CHI Team
James R. Marzolf, Senior Advisor Health Finance & Policy
Dr. Marzolf, MD MSc MPH: Previously served as the Senior Director for Health Sector Finance & Policy for Whole Health Institute, where he was responsible for strategic development of economic and policy aspects of national healthcare reform platform as well as development of multi-payer alignment value based payment collaboratives. Prior to that role, he served as the Chief Health Analyst for the National Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation in the Veterans Health Administration. The office is responsible for radically redesigning healthcare delivery, and Dr. Marzolf led the foundational transformation in financial modeling, management information tracking systems, analytics development, and financial sustainability issues to align with the delivery of Whole Health.
His background includes both domestic and international experience in the health finance field including service with Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, USAID, Pan American Health Organization, and others. In addition, he has served as a principal in both Ramsey Health Care and Hospital Developments International involved in the development of hospitals and clinic chains in Asia.
Clinically, Dr. Marzolf has worked in private, government and military hospitals as well as community health centers and clinics. His background and training includes: psychology, genetics, nutrition, and medicine. He is board certified in Occupational & Environmental Health and board eligible in Preventive Medicine.
His interests encompass data driven large systems change, the role of capital markets in scaling reforms, comparative policy analysis, and development of payment systems that incentivize use of integrated whole person health therapies tailored to cultural, social, environmental, and economic determinants of health status.
Margaret Chesney, Ph.D., Advisor, CHI Health Care; Professor of Medicine at UCSF
Dr. Chesney is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and Former Director of the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. She was the first Deputy Director and served as the Acting Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She serves as a Volunteer Advisor to CHI Health Care. Margaret’s interest in policy began when health promotion programs she developed with funding from the NIH, which showed major reductions in risk and improved health status, were not implemented. To learn how to translate research into practice, she went to Washington, DC and served as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advancing Health, supported by the MacArthur and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations. She then worked two years as a Senior Advisor focusing on policy at the NIH Office for Research on Women’s Health. While at NCCIH, she also served as a Senior Advisor to the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research. Since returning to UCSF, she has since continued her health promotion and disease prevention research, focusing on health and well-being across the lifespan, particularly in women, seniors, Veterans, and the underserved. Dr. Chesney is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has served as President of the Society for Health Psychology, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and American Psychosomatic Society. She recently served as Chair of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health, and currently serves as an Advisor on policy and health systems change to the Integrative Health Policy Consortium.
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