David Gifford, MD, MPH, serves as the chief medical officer as well as the director of the Center for Health Policy Evaluation in Long Term Care at the American Health Care Association​. He established the Center and the Quality Department at AHCA. His interests are in improving and measuring quality in LTC as well as how regulatory and payment policies impact quality. He has developed 8 new quality measures for nursing homes that all received NQF e​ndorsement. He oversees a team of data analysis working with national MDS data, Medicare Claims, and Cost Reports to develop quality measures and conduct policy evaluations. Dr. Gifford also serves on the Board of the Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes campaign and the Baldrige Foundation Board and chairs the Department of Veterans Affairs Geriatric and Gerontology Advisory Committee. He serves on the NQF Measures Applications Partnership (MAP).

Stephanie Kissam, MPH, is the executive director of the Long-Term Care Data Cooperative, one component of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory and governed by the American Health Care Association (AHCA). In this role, she supports the core mission of using electronic health record data assembled in the LTC Data Cooperative for health care improvement, public health surveillance, and comparative effectiveness and clinical trials research. She has over 20 years of leadership in public health program development, research, and management, including as a program director at RTI International, where she led large national evaluation projects for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and the Administration for Community Living. Her areas of research include health IT implementation, nursing home quality measure development and maintenance, outcomes of value-based payment models, and state health policy. Earlier in her career, she contributed to the development of Rhode Island’s Health Information Exchange and patient-centered medical home initiatives while at the Department of Health. Additionally, at the Rhode Island Quality Improvement Organization, she developed resources to support nursing homes with CMS’s National Nursing Home Quality Initiative.

Kevin McConeghy, PharmD, PhD, has a background in clinical pharmacy and advanced training in quantitative analytical methods. His primary research focus is on the effectiveness and safety of medications in the older population, particularly vaccine effectiveness in the nursing home cohort.

Daniella Meeker, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Section of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science and the Chief Research Information Officer at Yale University School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health System.