Reed Tuckson, M.D., CHAIR

Reed Tuckson. M.D., joined UnitedHealth Group in November of 2000 as Senior Vice President of Consumer Health and Medical Care Advancement where he is responsible for working with all of the Company's business units to improve the quality and efficiency of health services. Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Dr. Tuckson served as Senior Vice President, Professional Standards, for the American Medical Association. The former President of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles from 1991 to 1997, Dr. Tuckson also served as Senior Vice President for Programs of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation from 1990 to 1991. From 1986 to 1990 Dr. Tuckson was the Commissioner of Public Health for the District of Columbia. Dr. Tuckson currently is a member of several healthcare-related and academic organizations, including the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. A graduate of Howard University and the Georgetown University School of Medicine, Dr. Tuckson trained as an intern, resident and fellow in General Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. A Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar of the University of Pennsylvania, he also studied Health Care Administration and Policy at the Wharton School of Business.

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Ron J. Anderson, M.D.

Ron J. Anderson, M.D., has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Parkland Health and Hospital System since 1982. Dr. Anderson is also a director of Parkland Foundation and Texans Care for Children. He is the Chief Executive Officer and serves on the Board of Directors of Parkland Community Health Plan. Dr. Anderson is also the President and Chairman of the Texas Hospital Association, a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Public Hospitals and the National Public Health and Hospital Institute. In 1997 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles on medicine, ethics, and health policy. Dr. Anderson received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma and his pharmacy degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University, where he was selected as a Distinguished Alumni in 1987.

Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A.

Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. She is also Associate Dean for Rural Health at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile where she administers the Alabama-AHEC program and previously its Telemedicine Program. She serves as current President of the Medical Association, State of Alabama. In 1998 she was the United States recipient of the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. In 1995, she was the first physician under age 40 and the first African-American woman to be elected to the American Medical Association Board of Trustees. She also served as President of the American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation (AMA-ERF). She is a member of the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA). Dr. Benjamin attended Xavier University in New Orleans, and was a member of the second class of Morehouse School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from the University of Alabama Birmingham and completed her residency in family practice at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. She also obtained an M.B.A. from Tulane University.

Bruce E. Bradley, M.B.A.

Bruce E. Bradley, M.B.A., is Director, Health Plan Strategy and Public Policy for General Motors (GM) Health Care Initiatives. He is responsible for health care related strategy and public policy with a focus on quality measurement and improvement, consumer engagement and cost effectiveness. Mr. Bradley joined GM in June 1996 after five years as corporate manager of Managed Care for GTE Corporation. In addition to his health care management experience at GTE, he spent nearly 20 years in health plan and health maintenance organization's (HMO) management. He was co-founder of the HMO Group (now Alliance of Community Health Plans), a national corporation of 15 non-profit, independent group practice HMOs, and the HMO Group Insurance Co., Ltd. Mr. Bradley has gained recognition for his work in achieving health plan quality improvement and for his efforts in developing the Health Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measurements and processes. He is a board member of the National Quality Forum, Treasurer of the board of FACCT, a past board member of The Academy for Health Services Research and Policy, and a founding member and past chair of the Leapfrog Group board. Mr. Bradley holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Yale University and master's degree in business and health care administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Linda Burnes Bolton, Dr. P.H., R.N., FAAN

Dr. Linda Burnes Bolton is Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer of Cedars-Sinai Health System and Research Institute, Los Angeles, California. She also holds graduate faculty appointments at the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San Francisco and California State University, Los Angeles. Her primary research focus is women's health, health policy and organizational development. As a member of the Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, she leads interdisciplinary research teams on health services and nursing research. She is the co-developer of the National Black Nurses Association Community Collaboration Model. This model has been tested and is currently utilized in over one hundred communities throughout the United States and as a framework for improving community health. Dr. Burnes Bolton holds a bachelors of science in nursing from Arizona State University, a masters in nursing, masters in public health, and doctorate in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

Allen S. Daniels, LISW, Ed.D.

Allen Daniels, LISW, Ed.D., is Chief Executive Officer for Alliance Behavioral Care - a regional managed behavioral healthcare organization - and serves as Executive Director for University Psychiatric Services, a multidisciplinary behavioral group practice. Both of these organizations are affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Daniels is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine. He has extensively published in the area of managed care and group practice operations, quality improvement and clinical outcomes, and academic healthcare. Dr. Daniels is chair of the American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago School of Social Services Administration, and the University of Cincinnati.

Lillee Smith Gelinas R.N., M.S.N.

Lillee Smith Gelinas, R.N., M.S.N., is vice president and chief nursing officer at VHA. As a member of VHA's Clinical Affairs leadership team, she supports efforts aimed at system wide achievement of clinical excellence that focus on several key areas including: evidence-based improvement, effective leadership development, clinical team collaboration, enhancing physician/hospital relationships and making the business case for quality. She also works extensively with both health care organizations and VHA's 18 local offices to 'close the quality gap' through VHA's clinical agenda. Ms. Gelinas spearheaded the formation of the VHA Nursing Initiative that provides direction to help health care organizations improve patient care delivery. Ms. Gelinas is a nationally recognized speaker on clinical, health care management and nursing issues, and has published numerous articles on these subjects. She earned her bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Southern Louisiana in Lafayette and a master's degree in nursing, with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania where she also studied at the Wharton School of Business.

Charles J. Homer, M.D., M.P.H.

Charles J. Homer, M.D., M.P.H., is president and chief executive officer of the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ). NICHQ is a research and educational organization whose sole focus is improving the quality of health services for children. In addition to his role at NICHQ, Dr. Homer is the current chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Steering Committee on Quality Improvement and Management. He is an associate professor of pediatrics and of public health at Harvard University. He was a member of the third US Preventive Services Task Force from 1999-2002, and formerly directed fellowship training programs in pediatric primary care and health services research at Children's Hospital in Boston. Dr. Homer also established the Clinical Effectiveness program at Children's Hospital, Boston, a health services research and training program. Dr. Homer received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He also obtained his masters in public health from the University of North Carolina.

David C. Kibbe, M.D., M.B.A.

Dr. Kibbe is the Director of Health Information Technology for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the membership organization that represents over 95,000 U.S. family doctors. In this position, he is responsible for formulating AAFP strategic direction and policy affecting a broad range of information and communications technology initiatives, including HIPAA, electronic health records, computer security, practice management systems, and quality measurement. Dr. Kibbe serves as medical director and board chairman of Canopy Systems, a software firm that provides Web-based case management software to many of the country's largest academic health centers and the U.S. Navy hospital system. Dr. Kibbe has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters on e-health, computer security, and HIPAA, and is co-author if the The AMA's Field Guide to HIPAA Implementation, an American Medical Association publication. He is a frequent speaker on HIPAA privacy and security compliance for clinical audiences around the country. Dr. Kibbe received his BA from Harvard University, MD from Case-Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Pharm.D.

Dr. Mary Anne Koda-Kimble is Dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF), where she teaches and has cared for patients at the UCSF Diabetes Center. She holds the Thomas J. Long Endowed Professorship in Chain Pharmacy Practice and has previously served as Chairwoman of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy. Dr. Koda-Kimble received her Pharm.D. from UCSF and joined its faculty in 1970, where she was involved in developing an innovative clinical pharmacy curriculum. Mary Anne is a member of the USP (United States Pharmacopoeia) Board of Trustees and is Vice Chair of the American Council of Pharmaceutical Education Board of Directors. She is a past president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and has served on the California State Board of Pharmacy, the FDA's Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee, and many other boards and task forces of national professional associations. Dr. Koda-Kimble is frequently invited to address national and international groups and has many publications, the best known of which is Applied Therapeutics, a text widely used by health professional students and practitioners throughout the world.

Peter V. Lee, J.D.

Peter V. Lee, J.D., is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH). Prior to joining PBGH, Mr. Lee was the Executive Director of the Center for Health Care Rights. There he oversaw the Center's direct service, research and advocacy efforts seeking to ensure that consumers are represented at every level of the health care system. Before taking the helm, he directed the development of the Center's Sacramento-area Health Rights Hotline'a pilot program assisting health care consumers regardless of their type of health plan or source of coverage. Mr. Lee has authored a number of studies on managed care issues, including reports on health care quality information and managed care ombudsman programs. Before joining the Center for Health Care Rights, Mr. Lee was an attorney with the Los Angeles firm of Tuttle & Taylor. In the 1980s he worked on health care issues in Washington, DC, where he was the Director of Programs for the National AIDS Network. Mr. Lee holds a law degree from the University of Southern California. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Kate Lorig, R.N., Dr.P.H.

Kate Lorig, R.N., Dr.P.H., is a Professor of Medicine and director of the Patient Education Research Center at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Lorig is a leading expert on the development and evaluation of community based, peer-led patient education programs with emphasis placed on those programs that serve older people. For the past twenty years Dr. Lorig has worked in testing the applicability of self-efficacy theory to health education programs. In addition, Dr. Lorig and her colleagues have developed, validated, and published more than forty patient education outcome instruments. Dr. Lorig's work has resulted in more than 60 peer reviewed articles, seven books, numerous book chapters, and many articles in the popular press. She received a bachelor degree in nursing from Boston University, a masters in nursing from University of California (UC) San Francisco, and a masters and doctorate in public health education from UC Berkeley.

Joanne Lynn, M.D.

Joanne Lynn, M.D., is a geriatrician who has taken on the challenge of improving end-of-life care. She is currently Director of the Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies, a collaboration between the Washington Home - a long-term care and hospice provider, RAND Health, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She is also President of Americans for Better Care of the Dying, a nonprofit public interest organization that promotes public understanding and coalitions across organizations to improve end-of-life care. Dr. Lynn was Project Director of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research and principal writer of that commission's book, Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment: A Report on the Ethical, Medical and Legal Issues in Treatment Decisions. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, she was elected to the Institute of medicine (IOM) in 1996. She has served on numerous IOM committees, including the Committee on Care at the End of Life and the Committee to Study the Social and Ethical Impact of Biomedicine. Dr. Lynn received her medical degree from Boston University. Additionally, she holds two masters degrees: Philosophy and Social Policy from George Washington University and Clinical Evaluative Sciences from Dartmouth College.

David M. Nathan, M.D.

David M. Nathan, M.D., is currently Director of the General Clinical Research Center and of the Diabetes Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. With more than 200 articles in the medical literature, Dr. Nathan is an internationally recognized expert on diabetes and its complications. Dr. Nathan focuses on the development of innovative therapies to treat type 1 and type 2 diabetes and to prevent its long-term complications. He was a pioneer in the development of intensive therapies for diabetes and was one of the architects of the landmark Diabetes Control and Complications Trial. Dr. Nathan currently is the co-chairman of the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Study in Type 1 diabetes and is the chairman of the Diabetes Prevention Program, a NIH-sponsored multi-center trial to prevent type 2 diabetes. He received his bachelor degree from Amherst College and his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Cheryl Scott, M.H.A.

Cheryl Scott, M.H.A., is president and chief executive officer of Group Health Cooperative (GHC) based in Seattle. GHC is the nation's second largest consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system. Prior to assuming her present position in 1997, Scott served as GHC's regional vice president and executive vice president/chief operating officer. Ms. Scott is an associate clinical professor in the graduate program in Health Services Administration at the University of Washington. At the national level, she chairs the Alliance of Community Health Plans and serves on the boards of the American Association of Health Plans and the Health Technology Center. Locally, she chairs the external advisory committee for the University of Washington's Health Administration Program. Ms. Scott received a bachelor's degree in communications and a master's degree in health administration from the University of Washington.

John A. Spertus, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.C.

John Spertus, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.C., is a cardiologist and Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is also the Director of Cardiovascular Education and Outcomes Research at the Mid America Heart Institute. Dr. Spertus developed the Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ), and the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ). These instruments have been translated into over 20 languages and are emerging as the gold standards for quantifying patients’ health status in coronary artery disease and heart failure. Dr. Spertus has served on numerous national committees, including his role as co-chair of the AMA/ACC/AHA Consortium task force developing outpatient performance measures for CMS’ DOQ project in hypertension, coronary disease and heart failure. He serves on the AHA/ACC Joint Task Force on Performance Measures, is a member of the AHA’s Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Expert Panel on Outcomes Research and has co-founded the Annual AHA/ACC Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research. He has also founded the Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium and CV Outcomes a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to the advancement of healthcare quality and outcomes research in cardiovascular disease. Dr. Spertus received his medical degree from University of California, San Francisco, and his MPH from the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

I. Steven Udvarhelyi, M.D.

Dr. I. Steven Udvarhelyi is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Independence Blue Cross and its affiliated companies Keystone Health Plan East and AmeriHealth. In this role, he has overall responsibility for medical management programs and policies, and is the chief medical spokesperson for the company. In addition, Dr. Udvarhelyi serves as executive sponsor for the Corporate Data Warehouse initiative. Dr. Udvarhelyi has over ten years of experience in the managed care industry. Prior to his current position he worked for Prudential Health Care as National Medical Director, and later as Vice President of Operations for the Prudential's four health plans in Florida. He has also served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Udvarhelyi is on the Board of Directors of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the National Council of Physician Executives, and is also chairman of the American Association of Health Plans Committee on Quality Care. Dr. Udvarhelyi is a board certified internist who completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and completed a fellowship in General Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and has a master's degree in health services administration from the Harvard School of Public Health.