Senior Staff

Twiggy Rodriguez is the Managing Director of Total Quality Management, leading PHMC’s efforts to continually achieve total quality management throughout the organization. Twiggy comes to PHMC with nearly 20 years of executive management experience in the public health industry. Twiggy previously served as the Vice President of Primary Health at Acacia Network in New York City, where she was in charge of managing the Health Home program, DSRIP transformation of care and the Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). As an officer at Acacia, she gained experience developing, operating and overseeing the execution of an integrated model of care while preparing the organization for their value based proposition.

Twiggy earned her B.A. in TV Production and Directing at the Higher Institute of Television Studies (ITV), in Guayaquil, Ecuador and currently pursuing an Executive program of value based care at Harvard Business School

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Laurie Corbin serves as the Managing Director for Housing and Justice Related Services, responsible for a continuum of programs that provide social services prevention, intervention, treatment and education to at risk individuals and their families. This includes responsibility for Forensic Services Programs (FIR), which represents a continuum of programs or services that focus on the diversion and early release from incarceration for justice- involved individuals; Community-Based Outreach Programs (CBOP), which include a treatment readiness/recovery support program; and New Pathways Project and Philadelphia Hepatitis Outreach Project (PHOP), a prevention education initiative for high-risk individuals. Laurie also oversees PHMC’s Homeless and Social Service programs that seek to provide comprehensive, integrated care to Philadelphia’s chronically homeless population. Laurie has also had the position of Program Director for Interim House West and Bridges’ Step Down, which provided substance use treatment and recovery housing to woman. Laurie has held leadership positions in the area of child welfare at Methodist Family Services and Northeast Treatment Centers.

Laurie has a Master of Social Service (MSS), Master of Law and Social Policy (MLSP) and Certificates in Non-Profit Executive Leadership from Bryn Mawr School of Social Work and Social Research and the Philadelphia African American Leadership Forum (PAADLF) through the Urban League of Philadelphia. She also has a B.A. in Political Science from Temple University. Laurie currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Philadelphia Reentry Coalition and as a member of the Penn Mental Health AIDS Research Community Advisory Board. She previously served as a board member for the Pennsylvania Prison Society.

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Patty Griffin is PHMC’s Chief Communications Officer, overseeing the development and execution of organizational narratives that reflect and drive the PHMC mission forward. She leads strategic communications and external affairs, including marketing communications, internal communications, media relations, government relations and community engagement.

Patty has more than 30 years of experience as a proven communications professional, providing strategic communications counsel to senior leaders, aligning messaging with business objectives, developing and implementing change management and crisis response communications, and executing public relations and marketing initiatives.

Prior to joining PHMC in 2014, Patty held communication management roles at AmeriHealth Caritas and Walgreens/Take Care Health. She worked as an independent communications consultant with a variety of clients including The Philadelphia Eagles, Lincoln Financial Group, Aramark Corporation, AstraZeneca, and White Williams Scholars. She served as Director of Public Relations for GailForce Communications where she worked closely with national and local, print and broadcast media. Patty began her career delivering internal and external communications at Cigna and General Accident Insurance.

Patty is a lifelong Philadelphian, who is deeply committed to the well-being of the city. She holds a B.A. in Journalism, with a concentration in Public Relations from Temple University in Philadelphia.

Darrell Thompson is Managing Director of Information Technology and brings more than 20 years of information technology experience in business process automation, health data integrations and interfaces, medical billing platforms, healthcare management systems, informatics strategy and business intelligence. Darrell provides leadership in international application development, enterprise application integration, project management and health care information systems. Throughout his career, Darrell has managed numerous projects including the development and implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms, health care data exchange and technical team management. With a focus on linking health information across systems; as well as application design, Darrell thrives in the programming and analysis of systems information.

In a previous role, Darrell founded his own business supporting health care providers integrating labs, pharmacies, clearing houses, state and federal payers and commercial insurance providers.

Darrell holds a Business Administration degree from Peirce College.

Amanda Atkinson is Managing Director of Child Development and Family Services, overseeing program operations for a portfolio of early learning programs including PHLpreK Administrative Intermediary, PHMC’s Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts, Building Early Links for Learning, and ChildWare. The Child Development and Family Service programs seek to improve education, health and the mental well-being of young children, families and the early learning workforce. Prior to her tenure at PHMC, Amanda held positions in informal education program impact evaluation and business software user experience research.

Amanda has presented at a number of conferences and forums on the topics of improving quality, reducing risk and injury, and best practices for early care and education for children experiencing homelessness. She was a Sorenson Innovation Fellow at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah; a Pennsylvania Education Policy Fellow at the Institute for Educational Leadership; and holds a certificate in Nonprofit Executive Leadership from Bryn Mawr College. Amanda holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, a Master of Fine Arts in Museum Exhibition Design, and a Master of Public Health.