Kathleen Williamson
President
Ms. Williamson has extensive experience in managing the operations of small federal government contracting businesses. She is knowledgeable in Federal Acquisitions Regulations, a variety of government contract types and GSA schedules. She has held positions such as Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer, and Corporate Controller at other consulting firms.
Ms. Williamson was a project manager for a $12 million software conversion and installation for a multi-million dollar international manufacturing company, which included installation at its subsidiaries, manufacturing plants, and business units. She also managed the installation of job cost accounting software applications at four federal government consulting firms.
She has a Master’s of Business Administration degree from Marymount University and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Finance from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
Gary Hill
Ph.D., Vice President
Dr. Hill has nearly 40 years of increasing responsibility in the fields of health policy, program evaluation, and project management. His clients within HHS have included Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, several institutes of the National Institutes of Health, the National Center for Health Statistics, the U.S Public Health Service, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Dr. Hill joined MANILA in 2004. He previously served as the Project Director of SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices project and the SAMHSA National Evaluation of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative.
Previously, Dr. Hill was Division Director at a large federal government contracting firm, overseeing contracts. He provided program management, evaluation, and cost-benefit analyses. Dr. Hill was the Project Director for the evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s After School Program. Dr. Hill also served as Project Director for a multiyear, congressionally mandated contract with SAMHSA that produced three reports to Congress and the National Structured Evaluation of Education and Prevention Approaches. This important project was the initial effort to systematically collect and analyze the results of a decade of prevention initiatives. He was also the Project Director for the Department of State’s International Demand Reduction Program, a $15 million, multiyear effort designed to coordinate the implementation and evaluation of prevention programs across the world, for which he directed the Global II and III conferences held in Bangkok, Thailand, and Palermo, Italy, and the 1999 Western Hemisphere Drug Prevention Conference in Peoria, Illinois.
Anna Hodgson
MA, PMP, Vice President
Ms. Hodgson has been supporting Federal government contracts since 1992, with direct oversight of more than 40 contracts, task orders, and subcontracts and 6 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicles. She has a proven record of working collaboratively with clients to deliver services across a range of highly visible and results-oriented projects. Ms. Hodgson has been with MANILA since 2004 and is currently the Project Director of SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices as well as MANILA’s SAMHSA IDIQ contract vehicle. Previously she served as Associate Project Director for a SAMHSA-funded comparative effectiveness research study and was also a member of MANILA’s IRB.
Ms. Hodgson's client experience includes the: Administration for Community Living; Administration for Children and Families; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Food and Drug Administration; Health Resources and Services Administration; National Cancer Institute; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; National Institute on Drug Abuse; Office of the Surgeon General; and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
She earned her Master and Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from The Catholic University of America. Ms. Hodgson is also a certified Project Management Professional and has attended numerous continuing education trainings including Cultural Competency Essentials for Managers and Cultural Competency Training of Trainers.
Stephen Tregear
Ph.D., Vice President
Dr. Tregear obtained a D.Phil in neuroscience from the University of Sussex in the UK in 1995 and an honors degree in neurobiology from the same university in 1988. After two years teaching anatomy and physiology to optometry and nursing students in Scotland, Dr. Tregear came to the United States where he was employed as a research associate in the Psychology Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Here he worked on several NIH funded projects aimed at examining the impact of aging on the visual system. In 1999, Dr. Tregear joined the ECRI Institute, where his career in evidence-based decision making began. After nine years of service, Dr. Tregear held the position of Director of Special Projects within the Institute’s Health Technology and Information Services group (HTAIS). In September 2007, Dr. Tregear joined MANILA where he now holds the position of Vice President.
Dr. Tregear has extensive project management experience and has acted as Program Director, Principle Investigator, Technical Director, and Project Manager on a plethora of projects for federal government clients including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Department of Social Services (DSS), the Department of Transportation (DOT), and the Department of Defense (DoD).
Dr. Tregear has experience in a vast array of quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques ranging from simple analysis of treatment and diagnostic effectiveness data to more complicated meta-analytical techniques, such as summary ROC analysis of diagnostic data, meta-regression, generalized estimating equation modeling, and hierarchical linear modeling. Dr. Tregear has lectured extensively on meta-analysis and the role of evidence and the utility of systematic review in decision-making and policy-making arenas.