My responsibilities are to create partnerships between our doctors and payers, navigate the policies of those partnerships, be an advocate for our doctors in the health care policy space and to integrate policy, data analysis and environmental awareness into our company strategy. In administration, my team and I centralize and scale the administration of Aledade ACOs so everyone else can focus on better health and lower costs for our practices patients.Aledade's mission is to help independent primary care doctors re-design their practices, and re-imagine their future. It’s to put primary care back in control of health care, with 21st century data analytics and technology tools. It’s to support them with people who will stand beside them, with no interests other than theirs in mind. It’s to promote new partnerships built on mutual respect, and business arrangements that will truly reward them for the value that they uniquely can bring- in better care coordination, management of chronic diseases, and preventing disease and suffering. It’s to achieve lower cost through better care and better health.

As Executive Director of the Aledade Louisiana ACO I am responsible for the success of the ACO in achieving better population health, growing the ACO and financial success. With my team and partners in Louisiana we use the data, technology and expertise of Aledade to empower our physicians and their staff to provide health care a little better and a little more consistently everyday. In May of 2016, I was pleased to transfer leadership of the ACO to our local team in Louisiana.

Managing the branch responsible for CMS regional operations for traditional Medicare (Medicare Part A, Part B and Special Programs) for Region VI (AR, LA, NM, OK, TX). Regional operations includes policy expertise in Part A and Part B, technical monitoring of CMS contractors operating in the region, and business development for several CMS special projects, such as the durable medical equipment competitive bidding program, the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program and Accountable Care Organizations.

My team is responsible for policy and oversight in the Health Information Technology Group at CMS. We establish policy for meaningful use, provide project management and oversight and conduct outreach for the Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. We also provide technical assistance to other CMS programs and activities regarding health information technology including survey and certification of facilities, program integrity, quality reporting and new value driven health care initiatives such as Accountable Care Organizations.

Split time between policy development, program management and outreach for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Programs and serving as a special assistant to the senior executive responsible for quality improvement and survey and certification providing analysis on the human and budgetary resources needed for survey and certification operations, handling special survey questions and managing several internal quality improvement projects.

The Presidential Management Fellowship is a government-wide program to develop future managers and leaders. Over two years I rotated among all major programmatic areas of CMS including traditional fee-for-service, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, Quality Improvement, and Survey and Certification Operations.

International Research Training Program in the School of Public HealthNational Institute of Health training grants focusing on providing graduate education and training to public health professionals in several developing countries. As program coordinator, I provided financial management, training on the electronic grant submission through grants.gov and general administration including international travel arrangements.