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Appendix B: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 411-428

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From page 411...
... Elisabeth Belmont, Esq., serves as the corporate counsel for MaineHealth, which is ranked among the nation's top 100 integrated health care delivery networks and has combined annual revenues of nearly $2 billion. She has significant experience in the defense of professional liability claims and educates health care providers on using "lessons learned" from such 411
From page 412...
... She has participated in a number of national initiatives where quality improvement, patient safety, and health information technology intersect, including events sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HHS Office of the Inspector General, American Health L ­ awyers Association, American Society of Healthcare Risk Management, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
From page 413...
... She is the recipient of the International Ergonomics Association Triennial Distinguished Service Award (2012) and is the first woman to receive this prestigious award.
From page 414...
... She was a member of the Commonwealth Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System and has served on Institute of Medicine committees that wrote the influential reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the ­ uality Chasm. She is an adjunct professor of medicine and Q a senior fellow in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, a former dean of medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, the chair of geriatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and the chief of general internal medicine at the University of Chicago.
From page 415...
... He has published more than 80 journal articles and 30 book chapters in the area of patient safety, clinical decision making, and medical education reform. He was the senior editor on a major text, Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine (2009)
From page 416...
... Goeschel, Sc.D., M.P.A., M.P.S., R.N., F.A.A.N., is a health services researcher and the assistant vice president for quality at MedStar Health, a 10-hospital, $4.6 billion health system in the mid-Atlantic, where she oversees quality for both acute and non-acute health care services. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a National Baldrige Examiner, and associate faculty in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she teaches a required course in the Master of Hospital Administration program.
From page 417...
... (Ph.D.) , Dr.h.c., is the chair of the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a professor in the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and a professor of radiology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
From page 418...
... Jena researches several areas of health economics and policy, including medical malpractice, the economics of medical innovation and cost effectiveness, the economics of physician behavior, and the effect on physician quality of reforms to medical education.
From page 419...
... The major themes of his research include the impact of public policy on the health care delivery system with a focus on patient safety, clinical outcomes, and costs of care. Much of his work has focused on understanding how policy efforts such as public reporting, pay for performance, and the promotion of the use of health information technology affect clinical quality, patient safety, and health care costs.
From page 420...
... . Her research portfolio includes initial and ongoing development of the publicly released Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
From page 421...
... in use at the Veterans Health Administration where she was a faculty research scientist. Her current work involves applying human factors engineering methods to study health care practices, information and data needs related to ­ aternal/child care, as well as the implementation and use of m electronic medical records at Makerere University in Uganda.
From page 422...
... Dr. Sarkar's research focuses on patient safety in outpatient settings, including adverse drug events, missed and delayed diagnosis, failures of treatment monitoring, health information technology and social media to improve the safety and quality of outpatient care, and implementation of evidence-based innovations in real-world, safety-net care settings.
From page 423...
... A past president of the Society for Medical Decision Making, he has participated in consensus conferences, guideline development and appropriateness use criteria assessment for the World Health Organization, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, European League Against Rheumatism, and OMERACT. Besides translating guidelines into quality improvement and performance measures in the American Medical Associ
From page 424...
... A co-author of Learning Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making in Health and Medicine and more than 150 scientific publications and book chapters, including the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence for the National Academy of Sciences, his research areas include clinical and diagnostic reasoning, decision sciences, test interpretation, Bayesian methods, quality and appropriateness of care, health economics, patientcenteredness, shared decision making, and evidence-based medicine. STAFF BIOGRAPHIES Erin Balogh, M.P.H., is a program officer for the Institute of Medicine's Board on Health Care Services and the National Cancer Policy Forum (NCPF)
From page 425...
... Before coming to the Academies, she interned in the advocacy department at AARP California and worked as a laboratory assistant in a medical microbiology lab at the University of California, Davis. Patrick Ross is a research assistant with the Institute of Medicine's Board on Health Care Services and National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
From page 426...
... Rosema advised on investment strategy and technical directions for the fund. She has led evaluations on topics that include using biometric signatures for health record tracking, implantable medical devices, and diagnostic development for malaria elimination programs.
From page 427...
... Sharyl Nass, Ph.D., is director of the Board on Health Care Services and director of the National Cancer Policy Forum for the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
From page 428...
... in genetics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and she studied developmental genetics and molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute in Germany under a fellowship from the Heinrich Hertz-Stiftung Foundation. She was the 2007 recipient of the Cecil Award for Excellence in Health Policy Research, the 2010 recipient of a Distinguished Service Award from the Academies, and the 2012 recipient of the IOM staff team achievement award (as the team leader)


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