Amy Rosenthal
Amy Rosenthal’s career has focused on public health, politics, and nonprofit management. Amy currently serves as a Senior Policy Analyst at Community Catalyst and as the Program Leader for the New England Alliance for Children’s Health, a six-state effort to protect and expand public and private healthcare coverage for children.
Amy has worked in both the Massachusetts State Senate and the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, served as the Policy Director on a gubernatorial campaign, and provided political consulting services for several clients in New England. She was the Executive Director of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, which focuses on promoting women in politics, and served as Political Director for Barbara Lee, a well know activist and fundraiser for progressive women candidates.
Prior to entering politics, Amy spent seven years working for three large academic hospitals conducting public health work, with an emphasis on preventing gun deaths and injuries. She lobbied for safety legislation in four states, mobilized multi-disciplinary coalitions, and designed, implemented and evaluated community outreach programs.
Amy has a Masters in Public Health degree from Harvard University, a Masters in Public Affairs degree with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from Indiana University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Studies from Northwestern University. Email Amy Rosenthal at arosenthal@communitycatalyst.org.
Erin McDuffie
Erin is a fellow with the New England Alliance for Children’s Health. She received her Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Political Science with a minor in Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include: race, ethnic and class disparities, urban health and education, nutrition, healthcare access, and children’s healthcare. Email Erin at emcduffie@communitycatalyst.org.
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Josh Greenberg
Josh Greenberg is an attorney, and currently serves as the Director of State and Federal Relations at Children’s Hospital Boston. His primary responsibility is oversight of state and federal fiscal and public policy issues, including work on Medicaid, uncompensated care and public health concerns. He has previously served as Manager of the Children’s Division at Health Care For All, where he directed the Covering Kids Program for Massachusetts. He also coordinated other children’s work, including projects on health quality, teen health and mental health. Prior to joining Covering Kids, Josh founded an innovative legal aid program based at the Boston City Hospital Department of Pediatrics. Josh is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Northeastern University’s School of Law.
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Michael Miller
Michael Miller has over 20 years of experience in health policy. As Policy Director for Community Catalyst, he focuses on providing policy and strategy support to state-based consumer health advocacy groups. Over the course of his career, Michael has developed expertise in the areas of Medicaid, SCHIP and Medicare, developing state-level options to expand coverage for the uninsured, small group and non-group insurance reform, long term care financing and delivery, managed care reform, and hospital community benefits and uncompensated care.
Prior to joining Community Catalyst he was the policy Director for Health Care For All, worked for the City of Boston Elderly Commission as a policy analyst and for the Alzheimer's Association of eastern Massachusetts as Director of Community the Community Partnership Project. He is also the former editor of Staying Alive! a newsletter on health policy. Michael is a graduate of Brown University and has a Master's degree in Public Policy from Tufts University. He has been an adjunct faculty member of Springfield College School of Human Services and the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he has taught courses on health policy, aging and public policy, and community organizing for human services professionals. He is a frequent media commentator on health care issues and a guest lecturer at many Boston area universities.
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Karen Quigley
Karen Quigley has over thirty years experience in health care management and policy. She has worked for both public and private organizations, focusing on strategic planning, organizational and program development, and program management. She has been actively involved in developing and implementing health care reforms, including changes in insurance regulation, provider payment, and cost containment.
From 1994 to 2007, Ms. Quigley worked as an independent consultant. Her U.S. clients included the Massachusetts Department of Medical Assistance, the Massachusetts Hospital Association, the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute, and the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, as well as numerous provider organizations. She also worked internationally with a variety of non-government organizations and private companies. Previously, Ms. Quigley spent 13 years with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts in a variety of senior management roles, including planning, legislative and regulatory affairs, product development and management, and provider network management. Past experience includes work as a management consultant for Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, and as a manager for the state Medicaid program in Massachusetts and at Boston City Hospital.
Ms. Quigley has an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan. She is a lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she teaches provider payment systems and policy. She chairs the Board of Directors for Vinfen, Inc., one of the largest human services providers in Massachusetts. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Urban Medical Group and The Boston Home.
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Rob Restuccia
Robert Restuccia has represented the interests of health consumers for over 20 years. He was a founder of Health Care For All, Inc. in Massachusetts and became its Executive Director in 1989. Under Rob's leadership, Health Care For All became one of the largest and most effective state consumer health care organizations in the country. While director, he both developed and led successful multi-stakeholder campaigns to expand state coverage programs and institute significant health care reform within Massachusetts. His work has served as a model for state and national health care policy change.
In 2000 Rob became the Executive Director of Community Catalyst, Inc., a national non-profit advocacy organization established in 1997 to increase consumer participation in shaping the health care system. Under his direction, Community Catalyst has established an impressive track record working with low income communities and state and local partners to achieve health care reforms in more than 40 states.
Currently, Rob also serves as the Executive Director for The Prescription Project, a project of Community Catalyst in partnership with the Institute on Medicine as a Profession and created with The Pew Charitable Trusts to promote evidence-based prescribing and to eliminate conflicts of interest in medicine.
Rob has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Masters degree in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is an adjunct professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, RealBenefits Inc, Health Care For All, and the Commonwealth Care Alliance. He is also a member of the Stakeholder Group of the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement. Rob has been a recipient of numerous awards for his work in health care reform, including the Families USA Health Care Advocate of the Year Award.
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Susan T. Sherry
Susan Sherry has over twenty-five years of experience in health policy and consumer health advocacy. At Community Catalyst and Families USA, she developed and supervised the organization's state-based technical assistance programs and issue work including tobacco tax coalitions, nonprofit to for-profit conversions, health reform, and prescription access initiatives.
Ms. Sherry is an instructor at the Harvard School For Public Health where she teaches a course in community organizing. In 2004 and 2005, Ms. Sherry, was named one of Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare. As a private consultant, Ms. Sherry provided strategic planning, leadership development, and health policy consultation services to community and state-level consumer organizations and foundations. Ms. Sherry serves on the national board of Family Voices.
Prior to her national work, Ms. Sherry was the founding Executive Director of Health Care For All. In that role, she represented consumer interests in negotiations around the 1986 Massachusetts universal health care law, hospital free care, insurance market reforms, and financially distressed acute care hospitals. She was involved in implementation of state health reforms. Ms. Sherry also has ten years of management experience in nonprofit social services. She has completed her doctoral coursework at Brandeis University Heller School and holds a M.A. from Goddard College and a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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