State and Local Policy Initiatives to Reduce Health Disparities Workshop Summary (2011) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 119-126
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 119... ...
Azzahir is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Salzburg Fellowship, Salzburg Seminars, Salzburg, Austria, 1993; Community Health Leadership Award, 1995, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Community Camara Award, Young Entrepreneurs Institute, 1999; Ruby H Hughes Elder and Outstanding Citizenship Award, 2000; Race Unity Award of the BaHai Faith, 2000; recognition of outstanding community leadership, Leadership for a Changing World, 2002; and recognition as one of the 100 most influential health leaders in the Minnesota Physician August 2000 edition.
|
From page 120... ...
He has served on the governing boards of the American Health Quality Association, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Bridges to Excellence, the National Association of Health Data Organizations, and Henry Booth House, a service agency for poor residents of Chicago. He has been an examiner for the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award Program and a member of the Health Policy Roundtable of the Michael Reese Health Trust.
|
From page 121... ...
at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar. She serves as senior editor for Health Services Research and has served on editorial boards and as a reviewer for numerous journals.
|
From page 122... ...
Prior to joining Allina in 2002, Pettingill served for 6 years with Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation's largest health care systems. He was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals, president and chief executive officer of Kaiser's California Division, and senior vice president/service area manager of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals.
|
From page 123... ...
As mayor, Rybak streamlined the city's economic development functions, created a $10 million housing trust fund, adopted the city's first Code of Ethics, and saved taxpayers millions by reducing $72 million of inherited debt with six balanced budgets in 4 years. Minneapolis now leads the state in affordable housing production, job creation, and the arts, with nearly $3 billion of development investment under way.
|
From page 124... ...
Olaf College and a master's in health administration from the University of Minnesota, where he also served as a faculty member until 2007. Mildred Thompson, M.S.W., is the senior director and director of the PolicyLink Center for Health and Place, where she leads the work of the organization's heath team, participates in research focused on understanding community factors that impact health disparities, and identifies practice and policy changes needed to improve individual, family, and community health.
|
From page 125... ...
Weissman received his doctorate in health policy from the Pew Fellows Program at the Heller School, Brandeis University. He has led numerous federally funded studies, including those examining the relation of patient safety to hospital crowding, the reporting and disclosure of medical errors to patients, access to clinical trials by uninsured participants, E-prescribing in Massachusetts, and alternative scoring methods for pay for performance and was the lead evaluator for Consumer's Union Best Buy Drugs program.
|
From page 126... ...
A previous captain of the Commissioned Corp of the U.S. Public Health Service, Wong was awarded the Outstanding Service Medal while serving as both the chief medical officer for the Health Resources and Services Administration, Region IX, and its director of California Operations.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.