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Biosketches
Gail L. Warden, M.H.A., FACHE, Committee Chair is president and
chief executive officer of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan.
Before joining Henry Ford Health System in April 1988, Mr. Warden
served as president and chief executive officer of Group Health Coopera-
tive of Puget Sound in Seattle from 1981 to 1988. Prior to that he was
executive vice president of the American Hospital Association from 1976
to 1981, and from 1965 to 1976 he served as executive vice president and
chief operations officer of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in
Chicago.
Mr. Warden is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences. He has served on its Board of Health Care
Services and the Committee on the Quality of Health Care in America. He
served two terms on the IOM's Governing Council. He is chairman of the
National Forum on Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting,
chairman of the Healthcare Research and Development Institute, and
chairman of the newly created National Center for Healthcare Leader-
ship. Mr. Warden cochairs the National Advisory Committee on Pursu-
ing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance. He is a mem-
ber of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board of Trustees, the
Institute for Healthcare Improvement Board, and the RAND Health Board
of Advisors. He is director emeritus and past chairman of the Board of the
National Committee on Quality Assurance. In 1997 President Clinton ap-
pointed him to the Federal Advisory Commission on Consumer Protec-
tion and Quality in the Health Care Industry. In 1995 Mr. Warden served
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as chairman of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees. He
served as a member of the Pew Health Professions Commission, the Na-
tional Commission on Civic Renewal, and past chairman of the Health
Research and Education Trust Board of Directors.
Throughout his career, Mr. Warden has received several significant
awards from Yale University, Modern Health Care Magazine, the Na-
tional Committee for Quality Assurance, the American Hospital Associa-
tion, the Health Research and Educational Trust, and the American Col-
lege of Health Care Executives among others.
Mr. Warden is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds a master's
degree in health care management from the University of Michigan. He
has an honorary doctorate in public administration from Central Michi-
gan University.
Karen Davis, Ph.D. is president of the Commonwealth Fund, a na-
tional philanthropy engaged in independent research on health and social
policy issues. She assumed the presidency of this foundation in 1995. Dr.
Davis is a nationally recognized economist, with a distinguished career in
public policy and research. Before joining the Fund, she served as chair-
man of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns
Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, where she also held an
appointment as professor of economics. She served as deputy assistant
secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Ser-
vices from 1977 to 1980 and was the first woman to head a U.S. Public
Health Service agency.
Dr. Davis has published a number of significant books, monographs,
and articles on health and social policy issues. She is a member of the
National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQj, a member of the President's Steering Committee for the
Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, serves on
the ad-hoc Advisory Committee of the National Library of Medicine, is a
past president of the Academy for Health Services Research and Health
Policy (formerly AHSR) and an AHSRHP distinguished fellow, and is a
member of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. She is
a member of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Advisory Com-
mittee for the Center for Women's Health, a member of the Overseer's
Committee to Visit the School of Public Health, Harvard College, a mem-
ber of the American Hospital Association's Commission on Workforce,
and a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia University, School of
Nursing. Dr. Davis is the recipient of the 2000 Baxter-Allegiance Founda-
tion Prize for Health Services Research.
Prior to her government career, Dr. Davis was a senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., a visiting lecturer at Harvard
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University, and an assistant professor of economics at Rice University.
She received her doctoral degree in economics from Rice University,
which recognized her achievements with a Distinguished Alumna award
in 1991.
Arthur Carson, fr., M.D., M.P.H. is currently vice president and dean
of the University of Virginia's School of Medicine, and until tune 2002 he
served as the senior vice president and academic dean for operations at
Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Carson graduated from
Princeton University in 1970 and received his M.D. from Duke University
in 1974, remaining there for his pediatric residency. In 1979, he completed
a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and joined
its faculty in 1985. He was named chief of pediatric cardiology in 1988. In
1992, he received a master's degree in public health, specializing in health
policy and health care finance, from the University of Texas in Houston
and was recruited to Duke University to be associate vice chancellor of
health affairs. While there, he spent most of his time in health policy. Three
years later he returned to Houston and became senior vice president and
dean for academic operations at Baylor and vice president of Texas
Children's Hospital. In 2000, he was the president of the American Col-
lege of Cardiology.
William L. Roper, M.D., Ph.D. is dean of the School of Public Health,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Before joining UNC
in fuly 1997, Dr. Roper was senior vice president and chief medical officer
at Prudential Healthcare. In that capacity, he was responsible for medical
management services for all Prudential health plans, including functions
of quality improvement and health care information management. Before
going to Prudential, Dr. Roper was director of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), served on the senior White House staff,
and was administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration
(HCFA, now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Dr. Roper
is a past president of the Academy for Health Services Research and
Health Policy (formerly the Association for Health Services Research) and
chairman of Partnership for Prevention. He is a member of the Institute of
Medicine and serves on its Council and was also chair of the Committee
on the National Quality Report on Health Care Delivery.
Dr. Roper received his M.D. from the University of Alabama School
of Medicine and his M.P.H. from the University of Alabama at Birming-
ham School of Public Health.
William M. Sage, M.D., l.D. is professor of law at Columbia Univer-
sity, where he teaches courses in health law and regulatory theory and the
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professions. Professor Sage's areas of expertise are managed care, health
care information, antitrust, medical malpractice, insurance coverage de-
terminations, and the regulation of health care professionals. He currently
serves as principal investigator for the Project on Medical Liability in
Pennsylvania, a two-year study funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Pro-
fessor Sage's other major research project, supported by an Investigator
Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foun-
dation, involves antitrust and regulatory oversight of quality in health
care. Profesor Sage writes frequently for leading legal, health policy, and
clinical journals, including the Columbia Law Review, JAMA, Health Affairs,
and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, for which he recently co-
edited a special issue entitled "Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Eco-
nomics of Health Care." He is a member of the editorial board of Health
Affairs.
Professor Sage received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1982 and
his medical and law degrees from Stanford University in 1988. He com-
pleted an internship at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in San Diego
and served as a resident in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at
the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Prior to joining the Columbia faculty in 1995,
Professor Sage practiced corporate and securities law at O'Melveny &
Myers in Los Angeles and, in 1993, headed four working groups of the
White House Task Force on Health Care Reform.
Edward H. Shortliffe, M.D., Ph.D. is professor and chair of the De-
partment of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia College of Physicians
and Surgeons in New York City. He was formerly professor of medicine
and of computer science at Stanford University. He received an A.B. in
applied mathematics from Harvard College in 1970, a Stanford Ph.D. in
medical information sciences in 1975, and an M.D. at Stanford in 1976.
During the early-1970s, he was principal developer of the medical expert
system known as MYCIN. After a pause for internal medicine house-staff
training at Harvard and Stanford between 1976 and 1979, he joined the
Stanford internal medicine faculty where he served as chief of general
internal medicine from 1988-1995 and directed an active research program
in clinical information systems development. He spearheaded the forma-
tion of a Stanford graduate degree program in biomedical informatics and
divided his time between clinical medicine and biomedical informatics
research. In January 2000, he assumed his new post at Columbia Univer-
sity, where he is also deputy vice president for Strategic Information Re-
sources for the Health Sciences, professor of medicine, professor of com-
puter science, and director of medical informatics services for the New
York-Presbyterian Health Care System.
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Dr. Shortliffe is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academy of Sciences (where he serves on the IOM executive council), the
American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American
Physicians, and the American Clinical and Climatological Association. He
has also been elected to fellowship in the American College of Medical
Informatics, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and the
American College of Physicians (ACP). He was a member of the Board of
Regents of the ACP from 1996-2002, is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bio-
medical Informatics, and serves on the editorial boards for several other
medical informatics publications. He is a member of the National Com-
mittee for Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), and has served on the
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) and
the Advisory Board for the Internet II Project. He has also served on the
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (National Research
Council), the Biomedical Library Review Committee (National Library of
Medicine), and was recipient of a research career development award
from the latter agency. In addition, he received the Grace Murray Hopper
Award of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1976 and has been
a Henry I. Kaiser Family Foundation Faculty Scholar in general internal
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