Lisa Maiuro, MSPH, Ph.D., has close to 25 years of experience in healthcare policy and research. She is a former RAND/UCLA Pew Health Policy Fellow and served as a consultant at Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, after completing her doctoral work. Shortly after this, she worked as a senior economist for the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD).  Subsequently, she became Deputy Director of OSHPD’s Health Planning and Policy unit where she directed a research unit that provided analysis and publications on issues related to hospitals outcomes, charity care, healthcare finance, and healthcare markets. She also acquired funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct a study on hospital mergers and worked with the CA Department of Justice as an expert witness on more than a dozen hospital market and antitrust investigations. Extensive work with OSHPD data has led to many publications and presentations on a range of healthcare issues.  Following her work with the State she was an independent contractor working with a variety of clients including UC Berkeley, First Five of California , the CA Dept of Justice and CA foundations.  Most recently she was with Thomson/Medstat where she oversaw a team of analysts through a $35 million contract with DHS to address Medi-Cal cost, quality and access issues using MIS/DSS data.