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Transition Committee

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Provides analysis and recommendations on how to transition from Oregon’s current health care system to a proposed Oregon universal health plan. The committee meets on the second and fourth Thursday of every month at 1 p.m. and accepts written and verbal public comment. The committee consists of three Universal Health Plan Governance Board members and nine members of the public.

Meeting Calendar and Materials

Committee Member Resources

Committee Members

  • Judy Richardson, Co-chair
  • Mike Leahy, Co-chair

Mickie Derting has communications and community engagement experience from local to global levels across the private and public sectors. Over the past 13 years, she has worked in local government focusing on high-profile, high-impact, and strategic initiatives. Mickie has more than 20 years of experience in the private sector with roles in technology, manufacturing, and creative industries. Mickie serves on the following advisory bodies: Oregon Commission on Asian and Pacific Islan​der Affairs, Oregon Health Authority Equity and Data Justice Workgroup, America 250 Oregon Commission, Central Oregon Civic Assembly Content Committee Regarding Youth Homelessness, and UHPGB Communications and Community Engagement Committee.​

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Jensina Hawkins has worked in health care since 2006, and since 2016 she has been the owner and operator of Mocodile Medical, providing electronic medical record software training for more than 100 practices across the country. She currently serves on the Eugene Police Commission and the board of Churchill Area Neighbors, and she is a former board member of Community Health Centers of Lane County and the Lane County Diaper Bank. Jensina has survived deep poverty, housing insecurity, domestic violence, and a mental health crisis requiring inpatient hospitalization. As a homeschooled, Korean adoptee, and mother of four multiracial children, she is passionate about equitable access to health care, public safety, and education.​

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​​Mary Lou Hennrich holds a master's degree in nursing and community health from the University of Portland. Born in Oregon, Mary Lou has served Oregonians in a career of public health and health care advocacy for more than 50 years. She began as a public health nurse for the Multnomah County Health Department. She rose through a variety of leadership positions, including managing or creating programs related to maternal-child health, health promotion, and community-based primary care. In 1985, Mary Lou implemented Oregon’s first school-based health clinic at Portland’s Roosevelt High School. She was the founding chief executive officer of CareOregon (1994-2003) and then served as director of the Oregon Public Health Institute. At the institute, she led work that resulted in laws establishing nutrition standards for foods and beverages sold in public schools in addition to state and national restaurant menu labeling laws. Mary Lou chaired the Oregon Coalition of Local Public Health Officials and has received lifetime achievement awards from the Oregon Public Health Association and the Oregon Health Forum. A proud 50-plus-year member of the Oregon Nurses Association, she has spent her career fighting for justice and equity in health care. She founded the Billi Odegaard Scholarship Fund to provide nursing scholarships to achieve diversity in nursing—excellence in care. In her spare time she enjoys cooking, traveling, camping and spending time with her grandchildren.​

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Richard Gibson, M.D., has served as physician informaticist and medical director at Comagine Health since 2018, where his work includes health care cost analysis and health data exchange. Richard has more than 45 years of health care experience, first as a family physician and emergency physician, then installing electronic health records in provider offices and hospitals, followed by analyzing health data. He has a Ph.D. in medical informatics and a Master of Business Administration. Richard is primarily motivated by wanting to alleviate financial stress for Oregonians and their families as they face challenging medical problems and injuries.​​

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​​​Charlie Swanson is a retired high school and community college teacher of math, physics, and chemistry. He has worked on health care financial data analysis in Oregon since 2014, first as a liaison between Health Care for All Oregon and Dr. Gerald Friedman, when he did the 2014 economic analysis of the Health Care for All Oregon Plan; as an overseeing activist for the 2017 Rand Corporation report “A Comprehensive Assessment of Four Options for Financing Health Care Delivery in Oregon”; as a member of the Universal Access to Health Care work group convened by Rep. Mitch Greenlick in 2018; and as a health care advocate working to keep Oregon’s Task Force on Universal Health Care grounded in appropriate data. Charlie has done extensive analyses of health care expenditures in Oregon and Medicaid nationally.​

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Dr. Antonio (Tony) Germann is a family physician centered in rural primary health care, clinical health edu​cation, and public health with a focus on policy that results in better health outcomes for the most vulnerable communities of Oregon. He is medical director of the Salud and Pacific pediatric clinics of the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic system (a federally qualified health care). Tony is also the founder of the Salud Rural Maternal Child Health Fellowship. The fellowship prepares family physicians for practice in a rural or underserved setting through advanced training in low- and high-risk obstetrics; surgical obstetrical skills; management of neonatal complications, including resuscitation; and advanced office gynecologic procedures. Tony serves as a member of the Oregon Health Policy Board, which is responsible for many of the state’s major health systems, including the Medicaid program, the Oregon State Hospital, public health, behavioral health, the Public Employees’ Benefit Board, and the Oregon Educators Benefit Board.​

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Eve Gray is the director of Lane County Health & Human Services, where she helps guide the organization’s eight divisions and 850 staff members on a mission-based approach to helping the most underserved in Lane County access vital services. Eve has 13 years of health care administration experience, including roles in quality, patient safety, and operational leadership in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She has experience in primary care and numerous specialties, including medical and surgical specialty practices. Before coming to Lane County, Eve served with Oregon Medical Group, as well as PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield. Since starti​ng her role at Lane County, Eve has focused heavily on building her understanding of the local crises related to homelessness and untreated behavioral health conditions, as well as building a more inclusive experience of health care for those who are historically marginalized. ​

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​Dr. Judy Richardson is a family physician and the academic program director in the Division of Management at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She has practiced medicine in Oregon for the past 20 years and was active with the implementation of the Columbia Gorge Health Council and Clinical Advisory Panel. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she helped support the Oregon Health Authority as the deputy director for clinics and health centers in its COVID Recovery and Response Unit. She became involved with the economic evaluation of Medicaid through her role as a project manager in the evaluation of the Washington Medicaid Transformation Project at the Center for Health Systems Effectiveness at OHSU. She currently works full time in the Division of Management, where she teaches courses in health systems, business strategy, and health economics.

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Ann Lovejoy lives in Marion County. During her career before retirement, she led large-scale performance improvement projects for Fortune 500 companies and statewide health systems. She held consultancy roles in Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIOs), as well as patient safety and quality roles in hospitals​. Her degrees include an master’s degree in health care administration from the University of Connecticut and a master’s degree in education from the University of Washington. Her certifications include Advanced Organizational Development (Columbia University), Lean Six SIGMA, and SHRM Advanced HR Professional. ​

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Paula Weldon is an experienced health information technology professional with a background in managing health information exchange (HIE) and leading data analytics teams to support population health reporting and care coordination. As director of operations for a nonprofit HIE, Paula has collaborated with a diverse range of health care organizations to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiencies through technology. She holds a bachelor’s degree in innovation and leadership and a project management professional certification. Her passion for improving health care systems and advancing equitable access to care drives her commitment to the universal health plan initiative.​​

Founding executive director of OCHIN, Mike has a diverse background with more than four decades in health care planning, administration, and hospital leadership. He has been in key leadership positions with Kaiser Permanente in Oregon, where he served as Health Plan manager, and in northern California, where he was director of 15 Kaiser Permanente hospitals. He has been a Public Health director for both rural Tillamook and urban Alameda County. Mike has extensive global health experiences. He has been a consultant, speaker, and lecturer in more than a dozen countries, including Singapore, Australia, and Kenya. Mike served on various national, state, and county health boards, including the Oregon Health Council, which he chaired, the National Association of Public Hospitals, Secretary of California Hospital Association, the Oregon Primary Care Association, and Clackamas County Community Health. Mike has been teaching health courses to medical, nursing, and health administration students at University of California-Berkeley, University of Southern California, Linfield College, and Oregon Health and Science University, and looks forward to aiding the board’s efforts to move toward universal health and basic health access for all Oregonians.

Jamie Osborn is a family doctor who started life as a patient in Roseburg, where her first doctor discovered she had a heart problem that required open heart surgery. Jamie has spent most of her career training physicians and other providers of health care to be innovators in team-based, patient-centered primary care in various settings. She delivers whole person care to her patients while serving as the population health officer at La Clinica in Medford. Jamie believes everyone needs and deserves excellent primary care, and she wants to leave a legacy of a more excellent, accessible, affordable, compassionate, and just health care system for her children and grandchildren.