Senior Director of Strategic Alliances
Candace D. Collins supports Praesidium’s client growth across industries and builds relationships with insurance partners, foundations, and relevant associations. Candace has worked with clients across the globe in the UK, Australia, and other countries. As Director of Strategic Alliances, she works with clients to build organizational prevention strategies while also supporting Praesidium’s crisis response work. Before joining Praesidium, Candace served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas. In this position, she focused on consumer and elder protection prosecuting abuse and neglect in group homes and long-term care facilities. Additionally, she has ten years of experience working in the insurance coverage and defense field. Candace holds a bachelor’s degree in business management and a Juris Doctorate (JD).
Vice President of Consulting
Christy Schiller has over 20 years of industry experience applying social science and public health strategies to prevent abuse and its long-term effects. In her role at Praesidium, Christy has developed customized solutions for complex organizations such as religious institutes and denominations, fraternal organizations, K12 schools, universities, and healthcare systems. She has worked with clients in the US, UK, Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, Spain, and Italy. Christy led content development for Praesidium’s Creating a Safe Environment (C.A.S.E.) signature training program and led the training and development of Praesidium’s consultants. She is a former complex litigation research analyst with a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and a master’s degree in Medical Anthropology.
Increasing litigation, legislation, insurance demands, and accreditation standards provide ongoing reminders of the frameworks needed to address sexual misconduct. Amid watershed events, healthcare providers have been refining an ever-growing list of prevention to-dos for some time, but with mixed success. Armed with a list of prevention goals, providers often struggle to get any real traction with these efforts.
But what if we reflect on the connection between these struggles and the links to patient safety? Join Praesidium for a discussion on how these reflections may create a path forward from system-level liability for disruptive behavior and physician sexual misconduct to navigate sexual misconduct as a system-wide patient safety issue.
