Staff

Adam R. Borden joined ACLA in July 2022 as Senior Vice President of Policy and Strategy. He has had a diverse career in healthcare and has developed deep knowledge and understanding of federal health policy, provider reimbursement, and the changing landscape of healthcare delivery in the United States. Adam was previously Vice President of Market Access and Reimbursement at Cleerly, Inc. and Senior Director of Policy and Reimbursement Strategy at Siemens Healthineers, where he led strategic efforts for all business areas including imaging, laboratory diagnostics, and digital products. During this time, Adam served as Chair of the Reimbursement Committee at the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) and Chair of the Diagnostics Payment Work Group at AdvaMedDx. Adam also spent time as Vice President/Director at the premier D.C.-based policy consulting firm Avalere Health, and worked in health policy, reimbursement, and administrative roles at the American Gastroenterological Association and several leading academic medical centers. He is a member of the Advisory Board at the Cancer Support Community's Cancer Policy Institute. Adam holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University and a Master of Health Administration degree from A.T. Still University of Health Sciences.

Joyce Gresko is an attorney in Alston & Bird’s Washington, D.C., office, where she is a member of the Health Care and Legislative & Public Policy Teams. She focuses her practice on health care regulatory, legislative and compliance matters. Her clients include clinical laboratories, durable medical equipment suppliers, hospitals, health care professional associations and other health care entities. She assists clients on a daily basis to understand and resolve issues relating to Medicare and Medicaid payment and coding, federal and state fraud and abuse laws, effective compliance programs and health care quality.

Joyce draws on her experience of more than a decade as a public policy advocate and campaign professional. She worked for Democratic candidates campaigning for President, governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House. She also held leadership positions in advocacy organizations such as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and Children’s Defense Fund. She is a reading mentor in the Washington, D.C., public schools through Everybody Wins! DC, and she volunteers with the College Diabetes Network and JDRF Greater Chesapeake and Potomac Chapter. She was selected by Super Lawyers to the 2014 Washington, D.C. Rising Stars list.

Joan Kegerize joined ACLA in January 2019 as Vice President, Reimbursement and Scientific Affairs. She has a background in legal and reimbursement analysis most recently prior to ACLA at GMBI, where she worked with healthcare stakeholders across the industry on a range of coding, auditing and reimbursement issues for new and existing healthcare services. She also worked with clients to direct and implement reimbursement strategies for the Medicare and Medicaid programs as well as commercial/private payers. She began her career as a genetic counselor at Magee Women’s Hospital in Pittsburgh. She holds a Master of Science in Human Genetics from the University of Pittsburgh, and a J.D. from New York Law School and is a licensed attorney in New Jersey.

Karen Lancaster joined ACLA as Associate Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs in January 2023. Karen is a seasoned communications strategist with more than 25 years of experience, with specialized expertise in health care, academia, pharma/biotech, and the life sciences. Her extensive career portfolio of strategic communications disciplines includes media relations, issues/crisis management, and patient advocacy, as well as executive and key stakeholder communications.  Karen has led several award-winning communications teams recognized for excellence in the execution of impactful, collaborative, and creative campaigns and strategies.

Karen most recently served as Assistant Vice President of External Relations at Johns Hopkins University, where she oversaw the media relations, internal communications, social media and analytics functions in the central communications office for the nine-division global research university.  Prior to her time at Hopkins, Karen was on the executive leadership team as Vice President of Media Relations and Corporate Communications at the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), a 14-hospital, academically-centered regional health system. There, she co-led the joint media relations team with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and oversaw critical communications functions for the University of Maryland Medical Center, including its R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, and University of Maryland Children’s Hospital.

Karen joined UMMS from MedImmune, the global biologics unit of AstraZeneca, where she was Director of Corporate Public Relations, overseeing marketed brand, emerging brand and corporate public relations. Prior to that, she enjoyed a nine-year career with Spectrum Science Communications, one of the country’s leading independent health sciences public relations firms. She began her career in the Washington bureau of PR Newswire, where she managed media relationships and supported an account base of Washington newsmakers including Federal government agencies, policy groups, and trade associations.

Karen holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.