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Appendix G: Committee Biographies
Pages 392-400

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From page 392...
... He cochairs the Scientific and Medical Accountability Standards Working Group of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and serves on the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Medical Advisory Panel for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Technology Evaluation Center, the Ethics Advisory Committee (uncompensated) for Affymetrix (which develops and supplies genetic research products)
From page 393...
... She is also a member of the UCSF Academic Senate Vendor Relations Task Force and has served on numerous institutional and international committees related to conflicts of interest. In addition, Dr.
From page 394...
... His main research interests lie in understanding the effects of academic-industry relationships on the processes and outcomes of biomedical research, investigating the effects of local health care market competition on the activities and attitudes of medical school faculty, and understanding the impact of data sharing and withholding on academic science. In addition, he is researching the role of organizational culture in promoting patient safety, and he is participating in a national evaluation of the use of health information technology for the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology.
From page 395...
... Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation, cochaired the National Research Council Subcommittee on Use of Third Party Toxicity Research with Human Test Subjects, and served as a member of IOM committees on assessing genetic risks and establishing a national cord blood stem cell bank program.
From page 396...
... He is a coauthor of the widely used teaching book, Health Law, now in its sixth edition, and is the author of Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics, Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement, and Disentitlement, and the editor of Health Care Coverage Determinations: An International Comparative Study and Regulation of the Healthcare Professions. He has written numerous articles and book chapters on health care regulation and comparative health law and policy.
From page 397...
... He oversees the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers and the University of Michigan Medical School, including their policies governing conflicts of interest in research, education, patient care, and other areas. Earlier, Dr.
From page 398...
... Neil R Powe, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., is University Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, a multidisciplinary clinical research and training center at Johns Hopkins.
From page 399...
... Among earlier projects, she has directed three studies of the development and use of clinical practice guidelines, two studies of palliative and end-of-life care, and congressionally requested studies of employment-based health insurance and Medicare coverage of preventive services. Past positions include associate director of the Physician Payment Review
From page 400...
... Franklin Branch is a research associate for the Board on Health Sciences Policy. Before joining the Institute of Medicine, he worked for the Adolescent Health Research Group at Johns Hopkins University and at the American Association of People with Disabilities.


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