Susan Adams is the Vice President of Health Informatics for the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, where she oversees the Health Center Controlled Network and Health Informatics team, providing technology and data assistance to community health centers across the Commonwealth.   Susan has worked in healthcare technology for 29 years, most recently as the Chief Information Officer for a large Federally Qualified Health Center where she was responsible for the strategic direction and management of Information Technology, Quality Data & Reporting, Medical Records, and Referrals Departments.  Prior to the pandemic, she led efforts in implementing an innovative, remote dermatology telehealth initiative.  She continues to serve on various telehealth initiatives for community health centers and collaborations for identifying and addressing disparities in health care.   Susan’s strength lies in her ability to think outside the box and use technology and data to improve operational efficiencies.

Ruth Lederman is a trained epidemiologist with over 30 years of experience with data collection, data management, and data analysis. Ms. Lederman is a member of the DF/HCC Survey and Data Management Core, responsible for providing specialized research support for projects that entail self-report and observational data collection from research subjects. She has considerable knowledge of and expertise with methods to maximize participation rates in data collection efforts across a range of community settings. She provides consultation on survey construction and web-based survey design to the DFCI research community

Michelle Fredericks is a Data Analyst with the Survey and Qualitative Methods Core at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is a part of the Evaluation Unit for the Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control Equity where she helps provide data management and analysis support for various projects. Michelle received her Master of Public Health degree with a concentration in epidemiology and biostatistics from Boston University School of Public Health and her undergraduate degree in Health Policy and Management from Providence College.

Lynette Mascioli is the Director of Health Informatics at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. Ms. Mascioli has a broad background in healthcare and public health, with specific community health center experience in quality data and informatics.  In her current role, she maintains an agile and responsive data analysis and reporting infrastructure to support member health center’s clinical quality improvement, operational, research, and business systems analysis needs.  She promotes, coordinates, and supports the use of population health software and other reporting tools at member centers through the provision of training and technical assistance. Lynette also coordinates data reporting with external parties and academic partners.

Leslie Salas Karnes is the Public Health Initiatives Manager in Clinical Health Affairs at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. Work closely with staff and clinicians from community health centers throughout the state of Massachusetts to improve healthcare quality and delivery and reduce health inequity. Responsible for planning, overseeing and leading technical assistance projects and programs that support health center clinical and operational improvements. Work collaboratively with other staff in the Clinical Division, other League divisions, funders, and other healthcare partners. Prior to joining the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, she worked at the Boston Public Health Commission as Director of the Education and Community Engagement Division in the Infectious Disease Bureau where she provided programmatic direction and management of the Ryan White Boston EMA Planning Council support program, Medical Case Management Training and Building Capacity program, and the Education and Outreach program.

Diana Erani, MBA is the Chief Operating Officer at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. Previously VP of Health Informatics at the League, Diana continues her leadership role in the League’s Health Center Controlled Network.  She is vice chair of the Health Center Controlled Network Task Force at the National Association of Community Health Centers and is on the board of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium.  She is focused on pursuing the League’s mission to promote population health equity for all through leadership and programs supporting community health centers and members in achieving their goals of accessible, quality, comprehensive, and community responsive health care. Diana was previously the COO at Healthcare for the Homeless – Houston, a Federally Qualified Health Center.  She earned a BA degree from Boston University and a MBA from New York University.

Daniel Gundersen, PhD is a Lead Scientist in Medical Oncology at DFCI, a collaborative researcher and lead methodologist at the Survey and Data Management Core (SDMC), and associate member of the Cancer Care Delivery Research Program of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC).  Dan is the Lead of the Evaluation Unit of the ISCCCE.  In the evaluation unit he directs three staff members to create and maintain the data ecosystem for the ISCCCE, review program survey instruments, implement the organizational surveys, and other ad-hoc requests for methodological expertise.  He also provide biostatistical support for pilot projects.

Dan’s expertise is in developing single and latent measures for patients (patient reported outcomes [PROs]), community members, and health care professionals in different settings.  He also develop and evaluate innovative self-reported mobile data collection approaches for self-reported behavioral health surveillance indicators.  Dan is currently Principal Investigator on an NCI funded R01 grant entitled “Cell Phone RDD Sampling to Reach Young Adults for Tobacco Control Surveillance” (R01CA149705).

Dan is the Lead of the Evaluation Unit of the ISCCCE. 

Jeff Brandes is President and CEO of Azara Healthcare, a company focused on providing Population Health Reporting and Analytics to Community Health Centers and Primary Care Associations across the US. He led the formation of Azara in 2011 and has worked extensively with Community Health leadership with the goal of increasing the use of Data and Analytics for both care quality improvement and cost management. With over 30 years of experience as a high-tech entrepreneur and executive, Jeff has taken numerous products/concepts from development to commercialization and led a number of companies from inception, through rapid revenue growth to exit.