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Operations Committee

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The Operations Committee is responsible for making recommendations to the board on the future operations of a new public corporation dedicated to providing health care for all people who live in Oregon.

Meeting Calendar and Materials

Dec. 12, 2024

1-4 p.m.

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Jan. 23, 2025

1-4 p.m.

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Feb. 27, 2025

1-4 p.m.

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Committee Member Resources

Committee Members

​Bruce Goldberg, M.D., is a professor at the Oregon Health & Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health and a nationally recognized health policy expert.

Over the past four decades, Bruce’s career has spanned leadership roles across a number of health care organizations in the public and private sector. He served two Oregon governors as the director of the Oregon Office for Health Policy and Research and the director of the Oregon Department of Human Services. He was also the founding director of the Oregon Health Authority.

Bruce and his team led Oregon’s nationally recognized health reforms, helping to transform Oregon’s Medicaid system to one based on a model of coordinated care. In addition, he established Oregon’s Healthy Kids program, which provided health coverage for all children and transformed the delivery of public human services to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. He recently chaired the Oregon Legislature’s Joint Task Force on Universal Health Care. His experiences include being the administrator of large complex organizations, a practicing clinician, a teacher/academician​​, a county health officer, the medical director for a Medicaid managed care organization, and the clinical director for U.S. Public Health Services in Zuni, New Mexico.

​Dr. Judy Richardson is a family physician and the academic program director in the Division of Management at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She has practiced medicine in Oregon for the past 20 years and was active with the implementation of the Columbia Gorge Health Council and Clinical Advisory Panel. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she helped support the Oregon Health Authority as the deputy director for clinics and health centers in its COVID Recovery and Response Unit. She became involved with the economic evaluation of Medicaid through her role as a project manager in the evaluation of the Washington Medicaid Transformation Project at the Center for Health Systems Effectiveness at OHSU. She currently works full time in the Division of Management, where she teaches courses in health systems, business strategy, and health economics.

Ann Lovejoy lives in Marion County. During her career before retirement, she led large-scale performance improvement projects for Fortune 500 companies and statewide health systems. She held consultancy roles in Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIOs), as well as patient safety and quality roles in hospitals. Her degrees include an master’s degree in health care administration from the University of Connecticut and a master’s degree in education from the University of Washington. Her certifications include Advanced Organizational Development (Columbia University), Lean Six SIGMA, and SHRM Advanced HR Professional. ​

Doug Flow received a doctorate in community health and psychology from Oregon State University and has more than 40 years of experience in health administration, including public health, health planning, health insurance/managed care, and higher education. For the last 26 years, Doug was the chief executive officer of AllCare Health in Josephine, Jackson, Curry, and Douglas counties. During his tenure, AllCare grew from a small independent provider association to an Oregon Health Plan/Coordinated Care Organization plan, a Medicare Advantage Plan, an electronic health record administrator, a practice management administrator, and a multisite medical group. AllCare was also recognized as a certified benefit corporation by the State of Oregon because of the company’s focus on community needs.​

Paul Stanphill first moved to Oregon when he was 11 years old. Moving every two to three years growing up, he was struck early and hard with wanderlust. Despite studying abroad twice – in Turkey and Norway – and planning to continue as a rolling stone, he has ended up happily “stuck” in Lane County for the past 10 years. With a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Oregon and post-graduation plans for Teach For America falling apart at the last second, Paul has since obtained experience in the nonprofit, for-profit, and public sectors. He works for Lane County as an administrative analyst in behavioral health. Since he started working for Lane County, he has been connected to therapy and medication himself. Now living completely free of suicidal ideation for the first time in his life, he is passionate about connecting others to services and reducing stigma related to mental health.​

Rosalind Lindsay serves as the senior director of technology for Optum in the Oregon, California, and Washington markets, where she is responsible for overseeing the Technology Strategy, and Planning team. Before joining Optum in 2022, Rosalind served as the vice president of shared services at OCHIN Inc., where she oversaw and sponsored the ambulatory Epic implementation portfolio as well as interoperability, data conversion. and information technology teams. She has spent the past 17 years in the health care sector in both technology and clinical operations and has held practice leadership, project management, and workflow design roles with Kaiser Permanente, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Kryptiq (now Enli), and Epic. Rosalind received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, and Master of Business Administration from the OHSU/Portland State University health care administration program. ​

Doris Kiragu has several years of grassroots experience in health and health access. Most recently, she works as a health equity policy analyst in Coos Bay. She is also part of the Beet Food System Steering Committee, which works to cultivate an accessible, thriving, local food system rooted in the belief that everyone deserves access to nourishing food. Doris has a bachelor’s degree in dietetics and a master’s degree in finance. She enjoys spending her time making pottery, watching dramas, and traveling.

Sara Fouché is a nurse in the memory care field, a writer and editor, a mother of three children, and has lived in Eugene since 2000. For a decade, she was the managing director of DanceAbility International, an internationally active nonprofit that brings people together with and without disabilities through the arts. Sara was also a licensed massage therapist for more than 15 years. She immigrated from Canada in her 20s and spent some years growing up in Japan. ​

Paula Weldon is an experienced health information technology professional with a background in managing health information exchange (HIE) and leading data analytics teams to support population health reporting and care coordination. As director of operations for a nonprofit HIE, Paula has collaborated with a diverse range of health care organizations to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiencies through technology. She holds a bachelor’s degree in innovation and Lleadership and a project management professional certification. Her passion for improving health care systems and advancing equitable access to care drives her commitment to the universal health plan initiative.​

​​Lauri Hoagland lives in Southern Oregon and has been a nurse practitioner for the past 39 years. She works at a school-based health center for La Clinica. Lauri wants to provide high-quality care to each of her patients. Due to the complicated, fragmented, multipayer system, this effort is getting harder and more demoralizing as time goes on. Lauri believes we need a single system that provides high-quality, efficient, cost-effective care for everyone who lives in our communities. She wants to be part of the team to make health care a human right in Oregon. ​