Anya Rader Wallack
Middlebury — This year's annual meeting of Porter Medical Center will be held on Thursday, March 22, at 7 p.m. at the Kirk Alumni Center on the campus of Middlebury College. The keynote speaker will be Anya Rader Wallack, Ph.D., chairwoman of the new Green Mountain Health Board. The meeting is free and open to the public.
“With statewide health care reform as a key priority of the new Green Mountain Care Board, the potential impact on Vermont of the Federal health care reform legislation of 2010, and the complexities, challenges and importance of designing and implementing many significant new initiatives related to both of these, this should be a very interesting meeting,” said PMC Chairman Ann Hanson.
Wallack has worked in health care policy and reform for the past two decades. In January 2011, she joined Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) as Special Assistant for Health Reform and was the chief architect of Act 48, the governor’s health reform plan.
During the 1990s Wallack served as Gov. Howard Dean’s (D) deputy chief of staff and focused on health reform. Additionally, Wallack served on Hillary Clinton’s Health Reform Task Force.
Upon leaving the Dean administration, Wallack became the executive director of the Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care and a member of the Vermont Board of Medical Practice.
Wallack lead the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute and was also interim president of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation. She chaired the Massachusetts Health Care Quality and Cost Council’s committee on cost containment, and served on the Rhode Island Health Reform Task Force. She has been a consultant on state-based health reform to states, non-profits, foundations and health care providers for much of the past decade.
Wallack is a native Vermonter and graduate of the University of Vermont.
In addition to the remarks by Wallack, brief reports will be provided by PMC's Hanson, PMC President James L. Daily and Medical Staff President Dr. Mike Kiernan regarding the work of Porter Medical Center during the past year, and related topics of importance to our organization and community.
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