Lauren Jacobson joined BluePath Health as a Manager in 2021 with experience in program management, resource development, and communications. Her work focuses on implementing projects for youth health and wellness in Marin County, partnering with community-based organizations, schools, government agencies, health care providers, and funders.

Prior to joining the BluePath Health team, she was a Program Manager for a California safety-net organization, where she oversaw projects for foster care, behavioral health, First 5 centers, and transitional-aged youth (TAY) programs. Her past experience includes developing communications and access strategies at the Foundation for Innovative and New Diagnostics, as well as consulting for CellScope Technologies and Gilead Sciences. She also gained experience in research and data analysis for HIV prevention as a USAID Global Development Fellow for the MatCH Research Institute. Lauren holds a BA in Sociology from Vassar College and a MDP from University of California, Berkeley.

Erika Cerutti has over 20 years of experience in bookkeeping and executive administration for a variety of industries. She brings her combined expertise in technical bookkeeping and professional soft skills to help BluePath Health achieve their objectives.

Managing accounting functions, project schedule coordination, and client service with aplomb, Ms. Cerutti is well-established as an office manager and bookkeeper extraordinaire in Marin County. Skilled at project coordination and developing administrative systems, she also possesses professional empathy and discretion with her background in nursing. Ms. Cerutti began her career as a registered nurse at Berkeley-Orinda Women’s Health and with Marta Spain, M.D., in Greenbrae.

Ms. Cerutti holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the Samuel Merritt School of Nursing at Saint Mary’s College. She earned a registered nurse license and public health nurse license, then later obtained a national bookkeeper certification and a certificate of applied accounting.

Ciara Keegan is researcher and grant writer who joined BluePath Health in 2020. During the summer of 2018 as a BPH intern, she worked with the Public Health Department of Marin County’s RxSafe program and also provided research and writing for presentations and reports focused on telehealth and healthcare policies. Now, as a full time BPH team member, she provides high-quality research for projects regarding Medicaid telehealth reimbursement and barriers to telephone and broadband access that low-income Americans face. She is also working on a Marin-based youth wellness project called “Marin 9 to 25”.

She holds a BA in Science, Technology and Society from Brown University, where she studied Science and Society with a focus on Health and Medicine

Emily Brower Auchard has 20 years of experience providing communications, content strategy and editing services for technology, biotech and health care companies of all sizes. Her work at BluePath Health has included white papers on health IT topics, such as telehealth and health information exchange, and isssue briefs on California health IT policy. She also provides content strategy and development for BluePath Health clients for blogs and social media.

Her previous work in health care includes developing user interface copy for consumer-facing health care technology and producing case studies on health care application design and architecture for companies such as Practice Fusion and MedicaLogic.

While working in the the high-tech industry, she provided communications services for a wide range of technology companies including industry leaders, including Apple, NeXT Computer and Sun Microsystems, as well as many start-ups.

Ms. Auchard holds a B.A. with Honors from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.

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As BluePath Health’s (BPH) Director of Policy, Robby Franceschini supports clients’ strategic needs for health policy, government relations and business development. His expertise encompasses Medi-Cal, telehealth and health information exchange (HIE) and his client experience includes work with foundations, government agencies, health care start-ups and payers. Prior to joining the BPH team, Robby worked with Cleveland Clinic’s legal department and also supported Medi-Cal policy development at the National Health Law Program’s Los Angeles office. He also gained experience in science and technology policy and ethics as an AAAS Emerging Leaders in Science and Society Fellow and research assistant for NIH- and Wellcome Trust-funded projects. He holds a BA, JD and MPH from the University of Washington.

BluePath Health founder Timi Leslie has worked for more than 20 years with healthcare policy organizations, IT providers and consulting firms. With her “inside the beltway” experience at federal healthcare agencies, Ms. Leslie offers a unique combination of expertise in both national and California health care policy and regulation. She is a recognized expert in health IT and health care policy, analysis and futures, and is frequently asked to join policy committees and to contribute to and speak at industry events.

Ms. Leslie began her career as part of the health care and technology strategy practices at Andersen Consulting and Coopers and Lybrand. She left the consulting industry to lead product management and business development for CareScience’s health information exchange and interoperability division.

After four years at CareScience, Ms. Leslie started a boutique health care consulting firm that later merged with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a legal and health policy firm. Prior to founding BluePath Health, she was a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton where she lead the San Francisco commercial and government health care practice.

Ms. Leslie brings broad-based experience working with public and private boards and executive leadership to her BluePath clients. She has worked with think tanks and policy groups to convene and facilitate summit meetings on health care policy and strategy.

Ms. Leslie is also an expert on the future of health IT. In 2013, she served as a judge for Allscript’s Open App Challenge for which 98 developers entered applications that integrate directly with the company’s EHR software. She is an advisor and judge for the Southern California Health Technology Acceleration Program (HTAP), created in 2011 by the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego.

She holds a B.S. in civil and environmental engineering from University of California at Davis.