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ut state governments, learning, leading and implementing innovative solutions to health policy challenges. Twitter Linkedin HomeNASHP Academy Members Board of Directors Staff Strategic Partners Contact Us Publications Charts Maps NASHP News Blogs / Reports Toolkits ointment, Dr. Oliver served as the Deputy Commissioner for Population Health for VDH. Before accepting the Deputy Commissioner position, he was the Walter M. Seward Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Oliver has a long record of accomplishments in research and community health work, regarding health inequities. Most recently, his research interests have focused on the area of improving our understanding of the role of racial discrimination, bias, and prejudice in establishing and maintaining these health inequities and the understanding of the interplay between race and socioeconomic position in these disparities. Dr. Oliver attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University, where he also obtained his Masters degree in medical anthropology. He trained in family medicine at Case, and he then practiced broad-spectrum family medicine in rural Alaska for 2 years before joining the UVA Department of Family Medicine in 1998. × René Mollow René Mollow Deputy Director, Health Care Benefits and Eligibility California Department of Health Care Services Sessions: Medicaid in an Era of Policy Unpredictability and Enrollment Shifts René has been with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) since 1995. In the Medi-Cal program, she serves as the Deputy Director for Health Care Benefits and Eligibility (HCBE). She provides leadership for benefit and eligibility policy planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of health care services and delivery systems under Medi-Cal and for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). HCBE is comprised of five divisions and one office: Benefits, Eligibility, Pharmacy Benefits, Primary and Rural Indian Health, Dental, and the Office of Family Planning. René works to ensure that policies, procedures, and related activities in HCBE conform to applicable state and federal policies, statutes and regulations. She assists the Directorate, Administration and State Legislature in determining program direction consistent with legislative intent and consults with the Director and State Medicaid Director on issues of significant policy impact involving both Medi-Cal and CHIP. René has played a major role in policy planning, development, and implementation on matters pertaining to health care reform implementation and coverage expansions for children and young adults under Medi-Cal. × Mary McIntyre Mary McIntyre Chief Medical Officer Alabama Department of Public Health Sessions: The Urgency of Racial Inequities and What States Can Do Now Mary G. McIntyre, M.D., M.P.H., SSBB is Chief Medical Officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH). Dr. McIntyre received her B.S. in biology from Winston Salem State University in Winston Salem, NC. She earned her medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville and served as resident physician in Internal Medicine at the George Hubbard Hospital in Nashville, TN. She obtained a master’s of public health in Health Care Organization and Policy from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She studied Lean and Six Sigma at Villanova University from 2010-2011. She is board certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine through the American Board of Preventive Medicine. She joined ADPH in January 2011, and served as Assistant State Health Officer for Disease Control and Prevention and State Epidemiologist before taking her current position. Prior to beginning her public health career, she served in various roles at the Alabama Medicaid Agency for 14 years. She provided primary care for 11 years before joining the state. She is a member of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), the American Public Health Association (APHA), the Alabama Public Health Association (Alpha), the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Medical Association of the State of Alabama (MASA). She is most proud of being a wife and mother to four amazing adults and a grandmother to three. × Dena Stoner Dena Stoner Senior Policy Advisor Department of State Health Services Sessions: Mind Over Matter: Reimagining Behavioral Health Services in a Changed World Dena Stoner, Director of Innovation Strategy for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities / Behavioral Health Division, has over 40 years of policy, design and implementation experience, including long term services, acute medical care, managed healthcare and behavioral health. She currently concentrates on behavioral health, directing research and demonstration projects and making systemic changes to the state’s Medicaid program. Her work has been featured in peer-reviewed publications. Some of her current projects include the state’s Money Follows the Person behavioral health pilot and a randomized trial of self-direction for adults with serious mental illness. She also chairs the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors’ Finance Policy Division, serves on the National Research Institute’s Board of Directors, is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) and chairs NASHP’s Long Term and Chronic Care Committee. × Jason McGill Jason McGill Assistant Director, Medicaid Program Operations & Integrity Washington State Health Care Authority Sessions: From Case Zero to Hero: Transforming Long-Term Care in the Age of COVID-19 Jason serves the state through public leadership for our Medicaid program, including joint stewardship of the program key elements such as Medicaid managed care oversight and program integrity. Working across divisions, he is leading managed care strategic planning and working on establishing performance metrics along with other major tasks of managing this large program. He previously served two Governors for Washington state as senior health policy advisor. He led the Governor’s health and related strategic vision, goals and policy initiatives, including long term care. His service has spanned critical times during the deep recession to implementing the Affordable Care Act that has resulted in expanded Medicaid and exchange health coverage to over 800,000 people in Washington. He also currently serves on the NASHP board and a member of the long term care committee. × Mike McCormick Mike McCormick Aging & People with Disabilities Interim Director Oregon Department of Human Services Sessions: Stand By Me: Supporting Long-Term Care Workers With more than two decades of state service, and a majority of those with the Department of Human Services, Mike McCormick has extensive knowledge of the agency’s program structure, client needs and policy guidelines. Mike served as the Deputy Director of the Aging and People with Disabilities program in 2012 and from December 2015 to October 2019, when he assumed the Interim Director position. Mike was a key leader in securing approval for Oregon’s 1915(K) State Plan Option. He then used these tools to dramatically expand the percentage of individuals receiving services in their own home. Prior to his work with Aging and People with Disabilities, Mike led the Department’s Office of Rates, Contracting and Research. During his tenure, Mike provided leadership on financial management, effective use of data in administering programs and establishing fair, competitive rates for long-term care providers. During his leadership role for the Provider Audit Section, Mike adopted a data analytics approach towards assessing risk of errors, fraud and abuse in Oregon Health Plan’s medical programs. Under Mike’s...