Mr. Leonard D. Schaeffer - (Chair)
University of Southern California

Leonard D. Schaeffer is currently Chairman of the Board of Surgical Care Affiliates, LLC and a Senior Advisor for Texas Pacific Group, a private equity firm. Mr. Schaeffer is the founding Chairman of the Board of Directors of WellPoint Inc., the largest health benefits company in the United States. From 1992 through 2004, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WellPoint Health Networks Inc. Mr. Schaeffer was the Administrator of the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration from 1978 to 1980 and has served in a variety of positions in state and federal government. He is the Judge Robert Maclay Widney Chair and Professor at the University of Southern California, is a member of the Institute of Medicine and is on the board of the Brookings Institution and several public and private corporations.
 

Mr. David W. Beier
Amgen, Inc.

David W. Beier, J.D., is Senior Vice President of Global Government and Corporate Affairs for Amgen. In this role, he is responsible for shaping Amgen’s policy on global health care issues; driving health economics and outcomes research; overseeing corporate communications and philanthropy; and managing relationships with United States federal and state agencies and legislatures, as well as international governmental entities and organizations. Mr. Beier joined Amgen from the international law firm of Hogan & Hartson where, as a partner, he utilized his extensive background in business and government to represent trade associations, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and health care companies. Mr. Beier previously served as Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore. Before his White House service, Mr. Beier served as Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy for Genentech and staff counsel in the U.S. House of Representatives. He received a B.A. from Colgate University and his J.D. from Albany Law School.
 

Ms. Kathleen Buto
Johnson & Johnson

Kathleen Buto is Vice President for Health Policy, Government Affairs, at Johnson & Johnson. She has responsibility for providing policy analysis and developing positions on a wide range of issues, including the Medicare drug benefit, government reimbursement, coverage of new technologies, and regulatory requirements. In addition to reviewing how federal, state, and international government policies affect Johnson & Johnson products and customers, she is responsible for helping to identify areas of opportunity for J&J to take leadership in shaping health care policy. Prior to joining J&J, Kathy was a senior health advisor at the Congressional Budget Office, helping to develop the cost models for the Medicare drug benefit. Before that, she spent more than 18 years in senior positions at the Health Care Financing Administration, including Deputy Director, Center for Health Plans and Providers, and Associate Administrator for Policy. In these positions, she headed the policy, reimbursement, and coverage functions for the agency, as well as managing Medicare’s fee-for-service and managed care operations. Ms. Buto received her Bachelor of Arts from Douglass College and her Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University. 
 

Dr. Molly J. Coye
Health Technology Center

Molly Joel Coye, M.D., is founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center (HealthTech), a non-profit education and research organization established in 2000 to advance the use of beneficial technologies in promoting healthier people and communities. Dr. Coye is Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), one of the largest and most innovative nonprofit organizations working in international health; a member of the Board of Directors of Aetna, Inc, and a member of the Advisory Council for the Health Evolution Partners Innovation Network and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Coye has served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey and Director of the California Department of Health Services, Head of the Division of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, EVP for HealthDesk Corp and the Good Samaritan Health System in San Jose, California, and Director of The Lewin Group West Coast office. She has served on the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association and the American Public Health Association, the Board of The California Endowment and the China Medical Board, and as a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. 

 
Dr. Robert Graham
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Robert Graham, M.D., is Professor of Family Medicine, and the Robert and Myfanwy Smith Chair in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, School of Medicine, a position he has held since March of 2005.Dr. Graham has previously been associated with the discipline of Family Medicine as the Executive Vice President/CEO of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) (1985-2000), the head of the Academy’s Foundation (1988-1997), and the Administrative Officer of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) (1973-1975).In addition to his activities in Family Medicine, Dr. Graham has held a number of leadership responsibilities in the Federal Health Sector, including the position of Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) (1981-1985), during which time he held the rank of Rear Admiral in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, and served as an Assistant Surgeon General. He also served in senior positions at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2001-2004), the Health Resources Administration (1976-1979), and the Health Services and Mental Health Administration (1970-1973). From 1979-1980, he served as a Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Senate Sub-committee on Health.
 

The Hon. Mark B. McClellan
The Brookings Institution

Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., is the Director of the Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform at the Brookings Institution. McClellan is also the Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy. Dr. McClellan has a highly distinguished record in public service and in academic research. He is the former administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2004-2006) and the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (2002-2004). He also served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and senior director for health care policy at the White House (2001–2002). In the Clinton administration, Dr. McClellan was deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy from 1998–1999, supervising economic analysis and policy development on a range of domestic policy issues. Dr. McClellan was also an associate professor of economics and associate professor of medicine (with tenure) at Stanford University, from which he was on leave during his government service. He directed Stanford’s Program on Health Outcomes Research and was also associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and co-principal investigator of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a longitudinal study of the health and economic status of older Americans. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. McClellan earned his M.P.A. from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 1991, his M.D. from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 1992, and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1993. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. Dr. McClellan has been board-certified in Internal Medicine and has been a practicing internist during his academic career.

 
Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner
University of California, San Francisco

Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D., is the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein. For his prion research he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and later received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He then completed an internship in medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Later he moved to the National Institutes of Health, where he studied glutaminases in E. coli in the laboratory of Earl Stadtman. After three years at NIH, Dr. Prusiner returned to UCSF to complete a residency in neurology. Upon completion of the residency in 1974, he joined the faculty of the UCSF neurology department. Since that time, he has held various faculty and visiting faculty positions at both UCSF and UC Berkeley. Dr. Prusiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for his discovery of prions — a new biological principle of infection. He coined the term prion, which comes from "proteinaceous infectious particle" to refer to a previously undescribed form of infection due to protein misfolding. He was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1992 and to its governing council in 2007. He is also an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993), the Royal Society (1996), the American Philosophical Society (1998), the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2003), and the Institute of Medicine.
 

Dr. Donna E. Shalala
University of Miami

Donna E. Shalala, Ph.D., became Professor of Political Science and President of the University of Miami on June 1, 2001. President Shalala has more than 25 years of experience as an accomplished scholar, teacher, and administrator. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, President Shalala received her A.B. degree in history from Western College for Women and her Ph.D. degree from The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. A leading scholar on the political economy of state and local governments, she has also held tenured professorships at Columbia University, the City University of New York (CUNY), and the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She served as President of Hunter College of CUNY from 1980 to 1987 and as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1987 to 1993. In 1993 President Clinton appointed her U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) where she served for eight years, becoming the longest serving HHS Secretary in U.S. history.
 

Dr. Stephen M. Shortell
University of California, Berkeley

Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Organization Behavior at the University of California, Berkeley and is Dean of the School of Public Health. Dr. Shortell is known as a leading academic voice advocating reform of the nation's health system. His research has helped establish determinants of health outcomes and quality of care for health care organizations. As the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, Shortell holds a joint appointment at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health and the Haas School of Business. He also is affiliated with UC Berkeley's Department of Sociology and UC San Francisco's Institute for Health Policy Studies. Dr. Shortell has received the Baxter-Allegiance Prize, considered the highest honor worldwide in the field of health services research. He also has received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research and the Gold Medal award from the American College of Healthcare Executives for his contributions to the field. Dr. Shortell received his bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame, his master's degree in public health from UCLA and his PhD in behavioral science from the University of Chicago. Before coming to UC Berkeley in 1998, Dr. Shortell held teaching and research positions at Northwestern University, the University of Washington and the University of Chicago.
 

Ms. Susanne A. Stoiber
Stoiber Health Policy, LLC

Susanne A. Stoiber, M.P.A., M.S., is currently consulting with the Commonwealth Fund High Performance Health Care System project. Previously, she has served in a series of senior positions in the National Academies and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service from 1975 through 2007. She was named Executive Director (Chief Operating Officer) of the Institute of Medicine in 1998. Her responsibilities included management of the IOM program operations, and support of the Institute's governance and membership functions. In the Department of Health and Human Services, Mrs. Stoiber held a number of senior positions in the Office of the Secretary and at the National Institutes of Health. She was three times appointed as a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health -- Planning and Evaluation (1979 and 1995); Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (1996); and as a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Program Systems (1997). Accomplishments included: coordination of Healthy People 2010 - the nation's prevention agenda; oversight of the Department's evaluation program and GPRA-related strategic planning. She received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Public Administration degrees from the University of Colorado, and a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics.
 

Dr. Louis W. Sullivan
Morehouse School of Medicine

Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., is the founding dean and first president of the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). With the exception of his tenure as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 1989 to 1993, he was president of MSM for more than two decades. On July 1, 2002, he left the presidency, but continues to assist in national fundraising activities on behalf of the school. A native of Atlanta, Sullivan graduated magna cum laude from Morehouse College in 1954, and earned his medical degree, cum laude, from Boston University School of Medicine in 1958. He is certified in internal medicine and hematology. In 1975 Dr. Sullivan became the founding dean and director of the medical education program at Morehouse College. In 1989, he accepted an appointment by President George H.W. Bush to head HHS. In this post, Sullivan managed the federal agency responsible for the major health, welfare, food and drug safety, medical research and income security programs serving the American people. In January 1993, he returned to MSM and resumed the office of president. A member of numerous medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the National Medical Association, Sullivan was the founding president of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools. He is a former member of the Joint Committee on Health Policy of the Association of American Universities and the national Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities. 
 

Dr. David N. Sundwall
Utah Department of Health

David N. Sundwall, M.D., is a primary care physician who has more than two decades of experience in public policy and service. After 23 years of working in various government and private sector health positions in Washington, D.C., he has returned home to lead the Utah Department of Health (UDOH). He currently serves as President of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO). Dr. Sundwall earned his medical degree at the University of Utah College of Medicine and completed further training at the Harvard Family Medicine Residency Program. He remains on the faculty of the University of Utah School of Medicine as Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. In a distinguished career of academic appointments, public service and policy development, Dr. Sundwall has been widely recognized for his professional achievements and contributions to healthcare policy and advocacy. He holds three medical school faculty appointments, including Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Georgetown University College of Medicine, Washington, D.C. He has held numerous positions in the public health sector: From 1994-2004, he was President of the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA); from 1988 to 1994, he was Vice President and Medical Director of American Healthcare Systems, an alliance of not-for-profit multi-hospital systems. Prior to that appointment, he was Administrator in the Health Resources and Services Administration. Dr. Sundwall has served as an advisor, task force member and chairman of numerous committees involved with public health policy and quality including those connected with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. In addition, his federal experience included serving as the Assistant Surgeon General in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. During this period, he had adjunct responsibilities at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) including: Co-Chairman of the HHS Secretary's Task Force on Medical Liability and Malpractice, and was the HHS Secretary's Designee to the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality.
 

Mr. Gail L. Warden
Henry Ford Health System

Gail L. Warden, serves as President Emeritus of Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer from April 1988 to 2003. Prior to this role, Mr. Warden served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound as well as Executive Vice President of the American Hospital Association. He serves as a Director of Picker Institute Inc. He has been a Director of National Research Corp. since January 2005. He served as a Director of Comerica Inc. from July 2000 to December 31, 2006. Mr. Warden serves in numerous leadership positions as Chairman to several national healthcare committees and as board member to many other healthcare related committees and institutions. In addition, he is a Professor of Health Management and Policy for the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He serves Detroit, Michigan, community through various memberships on local governing committees and groups. Mr. Warden received an Honorary Doctorate in Public Administration for Central Michigan University and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, a Master of Hospital Administration from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College.
 

Ms. Myrl Weinberg
National Health Council

Myrl Weinberg, M.A., is President of the National Health Council, the only organization of its kind that brings together all segments of the health care community to provide a united voice for 100 million people with chronic diseases and disabilities and their family caregivers. Made up of 120 national health-related organizations, its core membership includes 50 of the nation's leading patient advocacy groups. Weinberg has served on the health sciences policy board of the Institute of Medicine, the board of the AcademyHealth Coalition for Health Services Research, as a founding member of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs and is chair of the governing board of the International Alliance of Patients' Organizations. She also served on the congressionally mandated Institute of Medicine Committee created to assess how research priorities are established at the National Institutes of Health, and was a member of the National Research Council/ Institute of Medicine committee on the organizational structure of the NIH. Weinberg earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Arkansas and a master's degree in special education at George Peabody College.
 

Dr. Catherine E. Woteki
Mars, Inc.

Catherine E. Woteki, Ph.D., is Global Director of Scientific Affairs for Mars, Incorporated, a multinational food, confectionery, and pet care company. She joined Mars, Inc. in August, 2005, and in this role manages the company’s scientific and regulatory positions on matters of health, nutrition, and food safety. Prior to joining Mars, Inc., Dr. Woteki held positions in academia and government. From 2002-2005, she was Dean of Agriculture and Professor of Human Nutrition at Iowa State University. From 1997-2001, she served as the first Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture overseeing the Food Safety and Inspection Service and the U.S. government’s Office for the Codex Alimentarius Commission, and coordinating U.S. government food safety policy development and USDA’s continuity of operations planning. She also worked for two years in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where she co-authored the Clinton Administration’s science policy statement, "Science in the Public Interest" and as the Deputy Under Secretary for Research in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Woteki is a nutritional epidemiologist, and her research interests include nutrition and food safety policy, risk assessment, and health survey design and analysis.