Our Team

Executive Team


Pat Mastors 
Founder and CEO


Pat is a hospital patient advocate and former medical reporter committed to a range of initiatives that effectively put patients at the center of care. Her focus is the engagement of patients and their advocates, a group some medical experts call "the most under-utilized resource in health care".

Pat’s patient advocacy began with the sudden hospitalization of her father in 2005, when a fall down the stairs required surgery. It was an otherwise successful surgery, but complications of a virulent infection called Clostridium difficile caused his death six months later. As his only daughter, and having acted as his health advocate during his hospitalization, Pat found this a life-changing experience. She launched an informational website about the risk of infection in hospitals, lobbied successfully to pass two patient safety laws in her home state (Rhode Island), and now works with patient and provider groups nationwide toward a common goal of greater patient engagement for better health.

For more than 20 years Pat was a television news anchor and medical reporter at WJAR-TV and WPRI-TV in Providence.  Her effectiveness as a speaker and presenter, her passion for patient engagement, plus her genuine empathy for the concerns of both patients and providers, make her uniquely effective at moving people toward common ground.

Pat serves on the HAI reporting advisory committee for the Rhode Island Department of Health, and on the Advisory Board to the Small Business Development Center at Johnson & Wales University.
She is a member of the Consumers Union Safe Patient Project and a participant in the HHS Partnership for Patients.


Judy Hager, RN, MSN, FHIMSS  
Clinical Director


Judy's 35 years in the health care field are built on the patient-centered approach that first led her into direct patient care and nurse administration. She gained a keen understanding of hospital operations, reimbursement and strategic planning through her experience at Inova Health System. As a principal at the national consulting firm Smith-Hager-Bajo, she has been recognized for her leadership in process management, cost-efficient operations planning computerized simulation modeling and work redesign efforts with more than 150 hospitals, health systems and physician practices. She has published and co-authored journal articles and white papers, and actively participates in health care organizations, such as AWHONN and HIMSS.


Peg Fradette - 
Chief Operating Officer


Peg has more than three decades’ experience in the medical industry, including 25 years with Johnson & Johnson as sales and marketing director, where she was also involved in new business development and strategic planning. Known for her entrepreneurial spirit, she was tapped to start several J&J divisions, taking them from discovery through commercialization.
Peg served as one of 6 Regional Directors for Ethicon, managing $100 million in Suture, Dermabond and Mesh businesses. Most recently she was US Director of Marketing for Apatech, a UK-based medical device start-up that was acquired by Baxter in 2010.


Kathleen Bajo, MHA - 
Patient Trials Coordinator


Kathleen has over 25 years of health care experience with both public health and consulting. As a former member of Ross Planning Associates, originator and Director of Ross Marketing Associates and a principal with national consulting firm Smith Hager Bajo, she has traveled to over 1500 hospitals, corporate hospital groups, managed care systems and large physician group practices to assist them with business planning, strategic and market planning, brand identification, and facility planning and programming.


Aimee Keenan-Greene 
Communications Director


Aimee is a journalist and communications specialist, who spent more than 16 years producing award-winning content for broadcast and other electronic media.
As Senior Producer and Special Projects Coordinator for WPRI-TV 12 and WNAC-TV Fox 64 Providence/New Bedford, she spent more than a decade producing, writing, promoting, and coordinating content and graphic design for daily television newscasts, long-range features and brand-building.
Aimee's connections to health and wellness issues are deep: she critiques packaged health, medical and women-driven news pieces for Ivanhoe Broadcast News. Her featured Providence Children’s Health news articles appear on the national website Examiner.com, and her food, nutrition, diet, health and general wellness news articles are featured on FoodConsumer.org.


Joe Cacciola
Director, Product Design and Customization
Wayne Blatchley
Director, Graphic Design and Customization

If you want your own Patient Pod design, colors, logos or branding, Joe and Wayne will bring it to life.
Joe Cacciola and Wayne Blatchley, co-founders of Fuzion Design Inc., have collaborated to produce leading products for dozens of national brands including Playtex, Safety 1st, Dorel Juvenile Group, CVS, Disney, Fisher-Price, Hasbro, Eddie Bauer and The First Years. They are unabashed sticklers for quality control, and take enormous pride in every product they touch.
Joe was Vice President of Research and Development at Safety 1st, a senior director at Hasbro, and is an Industrial Designers Society of America Merit Award winner. Wayne was creative director for two of the world’s largest companies in the product design industry – Hasbro and Safety 1st, where he was responsible for the package communication and design for many best-loved household brands. 



Partners


Steve Powell, President & CEO
Healthcare Team Training (HTT) LLC.
Pear Health LLC has teamed with HTT to provide hospitals a full suite of customized implementation and coaching services, utilizing the Patient Pod to create, build and reinforce culture change.
Through its Team STEPPS + Plus program , HTT has coached health care teams worldwide to see and deliver care “through the eyes of the patient”. Steve has been involved in human factors education and teamwork training in the US Navy, commercial airline industry, and the health care industry for 25 years. His experience includes flying as a major airline captain, aviation & patient safety instruction, curriculum development, and accident investigations including root cause analysis, research, and simulation. Steve regularly provides patient safety training, consulting & coaching to health care leadership and clinical teams in civilian and military health care organizations worldwide. He has served as a member of the Technical Expert Panel for TeamSTEPPS®, "Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety" for the Department of Defense since 2006.

GOJO Industries / Skin Health and Hygiene Solutions

GOJO Industries is the maker of PURELL ® and inventor of hand sanitizer. Pear Health is pleased to partner with an international market leader that shares our commitment to patient health. "As a company that focuses on hand hygiene needs in healthcare settings and improving patient outcomes, we are pleased to be part of The Patient Pod," says David Mackay, Vice President of Healthcare at GOJO. "We believe PURELL will be both familiar and comforting to patients." Pear Health looks forward to collaborating further in our common mission of expanding healthy patient outcomes by improving hand hygiene.

Key Advisors

Joseph F. Amaral, MD - VP, Science and Technology, Johnson & Johnson Corporation,  Former CEO, Rhode Island Hospital

Wayne Weiner, D.Ed - Chief Operating Officer, Medics, USA , International Business Consultant, Former Senior Advisor, National Institute of Health, former Human Resource Director, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Danny Warshay - Managing Director, DEW Ventures.  Business Consultant, International advisor/lecturer on entrepreneurship and new ventures

Ted Almon -  CEO, Claflin Corporation , Hospital distribution and supply chain specialist

Chris Bodine -  Director, Watson Pharmaceuticals , Former President, Healthcare Services, CVS/Caremark Corp.

Steve Lane -  Co-Founder, CEO, Ximedica , Medical and Healthcare Product Research, Development and Manufacturing Company