Gretchen Wartman
Gretchen Clark Wartman is Vice President for Policy and Program of the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF), and Director of the NMQF Institute for Equity in Health Policy and Practice. Ms. Wartman also directs the NMQF National Alliance for Brain Health and Awareness. Ms. Wartman has more than 40 years of experience in the public and private sectors in health policy […]
Ashley Valentine, MRes
Ashley is a Co-Founder and President of Sick Cells, and the youngest sibling of her family. Her older brother and Co-Founder of Sick Cells, Marqus Valentine, had sickle cell anemia, Hgb ss. Growing up, Ashley spent much of her childhood charming hospital playroom attendants while Marqus was frequently hospitalized for pain crises, fever, ad multiple […]
Daniel Touchette, PharmD
Daniel Touchette is Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Systems Outcomes and Policy at the University of Chicago Illinois. Dr. Touchette received his BS in Pharmacy from the University of Manitoba in Canada, and his PharmD and Master of Economics degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, U.S.A. He also completed a fellowship in pharmacoeconomics […]
Mary Reed, DrPH
Mary E. Reed, DrPH, is a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, and a founding steering committee member of the CREST emergency medicine research network. Her research interests include health information technology and health care delivery organization and their effects on clinical care, quality, and costs. She examines patient care-seeking […]
Jacquelyn McRae, PharmD, MS
Jacquelyn McRae, PharmD, MS is Director of Policy and Research at Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) focused on advancing policy and research in health equity and the value of medicines. Dr. McRae graduated with a Doctor of Pharmacy from Mercer University and a Master of Science in Applied Health Economics with Outcomes Research […]
Yasmeen Long, MS
Yasmeen Long is a director at FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, where she leads the Health Equity and Diversity in Clinical Trials portfolio. Her expertise lies within health equity and disparities, health outcomes, policy, clinical research, patient engagement, and social determinants of health. Prior to joining FasterCures, she co-directed the Health Policy Fellowships […]
Stacey Kowal, MSc
Stacey Kowal currently serves as a principal researcher in Genentech’s Health Policy and Systems Research team where her work focuses on identifying and testing new methods to assess the impact of new healthcare technologies. Her background includes both US and global work to inform health technology assessment (HTA) and reimbursement as well as design of […]
Dora Hughes, MD, MPH
Dora Hughes, MD, MPH, is the Chief Medical Officer at the CMS Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She leads the Center’s work on health equity, provides clinical leadership and input on models, serves as the Innovation Center’s primary liaison with medical and clinical stakeholders, and provides leadership to CMMI’s clinician […]
Juan Marcos Gonzalez, PhD
Dr. Gonzalez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University. He is an expert in the design of stated-preference survey instruments and the use of advanced statistical tools to analyze stated-preference data. His research has focused on the transparency in benefit-risk evaluations of medical interventions, and the elicitation of […]
Nelly Ganesan, MPH
As Executive Director of Community Engagement and Health Equity at JPMorgan Chase & Co. – Morgan Health, Nelly Ganesan, MPH advises clients on the implications of quality-related healthcare policies, including but not limited to public and private quality reporting programs, value-based care, and payment and delivery models. Nelly has special expertise in care models focused […]