Team

Leadership

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Christopher Moriates MD

Executive Director

Dr. Chris Moriates is the Executive Director for Costs of Care. He is also the Chief of Hospital Medicine for the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, and a Full Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCLA. He previously served as the Assistant Dean for Healthcare Value, Associate Chair for Quality, Safety, and Value, and an Associate Professor at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Moriates led the creation of the UCSF Cost Awareness Curriculum, the Dell Med Discovering Value-Based Health Care Interactive Learning Modules, and the U.S STARS Program. He co-authored the book Understanding Value-Based Healthcare (McGraw-Hill, 2015) and has published more than 75 peer-reviewed articles.

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September Wallingford RN, MSN

Deputy Director

Ms. Wallingford is the Deputy Director for Costs of Care. She leads and supports multiple grants and subcontracts from various organizations, as well as develops partnerships with leading healthcare organizations such as The Leapfrog Group, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Ms. Wallingford is a practicing medical/surgical oncology nurse at a large academic medical center in Boston, Massachusetts, and has brought significant interprofessional insights to the Costs of Care team.

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Arjun Gupta MD

Director

Arjun Gupta, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation at the University of Minnesota. He served as the inaugural Costs of Care Fellow in 2018. He is a gastrointestinal medical oncologist, a symptom intervention trialist, and a health services researcher. His research specifically examines cancer care access and delivery, the costs of cancer care, and the hidden burdens imposed on and faced by people with cancer and their caregivers while receiving this care.

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Fumiko Chino MD

Director

Fumiko Chino, MD is a cancer researcher and Assistant Professor in Breast Radiation Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and was a founding lead of the Affordability Working Group at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Her research is focused on patient-centered care including the financial toxicity of cancer care and survivorship, healthcare disparities, equity, and access. She is the recipient of the inaugural 2022 ASCO Excellence in Equity Award and the Chair of the 2025 ASCO Quality Care Symposium. Her work has been published in Lancet Oncology, JAMA Internal Medicine, and JAMA Oncology, and her commentary on healthcare reform and cancer care has been featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Oncology, and The Los Angeles Times. In July 2024, she testified for the Congress HELP Committee  (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) on the harms of medical debt. Her work has been covered by national news media outlets including the New York Times, Forbes, NPR, and NBC News. She has received research support from the NIH, the Radiation Oncology Institute, and the Chanel Foundation and has spoken across the US and internationally on equity and the costs of care. She serves as an Associate Editor for JAMA Network Open and a Special Editor for JCO Oncology Practice.

Hannah Bassett, MD

Director

Dr. Hannah Bassett is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and a pediatric hospitalist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH). She is the co-director of the Packard Clinical Pathway Program and the Physician Lead for Acute Care in the Clinical Effectiveness Program at LPCH. Her institutional work focuses on decreasing unnecessary variation in clinical care, promoting high value care at the bedside, and making it easier for clinical teams to “do the right thing, for the right patient, at the right time.” Her research focuses on patient- and family-centered healthcare cost transparency and better understanding the financial impact of acute care.

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Chris Petrilli, MD

Director

Christopher Petrilli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine. He serves as Senior Director of Revenue Cycle Operations Management for NYU Langone Health.  He has published over 30-peer reviewed papers, including one of the first and largest studies identifying COVID-19 risk factors in BMJ.

Prior to moving to NYU in 2018, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. He was the Value Innovator for the Michigan Program for Value Enhancement and the Co-Chair of Michigan Medicine’s Laboratory Stewardship Committee. Dr. Petrilli is a Certified Healthcare Financial Professional by the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Dr. Petrilli received his Medical Degree from Georgetown University, and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at University of Michigan where he also served as Chief Medical Resident.

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Meera Ragavan, MD, MPH

Director

Meera is a cancer care delivery research scientist and thoracic medical oncologist at Kaiser Permanente Northern California. She was the 2022-2023 Costs of Care fellow during which she conducted a study evaluating access to pharmacy assistance programs for oral anti-cancer medications. She is passionate about promoting equity and affordability in cancer care delivery. She specifically studies structural and financial barriers to clinical trial enrollment, optimal ways to screen for social and financial needs, and the impact of financial resources on clinical outcomes for patients with cancer. She plans to dedicate her career to developing and improving patient-centered models of high-value care within oncology. Meera received her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania and completed her M.D and training in Internal Medicine at Stanford University. She then completed her medical oncology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco in 2023. She additionally holds a Masters in Public Health with a focus in health policy from the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health.

Fellows

Team Members

Our Team Neel Shah

Neel Shah MD, MPP

Founder

Dr. Shah is the Founder of Costs of Care. He is an expert in designing, testing, and spreading solutions that improve health care. He practices as an OB-GYN at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is also on faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has written more than 50 peer-reviewed academic papers and contributed to four books, including as an author of Understanding Value-Based Healthcare (McGraw-Hill). Dr. Shah is listed among the ’40 smartest people in health care’ by the Becker’s Hospital Review.

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Reshma Gupta MD, MSHPM

Senior Advisor

Dr. Reshma Gupta, MD, MSHPM, Senior Advisor for Costs of Care and a practicing internist who serves as the Medical Director of Value and Population Care at University of California health system, and Expert Advisor for the Center of Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Dr. Gupta’s work focuses in health system innovation, policy, implementation design, and education to better define and improve the culture of delivering high quality care at lower cost for health systems and patients. She works as an expert adviser with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test new models of value promoting payment reform.

Our Team Jordan Harmon

Jordan Harmon MHA

Senior Advisor

Mr. Harmon is a Senior Advisor to Costs of Care and has spent his career in a variety of roles spanning consulting, operations, process improvement, population health, value, strategy and innovation. He is currently Chief Innovation and Commercialization Officer & Vice President at HSS. He is also an advisor to The Lanby, a membership based primary care group integrating hospitality into healthcare. He was a former mentor for Digital Health CT, an accelerator focused on the convergence of digital technologies within the healthcare sector to improve efficiency and make healthcare delivery more precise.

Ben Dralle

MD, Resident Physician Advisor

Benjamin Dralle, MD is a first-year psychiatry resident in the general psychiatry residency program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He participated in the Choosing Wisely STARS program in 2020 and later joined the Costs of Care team as both a Social Media Manager and Student Advisor. As a medical student, he led a high-value care Twitter chat and developed a peer mentorship program that has been disseminated to medical schools across the country. Dr. Dralle’s current teaching and research efforts are focused on high-value care in psychiatry, the mental health impacts of health care affordability, and the utilization of social media platforms for promoting high-value care and affordability initiatives.

Board of Directors

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Vineet Arora MD, MAPP

Chairperson of the Board

Dr. Vineet Arora is a Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine and Dean for Medical Education at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and Vice Dean of Education for the Biological Sciences Division at The University of Chicago. She oversees undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, masters education, continuing medical education and provides key leadership for the simulation-based training programs at University of Chicago.  Dr. Arora is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine whose work improving care and learning in teaching hospitals, often in the area of improving quality, safety, and value, has been funded by NIH, AHRQ, FDA, and the Macy Foundation, has cited roughly 10,000 times. Her work on improving sleep, fatigue, and handoffs was influential in improving working conditions for residents.  As an advocate for improving equity and opportunity in academic medicine, she has been an influential voice for women in medicine and leads NIH-funded programs to improve mentoring for diverse physician scientists. She completed a term as Board member for the American Board of Internal Medicine and currently serves as a Board member of the Joint Commission.

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Michele Rhee MBA, MPH

Michele joined Enzyvant as the Head of Patient Affairs, following patient advocacy leadership roles at the National Brain Tumor Society, bluebird bio, and Takeda Oncology. As a member of the rare disease and cancer patient communities for over a decade, Michele has dedicated her career to getting treatments to the patients who need them. She received her MBA from the Yale School of Management and her MPH from the Yale School of Public Health.

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Jonathan Gordon MBA

Jon Gordon is an entrepreneur, investor and executive with 20 years of experience in healthcare at the intersection of strategy, innovation and policy. He is currently Founder, President and Chief Evangelist of F|42, a nonprofit designed to rethink and remake healthcare at scale. Prior to launching F|42, Jon was Managing General Partner at HC9 Ventures, an early-stage venture fund that he co-founded to provide deep healthcare expertise to emerging healthcare companies through an engaged LP network of leading healthcare executives and entrepreneurs. Prior to HC9, Jon served as Senior Vice President for Innovation at Commonwealth Care Alliance, a non-profit health plan focused on caring for vulnerable populations, and Managing Director of Winter Street Ventures, their corporate venture arm.

Previously, Jon founded NYP Ventures, the strategic venture capital arm of New York-Presbyterian. Jon co-founded the Strategic Venture Group, a collaborative network of more than twenty health system-based venture funds. Jon was also a Director in NYP’s Office of Strategy, where he worked on projects ranging from launching the hospital’s Medicare accountable care organization to building the system’s telehealth program. Jon was also co-founder and Director of the New York-Presbyterian Health Policy Center, which advocated for the role of Academic Medical Centers in addressing the challenges facing the US healthcare system.

Jon is an adjunct faculty member at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, was previously faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine, and serves as a board member of Costs of Care (Treasurer) and Woodstock Day School (President). He holds a BA cum laude from Princeton University and an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School.

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Daniel Wolfson

Board Of Directors

Daniel B. Wolfson, MHSA, was the Executive Vice President and COO of the ABIM Foundation, a nonprofit focused on advancing medical professionalism and physician leadership to improve the health care system, from 2001-2023. Daniel was instrumental in leading the Choosing Wisely® campaign, a multi-year effort engaging more than 80 specialty societies to promote conversations between clinicians and patients about utilizing the most appropriate tests and treatments and avoiding care that may be unnecessary and could cause harm, and more recently the Building Trust initiative. Since 2018, he also led the Building Trust initiative that focused on relational trust, health equity and trust in science.

As President and CEO at the Alliance of Community Health Plans, he spearheaded the creation of HEDIS. Prior to that, he was the Director of Planning and Research at the Fallon Community Health Plan. During that time, he led the product development team that launched the first Medicare risk contract.

Daniel received his master’s degree in health services administration from the University of Michigan, School of Public Health, where he serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board.

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Anita Samarth

Anita Samarth is CEO and Co-Founder of Clinovations Government + Health with 30 years of experience in the healthcare and technology industries and is a national leader in digital health strategy, implementation, and policy. She has authored books on EHRs and interoperability from Wiley Publishing, has served on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, and is a Johns Hopkins University Leadership Fellow. She is currently an Expert + Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at DigitalDx Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in AI and data enabled companies focused on diagnosing patient illnesses. She holds degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.