Strategic Partners
MHR’s strategic partners are select business entities that share a common goal of high-quality healthcare and service to members/patients while supporting the client's journey toward NCQA & URAC Accreditations.
Partnerships with individuals and organizations in fields supportive of MHR’s Mission will help expand MHR’s reach to important connections that will continue to add value to clients who engage in our consulting and administrative services.
Michael Barr, MD, MBA, MACP, FRCP
President & Founder of MEDIS, LLC, a veteran-owned, independent healthcare consulting company. For over 35 years, Dr. Barr has led teams in pursuit of better healthcare quality through programs, policies, services, and strategies designed to deliver equitable, accessible, evidence-based, and person-centered care.
Dr. Barr is a board-certified internal medicine physician licensed in MD, DC, and VA. From 2014 – 2021 he was Executive Vice President of Quality Measurement and Research at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) following the American College of Physicians (ACP) as VP, Practice Advocacy; Improvement (2005 – 2010), and Senior Vice President, Medical Practice (2010 – 2014). Prior to ACP, Dr. Barr was Chief Medical Officer of Baltimore Medical System, Inc. (1999 – 2005), Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (1993 – 1998), and an active-duty physician in the U.S. Air Force (1989 – 1993). He previously served on the Maryland Health Care Commission (2013 – 2015), Vice Chair, and the ACP Medical Informatics Committee (2017 – 2021).
At NCQA, Dr. Barr’s portfolio included performance measurement development, research and analysis, management of contracts and grants, and NCQA’s consulting activities. Dr. Barr also led the digital measures strategy for HEDIS ® and contributed to NCQA’s other strategic initiatives, public policy, and educational programs.
As co-author of the ACP Advanced Medical Home policy paper (2006), Dr. Barr led ACP’s efforts to promote the Patient-Centered Medical Home and guided the development of programs and quality improvement initiatives including the ACP Practice Advisor, American EHR
Partners, ACP’s Genesis Registry, and practice resources.
Dr. Barr is currently a member of the Maryland Primary Care Program Advisory Council (MDPCP), Executive Physician Advisor to GTMRx Institute, Scientific Advisor for Uneo, Inc., and Quality Consultant for Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP).
Dr. Barr is a Master of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dahlem Silberman & AssociatesÂ
DSA is a healthcare strategy, design and operational improvement firm that specializes in solving complex payer and provider challenges and driving innovation, affordability and performance in the evolving healthcare landscape.
Eric Dahlem, CEO/Partner
Eric Dahlem, CEO/Partner at Dahlem, Silberman and Associates, brings over 17 years of expertise in care management transformation and technology integration. With more than a decade of experience in enterprise risk management and information security, and 8 years in engineering and federal prime contracting, Eric’s background is both diverse and robust. He is a former Deloitte Manager, holds both a BS and MS from Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP).
