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Bioiraph;eal Notes on
Comm;~tee Members
DREW ALTMAN, Ph.D., is commissioner of the New Jersey Department
of Human Services. He came to his post in 1986 from a position as vice
president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Prior to that, Dr.
Altman held an administrative position with the Health Care Financing
Administration at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
ELLEN L. BASSUK, M.D., is associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard
Medical School. She has completed various research studies and written
extensively about the origins of homelessness, the needs of homeless
families, and the impact of homelessness on children. In 1988 she became
president of The Better Homes Foundation in Chestnut Hill, Massachu-
setts, a new organization created to help homeless families.
WILLIAM R. BREAKEY, M.D., is currently the director of the Community
Psychiatry Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as well as
associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences. He has carried out research on homeless persons suffering
from mental illness and alcohol problems and has provided clinical care
for them.
A. ALAN FISCHER, M.D., is professor and founding chairman of the
Department of Family Medicine at the Indiana University School of
Medicine. A practicing family physician since 1953, Dr. Fischer is active
in educating students and young physicians to meet people's primary
health care needs.
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CHARLES R. HALPERN iS professor of law at the City University of New
York Law School at Queens College and senior fellow at Yale Law
School. He was the founding dean of the CUNY Law School and the
cofounder of the Mental Health Law Project and the Center for Law and
Social Policy. He has been actively involved in efforts to define and
protect the legal rights of mentally impaired people.
JUDITH R. LAVE, Ph.D., has been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon
University; director of the Division of Economic and Quantitative Anal-
ysis, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation,
Department of Health and Human Services; and director of the Office of
Research in the Health Care Financing Administration. She is currently
professor of health economics at the Graduate School of Public Health,
University of Pittsburgh.
JACK A. MEYER is founder and president of New Directions for Policy,
a research and policy organization that develops, analyzes, and evaluates
social policies for government, business, and the foundation community.
Mr. Meyer is the author of numerous books on health care policy. He is
currently serving as a senior consultant to the Ford Foundation's Project
on Social Welfare and the American Future.
GLORIA R. SMITH, R.N., Ph.D., is presently dean and professor of
nursing at Wayne State University College of Nursing in Detroit; during
her service on the study committee, she was the State Health Director
for Michigan. Prior to that Dr. Smith was dean and professor at the
University of Oklahoma College of Nursing (Health Sciences Center) in
Oklahoma City.
LOUISA R. STARK, Ph.D., iS an adjunct professor in the Department of
Anthropology at Arizona State University. She was formerly professor
of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin and has served as director
of anthropology at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. Dr. Stark serves on
the Salvation Army Social Services Advisory Board and, since 1984, has
been president of the National Coalition for the Homeless.
NATHAN J. STARK, a lawyer, is senior vice chancellor emeritus for Health
Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, and president emeritus of the Uni-
versity Health Center of Pittsburgh. He served as undersecretary of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 1979-1980.
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M ARVIN TURCK, M.D., is professor of medicine, University of Wash-
ington School of Medicine. During his service on the study committee
he also held the posts of medical director of Harborview Medical Center
and associate dean of the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Dr. Turck is editor of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
BRUCE C. VLADECK is president of the United Hospital Fund of New
York. He also serves as a member of the Prospective Payment Assessment
Commission, the Board of Directors of the New York City Health and
Hospitals Corporation, and the New York State Advisory Council on
Graduate Medical Education. Before joining the United Hospital Fund
in 1983, Dr. Vladeck held positions at the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, the New Jersey State Department of Health, and Columbia
University.
PHYLLIS B. W OLFE, M.S.W., A.C.S.W., developed a prototype mental
health care program for the homeless in Washington, D.C., and was its
project director from 1981 to 1985. In 1984-1985 she designed and
implemented the Public-Private Partnership Health Care for the Homeless
Demonstration Project in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Memorial Trust; she continues
to serve the Project as its executive director.
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