Cyndy Nayer
President and Cheive Executive Officer,
Center for Health Value Innovation
Cyndy Nayer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Health Value Innovation, a community of employers and payers building evidence, tools and competency in value-based design for improved health and reduced cost trends . She is on of the five equal founders of the Center; Jack Mahoney MD, Global Health Strategy consultant for Pitney Bowes, is another of the founders, and he serves as Chief Medical Officer for the Center.
Cyndy also leads River City Partnership on Health, Inc., a national employer health strategy company linking employers, health plans, and providers in improved Total Health Management. Nayer holds a graduate degree in Gerontology with a special focus on healthy aging. As the former Chair of the Missouri Governor’s Council on Health, Nayer led the call to action and strategy for the Office of Women’s Health. A futurist and health improvement expert, was recently voted one of the emerging leaders on consumer directed health and a visionary for health transformation. She speaks and writes for national media on the concepts of consumer and employer health engagement, and she has developed worksite health strategies for Fortune 100 companies in the US and in Canada. Cyndy was awarded the CEO Leadership award in Consumer Driven Health by CDHC Solutions in September 2008. She is a an honored Woman of Worth, the first recipient of the Missouri State Health and Fitness Professional Award, a graduate of the Missouri Focus on Women’s Leadership and the recipient of the American Heart Association Letter of Commendation for the Aetna Women’s Health Toolkit. She has recently published a consumer handbook for value-based health decisions, entitled 101 Lifetips for Personal Health Management. She is a co-author of the new book, Leveraging Health, which will be released sometime in Fall 2009. |
