Richard Frank, MD, PhD is panel member on the AMA CPT Editorial Panel. He is co-chair of the AMA Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group’s AI Workgroup. Dr. Frank is a chief medical officer of Siemens Healthineers North America and serves as the chief clinical consultant providing support and insight into U.S. business and policy issues. In addition, he is a frequent industry speaker and expert panelist at the invitation of FDA and CMS, serves as a non-voting industry panelist on advisory committees to FDA and CMS, and represents the company on several policy councils.

 

Dr. Frank was a founding member of the Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers Alliance of RSNA, the Molecular Imaging Section of MITA, and the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, and is an associate editor of peer-reviewed journals.

 

He has 30 years of experience in regulatory labeling, public and private payment, and clinical adoption of therapeutic and diagnostic drugs and medical devices. Most recently, he spent nine years in the industry as a chief clinical scientist and as a vice president of Global Clinical Strategy and Policy.

 

Dr. Frank trained in Internal Medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, earning a license in the State of New York to practice medicine and surgery. He earned his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Tennessee-Memphis.

Samantha Ashley, MS, has been involved in coding and payment issues for many years, currently as coding and regulatory manager at the American Medical Association (AMA) supporting the work of the CPT Editorial Panel. Samantha staffs the AMA-convened Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group (DMPAG) and is lead staff for the DMPAG’s AI Workgroup. Prior to her current role at the AMA, Samantha worked in the AMA’s Advocacy department analyzing physician payment policy for the Relative Value Scale (RVS) Update Committee (RUC) and a subcommittee of the RUC called the Practice Expense Subcommittee. Prior to joining the AMA, Samantha worked in process improvement at the Center for Innovation and Transformational Change (CITC) at UMass Memorial Health Care. 

 

Samantha is an alumnus of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs. She earned her Master of Health Care Policy and Management from the H. John Heinz III College of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and her Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

As Senior Vice President of the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) Health Solutions (HS) business unit, Lori Prestesater leads the AMA division responsible for delivering customer-centric, authoritative, dynamic, and indispensable data and solutions that drive transformation in the health care ecosystem by providing the foundation for many critical areas in health care, including interoperability, research, innovation, and equitable care.

Prior to serving the AMA in her current role, Prestesater was vice president of the HS business unit, responsible for expanding the AMA’s influence and impact in the health care market through customer-facing efforts and growth initiatives. Before joining the AMA, she held a variety of leadership roles inspiring organizational transformation, innovation and growth. She served as executive vice president and chief revenue officer at AxisPoint Health, where she developed and implemented highly successful growth and innovation strategies for the Care Management Services organization, and as chief growth officer at Recondo Technology, a leading provider of revenue cycle solutions, where she oversaw all growth and product development initiatives and departments. Prestesater also held senior leadership positions across a variety of health care sectors during her 28-year tenure at McKesson Corporation.

Prestesater is a member of Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation (WBL) and Chief, a private network for the most powerful women in leadership; and serves as a mentor and guest lecturer at the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business.