Bios

Melinda K. Abrams, M.S.

Assitant Vice President, Patient-Centered Coordinated Care Program
The Commonwealth Fund
mka@cmwf.org
(212) 606-3831
Melinda Abrams, M.S., assistant vice president at The Commonwealth Fund, directs the Patient-Centered Coordinated Care Program. Since coming to the Fund in 1997, Ms. Abrams has coordinated the Fund's Task Force on Academic Health Centers, Commission on Women's Health, and the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy.

Lori Achman

Lori Achman, M.P.P., is a research analyst at Mathematica Policy Research, where her work has focused primarily on the Medicare+Choice program.

Karen Adams, Ph.D.

Karen Bentz Adams, Ph.D., is a former program officer for The Commonwealth Fund's State Innovations program based at AcademyHealth in Washington, D.C.

Sara Adland

Families USA
Intern
Sara Adland interned at Families USA in the health policy department in the summer of 2007.

Emily Adrion, M.Sc.

Research Asociate
Center for Health Services Research and Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Prior to joining the Health Services Research Center, she served as a research associate for Axiom Resource Management, a government consulting firm, where she worked on the evaluation of substance abuse and mental health services programs.

Jyoti Aggarwal, M.H.S.

Research Associate
Health Care Financing and Payment Program at RTI
Jyoti Aggarwal received her M.H.S. in health policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Laura Aiuppa, M.S.

Senior Health Care Consultant
National Committee for Quality Assurance
Laura Aiuppa has responsibilities for business development and project management at NCQA.

Tanya Alteras, M.P.P.

Senior Consultant
Health Management Associates
Tanya Alteras, M.P.P., is a senior consultant at Health Management Associates.

Beatrice Alvarez

Project Coordinator
The Opportunity Agenda
Beatrice Alvarez, is project coordinator at The Opportunity Agenda

Gerard Anderson, Ph.D.

Professor of Health Policy
Johns Hopkins University
ganderso@jhsph.edu
(410) 955-3241
Gerard F. Anderson is the National Program Director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation–sponsored program "Partnership for Solutions: Better Lives for People with Chronic Conditions."

Maureen Angeles Deboo

Executive Assistant to Executive Vice President for Programs
The Commonwealth Fund
Maureen Angeles Deboo returned to The Commonwealth Fund in October 2008 as executive assistant to the executive vice president for programs, Stephen C. Schoenbaum, M.D.

Richard Antonelli, M.D., M.S.

Medical Director
Children's Hospital Boston Integrated Care Organization
Richard Antonelli is medical director of the Children's Hospital Boston Integrated Care Organization and the interim associate medical director for quality of the Physicians' Organization at Children's Hospital Boston.

Joseph R. Antos, Ph.D.

Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy
American Enterprise Institute
Joseph R. Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Donna Antothy, M.P.H.

Special Assistant to the Senior Deputy Director
District of Columbia Department of Health