LEADING EDGE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Independent Contractor With the Federal Government
Dr. Jack Potter is a consultant who can affiliate with Leading Edge and an advisor for Leading Edge. He is a practicing Emergency Medicine physician with a strong background in hospital administration as well as regional healthcare initiatives. For the past 10 years, Dr. Potter has been the Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Winchester Medical Center and System Director of Emergency Medicine for Valley Health, a six hospital group located in both Virginia and West Virginia. His managerial strengths are in team building, systems design, as well as facility design using current concepts. Dr. Potter also has a strong background in EMS for Pre-hospital care, and he is a Regional Medical Director in Virginia EMS. He has served on numerous state committees for both EMS as well as Hospital Association strategic planning including trauma care, disaster preparedness, and statewide protocol development. He is the president and managing partner of Winchester Emergency Physicians, P.C .that provides emergency services for Valley Health.
Dr. Potter has expertise in Healthcare Information Technologies and a special interest in Emergency Communication Technology. He serves on the Valley Health IT steering committee and is familiar with new and evolving systems architecture for E-Medicine at a local and regional level. Dr. Potter is an experienced partner with IT working groups to develop and demonstrate innovative applications for healthcare. Previous experience includes working on the Board for the COMCARE Alliance (a consortium of public safety and communication technology companies) developing policy for improved use of new technologies; and most recently, he has undertaken a demonstration project partnering with Dell and Intel companies that has earned him a nomination for the CMIO of the Year by Dell.
Dr. Potter is currently an independent contractor with the Federal Government. He manages a joint venture with Valley Health to provide on-site medical care, EMS medical direction, and other consulting services for Department of Homeland Security in the Northern Shenandoah Valley as a demonstration of public /private partnership.
Josh Rubin is an independent consultant who can affiliate with Leading Edge. He also serves as Senior Policy Fellow at the eHealth Initiative. He has a passion for making a difference in people's lives by working to improve healthcare quality, safety, efficiency, and access. Josh was also Senior Consultant at IBM's government healthcare strategy and change consulting team. At IBM, Josh supported organizational change initiatives at federal government healthcare clients including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services (CMS). He also assisted with business development by contributing to proposals responding to the needs of mission-driven public sector clients and by actively seeking to identify ways IBM could draw on its organizational expertise to advance the public's health. Josh has worked as an intern at Senator Edward M. Kennedy's healthcare policy office and has volunteered his time at several nonprofit organizations with missions related to improving healthcare and education. Josh believes that the most innovative solutions to our most challenging problems in the healthcare policy arena will come by drawing on knowledge, expertise, and experience across multiple disciplines. Josh holds a Juris Doctor (JD) law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and is a member of the Virginia State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar. Josh also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from Georgetown Public Policy Institute, all with healthcare concentrations.
Job Titles:
- Independent Consultant
- Pharmacist
Mary Kay Owens is and independent consultant who can affiliate with Leading Edge. She provides services to government agencies, private health plans, academic institutions, health information technology groups, disease/care management companies, industry, and professional health care associations in areas such as disease management, pharmacoeconomic/outcome studies, pharmacy benefit management, claims data analysis, health information exchange, and Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement, policy compliance, and claims auditing.
Mary Kay is a pharmacist by training and Affiliate Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy and served as a consultant to the Florida Center for Medicaid and the Uninsured, a health policy analysis and research institute affiliated with the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions. Ms. Owens also served on various Medicaid Advisory Boards and recently provided services to the Florida Medicaid Reform Advisory Commission and the Ohio Commission to Reform Medicaid.
Ms. Owens formerly served as the Director of the 1.8 million member Florida Medicaid Drug Utilization Review (DUR) Program and served as a senior health care claims investigator and auditor within the Florida Medicaid Division of the Agency for Health Care Administration. She served a three-year term on the American Drug Utilization Review steering committee and formerly served as the committee's national chairperson.
Mary Kay routinely presents at regional, state, and national forums for Medicaid officials, legislators, associations, and advocacy groups. The topics include disease/demographic trends and utilization drivers in Medicaid/Medicare populations including the implications for states of the MMA Part D benefit. Other topics include medical and pharmacy data mining and analysis techniques used to conduct predictive cost modeling, health outcome studies, and develop targeted disease and case management strategies in public and commercial fee-for-service and managed care settings. She specializes in analyzing and interpreting the relationships between utilization patterns, access behaviors, and pharmacy and medical costs within various disease/demographic groups. In addition, she routinely presents to national audiences on healthcare reform initiatives, medical services utilization and care patterns, reimbursement policies, pharmacy benefit management, strategies to address uncoordinated care, fraud/abuse, and disease/case management program development and implementation using advanced HIT/HIE tools.
Mary Kay authored "Medicaid Pharmacy Benefit Management" published in the book. Managed Care Pharmacy Practice, in nationwide distribution. She also authors health care policy issue briefs on Medicaid/Medicare, pharmacy journal articles, and provides content for CD-ROM educational products and Internet sites.