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Appendix I: Committee Biographies
Pages 171-180

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From page 171...
... He is a current member of the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine. He has served as the vice-chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, chaired the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, and served as a Commissioner of the Physician Payment Review Commission.
From page 172...
... His work in lung cancer epidemiology has focused on the development and utilization of lung cancer prediction models that can be used to determine what lung cancer events populations of elderly smokers will experience over a period of time. His health care policy analysis includes investigations into Medicare's approaches to cancer payment, as well as developing models of alternative reimbursement, payment systems, and coverage policies.
From page 173...
... Along with publishing in the medical literature, Dr. Bach's opinion pieces have appeared in numerous lay news outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes Online, and National Public Radio.
From page 174...
... Karen Davis, Ph.D., is currently the Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and director of the Roger C Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
From page 175...
... Prior to his founding HSC, Dr. Ginsburg served as the founding executive director of the Physician Payment Review Commission (now the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission)
From page 176...
... He is chief quality officer, and executive director, at the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research at Intermountain Healthcare, based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Through the Intermountain Advanced Training Program in Clinical Practice Improvement (ATP)
From page 177...
... Keeler, Ph.D., is a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, and senior mathematician at RAND. In the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, he investigated the theoretical and empirical effects of alternative health insurance plans on episodes of treatment and on health outcomes.
From page 178...
... Morton, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics in the Graduate School of Public Health, and directs the Comparative Effectiveness Research Core at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds secondary appointments in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and the Department of Statistics.
From page 179...
... He previously held a cabinet position as executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, was health policy advisor to Colorado Governor Roy Romer, and was assistant general counsel in the Massachusetts Department of Medical Security.
From page 180...
... Dr. Wilensky currently serves as a trustee of the Combined Benefits Fund of the United Mine Workers of America and the National Opinion Research Center, is on the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)


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