Technical Expert Group

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

Joseph Sky, MD, FACP, FACC

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

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 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; 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

John Øvretveit, PhD

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

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

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