FAIR Health Elects Two New Members to Board of Directors

June 21, 2018

FAIR Health has elected Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, MPP, and Lawrence Casalino, MD, PhD, MPH, to its Board of Directors, which comprises leaders from all parts of the healthcare sector.

Currently Managing Director of Manatt Health at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, in Washington, DC, Ms. Brooks-LaSure brings to FAIR Health more than 15 years of experience in health policy. Dr. Casalino, Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health and Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, contributes a focus on comparative research on the US healthcare delivery system.

Ms. Brooks-LaSure served in the Obama Administration at the US Department of Health & Human Services from 2010 to 2014, where she helped lead marketplace and private insurance policy development during implementation of the Affordable Care Act. During that time, she first held the role of Director of Coverage Policy in the Office of Health Reform, then became Deputy Director of Policy and Regulation in the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She has been a consultant for The Commonwealth Fund, worked on Capitol Hill and coauthored numerous publications on Medicaid, Medicare and state marketplaces.

Dr. Casalino is one of the very few academic researchers in the United States who has significant experience in full-time private practice. After working as a community organizer, he worked for 20 years as a full-time family physician in private practice in Half Moon Bay, California and as a tenured faculty member at the University of Chicago before coming to Weill Cornell. Dr. Casalino has published more than 130 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including many articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Health Affairs. He is the recipient of a prestigious Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has served on numerous national committees, as the Chair of the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting and as the John Fry Fellow at the Nuffield Trust in London.

“We welcome Ms. Brooks-LaSure and Dr. Casalino to the FAIR Health Board,” said Stephen A. Warnke, Chairman of FAIR Health’s Board of Directors. “Chiquita’s intimate knowledge of health policy development and implementation and Larry’s research-based perspective on the healthcare delivery system will further broaden the diversity of viewpoints and perspectives represented on the FAIR Health Board.”

“FAIR Health is honored to have Ms. Brooks-LaSure and Dr. Casalino join this esteemed assembly of leaders from all walks of the healthcare ecosystem,” stated Robin Gelburd, President of FAIR Health. “Both of their years of service embody a dedication to improving healthcare and a knowledge of its intricacies that make them valuable additions to our Board.”