Technical Expert Group

Parag Agnihotri, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Population Health Services, UC San Diego Health; Co-Founder, Capital Region University of Best Practices

Matthew Budoff, MD, FACC, FAHA

Prof. of Medicine, Endowed Chair of Preventive Cardiology, School of Medicine UCLA; Prog. Dir., Div. of Cardiology, LA Biomedical Research Institute; Steering Committee & Dir., CT Reading Center, Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Trial

Steve Chen, PharmD, FASHP, FCSHP, FNAP

Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs; William A. & Josephine A. Heeres Chair in Community Pharmacy; Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, USC; Co-Chair, LA Region UBP

Keith Emmons, MD

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

Cindy Giambrone, PharmD

Director, Performance Improvement and ACO Pharmacy Risk, MemorialCare Foundation & Medical Group; Co-Chair, Los Angeles Region University of Best Practices

John Øvretveit, PhD

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

Stephen Sidney, MD, MPH

Former 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

Eveline Stock, MD

Co-Chair, Right Care Initiative University of Best Practices; Associate Professor & Cardiologist, University of California San Francisco Cardiovascular Care & Prevention Center

Nirali Vora, MD

Co-Chair, Right Care Initiative Technical Expert Group; Clinical Associate Professor, Neurology, Stanford Stroke Center; Director, Global Health Neurology; Program Director, Adult Neurology Residency

Nathan Wong, PhD, FACC, FAHA

Professor, School of Medicine & Department of Epidemiology; Director, UCI Heart Disease Prevention Program, UCI School of Medicine