
Lauren Battle, MSPH
Columbia University
2021 Fellow
Placement: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
About Lauren
Lauren Battle is a Health Policy Advisor for Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the Chairwoman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Her policy portfolio includes mental health, substance use, women’s health, and health information technology. She completed her Winston fellowship placement as a Health Policy Fellow with the HELP Committee. Prior to the fellowship, Lauren served as an Independent Consultant with Advancing Health Equity, and developed a framework to systematically evaluate medical school curriculum through an equitable lens. Lauren earned her Master’s in Public Health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (MPH) in April 2021. While at Columbia, Lauren led the Food Systems Justice Project, a research lab that studies how state-level law, policies, and litigation can promote racial equity in food access and ownership. She was awarded the Columbia Food Fellowship for her leadership in this work. Lauren served as President of Greater Community Reach, a student organization committed to community service, engagement, and empowerment, and also sat on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for her academic department. Throughout her graduate degree program, Lauren held positions at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, The Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, and The Access Challenge. Lauren completed her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at The George Washington University. She is originally from Cleveland, Ohio.

Jessica Hale, MSPH
Johns Hopkins University
2020 Fellow
Placement: U.S. Office of Management and Budget
What is Jessica up to these days?
Jessica Hale is an Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office in the Budget Analysis Division's Low-Income Health Programs and Prescription Drugs Cost Estimates Unit. She previously worked as a Special Assistant to the Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMS Innovation Center) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Jessica completed the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship within the Office of Management and Budget’s Public Health Branch working on COVID-19 issues. She has also held positions at the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) and RTI International. Jessica received her Master of Science in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and, originally from Seattle, attended the University of Washington and received a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health.

Jack DiMatteo, MPP
2019 Fellow
Placement: Black Maternal Health Caucus
What is Jack up to these days?

Nadia Laniyan, MS
Northwestern University
2021 Fellow
Placement: Senate Committee on Finance, Majority
About Nadia
Nadia Laniyan is a Health Legislative Assistant in the Office of Senator Corey Booker. Formerly, she completed her David. A Winston Health Policy Fellowship placement with the Senate Finance Committee under Chairmen Ron Wyden. Nadia received her Master of Health Communication from Northwestern University’s School of Communications in August 2020. During her studies, Nadia worked as a project coordinator at the Feinberg School of Medicine Center for Child Trauma Assessment, Services, and Interventions supporting projects that focused on training frontline providers in trauma-informed care, building and enhancing trauma-informed and strengths-based practices for Transition Age Youth, and the intersection of race and trauma. She additionally interned at the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) as a CARES intern focusing on telehealth policy changes being implemented by states and jurisdictions during the COVID-19 pandemic that impacted the Maternal and Child Health Population. Prior to entering graduate school and working at the Center for Child Trauma Assessment, Services, and Interventions, Nadia worked for the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) on the Women’s and Infant Health Team. During Nadia’s time at AMCHP she supported projects focused on maternal and infant mortality and breastfeeding. Originally from Baltimore, MD, Nadia attended the University of Maryland College Park and received a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health Equity a major she developed in the Individual Studies program.

Janhavi Dubhashi, MPH
Georgia State
2020 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Finance
What is Janhavi up to these days?
Janhavi Dubhashi completed her Master’s in Public Health degree with a concentration in Health Management & Policy in December 2019 from Georgia State University. She completed the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship within The United States Senate Committee on Finance working on COVID-19, long term care, and Medicaid health policy issues. Previously, Janhavi has held positions at the National Institutes of Health through the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, Myers and Stauffer, and Voices for Georgia’s Children. As of Fall 2021, Janhavi has begun her medical education at the Emory School of Medicine.

Alexander Urry, MPH
Yale University
2019 Fellow
Placement: United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Office
What is Alex up to these days?
Alexander Urry currently serves as Policy Advisor to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on issues related to Health, Child Nutrition, Veterans and Agriculture. Prior to this role, he completed his fellowship in the Office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi working on drug pricing, surprise billing, ACA and the COVID-19 pandemic response legislation. He is a recent graduate of the Yale School of Public Health where he received his MPH in Healthcare Management. While at Yale, Alexander advised legislators in the Connecticut General Assembly on drug pricing policy, co-chaired a case competition focused on improving home health care services, and was Treasurer for the Graduate and Professional Student Senate. Previously, Alexander interned on the House Appropriations Committee assisting staff on the Subcommittee for Labor, HHS and Education. Prior to Yale, Alexander conducted research at the Gladstone Institute on stem cell therapies for stroke. He graduated from Occidental College with a BA in Biochemistry where he conducted research as a Richter Scholar studying hypovitaminosis A in Guatemala. He is a former Winston Scholar and his writing has been featured in publications such as STAT, Al Jazeera, and the Salt Lake City Tribune.

Garrett Devenney, MPH
2018 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
What is Garrett up to these days?
Garrett Devenney currently serves as Senior Health Policy Advisor for Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee. His policy portfolio includes Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) programs, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), Tribal health, and aging issues. Prior to joining the committee,
Garrett served as Health Legislative Aide to Senate Democratic Leader, Charles E. Schumer (NY) and completed his placement as a David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow with the HELP Committee. Originally from Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, Garrett received an MPH from the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University and a B.S. in Biology and Global Health Studies from Allegheny College.

Kristen Lunde, MPH
2018 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Finance Committee
What is Kristen up to these days?
Kristen is a Director in ATI’s Medicare innovation practice. Before joining ATI, Kristen served as Health Policy Advisor for the Senate Finance Committee. In this role, she led the legislative portfolio and served as technical expert on hospital, post-acute, and hospice care under Medicare Part A as well as rural health, health workforce, and health innovation issues. During her time with the committee, Kristen was involved in major legislative efforts including the CARES Act, the American Rescue Plan, and multiple year-end bills advancing Medicare and elder justice priorities. Prior to this, she was a David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow.
Kristen also has experience in performance improvement consulting, insurance benefit design, and public health program implementation. Kristen has a Masters of Public Health from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Rachel Dolin, Ph.D
2017 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means
What is Rachel up to these days?
Rachel Dolin, Ph.D., is Democratic Professional Staff for the Committee on Ways and Means, where she leads Medicare Fee-For-Service, health equity, and climate work on behalf of Chairman Richard E. Neal; she also co-leads the Committee-wide Racial Equity Initiative. She came to the Hill in 2017 as a David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow after having completed her Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow from 2013-2017, Rachel has focused her research on the financing and delivery of quality care to Medicare beneficiaries, with a specific concentration on aging and end-of-life care. Previously, Rachel worked as a researcher for L&M Policy Research, LLC, where she contributed to evaluation and research contracts for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service, as well as other federal, state, and private-sector clients. Her work has been featured on NPR, in Health Affairs, and in other peer-reviewed journals. Rachel received her B.A., magna cum laude, in Political Science and History from Tufts University.

Michael Budros, MPH
2017 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce
What is Michael up to these days?
Michael started a new role in September 2021 as Manager with Manatt Health in D.C. where he works closely on state Medicaid payment and delivery reform. Previously, Michael worked for Healthsperien, a D.C.-based health policy and strategy consulting firm. Michael served as Senior Policy Director, and provided analysis and strategic direction to clients regarding Medicare and Medicaid policy, value-based reimbursement, and weaving social services and health care data. In addition, Michael spearheaded policy for two multi-stakeholder, national advocacy coalitions dedicated to affordability. Prior to joining Healthsperien, Michael managed a research and consulting portfolio at VBID Health focused on low-value care. Michael was a Winston Health Policy Fellow for the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee where he focused on Medicaid and public health. Michael received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Public Policy, and Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan.

Olivia Pham, MSPH
2016 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Energy & Commerce
What is Olivia doing these days?
Olivia Pham is currently a Project Manager with Santa Clara Family Health Plan in San Jose, CA. She previously worked for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. As a former Winston fellow, Olivia completed her placement with the House Energy and Commerce Committee under the leadership of Congressman Frank Pallone. Olivia received her Bachelor of Science at the University of Oklahoma and earned her Master of Science in Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kripa Sreepada, MHA
2016 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Finance
What is Kripa up to these days?
Kripa Sreepada currently serves as Health Policy Advisor for Senator Ron Wyden and the Senate Finance Committee, covering the Medicare Part A portfolio. Previously, she served as Health Policy Advisor for Senator Tina Smith, a member of the Senate HELP Committee, and as Health Care Legislative Assistant to Congressman Joseph Crowley, Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. She is a former David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow and completed her fellowship placement with the Senate Finance Committee under Senator Wyden. Before working for Congress, Ms. Sreepada worked as an Associate Administrator at a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) and became a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator (LNHA) for the state of Connecticut. Ms. Sreepada graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with her Masters in Health Administration (MHA), and she graduated cum laude from Saint Louis University with her Bachelor of Science in Public Health. A native of Missouri, Ms. Sreepada has a lifelong passion for older adults and the multidimensional challenges of aging well in American society.

Lydia Orth, MPH
The George Washington University
2015 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
What is Lydia doing these days?
Currently, Lydia serves as a Special Assistant in the Center for Program Integrity (CPI) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to CMS, Lydia was the Director of Medicaid Initiatives at Families USA leading the advocacy group's Medicaid policy analysis and advocacy agenda development at the state and federal levels. Before Families USA, Lydia worked from 2016 - 2021 in the Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office, joining the agency as a class of 2016 Presidential Management Fellow (PMF). Prior to becoming a PMF, Lydia was a 2015 David. A. Winston Health Policy Fellow with the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health. Lydia received her Master of Public Health from the George Washington University, and Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science from the University of Colorado Denver.

Adrianna McIntyre
2015 Fellow
Placement: Office of United Stated House Minority Leader
What is Adrianna up to theses days?
The joint MPP/MPH reflected Adrianna’s interest in confronting thorny policy problems using consciously interdisciplinary perspectives. She was a member of the inaugural cohort of Dow Sustainability Fellows, which unites students across the university’s graduate programs to address contemporary issues in sustainability policy. Adrianna’s team developed a white paper on the public health potential of brownfield remediation in Detroit, Michigan.
She was named a 2013 David Bohnett Leadership and Public Service Fellow and spent the summer of 2013 serving her fellowship at the Office of the Mayor in the city of Detroit. While the summer’s biggest projects were focused on municipal governance more broadly, Adrianna provided some analytical support for the restructuring of the city health department.
Adrianna is particularly interested in the intersection of health economics and law: how can empirical findings can be transformed into prudent policy, given the frictions of the political system and the reality that science does not exist in a vacuum? She began to explore these themes through writing, first on her own site, then on noted health policy blog The Incidental Economist. Adrianna was invited to spend the summer of 2014 at Vox, a then-nascent news organization. While there, she spent a considerable amount of time writing about the politics of Medicaid expansion and the legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s insurance subsidies, which would eventually become the Supreme Court case King v. Burwell. Adrianna has also written for Bloomberg View, The Week, and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
In September 2015, Adrianna began her fellowship placement in the Office of Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. It was an exciting time to embark upon this work, with the 2016 budget deal, prescription drug prices, and mental health reform all generating tremendous attention and interest in the health policy community. Adrianna feels privileged to have the opportunity to work with Wendell Primus and other inspiring and talented policy staff in the Leader’s office and on committees of jurisdiction.
In the Fall of 2016, Adrianna began the Harvard’s PhD program in Health Policy.

Leif Brierley, MPH
2014 Fellow
Placement: Office of Senator Michael Bennett
What is Leif doing these days?
Leif Brierley, MPH, is the Director of Federal Affairs
Leif employs targeted legislative and political analysis, lobbying and advocacy activity, and strategic coalition management to enable clients to make their greatest impact on policy. His work on legislative and regulatory initiatives is critical to the provider, supplier, and consumer groups the firm serves. In his capacity as Manager of Government Relations, Leif conducts, organizes, and facilitates lobbying and related advocacy events, including congressional briefings, Capitol Hill visits, and federal agency meetings. Additionally, he manages a number of national disability and rehabilitation coalitions led by the Powers public policy and government relations group. These coalitions focus on access to rehabilitation services and devices, assistive technology, quality orthotic, and prosthetic care, and promote disability and rehabilitation research across the federal health agencies.
Previously, Leif served as a David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow (2014-15), a distinguished postgraduate fellowship in health policy awarded to two individuals annually, which includes a full-time work placement in a key health policy development setting. Leif spent his fellowship year working for U.S. Senator Michael F. Bennet. In the U.S. Senate, he covered a broad portfolio of health policy issues, including Medicare, Medicaid, providers, health care delivery systems, and child welfare through the Senate Finance Committee; and public health, infectious disease, medical research, pharmaceuticals, and medical innovation issues through the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
Leif also served as a Senior Analyst at the Advisory Board Company in Washington, DC, where he provided best practice research and strategic guidance for hospitals and health systems across the nation. Prior to his time in DC, Leif spent several years involved in the Massachusetts health policy arena, serving as a Health Policy Analyst for the Massachusetts Medical Society, the statewide professional association for physicians and medical students that owns and operates the New England Journal of Medicine.
He is a graduate of the Boston University School of Public Health, where he studied Health Policy & Management, earning a Master of Public Health degree. Currently, he is the Vice-Chair of the Board of the Society of Health Policy Young Professionals in Washington, D.C.

KT Kramer, MHA
2014 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
What is KT up to theses days?

Anne Dwyer, JD, MPH
2013 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senator Ron Wyden
What is Anne up to these days?

Colin Goldfinch, MPH, MHA
2013 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Finance
What is Colin up to these days?

Elizabeth Karan, JD, MPH
2012 Fellow
Placement: United State Senate Committee on Finance
What is Elizabeth up to these days?

Yajuan Lu, JD
University of Pittsburgh
2012 Fellow
Placement, Office of United States Senator Chuck Grassley
What is Yajuan up to these days?
Yajuan Lu is a Director of Health Policy and Reimbursement at Boston Scientific. Yajuan leads the corporate HEMA strategy on Medicare reimbursement and manage company relationship with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other external stakeholders, guide and support business unit teams to create a predictable and favorable reimbursement environment for medical device products in the US and further expand patient access to innovative technologies. Prior to BSC, Yajuan worked at Johnson and Johnson as a Director of Coverage and Reimbursement Health Policy where she had indepth experience managing both the US Medicare policies and China reimbursement policies for both medical devices and pharmaceutical products. Yajuan was a David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow for Senator Chuck Grassley, assisting with managing the health care portfolio, including entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, and various issues within the jurisdiction of the Senate Finance Committee. Yajuan has a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she earned a specialty certificate in Health Law and Policy, and she earned her Bachelors degree from Beijing University Health Science Center.

Swarna Vallurupalli, JD, MPH-HP
2012 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Finance
What is Swarna up to these days?

Miraya Jun, MSPH
2011 Fellow
Office Of United States House of Representatives' Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
What is Miraya up to these days?

Jennifer Schmitzer, MPH
2011 Fellow
Placement: United States Department of State
What is Jenny doing these days?

Erin Richardson, MA, JD
2010 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
What is Erin up to these days?
Erin Richardson is currently Vice President and Associate General Counsel at the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH). Prior to joining the FAH, she served as Senior Policy Advisor with the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Obama. She also previously served as professional staff and health counsel for the Democratic staff of the Committee on Ways and Means, Health Subcommittee where she had an instrumental role in the repeal of the SGR and passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. Prior to joining Ways & Means, she was the Legislative Assistant for Health for Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and a Winston Health Policy Fellow at the Committee on Ways and Means. Erin received her law degree from Columbia Law School, master’s in Bioethics from Case Western Reserve University, and bachelor’s from Wellesley College.

Catherine Oakar, MPH
2010 Fellow
Placement: White House Office of Health Reform
What is Catherine up to these days?
Most recently, Catherine served as the Associate Director of the Let’s Move! initiative in the office of former First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House. She also served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Domestic Policy Council’s Office of National AIDS Policy.
Prior to the White House, Catherine served as the Director of Public Health Policy in the Office of Health Reform at HHS. In that role, she had primary oversight responsibility for the implementation of the public health, prevention, disparities and workforce provisions of the Affordable Care Act and spoke across the country about the law.
Catherine began her work in Washington, D.C. as a David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow. She has also been a Fellow at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and has conducted community-based research with low-income cancer survivors and safety net clinics. Catherine earned her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan and completed her undergraduate education at the University of Notre Dame.

John Barkett, MBA
2009 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
What is John up to these days?
John Barkett is the Senior Policy Advisor for Health Care Delivery System Reform on the White House Domestic Policy Council, where he covers delivery reform, private insurance within the Medicare program, and drug pricing. He is currently on leave from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, where he is an Assistant Scientist and Health Policy Scholar.
John previously served as the Senior Director of Policy Affairs for Willis Towers Watson. He worked for Extend Health, the nation’s largest private Medicare exchange, before it was acquired by Towers Watson in 2012.
Before joining Extend Health, John served on the Health Subcommittee staff of the Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives and the Office of Health Reform in the Department of Health and Human Services, during which time worked on the writing, passage, and implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and helped guide the implementation of all sections of the Affordable Care Act related to delivery system reform.
Previously, John worked for athenahealth, Inc., a revenue-cycle management and electronic medical record company, and Medica HealthCare Plans, Inc., a Medicare Advantage plan.
John earned an MBA in health care management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College, with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a secondary field in health care policy.

Devon Trolley, MHA
Pennsylvania State University
2009 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senator Jay Rockefeller
What is Devon up to these days?
Devon is currently the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Health Insurance Exchange Authority, which operates the Commonwealth's State-based Exchange (known as Pennie). Before that, Devon was Director of Get Covered New Jersey, overseeing the launch of the State-based Exchange in 2020 that led to record levels of enrollment. Devon worked at the federal level previously, implementing the Federally-facilitated Exchange (healthcare.gov) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) by leading a wide range of Exchange policy, operations and technology strategic initiatives. While at CMS, she also worked on efforts to address the opioid epidemic and maternal health. As a Winston Fellow in 2009-2010, Devon completed her placement in the office of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV and developed health policy related to health insurance reforms and coverage expansion during the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Devon has a master's degree in Health Administration from Penn State University.

Andrew Roszak, JD, MPA
2008 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions & United States Senate Budget Committee
What is Andrew up to these days?

Kelly Whitener, JD MPH
2008 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Finance
What is Kelly up to these days?

Elizabeth Lee, MPA
2007
Fellow Placement: Office of United States Senator Hillary Clinton
What is Elizabeth up to these days?

Tanchica West, MPH, MA
2007 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pension
What is Tanchica up to these days?
Ms. West further has a proven track record developing and analyzing complex legislative matters in state and federal environments to maximize the benefit of health care reform. Ms. West earned an honorable mention in the United States Congressional Record for helping to reauthorize challenging bi-partisan legislation to improve healthcare for Native Americans, and leading bi-partisan efforts to reauthorize the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief as a legislative fellow with the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee led by Chairman Edward Kennedy. She is the first staffer to develop and implement a citywide strategic plan for youth sexual health in the District of Columbia legislature. Tanchica has a passion for developing and implementing critical policy and public health initiatives so that every individual, family, and community can enjoy and benefit from good or improved health.

John Rigg, MPA, MHA
2006 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
What is John up to these days?
Prior to his executive branch service, John worked at the California Hospital Association and in the legislative branch as a health policy fellow for the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee of the House of Representatives, and for the Government Accountability Office (GAO. John’s first career was as a Paramedic-Firefighter in Atlanta and in Washington State, and he still practices emergency medicine as a volunteer Paramedic in Calvert County (MD). John lives with his wife and two sons in College Park, MD, where he serves as a member of the non-partisan College Park City Council. He has a Master of Public Administration and a Master of Health Administration with a focus on Health Policy from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Arts from Emory University.

Martin Sobel, MPA
2006 Fellow
United States Senate Committee on Finance
What is Martin up to these days?

Mayra Alvarez, MHA
2005 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senator Barack Obama
What is Mayra doing now
Mayra E. Alvarez, MHA is President of The Children's Partnership, a nonprofit advocacy organization working to advance child health equity by ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to grow up healthy and lead productive lives. In 2021, she was named by President Biden to the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. In 2019, she was nominated by California Governor Gavin Newsom to serve on the First 5 California Commission and the Early Childhood Policy Council and in 2017, by then-Attorney General Xavier Becerra to serve on the California Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC).
Prior to The Children’s Partnership, Ms. Alvarez completed a several-year set of assignments at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the administration of President Barack Obama. She served as the Director of the State Exchange Group for the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and led a team responsible for supporting states in the establishment of Health Insurance Marketplaces. Previously, Ms. Alvarez served as the Associate Director for the HHS Office of Minority Health, where she led the coordination of OMH’s work related to the Affordable Care Act, community health workers, and language access. Prior to this role, Ms. Alvarez served as Director of Public Health Policy in the Office of Health Reform at HHS where she had primary oversight responsibility for coordinated and timely implementation of the public health, prevention, and health care workforce policy provisions in the Affordable Care Act.
Before joining the Obama Administration, Ms. Alvarez served as a Legislative Assistant for Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and for then-Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis (D-CA). Ms. Alvarez began her professional career as a David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow in the office of then-Senator Barack Obama (D-IL).
She completed her graduate education at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley. She is originally from outside San Diego, CA, and is the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants.

Jay Khosla, JD, MHA
2005 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senator Bill Frist

Rachel Nuzum, MPH
2004 Fellow
Placement: Office of United Senator States Jeff Bingaman

Katie (Baker) Starkey, MS
2004 Fellow
Placement: Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Agency for Health Care Research & Quality

Diana Birkett, MPH, MPA
2003 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Finance
What is Diana up to these days?
Diana holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and master’s degrees in public administration and public health from the University of Washington. She serves on the boards of the Greater
Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the Pacific Science Center, and is a previous 40 under 40 Honoree by the Puget Sound Business Journal .

Chad Shearer, JD, MHA
2003 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
What is Chad up to these days?
Previously, Mr. Shearer was at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University, where he served as deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health Reform Assistance Network, a project coordinating technical assistance to 11 states implementing the Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansion provisions. He was also a lecturer in public affairs at the university, teaching a graduate capstone policy workshop. Mr. Shearer also spent time at the Center for Health Care Strategies, where he helped shape its Medicaid Leadership Institute. Before that, he served as legislative director for Congressman Pete Stark, who was Chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, in the United States House of Representatives.
Mr. Shearer holds both law and master of health administration degrees from the University of Iowa.

Meghan Taira, MPH
2002 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senator Tom Daschle

Rochelle Archuleta, MBA, MHSA
University of Alabama at Birmingham
2001 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Representative Pete Stark
What is Rochelle up to these days?
Ms. Archuleta is a Board Member of Unity Health Care, a network of 29 community health centers located throughout Washington DC, which provides comprehensive primary healthcare services to uninsured and under-insured individuals.

Sybil Richard, RPH, MHA, JD
2000 Fellow
Placement: Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services
What is Sybil up to these days?

Jason Ormsby, PhD, MBA, MHSA
1999 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
What is Jason up to these days?
Across hundreds of public and private settings, Dr. Ormsby has expertise in health quality strategy and governance, quality measurement, performance improvement, patient safety, accreditation, health system planning, care coordination, delivery innovations, high reliability and accountable care organizations, Medicare value-based payment, federal program evaluation, health professional and patient education, change management and knowledge translation. Within these focus areas, he’s led national initiatives involving quality-based payment models for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; quality, safety, improvement and high reliability solutions for the Defense Health Agency’s Patient Safety Program and Office of Strategy Management; COVID recovery for Indian Health Services; and healthcare evaluations for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the U.S. Congress.
With 15 years supporting the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Dr. Ormsby has led national quality, safety, accreditation and program evaluation efforts for the VHA Offices of Quality, Safety and Value; Policy and Planning; Rural Health; and Women’s Health, as well as the VHA Health Services Research and Development Service, Office of Research and Development and the Interagency Care Coordination Committee. With these efforts, he has visited and/or surveyed nearly 75 VHA facilities.
Before Aptive, Dr. Ormsby led Deloitte’s Quality, Safety and Improvement Offering across federal health accounts and developed his expertise at the Joint Commission, Mayo Clinic and U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee as the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow. Previously a full-time faculty member in the Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies, he continues to lead its health quality and Lean Six Sigma curriculum as an LSS Black Belt.

Deborah (Veres) Mizeur, MHA
1998 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
What is Deborah up to these days?
For more than twenty-five years, Deborah has honed her expertise in health care systems and financing, quality, and access in a professional career that has spanned working in the Alaska State Legislature and the United States Congress and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels to private sector firms and public non-profit organizations specializing in these fields. Ten years ago, Ms. Mizeur left Capitol Hill at the peak of her career to pursue clinical studies. Now, as an integrative, holistic practitioner, Deborah Mizeur plays a more direct role in helping people achieve and maintain health.
Through her uncommon professional experience, Deborah serves as a bridge between the worlds of policy and medicine and is sought out for her unique contributions to health systems innovation. In 2016, Deborah was appointed by the State of Maryland to head a working group on the future of rural health care for the State. The consensus recommendations that were adopted after 14- months of deliberation are considered a significant contribution to the national discussion.
Deborah Mizeur received an MS in Herbal Medicine from the Maryland University of Integrative Health, a Master of Health Administration from the University of Washington and a B.A. in government from the University of Alaska, her home State. Deborah enjoys finding connections between seemingly disparate systems and she is passionate about reconnecting people with nature. Deborah has created a boutique healing retreat center on her 34-acre permaculture farm for this purpose. In addition, Deborah owns an organic herbal products company specializing in custom formulations using many of the herbs she cultivates on the land.

Suzanne Yurk, JD, MPH
1997 Fellow
Placement: United States Health Care Financing Administration
What is Suzanne up to these days?

Anna Fallieras, MPH
1996 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
What is Anna up to these days?
Kara (Morgan) Adams, MSPH
1995 Fellow

Douglas Knoop, MD
1994 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Represenative Newt Gingrich
What is Doug up to these days?
Brad Hansen, MA
1993 Fellow
What is Brad up to these days?
Mr. Hansen represented Council Bluffs and Carter Lake in the Iowa Legislature as State Representative (1996 – 2003). During his legislative career, Mr. Hansen was the primary author and sponsor of Iowa’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) known as the Healthy and Well Kids in Iowa (“HAWK-I”). He also led the effort to develop Iowa’s patient appeal process which restructured Iowa’s protections of patient rights in managed care plans. Mr. Hansen was also a key legislative player in Insurance, Energy and Banking issues.
Mr. Hansen left the legislature in 2003 to pursue a law degree from the University of Iowa which he earned in 2005. Mr. Hansen practiced law with Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, LLP in Chicago, Illinois from 2006 to 2008, focusing his practice in corporate law.
In addition to earning a law degree from the University of Iowa, Mr. Hansen also holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Northern Iowa and a Master’s Degree from the University of Iowa. Mr. Hansen lives in Omaha with his wife, Suzanne and three children, Isabella (age 13), Gretchen (age 4) and Everett (age 2).

Rosann Geiser, MHA
1992 Fellow
Placement: United States Health Care Financing Administration
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John Meurer, MD, MBA
1991 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health, Voluntary Hospitals of America & American Academy of Pediatrics
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Christina Bethell, PhD, MBA, MPH
1990 Fellow

Roslyne (Weiner) Schulman, MHA
1989 Fellow
Placement: Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
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Jereen (Mackesy) Gilbert, MM
1988 Fellow
Placement: AUPHA & Veterans Health Administration