Enrique Martinez-Vidal is a Vice President 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.
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.
He has a B.A. in political science and international studies from Dickinson College and a master's degree in public policy from Georgetown University. He resides in Montgomery County. |