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Joseph Benitez, PhD, MPH
Joseph Benitez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Kentucky. His research focuses on the impact of public policy changes on access to care, medically underserved populations and the role of the health care safety net, and the Medicaid program. In 2016, he was funded by AcademyHealth’s New Investigator Small Grant Program to study the implications of Medicaid expansion for safety net hospital financing. More recently, Dr. Benitez received funding from the UK Schnatter Institute to study hospital utilization patterns among Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion population. He holds a BS from the University of Georgia, an MPH from the University of Kentucky and a PhD in Health Policy and Administration from the University of Illinois.
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Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH
Paula Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include quality measurement for hospitals and post-acute care facilities, alternative payment models, Medicaid policy, and the health care safety net. Recent projects have focused on potential health spillover effects of improved financial security as a result of Medicaid expansions, and the relationship between early Medicaid expansions and the opioid epidemic. She holds a BSc and MPH from Yale University and an MD from Harvard University.
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Lanhee J. Chen, PhD, JD
Lanhee Chen is the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution and Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of El Camino Health in California. Chen’s career has included work in American politics, the U.S. government, academia, health policy, and business. He has served as advisor for several presidential campaigns and was a senior appointee at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the George W. Bush Administration. He holds an AB in government, a PhD and AM in political science, and a JD, all from Harvard University.
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David Grande, MD, MPA
David Grande is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Director of Policy at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. His research focuses on health care for vulnerable populations with an emphasis on identifying and overcoming barriers to care. He also studies ethical issues related to marketing in health care and digital health information privacy and was a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a BS from Rutgers University, a Masters in Public Affairs (MPA) from Princeton University, and an MD from the Ohio State University.
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Darrick Hamilton, PhD
Darrick Hamilton is a University Professor, the Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, and the Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy at The New School. Hamilton has been involved in crafting policy proposals, such as Baby Bonds and a Federal Job Guarantee, which have been inspirations for legislative proposals at the federal, state and local levels. He has served as a member of the economic committee of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force and advised other Members of Congress and 2020 presidential candidates. He holds a BA from Oberlin College and a PhD in economics from the University of North Carolina.
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Christopher F. Koller, MA
Christopher Koller is President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, a 116-year operating foundation that improves population health by connecting leaders with the best information and experience. Before joining the Fund, he served the State of Rhode Island as the country’s first health insurance commissioner between 2005 and 2013. The office was also one of the lead agencies in implementing the Affordable Care Act in the state. He was a member of the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) Health Care Services Board from 2014 to 2019 and has served on various NAM committees. He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and master’s degrees in social ethics and public/private management from Yale University.
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Jeanne Lambrew, PhD
Jeanne Lambrew is Commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. She previously served within President Obama's administration as director of the Office of Health Reform at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she worked on passage of the landmark Affordable Care Act. She also previously served as President Obama's deputy assistant for health policy, guiding the implementation of the ACA as well as initiatives to improve the quality and value of Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and public health. She holds a BA from Amherst College, and an MA and PhD in health policy from the University of North Carolina.
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Stephen T. Parente, PhD, MPH, MS
Stephen Parente is the Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair of Health Finance in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and Associate Dean of the Carlson Global Institute. His research focuses on health economics, information technology, and health insurance. He served as Chief Economist for Health Policy on the Council of Economic Advisers at the White House from 2019 to 2021. Previously, he was Senior Adviser to the Secretary for Health Economics in the Department of Health and Human Services, Vice Chair of AcademyHealth, and the Governing Chair of the Health Care Cost Institute. He holds a BA, MS, and MPH from the University of Rochester and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University.
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Sara Rosenbaum, JD
Sara Rosenbaum is the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy and Founding Chair of the Department of Health Policy at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. An expert on health reform and the Medicaid program, she has devoted her career to issues of health justice for populations who are medically underserved as a result of race, poverty, disability, or cultural exclusion. She has emphasized public engagement as a core element of her professional life, providing public service to six presidential administrations and 19 congresses. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Boston University.
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Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD
Rachel Werner is Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management at The Wharton School, and a practicing internist at the Philadelphia VA. Dr. Werner’s research examines the effect of health care policies and delivery systems on quality of care, with recent emphasis on the effects of health care payment and organization on post-acute care. She holds a BA from Macalester College, and an MD and PhD in health economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Laura Wherry, PhD
Laura Wherry is Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Service at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Her research focuses on the changing role of the Medicaid program and its impact on access to health care and health. Her recent work examines the early effects of the ACA’s Medicaid expansions, as well as the longer-term effects of several large expansions in Medicaid targeting low-income pregnant women and children in the 1980s and 1990s. She holds a BA from the College of William and Mary and a PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago.
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