Linda currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Value Based Care at Providence St. Joseph Health.In this role, she serves as Chief Executive Officer for Pacific Medical Centers’10 multi-specialty physician clinic system, Uniformed Services Family Services Health Plan as well as executive oversight for the Value Based Care division, Government Programs division and Population Health Informatics division for the 7 state health system . Linda has over 25 years of healthcare experience in both hospital and ambulatory settings. She is highly skilled in system redesign, change management, leadership development, employee engagement, revenue cycle, systems integration and health plan operations. Linda is a founding member of Project Access Northwest, a ground breaking non-profit organization that has significantly improved access to healthcare for underserved populations in the region.

Under her leadership, Project Access brought together the major providers of care in the region to develop solutions to the challenges of providing specialty care to the underinsured and uninsured populations in the community. Linda currently serves on the board of Goodwill Industries of Greater Seattle as well as the Corporate Advisory board of The Greater Seattle Business Association. She is a prior board member of Project Access Northwest, as well as Past Board President and current member of the Business Women’s Council for Women’s Funding Alliance.

In 2014, she was recognized by the Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA) as the Corporate Leader of the Year for her leadership role in promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. In 2016, Linda received the Outstanding Voices Award for her role in promoting diversity in healthcare leadership. She also volunteers for the Year-up organization, which supports urban young adult’s access to education, experience and guidance for their future careers. Linda holds a B.S. in Nursing from University of Miami and an M.H.A. from Barry University.

Melanie Matthews is the dynamic, creative and innovative CEO at Physicians of Southwest Washington (PSW) bringing more than 20 years of operations, financial, human resources and product marketing experience in health care services for specialty populations.With her personal capacity for energy, clear focus and performance excellence and her proven track record for operational, financial and market success, Melanie has been leading PSW through the waves of change in today’s health care climate.

Since she joined the company in 2016, she has maintained the core principals in which PSW was founded on and expanded business lines to include MSO services including credentialing, coding and compliance and the implementation of CMMI innovation models such as the Next Generation ACO. Melanie’s extensive knowledge in post-acute care provides strategic focus in reducing overall cost of care as well as provider and beneficiary engagement.

Her nationally recognized visionary leadership will assure that PSW continues its work to help integrate the ideas of health care reform into the lives of patients and physician practices.Prior to PSW, Melanie served for three years as Vice President of Operations for Prestige Care, Inc., where she was responsible for regulatory and financial operations and outcomes for 38 skilled nursing facilities and two Medicare home health agencies in a four-state northwest region. Among her other accomplishments, Melanie serves as the chair of the Washington Health Care Association, was selected by the American Health Care Association as a “National Political Ambassador” in 2013, and was named a national “Future Leader” in 2012.

Melanie holds a master of science, social gerontology, degree from Central Missouri State University and a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies from Pennsylvania State University. She is married with two children and has lived in Olympia since 2008.

Margaret Peterson serves as the Director of Federal Affairs at America’s Physician Groups. In this capacity, Margaret
works to promote the organization’s federal advocacy and policy objectives including increasing access to value-based, coordinated care through regulatory and legislative avenues.

This role centers around building relationships and encouraging educational opportunities with Members of
Congress and Congressional staff, Executive Branch staff, and health policy leaders. Margaret also directs the induvial advocacy program, APG Advocates, which encourages members to become more involved in public policy and the legislative process.

Immediately prior to joining Affairs at America’s Physician Groups, Margaret served on the health policy team for Senator Joni Ernst focusing on a number of legislative priorities including ACA reform and MACRA implementation. Originally hailing from Iowa, Margaret received a BA from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI in Political Science with a minor in Public Relations.

Sean Cavanaugh is the Chief Administrative and Performance Officer of Aledade, which partners with independent physicians to succeed in value-based payment models.

He previously was the Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Deputy Director at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. He’s had a bunch of other jobs, too.