Eugene Heslin, MD is a board certified family practice physician in Kingston, NY, and Former President/Co-Owner of Bridge Street Medical Arts LLC. He is actively involved in several health care organizations in his community and throughout the Catskills and the Hudson Valley as a board member of the Health Alliance Planning Board, Kingston Hospital, and the THINC RHIO, and he has previously served on the boards of other local health care organizations. Gene is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Ulster County Medical Society. He is also an Eagle Scout and actively involved in Boy Scouts of America activities.

Paul F. Macielak is president and CEO of the New York Health Plan Association (HPA), an Albany-based organization that represents 29 health plans across New York State. Collectively, those plans provide comprehensive health care services to more than eight million New Yorkers.

As the chief executive of HPA, Mr. Macielak is responsible for development of policy positions for the organization, advocacy with the executive and legislative branches of government, and serves as lead spokesperson to the media and the public on issues relating to the managed care industry.

Prior to joining HPA, Mr. Macielak was Vice President and Vice Provost for Government, Community and Public Affairs for the New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Before that, he served as Counsel to the Majority Leader of the New York State Senate (1989-1992) and Chief Counsel to the Assembly Minority Leader (1983-1988).

Mr. Macielak is a gubernatorial appointment to the NYS Immunization Council, Governor’s Advisory Task Force on Federal Health Care Reform and is a former member of the New York State Hospital Review and Planning Council (SHRPC). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Island Peer Review Organization (IPRO) and is a founding member and chair of the Board of Directors of the Healthcare Information Xchange of New York (HIXNY).

A graduate of Albany Law School in 1975, Mr. Macielak received his undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester in 1972.

Patrick J. Roohan is currently the Vice President of Data Management and Analytic Solutions at MVP Health Care, where he is responsible for the development of enterprise-wide data management and analytics to drive strategy and innovation throughout the organization. Mr. Roohan is working with stakeholders in the community and within MVP to provide information for provider engagement, value-based contracting, and quality improvement.

Mr. Roohan is the former Deputy Commissioner/Director of the Office of Quality and Patient Safety (OQPS), New York State Department of Health (DOH). As director, he was responsible for monitoring quality of care and patient safety across the entire healthcare spectrum of NY. He was the lead in quality and evaluation of the Medicaid program, led the DOH’s Health Information Technology advances including the SHIN-NY (Statewide Health Information of New York), the All Payer Database, and OPEN.DATA.NY, New York’s open data portal. Mr. Roohan was part of the leadership team to implement Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program (DSRIP), as well as the State Innovation Model (SIM).

Mr. Roohan is the former director of the Division of Quality and Evaluation in DOH, where he was responsible for the evaluation of Medicaid and managed care program initiatives, the development of data systems for research and cost evaluation, development of risk adjustment premium models, implementation of value based purchasing models, and evaluation of quality performance measurement, including the Quality Assurance Reporting Requirements (QARR). He has published in the areas of health services research, quality of care and evaluation. Mr. Roohan received his Masters of Science in Operations Research and Statistics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

James R. Tallon, Jr., is Former President of the United Hospital Fund of New York. Mr. Tallon’s numerous leadership roles have included serving as chair of The Commonwealth Fund and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. He was Secretary/Treasurer of the Alliance for Health Reform; on the boards of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession, the New York eHealth Collaborative, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and the Center for Health Policy Development; and a member of the advisory board for the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence. He also served for fifteen years as a member of the New York State Board of Regents.

A member of the New York State Assembly for nineteen years, Mr. Tallon chaired the health committee from 1979 to 1987 and served as Majority Leader from 1987 to 1993. He has held visiting lecturer appointments at the Columbia University and Harvard University Schools of Public Health.