
Jack DiMatteo, MPP
2019 Fellow
Placement: Black Maternal Health Caucus
What is Jack up to these days?

Alexander Urry, MPH
2019 Fellow
Placement: United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Office
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Garrett Devenney, MPH
2018 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
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Kristen Lunde, MPH
2018 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Finance Committee
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Rachel Dolin, Ph.D
2017 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means
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Michael Budros, MPH
2017 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce
What is Michael up to these days?
Michael currently works for Healthsperien, LLC, a D.C.-based health policy and strategy consulting firm. Healthsperien brings a “system” perspective to our work and specializes in payment and delivery models, regulatory issues facing Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers, and emerging trends in value-based payment. Michael serves as Policy Director, offering a wide-range of legislative and regulatory analysis across Healthsperien’s clients. In addition, Michael works closely with a number of Healthsperien's policy coalition partners, including the National Coalition on Health Care and the Smarter Health Care Coalition.
Prior to joining Healthsperien, Michael managed an expanding low-value care portfolio at VBID Health LLC, which focuses on accelerating multi-stakeholder initiatives, research, and policy advocacy to reduce clinical waste. Prior to VBID Health, Michael was a Winston Health Policy Fellow for the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee where he focused on Medicaid and public health portfolios.
Michael is a Michigan native, hailing from Traverse City, Michigan. In 2013, He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan in German, Biopsychology, and Medical Anthropology. In 2017, Michael received his Master of Public Policy and Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan as well.

Olivia Pham, MSPH
2016 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Energy & Commerce
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Kripa Sreepada, MHA
2016 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Lydia Orth, MPH
2015 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
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Adrianna McIntyre
2015 Fellow
Placement: Office of United Stated House Minority Leader
What is Adrianna up to theses days?
The joint MPP/MPH reflected Adrianna’s interest in confronting thorny policy problems using consciously interdisciplinary perspectives. She was a member of the inaugural cohort of Dow Sustainability Fellows, which unites students across the university’s graduate programs to address contemporary issues in sustainability policy. Adrianna’s team developed a white paper on the public health potential of brownfield remediation in Detroit, Michigan.
She was named a 2013 David Bohnett Leadership and Public Service Fellow and spent the summer of 2013 serving her fellowship at the Office of the Mayor in the city of Detroit. While the summer’s biggest projects were focused on municipal governance more broadly, Adrianna provided some analytical support for the restructuring of the city health department.
Adrianna is particularly interested in the intersection of health economics and law: how can empirical findings can be transformed into prudent policy, given the frictions of the political system and the reality that science does not exist in a vacuum? She began to explore these themes through writing, first on her own site, then on noted health policy blog The Incidental Economist. Adrianna was invited to spend the summer of 2014 at Vox, a then-nascent news organization. While there, she spent a considerable amount of time writing about the politics of Medicaid expansion and the legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s insurance subsidies, which would eventually become the Supreme Court case King v. Burwell. Adrianna has also written for Bloomberg View, The Week, and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
In September 2015, Adrianna began her fellowship placement in the Office of Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. It was an exciting time to embark upon this work, with the 2016 budget deal, prescription drug prices, and mental health reform all generating tremendous attention and interest in the health policy community. Adrianna feels privileged to have the opportunity to work with Wendell Primus and other inspiring and talented policy staff in the Leader’s office and on committees of jurisdiction.
In the Fall of 2016, Adrianna began the Harvard’s PhD program in Health Policy.

Leif Brierley, MPH
2014 Fellow
Placement: Office of Senator Michael Bennett
What is Leif doing these days?
Leif Brierley, MPH, is the Powers’ Manager of Government Relations and focuses on federal healthcare, rehabilitation, and disability policy and advocacy for the firm’s clients.
Leif employs targeted legislative and political analysis, lobbying and advocacy activity, and strategic coalition management to enable clients to make their greatest impact on policy. His work on legislative and regulatory initiatives is critical to the provider, supplier, and consumer groups the firm serves. In his capacity as Manager of Government Relations, Leif conducts, organizes, and facilitates lobbying and related advocacy events, including congressional briefings, Capitol Hill visits, and federal agency meetings. Additionally, he manages a number of national disability and rehabilitation coalitions led by the Powers public policy and government relations group. These coalitions focus on access to rehabilitation services and devices, assistive technology, quality orthotic and prosthetic care, and promote of disability and rehabilitation research across the federal health agencies.
Previously, Leif served as a David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow (2014-15), a distinguished postgraduate fellowship in health policy awarded to two individuals annually, which includes a full-time work placement in a key health policy development setting. Leif spent his fellowship year working for U.S. Senator Michael F. Bennet. In the U.S. Senate, he covered a broad portfolio of health policy issues, including Medicare, Medicaid, providers, health care delivery systems, and child welfare through the Senate Finance Committee; and public health, infectious disease, medical research, pharmaceuticals, and medical innovation issues through the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Leif also served as a Senior Analyst at the Advisory Board Company in Washington, DC, where he provided best practice research and strategic guidance for hospitals and health systems across the nation. Prior to his time in DC, Leif spent several years involved in the Massachusetts health policy arena, serving as a Health Policy Analyst for the Massachusetts Medical Society, the statewide professional association for physicians and medical students that owns and operates the New England Journal of Medicine.
He is a graduate of the Boston University School of Public Health, where he studied Health Policy & Management, earning a Master of Public Health degree. Currently, he is the Vice Chair of the Board of the Society of Health Policy Young Professionals in Washington, D.C.

KT Kramer, MHA
2014 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
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Anne Dwyer, JD, MPH
2013 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senator Ron Wyden
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Colin Goldfinch, MPH, MHA
2013 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Elizabeth Karan, JD, MPH
2012 Fellow
Placement: United State Senate Committee on Finance
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Yajuan Lu, JD
2012 Fellow
Placement, Office of United States Senator Chuck Grassley
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Swarna Vallurupalli, JD, MPH-HP
2012 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Miraya Jun, MSPH
2011 Fellow
Office Of United States House of Representatives' Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
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Jennifer Schmitzer, MPH
2011 Fellow
Placement: United States Department of State
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Erin Richardson, MA, JD
2010 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
What is Erin up to these days?
Erin Richardson is currently Vice President and Associate General Counsel at the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH). Prior to joining the FAH, she served as Senior Policy Advisor with the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Obama. She also previously served as professional staff and health counsel for the Democratic staff of the Committee on Ways and Means, Health Subcommittee where she had an instrumental role in the repeal of the SGR and passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. Prior to joining Ways & Means, she was the Legislative Assistant for Health for Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and a Winston Health Policy Fellow at the Committee on Ways and Means. Erin received her law degree from Columbia Law School, master’s in Bioethics from Case Western Reserve University, and bachelor’s from Wellesley College.

Catherine Oakar, MPH
2010 Fellow
Placement: White House Office of Health Reform
What is Catherine up to these days?
Most recently, Catherine served as the Associate Director of the Let’s Move! initiative in the office of former First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House. She also served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Domestic Policy Council’s Office of National AIDS Policy.
Prior to the White House, Catherine served as the Director of Public Health Policy in the Office of Health Reform at HHS. In that role, she had primary oversight responsibility for the implementation of the public health, prevention, disparities and workforce provisions of the Affordable Care Act and spoke across the country about the law.
Catherine began her work in Washington, D.C. as a David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow. She has also been a Fellow at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and has conducted community-based research with low-income cancer survivors and safety net clinics. Catherine earned her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan and completed her undergraduate education at the University of Notre Dame.

John Barkett, MBA
2009 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
What is John up to these days?
Before joining Extend Health, John spent two and a half years in Washington, D.C., where he contributed to the writing, passage, and implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. John served on the health subcommittee staff of the Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives in 2009 where he drafted and negotiated the final details of legislation aimed at reducing fraud in the Medicare program. After the bill’s passage, John joined the staff of the Office of Health Reform in the Department of Health and Human Services, where he helped guide the implementation of all sections of the Affordable Care Act related to delivery system reform.
Previously, John worked for athenahealth, Inc., a revenue-cycle management and electronic medical record company, and Medica HealthCare Plans, Inc., a Medicare Advantage plan.
John earned an MBA in health care management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he won the Robert D. Eilers Award for health care innovation and service to the community. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College, with a bachelor’s degree in economics and a secondary field in health care policy.

Devon Trolley, MHA
2009 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senator Jay Rockefeller
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Andrew Roszak, JD, MPA
2008 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions & United States Senate Budget Committee
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Kelly Whitener, JD MPH
2008 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Elizabeth Lee, MPA
2007
Fellow Placement: Office of United States Senator Hillary Clinton
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Tanchica West, MPH, MA
2007 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pension
What is Tanchica up to these days?
Ms. West further has a proven track record developing and analyzing complex legislative matters in state and federal environments to maximize the benefit of health care reform. Ms. West earned an honorable mention in the United States Congressional Record for helping to reauthorize challenging bi-partisan legislation to improve healthcare for Native Americans, and leading bi-partisan efforts to reauthorize the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief as a legislative fellow with the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee led by Chairman Edward Kennedy. She is the first staffer to develop and implement a citywide strategic plan for youth sexual health in the District of Columbia legislature. Tanchica has a passion for developing and implementing critical policy and public health initiatives so that every individual, family, and community can enjoy and benefit from good or improved health.

John Rigg, MPA, MHA
2006 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
What is John up to these days?
Prior to his executive branch service, John worked at the California Hospital Association and in the legislative branch as a health policy fellow for the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee of the House of Representatives, and for the Government Accountability Office (GAO. John’s first career was as a Paramedic-Firefighter in Atlanta and in Washington State, and he still practices emergency medicine as a volunteer Paramedic in Calvert County (MD). John lives with his wife and two sons in College Park, MD, where he serves as a member of the non-partisan College Park City Council. He has a Master of Public Administration and a Master of Health Administration with a focus on Health Policy from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Arts from Emory University.

Martin Sobel, MPA
2006 Fellow
United States Senate Committee on Finance
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Mayra Alvarez, MHA
2005 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senator Barack Obama
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Jay Khosla, JD, MHA
2005 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senator Bill Frist

Rachel Nuzum, MPH
2004 Fellow
Placement: Office of United Senator States Jeff Bingaman

Katie (Baker) Starkey, MS
2004 Fellow
Placement: Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Agency for Health Care Research & Quality

Diana Birkett, MPH, MPA
2003 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Finance
What is Diana up to these days?
Diana holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and master’s degrees in public administration and public health from the University of Washington. She serves on the boards of the Greater
Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the Pacific Science Center, and is a previous 40 under 40 Honoree by the Puget Sound Business Journal .

Chad Shearer, JD, MHA
2003 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
What is Chad up to these days?
Previously, Mr. Shearer was at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University, where he served as deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health Reform Assistance Network, a project coordinating technical assistance to 11 states implementing the Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansion provisions. He was also a lecturer in public affairs at the university, teaching a graduate capstone policy workshop. Mr. Shearer also spent time at the Center for Health Care Strategies, where he helped shape its Medicaid Leadership Institute. Before that, he served as legislative director for Congressman Pete Stark, who was Chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, in the United States House of Representatives.
Mr. Shearer holds both law and master of health administration degrees from the University of Iowa.

Meghan Taira, MPH
2002 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senator Tom Daschle

Rochelle Archuleta, MBA, MHSA
2001 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Senator Pete Stark
What is Rochelle up to these days?
Ms. Archuleta is a Board Member of Unity Health Care, a network of 29 community health centers located throughout Washington DC, which provides comprehensive primary healthcare services to uninsured and under-insured individuals.

Sybil Richard, RPH, MHA, JD
2000 Fellow
Placement: Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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Jason Ormsby, PhD, MBA, MHSA
1999 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
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Deborah (Veres) Mizeur, MHA
1998 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health
What is Deborah up to these days?
For more than twenty-five years, Deborah has honed her expertise in health care systems and financing, quality, and access in a professional career that has spanned working in the Alaska State Legislature and the United States Congress and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels to private sector firms and public non-profit organizations specializing in these fields. Ten years ago, Ms. Mizeur left Capitol Hill at the peak of her career to pursue clinical studies. Now, as an integrative, holistic practitioner, Deborah Mizeur plays a more direct role in helping people achieve and maintain health.
Through her uncommon professional experience, Deborah serves as a bridge between the worlds of policy and medicine and is sought out for her unique contributions to health systems innovation. In 2016, Deborah was appointed by the State of Maryland to head a working group on the future of rural health care for the State. The consensus recommendations that were adopted after 14- months of deliberation are considered a significant contribution to the national discussion.
Deborah Mizeur received an MS in Herbal Medicine from the Maryland University of Integrative Health, a Master of Health Administration from the University of Washington and a B.A. in government from the University of Alaska, her home State. Deborah enjoys finding connections between seemingly disparate systems and she is passionate about reconnecting people with nature. Deborah has created a boutique healing retreat center on her 34-acre permaculture farm for this purpose. In addition, Deborah owns an organic herbal products company specializing in custom formulations using many of the herbs she cultivates on the land.

Suzanne Yurk, JD, MPH
1997 Fellow
Placement: United States Health Care Financing Administration
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Anna Fallieras, MPH
1996 Fellow
Placement: United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
What is Anna up to these days?
Kara (Morgan) Adams, MSPH
1995 Fellow

Douglas Knoop, MD
1994 Fellow
Placement: Office of United States Represenative Newt Gingrich
What is Doug up to these days?
Brad Hansen, MA
1993 Fellow
What is Brad up to these days?
Mr. Hansen represented Council Bluffs and Carter Lake in the Iowa Legislature as State Representative (1996 – 2003). During his legislative career, Mr. Hansen was the primary author and sponsor of Iowa’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) known as the Healthy and Well Kids in Iowa (“HAWK-I”). He also led the effort to develop Iowa’s patient appeal process which restructured Iowa’s protections of patient rights in managed care plans. Mr. Hansen was also a key legislative player in Insurance, Energy and Banking issues.
Mr. Hansen left the legislature in 2003 to pursue a law degree from the University of Iowa which he earned in 2005. Mr. Hansen practiced law with Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, LLP in Chicago, Illinois from 2006 to 2008, focusing his practice in corporate law.
In addition to earning a law degree from the University of Iowa, Mr. Hansen also holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Northern Iowa and a Master’s Degree from the University of Iowa. Mr. Hansen lives in Omaha with his wife, Suzanne and three children, Isabella (age 13), Gretchen (age 4) and Everett (age 2).

Rosann Geiser, MHA
1992 Fellow
Placement: United States Health Care Financing Administration
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John Meurer, MD, MBA
1991 Fellow
Placement: United States House Committee on Ways & Means, Subcommittee on Health, Voluntary Hospitals of America & American Academy of Pediatrics
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Christina Bethell, PhD, MBA, MPH
1990 Fellow

Roslyne (Weiner) Schulman, MHA
1989 Fellow
Placement: Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
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Jereen (Mackesy) Gilbert, MM
1988 Fellow
Placement: AUPHA & Veterans Health Administration