Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health Care 2007 IOM Annual Meeting Summary (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Principals
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Principals
Pages 177-186
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He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, and serves on advisory boards at the National Institutes of Health, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust as well as editorial boards of Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, Current Opinions in Genetics & Development, and Science Magazine (Board of Reviewing Editors)
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Boutin served as the Vice President of Government Relations and Advocacy at the American Cancer Society for New England and was a faculty member at Tufts University Medical School. In addition to senior government relations positions at Easter Seals and the Massachusetts Association of Health Boards, he was a civil rights litigator.
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Fisher, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and Director of the Center for Healthcare Research and Reform within the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. At Dartmouth, he was a founding director and is now Senior Associate of the VA Outcomes Group, teaches in the Clinical Evaluative Sciences Master's program, and is the Principle Investigator for the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care.
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Robert Hayward, M.D., M.P.H., F.R.C.P.C., is a practicing general internist, and a leading expert in health informatics and clinical decision support. He is Assistant Dean, Health Informatics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, at the University of Alberta and Director of the Centre for Health Evidence, where he leads a team of health information specialists and healthcare practitioners to develop information tools that bring evidence to the bedside for improved healthcare decision making.
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Johns engineered the transformation of the Health Sciences Center into one of the nation's pre-eminent centers in education, research, and patient care. From 1990 to 1996, he was Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Vice President of the Medical Faculty at Johns Hopkins University, after having served, beginning in 1984, as professor and chair of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and as Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs.
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As a cardiovascular physician-scientist, she has made substantial contributions to the understanding of the molecular genetics of vascular diseases, and has delineated the mechanisms by which cell cycle and growth factor proteins regulate the proliferation of vascular cells in blood vessels, a process important for the development of atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases. Her vascular biology laboratory has characterized the role of cell cycle inhibitors on vascular proliferation and inflammation, and this research has opened up new avenues for therapeutic targets in the vasculature.
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Penchman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. While at Brookings, he also served as Director of the Hamilton Project, which provides a platform for scholars to offer proposals for promoting broad-based economic growth; Director of the Retirement Security Project, which focuses on promoting retirement security; and Co-Director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture with the Urban Institute providing analysis of tax issues.
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He participates on multiple national committees including Chair of the AHA's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group, the Veterans Administration's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative Executive Committee, the National Quality Forum Technical Advisory Panel for Priorities, Goals and a Measurement Framework: Efficiency and Episodes of Care, and the IOM Committee on Redesigning Insurance Benefits, Provider Payments, and Accountability Programs to Promote Quality of Health Care Delivery.
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history. In that position, she directed the welfare reform process, made health insurance available to 3.33 million children through the approval of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, raised child immunization rates, led major reforms of the Food and Drug Administration's drug approval process and food safety system, revitalized the NIH, and directed a major management and policy reform of Medicare.
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, through both planning and implementation phases of large-scale integrated advanced Information Management Systems Projects. His Vanderbilt team created informatics techniques for linking information into clinical workflow, overcame the barriers to technology adoption, and reduced the cost and time required to implement enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure.
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