NYQA Stakeholders
PHYSICIAN GROUPS
ACOG, District II – Donna Montalto
Community Health Care Association of NYS – Kate Breslin; Sandy Worden
Hudson Headwaters Health Network – John Rugge, MD
Institute for Urban Family Health – Neil Calman, MD
Medical Society of the State of New York – Rick Abrams; Liz Dears
NYC, American College of Physicians – Paul Gitman, MD (PA Chair); John Maese, MD
NYS Academy of Family Physicians – Vito Grasso
CONSUMER GROUPS
American Heart Association – Christine Rutan
Center for Medical Consumers – Art Levin
Niagara Health Quality Coalition – Bruce Boissonnault
NY Diabetes Coalition – Bob Morrow, MD
HEALTH PLANS
Aetna – Gloria Bouvier; Terry Golash, MD
Affinity Health Plan – Maura Bluestone
CDPHP – Clifford Waldman, MD
CIGNA Health Care – Theresa De Guzman, RN
Elderplan – Davy Diongson
Emblem – William Gillespie, MD; Margarita King; Dr. Amin Hakim
*Empire – Vincent Jarvis, MD; Scott Breidbart, MD
Health Net – Eileen O’Conner, RN; Janice Perkins
HealthNow NY – Lynda Hohmann, MD; Felicia Ballard
Hudson Health Plan – Janet Sullivan, MD; Gail Babes, MPH
*Independent Health – Thomas Foels, MD
MVP Health Care – Jerry Salkowe, MD
United Health Care/Oxford – Sheila Linehan
*not currently contributing data
BUSINESS GROUPS
Business Council of NYS – Mark Amodeo
Employer Alliance for Affordable Health Care – Pam Finch
New York Business Group on Health – Laurel Pickering
OTHER
Greater Hudson Valley RHIO – Lawrence Gordon, MD
HPA - Paul Macielak
HIXNY – Dominick Bizzarro
IPRO – Spencer Vibbert; Theodore Will
NY eHealth Collaborative – Alex Low
NYC DOH & Mental Hygiene, PCIP – Farzad Mostashari, MD; Erica Desai
NYC DOH, Office of Managed Care – Foster Gesten, MD
P2 Collaborative of Western NY – Shelley Hirshberg
THINC RHIO, Inc. – Susan Stuard
ACOG, District II – Donna Montalto
Community Health Care Association of NYS – Kate Breslin; Sandy Worden
Hudson Headwaters Health Network – John Rugge, MD
Institute for Urban Family Health – Neil Calman, MD
Medical Society of the State of New York – Rick Abrams; Liz Dears
NYC, American College of Physicians – Paul Gitman, MD (PA Chair); John Maese, MD
NYS Academy of Family Physicians – Vito Grasso
CONSUMER GROUPS
American Heart Association – Christine Rutan
Center for Medical Consumers – Art Levin
Niagara Health Quality Coalition – Bruce Boissonnault
NY Diabetes Coalition – Bob Morrow, MD
HEALTH PLANS
Aetna – Gloria Bouvier; Terry Golash, MD
Affinity Health Plan – Maura Bluestone
CDPHP – Clifford Waldman, MD
CIGNA Health Care – Theresa De Guzman, RN
Elderplan – Davy Diongson
Emblem – William Gillespie, MD; Margarita King; Dr. Amin Hakim
*Empire – Vincent Jarvis, MD; Scott Breidbart, MD
Health Net – Eileen O’Conner, RN; Janice Perkins
HealthNow NY – Lynda Hohmann, MD; Felicia Ballard
Hudson Health Plan – Janet Sullivan, MD; Gail Babes, MPH
*Independent Health – Thomas Foels, MD
MVP Health Care – Jerry Salkowe, MD
United Health Care/Oxford – Sheila Linehan
*not currently contributing data
BUSINESS GROUPS
Business Council of NYS – Mark Amodeo
Employer Alliance for Affordable Health Care – Pam Finch
New York Business Group on Health – Laurel Pickering
OTHER
Greater Hudson Valley RHIO – Lawrence Gordon, MD
HPA - Paul Macielak
HIXNY – Dominick Bizzarro
IPRO – Spencer Vibbert; Theodore Will
NY eHealth Collaborative – Alex Low
NYC DOH & Mental Hygiene, PCIP – Farzad Mostashari, MD; Erica Desai
NYC DOH, Office of Managed Care – Foster Gesten, MD
P2 Collaborative of Western NY – Shelley Hirshberg
THINC RHIO, Inc. – Susan Stuard

