Massachusetts Medical Society: Future Health: Best Practices for Advancing Care - Care Delivery Transformation: New Models of Care - Speaker Bios

Future Health: Best Practices for Advancing Care - Care Delivery Transformation: New Models of Care - Speaker Bios

Philip Ciampa, MD, MPHPhilip Ciampa, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Digital Health and Innovation, Atrius Health

Philip Ciampa is Medical Director of Digital Health and Innovation at Atrius Health. A general internist and pediatrician by training, Dr. Ciampa practices as an adult primary care provider. He has led the virtual care program at Atrius Health since its inception in 2016. He oversaw the dramatic expansion of telehealth within the practice in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and since has worked to ensure that virtual care continues to thrive as an enduring option integrated into the overall model of ambulatory care. Dr. Ciampa is passionate about how digital health, both practice and promise, can lead to a more efficient, accessible, and patient-centered health care system.


Ana Tuya Fulton, MD, MBA, FACP, AGSFAna Tuya Fulton, MD, MBA, FACP, AGSF
Chief Population Health Officer, Care New England Health System
Chief Medical Officer, Integra Community Care Network, LLC
Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Ana Tuya Fulton is the chief population health officer for Care New England while concurrently serving as executive chief of Geriatrics & Palliative care for Care New England Health System, and chief medical officer for Integra Community Care Network, LLC. She is a geriatrician at Brown University currently holding associate professorships in medicine and in psychiatry and human behavior.

Dr. Fulton served as executive sponsor and clinical leader on a cooperative research collaboration agreement between Integra Community Care Network, LLC, and the Gary and Mary West Health Institute, in conjunction with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to “Reduce Unplanned Acute Events in Older Adults.” This work led to the formation of Integra @ Home, a hospital at home model of care to serve frail older adults.

Dr. Fulton has also served as an expert faculty member for the Center to Advance Palliative Care in their Serious Illness learning community to help other accountable care organizations create programs to improve care of the seriously ill. Her clinical and academic work focuses on improving serious illness care for persons with cognitive impairment as well as in integrating geriatrics and palliative care best practices into primary care, hospital-based care, and accountable care entities.

A major focus of work been the expansion of acute, hospital-level care at home for adults with chronic illness including a CMS Acute Hospital at Home program for Kent Hospital in Warwick RI. Dr. Fulton has done multiple national presentations in these areas and has published over 29 peer reviewed articles.


Constantinos (Taki) Michaelidis, MD, MBA, MSConstantinos (Taki) Michaelidis, MD, MBA, MS
Medical Director, UMass Memorial Health

Constantinos (Taki) Michaelidis is an internal medicine physician by clinical training and practices as a virtual home hospitalist in the UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) Hospital at Home program. He is also medical director and faculty in the Program in Digital Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Prior to joining UMMH, he was senior medical director in the Atrius Health home hospital program. There, he supported local and national home hospital program development and developed and scaled new acute and post-acute home-based care models for a predominantly frail, medically complex and home-bound population in eastern Massachusetts.


Melissa T. Nass, MD, MPHMelissa T. Nass, MD, MPH
Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Melissa T. Nass, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Nass is the Associate Medical Director of Adolescent Medicine at BMC and the Medical Director and Founder of “Curbside Care for Moms and Babies” — a novel mobile program offering comprehensive, high-touch, dyadic care to mothers and babies during the first six weeks after delivery. Since 2015, she has served as Director of the Pediatric Resident Continuity Clinic at BMC, overseeing the clinical education of thirty-six pediatric residents in the Boston Combined Residency Program and earning several teaching awards. Dr. Nass completed her residency at Rhode Island Hospital/Hasbro Children's Hospital in 2008 and graduated Tulane University School of Medicine class of 2005. Dr. Nass has special interest in adolescent medicine, reproductive health, dyadic care, alternative health delivery models, and health equity.


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