Staff
Lisa A. Tomai, MS, is Project Director for HSI. In this capacity, she provides customized project development and management, programming/analysis, along with software and report development, to numerous clients. She has over 20 years of healthcare analytics research experience, and has completed numerous projects for several public and private entities as sole managing partner of her own consulting firm.
After earning her M.S. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Rochester, in Rochester, New York, she worked for many years in the fields of health insurance and managed health care. She has extensive experience working with large claims and administrative databases, SAS programming, and statistical analysis (including provider profiling design and implementation, and outcomes monitoring), public and private health care consulting and health services research. She was the Director of Management Information Systems and Provider Services at the Rochester Community Individual Practice Association in Rochester, New York. She developed decision support tools including: Specialist Utilization Reports: Blue Cross Blue Shield of the Rochester Area; Tracer Condition Reports: Blue Cross Blue Shield of the Rochester Area; Patterns of Controlled Substance Abuse/Diversion Patterns, HSI in conjunction with Purdue Pharma; and Health Reform Proposal Modeling for House W&M Committee.
Sally J. Duran, Senior Fellow, HSI Network, LLC, has extensive experience in the health care industry with diversified corporate, regional and program experience in public and non-profit companies including UnitedHealthcare, Mid-Atlantic Medical Services, Inc. (MAMSI) and Kaiser Permanente. Work experience includes Quality Improvement, product development including commercial, Medicare and Medicaid, Government Relations, HMO and Insurance laws and regulations and federal health care reform.
Previously Ms. Duran was Senior Vice President of Quality Improvement (QI) for MAMSI subsequently, the United Healthcare Mid-Atlantic Region. MAMSI was a regional managed care company composed of HMOs, a PPO, and other subsidiaries serving approximately 2 million members. For over ten years, Ms. Duran played a key role in expanding the QI program scope to include company-wide care and service initiatives, NCQA accreditation, QI compliance, preventive health and population disease management programs. She was also a member of the senior management team responsible for integrating MAMSI and Fidelity Insurance Company into the United Healthcare Mid-Atlantic Region. Ms. Duran also served on the Maryland Institutional Review Board, Virginia Board of Health and the Virginia Health Information Board. Prior to joining MAMSI, she held management positions in government relations and finance with Kaiser Permanente.
Ms. Duran has a MA in Health Services Administration from George Washington University and a BA in Occupational Therapy, St. Catherine’s University (formerly the College of St. Catherine) She is also a Certified Professional in Health Quality (CPHQ).
Stephen T. Parente, Ph.D., MPH, MS, Managing Principal is the Managing Principal of HSI, Minnesota Insurance Industry Professor of Health Finance in the Department of Finance and Director of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute (www.csom.umn.edu/mili) in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. His areas of research are health economics, health insurance, medical technology evaluation and health information technology. He has extensive experience directing empirical analyses utilizing primary and secondary databases and is acknowledged as a national expert on using administrative databases, particularly Medicare and health insurer data, for health policy research. In his role as a Principal of HSI Network, LLC, he has served as a consultant to several of the largest health care organizations including: UnitedHealth Group, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Johnson and Johnson, Medtronic, Pfizer, Merck, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and various government agencies. He is currently the Principal Investigator for a series of private evaluations examining the role of information technology and disease management programs on health care cost and quality using data from national employers representing several hundred thousand lives. He holds an appointment as adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota faculty, Dr. Parente gained a broad range of private and public sector health finance and policy experience by serving as a Legislative Fellow in the US Senate during the Bush and Clinton Administrations' health reform initiatives, and designing health care provider performance profiles of quality and cost. He was most recently a volunteer advisor to the McCain presidential campaign and was responsible for the health IT plan for the campaign, the full extent to which was not made public. He has a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University, and both a Masters of Science in Public Policy Analysis and a Masters of Public Health from the University of Rochester.
Larry Van Horn, Ph.D, MPH, MBA, Principal is the Executive Director of Health Affairs and Associate Professor of Economics and Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University where he is responsible for all health care related programs. His areas of research are health economics, health insurance, antitrust and organizational economics related to pay for performance in health care. His research has appeared in the Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, International Journal of Industrial Organization and Harvard Business Review. His research employs large administrative databases to infer determinants of organizational performance. He has served as a consultant to large health insurers, and hospital systems. He is also a senior professional at Competition Economics where he works on health care litigation. Professor Van Horn is a highly sought after speaker at national events on health economics and policy and writes the "Second Opinion" blog for Forbes.com. He holds a doctorate from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvnia as well as an MBA and a Masters of Public Health from the University of Rochester.
Michael D. Finch, Ph.D., Lead Health Innovation and Services Developer is a sociologist and health services researcher. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Finch is a regular contributor to journals in economics and health services research. His research has focused on a wide array of topic including health care quality, financial incentives for providers, health plan choice determinants and national health statistics. Dr. Finch was tenured member of the faculty in the Division of Health policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota before leaving to become the Director of Research Programs at UnitedHealth Group where he lead the development of Health Numerics a business support system used by NHS PCTs . Since 2005, Dr. Finch has been a principal at Finch & King, Inc; a company that provides business development services and research expertise to acute care hospitals and health care not-for-profits. Finch & King has been a strategic partner for HSI since its creation. Dr. Finch currently holds adjunct positions in the Division of Health Policy and Administration, the Departments of Finance and Sociology at the University of Minnesota and is faculty Director of the Medical Industry Valuation Laboratory. |
