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.

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.

Rachel Weston, MPH

Rachel is the Program Director of the Value Management Office at Hospital for Special Surgery. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with expertise in healthcare policy and hospital administration. She honed her leadership skills through an Administrative Fellowship, where she underwent accelerated executive training and gained valuable experience in payer relations, value-based strategy, project management, and program implementation. Her background is further enriched by five impactful years in government relations and lobbying across multiple healthcare associations in Washington, DC.

Amina Troupe, MPH

Amina is the Value Analyst Fellow at Hospital for Special Surgery. Her experience and skillset lies in data analytics and public health which she uses to support research initiatives and healthcare operations. Amina holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from Columbia University.

Seong Hee (JJ) Jang

JJ is the Value Research Assistant at Hospital for Special Surgery. His background is in patient-care strategy and clinical research, which he uses to lead value and quality projects in musculoskeletal health start-to-finish. JJ graduated cum laude from Harvard University in History of Science following the Medicine & Society honors track.

Diana Chee
Value Business Fellow, 2022-2024

George Sayegh
Value Business Fellow, 2024-2024
Medical Student, University of Texas Health – San Antonio

Sohum Pandey
Value Research Assistant, 2022-2024
DO Candidate, Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine

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