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Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 127-134

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From page 127...
... HealthPar~ers is a large unmanaged health £ are organization in Minnesota, representing newly 800,000 members. Group Health, Funk in 1957, is a network of staff medicai~:ancL dental centers located throughout the Twin Cities.
From page 128...
... Mile High Healthy Beginnings project (ended by both national arid local four~dations) to ~ provide medical services to children enrolled In subsidized child care caters, and the Bright Beginnings project (funded by the Carnegie Foundation and local fb~dations3 to provide volu=rdeer home Visits for folios of newborns.
From page 129...
... His work has focused on understanding and improving care at the primary care/~ental health interface in the United States. This research has examined such issues as the work and general health costs of mental illness, the quality of merita:l health~care, and the quality arid outcomes of general medical services for people with serious mental d~s~clers.
From page 130...
... Iezzoni is Professor of Medicine at Harvard~Medical School and Co-Director of Research, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care' Department of Medicine' Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. HEer research 11 30 interests include: usmg risk adjustment to : predict clinical outcomes and resource consurnption; fusing administrative and clinical data to evaluate outcomes =d assess quality of care; arid improving daily Auctioning aide quality of lift for people with disabilities, especially irnpa~red mobility.
From page 131...
... , The~National Spit Tobacco Education Program (1996-200339 Bridging ~e Ha;: i: Research ~~rmin~g Practice Fir Heated Yo~h Behavior ~(l 997~20094' Improving Chronic Illness Care (1998-2Q03) , Physical Activity Policy and Environmental Research Initiative (2000~20()
From page 132...
... He is also a former Robert lReprodu¢tive Sciences at the University of Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty California, San Francisco (UCSF)
From page 133...
... Mom ~ 997 to 2001, skit chaired the Medicare Payment Aerosol Commas which advises Congress on pant and other issues relating to h4~care, ancI~om T995 to 1997' she chafed the Physician Payment Review Commissions Previously, she served as Deputy Assistant to President Bush ~ Policy Development, advising him on health and welfare issues. Prior to that, she was Administrator of the [Health £ are 3Finar~cing A~ninistiation, overseeing the Medicare Act Medicaid!


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