The MEDIS Team
We are a network of like-minded, independent consultants with unique expertise who create collaborative teams based on the needs of our respective clients. Whether you need one of us or all of us, we are ready.
Interested in engaging members of the Team? Contact MEDIS or schedule an introductory call with Michael Barr, President & Founder of MEDIS, LLC.
Rick A. Moore, Ph.D.
Founder, MTC Group, LLC
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Rick is a highly accomplished and results-driven executive leader with extensive experience working within highly complex organizations in the healthcare sector. With over 20 years of military service (Retired Air Force Major), coupled with 20 years of private not-for-profit experience including 14 years as the Chief Information Officer at NCQA, Rick has a deep and broad track record of leading strategic development and revenue growth through the use of technology and superior cyber security programs. Rick helped to co-create the eCQM standards that became part of the national health reform policy under the ARRA/HITECH and also led the NCQA HEDIS transformation to Digital Quality Measures format. During his time at NCQA, Rick developed the Data Aggregator Validation program, the latest program to democratize digital data for use in quality measurement reporting. While at NACHRI, Rick led the development of the Pediatric Quality Measurement System. In addition to his consulting practice, Rick also serves as Adjunct Faculty for Virginia Commonwealth University and Hofstra University where he develops and instructs courses in healthcare management, informatics, privacy and security, and project management.
Rick holds a Ph.D. in Health-Related Sciences from Virginia Commonwealth University (2015), a graduate degree in Health Informatics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (2003), as well as a graduate degree in Management from Troy State University (1994). He is a certified health care executive and Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), a Fellow of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (FHIMSS), a certified Professional in Health Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS), a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), a Certified HITRUST Common Security Framework Practitioner (CCSFP), and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
Doron Schneider, MD, MBA, FACP
Principal, High Reliability Healthcare, LLC
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Doron is a practicing internist with over 25 years of leadership experience in population health, value-based care, patient safety, and healthcare quality.
At Abington Health, Doron was Chief Safety and Quality Officer and led the organization in performance excellence to multiple state and national awards. His efforts were recognized in driving such metrics as potentially preventable readmissions, and reduction of harm events such as inpatient falls, CAUTI and pressure ulcers. Understanding the sociotechnical nature of complex adaptive systems, Doron also led the development and oversight of EMR-based techniques such as the optimal design of orders and order sets, the development of interruptive/passive alerts, and other clinical decision support tools.
More recently, at Tandigm Health (a value-based care enablement company), Doron held several executive roles, including Vice President for Population Health and Clinical Strategy. Doron led multiple departments and had operational responsibility over the network engagement team that directly supported a network of hundreds of PCPs, the quality team that was responsible for driving HEDIS/STARS performance, and the patient experience team that oversaw CAHPS performance. Additionally, Doron provided strategic direction and operational support for novel program development and implementation aimed at reducing the total cost of care.
Doron has extensive experience as a clinician-educator. He has built and executed national training programs in quality improvement for the American College of Physicians aimed at primary care physicians and health systems and has multiple peer-reviewed publications. Doron has coached dozens of practices across the United States in quality improvement, team-based care, and quadruple-aim goals. He currently serves as the Deputy Editor for the journal Clinical Diabetes and the Section Lead for Quality Improvement with the goal of identifying and spreading improvement stories. Additionally, Doron lectures at the Jefferson School of Population Health on Complexity Science.
An adaptive leader, Doron uses the principles of high reliability, implementation, and complexity science, appreciative inquiry, and quality improvement tools and techniques (amongst others) to drive change. He is known for combining his knowledge of the science of improvement, facility with data/analytics, and understanding of clinical workflows, processes, and culture to engage multidisciplinary stakeholders and catalyze improvement.
Yubin Park, PhD
CEO at mimilabs
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Yubin Park, Ph.D., specializes in integrating healthcare data, policy, and operations through innovative AI solutions. As the founder and CEO of mimilabs, he applies large language models to bridge gaps in healthcare analytics. Formerly Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Astrana Health (Nasdaq: ASTH), Dr. Park developed strategies to unite diverse healthcare data for improved outcomes. With a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from UT Austin, successful exits of two healthcare AI startups, and a position as Adjunct Professor at Emory University, he combines academic insight with industry experience. A LinkedIn Top Voice, Dr. Park focuses on using AI to synthesize insights across the healthcare ecosystem, driving innovation and efficiency in the field. His work has been instrumental in developing AI-driven platforms for risk adjustment, quality measurement, and virtual care, demonstrating the practical applications of machine learning in healthcare. Dr. Park’s approach to connecting siloed datasets with real-world insights has the potential to transform how healthcare organizations leverage data for decision-making and patient care.
Lisa Slattery
President & CEO, Bridge4Solutions
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Lisa is a mission-driven leader energized by tackling the hard challenges of the health system, focusing on the human impact of value-based care and innovative digital solutions. She is a strong believer in the power of listening and has achieved measurable success in aligning disparate parties toward common and clear strategic goals and delivering excellence for the good of the patient, the clinician, the organization, and the community. Lisa is an expert in helping clients define the problem to be solved and using lean agile methodology, strong change management skills, and rapid cycle improvement processes to get to the best solution to drive clinical and financial outcomes.
Lisa’s most recent executive roles have included Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Compliance Officer at Allymar Health Solutions, Inc., Vice President of Operations, Accreditation and Recognition at NCQA, and Vice President of Quality at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee.
Servant Leader, Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Systems Thinker, Change Manager
Chuck Appleby, Ph.D.
Founder, Appleby & Associates, LLC
Founder, Design Thinking Source
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Chuck Appleby works with leaders as an executive coach, facilitator, consultant, and educator. His focus is helping leaders build great organizations – organizations where the systems, strategy, and culture allow people to achieve personal fulfillment and mission success. He is an internationally recognized thought leader in action learning and peer learning (coaching) circles.
Dr. Appleby is the founder of Appleby & Associates, LLC, an organizational design consulting firm with associates specializing in executive coaching, leadership development, design thinking consulting, change management training, organizational and leadership assessments, and action learning. See his full bio on the Appleby & Associates website here.
Beatriz Coningham, Ed.D.
President, HabilisGlobal
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Beatriz Coningham is a global executive in Organizational Development and Human Resources. She has lived, studied, and worked in different countries in Latin America, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Her professional background includes entrepreneurship and leadership roles in non-profit organizations. Beatriz holds a doctoral degree in Human Resource Development from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she is also a member of the adjunct faculty. Her experience and education have allowed her to develop strong facilitation, consulting, and collaboration skills, deep understanding of leadership, organizational learning, and change.
Having been part of fast-growth organizations, Beatriz brings the ability to build and strengthen organizational functions by developing teams, leveraging technology, designing a productive and supportive organizational culture, increasing employee engagement, developing talent, and overall organizational effectiveness. Beatriz is highly skilled at working in multi-language, multi-culture environments and preparing organizations for scaling up or going global. She is fluent in English and Portuguese and an intermediate speaker of Spanish.
Kecia Chasteen Wherry
Senior Consultant, Direct Health First
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Kecia Chasteen Wherry is a healthcare system designer and developer with extensive experience in Value-Based Care. She focuses on building health systems that meet multiple objectives and provide solutions in complex environments. Addressing the needs of underserved populations has been a theme throughout her work, with projects executed in countries facing health disparities and economic inequities.
Kecia is currently a senior consultant with Direct Health First. Prior to this role, Kecia worked for McKinsey & Company as a healthcare specialist, leading large-scale integrated healthcare transformation initiatives in Northwest London. From 2011-2014 Kecia served as the National Network Development Managing Director for ChenMed, an innovative physician-run enterprise that delivers comprehensive health care to medically complex, low- and moderate-income seniors. Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer, she led the organization’s specialist and ancillary network program across seven ChenMed markets. Kecia’s career in healthcare began at Baltimore Medical System, Maryland’s largest Federally Qualified Health System (FQHC), serving 45,000 low-income patients. Here she rose to Vice President for Business and Network Development, reporting to the CEO and serving on a small leadership team that grew the organization to become one of the largest FQHCs in the U.S. Kecia was principally responsible for managing a highly successful integrated care delivery model with a long-standing partner, Johns Hopkins Health System. In Baltimore, Kecia worked to deliver system reform and innovation for at-risk populations, including creating successful emergency room avoidance models, community-based chronic disease management programs, and other initiatives that bridge prevention and clinical service delivery.
Susan K. Moore, MHSA, RN
President & CEO, Managed Healthcare Resources, Inc.
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Susan Moore is a registered nurse by training. After working in various units of the hospital, including hemodialysis, she left acute care for home health care, and then segued into managed care, initially building a call center and eventually becoming Director of Operations. Susan started Managed Healthcare Resources, Inc., in 1991 and now leads a team of talented women as the only US woman-owned consulting firm with over 30 years of accreditation experience. Her team includes a predominance of NCQA surveyors, all with deep practical experience in accreditation preparation and quality prior to joining the team. Susan became a surveyor for NCQA in 1996 and still surveys organizations.
Managed Healthcare Resources, Inc. works nationally with small to very large companies with all lines of business, including health plans and all the NCQA derivative products that support health plans, such as population health organizations, physician organizations, Credential Verification Organizations, and technology companies that perform credentialing and wellness and health promotion, among many others. The company has a deep well of intellectual property and training modules used by clients to guide their successful accreditation journey and builds supportive quality structures to maintain accreditation.
Carlos Fuentes, MBA, MS
President & Co-Founder, Axiom Actuarial Consulting
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Carlos Fuentes is President and co-founder of Axiom Actuarial Consulting (Axiom), an 8(a)-, DBE-, and MBE-certified firm engaged in health care, retirement, and employee benefits projects.
Carlos has over 25 years of experience in a broad range of assignments that include developing pricing models, estimating costs of health benefits, assessing the financial implications of benefit changes, financial audits to insurance companies, estimating reserves, audit of pension assumptions and liabilities, and financial forecasts.
In addition to Axiom, Carlos was Vice President at Aon Consulting in Boston, and Chief Actuary and Vice President at Delta Dental of RI.
Carlos holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management, an MS in Mathematics from UCLA, and a BS in Physics from the National University of Mexico. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.