Valeria (Val) Tivnan is the Vice-President of Population Health Strategy and Well-being at IMA Financial Corp. In this role she supports IMA clients in their journey to building a culture of
health in the workplace while helping leaders transform employees into knowledgeable healthcare consumers. Val’s passion is to advise leaders on tactics to bring lifestyle medicine into workplaces with a goal of improving population health, decreasing healthcare costs and transforming corporate cultures.
Val has 25+ years of experience in the wellness, well-being and lifestyle medicine fields. She is the Chair of the lifestyle medicine in the workplace group from ACLM and has contributed to several committees and published papers at prestigious journals such as the Am. J. Health Promotion and the Am J. of Lifestyle Medicine. Val is also on the board of a lifestyle medicine non-profit organization – PAVING the Path to Wellness and is the Chair of the Worksite Wellness Council of MA.
Val has a master’s in education from Boston University and an MPH from UCLA. She is an Adjunct Professor at Merrimack College and has won EBA’s prestigious ‘Wellness Director of
the Year’ award in 2017.
Sponsored by Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive Category I continuing education contact hours. Provider ID#101039
