Expert Committee | Optimizing the Primary Care Spend | Department of Family and Community Medicine | UC Davis Health

An expert committee comprised of 30 national leaders in primary care research, policy and advocacy will convene at Rev PC. The committee will bring their expertise to special sessions for focused discussions on the future of primary care spend and how to advance the Quadruple Aim. The committee members are:

Stemming from Rev PC and follow-on activities, the expert committee will create a high-quality “white paper” targeted for publication in an influential peer-reviewed forum.

• Wayne Altman, M.D. - Professor and Chair of Family Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine; founder Massachusetts Primary Care Alliance for Patients; lead agent for MA legislation to optimize investment in primary care
• Palav Barbaria, M.D. - Chief Quality and Medical Officer and Deputy Director of Quality and Population Health Management, California Department of Health Care Services 
• Susannah Bernheim, M.D., M.H.S. - Chief Quality Officer and Acting Chief Medical Officer, CMS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation
• Margareta Brandt - Assistant Deputy Director, Health System Performance, California Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA)
• Alice Hm Chen, M.D., M.P.H. - Chief Health Officer, Centene Corporation 
• Deborah Cohen, Ph.D. - Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University; conducts qualitative and mixed methods research on primary care practices, with focus on clinician-patient communication, practice implementation, change and improvement
• Aimee R. Eden, Ph.D., M.P.H. - Acting Director, National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research (NCEPCR) and Senior Staff Service Fellow, Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement (CEPI), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Joshua Fenton, M.D., M.P.H. – Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine
• Erik Fernandez Y Garcia, M.D., M.P.H. - Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of California Davis School of Medicine; Clinical Champion to Reduce Disparities, Population Health Program, UC Davis Health
• Lisa Folberg, Chief Executive Officer, California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)
• Beth Griffiths, M.D., M.P.H. – Professor and Director of Health Care Advocacy, UC San Francisco Division of General Internal Medicine
• Kevin Grumbach, M.D. - Professor of Family and Community Medicine, UC San Francisco; Founding Director, UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care; Director, Community Engagement Program, UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute
• Mark Henderson, M.D. - Associate Dean, Admissions and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine
• Sandra Hernández, M.D. - President & Chief Executive Officer, California Health Care Foundation
• Anthony Jerant, M.D. – Professor and Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine
• Christopher Koller – President, Milbank Memorial Fund; prior Health Insurance Commissioner, Rhode Island.
• Richard Kravitz, M.D., M.S.P.H. - Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine; Director, UC Center Sacramento
• Elisabeth Landsberg – Director, California Department of Healthcare Access and Information (HCAI)
• Courtney Lyles, Ph.D. - Professor, Public Health Sciences, UC Davis; Director, UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research (CHPR)
• Kathryn Phillips, M.P.H. - Associate Director, Improving Access, California Healthcare Foundation
• Robert Phillips, M.D., M.S.P.H. - Founding Executive Director, The Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care, American Board of Family Medicine Foundation; Co-chair, National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine consensus study on Implementing High-Quality Primary Care
• Russell Phillips, M.D. – Director, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care William Applebaum Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
• Amie Alley Pollack, Ph.D., Director of Research, Lead of Mental and Behavioral Health Integration, Harvard Medical School, Center for Primary Care
• Jean Raphael, M.D., M.P.H. - Founding Director, Center for Child Health Policy and Advocacy, Texas Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
• Dominique Ritley, M.P.H. - Senior Health Policy Researcher, UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
• Diane Rittenhouse, M.D., M.P.H. - Senior Fellow, Mathematica; Professor Family Medicine and Health Policy, UCSF
• Dylan Roby, Ph.D., Chair and Professor of Health, Society, and Behavior, University of California, Irvine
• Monica Soni, M.D. - Chief Medical Officer, Chief Deputy Executive Director, Covered California
• Raymond Tsai, M.D., M.S. - Vice President, Advanced Primary Care, Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH)
• Ilana Yurkiewicz, M.D. - Clinical Assistant Professor of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; author of the book Fragmented: A Doctor’s Quest to Piece Together American Health Care