Our Board of Directors

Julita Mir, MD

Dr. Mir is an Internist and Infectious diseases physician graduate of the Boston University School of Medicine. She completed her medical degree at the Universidad Central de Venezuela where she developed a passion for community health and serving the most vulnerable populations. She has a 20+ year career working as a clinician in Boston’s federally qualified health centers (FQHCs); over the years, Dr. Mir has held multiple leadership positions including being the Chief Medical Officer for DotHouse Health in Dorchester, MA and most recently the Chief Medical Officer of Community Care Cooperative (C3), a Massachusetts Medicaid Accountable Care Organization where she led FQHCs thru their journey towards value based models of care.

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.

Chair, Board of Directors

Maggie Allard, MD, MPH

Dr. Maggie Allard has cared for diverse patient populations in underinvested communities for 25 years. Hailing from these communities, Maggie is a serial intrapreneur who has helped build or enhance over twenty community programs with FQHCs, academic health centers, public health departments, CBOs and faith-based organizations. She has served in five director and medical director roles primarily at FQHCs and in a regional public health department. Maggie has been a member on two non-profit boards and has mentored nearly fifty individuals and primary care entrepreneurs, intentionally working with women, racial and ethnic minorities and persons from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

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

Ryan is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in New York and Massachusetts. Dr. Boxill holds a PhD in Cross Cultural Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in Fresno, CA. He completed his Pre-doctoral training at the Hudson River Regional Psychology Internship Program at the New York State Office of Mental Health and his Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral Fellowship training at the MGH-OCD Institute at McLean Hospital. Dr. Boxill has an MBA from the University of Massachusetts in Boston with a specialization in Finance, and he is also a certified trainer in Diversity and Intercultural Sensitivity.

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

As the Executive Vice President of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), Ms. Cornell is responsible for the operation and management of the Society and its operating divisions. The Society, representing 25,000 physicians and students, is committed to educating and advocating for patients and physicians in the Commonwealth. In addition to its membership advocacy, public health, and educational activities, the Society, under the auspices of NEJM Group, extends its mission globally by advancing medical knowledge from research to patient care through the New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM Evidence, NEJM AI, NEJM Catalyst, and NEJM Journal Watch.

Before joining the Society, Lois spent 24 years at Tufts Health Plan as Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel. Prior to joining Tufts Health Plan, she was an Associate at the Boston law firm of Goodwin Procter.

Lois has been recognized 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.

Under her leadership, the Society has been consistently recognized for its exceptional workplace culture, earning spots on the Boston Globe’s Top Places to Work and the Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts from The Women’s Edge.

Lois received a BA cum laude from Macalester College and earned a JD 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

Mark is Senior Vice President, Performance Measurement & Improvement at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Mark is responsible for activities related to measuring and improving the quality and equity performance of BCBSMA’s provider network, including metrics used in value-based contracts such as our Alternative Quality Contract. Before joining BCBSMA in 2019, Dr. Friedberg was a health services researcher at RAND, where he led multiple projects to measure, evaluate, and improve health system performance. He is a general internist who provides primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he completed his residency and fellowship. Mark has an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and B.A. from Swarthmore College.

Senior Vice President, Performance Measurement and Improvement
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Chair, MHQP Health Plan Council

Denice Garrett

Denice has been working for Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), a non-profit agency, for 30 years. As Billing and Data Coordinator, she facilitates administrative training and a bi-annual review of the billing departments to make sure clinics are following the federal sliding fee scale and correctly billing patient’s insurance. She currently oversees Medicaid billing as a third-party payer for some health centers, and has attended the MassHealth Forum for the past ten years, which provides educational updates around Medicaid, Health Safety Net, and Health Connector. She works on an ongoing committee with the Region 1 Data System, for which the agency reports client family planning data to the federal government. She also helps develop and train several community health centers to extract family planning data for uploading through the various practice management systems.
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.

Billing and Data Coordinator
Action for Boston Community Development, Inc.

MHQP Consumer Health Council

Jeff Levin-Scherz, MD, MBA

Jeff Levin-Scherz is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, and a managing director and the Population Health Leader for WTW’s North American Health and Benefits Practice. He teaches courses on managing health care costs and provider payment, and consults for companies about their investments in the health of their employees.

Jeff has written and spoken widely on health care policy, especially around the COVID-19 pandemic, adoption of disruptive innovation, evaluating medical management programs and the use of behavioral economics. His writing has been published in JAMA, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, StatNews and the Harvard Business Review.

Jeff has a broad range of experience in health care delivery and finance. He served as a physician executive leader of provider organizations including the Mount Auburn Cambridge IPA, Partners Community HealthCare, Inc, Atrius Health, and One Medical. He also served for seven years as a vice president of Tufts Health Plan. Jeff has been a participant in technical expert panels convened by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Institute of Medicine URAC and the Urban Institute, and worked on a 2017 project on behavioral economics and noncommunicable diseases for the World Economic Forum.

He has given guest lectures frequently, including at MIT, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Assistant Professor, HMS and HSPH
Population Health Leader, WTW

Mark Mandell, MD

Mark has been the Chief Pediatric Medical Officer for the Steward Health Care Network and the Medical Director for the Steward Medicaid ACO, since 2017. He has also been a practicing primary care pediatrician on the North Shore for more than 30 years and continues to practice half time.

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, Revere Health Choice ACO
Medical Director, Revere Medical

MHQP Clinician Council

David Morales

David Morales currently serves as general manager of UniCare, a health benefits company located in Andover, Massachusetts. In this role, he oversees management of UniCare’s commercial and Medicare plans offered to members insured through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission (GIC). He is also responsible for collaborating with healthcare providers, elected officials, regulators, labor unions, and other key stakeholders to drive improvements in healthcare access, quality, affordability, member experience, and health outcomes for UniCare members who work and reside across several states, including Massachusetts and New England.
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

Pam Ressler

Pamela (Pam) Ressler is the founder of StressResources.com and a recognized leader in resilience, mindfulness, and patient advocacy. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan School of Nursing and a graduate degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Pain Research, Education, and Policy. Pam co-chairs the American Nurses Association (ANA) Innovation Committee on Business, Entrepreneurship, and Intrapreneurship, where she works to empower nurses in leading healthcare innovation. She also serves on the board of directors for ChildKind International, a global nonprofit focused on improving pain management for children in healthcare settings.

Pam’s professional journey is deeply intertwined with her personal experience as a parent navigating the healthcare system. Her son’s chronic illness and death played a central role in shaping her understanding of the emotional and physical challenges faced by patients and families. This dual perspective fuels her passion for patient advocacy and enhancing communication around chronic illness.

She was the first nurse appointed to Stanford University’s prestigious Medicine X program, a role that underscores her commitment to driving patient-centered healthcare innovations. Medicine X focuses on the intersection of healthcare, technology, and patient experience, empowering collaboration between patients, clinicians, and innovators to transform the future of healthcare. Pam’s involvement with this program highlights the importance of integrating resilience and mindfulness into the evolving landscape of health technologies. Additionally, Pam has served as an advisor to several patient-focused startups. In 2019, Pam was honored to be selected to serve as a Mayday Pain and Society Fellow in Washington, DC. Her work bridges clinical practice, patient experience, and innovation, making her a powerful advocate for compassionate and effective healthcare transformation.

Pam lives in Concord, MA with her husband, Paul. She enjoys golf, art, reading, writing haiku and spending time with her five grandchildren (in Winthrop, MA and Cincinnati, OH).

Founder, Stress Resources
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at
Tufts University School of Medicine

Chair, MHQP Consumer Health Council

Barbra Rabson, MPH

Barbra has led MHQP since 1998. Under her leadership, MHQP has become a national leader in the measurement and public reporting of health care information, with a particular focus on measuring and improving patients’ experiences of care. In the past few years, Ms. Rabson has focused the organization’s work around four main areas of impact: capturing patient experiences, advancing health equity, enhancing telehealth and strengthening primary care. Of particular note is her role leading MHQP’s most recent work to create a dashboard to monitor the health of primary care in Massachusetts.

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

Barbara Spivak, MD

Dr. Spivak has been a practicing internist at Mount Auburn Medical Associates (MAMA) for over 40 years with experience as both an owner and an employed ambulatory physician, as a hospitalist, and in nursing homes. Since 1997, she has been the President and Chairperson of the Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association (MACIPA), transitioning to the chairperson of the Board in 2024.

Dr. Spivak is a vocal advocate for implementing payment reform, improving health care access, particularly to primary care, decreasing the administrative burdens on physicians, and addressing the inequities in health care. She has been a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) since 2001 and has served the organization in several capacities. Since May 2021, she has been an officer and is currently its President; her presidential term runs from May 2023 to May 2024. She has also served the society as its chair and as advisor on the Committee for Quality of Medical Practice, a member of the Committee on Strategic Planning, a member of the Task Force on Burnout, a member of the Working Group on Governance Reform, as well as the chair of the Task Force on Health Insurance Policy. She is a long-standing member of the American Medical Association (AMA) and has served on the AMA’s Integrated Physician Practice Council and the Organized Medical Staff Section.

Dr. Spivak continuously works with the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP), the state’s Quality Alliance Task Force, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Technical Panels to evaluate and improve metrics for quality and payment. MACIPA has been a leading organization in the era of alternative payment models, being an early adopter of risk-based contracts, Medicare Advantage, and Medicare Shared Savings. MACIPA has used population health tools, care management programs, and quality improvement data to help physicians deliver the care to patients that they need. MACIPA has a long history of bringing primary care physicians, specialists, a hospital and advanced practitioners together to focus on meeting the quadruple aim of improving care, improving the patient experience, keeping cost appropriate and paying attention to the needs of providers.

Dr. Spivak is highly regarded for her dedication and commitment to the healthcare community. She received the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MHDC) “Dolores Mitchell Investing in Information Award.” Her physician colleagues at Mount Auburn Hospital (MAH) honored her with the “Clinical Excellence” award. Dr. Spivak has also received award recognition from MMS. She received the MMS Middlesex District “Clinician of the Year” and “Excellence in Medical Service” awards.

President and CEO, Mount Auburn Cambridge IPA
Past President, Massachusetts Medical Society

Chair, Clinician Council

Tak Tang, CPA, CGMA

Tak is an accomplished accounting and financial management executive with over thirty years of diverse public and private accounting and managerial experiences from the Big 4 public accounting firms and multinational publicly-traded, privately-held, nonprofit, startup, and development stage organizations.

Tak began his career as an auditor with KPMG, and an audit manager with Ernst & Young. He devoted over eight years in the Big 4 public accounting firms serving various clients in the healthcare, life science, manufacturing, and insurance industries. He treated every client with respect and integrity.

Tak sharpened his skills as an accounting and financial management executive during his leadership tenure at various organizations’ accounting and finance departments. He is dedicated to helping firms and clients make intelligent financial decisions and ethically minimize their risk & liability. His patience and determination ensure that every customer is treated with high regard.
Tak earned a Bachelor’s degree with a concentration in accounting and finance from Boston University. He graduated summa cum laude at the top of his class. Tak also received a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. He is a Boston Latin School alumnus and a member of the National Honor Society.

Tak became a Certified Public Accountant in 1997 and a Chartered Global Management Accountant in 2012. He is a member of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

In his spare time, Tak enjoys exercising and spending time with his family. During his children’s adolescent years, Tak coached several of his children’s youth sports teams.

Financial Management Consultant
ARC Strategic Services