Anne Gauthier (MITRE) Anne K. Gauthier, MS, joined MITRE in May 2015 to serve as Project Leader for the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network under MITRE’s CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare Project Leadership support. Ms. Gauthier brings 34 years of wide-ranging experience in health policy, payment, and delivery reform; quality measurement; and complex project management, research, and technical assistance. Prior to MITRE, Ms. Gauthier managed a portfolio of health reform and health system performance projects as a senior program director at the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) since 2009. She directed the Collaborative Learning System project to operate the State Innovation Models Learning System. This six-state learning project encompassed payment and delivery transformation, quality improvement, and population health activities to achieve the Triple Aim. As Project Director, Ms. Gauthier led NASHP’s support for multi-payer payment reform to improve quality and integration of care across eight states in partnership with Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Policy. Ms. Gauthier also led the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT Trailblazer States project, which supported the alignment of state health IT, health care transformation, and design of state-level quality measurement infrastructure. Before joining NASHP, Ms. Gauthier was Assistant Vice President of The Commonwealth Fund and Deputy Director of the Commission on High Performance Health System, which sought to identify policy changes to facilitate movement toward a high-performance system in the United States. She also directed the Fund’s State Innovations Program. In her work as Vice President at AcademyHealth (formerly Alpha Center), Ms. Gauthier provided program direction for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization initiative, a $67.5 million grant program to provide public and private decision-makers with usable and timely information on health care policy, financing, and market developments. Her earlier work for the U.S. Congress included program director and analyst responsibilities in the Office of Technology Assistance involving the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, analysis of Medicare costs, geographic variations in medical practice, and evaluation of Medicare’s DRG Payment. Ms. Gauthier holds an AB in molecular biology from Princeton University and an MS in health administration from the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health at Amherst.