Massachusetts Vaccine Purchasing Advisory CouncilMembership

October 2016

Name / Title / Affiliation / Designation
Kevin Cranston, MDiv / Director, Bureau of Infectious Disease / Department of Public Health (DPH) / DPH Commissioner
Susan Lett, MD, MPH / Immunization Medical Director / DPH / Immunization Program Medical Director
Catherine West / Director of Health Systems Policy and Research / Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) / Executive Director of CHIA
Marissa Woltman / Senior Policy Analyst / Commonwealth Health InsuranceConnector Authority (CHICA) / Executive Director of CHICA
Sansei Fowler, MD, MPH / Physician UM Reviewer / Tufts Health Plan - Network Health / Medicaid Managed Care
Patricia L. Toro, MD, MPH / Associate Medical Director / Harvard Pilgrim Health Care / Top Three Health Plans with most covered lives
Leanne DiMaio, MPH, MBA / Manager, Population Health and Wellness / Tufts Health Plan / Top Three Health Plans with most covered lives
Jane Williams, MD, MPH / Medical Director, Alternative Quality Contract and Business Support / Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts / Top Three Health Plans with most covered lives
Thomas Hines, MD / Residency Director, BMC Family Medicine Residency Program / BU School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center / Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians
H. Cody Meissner, MD, FAAP / Chief, Pediatric Infectious Disease / Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center / Physician with expertise in childhood vaccines
David P. Norton, MD, FAAP / Holyoke Pediatric Associates / Physician with expertise in childhood vaccines
Ronald Samuels, MD, MPH / Associate Director, Primary Care Center / Children’s Hospital / Physician with expertise in childhood vaccines
Sean Palfrey, MD, FAAP / Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health / Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center / Massachusetts Academy of Pediatrics
Benjamin A. Kruskal, MD, PhD, FAAP, FIDSA / Director, Infection Control and Travel Medicine / Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates / Massachusetts Medical Society