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Vice President and Director, Information and Technology Strategies
Daniel Armijo has more than 15 years of experience leveraging health information to create systems that improve health. He has dedicated his career to paradigm-changing work in the application of information technology to health and health care.
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Area of Expertise Lead for Food Assistance and Nutrition
Loren Bell is a nationally known expert in food assistance and nutrition education program policy and program operations. He has more than 25 years of experience working with the Women, Infants, and Children, and Food Stamp programs at the state and national levels.
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Practice Area Lead, Veteran Affairs Program Management
Tim Borchert has extensive experience in program management, advisory services, and performance management. He has over 13 years working with Veteran Affairs, Military Health System, Indian Health Service, and several commercial health systems.
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Practice Area Deputy, Program Analysis and Evaluation
Max Burke, a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, has more than 30 years experience with designing, implementing, and improving health policies and practices within the Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and the private sector.
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Director, Health Care Quality Research
With more than 30 years experience in health care, including military medicine, Cathy Call brings experience in developing and administering complex health re-engineering programs; targeting force reduction while maintaining highest quality patient care; and strategic planning, policy development, and operational deployment.
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Area of Expertise Lead, HIV/AIDS
Antigone Dempsey has more than 19 years of experience in HIV/AIDS program management, organizational leadership, technical assistance, and consensus-based strategic partnership building.
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Deputy Director, Business Development, Health Care Analytics
Dr. Elaine Ehresmann brings more than 28 years of Tri-Service experience within the Navy Medical Department. Her work involved directing and managing many aspects of the Military Health System’s Health Affairs Health Budgets & Financial Policy, TRICARE Management Activity program management, and Navy Medicine Business Planning regarding workload and productivity within the medical and dental communities. She also oversaw the Army Medicine training and education component of graduate education in the area of Health Services Administration.
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Deputy Director, Community Health Systems
Eric Gelman has almost 20 years of experience assessing, developing, and evaluating substance abuse treatment and behavioral health programs throughout the country. He oversees and manages large, multi-state, multi-task projects ensuring all projects meet contractual requirements.
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Altarum Institute Fellow
Tom Hill has more than 20 years experience as a grassroots and professional community organizer. He is a nationally recognized thought leader in the field of addiction recovery and recovery–oriented systems of care.
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Senior Coach, Lean Six Sigma
Steve Hoeft is a Toyota-trained Lean Six Sigma Coach who has helped organizations win 14 Shingo prizes. He is a practitioner, teacher, and thought leader in applying Lean principles to unique, knowledge-worker processes such as health care, new product development, supply chains, and manufacturing.
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Health Care Economist and Practice Area Lead, Forecasting and Economic Analysis
John Hufford has nearly 25 years experience in Military Health System and Veterans Affairs data analysis, specializing in population data analysis and forecasting, economic analysis, and medical facility construction requirements analysis and decision support.
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Health Economist and Senior Analyst, Center for Sustainable Health Spending
Paul Hughes-Cromwick has been with Altarum Institute since 2002. He has been involved in health care economic and policy analyses since receiving his master’s degree in 1981.
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Deputy Director, Strategy and Growth, Systems Research and Initiatives
Dr. Holly Korda brings career experience as a consultant to nonprofit, public, and private organizations in the areas of performance-based evaluation and decision support, strategic analysis, and identification and transfer of best practice innovations in public- and private-sector health care.
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Deputy Director, Health Care Analytics
Jim Laramie has been with Altarum Institute since 1984, supporting the Military Health System and Veterans Affairs, focusing on health data analysis and forecasting, and pioneering the integration of technologies such as SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence with Web-based geospatial modeling, analysis, and forecasting tools to solve a range of health care delivery and optimization issues.
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Vice President and Director, Health Care Operations
Ryan Lay is an experienced leader, business professional, and collaborator with a successful track record focused on improving business performance and operational efficiency of federal programs. His management consulting career has concentrated on a broad portfolio of projects, including: strategic planning, revenue cycle management, organizational transformation, business process reengineering, and program management.
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Vice President, Integrated Strategic Business Development
James Lee has been with Altarum Institute since 1989 where his work has focused on evaluating the cost effectiveness of medical capital investments, disease management programs, and new health technologies.
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Co-Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care
For 25 years, Dr. Wendy Lynch has been making the connection between human and business performance. Her career has included roles as faculty at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, senior scientist at Health Decisions International, and principal at Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
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Director, Altarum Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness
Dr. Joanne Lynn is a geriatrician, hospice physician, health services researcher, quality improvement advisor, and policy advocate who has focused upon shaping American health care so that every person can count on living comfortably and meaningfully through the period of serious illness and disability in the last years of life, at a sustainable cost to the community. She now leads the Center on Elder Care and Advanced Illness for Altarum Institute.
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Deputy Director, Altarum Center for Healthy Child and Youth Development
Karah Mantinan manages a portfolio of partnerships and initiatives designed to evaluate, research, and assist efforts that seek to improve child, family, and systems outcomes related to healthy child and youth development.
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Senior Policy Consultant and Practice Area Lead, Health Program Analysis and Evaluation
Dr. Karen Metscher has more than 22 years of experience with the Military Health System, federal, state and nonprofit health organizations. She currently leads a portfolio of Altarum projects conducting a spectrum of research activities, including survey design, implementation, analysis, and reporting; research design, execution, and publication; data extraction, management and analysis; and health policy consultation.
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Vice President and Director, Community Health Systems
Jesse Milan is a nationally recognized speaker and expert on HIV/AIDS policies and programs. He has 25 years of experience guiding and directing multimillion dollar prevention and care programs at regional, national, and global levels. A person living with HIV for 29 years, Mr. Milan provides thought leadership to federal and international entities, and has chaired national HIV/AIDS boards and committees.
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Altarum Institute Fellow
Dr. George Miller supports Altarum in the application of operations research methods to modeling and analysis of health care issues. He has directed numerous projects addressing topics in the cost of care.
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Director, Military Health Systems
Raymond Paris has extensive experience in military health program design, requirements analysis, metric development, and programming. He has extensive knowledge of the Department of Defense Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System.
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Vice President, Health Care Economics; Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending
Dr. Charles Roehrig is a health care economist and econometrician specializing in health sector modeling and analysis. He has many years of experience in forecasting health care workforce supply and requirements.
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Director, Center for Food Assistance and Nutrition
Linnea Sallack has more than 30 years of experience in planning and managing public health nutrition programs in both local and state government settings. Her expertise is in administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and coordination of the WIC Program with other food assistance programs and public health services.
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Senior Survey Methodologist
Ed Schneider has more than 40 years of experience in survey methodology spanning health care, financial services, customer satisfaction, product development and political campaigns. He has specialized in data visualization and the knowledge transfer phase of large scale surveys by developing reporting websites, sourcebooks, and comprehensive reports for organizations such as TRICARE, MBNA (now Bank of America), the Institute for Social Research, and McDonald’s.
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Practice Area Deputy, Policy, Planning, and Evaluation
Renee Schwalberg’s project work focuses on maternal and child health, children with special health care needs, and the presentation of quantitative data. She couples solid qualitative and quantitative analytic skills with the ability to present research findings in a professional and easy-to-understand format.
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Research Director, Innovative Care Delivery, Co-Director, Altarum Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care
Dr. Brad Smith helps guide the Institute’s strategic research initiatives related to improving the performance of the health care delivery system. He also leads technical projects in a variety of substantive areas.
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Director, Policy, Planning and Evaluation
Dr. Namratha Swamy has more than 10 years of evaluation experience, including process, outcome, and impact evaluations, and formative research. She has expertise in planning and designing complex, multi-site evaluations at the national level and in using mixed methods for national, state, and community program evaluations.
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Deputy Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending
Ani Turner has more than 20 years of experience in quantitative analysis and modeling to support decisionmaking in health care policy and operations. She has extensive experience developing models to forecast supply and demand of health professions at the federal and state levels, including studies of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and physical therapists.
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Lead Survey Methodologist
Thomas Wilkinson has over 30 years of experience in survey methodology and survey data collection operations, with special focus on health services research and patient satisfaction measurement and reporting systems. He has directed large-scale survey projects for the Harvard Medical School, Department of Defense, CMS, CDC, and units of the NIH.
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Director, Center for Behavioral Health Services and Director, Access to Recovery
Diana Williams has 25 years of experience in the field of substance abuse at local and state levels. An expert in program development and management, she has worked with many populations who struggle with mental health and addiction issues including the criminal justice population, pregnant women, children, adolescents, and families.
