EXPERIENCE

Dr. Holmes currently is retired, although works occasionally as an independent consultant, primarily to Kennell and Associates, Falls Church, VA. As a contractor, Dr. Holmes created and served five years as the Program Director of both Basic and the Advanced WISDOM courses (the latter was discontinued despite hundreds of applicants on its waiting list). These two TRICARE Management Activity courses have graduated 1,700 analysts, and focus on combining the availability of data in the MHS Data Mart (M2) with appropriate analysis and decision-making techniques. He also made guest presentations in the TRICARE Financial Management Education Program (TFMEP), a course he previously developed while on active duty.

Dr. Holmes served on active duty in the Army for twenty-five years, and had widely varying assignments including leading the development of new corporate automation   (the CPD system, fielded to all MTFs worldwide on-time and on-budget), logistician for a combat support hospital, chief of a contracting office, health services administrator, serving as an instructor in clinical chemistry and microbiology, then later as a professor teaching comptrollership and financial management in the Army – Baylor graduate MHA program. He received board-certification in financial management, management accounting, and government financial accounting.

Dr. Holmes has worked with the office of ASD(HA) and TMA for the last sixteen years. He led the evaluation of the Medicare Subvention Demonstration, originated the Equivalent Lives scale used for measuring panel resource demands, led the Enrollment Based Capitation (EBC) project, created the EBC PLANNER software for managing enrolled populations, and led the creation of both the MHS Data Repository (MDR) and the MHS Mart (M2) (but supported by a host of talented data analysts, programmers, and/or DoD contractors).

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Health Policy and Administration), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993
M.H.A. (Health Administration), Baylor University, 1987
M.S.M. (Management), Frostburg State University, 1983
B.A. (Mathematics), Harvard University, 1971

Army courses and certified competency (technician level) in: