Position:
Assistant Regional Medical Director, Quality and Clinical Analysis at Kaiser Permanente, Member, Value Based Purchasing Advisory Committee; Member, Technical Quality Advisory Committee at Integrated Healthcare Association, Value Based Purchasing Council, Member at National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH)
Work:
Kaiser Permanente
since Apr 1990
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Assistant Regional Medical Director, Quality and Clinical Analysis
Integrated Healthcare Association
- Oakland, CA since 2006
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Member, Value Based Purchasing Advisory Committee; Member, Technical Quality Advisory Committee
National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH)
- Washington, DC since 2006
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Value Based Purchasing Council, Member
California Cooperative Healthcare Reporting Initiative (CCHRI)
- San Francisco, CA 1994 - 2006
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Member, Executive Committee
Los Angeles Free Clinic (aka Sabin Free Clinic)
- Los Angeles, CA 1999 - 2004
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Member, Board of Directors; Chair, Quality Committee
Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH)
1994 - 1998
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Health Services Advisory Committee Member
NCQA
1992 - 1998
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Health Plan Surveyor
UCLA School of Medicine
- Los Angeles, CA 1980 - 1997
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Assistant Clinical Professor
Education:
Stanford University 1968 - 1972
Bachelor of Science (BS) with Distinction, Biology, General
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 1972 - 1979
MD and Residency, Medicine, and Family Medicine
USC 1992 - 1993
USC Advanced Leadership Development Program
Stanford University 1993 - 1994
Kaiser Permanente-Stanford Executive Program, Health/Health Care Administration/Management
California Health Care Foundation/UCSF Health Care Leadership Fellowship 2002 - 2004
Fellow, Health/Health Care Administration/Management
Interests:
Community Theater: I have performed as a character actor in several community theater productions from 1979-2004, including Anything Goes, Mame, 70 Girls 70, Pajama Game
Awards:
Phi Beta Kappa
Alpha Omega Alpha
Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians
AAFP Active Teacher Recognition
AMA Physician's Recognition Awards
American Medical Association
2001 to present
Vohs National Quality Award
Kaiser Permanente
Led the team that won the National Quality Award for Improving Prescription Drug Use to Best Practice: Supporting Evidence-based Drug Use in a large organization