Team

Dr. Moriates is the Executive Director for Costs of Care. He is also Assistant Dean for Healthcare Value in the Department of Medical Education; Associate Chair for Quality, Safety, and Value, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Moriates led the creation of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Cost Awareness curriculum and the UCSF Caring Wisely program, as well as created and directed the U.S. Choosing Wisely STARS program. He has co-authored the book Understanding Value-Based Healthcare (McGraw-Hill, 2015) and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles.

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.

Arjun Gupta, MD attended medical school at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, and completed residency and Chief residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) in Dallas, Texas. In 2017-2018, he served as the inaugural Teaching Value in Healthcare Learning Network Fellow for Costs of Care. He is currently a Medical Oncology fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. His clinical and research interest include gastrointestinal oncology, supportive and palliative care, and cancer care delivery improvement. 

Fumiko Chino, MD is a cancer researcher and Assistant Attending in Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her research is focused on health care disparities and patient reported outcomes including financial toxicity, insurance disparities and utilization of radiation resources as well as end-of-life care. She is passionate about optimizing cancer treatment processes and costs to improve the overall patient experience and decrease disparities in high quality, high value care.

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.

Christopher Petrilli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine. He serves as Clinical Lead of the Manhattan Campus for Value Based Management and Medical Director for Clinical Documentation Improvement for NYU Langone Health. He also serves as a national director for the High Value Practice Academic Alliance. 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.