Thursday, Mar 19 2009

Women's History Month

Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Great Hall
Humphrey Building Washington, DC

Event's Theme: Women Taking the Lead in Saving the Planet

Speaker: Paige C. Kilian, M.D. - Medical Director

Dr. Kilian serves as Medical Director for MedAssurant. In this role, Dr. Kilian oversees the Quality Department and is responsible for provision and maintenance of best-practice and evidence-based standards across all clinical product lines. Furthermore, Dr. Kilian is directly involved in the clinical design of MedAssurant's medical informatics product lines, including MedAssurant's Medicare Risk Adjustment (CARA) solution and CCS Advantage solutions. Prior to joining MedAssurant, Dr. Kilian was in clinical practice with Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, where her responsibilities included patient care, clinical training of medical residents, and serving as Office Medical Director. Dr. Kilian graduated Summa cum laude from Washington and Lee University with a B.S. in Biology and received her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, where she was elected into the medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr. Kilian completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Biographical Sketch:

Maria Price Detherage is the Executive Office Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' newest Staff Division, the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA). This office nationally administers the third level of hearings and appeals for the Medicare program. Prior to August 2005, Maria was the Director of Labor and Employee Relations Programs for HHS. In that capacity, she provided corporate oversight for the labor relations (LR) and employee relations (ER) policies and programs at HHS and was intricately involved in the planning, strategy, and execution of most of the Department's major initiatives affecting numerous HHS Agencies - e.g., the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the National Institutes for Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), and Indian Health Service (IHS). Maria began her federal career in 1989 as a Graduate Fellow in HHS's Center for Management Excellence where she served as an internal consultant to the Department's policy arm on Equal Employment Opportunity and Labor Relations. She has served in numerous capacities since then.

Maria received a Collective Bargaining Official's Citation for serving as the Department's Office of General Counsel (OGC) and Office for Civil Rights (OCR) management representative on the federal government's first term contract negotiating teams using Interest Based Negotiations.

Maria Price Detherage has a Masters of Science in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and a Bachelors of Science in Psychology with a concentration in Group Dynamics. She also taught “Effective Management Tools and Techniques for the year 2000 and beyond” at the USDA Graduate School. She is a trained facilitator and an arbitrator with the Better Business Bureau. Ms. Detherage, a member of the American Association of Arbitrators and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, has been recognized in the 1999 Edition of “International Who's Who of Professionals.”

Music: Sarita Davis, Senior Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist Division of EEO Compliance OS/ASAM/Office of Diversity Management & EEO

Target Audience: All HHS Employees

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