Staff
Enrique Martinez-Vidal, Director
Enrique Martinez-Vidal is Vice President for State Policy and Technical Assistance at AcademyHealth. He is also the director of State Coverage Initiatives, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which provides timely, experience- and research-based information and technical assistance to state leaders in order to help them move health care reform forward at the state level. In May 2010, he was appointed by Governor Martin O’Malley to the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange Board.
He is also the Project Director for AHRQ's Knowledge Transfer and Implementation Contract overseeing AcademyHealth’s work with the Medicaid Medical Directors Learning Network and the Medicaid Network for Evidence-Based Treatment (MEDNET) project. From 2008 to 2010, he was the project director for the State Quality Improvement Institute, a Commonwealth Fund-sponsored learning collaborative and technical assistance project that assisted states with developing and implementing sustainable quality improvement strategies.
Previously Mr. Martinez-Vidal was the deputy director for performance and benefits at the Maryland Health Care Commission, an independent state agency. There he was responsible for the oversight of Maryland's small group insurance market reforms; the annual evaluation of Maryland's mandated health insurance benefits; the collection and public dissemination of quality and performance information for hospitals, nursing homes and health plans; providing primary assistance on all legislative issues; and working on numerous other projects related to the affordability of health care, quality improvement, and patient safety.
Mr. Martinez-Vidal was also formerly a policy analyst with the Maryland Department of Legislative Services staffing the House Economic Matters Committee for five years.
Isabel Friedenzohn, Deputy Director
Isabel Friedenzohn is the Deputy Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) program. During her tenure with SCI, she has been grant coordinator for the program and also the monitor for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) State Planning Grant contract at AcademyHealth, which ended in 2007. She has been intimately involved in writing five State of the States publications and was the managing editor for the 2006 and 2007 issues. Most recently, Ms. Friedenzohn implemented the Coverage Institute, SCI's new technical assistance offering, to provide support to 12 states that are considering substantial and comprehensive health reform and to help their state officials develop the capacity to understand the implications of different programmatic decisions and how those may impact the existing system.
Ms. Friedenzohn joined AcademyHealth in October 2001 after receiving a Master's of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Shelly Ten Napel, Senior Manager
Shelly Ten Napel is a Senior Manager at AcademyHealth, working on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) program.
Before joining AcademyHealth in November 2007, Ms. Ten Napel held a position as development director for Columbia Road Health Services, a Community Health Center that serves low-income and uninsured residents of Washington, DC. Prior to her work in local health care, she served as a policy and program manager for the National Rural Health Association. She did health policy work related to health insurance and rural health care quality and managed several programs, including ones related to Community Health Centers, the Medicare PACE program, Medicare Part D and rural EMS. Ms. Ten Napel spent the first four years of her career working for U.S. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, becoming a legislative assistant on health care issues. She advised the Senator on a range of health policy issues including health care appropriations, Medicare, Medicaid, insurance reform, public health, and rural health care issues.
Ms. Ten Napel holds masters degrees in social work and public policy from the University of Michigan. She did her thesis work on health care finance in her home state of South Dakota while working for the Community HealthCare Association of the Dakotas.
Diana Mayes, Associate
Diana Mayes is an Associate at AcademyHealth, working with State Coverage Initiatives.
Prior to her current position, Ms. Mayes was a Health Care Policy Specialist for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), which represents all of the allopathic medical schools and major teaching hospitals in the nation. In her role, she was responsible for providing various services to teaching hospitals. She monitored Medicare regulations and had primary policy development responsibility in the Medicare hospital outpatient area. She also conducted descriptive analyses designed to inform constituents and the public of services provided at teaching hospitals.
Kyla Hoskins, Research Assistant
Kyla Hoskins is a Research Assistant at AcademyHealth, working on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) program. Before joining AcademyHealth in March 2011, Ms. Hoskins worked as a Health Policy Associate for the National Coalition on Health Care. Ms. Hoskins has a Bachelors of Science in Exercise Science, with a minor in Public Health from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Public Health, Health Policy degree at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
