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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 243-254
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He has previously served as founding president and chief executive officer of the National Quality Forum; Under Secretary for Health, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and chief executive officer of the nation's largest health care system, during which time he engineered the internationally acclaimed transformation of the Veterans Healthcare System in the late 1990s; founding Chairman, President, and CEO, Medsphere Systems Corporation, a leading commercial provider of subscription-based health information technology; founding Director, Institute for Population Health Improvement and Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis; inaugural Chief Medical Officer, California Department of Managed Health Care; Director, California Department of Health Services; and Director, California Emergency Medical Services Authority, where he was the architect of the state's EMS and trauma care systems in the early 1980s. During his record tenure as California's top health official he won high praise for orchestrating the state's response to the then new HIV/AIDS epidemic, implementing California's famed Tobacco Control Program and the ‘5-a-Day' for Better Nutrition Program that was later adopted for national implementation, pioneering Medicaid managed care, and restructuring many of the state's public health programs.
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Charles Bearden, P.A., CPTC, has been a practicing PA for over 48 years. He has the distinction of being the longest practicing organ recovery/transplant coordinator in the United States with 44 years of coordinating over 2,500 heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, and intestinal organ transplants.
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Bernice Coleman, Ph.D., ACNP-BC, FAHA, FAAN, is director of the Nursing Research Department and Performance Improvement Department, assistant professor of medicine and biomedical sciences, and a nurse practitioner for the Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support at the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute. She is a member of the American Heart Association Leadership Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing, past chairperson of the Nursing Health Science and Allied Health Council of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and a member of the Nominating Committee for the International Society of Nurses in Genetics.
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Under Ms. Dunn's leadership, Donor Alliance was recognized as a 2018 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awardee, the only nonprofit organization of that year, and only the second organ procurement organization to be recognized.
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Dr. Gordon has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Defense, and Department of Veterans Affairs as principal investigator for her research on organ transplantation and donation, for reducing health disparities in access to health care and health outcomes, and for developing culturally targeted interventions to enhance patients' informed consent and treatment decision making.
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He regularly engages with policy makers and practitioners, including national and international agencies as well as associations related to blood, plasma, stem cell, and organ donation. In particular, he conducted studies in partnership with the American Red Cross and the National Marrow Donor Program.
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Dennis Wagner, M.P.A., has served as the Principal and Managing Director for Yes and Leadership, LLC since October of 2020. In this capacity he has served as a speaker and session leader at in-person and online events for a wide array of organizations such as the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative, the Gift of Life Institute for Organ Donation and Transplantation, the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, the National Association of State
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This team of public and private quality improvers actively work to spread the best practices of the highest performers, so that "best practices become common practice." Prior to his most recent role at CMS, Dennis served as the Associate Director for Campaign Leadership in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, as Deputy Director, and then Acting Director of the CMS Office of Clinical Standards and Quality. Dennis was successful in supporting cross-departmental work to develop and announce a major national Departmental & Presidential Kidney Health Initiative, which included CMS Innovation Center initiatives to support increased kidney procurement and utilization.
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In her role at the Academies, she has developed public workshops and resulting publications on a wide range of topics including bioethics, drug discovery and development, implementation science, health disparities, and health care policy and economics. In addition, she oversaw the Genomics and Population Health action collaborative from 2016 to 2019, an ad hoc activity of the Genomics Roundtable.
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, is an Associate Program Officer on the Board on Health Sciences Policy, with the Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation. Deanna joined the National Academies in 2021.
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She has worked on several National Academies projects including studies on space radiation and cancer risk, building data capacity for conducting patient-centered outcomes research, cancer and disability, and evidence-based opioid prescribing, as well as workshops on organ transplant and disability, companion animals as sentinels for environmental exposures, and diagnostic excellence in acute cardiac events, cancers, and COVID-19. She had also assisted with numerous National Cancer Policy Forum workshops ranging from topics like the cancer workforce to health literacy.
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She has been the recipient of the Cecil Medal for Excellence in Health Policy Research, a Distinguished Service Award from the National Academies, and the Institute of Medicine staff team achievement award as team leader.
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