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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 167-194

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From page 167...
... Mr. Armstrong is a commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, a board member of the Alliance of Community Health Plans, and a board member of America's Health Insurance Plans.
From page 168...
... She returned to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in July 2002 as vice president of patient safety and director of the Center for Patient Safety.
From page 169...
... Patrick Conway, M.D., M.Sc., is the deputy administrator for innovation and quality and chief medical officer at the Centers for Medicare & M ­ edicaid Services (CMS)
From page 170...
... Corwin, M.D., was named CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital on September 6, 2011. In this role he is responsible for developing and implementing the hospital's next capital and fundraising plan; advocating for academic medicine under health care reform; further integrating electronic information systems across the care continuum; collaborating with the hospital's medical school partners and health care system to support patient care, education, and research; and continuing to improve community health status.
From page 171...
... From 1998 to 2005 Dr. Corwin served as senior vice president and chief medical officer for New York-Presbyterian, leading the development and implementation of 13 clinical service lines, an initiative that was critical to the success of the newly merged hospital.
From page 172...
... As the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, she is leading the nation's charge to promote, adopt, and meaningfully use health information technology in order to achieve better care and lower costs in health care and improve the overall health of everyone in America. Before joining HHS, she was health commissioner for the City of New Orleans and New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu's senior health policy advisor.
From page 173...
... Dr. DeSalvo served as president of the Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum, the state's lead for the health information exchange, and as president of the National Association of Chiefs of General Internal Medicine.
From page 174...
... he helped lead the transformation of the system to achieve excellence in care quality and implement its use of computerized health records. Thomas Graf, M.D., is the chief medical officer for population health and longitudinal care service lines for Geisinger Health System.
From page 175...
... David Grossman, M.D., M.P.H., is currently the medical director for population and purchaser strategy at Group Health Cooperative and also a senior investigator at the Group Health Research Institute. As a senior medical enterprise medical director, he serves as the medical director assisting with population strategy for some of Group Health's largest purchasers, including the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program and Washington Public Employees Benefit Board.
From page 176...
... His personal research interests are currently focused on the effects of racial and ethnic bias on health care. Trent Haywood, M.D., J.D., is chief medical officer for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA)
From page 177...
... In that role he was responsible for the operation of five hospitals as well as the organization's medical group and legal and corporate compliance divisions. Prior to that position, he had served as Sentara's chief medical officer and senior vice president beginning in 1998.
From page 178...
... He also holds a visiting lectureship in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a member of a number of national task forces and committees that examine health care quality and cost control, including AHRQ, and his most recent appointment is by the federal comptroller to an advisory group on making American health care more accessible and affordable.
From page 179...
... Rainu Kaushal, M.D., M.P.H., chairman of the Department of Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medical College, is an international expert and leader in the clinical effectiveness, cost effectiveness, and comparative effectiveness of health care delivery interventions and models.
From page 180...
... Pete Knox, M.S., executive vice president and chief learning and innovation officer of Bellin Health System, has been associated with Bellin Health in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in a variety of leadership roles for the past 34 years.
From page 181...
... , and then served as chief resident of University Hospital in Seattle. He served as medical director of University of Washington Medical Center and as associate dean for clinical affairs from l989 to 2002.
From page 182...
... In 2006 Dr. Margolis' joined Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center to create a new center focused on health care quality.
From page 183...
... Janice Nevin, M.D., M.P.H., became Christiana Care Health System's chief medical officer in 2011. As chief medical officer, Dr.
From page 184...
... From 2008 until her appointment as chief medical officer, Dr. Nevin served as the senior vice president and executive director of Christiana Care Wilmington as well as the associate chief medical officer.
From page 185...
... She completed study of palliative care and ethics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and was a fellow at the National Library of Medicine Program in Biomedical Informatics. Bray Patrick-Lake, M.F.S., who is director of stakeholder engagement for the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI)
From page 186...
... Perlin has received numerous awards, including Distinguished Alumnus in Medicine and Health Administration from his alma mater, the Chairman's Medal from the National Patient Safety Foundation, and the Founders Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, and he is one of a dozen honorary members of the Special Forces Association and Green Berets. Broadly published in health care quality and transformation, Dr.
From page 187...
... She chaired the AHA/ACC Writing Group on Primary Prevention Performance Measures, is a member of the American College of Cardiology's Clinical Quality Committee, and serves on the Quality in Technology Work Group. She is on multiple technology assessment boards, including the Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical Advisory Panel and the California Technology Assessment Forum as well as the Institute of Clinical and Economic Review Advisory Board.
From page 188...
... He also is a principal in the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform and Modernization, with a focus on payment and delivery innovation and policy. From 2003 to 2007, he was executive vice president and chief medical officer of UnitedHealthcare, UnitedHealth Group's largest business, focusing on the employer/individual health benefits market.
From page 189...
... The Effective Health Care program is an integrated program of research, stakeholder engagement, research training, and dissemination and implementation of comparative effectiveness research.
From page 190...
... Steele serves as a member on the Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care, was recently appointed to the Committee on the Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education, and previously served on the Committee on Reviewing Evidence to Identify Highly Effective Clinical Services. A fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr.
From page 191...
... John Steiner, M.D., M.P.H., has been the senior director of the Institute for Health Research at Kaiser Permanente Colorado since 2008. He currently serves as chair of the Kaiser Permanente National Research Council and as chairman of the governing board of the national HMO Research Network.
From page 192...
... From 2011 to 2013 Dr. Wallace was a senior vice president and director of the Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research at the Washington, DC–based Lewin Group, and before that he was a medical director and clinician with Kaiser Permanente from 1989 to 2011.
From page 193...
... He is a founding member, along with the Mayo Clinic, Intermountain Healthcare, TDI, and Denver Health, of the national High Value Healthcare Collaborative, a partnership of 19 health systems across the country that have taken on the challenge of improving the quality of care while lowering costs. More than 70,000 physicians, who treat more than 100 million patients, are sharing best practices and data in an unprecedented partnership on behalf of patients.
From page 194...
... Thomson Chair in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth. He has been named 1 of "The 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" by Modern Healthcare magazine and is frequently consulted by members of Congress and the administration on health policy and reform, and he has appeared before several panels and committees considering these issues.


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