Meet the Team

Catherine MacLean, MD, PhD

Catherine MacLean, MD, PhD is the Chief Value Medical Officer at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), where she leads the development and execution of strategies to measure, report and improve healthcare value. As part of this role she directs the HSS Center for the Advancement of Value in Musculoskeletal Care, which pulls together expertise from across the organization to rapidly develop and deploy programs, systems and tools that will fast-track the delivery of high value musculoskeletal care at HSS and beyond. She is a nationally recognized expert on healthcare quality and value with a diverse leadership experience including strategic planning, implementation and evaluation of population health, quality and value programs. She has previously served as the executive leader of quality and care management programs at Anthem/WellPoint; principal investigator on numerous academic research projects at UCLA and RAND; and as a director, chair or participant on numerous national committees and panels related to health care quality and value.

Dr. MacLean obtained her MD from Washington University, St. Louis. She completed training in internal medicine at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and in rheumatology at UCLA's Center for the Health Sciences. She obtained her PhD in health services from UCLA's School of Public Health.

Amy Chin, MS

Amy Chin is Assistant Vice President in the Value Management Office at HSS and Director of the HSS Center for the Advancement of Value in Musculoskeletal Care. Her work focuses on issues affecting healthcare providers that span policy, finance, economics, and quality. In this role, she evaluates pay for performance programs and public measurement systems affecting hospitals. Having started her career in health services research, Amy brings expertise in developing measures, risk adjustment, and statistical models using administrative data. Amy holds a master’s degree in biostatistics from University of Illinois at Chicago – School of Public Health and is pursuing a doctorate in Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Shinhye Kim, MSc

Shinhye is the Senior Value Analyst at the Hospital for Special Surgery. She analyzes quality measures and optimizes ways to monitor HSS performance on value metrics. Her experience is in clinical and observational research methods as well as working with large administrative databases. Shinhye holds a master’s degree in biological sciences from University of Manitoba.

Diana Chee

Diana Chee is a Business Fellow at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, NY. In her role, she leads value and quality projects, providing support to advance projects to completion. She manages a grant-funded project to develop electronic clinical quality measures to improve the diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection. Diana holds a masters in health administration from Long Island University.

Keisha Burgess

Keisha Burgess is executive secretary supporting the Center for the Advancement of Value in Musculoskeletal Care and Quality & Accreditation department at HSS. She has a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. She received her Master’s degree focused in Economics from the City University of New York – The City College of New York.

Sohum Panday
Value Research Assistant, 2022-Present

Shriya Perati
Value Research Assistant, 2021-2022
Medical Student, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Eleni Kohilakis
Value Research Assistant, 2020-2021
Medical Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Evelyn Gotleib 
Summer Intern, 2019
Medical Student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Cathlyn Medina
Value Research Assistant, 2019-2020
Medical Student, Duke University School of Medicine

Michelle Richardson
Value Research Assistant, 2018-2019
Medical Student, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
Resident, NYU Langone

Wasif Islam
Value Research Assistant,  2017-2018
Medical Student, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University