Appendix C

Biographical Sketches

Vice Admiral (VADM) Jerome Adams, M.D., M.P.H., the 20th Surgeon General of the United States, was sworn into office by Vice President Mike Pence on September 5, 2017. Dr. Adams, a board-certified anesthesiologist, served as Indiana State Health Commissioner from 2014 to 2017. Dr. Adams has bachelor’s degrees in both biochemistry and psychology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, an M.P.H. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.D. from the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Adams was also an associate professor of clinical anesthesia at Indiana University School of Medicine and a staff anesthesiologist at Eskenazi Health, where he was the chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. He has served in leadership positions at a number of professional organizations, including the American Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Association, and the Indiana Society of Anesthesiologists. He is the immediate past chair of the Professional Diversity Committee for the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

As health commissioner, Dr. Adams presided over Indiana’s efforts to deal with the state’s unprecedented HIV outbreak. In this capacity, he worked directly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as with state and local health officials and community leaders, and brought the widest range of resources, policies, and care available to stem the epidemic affecting that community. He also helped with the successful launch of Indiana’s state-based, consumer-driven alternative to Medicaid expansion and worked with the state legislature to secure more than $10 million to combat infant mortality in high-risk areas of the state.

Cathy Baase, M.D., serves as the board chair of the Michigan Health Improvement Alliance, a multi-stakeholder collaborative dedicated to improving the health of people in 14 counties of central Michigan. She is a member of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and chairs its Business Collaborative. Additionally, Dr. Baase serves on the Stakeholder Engagement Subcommittee of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2030. She is currently a member of the National Alliance to impact the Social Determinants of Health and serves as a senior advisor to HealthBegins, which is focused on upstream efforts in health care.

Dr. Baase recently retired from her role as the chief health officer and the global director of health services for The Dow Chemical Company, a position she held for 20 years of her 32 years with Dow. While there, she had direct responsibility for leadership and management of all Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion programs and staff around the world. Dr. Baase was also the key driver of the Dow Health Strategy. She served as a board member of the Partnership for Prevention for more than 10 years and the Board of Directors of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative Board for 3 years. She also served on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Roadmaps to Health Advisory Board, the National Quality Forum’s advisory group for the Multi-Stakeholder Input on a National Priority: Improving Population Health by Working with Communities project, many committee and advisory positions with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and most recently on the Public Health–Health Care Collaboration Workgroup of the Advisory Committee to the Director of CDC. She was previously a member of the Clinical Research Roundtable of the Institute of Medicine.

She is a fellow in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and a fellow in the American Academy of Family Physicians. Under her leadership, the health programs of The Dow Chemical Company were extensively recognized for their innovation and achievement around the world. Dr. Baase has received numerous awards and recognition throughout her career. In 2017, she received the highest honor in occupational and environmental medicine when she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Occupational and Environmental Medicine Award from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Later that year, Dr. Baase was again recognized as a distinguished executive leader in the health field as she received the 2017 Jerry Noyce Executive Health Champion Award from the Health Enhancement Research Organization.

Dr. Baase is a distinguished communicator on the topics of health strategy, prevention, occupational health, and public health and is on

the editorial staff of the American Journal of Health Promotion. She has co-authored more than 30 publications and received many awards for leadership in the health field.

Dr. Baase graduated from the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in primary care faculty development. She has been board certified in family practice since completing her residency at Saginaw Cooperative Hospitals Inc., where she served as the chief resident. She graduated summa cum laude from Saginaw Valley State University with degrees in chemistry and secondary education.

Patricia M. DePompei, M.S.N., was appointed the president of University Hospitals (UH) MacDonald Women’s Hospital and Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in 2012. UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s has been a trusted leader in pediatric health care for more than 125 years, consistently ranking among the top children’s hospitals in the nation. Founded in 1891, UH MacDonald Women’s Hospital is 1 of only 11 full-service women’s hospitals in the country and the only hospital in Ohio dedicated solely to women’s health. Ms. DePompei has held a variety of positions within health care over the past 30 years, including clinical and management positions in pediatric and neonatal intensive care as well as human resources. She received her M.S.N. from Kent State University and her B.S.N. cum laude from the Medical College of Ohio at the University of Toledo; and completed the Executive Management Series in Health Care at Case Western Reserve University/Weatherhead School of Management.

Ms. DePompei has served on a number of regional and national programs related to the health and wellness of children and families. She is the 2017 chair of the American Hospital Association’s Section for Maternal and Child Health Governing Council. She was the chair of the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association (2017–2019) and a board member of The Center for Health Affairs in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Centers for Families and Children. She was appointed to the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association national “Solutions for Patient Safety” Board in 2015 and has served in a number of local organizations, including serving as chair of the Cleveland March of Dimes “March for Babies” walk, leader of the University Hospitals of Cleveland United Way campaign, Board Member of the Centers for Families and Children and the Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland. She is an alumni of Leadership Cleveland class of 2016.

Heidi Gartland, M.H.A., is a health care executive, a community leader, and a lobbyist at University Hospitals (UH) of Cleveland, a $4 billion-plus health care system with 18 hospitals and more than 25,000 physicians and employees. She leads UH’s external relations and strategy, including com-

munity relations, community benefit, corporate reinvestment, strategic economic development, government and regulatory affairs, and diversity and inclusion commitments. She advocates for UH at the federal, state, and local levels, and is an experienced leader in health care public policy.

Ms. Gartland is also a dedicated civic leader. She serves on the boards of the Trauma Centers Association of America (Washington, DC), Ohio Children’s Hospital Association, Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Evergreen Cooperatives, Business Volunteers Unlimited, Positive Education Program, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, and In Counsel With Women. Ms. Gartland is currently the chair of The Center for Health Affairs, is a member of the Enterprise Community Partners’ Policy & Advocacy Advisory Group, and serves on the United Way Cuyahoga County Accountable Health Community Advisory Board, as well as the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Community Advisory Board.

Previously, she chaired the boards of the Institute for Health Innovation (a $7 million foundation in Columbus), NewBridge Cleveland, the Foundation for Healthy Communities, and Voices for Ohio’s Children (Columbus). She also co-chaired the 2016 United Way of Greater Cleveland campaign, the Cleveland Foundation’s Economic Inclusion Management Committee, and the Infant Mortality Community Health Action Team, which is part of the Greater University Circle Initiative. In addition, she was a member of the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency’s Advisory Committee.

Honors include election as a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and as a member of the American Leadership Council for Diversity in Healthcare. In 2014, Ms. Gartland was recognized as a Health Care Hero by Crain’s Cleveland Business and was a finalist in 2013 for the ATHENA International Leadership Award. Inside Business magazine profiled her advocacy leadership in 2013. Ms. Gartland completed her undergraduate degree at The College of Wooster (Ohio). She earned a master’s of Health Administration at The Ohio State University and a certificate in diversity management from Georgetown University. Ms. Gartland is also an adjunct faculty member teaching health policy and law in the M.B.A. program of Baldwin Wallace University and teaching the certificate in diversity management for the American Hospital Association.

Gary R. Gunderson, M.Div., D.Min., D.Div., is the vice president for faith and health, a professor of public health sciences, and (at the Divinity School) a professor of religion and the health of the public, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Wake Forest University School of Divinity. He holds an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University in History, a master’s of Divinity at Emory University (with an honors thesis on economics, faith, and the hungry), and a Doctor of Ministry from

the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta (with a thesis on boundary leadership). He is interested in organizational and community change and how people influence complex human systems to morph in the direction of greater vitality, decency, and maybe even justice. He has always been interested in what faith has to do with any of this. It has been a curious life path, but has led through about 8 years at The Carter Center, where many of these ideas were developed, and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, then 7 years as a senior executive at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (a $1.5 billion faith-based hospital system in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the poorest cities in the United States). His current work focuses on helping this large system align its full institutional and human assets with its professed goal of advancing the health of the region.

Maurice A. Jones, J.D., M.S., became the fourth president and the chief executive officer of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in 2016. Prior to joining LISC, he served as the secretary of commerce for the Commonwealth of Virginia, where he managed 13 state agencies focused on the economic needs in his native state. He previously served as the deputy secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, overseeing operations for the agency and its 8,900 staff members. Earlier, he was the commissioner of Virginia’s Department of Social Services and the deputy chief of staff to former Virginia Governor Mark Warner.

Trained as an attorney, Mr. Jones worked during the Clinton administration on legal, policy, and program issues at the Department of the Treasury, where he also helped manage a then-new initiative called the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund—a federal program that has grown to be a critical supporter of nonprofits that leverage capital to bolster their communities. In the private sector, Mr. Jones was the general manager of The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk and went on to become the president and the publisher of its parent company. He also worked for a Richmond law firm and a private philanthropy investing in community-based efforts to benefit children in Washington, DC.

Mr. Jones did his undergraduate work at Hampden-Sydney College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. At Oxford University, he earned a master’s degree in international relations. He earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

James Knickman, Ph.D., is the Derzon Clinical Professor at the New York University (NYU) Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Dr. Knickman serves as the director of the Health Evaluation and Analytics Lab, a joint initiative of the Wagner Health Policy and Management Program and the NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Department

of Population Health. He also has a faculty appointment at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Dr. Knickman was previously the president and the chief executive officer of the New York State Health Foundation, a position he held since 2006. The Foundation focuses on high-impact interventions to bring about measurable improvements in New York’s health system. Prior to that appointment, Dr. Knickman was the vice president for research and evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). At RWJF, Dr. Knickman served on the executive group that set strategy and made decisions related to a $400 million annual grant-making agenda, with specific duties focused on management of grant making in the research and evaluation areas comprising approximately 25 percent of the foundation’s activities. Prior to RWJF, he was professor of health policy and health administration at NYU Wagner.

Dr. Knickman serves as a board member of the National Council on Aging in Washington, DC, and of Philanthropy New York. He is a member of Fordham University’s Board of Visitors, the national advisory committee of the National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services, and the external advisory committee of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. He has published extensive research on issues related to the financing of health care and long-term care and improving services for frail elders, homeless families, and individuals with HIV. Dr. Knickman is the co-author of a widely used textbook on health policy and management. Dr. Knickman received a B.A. in sociology and psychology from Fordham University and a Ph.D. in public policy analysis from the University of Pennsylvania.

Sanne Magnan, M.D., Ph.D., is the co-chair of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is the former president and the chief executive officer of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (2006–2007, 2011–2016). In 2007, she was appointed the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Health by Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. She served from 2007 to 2010 and had significant responsibility for implementation of Minnesota’s 2008 health reform legislation, including the Statewide Health Improvement Program, standardized quality reporting, development of provider peer grouping, certification process for health care homes, and baskets of care.

Dr. Magnan was a staff physician at the Tuberculosis Clinic at St. Paul–Ramsey County Department of Public Health (2002–2015). She was a member of the Population-Based Payment Model Workgroup of the Healthcare Payment Learning and Action Network (2015–2016) and a member of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Multi-Sector

Collaboration Measure Development Technical Expert Panel (2016). She is on Epic’s Population Health Steering Board and on the Healthy People 2030 Engagement Subcommittee.

She served on the board of MN Community Measurement and the board of NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center, a federally qualified health center and part of Hennepin Health. Her previous experience also includes vice president and medical director of consumer health at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. Currently, she is a senior fellow with HealthPartners Institute and an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Magnan holds an M.D. and a Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry from the University of Minnesota and is a board-certified internist.

Phyllis Meadows, Ph.D., R.N., M.S.N., is a senior fellow in the Health Program at The Kresge Foundation. Since joining the Foundation in 2009, she has advised the health team on the development of its overall strategic direction and provided leadership in the design and implementation of grantmaking initiatives and projects. Dr. Meadows has also coached team members and created linkages to national organizations and experts in the health field. In addition, she regularly reviews grant proposals, aids prospective grantees in preparing funding requests, and provides health-related expertise. Dr. Meadows has led the Foundation’s Emerging Leaders and Public Health Program, and advises and supports the development of cross-team programming efforts with the Detroit, Environment and Human Services programs.

Dr. Meadows’s 30-year career spans the nursing, public health, academic, and philanthropic sectors. She is the former associate dean for practice at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a clinical professor in health management and policy, where she designed and implemented community-based health strategies, evaluation, research, and courses on leadership, policy, population health, and health equity. Dr. Meadows’s work in public health includes serving as the deputy director and then director/public health officer for the city of Detroit. In addition to serving as adjunct faculty with the Wayne State University College of Nursing and Oakland University’s School of Nursing, Dr. Meadows’s professional experience includes leadership roles across the health sector, working to deliver programs and services with an array of multi-disciplinary professionals in health, education, and human services. Dr. Meadows was selected for the Kellogg International Leadership Program–Group I. After completing the three-year fellowship, she joined the W.K. Kellogg Foundation as a program director working to advance quality programs for children and youth in education and higher education, and communities nationally and internationally. She maintains an

active advisory role on several national, statewide initiatives and boards that focus on improving the health of marginalized and low-income communities.

Bobby Milstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a director of ReThink Health for The Rippel Foundation and a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. With an educational background that combines cultural anthropology, behavioral science, and systems science, Dr. Milstein concentrates on challenges that involve large-scale institutional change and the need to align multiple lines of action. He led the development of the ReThink Health Dynamics model and a suite of regionally configured simulations that are used by leaders across the country to explore the likely health and economic consequences of policy scenarios. From 1991 to 2011, Dr. Milstein worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he founded the Syndemics Prevention Network, chaired the agency’s Behavioral and Social Science Working Group, and was the coordinator for a wide range of new initiatives. He was the principal architect of CDC’s framework for program evaluation and published a monograph titled Hygeia’s Constellation: Navigating Health Futures in a Dynamic and Democratic World. He has led several award-winning teams that bring greater structure, evidence, and creativity to the challenge of health system change. He is a co-founder (with Patty Mabry) of the National Institutes of Health Institute on Systems Science and Health and a co-developer of several other widely used health policy simulation models, including HealthBound and the Prevention Impacts Simulation Model. He has received CDC’s Honor Award for Excellence in Innovation and the Applied Systems Thinking Prize from the Applied Systems Thinking Institute, as well as Article of the Year awards from AcademyHealth and the Society for Public Health Education. Dr. Milstein holds a B.A. in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan, an M.P.H. from Emory University, and a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary arts and sciences, with a specialization in public health science from Union Institute & University.

Hoangmai (Mai) Pham, M.D., M.P.H., is the vice president, Provider Alignment Solutions, at Anthem. She is responsible for developing and refining Anthem’s provider payment models that reduce the cost of care while rewarding improvements in quality and access. Additionally, she is focused on developing new products and networks built on a foundation of value-based care, and overseeing Anthem’s Enhanced Personal Health Care initiative, a program that focuses on patient-centered care and reimburses doctors for value-based, rather than volume-based, performance.

Prior to joining Anthem in 2017, Dr. Pham was a founding official at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), where she served as the chief innovation officer. She was responsible for the implementation of the alternative payment model provisions of the Medicare Access and Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act and other multi-organizational initiatives for the center. Her earlier work at CMMI included responsibility as the director of the Seamless Care Models Groups, overseeing the design and testing of models on accountable care organizations (ACOs) and advanced primary care, including the Pioneer and Next Generation ACO Models and Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative. Previously, she was the senior health researcher and the co-director of research at the Center for Studying Health System Change and its affiliate, Mathematica, an independent health policy organization.

As a general internist, Dr. Pham has published extensively on payment policy issues, including care fragmentation and coordination, and also practiced for several years at safety net clinics in the Washington, DC, area. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, her M.D. from Temple University, and her M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University, where she was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.

Jamie Rantanen is a senior vice president and an institutional client advisor with U.S. Trust at Bank of America Private Wealth Management, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Rantanen works closely with regional and national private, nonprofit, and institutional clients to distill their financial needs and objectives, pursuing those priorities with efficiency across the U.S. Trust and Bank of America platforms.

Mr. Rantanen believes strongly in helping clients understand the “impact” of their investments relative to their values and concerns. He is also adept in incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) thematic investing within customized programs that identify risk and return opportunities across asset classes, as well as social and environmental impacts and outcomes.

He has extensive experience consulting to entrepreneurs, high net-worth clients and family offices, endowments and foundations, nonprofit organizations, and large institutions. Prior to joining U.S. Trust, he was head of ESG and Sustainable Investments at Deutsche Bank Asset Management, Americas. In this capacity, he led the development and implementation of the firm’s ESG and strategic Sustainable Investing initiatives in the United States and served as its primary representative to clients, the marketplace, and media. For the past 17 years, he led private wealth management teams at Deutsche Bank and UBS, both in Philadelphia. He began his wealth management career in 1998 at Smith Barney after 3 years in its Institutional Equity division.

Lisa Richter, M.B.A., is a managing partner and the co-founder of Avivar Capital. Previously, Ms. Richter co-founded and led GPS Capital Partners, a national consultancy that assisted foundations and other institutions in designing and executing impact investing strategies. She co-leads Avivar’s overall business activities, bringing more than two decades of fund management and investing experience spanning asset classes, return expectations, geographies and issue areas, and frequently incorporating place-based or sector focus to increase equitable access to opportunity. Clients range from small to the nation’s largest independent and community foundations, banks, and institutional investors, with interests ranging from place-based outcomes to theme-based strategies that apply traditional asset allocations to earn market-rate expected returns. She authored Grantmakers in Health Guide to Impact Investing, co-authored Equity Advancing Equity (a guide to community foundation impact investing), and co-authored a rural community foundation impact investing guide. She co-designed the Mission Investors Exchange, where she continues as a lead trainer. Through early 2006, Ms. Richter led the National Community Investment Fund, a national Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that places equity and debt in development banking institutions and built its national network of development banks and credit unions that increase asset-building credit and financial services. Prior to that, she assisted foundation, bank, government, and community-based clients in creating or expanding development financing initiatives in urban, rural, and tribal communities throughout the United States. Ms. Richter is a senior fellow with The Philanthropic Initiative, and serves or has served as a director or an advisor to the Center for Community Development Investments of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (where she currently also serves as a scholar-in-residence), Bank of America National Community Advisory Council, Dignity Health’s Community Economic Initiatives Subcommittee, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, CDFI Coalition, Chicago Community Loan Fund, U.S. Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, and New Markets Tax Credit Coalition. She holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. She is an adjunct instructor co-teaching a graduate course on impact investing at the University of Southern California.

Joshua M. Sharfstein, M.D., the co-chair of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, is the vice dean for public health practice and community engagement and a professor of the practice in health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also the director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. His book, Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times, was published in May 2018 by Oxford University Press.

Previously, Dr. Sharfstein served as the secretary of the Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene from 2011 to 2014. In this position, he led efforts to align Maryland’s health care system with improved health outcomes, culminating in the adoption of a revised payment model for all hospital care for Maryland residents. He also oversaw the development of a statewide health improvement process with 18 local public–private coalitions and the reshaping of the state’s approach to health information exchange, long-term care, and behavioral health. From 2009 to 2011, Dr. Sharfstein served as the principal deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, where he oversaw the agency’s successful performance management and transparency initiatives. From 2005 to 2009, as the commissioner of health for Baltimore City, Dr. Sharfstein led innovative efforts that contributed to major declines in both overdose deaths and infant mortality rates. From 2001 to 2005, as minority professional staff and the health policy advisor for Representative Henry A. Waxman, Dr. Sharfstein was engaged in a wide range of oversight and legislative activities on health care topics, including emergency preparedness, HIV, and the politicization of science.

Dr. Sharfstein graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in social studies from Harvard College. From 1991 to 1992, he worked on public health projects in Guatemala and Costa Rica with a Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. He graduated from Harvard Medical School, the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, and the fellowship in general academic pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Sharfstein was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Medicine (2014) and the National Academy of Public Administration (2013). He serves on the Board of Population Health and Public Health Practice of the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies and on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Association. His awards include the Jay S. Drotman Memorial Award from the American Public Health Association (1994), Public Official of the Year from Governing Magazine (2008), and the Circle of Commendation Award from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (2013).

Lisa Williams, M.B.A., is a vice president in the Alternative Investments & Manager Selection (AIMS) Group, based in New York, where she is a member of AIMS Imprint. Previously, she worked at Imprint Capital, an impact investment advisory firm, where she conducted due diligence across multiple asset classes, including liquid investments, private equity, and direct debt. Prior to Imprint, she worked with Jalia Ventures, a fund focused on businesses with deep community impact, and was an associate at Citigroup in the Investment Research Division. Ms. Williams received

a B.A. in business administration from Saint Peter’s University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, where she was a Robert Toigo Fellow.