Location
Baltimore, MD
How did you hear about the NIC Hub?
NIC Website
Organization
MITRE
Title
Director of Health Policy and Analytics
What are your domains of INTEREST?
Public Health, Health Information Technology
Do you have any OTHER domains of interest?
children
What are your domains of EXPERTISE?
Public Health, Health Information Technology
Do you have any OTHER domains of expertise?
health financing
Share with us a short bio of yourself.
Cheryl Austein Casnoff is a senior health policy executive with a distinguished consulting and public service career in public health. She brings decades of experience in government and not for profit organizations in key areas including health financing and system reform, Medicaid, health IT, social determinants of health, population health, children's health, oral health, and systems transformation. She was instrumental in creating and implementing the original State Children’s Health Insurance Program, served as a legislative fellow in the U.S. Senate, and established a new Office of Health Information Technology to promote the adoption and meaningful use of electronic records for safety net providers. She served in numerous senior positions at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for over three decades including as the Director of Public Health Policy for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Since leaving HHS, she was selected to be a Senior Fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago, directing numerous studies related to Medicaid, children, and vulnerable populations. At MITRE, she leads the portfolio for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services where she oversees projects related to Medicare, Medicaid, health system reform, quality and telehealth. She has authored several papers and chapters related to telehealth including reports on Medicare, school health and substance user treatment. She currently serves on not for profit boards on behalf of children's health and well being including Action for Healthy Kids. She is also an adjunct professor at GW Medical School in Health IT and quality policy.
Would you like to join Health IT Group?
Yes
Would you like to join Project Unify Group?
No
Would you like to join the National Action Agenda to Advance Upstream Social Determinants and Race Equity Action Plan Group?
Yes
Would you like to join the Civil Justice Technology Project Group?
No
Would you like to join Social Determinants Group?
Yes
Would you like to join Opioid Epidemic Group?
Yes
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