Experience

Health Affairs

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant

  • May 2020 - Present



Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy

• Senior Health Policy Consultant

  • 2011 - 2018

  For seven years I served as a Senior Health Policy Consultant with Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Policy, whose mission is to shape policy and practice with evidence and experience from Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest private integrated health care delivery and financing organization. I investigated Kaiser Permanente’s efforts to transform care delivery and improve patient outcomes through health information technology. I profiled the organization’s development of patient registries, which sought to track care provision and patient outcomes in order to improve care protocols. For example, I profiled KP’s Total Joint Replacement Registry, which examined questions such as whether cemented, uncemented, or hybrid joints were most effective in total joint replacement surgeries. While at Kaiser I also investigated tax exemption from a health policy perspective, providing input to senior members of the KP legal team.



NASEM Health and Medicine Division

• United States
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Officer

  • 2005 - 2011

  For six years I worked at what has been called “the ultimate think tank,” the Institute of Medicine (IOM), now the National Academy of Medicine. In my first assignment there, I was part of a team that produced three book-length reports on the nation’s emergency care system. Working with a committee of experts, I was the lead staff writer on a report entitled Emergency Medical Services at the Crossroads (2006). Subsequently, I worked with a team examining the applications of evidence-based medicine. We produced a book-length report entitled Knowing What Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation (2008). This report called for a national program to assess clinical effectiveness and helped spur the formation of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). While with the IOM, I also contributed to a number of additional projects, including Retooling for an Aging America: Buidling the Health Care Workforce (2008). I organized and directed workshops focusing on the nation’s emergency care system and authored detailed the workshop summaries, including The National Emergency Care Enterprise: Advancing Care through Collaboration (2009) and Regionalizing Emergency Care (2010).



National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS)

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • 2004 - 2005

  The mission of NACDS is to advance the interests and objectives of the chain drug store industry, by fostering its growth and promoting its role as a provider of healthcare services and consumer products. During my brief stay with NACDS, I tracked and analyzed legislation and rulemaking that was related to state and federal prescription drug programs, particularly Medicaid and Medicare.



AcademyHealth

• United States
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Manager

  • 1997 - 2004

  For 7 years I worked at AcademyHealth, a professional home for health services researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners, and a leading, non-partisan resource for health research and policy. I joined the organization in May 1997 and held several positions of increasing responsibility. I worked primarily on The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives program, assisting states in developing and implementing strategies to expand health insurance to the uninsured. I authored publications on state coverage programs, provided direct technical assistance to states, organized conferences, and administered grants. I authored two widely read publications on state Medicaid disease management programs and became a frequent presenter on the topic.



National Rehabilitation hospital

• Research Assistant

  • 1995 - 1997

  I worked for two years at the National Rehabilitation Hospital Research Center, the research arm of the NRH, a post-acute hospital serving patients with a restricted ability to function independently, whether because of a traumatic injury, an acute illness, a chronic health condition, or a congenital condition. At the NRH-RC we analyzed the impact of managed care on rehabilitation providers and the consolidation of the rehabilitation hospital industry through mergers and acquisitions. I was the lead author of an article appearing in Health Affairs (1998) that examined mergers and acquisitions in the rehabilitation hospital industry, particularly by HealthSouth, focusing on whether this trend served the public interest.