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Appendix D: Biosketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 401-416

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From page 401...
... Smith was executive vice president of the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation and previously served as associate director of the AIDS Service and assistant professor of medicine and of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins University.
From page 402...
... In 1986, Dr. Bagian served as an investigator for the Space Shuttle Challenger accident and as the astronaut on-scene adviser for the salvage operations of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew module; he was the individual who dove and made the positive identification of the Challenger crew module debris on the ocean floor.
From page 403...
... Gail H Cassell, Ph.D., retired as vice president, Scientific Affairs and Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases, Eli Lilly and Company, in October 2010.
From page 404...
... Conway is a member of the Clinical Issues Advisory Council of the Massachusetts Hospital Association and is a distinguished advisor to the Lucian Leape Institute for the National Patient Safety Foundation. He has served as board chair, The Partnership for Healthcare Excellence; board member, Winchester Hospital; board member, the American Cancer Society, New England Region; and board member, Medically Induced Trauma Support Services.
From page 405...
... While in Louisiana, he received funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ's) Transforming Healthcare Quality through Information Technology program to begin development of a longitudinal cardiovascular information system for the statewide Charity Hospital System population.
From page 406...
... She is a member of the Harvard Business School Health Industry Alumni Advisory Board, the University of Arkansas chancellor's board of advisors, and the University of Colorado Initiative for Molecular Biotechnology. She also serves on the advisory boards for the Kellogg Center for Executive Women and the Women Business Leaders of the US Health Care Industry Foundation.
From page 407...
... He also serves on the boards of America's Health Insurance Plans and the Alliance of Community Health Plans. He chairs the International Federation of Health Plans and co-chairs IHI's Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care.
From page 408...
... He was director, in charge of the design, implementation, and management, of the Breathmobile Program, a program using mobile clinics, team-based care, and health information technology to deliver ongoing preventive care to inner-city children with asthma at their schools and at county clinics. The program evolved from community outreach to provide more fully integrated pediatric asthma disease management for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services and has spread to several other communities across the country.
From page 409...
... Eisenberg Award from the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission for Individual Achievement at the national level for his outstanding work and commitment to patient safety and quality. Additionally, he was recognized by the Medical Group Management Association and the American College of Medical Practice Executives as the recipient of the Harry J
From page 410...
... He is a board member of the IOM, Board on Health Care Services; the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making; the Citizens Advocacy Center; THINC, a regional health information project in the mid-Hudson Valley; and the New York eHealth Collaborative. He is also the consumer representative on the steering committee of the Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics.
From page 411...
... He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NIH Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Economics, the University of Chicago Searle Fellowship, the Lee Lusted Prize of the Society for Medical Decision Making, the Health Care Research Award of the National Institute for Health Care Management, the Eugene Garfield Award from Research America, and the Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Award.
From page 412...
... She also is a member of the RAND Health Advisory Board and the National Quality Forum's board of directors and chairs the board of the Long Term Quality Alliance.
From page 413...
... He co-chairs the Measurement Implementation Strategy work group of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee and chairs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's National Advisory Council for ProjectHealth ­ esign. D He has published numerous papers in medical informatics, especially related to electronic health records, personal health records, and quality, and has delivered more than 280 invited presentations to national and international organizations and associations.
From page 414...
... In 2010, she received her J.D. with a concentration in health care law from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where her research focused on bioethics and issues of access to care, including a critique of the legal framework for the resolution of custody disputes over frozen embryos and analysis of the accessibility of mental health care following the passage of mental health parity and health care reform legislation.
From page 415...
... Her dissertation research focused on helping mothers who quit smoking avoid relapse after pregnancy. In her approach to health care and policy, she is committed to the fundamental right of every human being to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health.
From page 416...
... Health Group, the World Health Organization's Office for Health Reconstruction in Bosnia, the federal Office of Research Integrity, and the federal Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. In a tenure unusual for political and policy posts, Dr.


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