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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Speakers
Pages 67-74

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From page 67...
... REBEKAH ANGOVE is vice president for patient experience and program evaluation at Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF) , where her work is focused on strategically expanding PAF's patient-centered research and program evaluation initiatives.
From page 68...
... He is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in cardiovascular medicine, health outcomes research, health care quality, and clinical research, and one of the most frequently cited authors in biomedical science. Califf received his M.D.
From page 69...
... She provides executive leadership and coordination on a broad range of health care financing, coverage, access, public health, and quality issues. She has worked with Congress on a number of major pieces of legislation over the course of her career including the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, and the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988.
From page 70...
... Through the use of existing and emerging technologies, Lunn focuses on improving understanding of the factors that positively and negatively influence SGM health including research on SGM health disparities, SGM ­societal experiences (in and out of health care) , provider education about SGM health, and institutional climate toward SGM people.
From page 71...
... MEGAN MORRIS is an associate professor in the Division of G ­ eneral Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical ­Campus, and she is the founder/director of the Learning Collaborative to Address Disability Equity in Healthcare, a national consortium of health care organizations working toward advancing equitable health care for patients with disabilities. Morris researches disparities in care experienced by persons with disabilities, with a focus on provider and health care orga nization-level factors that negatively impact the quality of care delivered to patients with disabilities.
From page 72...
... She serves on the Digital Medicine Society's Scientific Leadership Board, Reagan Udall Foundation's IMEDS Steering Committee, and American College of Cardiology's National Cardio­vascular Data Registry Oversight Board. Previously, she was a member of the All of Us National Advisory Panel, member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Health Science Policy Board, and director of Stakeholder Engagement for the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI)
From page 73...
... from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School. THOMAS SEQUIST is the chief patient experience and equity officer at Mass General Brigham. In this role, he leads systemwide strategies for improving patient experience and health care equity, while also overseeing quality and safety. He is a practicing general internist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is a professor of medicine and professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.  Sequist's research interests include ambulatory quality measurement and improvement, with a focus on patient and provider education, and the innovative use of health information technology. He is particularly interested in health policy issues affecting care for Native Americans and has worked collaboratively with the Indian Health Service to evaluate the provision of care for this population. He is a member of the Taos Pueblo tribe in New Mexico and is committed to improving Native American health care, serving as director of the Four Directions Summer Research Program at Harvard Medical School and the medical director of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Physician Outreach Program with the Indian Health Service. He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S.
From page 74...
... He uses complexity science to guide and interpret integrated qualitative and quantitative research, and has been working on participatory methods to advance community health and to develop computational models of primary health care and patientcentered, population health and equity outcomes. He has been locally active in the COVID-19 pandemic response and produced a report on the lessons of the pandemic for the National Academies' report Implementing HighQuality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care.


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