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   Drawing on 30 years of senior executive strategic, policy, management and performance experience with Federal Executive and Legislative branches, local government, and private sector organizations, viaFuture can help policy makers and mission-driven organizations as:

• A partner and/or advocate to create and sustain positive change and achieve reduced vulnerability, healthy Americans and a healthy, thriving America.

•  A partner to achieve:

  • a visionary, living and executable strategy,

  • highly effective strategic and operational management,

  • high performance information systems,

  • high performance organizations, systems, and/or outcomes supporting mission,

  • vision and strategy.

• A national level speaker to bring a thought-provoking, national perspective tailored to your audience

Experience and expertise is available in each of the following areas:

• Strategic/Operational Planning & Management Systems

• Complex Human Systems

• Building “Ideal” Systems

• Performance and Quality Improvement

  Reducing Vulnerability for Vulnerable or At-Risk Populations

• Health/Human Systems Design, Management & Performance

• Person-centered Policies and Programs

• High Performance Healthcare Systems”

• High Performance Info Systems (e)

• The Un- & Underinsured

   To discuss potential collaboratons, please contact Gary Christopherson via email or phone.

Leadership/Management Positions Held

Founder of "viaFuture", "Vulnerable In America (via)", and "Building a Healthy America"

Served as Senior Executive (Strategy, Management and Policy) with White House, Congress, and Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services

[More on positions and accomplishments at About Gary Christopherson]

Relevant Accomplishments

• Founder of "viaFuture", "Vulnerable In America (via)", Building a Healthy America

• Managed $15+ billion Military Health System for Dept of Defense

• Led and developed Strategic and Operational Plan for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

• Developed viaFuture (including "via" as strategy, models and tools) for creating and sustaining large positive change for a better future.

• Developed Vulnerable In America (via) as a strategy for reducing vulnerability and increasing thriving.

• Developed two national health reform proposals which were introduced as legislation.

• Designed HealthePeople and Building A Healthy America initiatives for improving health and healthcare across America

• Managed $1.4 billion health information system for Veterans Health Administration

• Designed (obtained new funding of $125M per year) next generation HealtheVet health info system

• Developed national “virtual health system” model for electronic health record systems, personal health/record systems, standards and interoperability

• Developed and obtained Presidential approval for “force health protection” program for military service members

• Developed “person-centered health” model used by VHA, CMS and IOM

• Developed national model for “reducing vulnerability and maximizing thriving”

• Developed “behavioral effectiveness model” for designing, operating and evaluating health and human services

• Developed “care in the community” model for extending care beyond health facilities’ walls

• Wrote legislation introduced to protect the un- and under insured.

• Wrote legislation introduced to reform Medicare and Medicaid

• Developed and was lead staff for Congressional hearings on un-/underinsured, Medicare and Medicaid reform, Alzheimer’s research and care, long term care, and health costs

• Co-lead effort to increase Alzheimer’s research funding many fold

• Designed, developed and managed inner city health system in Milwaukee, WI

• Managed national grant program for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Acquired grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Medicare and Medicaid waivers from the Health Care Financing Administration