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CQC Steering Committee

Members of the CQC Steering Committee comprise a diverse group of stakeholders from the health care industry — representing providers, health systems, payers, purchasers, government and advocacy organizations — whose leadership provides strategic direction and guidance for CQC’s quality improvement work to transform the delivery system.

Parag Agnihotri, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Population Health Services, UC San Diego Health

Sean Atha, MHA

Steering Committee Co-Chair, 2023-2025; SVP, Business & Program Development, Vivant Health (River City Medical Group)

Diana Camacho, MPH

Senior Program Officer, Improving Access, California Health Care Foundation

John Clark, MD, PhD

Chief Population Health Officer, Sharp Rees-Stealy

Hector Flores, MD

Medical Director, Family Care Specialists Medical Group/Altais Clinical Services; Chair, Department of Family Medicine, White Memorial Medical Center

David Ford

Chief Executive Officer, California Physician Services Organization

K Gabrielle Gaspar, MD, MPH, MBA

Chief Medical Officer, Hill Physicians Medical Group

Claire Horton

Vice President, Associate Chief Medical Officer, National Medicaid, Kaiser Permanente

Susan M. Huang, MD

Chief Medical Officer, America's Physician Groups

Albert Huang, MD

Senior Medical Director, Clinical Solutions, Southern California, Medical Health Services, Aetna

Brad Jacobson, MPH

Senior Program Manager, Strategic Improvement, Valley Health Plan

Sayeed Khan, MD

Steering Committee Co-Chair, 2023-2025, Chief Medical Officer, Molina Healthcare

Lance Lang, MD

Steering Committee Member Emeritus

Linda Lee, MPH

Executive Director, Quality, CalOptima

Julia Logan, MD

Chief Medical Officer, California Public Employees’ Retirement System

Minesh Mehta, MD, CCFP

Medical Director - Group South Bay, Optum California

Cathrine Misquitta, PharmD, MBA

Vice President, Quality Management, Health Net

Elizabeth Mitchell

President and CEO, Purchaser Business Group on Health

Kristina Petsas

Chief Medical Officer, UnitedHealthcare

Taylor Priestley

Director Health Equity & Quality Transformation, Covered California

Cary Sanders, MPP

Senior Policy Director, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

Edward Sheen, MD, MPH, MBA

Chief Quality and Population Health Executive, L.A. Care Health Plan

Leland Soiefer, MD

Section Chief, Clinical Quality & Health Equity Performance Improvement, California Department of Health Care Services

Alyson Spencer, MHA

Vice President, Clinical Quality, Blue Shield of California

Padma Taggarse, MMI, MBA

Executive Director, Physician Office Quality, Health Services Advisory Group

Audrey Tio, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Network Performance, Sutter Health

Mike Weiss, DO

Vice President, Population Health, CHOC Children's

Gavin White

Market President, Aledade

Dolores Yanagihara, MPH

Vice President, Performance Measurement & Analytics, Integrated Healthcare Association