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Appendix A: Committee Member, Fellow, and Staff Biographies
Pages 387-402

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From page 387...
... She co-chairs the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Implementing High-Quality Primary Care and previously served on the National Academies' Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, and the Environmental Roundtable, and the National Academy of Medicine Membership Committee. In 2020, she was named to the U.S.
From page 388...
... in 2010 and is currently the chair of the Membership Committee. He previously was the NAM Membership Committee Section 08 chair and a member of three consensus studies for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: Committee on Depression, Parenting Practices, and the Health Development of Young Children; Committee on Integrating Primary Care and Public Health; and Committee on Assessing Progress on Implementing the Recommendations of the Institute of Medicine Report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.
From page 389...
... These initiatives represent the largest tests of combined primary care payment and clinical practice transformation work in the United States. He is a primary care physician at a medical home practice in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, that he helped to found in 2011.
From page 390...
... Her empirical studies include the effects of changes in Medicare reimbursement for physicians and institutional providers on vulnerable populations; the prevalence and drivers of low-value health care services; and the effects of care management and coordination in physician practices.
From page 391...
... She was the first chief research officer and executive director of the OCHIN practicebased research network from 2010 to 2016, where she led the development of a unique community laboratory, linking together electronic health record (EHR) data from more than 400 community health center clinics across multiple states to build the most robust safety net research database in the country.
From page 392...
... Recent research activities have included studies in primary care measures, behavioral health, care coordination, preventive care delivery, simulation modeling, care team models, organizational change, community-based participatory research, the study of exemplars, and adaptive use of health technologies.
From page 393...
... Through community engagement and collaboration, Dr. Griggs inaugurated an award-winning integrated behavioral health program, a wellness center for low-income families, a medical–legal partnership, and a produce prescription program for community health center patients.
From page 394...
... Dr. Kangovi founded the Penn Center for Community Health Workers, a national center of excellence dedicated to advancing health in low-income populations through effective community health worker programs.
From page 395...
... She completed residency training in internal medicine at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, joining the Columbia faculty in 2002. In 2004, she accepted a clinician-investigator position at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, and she earned an M.Sc.
From page 396...
... Mr. Olmedo served as the president of the Public Health Service Academy of Physician Assistants from 2015 to 2016, was the chief clinical consultant for physician assistants for the Indian Health Service from 2017 to 2019, and worked in California with a rural tribal health clinic from 2015 to 2019, where he was the emergency preparedness coordinator, on the California Tribal Epidemiology Center advisory council, and the chair of the Clinical Education Committee, in addition to providing same-day access to health care services.
From page 397...
... He has been a diplomate of the American Board of Dental Public Health since 1987, is a past president of the American Association for Public Health Dentistry, and is the editor in chief of the Journal of Public Health Dentistry. He currently serves on numerous local, state, and national committees aimed at reducing oral health disparities, increasing the dental workforce, and improving access to oral care.
From page 398...
... Lars Peterson, M.D., Ph.D., is a family physician and a health services researcher who serves as the vice president of research for the American Board of Family Medicine. He also has an appointment as an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Kentucky, where he provides direct clinical care and teaches students and residents.
From page 399...
... Her work has received widespread media coverage, including in The New York Times, NPR, PBS News, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, CNN, BBC, and National Geographic and is funded by various agencies, including the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has also influenced national and state policy around medication access and safety.
From page 400...
... Meisnere worked on a family planning media project in northern Nigeria with the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and on a variety of international health policy issues at the Population Reference Bureau. He is a graduate of Colorado College and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
From page 401...
... She attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, majoring in biology and minoring in chemistry. Sharyl Nass, Ph.D., serves as the director of the Board on Health Care Services and director of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's National Cancer Policy Forum (NCPF)


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