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Dr. Kori Novak is an accomplished Senior Executive with more than 25 years of success spanning healthcare and criminal justice. Leveraging extensive experience as a CEO for various organizations, Dr. Novak’s broad areas of expertise include elder care, hospice services, healthcare strategy and public affairs.

She is a professor at various universities and is a a Sr. Fellow of Sociology at the School of Law and Social Science at the University of Suffolk. She has been a guest lecturer and keynote speaker for several domestic and international associations/Congresses revolving around Gerontology, Health Care and Criminal Justice.

Dr. Novak attained her Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ethno-Geriatrics and End of Life care from Stanford University School of Medicine, her Ph.D. in Human Services and Gerontology with Summa Cum Laude honors from Capella University, her MBA with a concentration in Marketing, Public Relations, and Healthcare Administration with Magna Cum Laude honors from Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, and her BA in International Relations and Russian with Cum Laude honors from the University of Denver.

She enjoys travel and is an avid foodie and wine lover. She lives in Colorado with her beloved rescue dog Ophelia.

Current position (4)

CEO

Asterisk Group

CEO

Toiyabe Indian Health Project

CEO

Karuk Tribe Health & Human Services

Partner

The Mellivora Group

Degrees (5)

Post doc fellowship-Ethno-geriatrics

Stanford School of Medicine

2013

PhD- Human Services

Capella University

2007 to 2013

MBA- Business Admninstration

Pepperdine University

1997 to 2000

BA- International Relations

University of Denver

1992 to 1995

Sr. Research Fellow- School of Law and Social Science

University of Suffolk (UK)

2018 to 2021

Presentations

Presentations (17)

The Compassion Asterisk

An open dialogue at who we are and are not compassionate toward and why. The discussion includes DEI discussions and an examination of how social determinants affect our compassion index.

Cancer in Rural California

Plenary Speaker regarding the incidence of Cancer in rural American Indian Alaska Native populations. This discussion focused specifically on Tribes in Eastern California.

Teaching Inmates to care for each other: The Benefits of Soft Skills

A discussion on how teaching compassion and empathy can change cultures in places even as rough as maximum security prisons.

University of San Diego

Behavioral Health and Trauma as a Co-Morbidity to Age Related
Disease and Cancers- This talk discussed how intergenerational trauma and aging affect disease specific states such as Cancer and various forms of Dementia.

Health Disparities in Rural California AIAN populations

Plenary Speaker- Discussed how Cancer research helps and hurts minority populations in Rural California

Cancer and other Debilitating Diseases in Elderly Rural California

National Institutes on Cancer: How the lack of resources in Rural areas effects Cancer in rural populations.

Narrative Medicine in Hospice Care

Invited Speaker: Oxford International Conference on Health Care
Discussed the utilization of narrative medicine and the benefits in the areas of hospice and palliative care.

Understanding the experience of Time for Hospice Patients

University of Lisbon: Discussed the philosophical passage of time as experienced by incarcerated persons at their end of life

Healing after Trauma: A Tribal Perspective

U.S. Administration for Child & Family Services
Invited Key Impact Speaker
How traumas both generational as well as new, impact minority health as a social determinate of health. Focusing primarily on Native American and Rural Americans.

The Utilisation of Narrative Medicine in US Prison Hospices

World Congress on Geriatrics and Gerontology- Japan
Invited Speaker

Dying and Incarcerated: The Hospice Experience

Global Conference on Experiencing Prison

Ageing in Prison: What do we do now?

Corrections Conference invited speaker

Aging and Dying while Incarcerated

Association for Death Education and Counseling

A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Aging Inmates in the United States

Oxford University Phenomonology in Health- Invited speaker

Trauma Informed Care, Fad, Fiction or Fix?

American Public Health Association

When the Forgotten Forget- Alzheimer’s Disease in US Prisons

National Commission on Correctional Healthcare-Mental Health Invited Speaker

Jesus in Jail: Finding the True Incarcerated Christ

An in-depth look at what religious "conversion" looks like in US prison systems

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Books & Articles (2)

Topography of Trauma: Fissures, Disruptions and Transfigurations

Brill Publishing,

2019

Wenn Zeit ist alles, was Sie : Zeit , wie durch die eingesperr Bevölkerung Erfahrene

University of Graz,

2016

Clients

American Society on Aging

Correctional Education Association

MHL Learning

CA Cancer Registry

American Association for Cancer Research

National Institutes of Cancer

US Administration for Child and Family Services

World Congress on Geriatrics and Gerontology

Awards & certifications (2)

Most Influential Minority Healthcare Leader

Fierce Healthcare

2022

Outstanding Alumni in Healthcare