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IOM Annual Meeting 2000: Quality of Health and Health Care Speaker Bios
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WILLIAM L. ROPER, M.D., M.P.H.— is Dean of the School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also Professor of Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health and Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine. Before joining UNC in July 1997, Dr. Roper was Senior Vice President of Prudential HealthCare, and earlier was Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, served on the senior White House staff, and was Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration. Dr. Roper is Chairman of the Board of Partnership for Prevention, Vice-Chairman of the Board of the National Quality Forum, a member of the board of trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a member of the board of directors of the UNC Health Care System.
DONALD M. BERWICK, M.D., M.P.P.—is President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Dr. Berwick also is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School and a Practicing Pediatrician at Boston's Children's Hospital. He has published over 80 scientific articles on subjects relating to health care policy, decision analysis, technology assessment, and health care quality management. Dr. Berwick was chair of the Health Services Research Review Study Section of what is now the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and is the current chair of the AHRQ's National Advisory Council. He was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry in 1997 and 1998.
BARBARA J. McNEIL, M.D., Ph.D.—is the Ridley Watts Professor and founding Head of the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and is also a Professor of Radiology at Harvard and at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She is vice Chair of the Institute of Medicine's Board on Health Care Services, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also serves on the National Blue Cross Technology Assessment Commission, the Council for Performance Measurement for the JCAHO, and the New York State Cardiac Advisory Committee. Dr. McNeil's research activities focus on quality of care from three primary perspectives: the development and implementation of quality measures for chronic cardiac diseases; the role of financial incentives and managerial practices in assuring quality; and the assessment of the extent to which adherence to guidelines for care actually improves outcomes of care.
SHOSHANNA SOFAER, Dr.P.H.—is the Robert P. Luciano Professor of Health Care Policy at the School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, in New York City and is a member of the Board on Health Care Services of the Institute of Medicine. For over 15 years, Dr. Sofaer has conducted research to develop and test methods to provide consumers, particularly Medicare beneficiaries, with information to help them choose health plans and providers and to study how consumers use information to make such decisions. She is Co-Principal Investigator of the Consumer Association of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) project, an effort of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to develop the next generation of consumer satisfaction surveys. She was a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010 and an earlier committee on using performance indicators to improve the health of the public.
STEPHEN M. SHORTELL, Ph.D.—is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Organization Behavior at the School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley. A leading health care scholar, Dr. Shortell has been the recipient of many awards for his research, including the distinguished Baxter Prize for his contributions to health services research, and the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research. He is currently conducting research on the strategy, structure, and performance of integrated health systems; the performance of community care networks; the relationship between physician group practices and integrated health systems; and is assessing the implementation and impact of continuous quality improvement/total quality management on U.S. health care organizations.
JEROME H. GROSSMAN, M.D.—is Chairman and CEO, Lion Gate Management Corporation a newly formed company dedicated to the development of internet-based clinical and quality management systems for providers and purchasers of healthcare. He is Chairman Emeritus of New England Medical Center, Inc., where he served as Chairman and CEO from 1979 to 1995. In 1988 Dr. Grossman founded The Health Institute at New England Medical Center for the purpose of expanding the Medical Center's research capacity to include the social sciences as well as natural sciences. In the late 60s, Dr. Grossman was one of the original staff of the Harvard Community Health Plan Maintenance Organization (HMO), where he developed the world's first automated medical record system, known as COSTAR, to support the HMO's patient care and academic missions. He serves as a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Quality of Health Care in America.
MOLLY JOEL COYE, M.D., M.P.H.—is PwC Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Future and founder and CEO of The Health Technology Center a non-profit organization sponsored by the Institute for the Future that is dedicated to advancing the use of beneficial technologies for healthier people and communities. Until this year, Dr. Coye was the director of the west coast office for The Lewin Group, and served as an advisor to venture capital firms in their investment planning for health technology and communications. Dr. Coye has also directed product development and marketing for HealthDesk Corporation, and was Executive Vice President for Managed Care in the Good Samaritan Health System. From 1991 to 1993 Dr. Coye was the Director of the California Department of Health Services, and earlier directed the Division of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. From 1986 to 1990 she served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey.
CHARLES R. BUCK, JR., Sc.D.—is responsible for leading General Electric's health care quality, "E"-health, and strategic benchmarking initiatives as they apply to the purchasing of $1 billion worth of health services for about 600,000 GE employees, dependants, and retirees under 65. Dr. Buck serves on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America, which produced the recent report titled To Err is Human. Prior to joining GE, Dr. Buck served as Executive Director of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for the State of Maryland, and Director of Planning for the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
PAMELA H. MITCHELL, Ph.D.—is Associate Dean for Research; Elizabeth Sterling Soule Distinguished Professor; and Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health at the University of Washington School of Nursing. Dr. Mitchell chairs the Scientific and Technical Review Panel: Biomedical and Behavioral Research Facilities at the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health. She also serves on the Health Quality and Effectiveness Scientific Review Panel at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Her research investigates fundamental physiologic factors influencing the responses of critically ill neurologic/neurosurgical patients to ordinary nursing care activities; patient response to chronic cardiocerebrovascular illness; and care delivery system organizational features as they influence patient outcomes.
JOHN M. EISENBERG, M.D., M.B.A.—has served as Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, since 1997. AHRQ is the lead federal agency charged with conducting and sponsoring research to enhance the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of health care services, and to improve the cost and access to care. Prior to his appointment to AHRQ, Dr. Eisenberg was Chairman of the Department of Medicine, and Physician-in-Chief at Georgetown University. From 1986 through 1995, he was a founding Commissioner of the Congressional Physician Payment Review Commission, serving as its chairman from 1993-95. Dr. Eisenberg has published over 250 articles and book chapters on topics such as physicians' practices, test use and efficacy, medical education, and clinical economics.
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