Dr. Kori Novak

Dr. Kori Novak is an accomplished Senior Executive with more than 18 years of success spanning healthcare and criminal justice. Leveraging extensive experience as a CEO for various organization 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 Sr. Researcher in Gerontology at Oxford University and 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 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 currently lives in Southern California with the loves of her life, her rescued dogs Winston and Abigail.

KEYNOTE TOPICS

• The Compassion Asterisk
• Cancer in Rural California
• Teaching Inmates to care for each other: The Benefits of Soft Skills
• Trauma Informed Care, Fad, Fiction or Fix?
• Narrative Medicine in Hospice Care