Speaker Biographies Philip W. Johnston to 2017, Phil served as Chairman of the University Chairman, of Massachusetts Building Authority Board of Massachusetts Directors. He was recently elected Vice Chair of Health Policy Forum the University of Massachusetts Foundation. In 1984, Governor Phil has served on the Board of Directors of Blue Michael S. Dukakis Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts since 1998. In appointed Phil the 2002, he was appointed to Chair the Board of the Secretary of Health Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Human Services in Massachusetts. As Foundation, which has an endowment of $115 Secretary, he was responsible for the million dollars and provides grants to administration of seventeen state agencies in the Massachusetts nonprofit organizations, which health and human services field, which work in the healthcare field on behalf of low- comprised over fifty percent of the state income citizens. In addition, Phil is the Board budget. Just prior to his appointment as Chair of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, Secretary, Phil had begun his fifth consecutive an organization funded by Massachusetts health term as an elected State Representative from the providers and payors, which serves both as a Fourth Plymouth District of Massachusetts. health policy research organization and as a convenor of key players in the health field to In 1991, Phil served as the Executive Director of address key health policy issues confronting the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in Washington, state and the nation. The Forum has a close D.C., an organization established by the Kennedy affiliation with Brandeis University. family to continue to carry on Robert F. Kennedy’s work in the field of social justice and Phil also sits on the Boards of ConforMIS, the human rights in the United States and around the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human globe. In 1992, he was appointed by President Rights, the Carroll Center for the Blind, the Clinton to serve as the New England Tramuto Foundation, Health eVillages, along with Administrator of the U.S. Department of Health the Advisory Board for the Kenneth B. Schwartz and Human Services. As the Administrator, Phil Center. In 2012, Phil was appointed to the had supervisory responsibility for a multitude of Advisory Board of the Taubman Center for State federal Health and Human Services programs, and Local Government at the Harvard Kennedy including Medicare, Medicaid, Headstart, WIC School. Most recently, Phil was named a trustee and many other programs serving vulnerable of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library populations in the six New England states. He and Museum in Hyde Park, New York. reported directly to HHS Secretary, Donna Phil founded and served as Executive Director of Shalala. He served in that role until 1996 when the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, he became a Democratic candidate for the US one of the top juvenile justice and social services Congress in the 10th District of agencies in the country. Currently, he serves on Massachusetts. From 2000-2007, Phil was twice the Advisory Board of the Action Corps. elected Chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party. In addition to holding honorary degrees from the University of Massachusetts Boston, Bridgewater Phil was appointed in 2007 by Governor Deval State College, and Curry College, Phil received a Patrick as a member of the Board of Trustees of Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the University of Massachusetts. He chaired the Massachusetts at Amherst (Honors in History) Search Committee for a new Chancellor at the and a Master of Arts degree from the John F. University of Massachusetts Medical School. He Kennedy School of Government at Harvard also served as Chair of the Search Committee for University. the new UMass Amherst Chancellor. From 2013 Marylou Sudders, Haiden A. Huskamp, Ph.D, Secretary, Henry J. Kaiser Professor Executive Office of of Health Care Policy, Health and Human Department of Health Services Care Policy, Harvard Medical School Marylou Sudders serves as the Secretary of Haiden Huskamp, Ph.D., is a health economist Health and Human Services for the and the Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Health Care Commonwealth of Massachusetts, overseeing Policy. Dr. Huskamp has three primary areas of 12 agencies and MassHealth, with a combined research: 1) mental health and substance use budget of $24 billion and 22,000 public disorder policy; 2) prescription drug policy; and 3) employees delivering essential services that the financing and utilization of end-of-life care touch the lives of 1 in 4 state residents. services. She also serves as Director of Harvard’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) T32 Since joining Governor Baker’s cabinet in January Pre- and Post-doctoral Training Program in 2015, Sudders has advanced strategic policy Mental Health Policy. priorities, including: restructuring MassHealth into a population-based health coverage system, Dr. Huskamp is Multi-Principal Investigator (MPI) reforming the child welfare system, addressing on an R01 funded by the National Institute on the opioid epidemic, integrating physical and Drug Abuse (NIDA) assessing the use of behavioral health care, and strengthening telemedicine for the treatment of opioid use community-based services. disorder. She recently served as MPI for an R01 funded by the NIMH focused on factors that Sudders co-chairs the Governor’s Interagency influence physician adoption and use of Council on Housing and Homelessness, the antipsychotic medications and an R01 funded by Governor’s Interagency Council on Aging, and NIDA assessing the effects of new payment and chairs the Autism Commission and the board of delivery models on substance use disorder Massachusetts Health Connector, the state’s treatment. Dr. Huskamp is currently studying health insurance marketplace. utilization of substance use disorder treatments among enrollees in high deductible health Sudders has held leadership roles across the plans. She has published numerous papers on public and private sectors, including serving as the impact of managed care for behavioral health the Massachusetts Commissioner of Mental services on utilization patterns, costs, and quality Health, a non-profit CEO, and associate professor of care and on the impact of parity in insurance and program chair at Boston College School of coverage for behavioral health services. Dr. Social Work, a top ten nationally-ranked Huskamp previously served as a member of the program. Institute of Medicine Committee on Developing Evidence-Based Standards for Psychosocial Sudders holds a bachelor’s degree with honors Interventions for Mental Disorders. She is a co- and a master’s degree in social work from Boston Director for the Brandeis-Harvard NIDA Center to University, and honorary doctorates from the Improve System Performance of Substance Use Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology Disorder Treatment. and Bridgewater State University. She is the recipient of many civic, social work, and Dr. Huskamp is an expert on the impact of professional honors. pharmacy management tools used to control prescription drug costs on drug utilization, cost, and quality of care. Through a Robert Wood technology interventions that facilitate care Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health coordination using web-based telehealth Policy Research, Dr. Huskamp examined the applications. social costs and benefits of newer psychotropic drugs to assess their social value and identify Barbra G. Rabson, MPH ways that the value of psychotropic drug President and CEO, spending can be increased. She recently served Massachusetts Health as MPI on a NIMH-funded U01 grant examining Quality Partners characteristics of provider organizations that influence the diffusion of new technologies, Under Barbra Rabson’s including prescription drugs. Dr. Huskamp leadership since 1998, MHQP has become a served as a member of the Institute of Medicine national leader in the measurement and public Committee on Accelerating Rare Diseases reporting of health care information, with a Research and Orphan Products Development. particular focus on measuring and improving patients’ experiences of care. She has led Dr. Huskamp’s research on end-of-life care has MHQP’s most recent work to better understand examined the changing characteristics of the patient and clinician experiences with telehealth. hospice industry and the effects of industry changes on the provision of end-of-life care, the Barbra directed and has been the principal timing of discussions about hospice care that investigator of numerous federal and private occur between physicians and patients with foundation grants (including CMS, AHRQ, Robert advanced illness, and variation in hospice costs Wood Johnson Foundation and the across hospice users. She served as a member of Commonwealth Fund) for MHQP. She is a the Institute of Medicine Committee on Care for member of the MA Executive Office of Health and Children Who Die and Their Families, and she Human Services Quality Measure Alignment Task currently serves on the National Academy of Force and Quality Subcommittee, the Medicine Roundtable on Quality Care for People Massachusetts Health Employer Coalition, and with Serious Illness. the Betsey Lehman Center Research Advisory Committee. Barbra is also a founding member Ben Kragen and past Board Chair of the Network for Regional Ph.D and M.B.A. Student, Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), a national The Heller School for Social network