Our Board of Directors
![Julita Mir, MD](https://www.mhqp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mir-400x420-1-286x300.jpg)
Her areas of expertise include Health Equity, Performance Improvement, Virtual Care & Digital Equity , Care & Population Health Management programs, and her superpower is turn very complex problem in something simple and manageable.
She maintains a clinical practice in Boston and is a great advocate for community health and rebuilding trust in our health care system; Dr. Mir lives in Brookline, MA and enjoys hiking and spending time with friends and family.
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Chair, Board of Directors
![Maggie Allard, MD, MPH](https://www.mhqp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Allard-400x420-1-286x300.jpg)
As an entrepreneur, Dr. Allard co-founded and ran a non-profit for ten years which gave micro-loans to women building businesses in Rwanda while providing school fees for their children. In 2015, she was selected as a mentor in the primary care innovation fellowship InciteHealth through the HMS Center for Primary Care, where she served for four years. Currently, Maggie is a member and Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs. In 2020, Dr. Allard left medicine to found the Population Effect, and then founded Community Health Design Corps (CHDC), a Delaware Public Benefit Company, where she serves as CEO. CHDC’s team leverages decades of lived experience and expertise in primary care, public/population health, leadership and healthcare technology to advance a tech-enabled, culturally fluent community health workforce to reach underinvested communities and connect them to care.
Dr. Allard completed the Social Medicine Residency Program in Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein, an MPH in Clinical Effectiveness, Health Policy and Management from the Harvard Chan School and a Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Maggie enjoys oils, watercolors, pastels and dance, but most of all she cherishes the rhythm of life with her husband, children and community.
Founder & CEO
Community Health Design Corps
![Ryan Boxill, PhD, MBA](https://www.mhqp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Boxill-400x420-1-286x300.jpg)
Dr. Boxill has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He advances an organization’s mission with a balance of business expertise, strategic vision and operational leadership. Additionally, Dr. Boxill has worked with organizations in areas such as prevention and wellness, new business model creation, accounting and finance, strategic planning, disaster mental health and national mental health policy development (Republic of Liberia).
Prior to joining NeighborHealth, Dr. Boxill was the Chief Behavioral Health Officer for the Boston Medical Center (BMC) Health System, where he was responsible for leading behavioral health across the health system. He also led the implementation of BMC’s first Behavioral Health Hospital in Brockton, a state-of-the-art facility designed to be carbon-neutral and net-zero. In addition to MHQP, Dr. Boxill currently serves on the Board of the Fenway Community Development Corporation and the Deacon’s Ministry of People’s Baptist Church.
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
NeighborHealth
![Lois Cornell, JD](https://www.mhqp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Cornell-400x420-1-286x300.jpg)
Prior to joining the Society, Ms. Cornell spent 24 years at Tufts Health Plan, where she served as Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel. Prior to joining Tufts Health Plan, Ms. Cornell was an Associate at the Boston law firm of Goodwin Procter.
Ms. Cornell has been recognized for contributions to her profession by Women’s Business Boston, which named her one of the Top 10 Women Corporate Lawyers in Boston, and Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly with its In-House Leaders-in-the-Law Award. She is also a recipient of the YWCA Boston’s Academy of Women Achievers Award. With Ms. Cornell at the helm, the Society was named one of the Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts by the Commonwealth Institute and Boston Globe Magazine from 2018 to 2023.
Ms. Cornell serves on the boards of the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge and Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, and is a member of the Massachusetts Women’s Forum. She is past-president of the American Health Lawyers Association.
Ms. Cornell received a B.A. cum laude from Macalester College and earned a J.D. from the Northeastern University School of Law. She also completed the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School and the Executive Leadership Program of America’s Health Insurance Plans.
Executive Vice President
Massachusetts Medical Society
![Mark Friedberg, MD, MPP](https://www.mhqp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Friedberg-400x420-1-286x300.jpg)
Senior Vice President, Performance Measurement and Improvement
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Chair, MHQP Health Plan Council
![Denice Garrett](https://www.mhqp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Garrett-400x420-1-286x300.jpg)
She was formerly a volunteer facilitator for the Arthritis and Lupus support group for the past 22 years, held at the New England Baptist Hospital.
Denice received her Bachelor of Arts at UMass Boston and has a certification from Suffolk University in Human Service Administration. She is certified as a family planning counselor.
Coordinator for Clinical Billing and Data Operations
Action for Boston Community Development, Inc.
MHQP Consumer Health Council
![Mark Mandell, MD](https://www.mhqp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mandell-400x420-1-286x300.jpg)
Prior to his role at Steward Health Care, he served as the Chair for the Department of Pediatrics at MassGeneral for Children at the North Shore Medical Center. Other prior administrative roles include Chief Medical Officer for Partners Community Health Care and Associate Medical Director for Pediatrics at Partner Community Health Care and North Shore Health System. He was also the Medical Director for the Pediatric Integrated Care Coordination program at Partners Population Health. He participated in the American Academy of Pediatrics Expert Learning Community on Innovative Financing Strategies for Health Care Services for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs Value Based Purchasing and has been a member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the AAP’s Pediatric Council since 1998. He has also served on numerous Boards, including Steward Network and Steward Health Choice ACO, Partners Community Health Care, Partners Pediatric Network, and North Shore Health System.
Dr. Mandell graduated from Yale University and Tufts University School of Medicine. He then completed a rotating internship at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, California and a Pediatric internship at Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Northern California. He completed his pediatric training at the Boston Floating Hospital of the New England Medical Center, where he was Chief Resident. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, and has held teaching appointments at both Harvard and Tufts Medical Schools. He has also been a member of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Service’s Quality Measure Alignment Task Force since 2019
Dr. Mandell has served on the MHQP Provider Council for more than 10 years, and joined the MHQP Board in 2023. He has a deep commitment to improving health care quality, and equity and advancing value based, patient centered care.
Chief Pediatric Medical Officer
Steward Health Care Network
MHQP Physician Council
![David Morales](https://www.mhqp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Morales-400x420-1-286x300.jpg)
Prior to joining UniCare, David founded his own advisory practice, which specialized in management consulting, strategy, and regulatory innovation. Before that, Morales served as chief strategy officer for Steward Health Care System, where he led strategy, acquisitions, and payment innovation. David also served as CEO of Steward’s captive insurance company, and founded and led Steward’s Business Solutions team, which evaluated and led hospital acquisitions, physician recruitment, and EMS growth and innovation.
Prior to joining the private sector, Morales held several public service roles, including Massachusetts Commissioner of Health Care Finance and Policy, and prior to that, as deputy chief of staff to Gov. Deval Patrick, managing cabinet affairs and public policy. He also served as a senior adviser to Senate President Robert E. Travaglini and as an adviser to Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas M. Finneran. During his time as an adviser, he was one of the principal authors of the Massachusetts health care reform law (Chapter 58 of 2006) and the health care cost and transparency law (Chapter 305 of 2008).
In addition to his extensive healthcare experience on both the provider and health plan segments, David has expertise in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. David implemented and operated the first prescription drug insurance model in the U.S. – Prescription Advantage under Governor Jane Swift – which served as the incubator for Medicare Part D and was the co-author of the legislation which launched the Massachusetts Life Sciences initiative.
A graduate of Bowdoin College, he is also a best-selling author (www.davidamorales.com), renowned researcher and lecturer in traditional music from Puerto Rico, and is very active in his community. He serves on several boards, including Ahora Inc., Cristo Rey High School in Boston, the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP), Massachusetts Business Roundtable, Bethany Congregational Church, North Shore Chamber of Commerce and the Lynn Classical High School Board of Directors. David lives in Lynnfield, MA. with his wife and their two children.
General Manager
Wellpoint
MHQP Health Plan Council
![Lucilia Prates-Ramos](https://www.mhqp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/PratesRamos-400x420-1-286x300.jpg)
Director, MA Senior Medicare Patrol Program
Elder Services of Merrimack Valley
Chair, MHQP Consumer Health Council
![Barbra Rabson, MPH](https://www.mhqp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Rabson-400x420-1-286x300.jpg)
She is a member of the Milbank Advisory Committee for the Health of US Primary Care Scorecard, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services Quality Measure Alignment Task Force and Quality Subcommittee, the Massachusetts Health Equity Data Standards Technical Advisory Committee, and the Betsey Lehman Center Measurement and Transparency Task Force. She also serves on the Board of the American Board of Family Medicine and the Board of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum.
Ms. Rabson received her Master’s degree in Public Health from Yale University and her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University. In her free time, she enjoys sculling on the Charles River and playing her cello.
President and CEO
Massachusetts Health Quality Partners
Ex-Officio Member
![James Roosevelt, Jr. JD](https://www.mhqp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Roosevelt-400x420-1-286x300.jpg)
For more than 10 years, Jim was CEO of Tufts Health Plan, where he led a turnaround that nearly doubled the membership and achieved consistent profitability while attaining #1 ranking in the United States from the national accrediting organization. He was previously in-house General Counsel and was a former partner in the Health Care Practice Group of Choate, Hall and Stewart in Boston. Before joining Tufts Health Plan, he served as Associate Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration.
In 2016, Jim was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He continues as a clinical instructor in the Public Health and Community Medicine Department of Tufts University School of Medicine.
Public policy and politics are Jim’s personal passions. He co-chairs the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee and is volunteer legal counsel for the Massachusetts Democratic Party. He is a trustee of the Cambridge Public Library and the Cambridge Community Foundation. He has co-chaired Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo’s Healthcare Leaders Task Force on Health Care Cost Growth, and he co-chaired the Massachusetts Hospital Association’s work group on access to behavioral health care. Jim is a trustee of the Cambridge Public Library, the Cambridge Community Foundation and the Atrius Health Equity Foundation.
Jim and his wife, Ann, enjoy living near their daughter and her husband and two grandsons in Cambridge, MA, as well as visiting their daughters, their husbands and four grandchildren in Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, CA.
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Jim advises health care payers, providers, trade associations, and service providers on business matters, legislative and regulatory issues, governance, and personnel matters. He regularly represents medical device and medical process startups, including with respect to telehealth, artificial intelligence, and treatment utilizing legal psychedelics. He is also a national speaker and author on the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid policy, and Social Security.
For more than 10 years, Jim was CEO of Tufts Health Plan, where he led a turnaround that nearly doubled the membership and achieved consistent profitability while attaining #1 ranking in the United States from the national accrediting organization. He was previously in-house General Counsel and was a former partner in the Health Care Practice Group of Choate, Hall and Stewart in Boston. Before joining Tufts Health Plan, he served as Associate Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration.
In 2016, Jim was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He continues as a clinical instructor in the Public Health and Community Medicine Department of Tufts University School of Medicine.
Public policy and politics are Jim’s personal passions. He co-chairs the Rules and Bylaws Committee of the Democratic National Committee and is volunteer legal counsel for the Massachusetts Democratic Party. He is a trustee of the Cambridge Public Library and the Cambridge Community Foundation. He has co-chaired Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo’s Healthcare Leaders Task Force on Health Care Cost Growth, and he co-chaired the Massachusetts Hospital Association’s work group on access to behavioral health care. Jim is a trustee of the Cambridge Public Library, the Cambridge Community Foundation and the Atrius Health Equity Foundation.
Jim and his wife, Ann, enjoy living near their daughter and her husband and two grandsons in Cambridge, MA, as well as visiting their daughters, their husbands and four grandchildren in Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, CA.
Counsel,
Verrill Dana LLP
Immediate Past Chair, Board of Directors
![Richard Siegrist, MS, MBA, CPA](https://www.mhqp.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Siegrist-400x420-1-286x300.jpg)
He was previously CEO of Press Ganey Associates, SVP of WebMD, and co-founder and CEO of several healthcare startup companies. He is a board member, former chair of the Board of Trustees and chair of the Governance Committee for UMass Memorial Health (UMMH), and a board member, vice-chair of the Board of Directors, and chair of the Finance Committee for Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP).
Richard began his career in health care at New England Medical Center in Boston. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MS in Accounting from the New York University Graduate School of Business, and a BA in Political Economy from Williams College. He is also a CPA.
Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health