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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 91-100
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In 2000 Rep. Cooper was chosen as legislator of the year by the Georgia Republican Party, and in 2002 she was elected caucus chairman by her Republican colleagues.
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/National Research Council report A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System, and he is a public health advisor at the National Cancer Institute, an advisory special government employee at the Center for Tobacco Products of the Food and Drug Administration, and an advisory council member at the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities. He also currently serves on the editorial board of the journals Behavioral Science & Policy and Childhood Obesity and has been a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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As head of the chief public agency charged with promoting and protecting the health of all Louisiana residents and visitors, Mr. Lane has prioritized making environmental and place-based policy changes to promote healthy lifestyles and building a new Center for Population Health Informatics to increase transparency and better equip and empower communities to make healthy changes.
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Mr. Macchione implements operational policy direction of an elected county board of supervisors and oversees the operations of the county's psychiatric hospital; the Edgemoor Skilled Nursing Facility (2014 winner of a Silver Achievement in Quality Award by the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living)
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In other efforts, he has supported Altarum in applications of operations research to model ing and analysis of health care issues that have included the value of prevention, disease management, medical responses to demand surges, cost-effectiveness of clinical interventions, beneficiary population forecasting, telemedicine, graduate medical education, medical logistics, medical staffing, medical facilities planning, and collections forecasting. His work has been published in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Health Affairs, Medical Decision Making, Health Care Management Science, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Interfaces, and Management Science.
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Dr. Minyard's research interests include financing and the evaluation of health-related social policy programs; the strategic alignment of public and private health policy on all levels; the role of local health initiatives in access and health improvement; the role of targeted external facilitation and technical assistance in improving the sustainability, efficiency, and programmatic effectiveness of nonprofit health collaboratives; and public health systems and financing.
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Recently, he was the Richard Merkin Fellow and a managing director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution, where he directed efforts to better engage clinician in health care payment and delivery reform.
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He has served as a member of that task force and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which develops the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, as well as the Americas Health Information Community Personalized Health Care Workgroup and the Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Prevention and Practice Workgroup.
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He has served as the staff chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures, chair of the National Legislative Program Evaluation Society, and president of the Southeast Evaluation Associa
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He is board certified in family medicine and in preventive medicine and public health. His work has focused on promoting effective health care services and on highlighting the importance of the behavioral and social determinants of health, particularly with regard to the role of poverty, education, and racial and ethnic disparities in determining the health of Americans.
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