Amy Nguyen Howell, MD, is a board-certified family practice physician. She currently oversees all clinical programs at APG and supports advocacy work in Sacramento and Washington, DC. Additionally, she contributes to the Steering Committee on the Core Quality Measurement Collaborative; Healthcare Payment and Learning Action Network Population-Based Payment Work Group; and Clinical Programs Committee at NCQA.

Rushika Fernandopulle is a practicing physician and co-founder and CEO of Iora Health, a venture backed, national de-novo primary care group based in Boston. He was the first Executive Director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement, and Managing Director of the Clinical Initiatives Center at the Advisory Board Company.

He is a member of the Albert Schweitzer, Ashoka, Aspen, and Salzburg Global Fellowships, and is co-author or editor of several publications including Health Care Policy, a textbook for physicians and medical students, and Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity. He serves on the staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital, on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and on the boards of Families USA and the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Care. He earned his A.B., M.D., and M.P.P. (Masters in Public Policy) from Harvard University, and completed his clinical training at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Michelle DuFresne is Summit’s Director of Risk Adjustment. In her role, she is responsible for the creation, training and implementation of all Risk Adjustment operations. In support of value-based contracts with CMMI, Medicare Advantage, commercial health plans and Medicaid managed care, she leads the Risk Adjustment department with great success.

Michelle works closely with Provider Engagement Teams, analytics and Executive leadership. Before joining Summit, Michelle lived in Michigan working in Risk Adjustment for a large hospital system that owned their own Healthcare company. Michelle has a bachelor’s degree in health science, hands on healthcare experience as well as several coding and documentation certifications with AHIMA and AAPC.

Derinda Cramer Frye is the Director of Clinical Operations for IntegraNet Health. With over 20 years’ experience as a registered nurse, she earned her BSN from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2017 and is currently seeking a Master’s Degree in Nursing from Lamar University. She began her nursing career in ICU and eventually transitioned to the Emergency Room. While working for a Rural Critical Access Hospital, she was recognized for her clinical experience and leadership qualities and was promoted to various levels of nursing management, including Director of Nurses.

Derinda joined the IntegraNet Health team in November 2011. During her tenure with IntegraNet Health, she has successfully led the nursing department in projects that include: Complex Case Management Delegation, Utilization Management Delegation, ACO Quality Reporting, and program initiatives centered around patient engagement. Derinda has also had the privilege of representing IntegraNet Health and Physicians ACO at two National Association of ACOs conferences as a guest speaker detailing the company’s experience with successful quality reporting.

Dr. Kuritsky is the Medical Director for Population Health at Sharp Community Medical Group (SCMG), an independent physician association in San Diego. In that role, he is accountable for advancing medical group performance excellence and improving the health of the population. Additionally, he is responsible for supervision of medical management activities, and provides direction and implementation of efforts that improve effectiveness and efficiency of clinical programs. Dr. Kuritsky also oversees the Practice Transformation and Performance Improvement efforts at SCMG’s independent practices, which are based on Patient Centered Medical Home principles.

The SCMG network includes roughly 200 primary care physicians and about 600 specialists who currently provide care to nearly 130,000 patients. SCMG’s physicians have access to 10 managed care health plans and offer patients comprehensive healthcare through an extensive physician, ancillary and hospital referral base.

Dr. Kuritsky is also involved in multiple quality improvement efforts within the medical group, including the work connected with SCMG’s Vision 2020 quality initiative and the Primary Care Performance Program. Additionally, he is involved in the effort to improve SCMG physicians’ documentation and coding skills, including the development of educational seminars. Dr. Kuritsky chairs SCMG’s Urgent Care Operations meetings, serves as the medical director of the Oral Anticoagulation Program and has been involved with the EHR implementation team for the Allscripts EHR and has now been assisting with SCMG’s transition to the Cerner Ambulatory EHR.

Dr. Kuritsky holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Boston University. He completed post-graduate work at Columbia University and did Biochemistry research at NYU Medical Center before attending the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed an Internal Medicine residency at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He was in clinical practice for 22 years at Grossmont Medical Clinic in La Mesa, California, having been a founding member of the group, when it was formed in 1992.

William Torkildsen, MD is an internal medicine, cardiovascular disease specialist in Port Isabel, TX. He has been a practicing physician for 45 years and is Board Chairman of Valley Organized Physicians IPA, an independent physician association made up of more than 80 primary care physicians in the Rio Grande Valley area in South Texas.

Dr..Torkildsen graduated from UT Health San Antonio Joe R & Theresa Lozano Long School of medicine in 1974 He broadened his training in recent years to become an AHIMA-Approved ICD 10 Trainer after obtaining his certified coding specialist and certified clinical documentation specialist accreditation.

CEO - IntegraNet Physician Resource, Inc., D/B/A IntegraNet Health and Subsidiaries (“IntegraNet”) since March 1997. Reports directly to the Board of Directors of IntegraNet and its parent holding company, Intercare Health Systems, Ltd. In addition to the overall success of the Company, is responsible for leading the development and execution of long-term strategies, with the goal of improving healthcare processes, healthcare outcomes, healthcare policy, and increasing shareholder value. Creates and implements high-level corporate strategy and major Company decisions.

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