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Appendix B: Committee Biosketches
Pages 110-114

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From page 110...
... At Harvard, Dr. Ayanian also directed the Health Disparities Research Program of Harvard Catalyst, Harvard's Clinical and Translational Sciences Center; the Outcomes Research Program of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center; and the Harvard Medical School Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care.
From page 111...
... Charles Baumgart, M.D., is senior medical director at xG Health Solutions, an organization that was spun out of Geisinger Health System, designed to partner with health care organizations nationally to bring Geisinger population health management expertise to local health care improvement efforts. He has worked with numerous health care systems, both academic and community based, as well as with managed care organizations.
From page 112...
... Dr. Ferrer is active in community health initiatives, having served as chair of the leadership team for San Antonio's Communities Putting Prevention to Work grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is now vicechair of the Bexar County Health Collaborative.
From page 113...
... Recent studies have clarified how early life conditions and especially educational experience influence socioeconomic, race, and gender disparities in adult morbidity and mortality; the demography of race/ethnic and gender disparities in healthy life expectancy; social inequality in the biomarkers of aging; and the health consequences of marriage, divorce, and widowhood. He recently served as the president of the Southern Demographic Association and chair of the Aging and Life Course section of the American Sociological Association.
From page 114...
... Shih held several senior management roles, including chief quality officer and vice president of strategy at IPRO, a leading independent, not-for-profit health care quality improvement organization. At IPRO, he developed and managed large-scale quality assessment and improvement projects for Medicare and Medicaid populations, as well as led IPRO's Health Care Transparency Group.


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