Who We Are
The Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum is a private, not-for-profit organization. Our volunteer board represents a cross section of public and private insurance purchasers, patient advocates, providers, physicians and insurers in the state. Hundreds of stakeholders volunteer their time in committees and workgroups that focus on health information technology, quality measurement, clinical quality improvement, medical homes, and outreach and education.
Executive Director:
Cindy Munn, MHA
Board of Directors:
President, Michael O. Fleming, MD, FAAFP
President Elect,Karen Bollinger DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc
Secretary/Treasurer,Eric B. Taylor, MS
Board Members:
Gery J. Barry, MS, FSA
Joseph Bisordi, MD
Patrick C. Breaux, MD, FACC, FACP
L. Philip Caillouet, PhD
Claudia Campbell, PhD
Frederick P. Cerise, MD, MPH
Linda Gage-White, MD, PhD, MBA
Nancy McPherson, MPA, SPHR
Raymond A. Peters, SPHR
Willie White, III, MPH
Executive Director:
Cindy Munn, MHA has more than 25 years of experience in health care leadership and operations management, most recently as vice president of care management at the Baton Rouge General Medical Center. She holds a bachelor's of science degree in medical technology from Louisiana State University and a master's of health administration degree in health services administration from the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois. She leads professional staff and manages the daily operations of the organization while assuring ongoing support for health care improvement missions such as medical home development, quality measurement, and outreach and education. In addition, Ms. Munn oversees health information technology and exchange planning, as well as implementation and technical assistance programming. Before appointment as Executive Director, she served as chair of the LHCQF's Health Information Technology Committee.
President:
Michael O. Fleming, MD, FAAFP is a Family Medicine physician from Shreveport, Louisiana and is the Chief Medical Officer for Amedisys, Inc. He attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and graduated from the LSU School of Medicine in Shreveport. Dr. Fleming is active locally, nationally and internationally in the promotion of family medicine and is past president of both the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians, which represents almost 94,000 physicians and medical students in the United States. Dr. Fleming served on the prestigious Future of Family Medicine task force charged with developing a national strategy to transform and renew the specialty of family medicine to meet the needs of people and society in a changing environment; much of this work was incorporated into the recently released “Joint Principles of the Patient Centered Medical Home” released by the AAFP, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and the American Osteopathic Association.
President Elect:
Karen Bollinger DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc is Chief of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Tulane University School of Medicine and Executive Director of the Tulane University Community Health Center at Covenant House. She is a graduate of the both Tulane University’s School of Medicine and School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine as well as Harvard University’s School of Public Health. Dr. DeSalvo is a practicing internist, teacher and researcher – she is the C. Thorpe Ray Chair in Internal Medicine and co-director of the Center for Health Equality Research at Tulane University Health Sciences Center, and currently serves as Vice-Dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy at Tulane University. She is active in the local and national medical community.
Secretary/Treasurer:
Eric B. Taylor, MS, Chief Executive Officer SWLA Center for Health Service, Lake Charles, Louisiana. He has served in this capacity on two separate occasions. The first occasion occurring in 2001 until the Fall of 2002. The second occasion occurring after serving as the CEO for a Chicago based Community Health Center for two years. Eric has also served as a Chief Executive Officer of a Community Health Center, two Health Maintenance Organizations, and Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, spanning a period of more than 32 years. Eric has a Master of Science Degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brooks, New York in Health Services Administration.
Board Members:
Gery J. Barry, MS, FSA, is President and CEO of Barry-Global Strategic Services. He is a top-level health insurance and health management executive. Prior to establishing his own strategic services business, Mr. Barry culminated a successful corporate career of nearly 35 years as the Chief Strategy Officer for Aetna, Inc. He was responsible for Aetna’s domestic and international business strategies, and for helping to shape improvements in the U.S. health care system through market-based solutions and public policy. Before leaving to assume this role at Aetna, Mr. Barry was President and CEO for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, during which time he led the company’s acclaimed response to Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Barry also served in a leadership role for the Louisiana Recovery Authority’s Public Health and Health Care Task Force, chairing the Healthcare Redesign Workgroup. Subsequently, he initiated the Coalition of Leaders for Louisiana Healthcare (COLLAH), which advanced the effort to create a more efficient and fair health care system for Louisiana. Prior to leading BlueCross, Mr. Barry gained extensive international experience as Liberty Mutual’s Country Leader for Canadian Operations. In this capacity he assumed direct operational responsibility for Liberty Health, turning it into Canada’s largest stand-alone health insurance and employee-benefits company. Mr. Barry is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries and has degrees in advanced mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and Rutgers University.
Joseph E. Bisordi, MD, FACP is Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Ochsner Health System since 2008. He is responsible for overseeing of all aspects of physician performance, quality and clinical integration within Ochsner's seven hospitals, 33 health centers and 740 physician group practice. Most recently Dr. Bisordi served as Associate Chief Medical Officer of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania and Chief Medical Officer of Geisinger Medical Center. Prior to assuming that position, Dr. Bisordi was Senior Vice President for Medical Informatics overseeing the implementation of clinical information systems including their electronic health records. A board certified nephrologist, he served as their Vice President for clinical research and was the former Director of the Department of Nephrology at Geisinger. He also spent many years in regional quality improvement and peer review efforts in dialysis and transplantation. Dr. Bisordi received his BA from Manhattan College and his medical degree from the Georgetown University School of Medicine. After his Internal Medicine training at the Geisinger Medical Center, he completed his nephrology fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was a Research Fellow of the National Kidney Foundation. Dr. Bisordi is a member of numerous professional societies and was appointed to the Louisiana Health Care Consumer's Right to Know Health Data Panel.
Dr. Patrick L. Breaux received his BS degree from the University of Southwest Louisiana and medical degree from the Tulane School of Medicine. Dr. Breaux is past President of the Louisiana Chapter of the American College of Cardiology and has served on the Board of Governors of the American College of Cardiology. He is past President of the Orleans Parish Medical Society and is President of the Louisiana State Medical Society. He chairs the Medical Home Committee of LHCQF. He is Secretary of Ochsner MSOC/SEC and Medical Director of Cardiology of Ochsner Hospital. He has been named Tulane Medicine Department AOA Community Teacher of the Year. He is listed as a Top Doctor in cardiovascular diseases in New Orleans Magazine and Louisiana Life Magazine. He completed an Internship, Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases at Charity Hospital, Tulane Division. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases. He is a Fellow in the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Breaux specializes in consultative cardiology. He has been on the Ochsner staff since 2005 and is Section Head of Consultative Cardiology. He currently practices at Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans and Ochsner Health Center - Slidell.
L. Philip Caillouet Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Health Information Management at The University of Louisiana (UL) at Lafayette, Director of the Louisiana Center for Health Informatics (LCHI), and holder of the J. Robert Rivet MD / BORSF Chair in Health Informatics – the discipline focused on applications of information and communications technologies in gathering and analysis of health-related data, and dissemination of information to clinical, administrative, and public health policy decision makers, as well as to consumers. Dr. Caillouet completed his baccalaureate degree in physics at Louisiana State University in 1968 and continued work toward a master’s degree in physics at Florida State University. After serving with the U. S. Army in Vietnam, he earned master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now called UL Lafayette) in 1973 and 1975, respectively. In his college days, he was an active member of Sigma Pi Sigma and Pi Mu Epsilon, the national physics and mathematics honor societies, and is a more recent inductee of the Phi Kappa Phi honorary fraternity. Since 1975, he has worked exclusively in the health industry as an information systems designer, an information management consultant and director of physician services and managed care consulting for Coopers & Lybrand (now part of Price Waterhouse Coopers) and for KPMG Peat Marwick, and after joining the UL faculty in 1996, as an educator and researcher. His principal interests are currently in the development and deployment of personal electronic health records, of regional health information networks, and of data to support Louisiana’s efforts to meet the U.S. Surgeon General’s Healthy People 2010 targets. Since founding LCHI (formerly known as the Health Informatics Center of Acadiana) in 1999, Dr. Caillouet has succeeded with local partners in attracting project funding from the following federal initiatives: the “Healthy Communities Access Program” and “Healthy Start” programs of the Health Resources and Services Administration; the “Partnership Resource and Infrastructure Support Monies (PRISM)” school violence prevention program of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA); and the “Safe Schools / Healthy Students” program sponsored jointly by the Departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services. At LCHI, Dr. Caillouet has led a research team in the development and use of Louisiana HABITS, a public health surveillance tool for measuring healthcare access barriers in the state. He has participated in local and state-level consortia to successfully attract funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Rapides Foundation, the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Fund for Healthcare and Education in Southwest Louisiana, and the Lafayette Community Health Consortium.
Claudia Campbell, PhD received her doctorate in economics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1988. Dr. Campbell began her academic career at Saint Louis University (SLU) in the department of health administration teaching courses in health care financial management, managed care, and public finance. In 1991, she completed a one year post-doctoral Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Fellowship in health care finance at Johns Hopkins University. During the fellowship, Campbell interned at the corporate offices of the Daughters of Charity West Central Region in St. Louis. From 1998 to 2002, she served as chair of the SLU health administration department and then came to Tulane to serve as chair the department of Health Systems Management in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine from 2002 to 2007. Along with colleague Dr. Karen DeSalvo, in 2004 Campbell formed the Center of Health Equality Research to study health disparities in the South Louisiana region.
Dr. Campbell has published a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and co-authored the textbook, Financial Management in a Managed Care Environment. In addition to ongoing investigation of the impact of mental health during pregnancy on birth outcomes and health care costs, Campbell's current research concerns heath care access among the Latino population in New Orleans and the efficiency and effectiveness of the health system with particular emphasis on the financial sustainability and cost-effectiveness of health information technology. Dr. Campbell has just completed an assessment, in collaboration with Dr. Lizheng Shi of Tulane University, of physician adoption, use, and satisfaction with Blue Cross Blue Shield Electronic Prescribing system in Louisiana. Dr. Campbell has also worked as an evaluator and analyst for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals on the Hurricane Katrina Health Information Network and Digital Health Information Recovery Project (LaHIE) and the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaborative (HISPC) as well as her current service to the Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum. She is a member of the Quality Forum’s Steering Committee for the CMS Electronic Medical Record Demonstration Project and the Quality Measurement Committee. Dr. Campbell chairs the QMC sub-committee on Provider and Plan Performance (PPP). Dr. Campbell was recently appointed to serve on the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospital’s Health Data Panel for the Consumer’s Right to Know. She is very interested in advancing quality reporting, performance improvement, and consumer engagement in the health care delivery process in Louisiana through better collection, dissemination, and use of health information
Frederick P. Cerise, MD, MPH is Louisiana State University System Vice President for Health Affairs and Medical Education. He is a graduate of Notre Dame, the Louisiana State University School of Medicine, and the Harvard University School of Public Health. Dr. Cerise was named in 2007 the Louisiana State University Systems Vice President for Health Care and Medical Education. Dr. Cerise previously had responsibility for the overall operations of DHH, which included Medicaid and the Offices of Public Health and Mental Health. A practicing internist, he has served as CEO and Medical Director of Earl K. Long Hospital as well as Secretary of the Louisiana State Department of Health & Hospitals. He is a member of the Louisiana State Medical Society and serves on the boards of Archbishop Hannan High School in New Orleans and the Hospice Foundation of Greater Baton Rouge.
Linda Gage-White, MD, PhD, MBA is a practicing Otolaryngologist and a Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology and Pediatrics at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. She holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University, is a graduate of the University of Miami MD-PhD program receiving her doctorate in biochemistry, and received her MBA from Centenary College in Shreveport. In addition to over 20 years of clinical practice, Dr. Gage-White served as Medical Director/Executive Director for Cigna Healthcare of Louisiana in the late 1990s. She is active in the local and national medical community including the Louisiana State Medical Society, has edited several medical journals, and is a former President of the Board of Directors of the Pelican Council Girl Scouts.
Nancy McPherson, MPA, SPHR is the Senior State Director for AARP Louisiana. In this role, she leads a team of professionals and volunteers in advancing reforms in health care, long term services and supports, financial security, and liveable communities on behalf of AARP Louisiana's 540,000 members; and educating and engaging consumers in political activism and self-directed activities that improve the quality of their lives. Prior to her work with AARP, Nancy established a twenty year track record of improving performance and accountability in policing and local government through organizational change, information technology and evidence-based practices, and increasing consumer demand for effective police and municipal services. Nancy is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. In 1998, Nancy was awarded the Police Executive Research Forum's Gary Hayes Leadership Award given each year to one police professional in the nation for leadership and inspiration. Nancy has a BA in political science from San Diego State University and an MPA with honors from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She holds a SPHR certification from the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM, 2006).
Raymond A. Peters, SPHR, is Vice President of Human Resources for Roy O. Martin Lumber Company in Alexandria, Louisiana. He received a BA in Communication Arts from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana, is a graduate of the LSU Executive Program, and holds a lifetime certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources awarded by the Society of Human Resource Management. During the majority of his thirty-year career in industry he has held a variety of human resources and commercial positions of increasing responsibility both nationally and internationally, including the management of large-scale employee health benefits programs. He is active in the community and most recently served on the board of directors for the United Way of Central Louisiana where he was Chairman in 2005.
Willie C. White, III, M. P. H., Chief Executive Officer of David Raines Community Health Centers and Health Care Management Consultant received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Health Education from Tennessee State University in 1977. He received his Master of Public Health Degree in Health Administration and Planning from the University of Tennessee in 1978. He is also a 1985 graduate of the Executive Development Program, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. White has received numerous awards and honors for his involvement in the health care industry and community. In 2002 he was nominated for the Robert Wood Johnson National Community Health Leadership Award. In 2004 he was appointed by Governor Blanco of Louisiana to serve on the State Health Care Reform Panel. He was nominated for the National Association of Community Health Centers John Gilbert Administrative Excellence Award in 2005. Louisiana Governor Jindal appointed him to serve on his Transition Health Care Advisory Council in 2007. Mr. White has 28 years of experience in the health care profession in both for-profit and non-profit organizations. He has served as President/Chief Executive Officer, Northwest Family Hospital, Gary, IN; Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director, Belmont Community Hospital, Chicago, IL; Assistant to the President, AV-MED Health Plan, Gainesville, FL; and, Assistant Administrator, Alachua General Hospital, Gainesville, FL. Mr. White is a consultant to Bureau of Primary Health Care grantees in the areas of administration, governance, finance, integrated delivery networks and health center new start assistance.
