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Program Manager
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Age: 31
Bio: Stayer is the program
manager at the Center for
Special Studies, NewYork-
Presbyterian/Weill Cornell's
HIV Clinic. In this role, she is
responsible for implementing
REACH (Ready to End AIDS
and Cure Hepatitis-C) colla
-
boration efforts across the
Cornell and Columbia cam-
puses. She manages a team of
community health workers,
peers, and home-care mana-
gers with the goal of impro-
ving patient health outcomes.
The REACH team focuses on
patients who are newly diag-
nosed, lost to follow-up, vira-
lly unsuppressed, have multi-
ple diseases, or are struggling
to make it to primary care and
specialty appointments. The
REACH Collaborative consists
of partnerships with six com-
munity-based organizations
and is part of the larger city
and state effort.
Most recently, Stayer has
been working to integrate the
state Health Home at New
York Presbyterian. It is a care
management program fo-
cused on helping Medicaid
patients achieve health goals
through a patient-centered
and community-based ap-
proach. Additionally, she tra-
vels to New York Presbyterian
clinics across the city training
employees on LGBTQ+ issues
and acts as a subject matter
expert on sexual orientation
and gender identity issues as
the organization prepares to
roll out a new electronic me-
dical record system in 2020.
She also holds a part-time po-
sition as a live support specia-
list and mentor for Columbia
School of Social Work's online
education program providing
technical support to instruc-
tors and students.
Prior to joining New York
Presbyterian in 2015, Stayer
worked with LGBTQ+ young
people experiencing home-
lessness and was a permanen-
cy planning supervisor in the
New York City foster care sys-
tem. She received a bachelor's
degree in philosophy, politics,
and law from Binghamton
University and a master's de-
gree in social work from Co-
lumbia School of Social Work.
She lives in Brooklyn with her
wife Brooke and their dog Jax.
WORDS OF WISDOM:
"K
now you belong here. You
belong here and everything
you feel is okay."
- Andrea Gibson
Marianna Stayer
Fighting
for Health
