TCQB LIVE - Taking Care of Queens Business | Queens Chamber of Commerce on Glue Up

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Save the dateSeptember 24, 20211:00 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT)

Organizer

Organizer: Dedline AV, Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, Queens Chamber of Commerce

Phone: +1 7188988500

Contact Person: Jef Gross

Email: jgross@queenschamber.org

Event Details

This week on TBQC LIVE streaming both via our Facebook and Twitter platforms we're joined by Lorraine Chambers Lewis, Executive Director at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills. She'll discuss pre-COVID health issues relating to preventive health. In addition, living with COVID.

Michelle Watson, Business Recovery Technical Specialist with Queens Chamber. As our resident technical specialist Michelle will discuss the Open + Online program.

Ways to watch:

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Speakers

Lorraine Chambers Lewis

Executive Director of LIJ Forest Hills Hospital

Lorraine Chambers Lewis

Executive Director of LIJ Forest Hills Hospital

https://foresthill.northwell.edu

Lorraine Chambers Lewis, is the recently appointed executive director of Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital. She will be leading Northwell Health’s most diverse hospital and proving healthcare services for the community of Queens.

A physician assistant (PA) for twenty-eight years, Ms. Chambers Lewis has worked in emergency medicine, critical care, internal medicine and occupational health. She began her career at Queens Hospital Center and came to Northwell, then North Shore-LIJ Health System, in 2002 as a supervising PA for Long Island Jewish Medical Center’s emergency department. After transitioning to occupational health in 2007, she took on positions of increasing responsibility as the function grew during a time of rapid expansion for Northwell.

In addition to launching Northwell’s first injury management and prevention program for worker safety, she also launched an occupational health business model for direct to employer clients including an onsite health and wellness clinic at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Under Lorraine’s leadership, the department rapidly developed and launched COVID-19 testing programs for team members and their families and an employee vaccination program that has immunized tens of thousands team members to date.

A graduate of The CUNY School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program, Lorraine received her MBA from Hofstra University and is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. For the last four years, she has also served as president of the New York Chapter of the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare

Michelle Watson

Business Recovery Specialist at Queens Chamber of commerce

Michelle Watson

Business Recovery Specialist at Queens Chamber of commerce

https://www.queenschamber.org/team

Michelle Watson is the Business Recovery Technical Specialist working with the Queens Chamber of Commerce. Michelle grew up in Staten Island, before moving out to Brooklyn and finally over to Queens.

After getting her start working in food service, Michelle decided to pursue a career in restaurant management, and had been running various restaurants around NYC for about 8 years. Once the pandemic struck, she pivoted to starting her own virtual assistant business, helping restaurants and food service businesses with any tasks that could be performed remotely.

She is now the resident technical specialist at the Chamber, assisting businesses in both Queens and Brooklyn with their digital and technology-related needs.

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TCQB LIVE - Taking Care of Queens Business

Casual conversations designed to impact your business and the Queens community.

Lorraine Chambers Lewis

Executive Director of LIJ Forest Hills Hospital

Michelle Watson

Business Recovery Specialist at Queens Chamber of commerce

Organizer

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