State and National Boards and has been very active in her community and collaborating with both State and Federal healthcare and legislative leaders. She is currently co-chair for the Healthcare Transformation Council of Idaho’s Telehealth Task Force and member of The Boise Chamber’s Healthcare Advisory Board.

Jenni has presented to both State and National Association Conferences on Telehealth, Innovative Health Delivery and Payment Models, as well as Lean Management in Healthcare. Her passion for higher quality with lower cost health care delivery, stems from her experience working in the ED, CCU, and Home Health settings.

She is a strong patient-outcome and patient centered care model advocate that loves working with people to create innovative and efficient health care deliveries. Her years of experience as an industry leader has fostered the belief that technology and common sense healthcare can not only reduce costs but improve patient lives.

Thom Walsh is the author of Finding What Matters Most to Patients (2019) and Navigating to Value in Healthcare (2017). He is an Adjunct Professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and a Visiting Associate Professor of Community Medicine at the Oxley College of Health Sciences at the University of Tulsa.

Thom’s clinical career began as a Physical Therapist with board certification as an Orthopedic Clinical Specialist and sub-specialty training in Mechanical Diagnosis & Treatment as a spine specialist and a Performance Enhancement Specialist. His clinical career included work with elite and tactical athletes and spanned private practice and academic settings. Throughout that time, he was particularly interested in researching patient outcomes and the systems, processes, skills, and policies needed to continually improve them. Those interests led him to pursue an MS in Evaluative Clinical Sciences and a PhD in Health Policy.

Known as an excellent teacher and mentor, his current work centers on helping individuals, organizations, and educational institutions thrive during this period of rapid change. Professor Walsh’s peer-reviewed and general audience articles on healthcare value, patient-reported outcomes, shared decision making, change management, and leadership have appeared in numerous publications, including the BMJ, JAMA, Spine, The Journal of Healthcare Management, Forbes, The New America Foundation, and The Atlantic. In addition, Thom’s career was featured in the September 3, 2018 edition of Managed Care. Learn more about his books and articles at http://www.thomwalsh.net.

Thom enjoys hiking, running, reading, and serves his community as a search and rescue specialist. In addition, he has volunteered with Team Rubicon, a disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization.