Dr. Turenne joined Arbor Research in 2010 and has more than 15 years of research experience related to the cost and quality of health care and to health policy design, implementation, and evaluation. He has led several projects in the Health Policy and Practice Program area of Arbor Research. Currently, he directs a project funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide analytic and operations support for the implementation of the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Quality Incentive Program, and is the principal investigator for a health disparities study funded by the National Institutes of Health. He has also directed projects that provided support to CMS for the development of ESRD quality measures and a prospective payment system for Federally Qualified Health Centers. His research experience includes previous positions at the University of Michigan (UM) and the Urban Institute. He received his PhD in Health Services Organization and Policy, with a concentration in economics, from UM in 2003.

Dr. Pozniak is a health services researcher with over 16 years of research experience leading and supporting studies to inform Medicare policy, care delivery, quality, and patient outcomes. Her research interests include the care delivery and health economics of post-acute care settings, measure development, and Medicare payment policies. She has worked on numerous federally-funded projects to address a variety of health policy issues, including the effect of financial incentives on home health agency performance, identifying and defining vulnerabilities in CMS’ hospice program, and the effect of adding a case-mix adjustment to Medicare’s end-stage renal disease (ESRD) prospective payment system. Dr. Pozniak has also conducted qualitative research to support mixed methods studies, including case studies and interviews with key informants, patients, and medical providers. Dr. Pozniak is currently the Project Director for the CMS-funded project that evaluates the home health value-based purchasing (HHVBP) model on health care utilization, Medicare spending, quality of care, and patient experience of home health patients. Annual Reports that she led and other supporting materials for this evaluation can be found here: https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/home-health-value-based-purchasing-model. Prior to joining Arbor Research in 2015, Dr. Pozniak served as project director and analytic lead for a variety of funders, including CMS, the CDC, AHRQ, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Dr. Pozniak received her PhD from the University of Michigan, School of Public Health’s Health Management and Policy program in 2006.

Dr. Young graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1981. He went on to clinical training in Internal Medicine and Nephrology followed by masters-level training in research design and statistics from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in 1993. After serving on the faculty of Oregon Health Sciences University for four years, he joined the Division of Nephrology at the University of Michigan in 1990, rising to the rank of Professor of Internal Medicine. He served as Chief of Staff at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and Assistant Dean for Veterans Affairs from 2001 to 2018, when he joined Arbor Research. He has been involved with many studies in the areas of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease including the DOPPS (Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study). He has also been involved with multiple projects related to quality improvement, patient safety, clinical efficiency and clinical program evaluation in many areas, including home care, telehealth and medication management.

Mr. Pearson provides scientific and administrative leadership in the Health Policy and Practice Program of Arbor Research, leveraging over a decade of experience in federally funded health services research. Much of his work has focused on quality measurement and value-based purchasing for Medicare beneficiaries with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). He currently serves as the Arbor Research project director for the CMS ESRD Services Monitoring and Evaluation where he led the development of a comprehensive interactive dashboard combining various data sources to report timely data on over 60 quality indicators to CMS stakeholders on a monthly basis. He serves in a leadership role on Arbor Researcher’s CMS-sponsored work including across the Research, Measurement, Assessment, Design, and Analysis (RMADA) and the Measure and Instrument Development and Support (MIDS). Previously he served in leadership roles on task orders focused on quality measure development in ESRD, Population Health measure assessment and design, and alignment of quality reporting programs and websites. His areas of expertise include value-based purchasing, health care delivery and payment, program evaluation, quality measurement, public reporting, social determinants of health, and understanding health and health care disparities. He has experience in managing and leading projects and tasks of various sizes, conducting literature reviews, applying statistical and econometric methods, and mixed methods integrating qualitative and quantitative research approaches. He has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, reports for federal sponsors, and over 60 conference abstracts and presentations. In addition to his role at Arbor Research, Mr. Pearson is also currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan in Health Services Organization and Policy with a focus on health economics. He holds an MS in Survey Methodology from the University of Maryland and a BS in Statistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics Central Michigan University.