Mr. Shippee is the past president of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Community Health Centers, was a member of the Greater Baltimore EMA Ryan White Planning Council for seven years and chair of its Comprehensive Planning Committee. Additionally, he is the co-chair of the Board of Directors of Priority Partners Managed Care Organization and was the president of Community Health Integrated Partnership for the past seven years, a statewide integrated services network of eight community health centers.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Health Policy from SUNY Binghamton in Binghamton, N.Y., and an MBA in Health Administration from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.