Stanley P. Mayers Endowed Lecture
27th Annual Stanley P. Mayers Endowed Lecture
The Journey of Health Care Reform: Creating and Sustaining Large-scale Change in a Constantly Shifting Landscape
Devon Trolley, Executive Director, Pennie
The 27th Annual Stanley P. Mayers Endowed Lecture will take place from 6-7 p.m. on April 1, 2025, at the Hintz Family Alumni Center. A Zoom webinar viewing option will also be available.
About the speaker
Devon Trolley currently serves as Executive Director of Pennie, Pennsylvania's health insurance marketplace. Trolley's current role follows years of work at national and state levels to expand access to health insurance and reduce the uninsured rate.
Prior to her role with Pennie, Trolley was the Director of Get Covered New Jersey. In this role, she oversaw the launch of the New Jersey health insurance marketplace, and a unique state premium subsidy in 2020 that led to record enrollment levels. Trolley also worked for the federal government with the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the implementation and stabilization of the federal health insurance marketplace in key strategic and policy roles.
Trolley served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of the CMS Administrator, working to address the opioid crisis and improve maternal health. She developed legislation related to health insurance reforms and coverage expansion in the United States Senate as a Winston Health Policy Fellow during the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Trolley holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Policy and Administration and a Master of Health Administration, both from Penn State through an integrated undergraduate/graduate program.
Trolley's talk will examine the many facets of developing and implementing large-scale national transformations in the healthcare industry. It will cover the factors that create momentum for far-reaching policy changes, the lessons learned in bringing ideas to life through implementation, and the importance of evaluating and communicating policy effectiveness with a human-centered lens. Through exploration of the lifecycle of health coverage reforms established in the Affordable Care Act, the lecture will focus on the evolution of impactful national policy from initial passage into law to the current state and outlook for the future and will highlight key takeaways that can be applied across various health care realms.
About the Stanley P. Mayers Endowed Lecture
The Stanley P. Mayers Endowed Lecture is regularly conducted each Spring. The late Stanley P. Mayers, Jr. M.D., co-founded the Penn State undergraduate program in the Department of Health Policy and Administration. He was a member of the Mount Nittany Society, the University’s highest donor-recognition group, and gave his own personal resources to support outstanding students in the College of Health and Human Development. In honor of his late wife, he established the Virginia L. Mayers Memorial Scholarship Endowment in 1992.
HPA faculty members, staff, and alumni are committed to enlarging the endowment and have unanimously supported the initiative with their own private contributions. The fund enhances the education of students and expertise of faculty members in areas that continue to honor Dr. Mayers’ contributions as a professor, administrator and philanthropist. Today, the principal challenge for HPA is to stay abreast of changes in the industry while continuing to serve the public interest.
The endowment provides funds to enrich the department’s outreach activities, examples include: creating a public lecture series, enhancing field-based professional development for faculty members, and acquiring health care-specific teaching materials. Established as an endowment, the fund will provide income for the HPA department in perpetuity.
