Executive Leadership
Robert J. Master, MD, President and CEO
Bob Master is a practicing physician, board-certified in Internal Medicine with over 30 years of experience in the clinical management of patients with advanced chronic illness and disability. In 2003, Bob was awarded a Soros/Open Society Institute, two year fellowship, and concurrently became the President and CEO of Commonwealth Care Alliance.
Prior to his role at Commonwealth Care Alliance, Bob served as CEO at Community Medical Alliance (CMA), an experimental HMO caring for individuals with severe disabilities and AIDS under a pre-paid financing arrangement with Massachusetts Medicaid. He was also Chief Medical Officer at Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP), a non-profit, community health center based health plan serving 130,000 low income, mostly Medicaid eligible individuals in Massachusetts.
From 1988-1995, Bob was the Chair of the Health Services Department of the Boston University School of Public Health and remains on the faculty as an Associate Professor of Public Health teaching courses in managed care and special population programs.
Bob served as the medical director of the Massachusetts medicaid program in the Dukakis administration where he was Medical Director for Massachusetts Medicaid Program, where he was responsible for all programs, policies and external relations of the Medicaid Program, as well as directing a staff of 300 people.
Bob was the first physician and Medical Director at the Uphams Corner Health Center, and founder of the Urban Medical Group in Boston until 1985 where new approaches to nursing home and home medical care using nurse practitioners were defined; approaches that transferred hospital level services to the home and to the community.
Lois Simon, Chief Operating Officer
Lois Simon is one of the principal founders of Commonwealth Care Alliance. As a member of the executive leadership team, she is responsible for overseeing the planning and development functions as well as program operations at Commonwealth Care Alliance.
Previous to Commonwealth Care Alliance, Lois served as Vice President for Care Delivery Systems at Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP), where she was responsible for designing, developing and managing the operations of the Plan’s clinical programs. As a member of the Executive Staff, Lois worked in conjunction with the medical leadership of the plan to design and develop new and innovative care delivery models for plan members with chronic health care needs.
Lois has over twenty years of experience in clinical program development, government service and management. She joined Neighborhood Health Plan from her position as Chief Operating Officer at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center where she oversaw the management of the home care and Program for All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) program, a nationally recognized model for optimal care to frail elders, among her responsibilities. Prior to her work at the Health Center, Lois served as the General Manager and Regional Vice President of Mentor, a rapidly expanding national company providing residential and support services to the developmentally disabled, survivors of traumatic brain injury and children with special health care needs. In her role with this national private, for-profit, human services company, Lois was responsible for program and business operations and development in eleven states comprising seventy percent of Mentor’s national presence at that time.
Lois also served for thirteen years in a variety of state government roles throughout the 1980s until 1993, most notably as the Director of Long Term Care for the state Medicaid program and as the Assistant Secretary of the Executive office of Elder Affairs.
Lois received her Masters degree in Public Health with a concentration in Health Systems from the Boston University School of Public Health. Lois holds an appointment at the Boston University School of Public Health as Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, has served on several boards of local and statewide community agencies and has provided consultancy services to a variety of organizations both locally and nationally.
Robert Fallon, Chief Financial Officer
Robert Fallon brings extensive health care financial experience to Commonwealth Care Alliance both on the payor, delivery and consultant side.
Throughout the 1990s, Mr. Fallon worked with Deloitte and Touche, serving as Principal for the Management Solutions and Services division for more than six years. He founded and led the company’s middle market health care consulting practice for New England, and in that capacity worked extensively with health plans, medical centers, community hospitals, physician practices, integrated delivery systems, Community Health Centers and other health industry organizations.
In the 1980s, he worked with a number of healthcare organizations including The Children’s Hospital where he was Director of Budgeting and Management Systems.
Last Updated 12/08/2009