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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Participants
Pages 253-272

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... Dr. Blumenthal is a renowned health services researcher and national authority on health IT adoption.
From page 254...
... Buto was a Senior Health Adviser at the Congressional Budget Office, helping to develop the cost models for the Medicare drug benefit. Before that, she spent more than 18 years in senior positions at the Health Care Financing Administration, including Deputy Director, Center for Health Plans and Providers, and Associate Administrator for Policy.
From page 255...
... He is the Co-Editor of the American Journal of Managed Care and Senior Associate Editor of Health Services Research.
From page 256...
... As Chief Medical Officer, he has a portfolio of work focused primarily on quality measurement and links to payment, health information technology, and research and evaluation across the entire Department. He also served as the Executive Director of the Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research, coordinating investment of the $1.1 billion for this type of research in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act Act.
From page 257...
... ; the Medical Advisory Panel, Technology Evaluation Center (Blue Cross Blue Shield Association) ; the Boards of the National Quality Forum and the congressionally created Reagan-Udall Foundation; and the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee.
From page 258...
... Eisenberg Center for Clinical Decisions and Communication Sciences, the single national center supported by AHRQ for translation of comparative effectiveness research findings produced by the Effective Healthcare Program into actionable products for dissemination and use by clinicians, consumers, and policy makers to support decision making; Director of the Education Core of the AHRQfunded Houston Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics; and the Senior Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education and Senior Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education at Baylor College of
From page 259...
... He is nationally active in educational and technology efforts, serving or having served in leadership and/or committee and task force positions for the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education; the American Heart Association; the Association of American Medical Colleges; the Conjoint Committee for CME of the Council of Medical Specialty Societies; the Accreditation Review Committee for the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education; and the MedBiquitous Consortium -- the ANSI-accredited developer of information technology standards for healthcare education and competence assessment. Allan Frankel, M.D., trained as a pediatric anesthesiologist and practiced for 25 years as a cardiac and then general anesthesiologist in Boston hospitals -- academic and community.
From page 260...
... Clifford Goodman, Ph.D., is a Vice President at The Lewin Group, a healthcare policy and human services consulting firm based in Falls Church, VA. He has more than 25 years of experience in such areas as health technology assessment, evidence-based health care, comparative effectiveness research, health economics, and studies pertaining to healthcare innovation, regulation, and payment.
From page 261...
... Joseph C Kvedar, M.D., is the Founder and Director of the Center for Connected Health, applying communications technology and online resources to increase access and improve the delivery of quality medical services and patient care outside of the traditional medical setting.
From page 262...
... She is also actively involved in graduate medical education. She serves as President of the Board of NeighborCare Health.
From page 263...
... Dr. Masys' research interests span a number of areas of informatics, including genome-phenome correlation using electronic medical records data, the pooling and meta-analysis of HIV epidemiology data from multilingual international sources, creation of tools for clinical and translational research, and design and implementation of patient portals.
From page 264...
... She joined Stroger Hospital of Cook County in March of 2005, as Associate Division Chief for General Internal Medicine, focusing her attention on mentoring and staff development, while serving as a community provider at Woodlawn Adult Health Center. Prior to going to Stroger, she served 2 years as the Senior Director for Quality and Clinical Research of the Health Research and Educational Trust of the American Hospital Association where she focused on quality and patient safety demonstration projects.
From page 265...
... Previously, he served at the NYC Health Department (DOHMH) as Assistant Commissioner for the Primary Care Information Project, with the goal of encouraging and facilitating the adoption of prevention-oriented health information technology in underserved communities.
From page 266...
... Mr. Park has also served in a volunteer capacity as a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focused on health IT and health reform policy, and as senior healthcare advisor to Ashoka, a leading global incubator of social entrepreneurs, where he helped start a venture to bring affordable telehealth, drugs, diagnostics, and clean water to rural India.
From page 267...
... Dr. Sepucha was the medical editor for a series of five breast cancer patient decision aids (PtDAs)
From page 268...
... , headquartered in London, England. As one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies with healthcare sales of $29.5 billion, AZ is a leader in the research, development, manufacture, and marketing of prescription pharmaceuticals and the supply of healthcare services.
From page 269...
... He chaired an IOM patient safety committee that published Patient Safety: A New Standard for Care and Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System.
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... Deborah Trautman, Ph.D., R.N., has held clinical and administrative leadership positions at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Most recently, she has served as the Vice President of Patient Care Services for Howard County General Hospital, part of the Johns Hopkins Health System, and as Director of Nursing for Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and she has a Joint Appointment at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.
From page 271...
... Her health policy interests include emergency patient care, emergency nursing practice, women's health, healthcare disparities, access to health care, and improving healthcare delivery. She is a 2007–2008 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow working for the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, House of Representatives.
From page 272...
... She also served as Executive Director of New Jersey's health reform commission in the mid-1990s and led the design and implementation of Health Access New Jersey, a subsidized health benefits plan. Before going to New Jersey, Ms.


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