Prior to joining Sellers Dorsey, Imani held the role of Chief Strategy Officer at a prominent provider of community-based primary healthcare in Chicago, which operates a network of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). There, she spearheaded strategic initiatives focused on addressing health disparities, enhancing medical, dental, and social services, improving behavioral health outcomes, and meeting the nutritional needs of underserved populations. Imani brings extensive leadership experience in healthcare, spanning both provider and managed care organizations. Before her tenure at Sellers Dorsey, Imani also served as Vice President of Quality Improvement for Centene’s Illinois Health Plan, Meridian. In this capacity, she oversaw accreditation and regulatory processes, program management, and quality performance for over one million individuals across nine lines of business, including Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Prescription Drug Plans, Medicare-Medicaid (MMP), Foster Care, and Health Insurance Marketplace products. Imani’s career also includes leadership roles within the healthcare delivery system at major FQHCs and hospital systems in Illinois. In these positions, she demonstrated expertise in data strategy, clinical operations, practice transformation, and quality and process improvement.
As a Director within the National Consulting Practice, Imani provides strategic and tactical guidance to managed care organizations, provider led entities, solutions providers, community-based organizations, federal and state agencies, and other Medicaid stakeholders. She leverages her experience to support Sellers Dorsey’s clients with business development, health plan operations, clinical care management, healthcare policy, healthcare technology, quality improvement, and Medicaid revenue maximization to drive the firm’s goals of improving quality and access to care for Medicaid recipients.