Joe Albanese is a Senior Policy Analyst with Paragon Health Institute. He comes to Paragon with several years of federal and nonprofit public policy experience. Prior to coming to Paragon,…
Brian Blase, Ph.D., is the President of Paragon Health Institute. Brian was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House’s National Economic Council (NEC) from 2017-2019, where…
Kev Coleman oversees the Health Care AI Initiative at Paragon Health Institute. He is recognized as one of the leading experts in healthcare AI policy. His work has been featured by Politico and Fierce Healthcare…
A nationally recognized health services expert and government reformer, Gary D. Alexander was head of the Medicaid and Health Safety Net Initiative at the Paragon Health Institute from October 2021…
Dean F. Clancy is a senior health policy fellow at Americans for Prosperity and a nationally-known health care freedom advocate with more than 20 years’ high-level policy experience in Congress,…
Emma Gallutia is a former research assistant for Paragon Health Institute. Her prior experience as a policy staffer in the U.S. House of Representatives for the First Congressional District of Texas,…
Drew Gonshorowski is a Senior Research Fellow at Paragon Health Institute. He brings a decade of experience conducting quantitative research and building models examining health policy and entitlement programs. Prior…
Rachel Greszler is a Visiting Fellow in Workforce at the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC). Greszler is recognized as an economic expert in workforce, retirement, and fiscal issues. Her articles…
Jackson Hammond is a Senior Policy Analyst at Paragon Health Institute. He has been active in the federal and state health policy space since 2017. Prior to joining Paragon, Jackson…
A lifelong Arkansan, Nic has done political and policy work in roughly half the country, ranging from Maine to Montana. His original research and analysis has been highlighted in The…
In 1977, Allan Hubbard co-founded E&A Companies. In addition to searching for new acquisition opportunities, Hubbard’s oversees E&A’s current portfolio. E&A has successfully grown companies in numerous industries including specialty…
Gabrielle “Elle” Kalisz is the Program Manager at Paragon Health Institute. Gabrielle has worked in federal health policy for over five years, advancing free-market principles and partnerships. Before Paragon, Gabrielle…
Niklas Kleinworth is the Director of the State Health Reform Initiative and a Policy Analyst at the Paragon Health Institute, focusing on Medicaid and state policy initiatives. He has served…
Demetrios L. Kouzoukas is the Director of Paragon Health Institute’s Medicare Initiative. From 2017 to 2021, Kouzoukas served as the Chief Executive of the Medicare program at the Centers for Medicare and…
Ryan Long is the Director of Congressional Relations and a Senior Research Fellow at Paragon Health Institute. In this role he is the leading voice communicating Paragon’s research and proposals to…
Chris Medrano is the Legal Research Analyst at the Paragon Health Institute. His work focuses on administrative rule making and policy analysis. Previously, he served as a Legislative Assistant to Senator Mike…
Theo Merkel formerly served as the Director of the Private Health Reform Initiative and a Senior Research Fellow for the Paragon Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.…
Stephen T. Parente, PhD, MPH, MS is the Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair of Health Finance in Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and Associate Dean of the…
Roy Ramthun is a nationally recognized expert on Health Savings Accounts and consumer-directed health care issues. He has over 30 years of health care and public policy experience, both in…
Liam Sigaud is an Adjunct Scholar at the Paragon Health Institute and a Research Analyst at the Knee Regulatory Research Center at West Virginia University. His work focuses on state…
Eric Sun is a visiting fellow at Paragon Health Institute and an assistant professor and Associate Division Chief in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University.…
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform. She has…
Paul Winfree, Ph.D., is the President and CEO of the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC). He has served in top management and policy roles in the White House, the U.S. Senate,…
