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Appendix E Committee Biographies
Appendix E Committee Biographies
Pages 481-500
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The Center, funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, works with leaders of American health professional organizations and health care institutions to increase the rate at which patients who smoke are offered help to quit. Between 1990 and 2002 he was president and chief executive officer (CEO)
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His research has helped establish determinants of health outcomes and quality of care for health care organizations. As Blue Cross of California distinguished professor of health policy and management, Dr.
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At the state level, in 1994 she joined the Massachusetts Peer Review Organization and helped lead the implementation of the state's new Medicare Health Care Quality Improvement Program contract. Before joining the Fund, Dr.
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He is clinical professor of pediatrics and health care policy at the Harvard Medical School and professor of health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also a pediatrician, an associate in pediatrics at Boston's Children's Hospital, and a consultant in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and research institute. Prior to joining NCQHC in June 2005, she was senior board director at the IOM, where she was responsible for the Board on Health Care Services' portfolio of initiatives on quality and safety, health services organization and financing, and health insurance issues.
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She was chair of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 1981 to 1992. She also serves on the board of Geisinger Health System.
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is director of global health care for General Electric (GE)
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Galvin has been an advocate and leader in extending the benefits of this methodology to health care. He has focused on issues of market-based health policy and financing, with a special interest in promoting transparency and reforming the payment system.
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His experience in Washington, D.C., began in 1994, when he joined the national health care reform debate as a White House fellow. Currently, Dr.
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In this role, he will direct a $1.5 billion, 1,400-employee agency responsible for Medicaid, health safety net issues, public health, and hospital bioterrorism preparedness. He previously served as vice president for clinical quality and medical director of the Office of Public Policy Initiatives of the Henry Ford Health System, serving as the System's chief quality officer and leading initiatives in the quality and public financing of health care.
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and Edith L Wolf distinguished professor of medicine and director of the Washington University Center for Health Policy in 2003.
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Powe, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.,* is professor of medicine, professor of health policy and management, and professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Queram served as CEO of the Employer Health Care Alliance Cooperative (the Alliance) of Madison, Wisconsin, a health care purchasing cooperative owned by more than 160 member companies in south central Wisconsin.
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Shoshanna Sofaer, D.P.H., is Robert P Luciano professor of health care policy at the School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, New York City.
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Her primary research interests include providing information to consumers and patients on the performance of the health care system; assessing the impact of quality, cost, and other comparative information on consumers, patients, providers, and systems; developing consumer-relevant performance measures; and assessing the effectiveness of multistakeholder efforts such as coalitions, partnerships, and collaboratives in improving health and health care. She is an expert in evaluation research, with particular emphasis on appropriate designs for formative and summative assessments of both the implementation and outcomes of innovative programs.
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From 2001 to 2003, she cochaired the President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans, which addressed health care for both veterans and military retirees. From 1997 to 2001 she chaired the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on payment and other issues relating to Medicare, and from 1995 to 1997 she chaired the Physician Payment Review Commission.
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Samantha M Chao, M.P.H., is senior health policy associate for the IOM's Board on Health Care Services.
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While earning a master's degree, she worked on various projects, including Medicaid disease management and the uninsured. She has a doctor of podiatric medicine degree from the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine and a master of public health degree with a concentration in health policy from The George Washington University.
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Previously, she was a policy specialist at a national association representing nonprofit providers of long-term care services. Her earlier positions included policy analysis and management with: the office of the secretary, DHHS; a peer review organization; a governor's task force on access to health care; and a third-party administrator for very large health plans.
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