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Founder
Throughout career, Gary "Chris"
Christopherson, Founder, has focused on strategic systems,
management and performance and on national policy issues and health
and human service systems, models and reform.
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Founder of "Thrive!®", "viaFuture",
"Vulnerable", "HealthePeople®"
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Acting Assistant Secretary, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary, and Senior Advisor for Health
Affairs, DoD
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Senior Advisor to Chief Operating
Officer, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Senior Advisor to Under Secretary for
Health, Veterans Health Administration
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Senior Fellow / Scholar-in-Residence,
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
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Fellow, National Academy of Public
Administration
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Deputy Director, Quality Improvement
Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Chief Information Officer, Veterans
Health Administration
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Senior Advisor for Force Health
Protection, Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs, DoD
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Associate Director, Office of
Presidential Personnel, White House
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Director of Health Legislation, U.S.
House Select Committee on Aging
Bachelor’s in Political Science and Master’s in
Urban and Regional Planning from University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Doctoral work at John Hopkins University School
of Public Health.
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Accomplishments
During his career, he has
had a wide range of accomplishments, including:
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Founded "Thrive!®",
"viaFuture",
"Vulnerable",
"HealthePeople®"
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Developed national model for “reducing vulnerability and
maximizing thriving”
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Led Strategic/Operational Plan for Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services, especially for vulnerable
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Developed “person-centered health” model
used by VHA, CMS and IOM to better improve health
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Developed national “virtual health system”
model for using info systems to support people’s health
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Led, with the Surgeons General, the
re-design and re-engineering of the Military Health System
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Obtained Presidential approval for “force
health protection” for vulnerable military service members
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Designed, developed and managed inner city
health system in Milwaukee, WI
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Wrote legislation introduced to protect the
un- and under insured and reform Medicare and Medicaid
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Developed and was lead staff for
Congressional hearings on un-/underinsured, Alzheimer’s research
and care, long term care, and health costs
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Helped lead effort to increase Alzheimer’s
research funding many fold
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Developed “behavioral effectiveness model”
for improving health for the most vulnerable
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Developed “care in the community” model
for extending care beyond health facilities’ into the community
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