I am thrilled to be joining the Michigan Value Collaborative (MVC) team as a Lead Analyst. I look forward to working alongside MVC's talented team of coordinators, administrators, and analysts to support the collaborative's mission of identifying high-impact quality improvement projects and assessing the value of the CQI mission.

My path to health economics and quality improvement began during my graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where I earned my PhD in economics. My dissertation research examined the incentives underlying national-level quality improvement initiatives — work that gave me a deep appreciation for the structural and methodological challenges of measuring and driving meaningful change in healthcare. Prior to that, I earned my Bachelor of Science in economics with a minor in mathematics from Loyola Marymount University, where my interest in applying rigorous quantitative methods to real-world problems first took shape.

After completing my doctoral training, I joined the Michigan Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium (HMS), where I worked as a statistician and analyst focused on process measure improvements for patients hospitalized with PICC lines, sepsis, and COVID-19. One of the highlights of my time at HMS was conducting a return on investment analysis for the HMS-PICC initiative — an opportunity to directly connect analytic work to the value and impact of quality improvement efforts.

I am excited to bring my methodological background and hands-on experience with the CQIs to MVC, and I look forward to getting to know the MVC membership and collaborating on projects that make a real difference for patients across Michigan. Please feel free to connect with me at meganom@med.umich.edu.