Company/Employment: Security Health Plan

Bio: Melissa deGoede, Security Health Plan’s Chief Clinical Officer, is a clinician who is passionate about transforming health care through the design and delivery of innovative programs focused on quality of care, population health, through efficient, cost-effective care delivery. As a seasoned and dedicated health care leader with more than 30 years’ experience in a variety of clinical and payer settings, deGoede has a deep commitment to transforming care.    deGoede is an experienced clinical leader with a background that encompasses product and operations oversight of population health organizations delivering programs in the commercial and government space, as well as, emergency and urgent care departments in the provider space.     As Chief Clinical Officer for Security Health Plan, she is responsible for operational and product oversight, strategic planning and execution of clinical, quality and pharmacy programs supporting Security Health Plan members. deGoede completed her bachelor of science degree in nursing at the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, and earned her masters of business administration with a healthcare emphasis from Lakeland College. 

Company/Employment: Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group

Bio: Michael Alan Horberg, MD is also the director of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Research Institute (MAPRI). As Associate Medical Director, Dr. Horberg is responsible for all research activities in Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States (KPMAS). He serves as the medical director for KPMAS Community Health, and is the Medicaid leader for MAPMG, including Chief Medical Officer for Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States in Maryland Medicaid. Michael leads HIV, STD, and transgender health care efforts in the region, and HIV and STD care program-wide for Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Horberg leads our Medical Genetics and Genomics strategy for MAPMG and is Executive Sponsor for KPMAS’ Commission on Cancer Accreditation and National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. Dr. Horberg serves as director of HIV/AIDS program-wide for Kaiser Permanente and as Clinical Lead for HIV/AIDS and STDs for the Care Management Institute. Dr. Horberg has served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, having co-chaired the Access to Care and Improved Outcomes Committee. Dr. Horberg is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA). He is Past-Chair of the Board of Directors of the HIV Medicine Association of IDSA. Dr. Horberg attended Boston University Medical School, and received his Master of Advanced Studies, from University of California San Francisco. He is a resident of the District of Columbia

Company/Employment: Kaiser Permanente

Bio: Dr. Sarita A. Mohanty is the Vice President, Care Coordination of Medicaid and Vulnerable Populations for Kaiser Permanente (KP). Dr. Mohanty directs efforts at a national level to identify and facilitate the spread of leading care coordination and care delivery models for vulnerable populations across KP. She serves as the accountable executive of Thrive Local, an enterprise program to connect health care and social services providers to address pressing social needs. Dr. Mohanty has approximately 25 years of experience in health care delivery, utilization management, care management, quality improvement, disease management, health information technology, and health services research. She serves on several state and national committees and boards, including the National Quality Forum and the California Health Care Foundation. She completed her Internal Medicine training at Beth Israel Deaconess and a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Subsequently, Dr. Mohanty was the Chief Medical Officer of COPE Health Solutions, a health care consulting company. From 2011-2014, Dr. Mohanty was the Senior Medical Director for the largest public health plan in the U.S., L.A. Care Health Plan. Dr. Mohanty earned her BA from UC Berkeley, MD from Boston University School of Medicine, MPH from Harvard University, MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Dr. Mohanty currently practices as an internal medicine physician at KP in Northern California and was recently appointed as Associate Professor, KP Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine.