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Appendix D: Committee Biosketches
Pages 179-188

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From page 179...
... , is the Logan Professor and chair of the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education of the City College of New York. She is a graduate of the Tufts University School of Medicine and the Columbia School of Public Health.
From page 180...
... He has served as a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force, which develops the Guide, and on America's Health Information Community Personalized Health Care Workgroup. He currently chairs the HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society (at National Institutes of Health's [NIH's]
From page 181...
... . She serves on the Executive Committee of the Atlanta Medical Association; the boards of directors of the VHA Foundation, the Atlanta Regional Health Forum, and ZAP Asthma Consortium, Inc.; and the advisory committees for the Association for Community Health Improvement, the Association for Health Information Management Foundation, and the MPH Program at Florida A&M University, where she serves as chair.
From page 182...
... Fleming directed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health Strategies program, in which capacity he oversaw the foundation's portfolios in vaccine-preventable diseases, nutrition, newborn and child health, leadership, emergency relief, and cross-cutting strategies to improve access to health tools in developing countries. He is a former deputy director of CDC.
From page 183...
... He has served on the Subcommittee on Performance Measures for the Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment and Performance Improvement Programs charged with redesigning health-insurance benefits, payment, and performanceimprovement programs for Medicare. He was also a member of the IOM Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice.
From page 184...
... He is a past president of several organizations, including the American Psychological Association Division of Health Psychology, Section J of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Pacific) , the International Society for Quality of Life Research, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.
From page 185...
... Meadows, PhD, MSN, RN, is associate dean for practice in the Office of Public Health Practice and clinical professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy of the University of Michigan (UM) School of Public Health, where her responsibilities include developing and teaching courses in public health administration and public health policy in the department and overseeing leadership training of public health professionals for the officee.
From page 186...
... She has received many honors, including selection as a state scholar for the Public Health Leadership Institute in 1996, the California Public Health Association-North Leadership Award in 2003, and the Outstanding Berkeley Woman Award in 2005. She has served on many advisory boards and commissions and was elected president of the California Conference of Local Health Officers for 2001–2003, president of the Health Officers Association of California for 2003–2005, and president of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
From page 187...
... His interests and research include patient-centered primary care and medical homes, care management and coordination, total health management, workplace health promotion, risk-reduction program measurement, value-based health-care purchasing, and global occupational and health-services delivery. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and the American College of Preventive Medicine.
From page 188...
... He is associate editor of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and served as North American editor of the British Medical Journal. He has consulted widely on various matters of health policy with government agencies and professional organizations in the United States and Europe and in 2001 was elected to the IOM.


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