Leadership

Executive Directors
Pamela T. Johnson, MD
HVPAA Co-Founder
Vice President of Care Transformation, Johns Hopkins Health System
Professor of Radiology, Oncology & Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Roy Ziegelstein, MD
HVPAA Co-Founder
Vice Dean for Education, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Sarah Miller Coulson and Frank Coulson Jr., Professor of Medicine
Mary Wallace Stanton, Professor of Education
Lenny Feldman, MD
Physician Lead, Johns Hopkins Health System High Value Care Committee
Program Director, Urban Health Medicine and Pediatric Residency
Director, Department of Medicine, High Value Care Committee
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Associate Professor Medicine & Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Amit Pahwa, MD
Physician Lead, Johns Hopkins Health System High Value Care Committee
Co-Director, Department of Medicine, High Value Care Committee
Director, Subinternship in Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Cross-institutional Quality Improvement Implementation Directors
Hyung (Harry) J Cho, MD
Director of Quality, Safety, & Value, Division of Hospital Medicine, Mt Sinai Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Matt Nielsen, MD
Physician Lead, Urology Inpatient Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Program
Professor and Chair of Urology, UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Christine Soong, MD
Medical Lead, Urgent and Critical Care Centre of Excellence, Sinai Health System
Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Toronto
Sinai Health System, University of Toronto

Implementation Guide Directors
Nicole Adler, MD
Clinical Lead, Value Based Management, NYU Langone Health
Assistant Professor of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine
Ari Hoffman, MD
Director of Value Improvement, UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Research Directors
Clare Rock, MBBCh
Associate Hospital Epidemiologist, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Sara C. Keller, MD, MPH, MSPH
Co‐chair, High Value Care Committee, Department of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Benchmark/Appropriate Use Criteria Directors
Pamela T. Johnson, MD
Vice President of Care Transformation, Johns Hopkins Health System
Professor of Radiology, Oncology & Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Amy Lu, MD
Associate Chief Quality Officer, Stanford Health Care
Vice Chair, Quality, Safety and Improvement and Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Ali Raja, MD, MBA, MPH
Executive Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Informatics Directors
Brandyn Lau, MPH
Director of Radiology Value Informatics, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
L. Scott Sussman, MD
Co-Chair, Decision Support Committee, Yale­‐New Haven Health System
Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale School of Medicine

Continuing Education Directors
Andrew Parsons, MD, MPH
High Value Care Curriculum Development, Internal Medicine Clerkship, UVA School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Jeff Trost, MD
Founder, Providers for Responsible Ordering
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Directors of Interprofessional Team Building
Rachal Salas, MD, MEdHP, FAAN
Director, Interprofessional Education and Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
Associate Professor of Neurology and Nursing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Candy Tsouronis, PharmD
UCSF Medication Outcomes Center
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California at San Francisco

Director of Industry Relations
Christopher Petrilli, MD
Value Lead Manhattan Campus, NYU Langone Health
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Cost Effectiveness Director
Michael Rothberg, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Value-based Care Research, Cleveland Clinic
Vice Chair for Research in the Medicine Institute of Cleveland Clinic and Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University

High Value Future Leaders & VITAL Program Directors

Venkata (Giri) Andukuri, MD
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Lead for Graduate Medical Education
Assistant Professor of Hospital Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine

 
Robert Fogerty, MD
Co-Director, Internal Medicine Quality Improvement & Physician Leadership Distinction
Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Kencee Graves, MD
Associate Chief Medical Quality Officer
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine
Christopher King, MD
Hospitalized Adult Care Block Director and Hospital Medicine Sub­-Internship Director
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Remus Popa, MD
Core Faculty RCH/UCR IM Residency Program
Professor of Medicine, University of California Riverside
Kshitij Thakur, MD
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
University of Kentucky

Greg Seymann, MD
Clinical Professor and Vice Chief, Academic Affairs
UCSD Division of Hospital Medicine

 

 

Radiology Collaborative Directors

Yoshimi Anzia, MD, MPH
Associate Chief Medical Quality Officer, University of Utah Health
Professor of Radiology, University of Utah School of Medicine
Pamela T. Johnson, MD
Vice President of Care Transformation, Johns Hopkins Health System
Professor of Radiology, Oncology & Urology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

HVPAA Lead Project Manager

 

Kristie Sun, BA

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