Christopher M. Cannon, MSN, MPH, MBA, is the Chief Administrative Officer of the CSMS-IPA.  Christopher is a senior healthcare leader with advanced degrees in nursing, public health and business administration. His experience includes inpatient and ambulatory services administration in large academic medical centers, value-based healthcare insurance programs, physician practice development and operations, and best-practice clinical consulting with both private and governmental organizations.

“Supporting our medical providers in achieving outstanding patient healthcare outcomes is our continuous goal”

Fiorina recently joined CSMS-IPA in October 2021 as the LPN Clinical Specialist.  She brings over 13 years of diverse healthcare knowledge and expertise including several years employed as a Certified Pharmacy Technician and has worked in specialty practice and primary care settings.  She is motivated to drive value-based care initiatives and to continue to collaborate with independent providers to achieve the goal of patient success and improved outcomes.

“I am honored to be a part of a team where each individual is able to utilize strengths that support physician independence along with patient satisfaction. I’m confident that my skills will allow me to achieve these goals.”

Kathy is the CSMS-IPA  Physician Network Specialist. Kathy supports all functions of the CSMS-IPA clinical team. Her primary responsibility is to engage physician offices around patient management with emphasis on clinical initiatives and best practices. She also provides health plan payer and third party vendor coordination. Kathy’s experience includes practice management, patient outreach coordination and management of the hospitalist programs. Kathy also served as the patient liaison, conducted quality auditing and lead the implementation of a Health Information Exchange.

“I'm happy working with the CSMS-IPA who’s main objective is keeping physicians practices independent.”
 

Pattie has thirty eight years combined service with the CSMS-IPA and the Connecticut State Medical Society (CSMS). Pattie’s knowledge of the organizations and physician network lends to her ability to be a resource for the IPA physicians and liaison between the varieties of organizations in the health care market place. Pattie enjoys applying her organizational skills to support CSMS-IPA physicians and management in planning various organizational events in a statewide capacity. In addition, Pattie is responsible for corporate office functions including accounts receivable and payable and legal document coordination.

"I enjoy the many professional relationships that I have built over the years working for the physicians within the state."

Cindy is the Network Coordinator for the CSMS-IPA administratively supporting healthcare over her career including sales and marketing. Cindy support to IPA physicians and their practices in key areas related to documentation and program requirements.  She also supports physician practice in network support for payers exceeding quality outcome

"With my extensive administrative background I have a proven track record of driving Patient care outcomes."

Evens is  the CSMS-IPA as the Database Coordinator, a motivated and organized IT professional with experience in analyzing, designing, and implementing business process improvements. He has an Associate of Science degree in Information Technology and a Certification in Web development. Evens  provide impeccable customer service and through his expertise of IT functions and processes delivers timely support to the IPA physicians networks.