Quality Improvement Committee (QIC)
The QIC is made up of about two dozen clinician leaders from major medical groups, hospitals and health plans from around the state. The QIC meets bi-monthly and oversees the Alliance’s quality reporting, including clinical and patient experience measures. Beginning with the first report, the QIC has been front and center in selecting the quality measures included in the Community Checkup and developing the reporting methods used by the Alliance (e.g., provider attribution methods, as well as methods to ensure statistical reliability of results and thresholds for public reporting). Having clinician leaders lead this process through countless discussions and meetings over the years has been key in building provider support and trust in the public reporting conducted by the Alliance.
| Name | Title | Organization |
| Mary Anderson, MD | Chief Clinical Integration and Quality Officer | The Polyclinic/Physician Care Alliance/Physicians Care Network |
| Caryn Avery, MD | Program Chief for Pediatrics | Kaiser Permanente Washington |
| Edwin Carmack, MD | Quality Medical Director | Confluence Health |
| Kavita Chawla, MD | Chair, EBM Education Committee | Virginia Mason Franciscan Health |
| Francis Gough, MD | Chief Medical Officer | Molina Healthcare |
| Kim Herner, MD | Chief Quality Officer | UW/Valley Medical Center |
| Richard Hourigan, MD (Vice Chair) | Market Medical Executive, Pacific Northwest | Cigna |
| Steven Jacobson, MD (Chair) | Medical Director, Government Programs | Premera Blue Cross |
| Matthew Jaffy, MD | Associate Medical Director | University of Washington Medicine Neighborhood Clinics |
| Cat Mazzawa | Senior Director, Safety and Quality | Washington State Hospital Association |
| Andrew Oliveira, MD | Executive Medical Director | Regence BlueShield |
| Komal Patil-Sisodia, MD | Ambulatory Quality Officer | EvergreenHealth |
| Wayne Rawlins, MD | Chief Medical Officer | WellSpark Health |
| Jeanne Robinson, MD | Quality Vice President | Northwest Permanente |
| Nicole Saint Clair, MD | Executive Medical Director | Regence BlueShield |
| Michael Shannon, MD | Physician Executive and Chief Medical Officer | PSW |
| Pamela Sheffield, MD | Medical Director | Aetna |
| Paul Sherman, MD | Chief Medical Officer | Community Health Plan of Washington |
| Hugh Straley, MD | Chair | Dr. Robert Bree Collabortive |
| John Vassall, MD | Clinical Associate Professor | Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine |
| Judy Zerzan, MD | Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Quality and Care Transformation | Washington State Health Care Authority |