Technical Expert Group

Stephen M. Shortell, PhD, MBA, MPH

Chairman, Right Care Technical Expert Group; Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management; Founding Director, Center for Healthcare Organizational and Innovation Research (CHOIR); Dean Emeritus, School of Public Health; Professor of Organization Behavior, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Robert Kaplan, PhD                             .

Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford University; Former Chief Science Officer US HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Right Care Initiative Technical Expert Group Co-Founder; Former Associate Director, National Institutes of Health                                                                                                                                        .

Hector Rodriguez, PhD, MPH             .

Professor of Health Policy and Management Director, California Initiative for Health Equity & Action Director, Center for Healthcare Organizational and Innovation Research, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley                                                                                                                                              .

William J. Bommer, MD, FACP, FACC

Statewide Chairman, Right Care Initiative University of Best Practices; Specialty Delegate, California American College of Cardiology and California Medical Association; Director, California ePCI Program; Director, Prevention Forward Program and Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California, Davis

Noel Bairey Merz, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC

Director, Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center; Director, Linda Joy Pollin Women’s Heart Health Program; Director, Preventative and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center; Professor, Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute                                                                                                                       .

Matthew Budoff, MD, FACC, FAHA

Professor of Medicine, Endowed Chair of Preventative Cardiology, School of Medicine UCLA; Program Director, Division of Cardiology, LA Biomedical Research Institute; Steering Committee Member, Director CT Reading Center, Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Trial

Steven Chen, PharmD                         .

Associate Dean, USC School of Pharmacy; Co-Chair, Los Angeles University of Best Practices                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             .

Anthony N. DeMaria, MD, MACC    .

Judith and Jack White Chair in Cardiology, UC San Diego School of Medicine; Be There San Diego Co-Founder and Chairman; Former Co-Chair, Right Care University of Best Practices Co-Founder, San Diego                                                                                                                                                    .

Keith Emmons, MD                           

Medical Director, CenCal Health of Santa Barbara (Medi-Cal plan); Co-Chair, Right Care Heart Failure Work Group                                                        .

Scott Flinn, MD

Regional Medical Director, Blue Shield of California; Co-Founder Right Care University of Best Practices; Former US Navy Undersea Medical Officer with Navy Seals

Cindy Giambrone, PharmD

Co-Chair, Right Care Initiative Heart Failure Work Group; Director, Performance Improvement and ACO Pharmacy Risk, MemorialCare Foundation and Medical Group

David Maron, MD

C.F. Rehnborg Professor of Medicine; Chief, Stanford Prevention Research Center; Director, Preventive Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine

John Øvretveit

Professor of Improvement Implementation and Evaluation, LIME/MMC, Karolinska Institute Medical University, Sweden                                                                                                                                                                                                                            .

Stephen Sidney, MD, MPH

Director of Research Clinics, Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research; Leader, CARDIA Study of Coronary Calcium in the Young; Right Care Lifetime Achievement Award Winner                                                                                           .

Joseph Sky, MD, FACP, FACC

Co-Chair, Right Care Initiative University of Best Practices; Chief of Preventive Cardiology, Associate Chief of Staff, David Grant Medical Center, US Air Force                                                                                                                                                                      .

Eveline Stock, MD

Co-Chair, Right Care Initiative Silicon Valley University of Best Practices; Assistant Prof., Cardiology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Cardiologist, Cardiovascular Care & Prevention Center, University of California, San Francisco

Catrina Taylor, PhD, MSPH

Chief, Health Information and Statistics Section, Chronic Disease Control Branch, California Department of Public Health                                                                                                                                                                                                                         .

Nirali Vora, MD

Co-Chair, Right Care Initiative Silicon Valley University of Best Practices; Associate Prof., Neurology, School of Medicine, Stanford University; Director, Global Health Neurology; Program Director, Adult Neurology Residency, School of medicine, Stanford University