CAPP - Key Persons
Brian Uzzi is a globally recognized scientist, teacher, consultant and speaker on leadership, social networks, and new media. He is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He also co-directs NICO, the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, is the faculty director of the Kellogg Architectures of Collaboration Initiative (KACI), and holds professorships in Sociology at the Weinberg College of Arts of Sciences and in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at the McCormick School of Engineering.
Job Titles:
- Pediatrician and Chief Medical Officer at the Everett Clinic
- the Everett Clinic / Member
Dr. Alka Atal-Barrio is a practicing pediatrician and Chief Medical Officer at The Everett Clinic. She is responsible for medical staff management, clinical programs and policies, quality and safety, clinical pharmacy, and advancing the clinic's care model. In overseeing this ongoing evolution of care, Dr. Atal-Barrio is helping ensure The Everett Clinic continues providing the highest quality of care at an affordable cost as it increasingly transitions to value-based care model supporting population health.
Dr. Atal-Barrio joined the Clinic in 1994 and has served in a variety of medical leadership roles since 2001. She was appointed to her current role in 2019. Previously, she served as Facility Medical Director from 2001 - 2013, Primary Care Service Line Medical Director from 2014 - 2016, Chief Clinical Officer from 2016 - 2018. She also served on The Everett Clinic Board of Directors. Dr. Atal-Barrio has 26 years of experience in active clinical practice. Among her awards, she has been recognized as a Top Doc for Seattle Magazine and honored with the Outstanding Physician Leadership Award in 2012.
Dr. Atal-Barrio received her undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester and medical degree from Stanford University. She completed her Pediatric Residency at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and served as Chief Resident there. She earned a Masters in Medical Management from University of Southern California in 2014. Dr. Atal-Barrio is Board certified in Pediatrics and remains a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Job Titles:
- Mary 's Center, Washington
Dr. Kavita Patel is currently a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a practicing primary care physician at Mary's Center, a community clinic in Washington, D.C. Among her previous achievements, Dr. Patel served in the Obama Administration as director of policy for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement in the White House.
Job Titles:
- Colorado Permanente Medical Group / Member
- Hospital Pediatrician
Dr. Margaret Ferguson, a hospital pediatrician, has worked at CPMG for almost 11 years in various roles that have given her broad exposure to the organization. Most recently, she has championed impactful utilization resource initiatives as a member of the Colorado Permanente Executive Team as Vice President and Chief of Value. Prior to that role she served as Physician Director of Resource Stewardship and Pediatric Hospitalist Physician Lead at CPMG. She leads the Utilization Action Teams in Colorado and is the co-Sponsor of the 8-member Regional Value Advisor physician team, who support KPCO in the development and execution of Triple Aim initiatives.
In addition to her medical degree, Dr. Ferguson is pursuing a master of business administration degree. She completed a fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at The Children's Hospital, and worked at The Children's Hospital as a Pediatric Intensive Care Physician. She also worked as a Pediatric Intensive Care Physician at Denver Health.
Dr. Ferguson was ratified by the Colorado Permanente Medical Group Board of Directors as the new President and Executive Medical Director, effective December 18, 2015.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and CEO of Devoted Health
Ed Park is co-founder and CEO of Devoted Health. Prior to Devoted, Mr. Park served in several roles at athenahealth including Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and President, Services. Mr. Park presently sits on the boards of Castlight Health and athenahealth
During his 52-year career in marketing and opinion research, Humphrey has had overall responsibility for more than 8,000 surveys in over 80 countries, for governments, corporations, and foundations and other non-profits. He has been invited to the White House ten times under seven administrations and has testified more than ten times to Congressional Committees and Subcommittees on Social Security, health care cost containment, Medicare, aging, policies affecting people with disabilities, drug exports, the taxation of employee benefits, and privacy.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Senior Vice President
- Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
- Northwell Physician Partners / Treasurer
Dr. Nash is Senior Vice President of Northwell Health and Executive Director of Northwell Health Physician Partners, and Professor in the Departments of Cardiology and Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention at the Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine.
After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard College, Dr. Nash received his MD degree cum laude from the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard Medical School. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, and was in the private practice of cardiology before he joined the full-time academic staff of the Cardiac Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He moved to Mount Sinai in 1995, and held a number of senior positions, including Associate Director of the Zena and Michael Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, and Chief of Internal Medicine at the affiliated James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was named the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs in 2009, a position he held until moving to what was then North Shore-LIJ, now Northwell Health, in 2012.
Dr. Nash has been a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) since 1992, and is also a fellow of the American Heart Association and the American College of Physicians. He is a member of the Clinical Council of the American Heart Association (AHA), and served on the ACC/AHA Joint Task Force on Clinical Competence, which sets standards for training and expertise in cardiovascular medicine.
As a former national spokesman for the American Heart Association, Dr. Nash has been interviewed frequently to provide information and commentary on current topics in cardiovascular care. He has appeared on local and national television broadcasts, and has been widely quoted by newspapers and popular magazines. In 2015, he was awarded the first national "Physician of the Year" award by Press Ganey, for his leadership in improving the patient experience.
Job Titles:
- Chief
- American Medical Group Foundation / Member
Dr. Penso is Chief Medical and Quality Officer for AMGA and President of AMGA Foundation. He leads best-practices learning collaboratives for the 400+ member groups, research and benchmarking programs, and AMGA's national hypertension campaign. Prior to joining AMGA, Dr. Penso served as Medical Director, Continuum of Care for Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group in San Diego.
Joe Kimura, MD, MPH has served as Chief Medical Officer of Atrius Health since January 2016. Atrius Health is a 750-physician independent multispecialty practice based in Boston and a market leader in value-based care and population-health management. Over the past two decades, Dr. Kimura has helped lead efforts in quality and safety improvement, population health management, clinical informatics and data analytics, and medical education at Atrius Health and the Southern California Permanente Medical Group.
Dr. Kimura is board certified in internal medicine and clinical informatics and an avid national advocate for the practical applications of clinical informatics and healthcare analytics to improve healthcare delivery - especially in the value-based ambulatory setting. From 2012-16, he served on several Office of the National Coordinator Workgroups and Committees and was co-chair of the Workgroup on Advanced Health Models and Meaningful Use.
Dr. Kimura is actively involved in the healthcare technology start-up community in Massachusetts and serves as an executive board member for the Yale University Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology. In 2012, he was recognized as one of the Top 25 Clinical Informaticists by Modern Healthcare and as a leading CMIO expert by Health Data Management in 2016.
Dr. Kimura serves on the national boards of the Clinical Health Network for Transformation (national network of Planned Parenthood affiliates) and the Council for Accountable Care Practices - an affiliate of the American Medical Group Association Foundation.
Dr. Kimura is a graduate of Stanford University, Washington University School of Medicine, and Harvard School of Public Health. After a primary-care internal-medicine residency at the UCSF, he completed a health services research fellowship in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School. In 2015, he completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan School of Management with a certificate in Management, Innovation, and Technology. His clinical practice remains at HVMA Kenmore and he is a faculty member in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Vice - President of External Affairs, Communications and Branding at the Permanente Federation
Laura Hoffmeister Fegraus is the vice-president of External Affairs, Communications and Branding at the Permanente Federation. She is also the Executive Director of the Council for Accountable Physician Practices. In these roles, Laura focuses on delivery system reform, federal health care policy, and highlighting integrated delivery systems as the model for American health care. She was previously Special Assistant to the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services where she assisted in the implementation of significant health reform related changes to the Medicare program. She also served on the Senate Finance Committee Democratic health staff where she participated in the drafting of the Medicare Advantage and Part D related provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Laura holds a Master's of Science in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health and a B.A. from Drew University.
Lewis G. Sandy, M.D., is executive vice president, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group. His work focuses on clinical innovation, payment/delivery reforms to modernize the health care system and physician collaboration. He also is a principal in the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform and Modernization, with a focus on payment/delivery innovation and policy.
Job Titles:
- Founder and President of the National Committee for Quality Assurance
Margaret E. O'Kane is founder and president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and has received the Picker Institute Individual Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Patient-Centered Care, as well as the Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award from the National Center for Healthcare Leadership.
Mary Cappabianca joins CAPP as operations manager and The Permanente Medical Group as senior communications consultant.
Previously, she was chief of staff at a Bay Area startup convening Fortune 500 C-suite executives to solve sticky problems alongside entrepreneurs and artists. During her time at The Aspen Institute, she led social media and digital partnerships for the Aspen Ideas Festival and helped launch Spotlight Health.
She also worked in communications at Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics and The Pew Charitable Trusts. Mary has a masters in management from Harvard University and a B.S. from Syracuse University's Newhouse School.
Job Titles:
- Family Practitioner
- Austin Regional Medical Clinic / Vice - Chair
- Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Austin Regional Clinic
- Member of the Travis County Medical Society
Norman H. Chenven, M.D., is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Austin Regional Clinic (ARC), a 330 physician multi-specialty medical group that serves the greater Austin metropolitan area with 21 clinical locations. ARC provides care to approximately 380,000 Central Texans in seven cities. He is also President and Chief Executive Officer of Covenant Management Systems (CMS), an Austin-based practice management company, third party administrator and medical management organization that provides technical support and services to hospitals, medical groups, provider networks and governmental and employer based health plans.
Dr. Chenven served as the first Medical Director of PruCare of Austin, a group model HMO, that brought managed care to Austin in 1980. In 1987 he was appointed Medical Director of Prudential Plus of Austin. He is President of Austin Regional Independent Associates (ARIA), a local independent practice association that develops and provides physician networks for partially self-insured ERISA plans. In 2012, he was appointed Chair of Seton Health Affiliates, a Medicare Accountable Care Organization established under the Affordable Care Act.
Dr. Chenven is a member of the Travis County Medical Society, Texas Medical Association, Texas and American Academy of Family Physicians and American Medical Association. He has been on the Board of Directors of the Travis County Medical Society, Texas Academy of Family Physicians and an alternate delegate to the Texas Medical Association.
Dr. Chenven is a Family Practitioner who spent two years in the U.S. Indian Health Service on the western Navajo Reservation before moving to Austin in 1973 to begin his medical practice. He has participated on various boards and advisory councils including Texas Medical Association's Select Committee on Patient Safety, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas' Physician Advisory Council, United Healthcare's National Physician Advisory Council, the Group Practice Advisory Committee to American Medical Association Board of Trustees, CIGNA's National Physician Advisory Committee and the Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP). He recently completed four years as a Board member of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA).
Job Titles:
- Ochsner Health System / Member
Dr. Oravetz joined Ochsner four years ago with over 20 years of innovative healthcare leadership experience in both administration and medicine. As ACO Medical Director at Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dr. Oravetz provides physician leadership to the system's Accountable Care Network, which is the largest integrated delivery system in southeast Louisiana. As an experienced medical professional in integrated delivery, Dr. Oravetz serves as lead in development of Ochsner's Population Risk Management Model and the Pursuit of Value initiative. He has been published in many prominent industry trade publications including, Strategic Health Care Marketing Magazine and FAM Med. Dr. Oravetz is a highly respected and distinguished speaker at industry conferences and medical management educational events.
Over the course of his medical career, Dr. Oravetz has practiced in health care settings throughout the United States, including Rhode Island, South Carolina, Massachusetts and California. In addition to his experience as a practitioner, Dr. Oravetz has served as Preceptor and both, Associate and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the California College of Medicine, University of California-Irvine. Dr. Oravetz earned his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Yale University, medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, residency at Brown University, Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the University of California Los Angeles, School of Public Health and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California Irvine, Graduate School of Management.
Job Titles:
- American Board of Internal Medicine
Dr. Baron, board certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation. He was a former Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine's Board of Directors and served on the ABIM Foundation Board of Trustees.
Dr. Berenson joined Urban as an Institute fellow in 2003. In this position, he conducts research and provides policy analysis primarily on health care delivery issues, particularly related to Medicare payment policy, pricing power in commercial insurance markets, and new forms of health delivery based on reinvigorated primary care practices.
Job Titles:
- Mayo Health System / Member
Robert E. Nesse, M.D. was born in Toledo, Ohio and received a B.A. degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1973. He attended Wayne State University School of Human Medicine and received an M.D. degree in 1977. Dr. Nesse completed residency training at Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan in 1980 and was board-certified in Family Medicine. On August 1, 1980, he joined the staff of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He served as the residency program director for family practice from 1984 - 1990 and was Vice Chair of the Mayo Clinic Department of Family Medicine from 1990 - 1996.
Dr. Nesse was the physician chair of the John Deere Clinic Development Committee and served on the steering committee that developed the Institute for Clinical Systems Integration in Minneapolis. In 1996 Dr. Nesse joined the Mayo Clinic Rochester Board of Governors and served as Vice Chair of the Board from 1999 - 2004. From 2005 - 2013 Dr. Nesse was a member of the Mayo Clinic Board of Governors and the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees. He continues to serve as an ex-officio member of the Board of Governors. Dr. Nesse is a current member of the Management Executive Committee of Mayo Clinic and the Management Executive Operations Group for Mayo Clinic in the Midwest.
In 2006 Dr. Nesse was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Medical Group Association and joined the AMGA Executive Committee in 2008. He served as the Chair of the AMGA Board of Directors in 2012 and completed his service on the AMGA Executive Committee on December 31, 2013.
From January 1, 2004 - July 1, 2010, Dr. Nesse served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan in La Crosse, Wisconsin. On July 1, 2010, Dr. Nesse became the Chief Executive Officer of the Mayo Clinic Health System and continues to serve in this role.
Sanjay is a partner in BCG's Health Care Practice with over 15 years of management consulting and industry experience. He has expertise in corporate and business unit strategy, capability building, and transformation programs for boards and senior executives of U.S. payors and providers. Focus areas include post-reform strategy, M&A, exchanges (public and private), care and payment innovation (e.g., ACOs, bundled payment), and cross-sector collaboration.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President of External Affairs
- the Permanente Federation and the Permanente Medical Group / Chair
Dr. Parodi is the executive vice president of External Affairs, Communications, and Brand at The Permanente Federation, and is an associate executive director for The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG).
As an executive vice president on the Federation's National Permanente Leadership Team, Dr. Parodi has oversight over the Federation's external affairs functions, which include government relations, public policy, communications, and brand strategy.
At TPMG, Dr. Parodi's areas of responsibility include patient safety, the care of complex patients, laboratory medicine, risk management, transgender health, nephrology, renal transplant services, and infectious disease. He also serves as a liaison for Kaiser Permanente's engagement in local and international health care delivery initiatives.
He has held several leadership roles including the chief of Infectious Disease and HIV Care director for the Napa Solano Service Area, chair of Infectious Disease for TPMG, chair of the Northern California Regional Infection Control Committee, chair of the KP HealthConnect Governance Committee, and regional medical director of Hospital Operations.
Dr. Parodi practices as an infectious disease physician providing inpatient and outpatient consultation, HIV care, and travel medicine services. He has a special interest in the treatment and prevention of infections due to multidrug resistant organisms and hospital epidemiology. He led clinical projects related to the reduction of health care-acquired infections, antimicrobial stewardship, reduction in dialysis-related infections, and regional outbreak responses. His work in hospital operations has included programs such as enhanced recovery after surgery, patient blood management, observation medicine, and bedside multidisciplinary rounding.
Dr. Parodi received his medical degree from Georgetown University, completed his internal medicine residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and an infectious disease fellowship at the UCLA Affiliated Program in Infectious Disease. He is a fellow in the Infectious Disease Society of America and serves as a delegate to the California Medical Association for the Very Large Group Forum. He has served on Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America committees related to public policy, government affairs, and antimicrobial stewardship. He actively collaborates with the California Department of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control on public health matters.
Dr. Green was raised in Los Angeles, graduating from UCLA with a BS in biochemistry in 1981. He attended UC San Diego School of Medicine receiving his MD in 1985, after which he completed an internship and residency in Family Medicine at Northridge Hospital, CA in 1988. He then moved back to San Diego and joined Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group (SRSMG). At SRSMG he was a full time family physician from 1988 until July 2014. In addition to a full practice, he chaired the SRSMG Family Medicine Department from 1992 until 2013 and chaired the Council of Department Chairs from 2002 until 2013. Dr. Green has been on the Board of Directors from March 2013 until present. In August 2014, he was appointed Medical Director-Elect for SRSMG and practiced as a float physician in Family Medicine one day a week. On January 1, 2015 he began his new role as Medical Director/Chief Medical Officer of SRSMG and continues to practice as a float physician one day each week.
In addition to his activities with SRSMG, Dr. Green has been active in education, precepting medical students and residents at UC San Diego since 1989 and the Sharp HealthCare residency program 1995 to 2001. Dr. Green was appointed a voluntary clinical professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in 2012. He has chaired the Sharp HealthCare Aloha Primary Care Conference from 2012 until 2014.
He has been active in leadership in Family Medicine, serving on the Board of the San Diego Academy of Family Physicians since 1993 and was President in 2000. Dr. Green served on the Board of the California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP) from 2003 until 2014 and was President in 2012 to 2013. In addition, he has been on the Board of the CAFP Political Action Committee since 2007 and on the CAFP Legislative Affairs Committee since 2005. He served as a delegate and alternate delegate to the CMA House of Delegates in 2005 and from 2007 through 2011. Dr. Green served on the Board of the San Diego County Medical Society from 2008 to 2012.
Dr. Green is married to Susan Green, and has three teenage children, ages 15, 18 and 20. He enjoys open water marathon swimming, having crossed the English Channel in 2012 and the Catalina Channel, Maul Channel, Lake Tahoe and circumnavigated Manhattan Island. He competed in numerous regattas including Masters Nationals, the San Diego Crew Classic and in the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston in October 2014.
Job Titles:
- Communications Director
- Independent Health Care Communications and Marketing Strategist
Toyomi Igus is an independent health care communications and marketing strategist, and has served as the Communications Director for the Council of Accountable Physician Practices since 2006. She is a corporate and marketing communications professional with over 25 years of communications, marketing, and publishing experience. Her firm, Igus Simon & Associates Inc., provides strategic communications and marketing consulting for health care, nonprofit, and social cause organizations. Toyomi developed and led the Communications/Marketing and Patient Services divisions of HealthCare Partners (now Davita Healthcare Partners) for more than ten years. Prior to HealthCare Partners, Toyomi was vice president of The WestWork Group, a full-service advertising, design and communications agency. Toyomi is a psychology/pre-med graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, and studied health care marketing through the executive program at Kellogg Graduate School of Management.