Cynthia Boddie-Willis Joins The Hilltop Institute

The Hilltop Institute is pleased to announce the addition of Cynthia Boddie-Willis, MD, MPH, as director of the newly reorganized Acute Care Policy and Research Unit. In this position, she will manage Hilltop’s initiatives in acute care policy, clinical and quality management, and research. Under her direction, Hilltop will continue to provide assistance to MCOs, state health agencies, local health departments, and other health care organizations in implementing Medicaid managed care programs; monitoring MCO performance; analyzing service utilization; identifying access barriers; evaluating the quality, affordability, and sustainability of publicly funded healthcare services; analyzing the administrative efficiency for health programs and systems; and informing health policy development. Her main research interest is in health disparities, a prominent theme of Hilltop’s work. Dr. Boddie-Willis was formerly Director of the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, where she had oversight of the program development, implementation, and evaluation of health communications, health and the built environment, nutrition, physical activity, chronic disease prevention and management, healthy aging, health and disability, women’s health, and men’s health. In addition, she was a practicing physician at a federally qualified community health center, and hopes to continue to practice in Maryland. She comes to Hilltop with over 30 years of experience addressing the health care needs of vulnerable populations.

April 1, 2009