AMGA Foundation Board

He is in charge of strategic and tactical elements of PAMF’s quality and patient safety programs. He leads various performance evaluation programs to monitor outcomes across numerous patient populations. He oversees PAMF’s patient safety reporting system and improvement efforts. He is also a current fellow in California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) Leadership Program.

Dr. Penso previously served as chief medical and quality officer for AMGA and president of AMGA Foundation. Under his leadership, the impact of AMGA’s quality programs grew to improve care for 26 million patients.

Prior to joining AMGA, Dr. Penso served as medical director, continuum of care for Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group (SRSMG), the largest integrated healthcare delivery system in San Diego.

Dr. Penso received his Master’s in Business Administration from San Diego State University, his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.

Kate’s background includes the full range of leadership and executive roles required to orchestrate the growth and financial success of ARC. Her experience and deep knowledge of healthcare industry dynamics, her open and direct communication style, and confident leadership creates trust and loyalty among physicians and staff equally.

Her track record since arriving in Austin speaks for itself. ARC, unlike other community medical organizations, was able to continue its growth trajectory during and through the peak period of the COVID-19 epidemic. Her skillful leadership allowed ARC to successfully add 6 new facilities over a 24-month period while maintaining a strong bottom line performance. Kate provides strategic guidance and inspirational operational leadership as a key member of the executive team. She oversees Operations, Finance, Population Health, Information Technology, Marketing, Human Resources, Revenue Cycle, Real Estate and Compliance. Currently, Katie sits on the Board of Directors for ARC’s joint venture with agilon health, Connected Senior Care Advantage, and Seton Health Alliance, an Austin-based Ascension Hospital System MSSP ACO. 

Prior to joining ARC, Katie served as chief legal officer and chief compliance and patient Safety officer for Cornerstone Health Care, a large physician owned and led multispecialty medical group in North Carolina. Simultaneously, she was chief legal officer and chief compliance officer for CHESS, a population health company founded by Cornerstone Health Care in 2013. Cornerstone was the recipient of the AMGA Acclaim Award in 2015. When Cornerstone and CHESS were acquired by Wake Forest Baptist Health in 2016, Katie continued on in her role with CHESS while simultaneously serving as the chief administrative officer for the Wake Forest Health Network, with responsibilities for all non-faculty ambulatory clinics.

Katie began her career in healthcare as a litigator in private practice in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she focused her practice on defending physicians in medical negligence cases and matters pending before the North Carolina Medical Board. Katie earned her Juris Doctorate at Wake Forest University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

In overseeing this ongoing evolution of care, Dr. Atal-Barrio is helping ensure The Everett Clinic continues providing the highest quality of care at an affordable cost as it increasingly transitions to value-based care model supporting population health. Dr. Atal-Barrio joined the Clinic in 1994 and has served in a variety of medical leadership roles since 2001. She was appointed to her current role in 2019. Previously, she served as facility medical director from 2001-2013, primary care service line medical director from 2014-2016, chief clinical officer from 2016-2018. She also served on The Everett Clinic Board of Directors. Dr. Atal-Barrio has 26 years of experience in active clinical practice. Among her awards, she has been recognized as a Top Doc for Seattle Magazine and honored with the Outstanding Physician Leadership Award in 2012. Dr. Atal-Barrio received her undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester and medical degree from Stanford University. She completed her Pediatric Residency at Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and served as Chief Resident there. She earned a master’s in medical management from University of Southern California in 2014. Dr. Atal-Barrio is Board certified in Pediatrics and remains a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. Berkowitz first came to Johns Hopkins in 2003 as an intern, and joined the cardiology faculty in 2011. Since then, he has held positions throughout Johns Hopkins Medicine focused on leading health care delivery transformation efforts. He helped launch and oversee several major initiatives and programs to improve coordination of care and innovation in clinical care and population health.

Previously, Dr. Berkowitz was a senior medical director within the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians. He was the program administrator and project director for the Johns Hopkins Community Health Partnership (J-CHiP), which led to improved outcomes for thousands of patients in East Baltimore. Since 2014, he has served as the executive director of Johns Hopkins Medicine Alliance for Patients.

A fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, Dr. Berkowitz has served on expert committees for both related to population health. He has held positions in federal and state government, including as a fellow in the U.S. Senate Finance Committee during the passage of the Affordable Care Act; on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; and as a senior health care policy development adviser to the governor of Illinois. In 2020, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan appointed him to represent The Johns Hopkins University on the Maryland State Board of Physicians.

Dr. Berkowitz received his bachelor’s degree in biology, master’s degree in business administration and medical degree from Yale University. He completed his residency and cardiology fellowship training as well as a geriatrics research fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

As a founding physician with Premier Medical Associates, Dr. Colangelo has been a valuable member of Premier’s board of directors for the last ten years. He is also an active member and speaker with the AMGA. Frank received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and a Masters of Health Care Quality and Safety from Thomas Jefferson University. He resides in Murrysville, PA, with his wife, Georgia.

Jerrels has been with the clinic for nine years, and the opportunity to ensure quality health care for patients is part of what attracted him to the job in the first place.

Tesha is also a member of the Houston Methodist Center for Innovation, an interdisciplinary team leading organizational transformation through technology enablement.

Prior to joining Houston Methodist, Tesha served four years as the vice president and chief operations officer for the Memorial Hermann Physician Network and Accountable Care Organization, where she was responsible for one of the largest clinically integrated physician associations of 4,000 members.
 
Tesha transitioned to the Houston healthcare market after 11 successful years as an operations leader at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

 He is also accountable for health promotion/education as well as documentation and coding initiatives. This work includes helping physicians document more precisely and completely to raise clinical quality and provide accurate assessment of population-risk burden. Dr. Territo currently serves as the National Senior Physician Leader for Clinical Documentation and Reporting for the Permanente Federation and is a member of the Permanente Quality Board.

The process and outcome improvements realized under Dr. Territo’s leadership resulted in the highest levels of HEDIS Quality Scores for the past seven years.  In addition, recognition for all 29 MAPMG primary care practice locations in the region by NCQA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program, while more than 150 Permanente physicians qualified for NCQA’s Diabetes Recognition Program. Through his innovative outreach programs, application of technology and closely monitored population-health reporting tools, Dr. Territo’s team (in partnership with frontline physicians) drastically reduced disparities in care by race and ethnicity for important quality measures like cancer screenings, blood pressure control and diabetes management, while fostering a culture of clinical accountability and excellence.

Prior to his current role, Dr. Territo was assistant physician-in-chief of quality for Kaiser Permanente’s Northern Virginia area. Before joining MAPMG, he served as a clinical assistant professor in pediatric ophthalmology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Territo has completed patient-safety officer training at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Executive Leadership Training at Harvard University Business School, and holds Six Sigma Green Belt certification.

Board certified in ophthalmology, Dr. Territo received both his bachelor’s and doctor of medicine degrees from Georgetown University. He completed an ophthalmology residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and a pediatric ophthalmology fellowship at Georgetown University. He has a special clinical interest in ocular motility in children.

She currently is a Senior Medical Director for Vaccines at Pfizer, Inc. Dr. Snow has served on many national committees and policy bodies such as the CDC ACIP Evidence-based Recommendations Work Group, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Evidence-based Guidelines, the provider workgroup (former chair) of the CDC/AMA Influenza Summit, liaison to the USPSTF of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance, among many others.

Her academic affiliations include the Medical College of Pennsylvania where she served as volunteer faculty until 2003 and she was a Senior Fellow in the Jefferson School of Population Health until 2013. She was seeing patients one day a week at a free clinic for the uninsured in South Philadelphia until 2012.