Dominick Esposito, Ph.D., is a Vice President at Westat. For more than 20 years, he has led studies with the federal government, state governments, and other clients on projects that improve care for all. His expertise includes mixed-methods evaluation, Medicare and Medicaid policy and program assessment, evaluation of complex health care delivery system innovations, patient-centered outcomes research, and dissemination and implementation of health care evidence within health systems. He has held leadership roles on several CMS projects. For the CMS Innovation Center, he is a Principal Investigator of the evaluation of the Transforming Maternal Health Model and held the same role for the evaluation of the Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Model. He has also worked with CMS on issues related to nursing homes, acute and continuing care providers, and dialysis facilities for patients with end-stage renal disease.
An active member of AcademyHealth, he has served as a student mentor at annual meetings. Dominick has published in many journals on a wide range of topics such as comparative effectiveness research, Medicaid policy, and mixed-methods research. He is the editor of Reliability and Validity of Data Sources for Outcomes Research & Disease Management and Health Management Programs. Dominick holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.