Staff
Miya Boston - Administrative Representative
William S. Underwood, MPH - Senior Associate
Paula M. Woodward, MPH, BSN, RN - Senior Clinical Associate
Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, FACP - Vice President
Miya Boston - Administrative Representative
Center for Practice Innovation
American College of Physicians
Miya Boston is the administrative representative for the Center for Practice Innovation and provides administrative assistance to Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, FACP. Prior to joining CPI, she was the Executive Assistant and Quality Control Director for an auditing real estate firm located in Washington, DC. She is the mother of a handsome little boy named Dalante.
William S. Underwood, MPH -
Senior Associate
Center for Practice Innovation
American College of Physicians
William S. Underwood, MPH is responsible for coordinating and monitoring the measurement tools that the Center for Practice Innovation uses. He will also help the practices with improving workflow and other systems based issues. Prior to joining the ACP staff, William received his MPH from Dartmouth Medical School in Evaluative Clinical Science. He studied with Drs. Paul Batalden, Eugene Nelson, and John Wennberg on the use of evidence based medicine and clinical micro-systems to improve the quality of healthcare. Mr. Underwood has worked as an Aide to New Hampshire State Representative Martha McLeod, and as a Research Assistant for the Denver Public Health Tuberculosis Clinic. He has a B.A. in Biology and History from Colorado College and studied history at Oxford University.
Paula M. Woodward, MPH, BSN, RN -
Senior Clinical Associate
Center for Practice Innovation
American College of Physicians
Ms. Woodward is responsible for coordinating practice level innovations from a clinical perspective to support the objectives of the Center. She will assist physician sites in choosing and implementing their activities and data collection using a modified "Institute of Health Improvement Breakthrough Series" approach to quality improvement.
Prior to joining the ACP staff, Paula worked with Dr. Michael S. Barr at Baltimore Medical System, where she was the Director of Clinical Initiatives. She was responsible for the management and administration of center-based quality initiative programs. Her administrative and clinical backgrounds also include positions at Johns Hopkins and the Veterans Administration.
>Ms. Woodward received her M.P.H. from the University of Oklahoma School of Public Health in Health Education. She has a B.S. in Health Education from California State University, Fresno and a B.S.N. from Johns Hopkins University. She is a Certified Case Manager. In addition, Ms. Woodward earned certification in chemical dependency counseling as well as health education. She is an active member of the nursing honor society, Sigma Theta Tau International.
Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, FACP - Vice President
Practice Advocacy and Improvement
American College of Physicians
Michael S. Barr is Vice President, Practice Advocacy and Improvement for the American College of Physicians. Dr. Barr's focus is on public policy relating to health information technology and quality improvement, pay-for-performance and reform of the dysfunctional physician payment system, chronic care improvement, and practice redesign to support quality improvement. Dr. Barr also directs the College's new Center for Practice Innovation.
Prior to joining the ACP staff, Dr. Barr served as the Chief Medical Officer for Baltimore Medical System, Inc. (BMS), a JCAHO-accredited, multi-site federally-qualified community health center serving communities in Baltimore and Baltimore County. His responsibilities included the leadership of clinical operations, quality improvement, JCAHO readiness, risk management, clinician recruiting, and the clinician compensation plan development and management.
Previous positions included Physician Director, Medical Management Programs for the Vanderbilt Medical Group; Physician Manager, Division of General Internal Medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt; and Chief of Internal Medicine, 347th Tactical Fighter Wing Hospital, U.S. Air Force.
Dr. Barr received his M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine (1986) and completed his internal medicine residency at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. He received his M.B.A. from Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management in 1996. Dr. Barr is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University (GWU) and practices internal medicine part-time at GWU Medical Faculty Associates.
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