Impact Accelerator

Jason Cunningham is the Chief Executive Officer at West County Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center caring for patients in western Sonoma County, California. At WCHC, he works alongside a dedicated staff that shares his passion for serving all people regardless of their race, ethnicity, economic status, sexual orientation, or ability to pay. He previously served as the organization’s medical director.

WCHC is a thought leader and innovator in redesigning primary care around the principle that a “trusting, long-term relationship” is the most important product of health care and the most influential in improving health. Jason’s leadership has focused on the use of video and communication technology to improve care coordination, team-based care for patients with complex medical and social stressors, and the use of data to drive innovation.

As a family physician with a deep interest in leading improvement in health care delivery, Jason participates in multiple boards and committees with local, regional, and state organizations. He received his BS in Biology from the University of Michigan and medical degree from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Dr. Alan Glaseroff came to Stanford in 2011 along with his wife Dr. Ann Lindsay at the behest of CERC Director Dr. Arnold Milstein to design and implement a new comprehensive model for patients with complex needs, Ambulatory ICU 2.0. He and Dr. Lindsay led Stanford Coordinated Care (SCC), a service for patients (employees and their dependents) with complex chronic conditions at high risk for future spending, from 2011 to the end of 2016. SCC has helped train over a dozen teams from across the US seeking to implement a similar approach. Dr. Glaseroff, a member of the Innovation Brain Trust for the Unite HERE Health Fund, and also served as faculty for the Institute of Healthcare Improvement's "Better Care, Lower Cost" 3-year collaborative and served as a Clinical Advisor to the PBGH "Intensive Outpatient Care Program" CMMI Innovation Grant that ended in June 2015. He served on the NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home Advisory Committee 2009-2010, and the "Let's Get Healthy California" expert task force in 2012. Dr. Glaseroff was named the California Family Physician of the Year for 2009. Dr. Glaseroff's interests focus on redesigning services at the intersection of patient-centered team care, patient activation, and investing effort to promote patient self-management within the context of chronic conditions.

Dr. Lindquist was born and reared on a small farm in Northwest Iowa.  He attended the University of Iowa as a biology major receiving his BS degree in an accelerated two year program.  He completed his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at U of I and Yale respectively while completing clinical rotations at the Peter Bent Brigham and the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.  His doctoral thesis was completed under Dr. J Bertino at the Yale Cancer Center and focused on mechanisms of drug resistance of leukemia cells.

Following completion of his medical studies, Dr. Lindquist completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Yale.  He continued on as Chief Medical Resident under Dr. Sam Thier and was a co-founder of Yale’s first HIV/AIDS outpatient services.  From New Haven, Dr. Lindquist next moved to San Francisco to complete a fellowship in Hematology/Oncolgy.  During his fellowship he conducted research on Kaposi’s sarcoma .  Upon completion of his fellowship  he joined the UCSF clinical faculty as an attending physician in the Moffitt HIV/AIDS Clinic.

In the early 1990’s Dr. Lindquist joined the Marin Department of Health and Human Services where he developed a County-based HIV/AIDS clinic and supervised an AIDS Clinical Trials program.  He was co-PI on a number of ACTG and industry drug trials as well as a consultant to projects involving drug resistance and gene sequencing.  After several years in that position he assumed the position of medical director over all of the County’s medical services and periodically served as the County Health Officer at the same time.  Near the end of his tenure as Director, Dr. Lindquist’s interests turned to issues in health care design, delivery and costs.  Those interests led to post-graduate programs at the UC Berkeley School of Business and the Harvard Business School focusing on issues related to health care.

Craig re-joins CERC as an adjunct professor with great pleasure and excitement.  The CERC staff and the Stanford environs present a great opportunity for a ‘hands on’ experience in designing innovations for application in the real world.