Center Leadership

Proposed Membership

Co-Chairs

  • Craig Samitt –MD President and CEO, Dean Health, GPIN
  • Ted Epperly MD– AAFP Past President
  • Dana Gelb Safran ScD – Senior Vice President, Performance Measurement and Improvement, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
  • Blair Childs, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, Premier Healthcare Alliance

Vice Co-Chairs

  • Jack Cochran MD – Executive Director, Permanente Federation
  • Elliot Fisher MD – Director, Center for Population Health, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice;

Founding Members

  • Christine Sinsky MD – Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Associates Clinic and Health Plans 
  • Albert Mulley MD, - Chief of the General medicine Division, Director of the Medical Practices Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital   
  • Julie Schlitz – Colorado Beacon Consortium, Director, Community Collaboratives & Practice Transformation
  • Jim Hester- Director, Health Care Reform Commission, Vermont State Legislature
  • Katherine Schneider MD – Chief Medical Officer, Atlanticare
  • Kavita Patel MD– Director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation
  • Marjie  Harbrecht MD - Medical/Executive Director of the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative
  • Anne Gauthier  - National Academy for State Health Policy
  • Richard Antonelli MD - Medical Director, Children’s Hospital Integrated Care Organization, and Interim Medical Director for Quality, Physicians’ Organization, Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School
  • Yael Harris – Director, Office of Health IT and Quality, Health Research and Service Administration
  • Carmen Hooker Odom MRP- President, Millbank Memorial Fund
  • Lee Sacks MD– Chief Medical Officer,  Advocate Healthcare ; CEO, Advocate Physician Partners
  • John Blair MD– President and CEO, Taconic IPA, Inc
  • Marty Kohn MD – Associate Director, Healthcare Analytics, IBM Research
  • Stephen Shortell PhD – Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and management; Dean UC Berkeley School of Public Health
  • Andrew Morris Singer MD - President , Primary Care  Progress, Harvard Medical School
  • Michael Barry MD -  President, Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, Medical Director, John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation, Massachusetts General Hospital, 
  • Diane Rittenhouse MD -  Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF
  • Lawrence Casalino MD - Chief of the Division of Outcomes and  Effectiveness, Well Cornell Medical College
  • Dorrance, Kevin MD - Department of Defense
  • Shear, Joanne FNP– Primary Care Clinic Program Manager, Veterans Administration
  • Sunny Ramchandani MD - Medical Director, Office of Personel Management
  • Michael Dinneen MD -  Director, Office of Strategy Management, Military Health Services
  • Sharon Pacchiana, TRICARE,  Health Budgets and Financial Policy, TRICARE,  advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (ASD/HA) for Department of Defense
  • Ashish K. Jha, MD - Harvard  School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management
  • Bruce Harmony MD -  Chief Medical Officer, Geisinger
  • Jay Crossin MD, Chair, Council of Accountable Physician Practices  
  • William Jessee MD – President and CEO, Medical Group Management Association