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Dr. Blake is Vice President, Healthcare Quality at the American Medical Association where she leads payment and quality initiatives of the AMA’s Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability strategic focus initiative. Her team focuses on the impact of new payment models and coding requirements on practices, the characteristics of high performing practices, and the integration of behavioral health care into practice. From 2013 until 2016, she was executive director of the PCPI®, which includes the National Quality Registry Network™. Dr. Blake was co-chair of the Health Information Technology Policy Committee of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology until April 2017. She is a member and treasurer of the Governing Committee of the National Evaluation System for health Technology (NEST) coordinating center, a public private partnership advancing innovation and use of real-world evidence throughout the total product life cycle of medical devices. She is an AMA subject matter expert on a wide range of health technology innovations including artificial intelligence, terminology, clinical registries, appropriate use criteria and clinical decision support tools. Dr. Blake is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist who received her education and training from the University of Chicago, Stanford University and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. From 1988 until 2011, Dr. Blake practiced at the New Mexico Heart Institute, where she also served as President. She is a part-time member of the Johns Hopkins University medical faculty.