Christina Clayton, MS, BSN, RN

Director, Clinical Services, Renaye James Healthcare Advisors

As a dedicated healthcare leader, Christina has over 13 years’ experience as a nurse leader in community, hospital, health insurance, and regulatory settings.

Christina has had a valuable impact on healthcare quality improvement. She has had positions in nursing leadership, nursing management, case management, payer quality programs, program management, regulatory compliance, and nursing education.

Most recently, as a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) nurse consultant, Christina has provided accreditation oversight to Medicare’s acute care programs. She serves as the program lead for Diabetes Self-Management Training and Home Infusion Therapy accreditation programs. Additionally, she is the clinical support for Rural Health and Federally Qualified Health Center programs. Christina provides oversight to national accreditation organizations, and provides direction in the development of education material for state surveyors for those programs. Additionally she is responsible for collaborating with other federal agencies and national associations.

As a program manager for Johns Hopkins Healthcare, LLC, Christina aligned measurable program goals with organization’s mission, and utilized quality improvement strategies and measurement to implement changes the health plan’s programs. Christina has been instrumental in improving the health of the community; as a Program Manager, she collaborated with external stakeholders to improve health outcomes and decrease high utilization of members within the Complex Case Management and Disease Management Program.

As a FQHC Clinical Manager, she has vast experience in health center operations, care management, health center budgeting, nursing management, and medical assistant supervision.

Christina has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Coppin State University (Baltimore, Maryland) and a Master of Science in Nursing Administration from Morgan State University (Baltimore, Maryland).

Sarah Schmalzle, MD

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Sarah Schmalzle, MD, is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is also a hospitalist and consulting physician for the Baltimore County Department of Health Tuberculosis unit.
Dr. Schmalzle received her medical degree at Jefferson Medical College, which is now known as the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and completed an internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship training at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Dr. Schmalzle has 8 years of experience as the medical director of THRIVE, the adult HIV clinic at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and was instrumental in creating THRIVE’s HIV/Aging clinic models, ‘STRONG’ and ‘STRIVE to 100’. Interests include HIV care and prevention, HIV and aging, sexual health, tuberculosis, infections in people who inject drugs, and medical education.