Dorella Walters is the Chief Program Development Officer and for more than 27 years has led various areas of the organization and is focused on supporting the organization’s provision of services that includes serving more than 15,000 individuals nutritious, medically tailored, high-quality meals.

Dorella has held various leadership positions during her tenure at God’s Love, all of which have given her a unique insight into the clients and communities that we serve.  Under her leadership, the organization expanded the types of diagnoses and populations served and has seen significant growth in expanding the organization’s revenue portfolio to include healthcare partnerships with managed care organizations, health systems and community-based agencies.

In this role, she is responsible for reaching more than 7,000 new clients a year and for leading efforts in the development, implementation, and management of client program and service development, research-based community and healthcare partnerships, client growth and client retention.  She leads the departments responsible for being the first line of contact for our clients, their families and the medical and social service providers providing care for them.  The departments she is responsible for include Business Development, Client Services, Healthcare Partners, and Nutrition Services.

Oversight of these areas synthesize her efforts to expand God’s Love’s visibility regarding the impact that food is medicine interventions like medical nutrition therapy and medically tailored home-delivered meals have on health-related social needs, healthcare costs and health outcomes.

Nationally she leads the Healthcare Partners Committee and the healthcare track at the annual Food is Medicine Symposium, where member agencies of the Food is Medicine Coalition (FIMC) agencies are trained to engage in policy and healthcare contracts and conduct an iterative learning process to keep up with changes impacting such opportunities.

Dorella has recently represented the agency in the Gravity Project’s partnership with the Coding4Food Medically Tailored Meals (MTM) Workgroup, is a member of the PHS WholeYouNYC Social Care Network Governance Committee, is currently an advisory board member for the New York City Department of Health’s project with the National Institutes of Health funded Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Data to Suppression study and is an advisory council member of the New York State Food as Medicine (FAM) Coalition.  Dorella received her Master of Public Administration from the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College.