As Chief of Staff and Vice President of Strategy, Michelle serves as a strategic partner to IHA’s President and CEO, helping to drive organizational alignment and accelerate IHA’s mission to improve healthcare quality, affordability, and accountability in California. In this role, she leads long-range planning and Board engagement, shapes IHA’s analytics capabilities, and works across health plans, provider organizations, and other industry stakeholders to ensure IHA’s priorities remain relevant and responsive as the healthcare environment evolves.
Previously, Michelle served as IHA’s VP of Business Development, leading business development efforts for all of IHA’s programs and initiatives, including the Symphony Provider Directory, Align. Measure. Perform. (AMP) programs, and the California Healthcare Cost & Quality Atlas. Before that, she held marketing leadership roles at IHA and served as Senior Marketing Director for the Symphony Provider Directory.
Michelle brings more than 25 years of healthcare industry experience to her role. She has held chief of staff, marketing, product management, and research roles at life sciences, medical device, diagnostics, durable medical equipment, and genetic testing companies, including Boston Scientific, Guidant, and Quest Diagnostics.
Michelle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of California, San Diego, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.