Leadership Team

IPRO’s staff of more than 350 professionals includes physicians, registered nurses, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, data analysts, medical record reviewers, health policy experts, programmers, systems analysts, Web technology experts and marketing/communications specialists. IPRO also retains a network of more than 300 board-certified physician consultants.

Theodore O. Will, MPA, FACHE

Chief Executive Officer

Theodore O. Will serves as the Chief Executive Officer of IPRO, one of the largest healthcare evaluation organizations in the country. Mr. Will has been involved in the management of healthcare evaluation operations and establishing quality improvement initiatives for more than 30 years.

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Clare B. Bradley, MD, MPH

Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer

As Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of IPRO, Clare Bradley, MD, MPH, supervises the organization’s quality improvement, managed care and end-stage renal disease departments. She is also responsible for managing and coordinating the medical operations and policies of the organization.

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Edison A. Machado, Jr., MD, MBA

Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer

Dr. Edison Machado is a doctor of internal medicine with more than a decade of experience as a healthcare performance measurement and improvement executive. He serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer for IPRO. In this capacity Dr. Machado leads IPRO’s Solutions Group which includes corporate strategy, business development, proposal solutions, corporate quality management, and communications solutions.

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Herman Jenich, MPPP, CPHQ

Senior Vice President, Chief Data & Analytics Officer

An accomplished professional with a track record of enabling data-driven decision making, Mr. Jenich is focused on increasing the sophistication and efficiency of the analytic services that IPRO provides to its customers, and with turning analytic insights into sound advice.

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Alan Woghin, MS, CPA

Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Alan Woghin, IPRO’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has dedicated the last 25 years serving the healthcare / not-for-profit community. For the eight years prior to joining IPRO, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of The Institute for Family Health, a Federal Qualified Health Center with an operating budget of approximately $130 million.

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Richard A. Alfieri, MS

Vice President, Chief Information Officer / Security Officer

As IPRO’s Chief Information Officer/Security Officer, Mr. Alfieri is responsible for the overall management, operation and enhancement of IPRO’s technology infrastructure required to meet Federal, State and corporate contractual obligations.

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Susan Caponi, BSN, RN, MBA, CPHQ

Vice President; Chief Executive Officer, ESRD Program

Susan Caponi, CEO of IPRO’s End-Stage Renal Disease Network Program, is a registered nurse and healthcare program executive with more than 35 years’ experience. She has dedicated the last fourteen years of her career to ensuring that people with end stage renal disease receive appropriate, timely and equitable care.

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Patricia Gagliano, MD

Vice President, Health Care Quality Improvement

Dr. Patricia Gagliano is an Internal Medicine physician and a member of IPRO’s leadership team. In her role as Vice President of IPRO’s Healthcare Quality Improvement Department, she is responsible for leading efforts to drive greater connectivity and coordination across all settings to transform healthcare delivery for healthcare consumers.

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Virginia Hill, RN, MPA

Vice President, Managed Care

Ms. Hill oversees all managed care measurement and performance improvement activities at IPRO, including clinical studies, case review, audit and validation services and satisfaction surveys. As Vice President, Managed Care, she currently manages IPRO’s external quality review contracts in Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, Rhode Island, and Nebraska, and Medicare managed care projects.

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Matthew W. Roberts, MPH, DrPH

Vice President, State Healthcare Assessment

Dr. Matthew Roberts is the Vice President of State Healthcare Assessment at IPRO, where he provides oversight for New York State Medicaid healthcare provider compliance monitoring and quality improvement activities. These initiatives include provider utilization review, inspections, tracking case reporting, medical record data validation and auditing, and guidance development.

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Jennifer Edwards, MHS, DrPH

Associate Vice President, Managed Care Department | Director, Center for Program Evaluation

Dr. Jennifer Edwards is Associate Vice President of IPRO’s Managed Care Department where she leads a multidisciplinary team in support of state health care quality measurement, improvement, and reporting. She is also Director of the Center for Program Evaluation.

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Tierre Jeanné-Porter

Associate Vice President, Compliance & Contracting

Tierre Jeanné-Porter, a seasoned administrator with more than 30 years of operational experience in both the government and non-profit sectors, began working with IPRO in 2000. Prior to that she worked for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as the Region 2 Deputy Regional Administrator and for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in various managerial roles.

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Sara Butterfield, RN, BSN, CPHQ, CCM

Assistant Vice President, Health Care Quality Improvement

Sara Butterfield serves as the Assistant Vice President of the Health Care Quality Improvement Program. Under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) contract she serves as the Program Director for New York and New Jersey.

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Wendy P. Ferguson, RN, BA, DipEd

Assistant Vice President, State Healthcare Assessment & AIMS Programs

Wendy Ferguson, Assistant Vice President, State Healthcare Assessment & AIDS Intervention Management System (AIMS) programs, has been with IPRO since 1999. She is a health care professional with clinical and oversight experience in acute, community and home health settings, as well as clinical management and health sciences education.

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Nikolas Matthes, MD, PhD, MPH, MSc

Assistant Vice President, State Healthcare Assessment

Nikolas Matthes, Assistant Vice President, State Healthcare Assessment, has more than 20 years of experience in health care performance measurement. He led multi-disciplinary teams to develop clinical measurement, benchmarking, and analytics solutions and clinical quality measures across a multitude of care settings in state, federal, and private sectors, both in the United States and internationally.

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