Sanne Magnan, M.D., Ph.D.
| In January 2011, Dr. Sanne Magnan became the President and CEO of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) in Bloomington, MN. ICSI is an independent, non-profit organization that facilitates collaboration on health care value improvement by medical groups, hospitals and health plans that provide health care services to people who live and work in Minnesota and adjacent states.
In 2007, Magnan was the President of ICSI when she was appointed by Governor Tim Pawlenty to serve as Commissioner of Health for the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). MDH is the state’s lead public health agency, responsible for protecting, maintaining and improving the health of all Minnesotans. She served in this position from 2007 to 2010 and was responsible for significant implementation of Minnesota’s 2008 health reform legislation including the Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP), standardized quality reporting, development of provider peer grouping (ranking of providers on risk-adjusted quality and cost information), certification process for health care homes, and baskets of care. |
Victor Montori, M.D., MSc
| Victor M. Montori, MD, MSc is a diabetologist and clinical epidemiologist. He is the lead investigator of the Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit and a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He serves as co-director of the Knowledge Translation Research Unit of the NIH-sponsored Mayo Center for Translational Research and Director of the Healthcare Delivery Research Program, the Shared Decision Making National Resource Center, and the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media.
Victor is interested in how knowledge is produced, disseminated, and taken up in practice and how this leads to optimal healthcare delivery and patient outcomes for patients with chronic disease. He is particularly interested in the corruption of evidence and healthcare delivery and how corruption affects patient care and outcomes.
He was born in Peru, where he obtained his medical degree. He trained in internal medicine, was a chief medical resident, and trained in endocrinology at Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN. He also obtained a master's degree in biomedical research from Mayo Graduate School and spent two years as a research fellow at McMaster University in Canada. He lives in Rochester, MN.
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| Jo Williams, DBE is widely recognized in the UK as a key voice in the reform of health and human services. In 2000, she served as President, Director of Social Care Organizations, England and Wales. Honored by the Queen in 2001, she was awarded the CBE, and in 2007 was made a Dame (DBE). In 2010 she became the Chair of both the Care Quality Commission (the national regulatory body for Health and Social Care) and the Prison Reform Trust. Dame Jo was recently appointed to the three member ‘Commission on the Funding of Care and Support,’ which will report to the UK Government in July 2011 in response to the major financial challenge England faces in financing long term care for older people and people with significant disabling conditions.
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 Bob DeBoer | Bob DeBoer joined the Citizens League staff in October 2003. He staffed the 2004 Transportation Study Committee and the 2005-06 Medical Facilities Study Committee. Bob is currently staffing the Citizens League Pathways to Prosperity Project and is the primary staff for the Citizens League Policy Advisory Committee, managing editor of the Minnesota Journal, and is responsible for the three property tax studies issued by the Citizens League (residential homestead survey, tax increment financing and fiscal disparities).
Before coming to the Citizens League, Bob was director of communications at the Office of the State Auditor and committee administrator for the Minnesota House of Representatives Committee on Taxes and Committee on Local Government and Metropolitan Affairs. Bob also has experience as a journalist, market researcher, and health care manager and worker. During a short stint as a consultant, Bob produced a report on the efficiency of the state lottery in April 2003. After years of "research" into the transient behavior of college undergraduates (including study in Birmingham, England and Tel Aviv, Israel), Bob received a Bachelor of Arts in Speech-Communication from the University of Minnesota in 1987. He has also completed coursework in state-local fiscal relations and economic development at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
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 Roberta Cordano, J.D. | Roberta "Bobbi" Cordano, J.D. is the Vice President of Programs for the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. The Wilder Foundation is a nonprofit health and human services organization that has served the greater Saint Paul, Minnesota, area since 1906. Wilder directly serves over 9,000 individuals by offering more than 70 programs and services that help children succeed in school, older adults remain independent, troubled youth and families create healthy futures, and individuals and families maintain long-term, affordable housing.
Ms. Cordano has served in leadership roles in multiple sectors. In health care, she has served as the interim President of the Center for Health Care Innovation and the President of Park Nicollet Institute (and a Vice-President of the health system). Prior to healthcare she served at the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Dean of the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and as the Director of Disability Services.
Ms. Cordano started her professional career as a prosecutor at the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office for ten years. She is one of the founding members of Metro Deaf School, a pre-K – 8 bilingual-bicultural charter school for deaf and hard of hearing children in St. Paul, Minnesota, which opened in 1993. She is also a founding board member of Minnesota North Star Academy, a bilingual-bicultural charter high school.
In 2003, she was the recipient of the inaugural Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs’ Public Leadership Award, sharing the recognition with former Vice President Walter Mondale, former governor Elmer Anderson and Pakou Hang.
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Carolyn Pare
| Carolyn Pare, President and CEO, Buyers Health Care Action Group (BHCAG). Carolyn is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Buyers Health Care Action Group, a coalition of more than 30 public and private employers dedicated to health care market reform. BHCAG’s current initiatives include Bridges to Excellence, a pay for performance program designed to improve outcomes for diabetics, people with heart and vascular disease and people suffering from depression; eValue8, an assessment of health plan support of purchaser initiatives to improve health care quality; myHealthfolio, a personal health management portfolio designed to help people manage their health and health care electronically; the Chartered Value Exchange, a federal initiative to improve health care value in the marketplace through collaboration; and Aligning Forces for Quality, a RWJ funded project to improve public reporting, quality improvement and consumer engagement in health and health care.
Carolyn was previously a director of Human Resources, responsible for Benefits, Risk Management and Human Resource Information Systems at Target Corporation. She currently serves as Chair of the National Business Coalition on Health; sits on the NCQA Standards Committee and the Steering Committee of the Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety. Carolyn also participates as a member of the National Advisory Council to the California Health Benefits Review Program and serves on the Minnesota Health Care Reform Review Council, a group charged with oversight of the implementation of the health care reforms passed in the 2008 legislative session. Carolyn has served the State of Minnesota as a member of the State Quality Improvement Institute and a member Governor Pawlenty’s QCare (Quality Care and Rewarding Excellence) Council, an advisory body setting goals and standards to improve health care performance in the state. |
