2020 Student Forum Speaker Biographies

Michael Doonan, PhD, Executive Director, Associate Vice Chancellor and Managing Health Policy Forum Director of health law and policy research Michael Doonan is an associate professor and evaluation at Commonwealth Medicine, and Director for the Masters of Public Policy the public service consulting and operations Program, Schneider Institute for Health division of University of Massachusetts Policy at The Heller School for Social Policy Medical School. She has spent most of her and Management, Brandeis University. He is career in state and federal government the Executive Director of the Massachusetts service. She was appointed by President Health Policy Forum. His Ph.D. from Barack Obama to serve as the Regional Brandeis is both in Political Science and Director of Region I of the U.S. Department Health Services Research. His research and of Health and Human Services, where she publications focus on issues related to oversaw the implementation of the access to health care reform, federalism, Affordable Care Act in the six New England Medicaid, federal/state relations, public states from 2010-2014. Prior to her service health and the politics and economics of in the Obama Administration, she was Chief health system change. He speaks widely on Health Counsel to the Speaker of the state and national health care reform. He is Massachusetts House of Representatives author of American Federalism in Practice: during the development, drafting, and first The Formulation and Implementation of three years of implementation of the Contemporary Health Policy, published by Massachusetts health reform law enacted in the Brookings Institute Press in 2013. 2006. She also previously served in senior executive roles at Beacon Health Options, a Michael worked as program specialist for national managed behavioral health the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid organization, focusing largely on behavioral Services (CMS), in the area of Medicaid health and substance use disorder services managed care and state health care reform. for publicly insured populations. Christie’s He served as a member of President first post-graduate position was Research Clinton's Health Care Taskforce working Assistant to the editorial leadership at the primarily on the Low-Income and Working New England Journal of Medicine, and since Families work group, and as a member of then she has held research and operations the Taskforce Speakers Bureau. Michael also positions at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of worked as a fellow for the U.S. Senate Public Health in the Division of Public Health Finance Committee as they considered Practice, and at the Schneider Institute for national reform in 1994. He began his career Health Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller as a legislative aide for Senator John Kerry School, where she was appointed the first where he worked on health and Senior Fellow. She has served as Chair of the environmental issues. American Public Health Association’s Health Law Forum, President of the Massachusetts Christie Hager, JD, MPH Public Health Association, and Co-Chair of Associate Vice Chancellor and Managing the Health Law Section of the Bar Director, University of Massachusetts Association. Medical School—Commonwealth Medicine Christie Hager, a public health lawyer, is an Christie has held appointments on the Martha Kwasnick, General Counsel, faculties of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Senate Committee on Ways and Means, Public Health, University of Connecticut Massachusetts State House School of Medicine and Suffolk University Martha Kwasnik serves as General Counsel Law School. Her work has appeared in such to the Senate Committee on Ways and publications as the New England Journal of Means and is responsible for overseeing Medicine, American Journal of Law and legislation before the committee. Prior to Medicine, and Journal of Legal Medicine. becoming General Counsel, Martha was Health Policy Director for the committee, Chris holds an A.B. from Smith College, a responsible for overseeing healthcare M.P.H. from the Boston University School of legislation and policy matters before the Public Health, and a J.D. from the University Senate Committee on Ways and Means, of Connecticut School of Law. including policy considerations related to the state Medicaid budget. Previously, Sarah Sabshon, Healthcare Policy Analyst, Martha served as a Legal Fellow in the Office of House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, Governor’s Office of Legal Counsel, under Massachusetts State House former Governor Deval Patrick. Martha is a Sarah Sabshon serves as the Healthcare graduate of Boston College Law School Policy Analyst for Massachusetts House where she completed a fellowship through Speaker Robert A. DeLeo. She previously the Boston Children’s Hospital’s Leadership served as Chief of Staff for State Education in Neurodevelopmental and Representative Jeffrey Sánchez, during his Related Disabilities (LEND) program. appointment as House Chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing. Sarah Philip W. Johnston, Chairman, began her career at the State House as a Massachusetts Health Policy Forum research analyst for the Joint Committee on Philip W. Johnston is the President and Public Health. In her various roles, she has Founder of Johnston Associates, LLC, a worked on education and housing policy, communications and public affairs and a variety of healthcare policy issues, consulting firm founded in 1996. Phil began including hospital financing and provider his career by founding and serving as price variation, Medicaid managed care, Executive Director of the Robert F. Kennedy opioid and substance use disorders, Children’s Action Corps, one of the top compounding pharmacy standards, violence juvenile justice and social services agencies prevention, women’s health, long-term care, in the country. and tobacco regulation. Before her time in the legislature, Sarah worked for several In 1984, Governor Michael S. Dukakis years in healthcare policy consulting. She is appointed Phil the Secretary of Health and also a former ORISE Fellow at the Centers Human Services in Massachusetts. In 1991, for Disease Control and Prevention. Sarah Phil served as the Executive Director of holds an MPH from Boston University School Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in of Public Health and a BA with honors in Washington, D.C. In 1992, he was appointed Public Health and Creative Writing from by President Clinton to serve as the New Johns Hopkins University. England Administrator of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He served in that role until 1996 when he Joint Committee on Elder Affairs, Vice-Chair became a Democratic candidate for the US of the Joint Committee on Education and on Congress in the 10th District of the Joint Committees on: Public Health, Massachusetts. Healthcare Financing and Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Before serving in state In 2002, he was appointed to Chair the government she was a member of a number Board of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of of elected and appointed boards. Previously Massachusetts Foundation. He has served serving on Needham’s Board of Selectmen, on many Boards including Blue Cross Blue she was responsible for municipal issues of Shield of Massachusetts, University of education, public safety, public works and Massachusetts and Robert F. Kennedy public health, and helped to manage a Human Rights. Phil is the Board Chair of the budget of more than $100 million. She also Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, an served as the Chair of the Needham Board organization funded by Massachusetts of Health and as a Town Meeting Member. health providers and payors, which serves In 2006, Denise founded and chaired the both as a health policy research organization Needham Coalition for Suicide Prevention, and as a convener of key players in the which continues its work today and serves health field to address health policy issues as a model for communities across the confronting the state and the nation. The United States. She also chaired the Forum is affiliated with Brandeis University. Needham Senior Center Exploratory Committees, which lead the charge in Phil received a Bachelor of Arts degree from constructing a $8.2 million Senior Center. the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Denise and her husband, Russell, are long- (Honors in History) and a Master of Arts time residents of Needham, Massachusetts. degree from the John F. Kennedy School of They are the proud parents of four children. Government at Harvard University. Senator Joanne Comerford, Senate Chair, Representative , Vice Chair, Joint Committee on Public Health, House and Joint Committee on Ways and Massachusetts State House Means, Massachusetts State House Jo Comerford represents the Hampshire, Denise Garlick was elected to the House of Franklin, Worcester district in the State Representatives in 2010, representing the Senate. Jo previously worked for the Center 13th Norfolk District, composed of for Human Development leading a crisis Needham, Dover and Medfield. She is a intervention outreach team through the registered nurse with a Bachelor of Science focused on addressing the myriad and often in Nursing. Currently, she serves as the Vice intersecting root causes of crisis. She then Chair of the House and Joint Committees on organized for seven years as the director of Ways and Means, which is responsible for the western Massachusetts American crafting the state’s annual budget and Friends Service Committee, before moving considering all legislation affecting the to direct the programs of The Food Bank of finances of the Commonwealth. She has Western Massachusetts where she worked previously served as the House Chair of the to meet the immediate demands of hunger. Joint Committee on Mental Health, After The Food Bank, Jo led National Substance Use and Recovery, Chair of the Priorities Project, a national budget and tax priorities research organization, as its private boards, committees, and executive director. NPP garnered a Nobel workgroups. He has an MPA from the Peace Prize nomination in Jo’s final year. Kennedy School of Government, a JD from After NPP, Jo was a Campaign Director for Suffolk University Law School, and a BA from MoveOn focusing on a range of issues from Bates College. gun safety to health care. Jo is the Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Public Audrey Morse Gasteier, Chief of Policy and Health, and the Vice Chair of the Joint Strategy, Massachusetts Health Connector Committee on Higher Education. Audrey Morse Gasteier serves as Chief of Policy and Strategy at the Massachusetts Ray Campbell, Executive Director, Center for Health Connector. She leads policy Health Information and Analysis development and strategy related to the Ray Campbell is the Executive Director of Health Connector’s role as a state-based the Center for Health Information and health insurance marketplace, program and Analysis, an independent state authority product design, policy research, government charged with collecting data and conducting affairs, and outreach and communication analyses on the Massachusetts healthcare efforts aimed at engagement with system. Prior to joining CHIA, Ray was at the consumers and employers. Prior to joining state’s Group Insurance Commission in a the Health Connector in 2012, she served as variety of capacities, including acting Deputy Director of Health Systems Policy at the Director and interim Executive Director. In Massachusetts Division of Health Care addition to stints working as an independent Finance and Policy, where she managed consultant, from 2005 through 2012 Ray implementation of key regulatory elements was the Executive Director of the of state health reform and led health Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, a coverage research initiatives and policy multi-stakeholder non-profit comprised of analysis. She also served as a Policy Analyst virtually every organization in at the Association of Community Human Massachusetts active in using health IT and Service Agencies in Los Angeles, California. health data to improve healthcare. While at Audrey holds a MS in Health Policy and MHDC he was involved in a wide range of Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan public and private initiatives, both locally School of Public Health and a BA from and nationally, relating to health IT, health Mount Holyoke College. information exchange, health data, administrative simplification, and payment Dan Tsai, Assistant Secretary for MassHealth reform. Ray’s other public sector and Medicaid Director, Executive Office of experience includes service as the Executive Health and Human Services Director of the Massachusetts Corporation Daniel Tsai is the Assistant Secretary for for Educational Telecommunications, as the MassHealth and Medicaid Director for the General Counsel of the Massachusetts Commonwealth. Tsai was appointed in Information Technology Division, and the January 2015 by Governor to Director of Special Projects at the oversee the state’s Medicaid program, Massachusetts Executive Office for which covers over one in four residents in Administration and Finance. Over the years the Commonwealth, including some of its Ray has served on numerous public and most vulnerable citizens. He is responsible for developing new policies, payments, graduate of Boston College and originally models, and operational processes that from Minnesota. He was a recipient of ensure a sustainable MassHealth program Modern HealthCare’s 2015 Up and Comer and improve the way health care is Award, which recognizes young executives delivered to each of its 1.8 million members. that have made significant contributions in During his time as Assistant Secretary, the areas of healthcare administration, MassHealth has undergone the most management, or policy. significant restructuring since the 1990’s with the implementation of its Accountable Commissioner Joan Mikula, Massachusetts Care Organization Program. The agency has Department of Mental Health also contained spending growth from Joan Mikula was appointed Commissioner of historical double digits to single digits while the Massachusetts Department of Mental maintaining robust coverage for members. Health (DMH) on May 11, 2015.

Before joining HHS, Tsai was a Partner and Commissioner Mikula has worked for DMH leader in McKinsey & Company’s Healthcare since 1985, serving as Deputy and Assistant Systems and Services practice. He has Commissioner of the Department’s Child, significant experience on the design and Youth, and Family Division. She has implementation of innovative, state-wide dedicated her career to ensuring that health care payment systems for Medicaid, children, youth, families and adults have Medicare, and Commercial populations, and every opportunity to participate in their has worked closely with multiple state growth and recovery and to be successful in Medicaid programs, private payers, and their homes, schools and communities. health services companies. He received a Passionate about family voice and choice Bachelor of Arts in applied mathematics and among individuals served and their families, economics from Harvard University. Commissioner Mikula’s experience in education, child welfare, adult corrections, Assistant Secretary Tsai lives with his wife and juvenile justice as well as mental health and son in Cambridge. He volunteers at a administration in the private sector is local community health center in Boston’s significant and has guided the Department South End. during her tenure. She brings a strong foundation of building collaborative David Seltz, Executive Director, partnerships which underscore the Health Policy Commission importance of culture and community in David Seltz is the first Executive Director of effective prevention, early intervention and the Massachusetts Health Policy treatment approaches that can make a Commission. Prior to this role, Mr. Seltz was difference in people’s lives. the chief health care advisor for then-Senate President Therese Murray and served as the Alan Sager, Ph.D., Boston University, Special Advisor on health care for former School of Public Health Governor Deval Patrick (MA). Through these Alan Sager is a professor of health law, positions, Mr. Seltz advised the passage of policy, and management at the Boston Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006 and Chapter University School of Public Health, where he 224 of the Acts of 2012. Mr. Seltz is a 2003 has taught for 73 semesters. His courses on health finance, policy, planning, and politics, and philanthropy and a wide variety management have won fourteen awards. of prior experience in multiple sectors – He directs the School’s Health Reform hospitals, state government, political Program. campaigns, a foundation, and non-profit advocacy organizations. She worked In 1979, he designed a "time banking" previously as the Director of External Affairs method of mobilizing voluntary aid for & Campaigns at Community Catalyst (CC), disabled citizens by creating a parallel where she held several key positions since economy of good deeds. Volunteers could 2006. Amy has played a leadership role contribute time by helping others and then within Protect Our Care, a coalition of withdraw it when they needed support. national organizations engaged in the current health care defense efforts; worked His ongoing analyses of hospital closings in with the White House and Health and 52 U.S. cities over 75 years have shown that Human Services during the Obama neighborhood race and hospital size predict Administration on the implementation of survival but efficiency does not. Closings the Affordable Care Act (ACA); led CC’s undermine access while boosting cost federal agenda and work with other national substantially. organizations and Congressional offices and co-led CC’s campaign to pass the ACA. He suggests that U.S. prescription drug prices and out-of-pocket payments must be Amy has a Master in Public Health degree cut to make needed meds affordable for all from Harvard University, a Master in Public Americans—and that this can be done while Affairs degree with a concentration in Non- spurring drug makers to innovate. Alan Profit Management from Indiana University, Sager holds an undergrad degree in and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Brandeis and a doctorate in Organizational Studies from Northwestern city planning from MIT. University. Michael Caljouw, Vice President of Public, Martha Bebinger, Reporter, WBUR Government, and Regulatory Affairs, Blue Martha Bebinger covers health care and Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts other topics at WBUR, the NPR affiliate in Michael Caljouw is Vice President for State Boston. She has won dozens of regional and Government and Regulatory Affairs at Blue national awards in 20 years as a reporter, Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts where including the Nieman Fellowship for he leads the largest Massachusetts health Journalism at Harvard University. Bebinger plan’s regulatory, policy and legislative has a BA in Art and Semiotics from Brown agenda. He also leads the company’s University and an MA in English from Boston Contracts and Governmental Mandates University. She is the mother of three divisions. adventurous young men. Prior to Blue Cross, Mr. Caljouw was Senior Amy Rosenthal, Executive Director, Counsel at the international law firm, Health Care for All Holland and Knight, advising clients on Amy Rosenthal has more than 25 years of regulatory compliance, administrative law expertise in health care, public policy, and insurance law. Mr. Caljouw was the Policy where he mentors emerging leaders Deputy Director, General Counsel and Chief in health law and public policy. He has of Staff for the Massachusetts Office of received Suffolk University Law School’s Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation Outstanding Service Award. where he supervised the regulation of health plans, insurance companies, banks, Mr. Caljouw and his wife Ann-Margaret energy and telecommunication companies. reside in Milton, Massachusetts. His administrative simplification work received the Better Government Award Secretary Marylou Sudders, Massachusetts during this tenure. Mr. Caljouw was General Secretary of Health and Human Services Counsel to the Massachusetts Division of Marylou Sudders serves as the Secretary of Insurance where he led the implementation Health and Human Services for the of new health care laws and reviewed high- Commonwealth of Massachusetts, profile corporate mergers and acquisitions overseeing 12 agencies and MassHealth, and contentious insurance rate filings. Mr. with a combined budget of $24 billion and Caljouw previously directed the Office of the 22,000 public employees delivering essential Senate Minority Leader as Chief of Staff and services that touch the lives of 1 in 4 state Legal Counsel at the Massachusetts State residents. House. Since joining Governor Baker’s cabinet in Mr. Caljouw graduated from Boston Latin January 2015, Sudders has advanced School, Williams College and Suffolk strategic policy priorities, including: University Law School, where he was an restructuring MassHealth into a population- Editor of the Law Review and earned his based health coverage system, reforming Juris Doctorate cum laude. He taught at the child welfare system, addressing the Boston University School of Law and appears opioid epidemic, integrating physical and often as a guest lecturer and expert on behavioral health care, and strengthening topics of interest to the health care, legal community-based services. and public policy community. Most recently, he has lectured and written extensively on Sudders co-chairs the Governor’s health care reform, policies related to drug Interagency Council on Housing and costs and pricing and cost containment Homelessness, the Governor’s Interagency efforts affecting Massachusetts and the Council on Aging, and chairs the Autism nation. He has been profiled in the Boston Commission and the board of Sunday Globe and Suffolk Law Alumni Massachusetts Health Connector, the state’s Magazine. health insurance marketplace.

He is a Director of the Massachusetts Health Sudders has held leadership roles across the Policy Forum, Families First Massachusetts public and private sectors, including serving and is a Trustee of the Massachusetts as the Massachusetts Commissioner of Taxpayers Foundation. He serves on the Mental Health, a non-profit CEO, and Massachusetts Health Policy Commission’s associate professor and program chair at Advisory Council and the Board of Advisors Boston College School of Social Work, a top for the Rappaport Center for Law and Public ten nationally-ranked program. Sudders holds a bachelor’s degree with Ben Wood, MPH, Director of the Office of honors and a master’s degree in social work Community Health Planning and from Boston University, and honorary Engagement within the Division of doctorates from the Massachusetts School Prevention and Wellness, Bureau of of Professional Psychology and Bridgewater Community Health and Prevention, State University. She is the recipient of Massachusetts Department of Public Health many civic, social work, and professional Ben Wood is the Director of the Office of honors. Community Health Planning and Engagement for the MA Department of Commissioner Monica Bharel, MD, MPH, Public Health, Division of Prevention and Massachusetts Department of Public Health Wellness. In that role, he works with Appointed by Governor Charlie Baker in communities, state agencies and other 2015, Commissioner Monica Bharel serves stakeholders to increase knowledge of how as the Commonwealth’s chief physician. She policies, projects and plans of all types is dedicated to reducing health disparities impact health and to develop capacity for and developing data-driven, evidence-based collaborative community health solutions for keeping people healthy and is improvement planning. This work includes helping lead the state’s aggressive response building capacity for the practice of Health to the opioid crisis. In 2017, Massachusetts Impact Assessment with a focus on built was among few states to see a reduction in environment related issues, oversight of the opioid overdose deaths, thanks to a variety Mass in Motion Municipal Wellness and of new programs and initiatives. Leadership Program and the development As Commissioner, Dr. Bharel oversees a and implementation of tools for the public health workforce of nearly 3000 and Community Health Initiative component of an expansive department addressing issues, the Determination of Need program. from environmental health to injury Previous to working for MDPH, Ben was prevention to infectious diseases. In 2017, most recently the Director of Public Health Massachusetts was named the healthiest for the City of Northampton. Among other state in the nation by America’s Health accomplishments he led Northampton’s Rankings Report. participation as a beta-test site for the newly formed Public Health Accreditation Board. Dr. Bharel is a board certified internist who He has significant experience in community has practiced general internal medicine for health assessment, health improvement more than 20 years, and has been planning and policy development. He has recognized for her dedication to presented at numerous state and national underserved and vulnerable populations. public health conferences on topics ranging Prior to becoming Commissioner, she was from emergency preparedness and aging Chief Medical Officer of Boston Health Care and disability issues and Health Impact for the Homeless. Assessment. He was a member of the executive leadership team of the first She holds a Master of Public Health degree permanent steering committee of the through the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard Society of Practitioners of Health Impact University Fellowship and a medical degree Assessment and received the Public Service from Boston University School of Medicine. Award from the Massachusetts Public Health Association in in 2015. He received University of Connecticut and a Master of his MPH from the University of Michigan, Public Administration from Seton Hall School of Public Health and a Bachelor of University. Jessica’s work is guided by an Arts from Hampshire College. Ben lives in inquisitive nature as a lifelong learner and a Northampton, Massachusetts. belief that her leadership is at its best when bringing people together to achieve Jessica del Rosario, Director of Special common goals. She lives in Randolph with Initiatives, Division of Community Health her partner Tim. Planning and Engagement, Bureau of Community Health and Prevention, Emily Sparer-Fine MS, ScD, Director of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Occupational Health Surveillance Program, Jessica del Rosario has close to twenty years Bureau of Community Health and of experience in the nonprofit, philanthropic Prevention, Massachusetts Department of and public sector. Jessica has a diverse Public Health background in organizational development Emily Sparer-Fine is the Director of the and subject matter content in the areas of Occupational Health Surveillance Program at emergency/basic needs, food systems, the Massachusetts Department of Public health, and housing and community Health (MDPH). There, she leads a state- development. Currently, Jessica is a Director based surveillance system on work-related of Community Initiatives at the injuries and illnesses. Examples of Massachusetts Department of Public surveillance systems that she oversees Health. In this role she oversees the Mass in include the physician reporting systems for Motion Municipal Wellness and Leadership occupational disease, a comprehensive Initiative, working with 27 partners, who surveillance system for fatal occupational collaborate with a diverse network in 70 injuries, the Massachusetts Sharps Injury cities, towns, and neighborhoods Surveillance System, which collects data throughout the Commonwealth to electronically from 100% of hospitals implement proven policies and practices annually, and a model surveillance system that create environments supportive of for work-related injuries to young workers. healthy living. Previously she was the Emily is also engaged in a new initiative at Project Director for the Massachusetts MDPH that involves linking multiple state- Convergence Partnership, a public/private wide data bases to examine prevention funder collaborative and worked at the approaches to combat the opioid epidemic, Boston Foundation as an Associated Grant with a special focus on the interaction Makers Diversity Fellow then as a Program between workplace risk factors and opioid Officer. Earlier in her career, Jessica held use. In general, through her work at OHSP, various positions at hunger relief Emily aims to enhance the link between organizations (two food banks, a food surveillance and intervention, by use pantry, and a soup kitchen) and private existing public health infrastructures to sector firms (human resources, technology, analyze data, address occupational health management, and policy). concerns at the state and local levels, and to place a special emphasis on addressing the Jessica received her bachelor's degree in needs of underserved and vulnerable sociology and political science from the workers. Prior to joining the MDPH in February 2019, Emily was a Research of Illinois at Chicago, and a DrPH in Social Associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of and Behavioral Sciences from the Boston Public Health. Her research focused on the University School of Public Health. impact of environmental factors on health outcomes in various workplace settings, Representative Ronald Mariano, specifically, non-traditional and Majority Leader, organizationally complex industries such as Massachusetts House of Representatives the construction industry, healthcare, and Ronald Mariano was elected to the the fire service. She received both a Master Massachusetts House of Representatives in of Science in Industrial Hygiene and Doctor a special election in December, 1991. He of Science in Occupational Safety and Injury represents the 3rd Norfolk District, which is Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan comprised of Quincy (Ward 2 and Precinct 5 School of Public Health. of Ward 4); Weymouth (Precincts 5, 6, 9, 12, 16); and Holbrook (Precincts 2, 3, 4). He Shioban Torres DrPH, Worksite Wellness serves as the Majority Leader in the House Coordinator, Division of Health Protection of Representatives. and Promotion, Bureau of Community Health and Prevention, Massachusetts Throughout his career, Representative Department of Public Health Mariano has been a driving force behind Shioban Torres is the Worksite Wellness financial services matters and health care Coordinator at the Massachusetts reform efforts. From 2001 to 2009 Mariano Department of Public Health. In this role, served as the House Chairman of the Joint she helps oversee the implementation of Committee on Financial Services (previously the Working on Wellness Program. Her the Joint Committee on Insurance), where work is aimed at helping employers create a he was a key architect of the work environment that encourages healthy Commonwealth’s landmark health care behaviors through implementation of policy reform of 2006 and principal proponent of and environmental supports like healthy transitioning the state’s auto insurance vending and flex time policies for physical market to managed competition in 2008. As activity. In addition to this role, Shioban chair, Mariano oversaw all legislative collaborates with the Department of matters pertaining to banking and Elementary and Secondary Education to insurance. In February 2009, Mariano was support school districts in strengthening promoted to Assistant Majority Leader and their local wellness policy and implementing led the House negotiations on education evidence based programs that improve reform and health care cost containment student health. She also works on the legislation. Mariano was appointed Majority Moving Massachusetts Upstream (MassUP) Leader in 2011 by Speaker Robert A. DeLeo. initiative; a coordinated state strategy to support health systems and communities to Mariano served as a member of the Quincy improve population health and address School Committee for eighteen years. He is health inequities. Shioban’s expertise is in a former member of the Norfolk County health promotion and intervention planning. Advisory Board, Chairman of the Ward 2 Shioban holds a BA from Tufts University, a Democratic Committee, Co-Chair of the Master’s in Public Health from the University Baird and McGuire Taskforce, and formerly served on the Quincy College Board of Governors. He currently chairs the MWRA Legislative Caucus. Mariano is a lifelong resident of Quincy, Massachusetts. He attended Quincy public schools, graduated from in 1969 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, and received his Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1972. After graduation, Mariano taught elementary school history in the Quincy public schools for twelve years. Mariano has been a lifelong basketball fan and coached Quincy Youth Basketball for many years. He is the founder and former coordinator of the President’s Youth Basketball Association and a member of the Quincy Public Schools Athletic Contribution Committee. Mariano enjoys travel, reading, and music. Mariano is married to Eve Powell.