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Appendix D: Speaker Biographies
Appendix D: Speaker Biographies
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Prior to joining AEI, he was Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) , and he held senior positions in the U.S.
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Dr. Antos has written, lectured, and testified before Congress on the economics of health policy, including Medicare and broader health system reform, healthcare financing, health insurance regulation, and the uninsured.
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He has extensive experience with risk adjustment and has served in several public policy advisory roles. He currently serves on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
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He has published widely in journals including RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Health Economics, Antitrust Bulletin, Health Affairs, and Health Economics, Policy and Law. Lisa Carrara, has proven herself in a variety of underwriting, sales support, and product development management positions.
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in health services research at the University of California, Berkeley, and served as an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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He has been a faculty member at Dartmouth and MIT, and has been a consultant to the National Academy of Science, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the RAND Corporation. He is the recipient of an Outstanding Teacher Award, the first-prize recipient of the Upjohn Institute's International Dissertation Research Award, the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics, and the Eugene Garfield Award for the impact of medical research.
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Honored for his scholarly work and singled out for outstanding mentorship of graduate students, Professor Cutler's work in health economics and public economics has earned him significant academic and public acclaim. Professor Cutler served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton administration and was senior health care advisor to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
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. In the past, she has been appointed to, or has served on, several national committees including an appointment by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services as a Commissioner on the American Health Information Community (AHIC)
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Medical Center and at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. In the 1980s, she directed a national demonstration program for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and subsequently was the Program Director for the National Program in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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His research has focused on the measurement and improvement of healthcare quality for adults and children, particularly focused on the roles of financing and health information technology. In addition to quality improvement interventions, he has published studies on the effects of the organization and financing of care on the costs and quality of care, risk adjustment of quality measures, and disparities in health care.
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most recently, he has focused on the health implications of the uneven distribution of healthcare resources. His current research, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examines the potential adverse consequences of increasing capacity in health care.
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After establishing a family practice group in Massachusetts, he became Medical Director for Medigroup Central HMO, a Blue Cross of New Jersey managed care company in 1985. He was Chief Medical Officer for Independence Blue Cross from 1992 until 1995, when he became the general manager of their AmeriHealth New Jersey managed care subsidiary.
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His research interests combine applied microeconomics and medical issues, with a special interest in the role that medical technology and health insurance play in determining health-related outcomes. His work has been published in leading medical, economic, statistics, and health policy journals with funding from both the public and private sectors, including the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation, Amgen, Merck, Genentech, California Healthcare Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Labor, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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Hoerger, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Health Economics, appointed in September 2005, is the Director of the RTI-UNC Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics. He specializes in health economics, healthcare reform, and cost-effectiveness analysis.
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He is a founding board member of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, a collaborative of Twin Cities medical groups and health plans that is implementing clinical practice guidelines in Minnesota. Isham is a past member of the board of directors of the American's Health Insurance Plans and he is currently on the board of directors of the Alliance of Community Health Plans.
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; Treasurer of the Board of the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) ; Immediate Past Chair of the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME)
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He has worked in areas evaluating the quality of hospital care, especially hospitals that care for large minority populations; the impact of health information technology and public reporting on quality of care; and delineating the relationship between hospital quality and efficiency. Much of his current work focuses on the current state of health information technology use in the United States and the impact it has on the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care.
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In addition to his patient-care duties and position as CEO, Dr. Kaplan is a Clinical Professor at the University of Washington and has been recognized for his service and contribution to many regional and national boards, including the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Medical Group Management Association, the National Patient Safety Foundation, the American Heart Association -- King County Division, the Seattle Foundation, and the Washington Healthcare Forum.
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Linda L Kloss, M.A., R.H.I.A., is Chief Executive Officer of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
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He is an associate editor of the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. He is an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics of the University of Pennsylvania and a Population Health Associate of the Jefferson School of Population Health.
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Michelle J Lyn, M.B.A., M.H.A., is Chief of the Division of Community Health of the Department of Community & Family Medicine, and Associate Director of the Duke Center for Community Research of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute.
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Mark B McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., became the Director of the Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform at the Brookings Institution in July 2007.
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He directed Stanford's Program on Health Outcomes Research and was also associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and co-principal investigator of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) , a longitudinal study of the health and economic status of older Americans.
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hospitals has more than doubled in the last 5 years. She is also Director of the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute; Professor of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine; and Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
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His summary of the recommendations from the 2008 Payment Reform Summit, From Volume to Value: Transforming Healthcare Payment and Delivery Systems to Improve Quality and Reduce Costs, was published in November 2008 by NRHI and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and his overview of healthcare payment systems, Better Ways to Pay for Health Care: A Primer on Healthcare Payment Reform was published in January 2009 as part of the NRHI Payment Reform Series in conjunction with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has also authored the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform's publication series Paths to Payment Reform.
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Miller was the Deputy Director of Health Plans at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS, formerly the Health Care Financing Administration)
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His research focuses on decision making at the end of life, pain and symptom management in older adults, and health services research in palliative care.
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Dr. Naylor also is the National Program Director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI)
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and the 2001 Technical Review Panel for the Medicare Trustees Reports. He was on the advisory panel to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Covering America project and has been a consultant to the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, and the Pan American Health Organization.
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Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. While at Brookings, he also served as Director of the Hamilton Project; Director of the Retirement Security Project; and Co-Director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture with the Urban Institute.
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the continuum of medical research -- including clinical science and health services research; and (3) issues requiring expert medical analysis and advice, particularly those concerning policy, planning, formulation, and presentation of public health issues affecting the Department.
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He received his medical degree and residency training in primary care internal medicine from the University of California-San Francisco. He then completed fellowship training in clinical epidemiology and health services research through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and his Master's degree in epidemiology from the UNC School of Public Health.
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His current work focuses on reforming health care from the inside by abolishing waste and defects, enabling the survival of reliable, responsive primary care in collaborative multispecialty groups. Amita Rastogi, M.D., M.H.A., is Chief Medical Officer of Prometheus with Bridges to Excellence.
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Riemer currently works for Community Advocates, Inc., of Milwaukee, as Director of Policy and Planning. He directs the Community Advocates Public Policy Institute, and is active in health insurance reform efforts.
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Through his influential posts on Capitol Hill, Rosen helped shepherd through Congress a long list of major legislative accomplishments, including: The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003; The Project Bioshield Act of 2004; The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005; The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) ; The Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
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From 1997 to 2003, he was Executive Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) , the nation's largest health-focused private foundation.
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She was recently recruited to Intermountain Healthcare to bring her expertise to bear within the Intermountain Healthcare system. She has served as a Senior Health Services Researcher at Abt Associates and RTI International.
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She teaches the Quality Improvement course for the School of Nursing's doctoral program and the Health Services Research course in the School of Medicine at the University of Utah. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
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A Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Spear is internationally known for his expertise in innovation, operational excellence, and organizational learning, with deep expertise in industry and health care, based, in part on his 1999 Harvard Business Review article, Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System, and his 2005 article, Fixing Healthcare from the Inside, Today, which was an HBR McKinsey Award winner and one of his five works to win a Shingo Research Prize. Spear helped develop and deploy the Alcoa Business System in the late 1990s and the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative's "Perfecting Patient Care" a few year's after.
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He was a member of the National Advisory Committee for Rural Health, and the Pennsylvania Cancer Control Consortium and is presently a member of the Healthcare Executives Network, the Alliance for Advancing Non-profit Health Care, the Commonwealth Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance's (NCQA) Committee on Performance Measurement.
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Jennifer Sweeney, M.A., is the Director of Americans for Quality Health Care, a project of the National Partnership for Women & Families. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Americans for Quality Health Care promotes consumer involvement in the drive to improve heathcare quality and increase transparency.
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In 1991, Professor Thorpe was awarded the Young Investigator Award presented to the most promising health services researcher in the country under age 40 by the Association for Health Services Research. He also received the Hettleman Award for academic and scholarly research
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Prior to joining HealthPartners, Thygeson served as the Medical Director for Definity Health; he was responsible for personal care support strategy and operations, and supporting consumer activation, network strategy, and provider relations. Prior to joining Definity Health, Thygeson was the Chief Medical Officer of Mywayhealth, another consumer driven healthcare benefit plan.
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ThedaCare and Dr. Toussaint's work have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Modern Healthcare, the Harvard Business Review, and Health Management Technology.
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. He also led CPMG's quality management program and served as Associate Medical Director for Medical Management, with responsibility for quality management, utilization management, regulatory compliance, risk management, credentialing and physician performance, and informatics.
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Dr. Woolf edited the first two editions of the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services and is author of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice.
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Congressman Ben Cardin. Prior to joining the Medicare program, Wynn worked in the Office of Policy, Development, and Research at HUD and taught political science at Lake Forest College and at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
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