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The Solucia Team

The Solucia Consulting team offers extensive experience in financial, actuarial and general management consulting, health plan senior management, development of care and disease management programs, and applied information technology. Our team members are:

Consultants


The Solucia Team

Ian Duncan, FSA MAAA

Ian Duncan is president of Solucia Inc., a Farmington, CT-based provider of analytical and consulting services to the healthcare financing industry. He has 30 years of experience in healthcare and insurance product design, management, financing, pricing, and delivery. He has started and built consulting practices, and was a founder of a company providing predictive modeling services to managed health insurers and is the only actuary who has actually implemented and managed disease management programs.

Ian holds a post-graduate degree in economics from Balliol College, Oxford, and is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries. He serves on the boards of directors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Healthcare Connector Authority and the Freelancers Insurance Co. He serves as chair of the Society of Actuaries Healthcare External Relations committee. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, and is the author of numerous papers and books, including “Managing and Evaluating Healthcare Intervention Programs” (Actex 2008)

Read Ian's interview in the February/March 2007 issue of The Actuary
Read Ian's interview in the April 9, 2007 issue of The Indianapolis Business Journal
Read Ian's interview in the April 2007 issue of Disease Management Advisor

Mark Howland

Mark Howland is an actuary with over 30 years of experience. His strong background in the Health Insurance industry includes leadership positions with large, national insurers UnitedHealth Group and Aetna, and dominant local carriers Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Hampshire and ConnectiCare. His expertise ranges from pricing to underwriting, government relations and health insurance reform, at the individual, group, Medicare and Medicaid levels.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Sciences degree in mathematics from the University of Hartford in Connecticut, and is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Bart Bracken

Bart Bracken is a healthcare executive with more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare and disability industries as a consultant and serving in senior leadership positions with large managed care organizations and specialty entrepreneurial companies. His broad experience includes managed care operations, strategic planning, marketing, business development, product development, and program management with both private and public sector programs. He has a Master in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a BA, magna cum laude, in Economics from St. Lawrence University.

Robert Blundo

Robert Blundo is an analyst with prior experience in healthcare data analysis and management for acute care and healthcare consulting companies. Past experience includes strategic planning and market analysis in the acute healthcare setting, as well as, analyzing and modeling claims information for managed care programs. He holds a B.S. in healthcare management from the University of Connecticut.

Susan Furlong, MA

Susan Furlong is a health educator experienced in disease management program design, implementation and operations. She has extensive experience in teaching, writing, and designing health education materials, health status surveys, instructional and motivational materials. She has taught at the college level, worked in the health insurance industry, private hospital and government agencies. She has a B.S. in Human Nutrition, an M.A.in Management and is a graduate of the UCLA lactation program, and an ACE certified fitness instructor since 1990.

David Hom, MBA

David Hom is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of Value-based Benefits and Employee Wellness. He joined Solucia after more than 25 years with Pitney-Bowes Corporation, where he was responsible for introducing their leading-edge programs in value-based wellness, responsible for reducing medical trend to half of the industry average over a number of years.

Kenneth Kudrak, MS, MA

Ken Kudrak is an expert in healthcare data analysis, working with large claims databases performing actuarial and healthcare-related modeling and analyses. His background includes scientific research and education, including working as a college professor. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in Geology and Mathematics from Indiana University, a Master’s degree in Biometry and Statistics from Cornell University, a Master’s degree in Biology from the University of California-Santa Barbara, and has completed doctoral work in mathematical modeling, avian behavioral ecology, and evolutionary ecology. Ken has also completed five exams toward completion of the requirements for attaining Associate of the Society of Actuaries credentials.

Emily Li, MPH

Emily Li is a healthcare analyst working in the areas of predictive modeling, disease management, pricing, and program evaluation. Prior to joining Solucia, she worked as a healthcare analyst at the Yale Medical Center and worked on projects sponsored by the World Bank, Pfizer Inc, Hope Foundation, etc. She graduated from the School of Medicine at West China University of Medical Sciences in China and recently graduated from Yale University School of Public Health and Epidemiology with a Masters in Public Health. She is a co-author of the article “Assessing the Value of Diabetes Education” in the Diabetes Educator (September 2009).

Nancy Moses, MBA

Nancy Moses provides a broad range of administrative services as the company’s office manager. Nancy’s experience includes 11 years in the telecommunications industry working in marketing and product management and several years in a corporate library. She has a Master’s Degree in International Business from Sacred Heart University and a BA in English from the University of Connecticut.

Mary Ellen O'Donnell

Mary Ellen O’Donnell has more than 20 years of experience as a healthcare executive in the care, disease and wellness management fields. She has worked extensively with health plans and large employers on program development, strategic planning, opportunity analysis, program evaluation, and marketing. Her experience includes work with healthcare accrediting agencies on standards development and with health plans on accreditation preparation and compliance.

Kavita Verma

Kavita Verma is a SAS certified professional and has interests and experience in Data Analysis and Management. She obtained a double Masters degree in mathematics and wrote a dissertation related to pure mathematics. She was awarded the Gold medal from an Indian State Government for achieving the highest Grades in the university during her undergraduate studies. Kavita has regularly consulted in the teaching field to educate and assist college students with their mathematical and statistical problems.

Consultants

Henry G. Dove, PhD

Consultant to health maintenance organizations, group practices, hospices, and health benefits consultants, and health information consulting firms. Provision of technical advice and analyses of patient classification systems, physician incentive and reimbursement strategies, and severity adjustment to analyze the cost, utilization and quality of health care. Patient classification systems frequently used include Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), Refined DRGs, Episode Treatment Groups (ETGs), Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACGs), Clinical Risk Groups (CRGs), and the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS). Consulting engagements frequently require knowledge of risk-adjustment and predictive modeling methodologies, ICD-9-CM and CPT-4 coding systems, claims data, data analysis, clinical epidemiology, and financial modeling.

Dan Anderson

Dan Anderson provides financial and business analysis support on product development and managed care operations. Dan has more than 30 years experience in the insurance industry including positions as Group Insurance Actuary at Aetna Canada and at Canada Life. Dan has a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from the University of Manitoba.

Sheryl Coughlin, PhD

Sheryl Coughlin is an experienced health services researcher. Originally trained in occupational therapy, she has worked in health services policy and research in a number of countries. Her prior clients include Dept. of Health and Community Services, Melbourne Australia, the Health and Welfare Bureau of the Government of Hong Kong, the government of Victoria, Australia, and other providers of health care services. Her research interests include wellness and worksite health, and she collaborated with Ian Duncan on the forthcoming book: "An introduction to care management interventions and their implications for actuaries."

Suzanne Rives, R.N., MSW

Twenty years of medical management experience with local and national health plans and integrated delivery systems. This experience includes program operations and strategic design evaluation; development and enhancement of program performance and results; managed care and care management training to improve efficiency and effectiveness; and external accreditation program evaluation and readiness to achieve compliance. Experience also includes business development, marketing support and project management.