Providence, RI - Anya Rader Wallack has joined Advance Rhode Island-Clinical & Translational Research (Advance RI-CTR) as Administrative Director. Anya will be working with Drs. Sharon Rounds and Edward Hawrot to manage the Advance RI-CTR, which aims to develop infrastructure for clinical and translational research in the state of Rhode Island. Based at Brown University, Advance RI-CTR is a state-wide consortium consisting of Brown University, the University of Rhode Island, Lifespan, Care New England, the VA Providence Health Care System and the Rhode Island Quality Institute. It is funded by the National Institutes for General Medical Science (U54GM115677) and by institutional support from consortium partners. Anya joins Brown after serving as Senior Vice President for Strategic Communications for the University of Vermont Health Network (UVMHN).

Prior to joining UVMHN, Anya was Associate Director of the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health (CESH) and a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice within Brown University’s School of Public Health. She served as Academic Director for the Master’s in Health Care Leadership Program and Associate Director of the Master’s in Public Health Program. She also taught health policy to master’s students. 

Anya served previously in Rhode Island state government as Director of HealthSource RI, Rhode Island’s health insurance exchange, then Medicaid Director, and then Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services.  She also served in Vermont state government under two governors. She was Special Assistant for Health Reform for Governors Howard Dean and Peter Shumlin, and Deputy Chief of Staff for Governor Dean. She was the inaugural Chair of Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board, a regulatory board with broad responsibilities for cost containment and payment reform policy.

Outside state government, Anya has been interim President of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute and Executive Director of the Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care, a quasi-governmental organization doing health care quality measurement and improvement.    

Currently Anya is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness Review (ICER) and the Board of Directors of the Milbank Memorial Fund.  She also is Chair of the Board of OneCare Vermont, a statewide Accountable Care Organization that has more than 5,000 provider members and serves more than half of Vermont’s population in multi-payer value-based payment models.

Please join us in welcoming Anya Rader Wallack back to Brown in her new role as Administrative Director of Advance RI-CTR!