Staff and Board of Directors

Staff

Vacant- Executive Director

Caitlin Barba, MPH - Program Manager

Caitlin serves as Executive Director of Colorado Center for Primary Care Innovation. Caitlin Barba is also the Practice Administrator at Westminster Medical Clinic, an independently-owned, family medicine practice in suburban Colorado. Her role includes practice strategy, implementation and operational management, financial management, grant writing, and co-leading the Patient Advisory Council. Caitlin has been in her role at Westminster Medical Clinic for over 11 years. Current initiatives to improve care and services at the practice include improving provider-staff wellbeing, implementing Serious Illness Conversations, new services to support those living with cancer or have had a past diagnosis, integrating pharmacy-led services, personalizing cardiovascular care treatment and prevention, and promoting goal-oriented care with an assessment called The Patient Profile. In the May/June 2018 publication of the Annals of Family Medicine, Caitlin co-authored a brief introduction to The Patient Profile and how the practice approaches care planning, treatment adherence, and clinical outcomes. Earlier this year, Caitlin co-authored two chapters in a Springer publication called Integrating Behavioral Health in Primary Care - Your Patients are Waiting. Caitlin hopes to influence health, wellbeing, and healthcare by challenging and innovating what seems impossible, creating the possible. She received a Master’s in Public Health from the Colorado School of Public Health and a dual-Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Biology from the University of Denver. Caitlin has three loves outside of serving in her roles. Caitlin met her husband, Justin of 12 years, in college and they have two sweet daughters, Sydney (6) and Hallie (4).

Board of Directors

R. Scott Hammond, MD, FAAFP - Co Founder, Board President

R. Scott Hammond is Board President and co-founder of Colorado Center for Primary Care Innovation. He is Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. He graduated from the University of Miami School of Medicine [AOA Medical Honor Society 1978], and the Mercy Medical Center Family Medicine Residency [1981-83] in Denver. Scott has practiced at Westminster Medical Clinic, Westminster, CO for 33 years and is currently Medical Director. He was recognized as the 2011 Physician of the Year by the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians. Westminster Medical Clinic is NCQA recognized in PCMH (Level 3), Diabetes and Heart/Stroke and was a CO Multi-Stakeholder PCMH Pilot site [2009-2012]. Westminster Medical Clinic was awarded ‘PCMH Best Practice 2010’ and, following a rigorous nationwide review process, was selected as an exemplar primary care practice in 2013 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Scott served as the Medical Director for the Systems of Care/PCMH Initiative directed by the Colorado Medical Society Foundation 2009-2011 and was Chair, Colorado Academy of Family Physicians PCMH Task Force from 2008-2011. Since 2016, he co-chairs the Colorado Primary Care Collaborative to increase awareness of the PCMH and Direct Primary Care across Colorado. He lectures on the PCMH and Medical Neighborhood nationally and integrated mental health into primary care through the Advancing Care Together (ACT) collaborative.

Stacey Halvorsen, M.Ed - Co Founder, Board Vice President

Stacey is an ACE certified Health Coach and has a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Washington, specializing in environmental and multicultural education, education policy, and non-profit management. Stacey also graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of the Arts in Anthropology and a certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies and in the Study and Practice of Leadership. As an advocate for health and outdoor education, Stacey has been managing programs, facilitating community partnerships, and teaching outdoor activities, dance classes, conservation education, service learning, environmental science, team building, and leadership for over 14 years in Colorado and the Northwest. Stacey has experience working in many sectors including the Forest Service, parks and recreation departments, schools, zoos and museums, universities, outdoor companies, non profit organizations, and private practice healthcare. As Director of Health Education and Community Outreach at Westminster Medical Clinic in Colorado, she combines her teaching, mentoring, and program management experience to help her patients of all ages reach their personal goals through 1-1 and group health coaching. She facilitates and manages community partnerships and has worked to develop assessments and programs to promote health literacy. Stacey also currently serves on the Health and Wellness Advisory Panel for the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA) and as a Subject Matter Expert for the American Council on Exercise (ACE).

Jeffrey Hammond MD, MPH, FACS - Board Treasurer

Jeffery Hammond is a Board Member at Colorado Center for Primary Care Innovation. Strategic, innovative leadership in patient care, patient safety, clinical trials, systems and product development, and medical education. Jeffery has developed in-depth technology assessment, health care delivery, and clinical research expertise backed by 20+ years of hands-on surgical and critical care experience. Experienced in identifying unmet needs and providing solutions through a broad array of evidence generation, including clinical trial design, and evidence dissemination strategies. He has expressed his passion for patient safety through process improvements at the hospital level that have enhanced quality while reducing medical costs, and in biologics and medical device development through failure mode analysis, safety surveillance and root cause analysis. As an accomplished writer and speaker with numerous publication and presentation credits, his skill sets include communicating and establishing shared goals among diverse groups. He has direct experience successfully working with major US and US regulatory bodies (FDA, CDC, MHRA, EMA). He enjoys working in cross-functional teams and has demonstrated expertise in clinical trial protocol development and monitoring (Phases II-IV), key opinion leader and scientific advisory board liaising, and health economics collaborations leveraging real world data. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification.

Julie Schilz, BSN, MBA - Board Secretary

Julie Schilz is Secretary at Colorado Center for Primary Care Innovation. Julie is a senior researcher in Mathematica’s Health Unit. She leads Mathematica’s business development in the private health care sector. Before joining Mathematica in 2018, Julie held senior positions in leadership, operations, and strategic development that demanded innovation and collaboration with a range of health care organizations and industry stakeholders. She led efforts at Anthem to develop and implement its care delivery transformation program. She also served in a leadership role for a primary care management services organization, managed Colorado’s Multi-Payer Patient Centered Medical Home initiative, and implemented the Beacon Primary Care Transformation program funded by Colorado’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Julie holds a number of other professional affiliations and is active with several leading health organizations. She has engaged with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s Comprehensive Primary Care initiative, serves as executive committee liaison to the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, and is on the editorial board for Medical Home News. She is also a clinical programs committee member for the National Committee for Quality Assurance and serves on the Primary Care Payment Model Workgroup for the Health Care Payment Learning Action Network, where she drove development of the Payer Action Collaborative. Julie has a bachelor’s degree in nursing, receiving her formal clinical training as a registered nurse at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, and she holds an M.B.A. with a concentration in health from Regis University.

Wei-Jung Lo - Board Member

Wei-Jung Lo is a Board Member at Colorado Center for Primary Care Innovation. Wei-Jung is Vice President of Microlife Medical Home Systems, Inc. Wei-Jung has been with Microlife for over 11 years to offer healthcare providers evidence-based and practice-tested methods for accurate assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

Robin Smith, DO - Board Member

Robin Smith is a Board Member at Colorado Center for Primary Care Innovation. Robin has been practicing in family medicine since 1997 and brings experience as a private practice owner and in implementation of quality improvement practice-based research initiatives at Westminster Medical Clinic. Robin grew up in Littleton, Colorado with her 2 brothers. She attended the University of Colorado, Boulder and received a BA in Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology. She attended medical school at the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Pomona California and continued on to do her Family Practice residency at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s in Denver. In her personal life, Robin enjoys playing indoor and outdoor soccer, distance bike riding, gardening, hiking and photography.

Donald E. Nease, Jr., MD - Board Member

Dr. Nease is Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado – Denver, where he serves as the Green-Edelman Chair for Practice Based Research, Director of Community Engagement for the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine and Director of the SNOCAP Practice Based Research Network Collaborative. He also serves as President of the International Balint Federation (balintinternational.com). He completed his undergraduate degree and medical school at the University of Kansas, residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and a Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Dr. Nease’s passion is to improve health in partnership with communities, patients, clinicians and their practices. He works this territory from the level of individual interactions to community to community and population-based interventions.

Glenn Kotz, MD - Board Member

Dr. Glenn Kotz, MD is a family medicine specialist in Basalt, CO and identifies as “just a simple country doc.” He has been practicing for 31 years. He graduated from Howard University College Of Medicine in 1987 and completed his Family Practice Residency at the Albany Medical Center in New York. He moved to Basalt in 1991 for the love of the people and the outdoors. He currently practices at MidValley Family Practice where he seeks to provide an environment for his patients where their health goals enable them to live your life to the fullest. As a husband, father, friend, and physician, he believes that communication and caring are the hallmarks of medicine.

Art2 Advisory Committee

Larry A. Green, MD

Dr. Green is Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and the Epperson-Zorn Chair for Innovation in Family Medicine and Primary Care at the University of Colorado. He is an academic family physician who has served in various roles including medical practice in rural and urban settings, residency director, investigator, teacher, and department chair. He directed Prescription for Health, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focused on addressing unhealthy behaviors in primary care practice and Advancing Care Together funded by The Colorado Health Foundation, aiming to change a broad spectrum of practices to provide integrated care. He served as founding director of the Robert Graham Policy Center in Washington DC and is a regular member of the National Academy of Medicine. His current work emphasizes redesigning how clinical practice, health professions education, and clinical research are done.

Frank V. deGruy III, MD, M.S.F.M.

Frank Verloin deGruy III, MD, MSFM, is the Woodward-Chisholm Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University Of Colorado School Of Medicine, a position he has held since 1999. Dr. deGruy received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1970 (sociology, religion) and his medical degree in 1977 from the College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He completed a family medicine residency at The Medical Center in Columbus, Georgia in 1980 and completed a Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship in Family Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1982. He has previously held academic appointments in Departments of Family Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Duke University, and the University of South Alabama.

Dr. deGruy has served as president of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) and president of the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG). He is on the Board of Directors of the National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC) and the Family Physicians’ Inquiries Network (FPIN). He chairs the National Integration Academy Council, and sits on the board of the Colorado Institute of Family Medicine. He is on the editorial boards of The Annals of Family Medicine, Families, Systems, and Health, and Psychiatric Times, and has previously served on the editorial boards of General Hospital Psychiatry; he was an Associate Editor of the Southern Medical Journal. Has published about 150 papers, chapters, and commentaries, and has reviewed grant applications for the NIH, AHRQ, HRSA, and the RWJF. He has been a member of the Institute of Medicine since 2008.

Perry Dickinson, MD

Perry Dickinson, M.D., is a Professor in the University of Colorado, Department of Family Medicine, and Director of the Colorado Health Extension System. He is Past President of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the North American Primary Care Research Group, the Board of Directors of the Annals of Family Medicine, and the Council of Academic Family Medicine. Dr. Dickinson has led multiple studies investigating the process of practice transformation, particularly focusing on the implementation of advanced primary care models, self-management support, and integrated behavioral health services in primary care practices. He is the 2018 recipient of the Curtis Hames Award, an annual award from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the Curtis Hames Foundation recognizing lifetime contributions to family medicine and primary care research.