Dana Underwood
Vice President
As a healthcare operations leader, Dana brings 10+ years of progressive experience in hospital administration with strong principles associated with strategic planning, physician practice operations, and healthcare information systems. Dana has strong leadership skills and an extensive knowledge in developing services, both professional and ancillary, as well as start-up operations of new practices and offices. She recently served as Director of Operations with Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group for the Denver market. She also served as Senior Administrator for Women’s Health with MedStar Health at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, Business Manager with Centura Health at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, CO and Program Coordinator at Denver Health in Denver, CO.
Dana earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Studies from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA and her MBA in Health Administration from the University of Colorado, Denver.
Outside of work, Dana enjoys spending time with her family, hiking in the mountains, arts/crafts, catching up on Netflix shows, and traveling.
Austin Palmer
Director of Operations and Finance
Austin is a healthcare finance professional who comes to HealthOne CCP with over 10 years of experience in acute, ambulatory, physician groups, and pharmacy settings. In many of his previous roles, Austin successfully implemented financial strategies that not only ensured cost efficiency, but also contributed to overall organizational success.
Austin most recently comes from UCHealth where he directed system support financial operations and had oversight of contract administration functions. He led FP&A activities and budget responsibilities designed to align strategic organizational objectives of cost reduction and quality output. Austin’s career also includes tenure at Centura where he managed the financial and accountancy needs for the medical group.
Austin holds a Master’s Degree in Health Administration from LSU-Shreveport and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from BYU. Austin is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and is pursuing a Certified Healthcare Financial Professional credential.
Margot Marincic, PharmD. BCGP
Director of Population Health
Margot Marincic joined the Colorado Care Partners (CCP) team in February 2022 as our population health pharmacist. Her past experience includes long term care pharmacy with focus on polypharmacy in a high-risk geriatric environment. In addition, she served as the Pharmacist in charge at one of the largest home infusion pharmacies in the Denver market. After serving as the interim Director of Population Health, she was driven to take on the role full time and looks forward to developing strategy and future success for our CCP physicians!
Whitney Kennedy, MD
Director of Education
Dr. Kennedy went to medical school at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and completed her family medicine residency at Rose Hospital in Denver. CO. She has been in private practice as a solo practitioner since 2005. In her current clinic Highlands Health for Life she has 3 physician assistants and herself. Her drive has always been to focus on quality performance in and outside of patient care. She hopes to continue to be a strong voice that makes up the provider component of the delivery of medicine. She lives in the Highlands with her husband and two daughters.
Dr. Kennedy is a long-standing member of CCP and our Board of Directors. She has been the chairperson for the Practice Health BOD since 2021 and was recently elected to the CAFP BOD, as well.
Cindy Chumacas
Director of Business Development
Cindy’s role as Director of Business Development is being responsible for supporting CCP in business development, overall strategic growth, marketing, physician relations, and community outreach. She is also responsible for creating and maintaining positive relationships with current practices, providers, members, and payors as needed for identifying, building, and maintaining key partnerships in order to achieve a successful collaboration.