Mfon Usiere is a doctoral candidate in the School of Public and International Affairs at The University
of Baltimore, specializing in healthcare systems administration. His dissertation
is about equitable healthcare access in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
Mfon is interested in investigating the relationships that exist between the region's
telemedicine policies and access to telemedicine-based health services for the socially
disadvantaged members of society in the aftermath of the pandemic.
He has a Master of Public Administration from The University of Baltimore with a concentration in healthcare administration, as well as a bachelor's degree in applied chemistry with a minor in pharmaceutics from the University of Uyo in Nigeria. In the fall of 2014, he was selected as a Presidential Management Fellow prior to graduating from the M.P.A. program.
Mfon has extensive professional experience in the United States healthcare industry, including managed care, care outcome research, policy/program development, and implementation. He is currently employed by Cigna Corporation, a global health insurance company. He is the regional program director for the Medicare Risk Adjustment Payment methodology. In his current position, he manages a variety of health programs and associated incentives, creates training materials, serves as a subject matter expert on RA-based coding, and helps Cigna-affiliated clinicians develop their medical documentation capacity in the northeast region of the United States.
Prior to his current position, he worked in a similar capacity for United Healthcare Group, the U.S. Veteran Affairs healthcare system, Medstar Healthcare System, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Institute of Human Virology. Mfon's greatest professional accomplishment was at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he oversaw the development of laboratory infrastructure and human manpower in support of HIV care and treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa under President George W. Bush's Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a key foreign policy initiative.