Sachin D. Shah, MD, FACP, FAAP
Sachin D. Shah is a primary care Med-Peds physician boarded in internal medicine, pediatrics, and clinical informatics. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as Associate Chief Medical Information Officer. His work focuses on population health, value-based care, digital health, telemedicine, ambulatory quality, analytics, and patient engagement.
Megan Huisingh-Sheetz, MD, MPH
Dr. Huisingh-Scheetz uses her background in Geriatrics and Epidemiology to study the role of activity in the pathophysiology of frailty and aging. As a clinician investigator and NIA K23 recipient, her research has focused on understanding how objectively measured activity and sedentary behavior patterns, resting metabolic rate, and body composition relate to frailty progression and frailty-related outcomes. Through her work, she analyzes accelerometry data to assess and trend activity patterns as markers of frailty and to inform frailty activity interventions using the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project dataset, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey dataset, and local data. In partnership with NORC and Orbita, Inc, Dr. Huisingh-Scheetz also developed and is studying the impact of EngAGE, a technology-based tool utilizing a voice assistant to deliver exercise programming to older adults in their home to reduce frailty. The program leverages caregivers to provide social motivation to the older adult to simultaneously combat loneliness.
Timothy McBride, PhD
Timothy McBride is the Bernard Becker professor in the Brown School and Co-director of the Center for Health Economics and Policy in the Institute for Public Health, at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. McBride studies health policy and health economics, focusing on health insurance, health reform, rural health care, Medicare and Medicaid policy, health economics, and access to health care. Professor McBride, who earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin, joined the Washington University faculty in 2008. He served as the first associate dean for public health at Washington University from 2009 to 2012. Dr. McBride serves as a member of national, state, and local committees and boards, including the St. Louis City Board of Health, and the Midwest Council for Cost Effectiveness Public Advisory Council. He served as chair of the state of Missouri’s MOHealthNet Oversight Committee from 2012-19, which advises the state’s Medicaid program. Professor McBride has been active in testifying before Congress and consulting with policy constituents on health reform, health insurance issues, and rural health policy. He has served on the Rural Policy Research Institute’s (RUPRI) Health Panel since 2003, which provides expert advice on rural health issues to the U.S. Congress and other policymakers. Prior to coming to Washington University, Professor McBride spent five years at Saint Louis University’s School of Public Health, and before that 12 years at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Scott Lawrence, DC
Dr. Lawrence is the deputy director of the Division of Practitioner Services at the Hospital and Ambulatory Policies Group within the Center for Medicare at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is the Government Technical Lead for the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Telehealth Evaluation. He had been the deputy director of the Division of Payment Methods and Strategies in the Provider Compliance Group (PCG) within the Center for Program Integrity and the acting deputy director of the Division of Data and Informatics, leading the Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership (HFPP) in the Data Sharing and Partnership Group at the Center for Program Integrity (CPI), and, while in the Division of Medical Review and Education in PCG/CPI, he had been a team lead for the Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE), Computer Assisted Review of Documentation (CARD), and other projects. Dr. Lawrence continues to see patients in private practice as well as consult as an expert for fraud investigations outside of CMS.