Washington, D.C. – Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced today that Georgetown University Center for Children and Families Director Cindy Mann has been appointed Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (CMSO). CMSO oversees Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at the federal level. Mann will assume her new position on June 8. CCF is an independent, nonpartisan policy center based at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute whose mission is to expand and improve health coverage for America’s children and families.