Speakers Biographies Medicaid Leadership Policy Academy September 21-23, 2015 Washington, dc



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Speakers Biographies

Medicaid Leadership Policy Academy

September 21-23, 2015

Washington, DC

Robin Rudowitz, Associate Director, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

Phone: (202) 347-5270

Robin Rudowitz is an Associate Director for the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (KCMU), where she focuses on state and federal Medicaid financing issues and Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.  Prior to joining KCMU in 2004, Rudowitz was a Senior Manager at The Lewin Group, a health policy and management consulting firm.  Rudowitz has worked on budget and health policy issues in different government agencies including the Office of Legislation at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer for the District of Columbia, the Congressional Budget Office and the Ways and Means Committee for the New York State Assembly.

Stacey Mazer, Senior Staff Associate, National Association of State Budget Officers

Phone: (202) 624-5382

Mazer is responsible for monitoring and analyzing the impact of federal health and Medicaid decisions on states as well as tracking human and social service developments within states. Mazer also produces a weekly Health Care Issues Update that is distributed to NASBO members and she serves as the staff lead for the association budget and grants. Prior to joining NASBO, she worked for the Congressional Budget Office and the Finance Department for the City of Baltimore.  Mazer is a graduate of Syracuse University where she also earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship

Cindy Mann, Partner, Manatt Jones Global Strategies, LLC

Phone: (202) 585-6572

Cindy Mann has more than 30 years of experience in federal and state health policy, focused on health coverage, financing, access and operational issues. She guides states, providers, plans, consumer organizations and foundations on creating and implementing strategies around federal and state health reform, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and delivery and payment system transformation.

Ms. Mann served as deputy administrator and director of the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services from 2009 to earlier this year. At CMS, she led the administration of Medicaid, CHIP and the Basic Health Program at the federal level for more than five years during the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Her role included setting federal policy, supporting state program operations and coordinating policy and program operations with the Marketplace. She also was responsible for developing and executing national policies and initiatives regarding long-term services and supports and broader delivery system and payment system reform. In addition, she provided leadership in federal and state efforts to align financing and delivery systems across Medicaid and Medicare.

Prior to CMS, Ms. Mann was a research professor at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, where she was founder and director of the Center for Children and Families. Ms. Mann served as a senior advisor at the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. She also was director of the Family and Children’s Health Program Group at the Healthcare Financing Administration (HCFA), now CMS. In that role, she developed the initial CHIP program rules, as well as led policy development related to Medicaid for children, families and pregnant women. Ms. Mann came to HCFA from the Center on Budget and Public Policy, where she directed federal and state health policy work. She has extensive experience in state-level matters, having worked on healthcare, welfare and public finance issues in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York.

Vikki Wachino, CMS Deputy Administrator/Director, Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Phone: (410) 786-3337

Ms. Wachino serves as the Director for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As Director of CMCS, Wachino leads activities related to national Medicaid and CHIP policy and program operations, and works closely with states in the implementation of their Medicaid and CHIP programs.

In her past CMS career, Wachino was responsible for implementing major provisions of the Affordable Care Act as Director of the Children and Adults Health Programs Group, and served in that role at a historic moment in the development of eligibility and enrollment policy for the low-income population. In that capacity, Wachino played a key role in implementation of the Medicaid expansion of coverage to low-income adults. She also oversaw the CHIP program, efforts to improve the quality of care for Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries, and worked closely with states on progress toward key goals such as delivery system reform through section 1115 demonstration waivers.

Wachino is a nationally-recognized expert on health policy, particularly as it pertains to health coverage for the low-income population. She has served as a senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago, where she lead the organization’s work on delivery system reform and Medicaid managed care. Wachino has also served as Health Policy Director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Associate Director of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, and as an independent consultant. Wachino previously served in government at the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Debbie Plotnick, Vice President for Mental Health and System Advocacy, Mental Health America

Phone: (703) 684-7722

Debbie F. Plotnick, MSS, MLSP is the Vice President for Mental Health and Systems Advocacy at Mental Health America (MHA). Previously, she was the Director of Advocacy and Policy for the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (MHASP), where she developed policy, organized grassroots advocacy activities, and designed recovery-oriented, community services. In her role at Mental Health America, Plotnick provides leadership for mental health and systems advocacy initiatives within its affiliate network, with outside coalitions, industry/business, and policy makers. She also coordinates the efforts of the Regional Policy Council (RPC), a six person council of MHA affiliate policy experts. She provides technical assistance to policy makers, government officials and is frequently called up to speak to the press and the general public about what is needed to create a community-based continuum of mental health care, and to challenge entrenched mindsets and misinformation.

Plotnick earned a degree from Bryn Mawr College in Political Science. And she holds dual master’s degrees in Social Service (MSS) and Law and Social Policy (MLSP) from the Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. But her real understanding of mental health recovery and her passion comes from the people she works with and for, and her true expertise comes from her own lived experience, as a family member, and a mental health systems advocate.

Jesse Cross-Call, Policy Analyst, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Phone: (202) 408-1080

Jesse Cross-Call is a Policy Analyst in the Health Policy division of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In this role he examines issues related to the implementation of health reform and provides information and technical assistance to state and local officials, providers, and nonprofit organizations who are working on issues related to expanding coverage to the uninsured through Medicaid and the new health reform marketplaces.

Prior to joining the Center, Cross-Call served as chief of staff to Alaska’s Senate Majority Leader where he worked on the development of the state’s substance abuse treatment programs.

Cross-Call received his master’s in public administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, and a bachelor of arts in American History from Northwestern University.



Sarah Lueck, Senior Policy Analyst, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Phone: (202) 408-1080

Lueck joined the Center in November 2008 as a Senior Policy Analyst. She works on issues related to health reform implementation, specifically health insurance exchanges and private market reforms included in the Affordable Care Act. She is also a consumer representative to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Before joining the Center, Lueck was a reporter for nine years in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal. For much of that time, she wrote about health policy, including Medicare prescription-drug legislation, state and federal proposals to modify Medicaid and the efforts of health-care companies to influence policy changes. She later covered Congress, writing about tax policy, immigration and economic-recovery legislation, as well as House and Senate election campaigns.

A native of Des Moines, Iowa, she graduated from the University of Iowa in Iowa City with a BA in Spanish.

Brian Bruen, Lead Research Scientist & Lecturer, George Washington University's School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Health Policy
Phone: (202) 994-4125

Brian Bruen recently joined the George Washington University staff. He leads data-driven health policy analyses and teaches quantitative research methodology and statistics. His primary areas of focus include community health centers, health information technology, and public health care financing programs such as Medicaid and Medicare.

Prior to joining GW, Mr. Bruen was a Senior Manager at Avalere Health, a business strategy and health policy consulting firm, where he led quantitative analysis projects for clients (primarily Fortune 500 companies) with an emphasis on using data to evaluate health care policies and proposed changes. His primary areas of concentration included Medicare drug benefits, health care survey analysis, and insurance reform. Previously, Mr. Bruen was the Director of Policy Studies and Research for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. He estimated effects of federal and state legislation on operations of and payment to pharmacies, and conveyed his findings to federal and state legislators and officials through documents, meetings, and formal testimony.

Mr. Bruen began his career at the Urban Institute, a non-profit policy research and education organization.



James D. Chambers, Assistant Professor, Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center

Phone: (617) 636-8882

James D. Chambers is an Assistant Professor at the Tufts Medical Center Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies. He leads and works on projects associated with the use of cost-effectiveness evidence in the US health care system. Dr. Chambers also helps maintain the Tufts Medical Center Medicare National Coverage Decisions (NCD) database. 

Dr. Chambers graduated from Queens University in Belfast with an MPharm degree and previously worked as a pharmacist in the UK and Ireland. He also obtained an MSc from the University of York and PhD from Brunel University, both in Health Economics. His research interests include what factors influence Medicare coverage decisions and the use, and potential value, of cost-effectiveness in the U.S. health care system.



Leslie Wood, Deputy Vice President, State Policy at PhRMA

Phone: (202) 835-3400

Wood is the Deputy Vice President for State Policy at PhRMA. PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, represents the country’s leading biopharmaceutical researchers and biotechnology companies. She has worked for PhRMA since November 2006. She has completed a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Virginia.

Andy Chasin, Policy Director, Blue Shield of California

Phone: (415) 994-4187

Andy Chasin is Policy Director for Blue Shield of California.  Prior to joining Blue Shield, Chasin served as the Health Policy Counsel to the Senate Republican Policy Committee where he worked on the Affordable Care Act as well as a variety of other issues. Chasin has also worked as a lawyer in a major Washington DC firm and in a variety of other political and campaign positions.  He graduated from Stanford Law School.

Jeffrey Stockdale, Senior Policy Advisor, Council of State Governments, D.C. Office

Phone: (202) 624-5460

Jeffrey Stockdale works with the D.C. office to strengthen the role and voice of state governments in Washington, D.C. He will work with the CSG Intergovernmental Affairs Committee and Legal Task Force. Stockdale has an extensive background in federal and state affairs including positions in the U.S. Congress, federal agencies and the private sector. He joins CSG from the Civil War Trust Fund where he served as the Federal Relations Manager responsible for preserving battlefields in various states.  Prior to that he worked as a Legislative Assistant for Congressman Mac Thornberry from Texas.  Among his many duties, he worked extensively on veteran affairs issues and helped to pass legislation strengthening the relationship of State Veterans homes and the Veteran Affairs.  In addition, he worked for Rep. Kay Granger from Texas and interned at the Environmental Protection Agency.  Stockdale holds a B.A. from Fordham University where he majored in English and political science.  

Abby Duggan, Health Policy Advisor, Senator Sherrod Brown (D, Ohio)

Email: abigail_duggan@brown.senate.gov

Abby Duggan is Sen. Brown's health policy advisor. She assists him on issues related to Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, CHIP, and all other health-related issues. She received her BA from Johns Hopkins University and her JD from American University.

Rodney Whitlock, Health Policy Director, Senator Chuck Grassley (R, Iowa)

Email: Rodney_whitlock@grassley.senate.gov

Whitlock has worked on the Hill since 1985, first for Congressman Charlie Norwood (Georgia) and since 2005 for Senator Chuck Grassley (Iowa). He has worked on major health care legislation in that time, including the Patients’ Bill of Rights, the Medicaid provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 and the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, CHIP and the Affordable Care Act. Whitlock teaches at The George Washington University in both the Department of Health Policy and the Graduate School of Political Management.

Carolyn L. Yocom, Director, Health Care, U.S. Government Accountability Office

Phone: (202) 512-7114



Carolyn Yocom is a Director on the Health Care Team at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). In over 20 years at GAO, she has worked on a variety of issues related to health care for low-income and vulnerable positions, particularly the Medicaid and state Children’s Health Insurance Program. Most recently, she has had responsibility for Medicaid work related to CMS program integrity, Medicaid data systems, and issues related to the federal matching assistance formula for Medicaid.

Prior to GAO, Ms. Yocom worked for the Government of the District of Columbia (Budget and Health Care Financing Offices), and began her career in the State of Oregon. Ms. Yocom received a bachelor’s degree with a major in English from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and a Master’s in Business Administration with a concentration in the public sector from the Atkinson Graduate School of Management (Willamette University) in Salem, Oregon.
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