Leadership with Impact
Leading the Future of Mental Health Care
Our leadership team blends deep experience in mental health clinical care and operational excellence to ensure every decision supports our team, our clients, and our goal of expanding needed access to mental health care.
Brian Wheelan, Chief Executive Officer of Transformations Care Network, discusses how TCN is expanding access to mental health care.
Our Team
Meet Our Leaders
Brian Wheelan
As a former Medicaid administrator and former president of the nation’s largest behavioral health payer, Brian knows first-hand what is not working well enough in our mental health system. Fixing those problems requires a relentless focus on making the experience of mental healthcare better for all involved – making it easier to access care whether face-to-face or virtually, enabling our clinicians to thrive by supporting them with tools, technology, and training, making the lives of our clients and patients better by ensuring that the services they receive from Transformations are evidence-based, high-quality, and measurably working. It’s a bold vision that must succeed for the sake of the communities in which we live – ALL Communities.
Brian is a native of Illinois but lives today in Boston with his wife Brooke and three children Grace, Paige, and Grant.
Maggie Tapp
As Chief Operating Officer she is responsible for managing the overall operations, clinical outcomes, and service delivery for our clinics across the country. Maggie joined TCN from Beacon Health Options where she held a variety of roles including Chief Operating Officer. She is a licensed clinical social worker with an extensive background in community and disaster mental health and has a passion for treating children, adolescents, and women experiencing perinatal mood disorders. She was responsible for leading the disaster mental health response on the ground in New York City following the 9/11 attacks and for building the national long term recovery plan for the American Red Cross, which provided a portable mental health benefit for survivors, family members, and rescue and recovery workers.
Maggie lives in Charlotte, NC with her husband Kevin, and two (almost adult) children, Maddox and Avery.
Ryan Wakim
With a passion for and expertise in interventional psychiatry, Ryan focuses on advanced approaches that expand what’s possible in mental healthcare, including psychedelic-assisted treatments such as ketamine, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), and EEG-driven treatment planning.
He obtained his medical degree from West Virginia University where he also completed his residency training, finishing as chief resident in 2014. Dr. Wakim co-founded and served as the CEO of an innovative, wellness-informed, multistate healthcare system, Transformations, until a successful merger with Shore Capital’s outpatient mental health platform in May of 2021.
He now sits as the acting Chief Medical Officer of the Transformations Care Network with a key role in developing strategic clinical and growth-oriented initiatives with a renewed purpose of changing the standard and stigma of behavioral healthcare, generationally.
Dr. Wakim along with his wife (Liza) enjoys exercising, golfing, traveling, and time well spent in the presence of those near and dear to their hearts, most especially their two dogs (Lulu and Rayna).
Mark Heit
Mark has spent the past 20 years working to expand access to care. Prior to joining Transformations, he was a leader at Beacon Health Options, ultimately ending his tenure as Market President, where he partnered with government agencies and healthcare payers to implement programs and services that make mental health and substance use treatment more readily available. Both personally and professionally, Mark has seen the impact that untreated mental illness has on individuals, families (including his own), and the entire community. He has committed his career to collaborating with stakeholders throughout the healthcare system to reduce human suffering and increase resources for behavioral healthcare.
Mark lives in San Francisco with his wife, daughter, and their beloved dog. He spends his free time in the kitchen or enjoying live music with lifelong friends.
Yvonne Chung
Yvonne believes that everyone should have access to high quality healthcare, and that is what has motivated her career.
Prior to joining Transformations, Yvonne was at Tufts Health Plan where she worked with provider partners to drive performance. She started her healthcare journey at Beacon Health Options, where she led corporate strategy and analytics. Earlier in her career, Yvonne was a management consultant at Bain & Co. and an analyst at Morgan Stanley.
Yvonne lives in the Greater Boston area with her three young kids and husband.
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