Clinical Advisory Council Members

David Barbe, MD

  • Family Practice 
  • Mountain Grove

Douglas L Blowey, MD

  • Chief Clinical Integration Officer and Medical Director for Children’s Mercy Integrated Care Solutions
  • Associate Professor, Pediatric Nephrology and Clinical Pharmacology
  • Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City

Bryan Burns, DO, MS- HQSM

  • Internal Medicine Physician - Esse Health
  • Board of Directors: Esse Health and Surround CareBeth Bramstedt

Angeline DeiSanti, MD, MBA

  • Plan Performance Medical Director (US)
  • Missouri Medicaid (Healthy Blue)
  • Elevance Health
  • St. Louis, MO

Dr. William Enochs

  • Psychiatrist
  • State Medical Director – Missouri, Centerstone
  • Kansas City Region

Karyn Fowler

Katherine Friedebach, MD, MBA

  • Executive Vice President / Chief Medical Officer
  • Compass Health Network
  • Raymore, MO

Christy Henley, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC

  • Integrated Outpatient Services Director, Clark Center (CCBHC)
  • Major, U.S. Air Force Reserve | Chief Nurse
  • Chair, Integrated Behavioral Health Council, MOBHC
  • Chair, Workforce Committee, MOBHC
  • Former Behavioral Health Director, Access Family Care (FQHC)
  • Southwest Missouri

Joanne Loethen, MD, FACP, DABOM

  • Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, & Obesity Medicine
  • Assistant Professor, University of Missouri Kansas City
  • Primary Care, University Health Kansas City
  • President-Elect, Missouri State Medical Association

Heidi Miller

John Paulson, DO, PhD, FAAFP

Beth Rosemergey, DO, FAAFP

  • Chair, Associate Professor Department of Community and Family Medicine- University of Missouri Kansas City
  • School of Medicine
  • Associate Chief Medical Officer-University Health Lakewood Medical Center
  • Kansas City, Missouri

Rashmi Srivastava, MD

  • Chief Medical Officer
  • UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Missouri

Angeline Stanislaus, MD

  • Board Certified General and Forensic Psychiatrist
  • Chief Medical Officer
  • Missouri Department of Mental Health

Melissa D. Tepe, MD, MPH, FACOG

  • Vice President, Chief Medical Officer
  • Designated Intuition Official for Graduate Medical Education
  • Obstetrician Gynecologist
  • Affinia Healthcare
  • Volunteer Associate Professor of GYN/GYN at Washington University School of Medicine
  • St. Louis, MO

Shawn Usery, MD, MBA, SFHM

  • SVP & Chief Clinical Officer
  • Cox Health

Jennifer Wessels, MD, MHA, CHIE, FAAFP 

  • Chief Medical Officer, Centene Home State Health
  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Adjunct Professor, SLU School of Medicine 

 

 

 

Revised 10-27-2026