Enabling Patient Engagement and Population Health Management

Cindy Gaines has over 28 years of healthcare experience, splitting this time between quality and operations across the continuum. Gaines was the chief operating officer and president of administration for a health system in Kalamazoo, Michigan. During her esteemed career, Cindy has led the integration of patient care across the care continuum and integrated program requirements of third-party payers including pay-for-performance criteria to maximize clinical, operational, and financial initiatives. Gaines also championed physician quality alignment, attained PCMH designation and CPC approval for primary care sites, and managed integration activities for growing organizations.

Dr. Stacy Lindau, MD, MAPP, is NowPow’s founder and Chief Innovation Officer, a practicing physician and tenured professor at the University of Chicago. She is an experienced principal investigator with 15 years of continuous funding from federal sources, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Her scientific work is published in the highest impact medical literature and she is internationally known as an expert in women’s and population health across the life course. Stacy earned her medical degree from Brown University and a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Chicago where she was a Harris Child and Family Fellow. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar (and served on the National Advisory Committee) and is an Aspen Institute Health Innovation Fellow and serves the Health Innovators Fellowship Board of Overseers. She has a BA from the University of Michigan Honors College in secondary education and political science and worked in broadcast journalism at Dow Jones and Company’s Wall Street Journal TV. Dr. Lindau is also president of MAPSCorps, a nonprofit community asset mapping organization that has employed more than 2,000 youth in 6 urban and rural geographies.