Liz Bush, MS
Director, Wisconsin Area Health Education Council
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Liz Bush is the Program Director for Wisconsin AHEC where she provides leadership and oversight of the AHEC program across their seven Regional Centers and State Program Office. Liz is a health and educational equity leader with nearly 20 years of leadership and grants management experience in the nonprofit sector and higher education. She began her career as a middle and high school science teacher in schools located on the Navajo Nation in rural New Mexico before transitioning to higher education where she’s had the privilege to lead and develop health careers pathway programs. At the University of Wisconsin Madison, Liz is also faculty in the Master of Public Health program and actively serves on the Medical School Admissions Committee, Advisory Council for the Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education and for various statewide advisory groups including the Wisconsin Council on Medical Education and Workforce and Public Health Workforce Development. She is also currently serving on the HRSA Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages. While not a native to Wisconsin, Liz has called Wisconsin home since 2010 having lived with her family in Wood county for several years before relocating to Green county in 2016. In her spare time you'll find her shuttling kids to and from practices and lessons while sneaking in walks and hikes whenever possible.
Tim Bartholow, MD
WHIO Board Chair
Dr. Bartholow fosters collaborations between providers, payers/purchasers, and communities, seeking to tangibly improve healthcare coordination and affordability. He provides leadership to a variety of healthcare quality organizations including Wisconsin’s CMS contracted Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization contributor Metastar, Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network (WISHIN), WI Health Information Organization (WHIO), physician leadership training through Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association (IPMA), the first non-actuary board member of the Concerned Actuaries of the US, Agrace Hospice, and the University of WI School of Medicine and Public Health for both the Community Advisory Committee of the Master of Public Health Program, and advisor to the Population Health Institute (publishes County Health Rankings). He advises for self-insured employers, the Diabetes Prevention Program in WI, primary care models, YMCAs in WI, the Wisconsin Rural Physician Residency Assistance Program, and the Medical Directors Advisory Committee of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchasers Coalitions.
He has advised Venture Investors and HealthX Ventures to bring innovative solutions to patients’ need for more coordinated health care.
Dr. Bartholow formerly served as board member of Wisconsin Collaborative for Health Care Quality (WCHQ), including leading WCHQ’s Measurement Advisory Committee. He has encouraged community health with board service to United Way of Dane County (board member and Vision Council chair), Wisconsin Literacy and has served on Governor-appointed healthcare taskforces. Previously as VP/Chief Medical Officer for WEA Trust and Health Tradition Health Plans, Dr. Bartholow worked for safe, affordable care, focusing on proper access, appropriateness, harm avoidance, engaging members to action, and value-based provider relationships. He assisted America’s Health Insurance Plans with Chief Medical Officer Committee projects. Before joining WEA Trust in 2014, Dr. Bartholow served as the Wisconsin Medical Society’s Chief Medical Officer for five years, working on appropriateness of care, health disparities, unintended variation of episode costs, advance care planning, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation cardiology grant SMARTCare, and bilateral buyer-provider payment reform. Prior to joining the Wisconsin Medical Society in 2008, Dr. Bartholow spent 16 years caring for patients and supporting/designing care coordination programs at the Prairie Clinic in rural Sauk City, Wisconsin, where he was initially one of six and ultimately 12 physician owners. In the late 1990s, he served as medical director for a risk-bearing independent physician association with more than 400 primary-care providers and worked to strengthen relationships with the business community. He completed family medicine residency at The University of Missouri–Columbia and medical school at Washington University–St. Louis, and he earned chemistry and biology degrees at Drake University.