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Walt Gregg , M.S., M.P.H.

Mr. Gregg is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center, where he has worked since 1999. His professional background includes state, regional, and national rural health policy development with a focus on rural delivery system development, alternative delivery models, access to care by underserved populations, emergency medical systems development, limited service hospital development, access to capital, rural quality of care, managed care and program evaluation and management. His current efforts involve the Medicare Rural Hospital Monitoring Project, the development of community-centered systems of care, rural hospital access to capital, and the application of pay-for-performance strategies in rural hospitals.

In addition to serving on numerous state and federal program review panels, he also has served on the ORHP's National Advisory Panel for developing the State Flex Grant Program and as a member of the National Advisory Committee for the RWJ/Alpha Center Networking for Rural Health Project.

Mr. Gregg previously worked at the New York State Department of Health as a program research specialist in the State Office of Rural Health. In his nine years at the NYSORH, he served a leading role in the development and implementation of the NYS EACH/RPCH Demonstration and the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program. He served as Assistant Director of the NYSORH from 1997 - 1999, taking a lead role in developing the state's Rural Health Network Development Program, the Rural Health Care Access Development Program, the state Flex Program and staffing the New York State Rural Health Council. Mr. Gregg received an M.A. in Medical Anthropology from Michigan State University in 1979 and an M.P.H. in Health Behavior from the University of Michigan in 1985.