Ms. Valerie Barton is a Senior Advisor with the National Sepsis Registry Initiative (NSRI) where she leads business and operational planning. Ms. Barton has served in leadership roles in data rich-organizations, including at the Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet) where she worked with academic researchers to integrate claims and registry data into the clinical data assets of PCORnet. During her nearly 20 years as a consultant, she assisted clients by bringing data-informed approaches to their health policy development and business strategies. Ms. Barton founded and built research and data practices at both Manatt Health LLP and Avalere Health LLC. Under her leadership, her teams conducted quantitative analytics and economic modeling with observational data for pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotech and medical device firms, patient organizations, and foundations. She began her career as an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office and, later, at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.