Distinguished Faculty

Charles Baker, President and CEO, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.
Charles Baker joined HPHC as CEO in mid-1999, and was brought in to turn around the organization’s financial performance. Harvard Pilgrim lost $227 million in 1999, but lost just $10 million in 2000. It posted net gains in excess of $40 million in 2001, 2002 and 2003, and has generated positive financial returns for seventeen quarters in a row.

Before becoming Harvard Pilgrim’s CEO in May 1999, Charles was President and CEO of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a non-profit, multi-specialty group practice.

Ellen Zane, President & CEO, Tufts-New England Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children
Ellen Zane is the first non-physician to run the hospital in its 207-year history. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Care Research at Tufts University School of Medicine.

From 1994 to 2004, Ellen held the position of Network President for Partners HealthCare System, Inc. In this capacity, she was responsible for the development of a provider network featuring the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital along with community-based physician groups and community hospitals within eastern Massachusetts.

John McDonough, Executive Director, Health Care for All, Massachusetts’ leading consumer health advocacy organization
From 1998 through 2003, John McDonough was an Associate Professor at the Heller School, Brandeis University, and a Senior Associate at its Schneider Institute for Health Policy. From 1985 to 1997, he served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives where he co-chaired the Joint Committee on Health Care. In 1996, he led the successful campaign for passage of health access legislation to cover uninsured children, funded by new tobacco taxes, legislation which served as a model for the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program. John teaches at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Boston University School of Public Health.

Senator Richard Moore, Chair of Health Care Financing Committee
Senator Moore is a member of the Committee on Bills in Third Reading, the Senate Post Audit and Legislative Oversight Committee, and the Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets. The senator has additionally been named to the new Joint Committee on Higher Education.

Senator Moore currently serves as a Trustee of Nichols College and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Government in the Graduate Program at Bridgewater State College.

Senator Moore’s principal legislative role is to chair the new Health Care Financing Committee. This new and powerful committee will complement the work of the budget-drafting Ways and Means Committee as far as matters related to health care are concerned. The committee will have initial responsibility for major budget items such as Medicaid and the Uncompensated Care Pool.

Kerry Healy
Lt. Governor of Massachusetts