Transformation Center Staff

 

Summer Boslaugh

Transformation Analyst
503-753-9688​
Summer.H.Boslaugh@dhsoha.state.or.us

Summer Boslaugh has over 20 years of experience working to improve health and health care in Oregon, the United States and internationally. At the Oregon Health Authority Transformation Center, she plays a key role in the agency’s multi-payer value-based payment and behavioral health integration work.

Before joining the Transformation Center, Summer spent eight years at the Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation where she managed activities to measure and improve the patient experience of care, engage patients and families in quality improvement within health care organizations and publicly report health care data. Summer’s prior experience includes working with a foundation, social service organization, political campaign, hospital, and national advocacy organization. Summer earned a dual master’s degree in business administration and health administration from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree in politics and speech communication from Willamette University. She is a native Oregonian and enjoys exploring the state with her family.

 

Rachel Burdon

Transformation Analyst
Rachel.E.Burdon@dhsoha.state.or.us

Rachel came most immediately from the OHA Public Health Division, having started as a State servant in health Promotion Chornic Disease Prevention in October 2019. Within just a few short months of State service, Rachel went out on deployment for COVID-19 duty working first on mitigation efforts and then in the Health Information Center until the end of October 2020.

Over the past two decades, Rachel has worked in the health field (in non-profit and government settings) supporting health and well-being in individuals and communities. Rachel has led and supported a variety of policy, systems and programmatic efforts in the areas of community development, chronic disease prevention, maternal-child health, food systems, and clinical quality improvement; in the following sectors: health care, public health, education, early childhood/childcare, philanthropy and finance and performing arts/arts education.

When not working at OHA, you might see Rachel at a soccer game for her 17-yo son, Adam, or at a Timber's game with her husband, Mark; out hiking one of the many beautiful trails in the Pacific Northwest; weeding or planting her garden, or volunteering with Friends of Columbia Park.

 

Chris DeMars (she/her)

Director, Delivery System Innovation Office
503-421-0761
Chris.DeMars@dhsoha.state.or.us

Chris DeMars is the director of OHA's Delivery System Innovation Office, working to support innovation and quality improvement within Oregon’s health system reform efforts. Chris also plays a lead role in the agency’s value-based payment and social determinants of health reform work. Before joining the Transformation Center in 2013, Chris spent eight years as a senior program officer at the Northwest Health Foundation, where she managed the foundation’s health care reform grantmaking, including providing support for Oregon’s delivery system reform initiatives and health reform advocacy organizations.

Prior to working for the foundation, Chris spent six years as a senior health policy analyst for the U.S. Government Accountability Office, where she authored numerous reports for Congress on Medicaid, Medicare and private health insurance payment policy. Chris has also held positions at Kaiser Permanente Northwest and health-policy consulting firms, including Health Management Associates, where she focused on public health, health system design, and payment. Chris began her career as a policy analyst intern at Indiana’s Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning. Chris holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Michigan.

 

Anona Gund (she/her)

Transformation Analyst
503-381-1104​
Anona.E.Gund@dhsoha.state.or.us

Anona Gund has a master's degree in public health and over 15 years of experience in the health care and public health fields, including 13​ years working for the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority.

At the OHA Transformation Center she manages coordinated care organization (CCO) technical assistance for CCO community health improvement plans and transformation and quality strategies, as well as the OHA review and analysis of those plans. She also manages targeted technical assistance to CCOs for select CCO incentive metrics. In addition to this work, she participates on OHA’s cross-divisional health-related services team to support CCO HRS implementation, and project manages CCO technical assistance, OHA review of CCO HRS policies, and OHA review and analysis of CCO HRS annual spending.

Prior to working at the Transformation Center, Anona was a health educator for the OHA Public Health Division (PHD) Immunization Program, and later, an analyst in the PHD Director’s Office coordinating the division’s successful national public health department accreditation application. She has lived the majority of her life in Oregon and loves everything the Pacific Northwest has to offer her family.

 

Lisa Krois (she/her)

Transformation Analyst
503-551-1346
Lisa.R.Krois@dhsoha.state.or.us

Lisa Krois is a transformation analyst at the Oregon Health Authority’s Transformation Center, which is the hub for health system innovation and improvement in Oregon. Prior to this position, Lisa spent seven years abroad working as a consultant for various organizations including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and United Nations Population Fund. Prior to that, Lisa worked for the State of Oregon’s Office for Health Policy and Research as the Oregon Health Research and Evaluation Collaborative project director and the Public Employees’ Benefit Board as the program development coordinator.

Lisa holds a master’s degree in public health, health policy and administration as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Medical Anthropology. Happily back in the Pacific Northwest, Lisa enjoys spending time outdoors with her family and two young children.

 

Alissa Robbins (she/her)

Transformation Center Director
503-490-6590
Alissa.Robbins@dhsoha.state.or.us

Alissa Robbins is the director for OHA’s Transformation Center, which is the hub of innovation and quality improvement for Oregon’s health system reform efforts. Alissa oversees the technical assistance and policy implementation delivered through the office. Prior to this role, Alissa was OHA’s health system transformation communications manager. She has worked for the Oregon Health Authority since 2009 and has played an integral role as health system transformation was developed and implemented. Prior to working for OHA, she worked for the State of Washington, local public health, and in the nonprofit sector in communications, public affairs, and research and evaluation roles. As a Northwest native, she enjoys spending time outside of work with her family, and outdoors whenever possible.​

Alissa holds a master’s degree in public affairs, with a concentration in public policy, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Public Affairs, both from Washington State University.

 

Sarah Wetherson

Transformation Analyst
503-793-1920
Sarah.E.Wetherson@dhsoha.state.or.us

Sarah joined the Transformation Center in 2016 after eight years in various roles with OHA’s Health Systems Division, where she recently managed the integration of non-emergent medical transportation into the work of coordinated care organizations. She enjoys using her analytical skills to tell compelling stories, and her organizational skills to help others work through thorny problems. Her background includes research, communications, fundraising, office management, legislative and project management, and she has worked in large and small nonprofits, social action organizations and political campaigns in addition to state government.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and mathematics and Master of Arts degree in public policy and women’s studies. Sarah was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, but has made Oregon home for more than 20 years. She hikes and camps with her partner and child whenever possible.