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Founder
Throughout career, Gary "Chris"
Christopherson, Founder, has focused on strategic systems,
management and performance and on national policy issues and
health and human service systems, models and reform.
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Founder of "Thrive!", "viaFuture",
"Vulnerable", "HealthePeople"
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Senior Advisor to Chief Operating
Officer, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Acting Assistant Secretary,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, and Senior Advisor for
Health Affairs,
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Senior Advisor to Under Secretary
for Health, Veterans Health Administration.
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Senior Fellow /
Scholar-in-Residence, Institute of Medicine, National
Academy of Sciences
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Senior Fellow, National Academy of
Public Administration
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Deputy Director, Quality
Improvement Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services.
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Chief Information Officer,
Veterans Health Administration DoD
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Senior Advisor for Force Health
Protection, Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs, DoD
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Associate Director, Office of
Presidential Personnel, White House
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Director of Health Legislation,
U.S. House Select Committee on Aging
Bachelor’s in Political Science and
Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from University of
Wisconsin - Madison. Doctoral work at John Hopkins University
School of Public Health.
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Accomplishments
During his career, has had a wide
range of accomplishments, including:
- Founded "Thrive!", "viaFuture",
"Vulnerable", "HealthePeople"
- Developed national model for
“reducing vulnerability and maximizing thriving”
- Led Strategic/Operational Plan for
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, especially for
vulnerable
- Developed “person-centered health”
model used by VHA, CMS and IOM to better improve health
- Developed national “virtual health
system” model for using info systems to support people’s
health
- Led, with the Surgeons General,
the re-design and re-engineering of the Military Health
System
- Obtained Presidential approval for
“force health protection” for vulnerable military service
members
- Designed, developed and managed
inner city health system in Milwaukee, WI
- Wrote legislation introduced to
protect the un- and under insured and reform Medicare and
Medicaid Developed and was lead staff for Congressional
hearings on un-/underinsured, Alzheimer’s research and care,
long term care, and health costs
- Helped lead effort to increase
Alzheimer’s research funding many fold
- Developed “behavioral
effectiveness model” for improving health for the most
vulnerable
- Developed “care in the community”
model for extending care beyond health facilities’ into the
community
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