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Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Participants
Pages 321-344

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... Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Participants Peter B Bach, M.D., M.A.P.P., joined the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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... Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Pharmaceutical Roundtable
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... , a public-private partnership among the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the DCRI, academia, the medical products industry, and consumer groups focused on research and education that strives to advance the best use of medical products.
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... She is a member of the Medical Advisory Panel, Technology Evaluation Center, run by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association; the IOM Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; the Cancer Care Measures Steering Committee of the National Quality Forum; the Board of the VHA (Veterans Health Administration) Health Foundation, along with a number of other advisory and editorial boards.
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... Lynn Etheredge is an independent consultant working on health care and social policy issues. His career started at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
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... Janlori Goldman, J.D., is director of the Health Privacy Project and research faculty at the Center on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University. She specializes in privacy and confidentiality issues within the physicianpatient relationship, and her areas of expertise include the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
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... 2 APPENDIX B and personal information held by the government. Her publications include "Bioterrorism, Public Health and Privacy," included in the publication Lost Liberties: Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom; two articles in Health Affairs: "Virtually Exposed: Privacy and E-Health," coauthored with Zoe Hudson, and "Protecting Privacy to Improve Health Care"; and "A Federal Right of Information Privacy," coauthored with Jerry Berman and included as a chapter in Computers, Ethics, and Social Values.
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... from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990 where she worked with applications of Bayesian Statistics. She was on the faculty of the George Washington University, Engineering School, from 1990 to 1998, when she joined the CDRH in order to help implement the use of Bayesian methodology in medical device clinical trials.
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... 2 APPENDIX B School of Public Health, providing statistical support for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, and staffed the American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer. He holds faculty appointments at the University of Utah School of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and University of Sydney, Australia, School of Public Health.
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... Joel Kupersmith, M.D., is chief research and development officer of the Veterans Health Administration. He has completed projects and published papers on a number of health and research policy areas including how to fund, oversee, and promote effectiveness research; how academic medical centers should be accountable; quality of care in teaching hospitals; regional institutional review boards (IRBs)
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...  APPENDIX B member of the AAMC Task Force on Fraud and Abuse, and has been a site visit chair for the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.
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... 2 THE LEARNING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM Harvard Medical School; he subsequently completed fellowship training in shoulder surgery and sports medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, Cornell University. Janet M
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... ARDS Network for clinical trials and has directed this group since 1994. This 4-Hospital group includes the LDS, Cottonwood, McKay Dee, and Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Hospitals.
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...  THE LEARNING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM American Academy of Nursing.
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... Phurrough, M.D., M.P.A., is the director of the Coverage and Analysis Group at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Using evidence-based medicine principles, Dr.
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... Steven D Pearson, M.D., M.Sc., F.R.C.P., is a general internist and associate professor of ambulatory care and prevention at Harvard Medical School, and senior fellow at America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
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... . As the chief executive officer of the Veterans Health Administration, Dr.
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...  THE LEARNING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM and utilization management. Prior to his current position, he served as chief medical officer for Rush Prudential Health Plans; director in Healthcare Business Consulting for Arthur Andersen; and vice president of medical affairs and medical director for Aetna US Healthcare of the Midwest, Inc.
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...  APPENDIX B Stephen B Soumerai, Sc.D., is professor of ambulatory care and prevention at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, where he directs the Drug Policy Research Group, a research program focused on pharmaceutical outcomes and quality of health care that is also a World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Pharmaceutical Policy.
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... Earlier in his career, Dr. Stewart founded IMR, a clinical trials and survey research company.
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... Tunis was the chief medical officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Before joining CMS, Dr.
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... 2 THE LEARNING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM Johns Hopkins Hospital; and director of the Experimental Cardiac Pathology Laboratory there. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
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...  APPENDIX B Dr. Williams' research focuses on the role of health literacy in the delivery of health care and quality improvement, and he currently is studying the role of teamwork in the delivery of hospital care and the discharge process.


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