Chair of the Workgroup on Timely and Strategic Action to Inform ICD-11 Policy

  • Jamie Ferguson

    VP, Health IT Strategy & Policy
    Kaiser Permanente
    Anacortes, WA 98221
    Email: jamie.ferguson@kp.org
    Term: 07/06/2020 – 01/01/2025
    (extended 180 days)

Members of the Workgroup on Timely and Strategic Action to Inform ICD-11 Policy

Designated Federal Officer

  • Naomi Michaelis, MPA

    Designated Federal Officer (DFO)
    Senior Health Policy Analyst
    CDC/National Center for Health Statistics
    Office of Planning, Budget, and Legislation
    3311 Toledo Road
    Hyattsville, MD 20782
    Phone: 301-332-3467
    E-mail: nmichaelis@cdc.gov

Staff to the ICD-11 Workground

Agency Participation

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends (AHRQ/CFACT)
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (AHRQ/CQuIPS)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Injury Prevention & Control (CDC/CIPC)
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Center for Medicare (CMS/CM)
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of Burden Reduction & Health Informatics (CMS/OBRHI)
  • Health Resources and Services Administration, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (HRSA/FORHP)
  • National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
  • National Library of Medicine, Computational Health Research Branch (NIH/NLM)
  • Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)
  • National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Mental Health (NIH/NIMH)

Federal SMEs

Agency Representative(s)
AHRQ Pam Owens, Ph.D., Sr. Research Advisor, Center for Financing, Access & Cost Trends

Pam.owens@ahrq.hhs.gov
AHRQ Laura Sessums, JD, MD, Chief Medical Officer

Laura.Sessums@ahrq.hhs.gov
CDC/CIPC Renee L. Johnson, RPT, MSPH, Senior Epidemiologist, Center for Injury Prevention & Control

Rej2@cdc.gov
CDC/NCHS Robert N. Anderson, Ph.D., Chief, Mortality Statistics Branch

RNAnderson@cdc.gov
CDC/NCHS Shannon McConnell-Lamptey, MS, RHIA, PMP

Medical Systems Specialist, Classifications & Public Health Data Standards

wsp3@cdc.gov
CMS/CM Mady Hue, OA/CM, Technology, Coding & Pricing Group, Division of Coding & DRGs

Marilu.Hue@cms.hhs.gov
CMS/OBRHI/NSG Michael Cimmino, Director, National Standards Group

michael.cimmino@cms.hhs.gov
CMS/OBRHI/NSG Angelo Pardo III, Health Insurance Specialist, Level FAC P/PM III, and COR III

Angelo.Pardo@cms.hhs.gov
CMS Preeta Chidambaran, MD, MPH, Physician- Medical Officer, Technology, Coding & Pricing (TCPG) Group

Preeta.chidambaran@cms.hhs.gov
CMS Andrea Hazeley, Health Insurance Specialist, Division of Coding & Diagnosis Related Groups; Technology, Coding and Pricing Group

andrea.hazeley@cms.hhs.gov
HRSA/BPHC Judith Van Alstyne, MPH, Deputy Director of UDS Data Production and Data Modernization Team

JVanAlstyne@hrsa.gov
HRSA/BPHC Alek Sripipatana, PhD, MPH, Office of Quality Improvement, Director of Data and Evaluation

asripipatana@hrsa.gov
HRSA/FORPH Krista M. Mastel, MPH, Public Health Analyst, Hospital State Division, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy

kmastel@hrsa.gov
NIH/NIMH Bruce Cuthbert, PhD, Head, RDoC Unit, National Institute of Mental Health, Kelly Government Solutions

bcuthber@mail.nih.gov
NIH/NLM Kin-Wah Fung, MD, Staff Scientist, Computational Health Research Branch

kfung@mail.nih.gov
ONC Carmela Couderc, Branch Chief, Terminology, Content & Delivery

carmela.couderc@hhs.gov