Technical Expert Group

Cindy Giambrone, PharmD

Assistant Director for Outreach and Development, Right Care Initiative

Co-Chair, Los Angeles Region University of Best Practices

Joseph Sky, MD, FACP, FACC

Vice-Chair, Right Care Initiative University of Best Practices

Hector P. Rodriguez, PhD, MPH

Co-Chair, Right Care Initiative Technical Expert Group; Professor of Health Policy and Management Director, California Initiative for Health Equity & Action Co-Director, Center for Health Management and Policy Research School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley

Hattie Rees Hanley, MPP

Director & Founder, Right Care Initiative, Center for Health Management and Policy Research, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Invited Founding Member, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Hypertension Roundtable; CVD Master Plan Steering Committee Member, CDPH

Catrina Chambers, PhD, MSPH

Surveillance and Research Section Chief in the Chronic Disease Surveillance and Research Branch, California Department of Public Health

David Maron, MD, FACC

Co-Chair, Right Care Initiative Technical Expert Group; C.F. Rehnborg Professor of Medicine; Chief, Stanford Prevention Research Center; Director, Preventive Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Noel Bairey Merz, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC

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

Robert Kaplan, PhD

Research Director, Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford University; Former Chief Science Officer US HHS AHRQ; Right Care Initiative Technical Expert Group; Former Associate Director, National Institutes of Health

William J. Bommer, MD, FACP, FACC

Statewide Chairman, Right Care Initiative University of Best Practices; Chairman, California Department of Public Health's 2023 CVD Master Plan Steering Committee; Specialty Delegate, CA American College of Cardiology and CA Medical Association; Director, California ePCI Program, Dept. of Health Care Access and Information; Director, Prevention Forward Program & Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UC Davis

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