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A world-class team passionate about transforming the health system

As one of the fastest-growing health system technology, consulting, and services companies, OptumInsight is known as an innovative leader with valuable ideas for improving performance. It's where leading experts choose to work, because it's where they can make the biggest difference.

OptumInsight Consultants

Our consultants share a vision for improving the quality and efficiency of all aspects of the health system. They have earned strong reputations in the industry as renowned experts and thought leaders. Along the way they have attained the experience and expertise necessary to successfully lead teams to drive lasting industry change.

OptumInsight Fellows

The OptumInsight Fellows program is designed to honor and highlight some of the most accomplished scientific, clinical, and technical professionals in our organization. The program mission is to:

  • Innovate around the greatest challenges facing the health system today
  • Collaborate across the company and the industry in order to see possibilities and solutions others may not and achieve what may seem otherwise inconceivable
  • Educate, share what we've learned and help others advance the full potential of their ideas

David Anderson

Senior Director, Innovation Lab

David Anderson developed the analytical models that predict and model the spread of diseases. He is currently working with longitudinal data sets, investigating the clinical and financial aspects of the Natural History of Disease and its application to the challenges of today.

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Dogu Celebi, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer, Payer & Government Solutions

Dogu Celebi, Chief Medical Officer for the OptumInsight Health Plans and Government Health Solutions business, is a physician and clinical epidemiologist with more than 17 years of experience in managed care, health services research, and medical informatics. He has been responsible for developing some of the most recognized analytical and reporting tools in the health care industry.

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Arnold Chan, Sc.D., M.D.

Chief Scientist LifeSciences, Senior Fellow

Dr. Chan is a pharmacoepidemiologist. He researches medical product use and safety, in particular studying large, linked and automated health care databases.

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Lisa Chimento

Lisa Chimento is the Senior Vice President and Executive Leader of The Lewin Group, an OptumInsight company. Since joining the firm in 1994, she has assisted state agencies, foundations, health plans, and hospitals and health systems improve performance and navigate government policy.

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William Crown, Ph.D.

President Life Sciences, Distinguished Fellow

Dr. William Crown is President of Life Sciences Innovus and widely known for introducing sample selection bias models into the pharmaceutical outcomes research literature.

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Cheryl D'Amato, RHIT, CCS

Director, Health Information Management, OptumInsight

As Director, Health Information Management, Cheryl D'Amato is responsible for the development, enhancement, and maintenance of OptumInsight data files with a facility coding focus. She brings to OptumInsight more than two decades of experience in implementing and managing utilization, quality assurance, and health information coding systems.

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Tom Darr, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer, Coding, Reimbursement and Payment Integrity, OptumInsight

Tom Darr serves as Chief Medical Officer of the OptumInsight Business Solutions segment. His work helps strengthen the accuracy and validity of the clinical content of OptumInsight’s claims editing, reimbursement policy, and pricing solutions for providers, group health, property and casualty and workers’ compensation marketplaces.

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Dan Dunn, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President, Business Solutions, Distinguished Fellow

Dr. Dan Dunn is responsible for the design and development of our company’s breakthrough predictive modeling and information tools, including Impact and Symmetry suite of products.

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Dean Farley, Ph.D.

Vice President, PPS and Payment Accuracy Solutions, OptumInsight

Dr. Dean Farley is a Senior Vice President with OptumInsight and a nationally recognized health economist specializing in hospital finance, case-mix measurement, and severity adjustment. He has served on several health care policy committees and boards, including the Quantitative Analysis Working Group on the President’s Task Force on Health Care Reform.

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Henry (Joe) Henk Ph.D.

Director of Oncology LifeSciences, Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Senior Fellow

Dr. Joe Henk has more than 15 years of econometric experience applied to health economics and outcomes research — specifically research based on observational, real-world data. His focus is on improving data assets and employing advanced econometric methods to answer relevant health care questions.

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Joel Hoffman

Senior Vice President, OptumInsight

Joel Hoffman is a Senior Vice President with OptumInsight and is responsible for the firm’s Business Advisory and Actuarial Services practice. This practice is comprised of more than 200 analytical professionals that have direct experience in all financial analytical aspects of health care.

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Larry Howe

Managing Director of OptumInsight

Larry Howe is the Managing Director of OptumInsight and an OptumInsight ICD-10 National Practice Lead providing ICD-10 strategy, implementation, and leadership expertise to health plans, hospitals, and physicians. He helps in the assessment, analysis, and deployment of processes and tools to effectively enable regulatory compliance and business optimization.

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Mike Jacobs

Technology Architect, Fellow

Mike Jacobs is the architect and principal developer of the Parallel Analytics Framework, breakthrough technology that enables reuse and massive scalability of OptumInsight application components.

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Laurine Johnson, MS, RHIA, CPC-H

Laurine Johnson brings over twenty years of experience in health information management, quality assessment, risk management, utilization management, and coding and reimbursement. Her current specialization is APC/DRG review, RAC education/services, ICD-9-CM/CPT®/HCPCS coding and education, and transitioning to ICD-10-CM/PCS.

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Michele Kohli, Ph.D.

Director LifeSciences, Health Economics, Fellow

Dr. Michele Kohli has more than 10 years’ experience conducting economic evaluations for new pharmaceutical products. Her expertise spans a variety of methodological areas related to health economics and health outcomes.

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Peter Lindgren, Ph.D.

Director of Health Economics & Outcomes Research LifeSciences, Senior Fellow

Dr. Peter Lindgren was instrumental in establishing Stockholm Health Economics as a leading consulting group in health economics, and acted as the CEO for the company upon acquisition by OptumInsight in 2007 Dr. Lindgren became head of the cardiovascular and metabolic research group in Stockholm.

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Lorri Luciano, RHIA

Senior Product Hospital Specialist, OptumInsight

Lorri Luciano is the senior product hospital specialist at OptumInsight. She assists sales, implementation, and customer support teams to make sure that health information management (HIM) professionals are educated and understand their CAC solution.

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Mark Morsch

Vice President of Technology

Mark is the co-inventor of the LifeCode Natural Language Processing (NLP) Engine with two patents on NLP technology for computer-assisted coding (CAC). The LifeCode NLP Engine powers the Optum CAC solution, automating the assignment of ICD-9, ICD-10, current procedural terminology (CPT) and health care common procedure coding system (HCPCS) codes for hospitals and physicians.

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Melissa Rubel, RHIA

Computer-assisted coding (CAC) product manager

Melissa Rubel is the computer-assisted coding (CAC) product manager at OptumInsight, responsible for the hospital CAC solutions. She has a deep background in HIM and Information Technology (IT).

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Michael Sauls

Director, Health Care Operations and Technology, OptumInsight

Michael Sauls is a Director in the Health Care Operations and Technology practice of OptumInsight leading the 5010/ICD-10 Payer practice. He is responsible for 5010 strategy, implementation, and leadership expertise, as well as assisting in the assessment, analysis and deployment of processes and tools to effectively enable regulatory compliance and business optimization.

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John Seeger, Pharm. D., Dr. P.H.

Chief Scientist LifeSciences, Senior Fellow

Dr. John Seeger is a leading expert in pharmacoepidemiology. Since joining OptumInsight eight years ago, the outflow from the studies he has conducted has made him a respected authority on the use and effect of drugs on large populations.

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John Sheils

Senior Vice President, The Lewin Group, Distinguished Fellow

John Sheils is a Vice President for The Lewin Group, an OptumInsight company. He is well known for his depth in understanding the complexities of the health care financing system.

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David Anderson
Dogu Celebi, M.D.
Arnold Chan, Sc.D., M.D.
Lisa Chimento
William Crown, Ph.D.
Cheryl D'Amato, RHIT, CCS
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Dan Dunn, Ph.D.
Dean Farley, Ph.D.
Henry (Joe) Henk Ph.D.
Joel Hoffman
Larry Howe
Mike Jacobs
Laurine Johnson, MS, RHIA, CPC-H
Michele Kohli, Ph.D.
Peter Lindgren, Ph.D.
Lorri Luciano
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John Seeger, Pharm. D., Dr. P.H.
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