Members-at-Large

Yidan Cao Headshot
Committee Member, Member

Yidan Cao, MS, MPP

Ph.D. Candidate - University of Michigan Medical School

Yidan (Eden) Cao is a PhD candidate in the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. Read Bio

Sarah Greene
Member, Presenter

Sarah Greene, M.P.H.

Consultant and Senior Advisor - the National Academy of Medicine

Sarah Greene, MPH, is the Executive Director of the Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN, formerly the HMO Research Network), which is a consortium of 20 research centers that are based in health care delivery systems including Geisinger, HealthPartners, Kaiser Permanente, Harvard Pilgrim, and many others. Read Bio

Heather Himelhoch Headshot
Committee Member, Member

Heather Limper Himelhoch, Ph.D., MPH

Health System Executive Director, Clinical Performance Acceleration - University of Chicago Medicine

An epidemiologist by training, Heather Himelhoch, PhD, MPH is a health services researcher specifically focusing on the intersection of implementation and improvement sciences with the goal of improving patient-centered healthcare delivery in both traditional and non-traditional settings. Read Bio

Presenter

LaQuandra Nesbitt, M.D., M.P.H.

Senior Associate Dean for Population Health Sciences and Health Equity - George Washington University

Dr. LaQuandra S. Nesbitt is a board-certified family physician with over a decade of experience leading population health initiatives in governmental public health agencies. Dr. Nesbitt currently serves as Senior Associate Dean for Population Health Sciences and Health Equity and Bicentennial Endowed Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and is the inaugural Executive Director of the Center for Population Health Sciences and Health Equity. Read Bio

Lucy Savitz
Board Member

Lucy A. Savitz, Ph.D., M.B.A.

Professor - University of Pittsburgh, Department of Health Policy and Management AcademyHealth Board Chair

With nearly 40 years of experience in healthcare delivery and health services research, Lucy A. Savitz, PhD MBA, is now Professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Health Policy and Management in the Graduate School of Public Health and Senior Innovation Advisor for the UPMC Insurance Division in their Center for High Value Health Care.  Read Bio