MAC Board Members
The Medicaid Advisory Committee (MAC) is a federally mandated body consisting of not more than 15 members appointed by the governor. The committee advises the Oregon Health Policy Board, the Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research and the Oregon Health Authority on the operation of Oregon's Medicaid program, including the Oregon Health Plan. The MAC develops policy recommendations at the request of the governor and the legislature.
Current MAC member positions available:
- One physician living or practicing outside of the Willamette Valley
Learn more about what to expect and how to apply HERE!
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MAC Chair
Caroline Barrett is a board-certified family medicine physician and assistant professor at the Center for Women’s Healthmber at Oregon Health & Sciences University. She did her residency training at Community Health Care, a consortium of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in Tacoma, Washington. Through this experience and in subsequent positions in the Portland metro community, she has worked extensively with patients on both Medicaid and Medicare. She grew up on the Southern Oregon Coast and is familiar with healthcare challenges affecting rural communities. She learned fluent Spanish while attending Portland State University for her undergraduate degree, and has spent the last 18 years utilizing her language skills serving the Spanish speaking community in different capacities. After PSU, she went to Concordia University for a Biology degree. She attended medical school locally at OHSU and while there, completed a student fellowship in pathology. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, her rescue-poodle, reading all things fiction, gardening, and traveling
Heather Jefferis as the Executive Director of OCBH participates in a wide variety of forums to ensure our members voice is present and actionable. OCBH has over 50 members providing the full continuum of BH services from prevention through residential services and detox including urban, rural, frontier, culturally specific, responsive, and linguistically accessible. Over the last 25 years of working in Behavioral Health both Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health, Heather has been privileged to sit in a variety of seats. She has provided direct services as a master’s level clinician, served as a program director, an Executive and Board Chair. She has developed, implemented, and operated programing within government BH clinics, non-profit clinic settings and criminal justice programs. In each of these seats she has typically served individuals who are multi system involved and frequently with co-occurring concerns. She intimately understands Oregon systems that support Oregonians on their path to whole person and family health. She has been charged by the OCBH Board to grow the association capacity to represent, serve and lift the voice of our diverse statewide integrated continuum of Behavioral Health Care.
MAC Members
Kya Adams, Member, Klamath Falls
Shannon Buck, Member, Albany
David Lima, Member, Happy Valley
Kellie DeVore, Member, Lane County
Antonio (Tony) Germann, OHPB Liason
Laura McKeane, Member, Medford
Lisa Pierson, Member, Benton County
Stacy Shaw, Member, Jefferson County
Roni St John, Member, Portland
Peter Starkey, OHPB Liason
Hilary Thompson, Member, ODHS
Gabe Triplett, Member, Portland
Jeri Weeks, Member, Portland