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Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 149-162
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Wilson has served on the governing boards of the Denver Children's Hospital, Auraria Higher Education Center, Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority, Institute of International Education, Colorado Bioscience Association, Association of Academic Health Centers, and the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities.
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Previously, Mr. Guterman was chief of institutional studies in the Health Care Financing Administration's Office of Research, where he directed the evaluation of the Medicare Prospective Payment System for inpatient hospital services and other intramural and extramural research on hospital payment.
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He is co-director of the Center for Research in Family Medicine and Primary Care and holds an endowed professorship at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Over the last 18 years, the center has studied almost 500 mostly independent, community-based primary care practices and recently completed the evaluation of the American Academy of Family Physicians' national demonstration project of the patient-centered medical home in 36 practices.
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She has been co-principal Investigator of the Iowa Geriatric Education Center grant funded by HRSA, co-director of the Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center (GNIRC) , and director of its Regional Research Training Core.
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Dr. Pohl's research has focused on health care quality and outcomes, cost of care in nurse-managed health centers, disparities, and health informatics in safety net practices, and has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and private foundations.
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While a senior associate at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, she directed studies on Medicare payment for physician services and measures of the quality of hospital and physician care. Her research has focused on interventions to improve the quality of care, especially to reduce disparities among population subgroups; evaluation of Medicaid managed care; and the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions, including pneumococcal and influenza vaccination for elderly people.
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Barbara O Wynn, M.A., is a senior policy analyst at RAND Corporation where she has been principal investigator on a variety of studies involving Medicare issues, such as studies examining differences in Medicare patient characteristics, cost and quality of procedures performed in multiple ambulatory settings, and an evaluation of severity-adjusted patient classification systems and relative weight methodologies.
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Ms. Wynn led major Medicare regulatory initiatives, including the Medicare hospital inpatient capital prospective payment system, the hospital outpatient prospective payment system, the resource-based practice expense for physician services, and implementation of the Medicare+Choice program.
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During the 1990s, he submitted recommendations to HCFA regarding updating the physician malpractice insurance component of the Medicare Geographic Practice Cost Index. Recent work includes examining alternative methods for configuring payment localities for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and an examination of the relative merits of BLS versus hospital-specific wage data for the IPPS area wage index.
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She is a quantitative analyst specializing in secondary data modeling and a recognized expert in prospective payment systems, and she has extensive experience in analysis of Medicare claims data and cost reports. Deborah Healy, Ph.D., is a senior economist in RTI's Health Care Financing and Payment Program.
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She has designed, implemented, and evaluated initiatives on health care coverage and access, health information technology adoption, health information exchange, and consumer health communications for federal and state government, foundations, and associations. Previously, she was a vice president of The Lewin Group, adjunct associate professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a senior associate on the Health IT team at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she co-authored white papers on meaningful use of electronic health records and public health informatics.
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Kathleen Haddad, Ph.D., senior program officer for the IOM Study of Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment, is a health services researcher with extensive background in Medicare claims data analysis, Medicare payment systems, Medicare quality, chronic disease management, health insurance policy, and geriatric mental health. In addition, Dr.
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Besides assisting on the Geographic Adjustment Factors project, she is working on the Breast Cancer and the Environment: The Scientific Methodology, Research Findings, and Future Directions study funded by the Susan G Komen for the Cure®, Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans, and the Expert Panel on Access to Medicare Part D Routine Vaccines project.
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From 2005 until 2009, he directed the IOM National Cancer Policy Forum. In 2007, he was also appointed director of the IOM Board on Health Care Services.
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