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Members of the Committee
KENNETH S. ABRAM is professor of law at the University of Virginia
School of Law, where he teaches courses in torts, insurance, and prod-
ucts liability and a seminar in mass torts. He received his J.D. from Yale
Law School and is admitted to practice in New Jersey and Maryland. Mr.
Abraham has been a member of an advisory committee on medical
malpractice of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and insurance
reporter for the American Law Institute's project on compensation and
liability for product and process injuries. He has published numerous
articles in the area of insurance and tort law and is the author of
Distributing Risk: Insurance, Legal Theory, and Pubizc Policy.
LINDA H. AIKEN is Trustee Professor of Nursing and Professor of Soci-
ology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She is also former vice-
president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She received a mas-
ter's degree in nursing from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in
sociology and demography from the University of Texas. She was a
research fellow and a nurse scientist fellow at the National Institutes of
Health. Dr. Aiken is on the editorial board of Medical Care and is the
author oftwo recent books on nursing and health policy. She is a member
of the Institute of Medicine, served on the advisory panel on quality of
medical care of the U.S. Congress' Office of Technology Assessment, is a
fellow and former president ofthe American Academy of Nursing, and is
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MEMBERS OF THE COMMI=EE 229
on the board of directors of the Association for Health Services Research
and the Foundation for Health Services Research.
Lobule R. BR~sTow is a specialist in internal medicine and practices in
San Pablo, California. He received an M.D. from New York University
and is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr.
Bristow has served as a consultant to the California Department of
Health, as chairman of the state's sickle cell committee, as a member of
the National Council on Health Care Technology, and as a member ofthe
physician discussion group of the Health Care Financing Administra-
tion. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and is a
member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Medical
Association.
ROGER d. BULGER is president of the Association of Academic Health
Centers, Washington, D.C. He received an M.D. from Harvard Univer-
sity, did postgraduate work at Emmanuel College, Cambridge Univer-
sity, and served his internship and residency in internal medicine at the
University of Washington Hospital. He has served as president of the
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Bulger
taught at the University of Washington, Duke University, George
Washington University, and the University of Massachusetts and has
served as executive officer ofthe Institute of Medicine. He was a member
of the advisory panel on national health insurance of the House Ways
and Means Committee and is a member of the board of directors of
Georgetown University, a fellow of the American College of Physicians,
and a member of the Institute of Medicine.
ARTHUR L. HERBST is Joseph Bolivar DeLee Distinguished Service Pro-
fessor and chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology,
Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. He received his M.D.
from Harvard Medical School and served his internship in surgery at
Massachusetts General Hospital and his residency in obstetrics and
gynecology at Boston Lying-In Hospital and Free Hospital for Women.
Dr. Herbst is a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and
Gynecology and is certified by that board for special competence in
gynecologic oncology. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons
and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and is a
member of the American Medical Association and the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science. He is director and cofounder of
the registry of clear cell adenocarcinoma of the genital tract in young
females, a member of the advisory panel on endocrinology for the U.S.
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230 MEMBERS OF THE COMMI=EE
Pha~acopeia, and director of the American Board of Obstetrics and
Gynecology.
ANGELA RODDEY HOLDER is counsel for medicolegal affairs at Yale-New
Haven Hospital and Yale Medical School and clinical professor of pedi-
atrics and law at Yale Medical School. She holds a J.D. from Tulane
University and an LL.M. from Yale University. She is admitted to
practice in Louisiana, Connecticut, and South Carolina, where she is of
counsel in the law firm of Roddey, Sumwalt & Carpenter. She has
written several articles and books, among them Medical Malpractice
Law, which is in its second edition. She is a member of the American Bar
Association, the South Carolina Bar Association, and the Society of
Medical Jurisprudence. She is former president of the American Society
of Law and Medicine.
REGINA P. LEDERMAN is professor and associate dean for academic af-
fairs, University of Texas, Galveston, Texas. Dr. Lederman holds a
master's degree in nursing education from Teachers College, Columbia
University, and a Ph.D. in behavioral sciences education from the Uni-
versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has received the outstanding re-
searcher award from the Midwest Nursing Research Society; is a mem-
ber ofthe American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the
New York Academy of Sciences, the American Nurses' Association, and
the Nurses' Association of the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists; and is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Dr.
Lederman has published extensively in her field, and her text Psycho-
social Adaptation in Pregnancy: Assessment of Seven Dimensions of
Maternal Development won the 1985 book of the year award from the
American Journal of Nursing.
DONALD N. MEDEARIS, JR., is Charles Wilder Professor of Pediatrics at
Harvard Medical School and chief of the children's service at Massa-
chusetts General Hospital. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical
School and served his internship in internal medicine at Barnes Hospi-
tal, St. Louis, and his residency in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital,
Cincinnati. Dr. Medearis is a diplomats of the American Board of Pedi-
atrics and is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He was a
member ofthe President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems
in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, chairman of the
Harvard Medical Center standing committee on graduate medical edu-
cation, a member of the task force on graduate medical education of the
Association of American Medical Colleges, and a member ofthe General
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Clinical Research Centers advisory committee of the Division of Re-
search Resources, National Institutes of Health.
SAM A. Nixon is director of the Division of Continuing Education of the
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and assistant
dean for continuing education at the University of Texas Medical School
at Houston. Dr. Nixon received his M.D. from the University of Texas
Medical Branch at Galveston and completed a rotating internship at
For~ham Hospital in New York City. He is a diplomats of the American
Board of Family Practice. Dr. Nixon is a recipient of the Ashbe! Smith
Distinguished Alumnus Award of the University of Texas Medical
Branch and has served as president of the Houston Academy of Medi-
cine, the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Acad-
emy of Family Physicians. He is a member of the board of regents of the
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and has served as a
consultant to the Centers for Disease Control and as a member of the
CDC's venereal disease advisory committee. Dr. Nixon is editor of the
Texas Health [ester.
EDMUND D. PEt~EGR~No is John Carroll Professor of Medicine and Medi-
cal Humanities and director of the Kennedy Institute on Ethics at
Georgetown University. He holds a D.Sc. and an M.D. from New York
University and is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medi-
cine. Dr. Pellegrino has taught at numerous universities, among them
the University of Tennessee, where he was vice-president for health
affairs of the University of Tennessee system, and Yale University,
where he was president of the Yale-New Haven Medical Center. He is
editor of the dournaZ of Medicine and Philosophy; a fellow of the Ameri-
can College of Physicians and the New York Academy of Medicine; and a
member ofthe New York Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine,
the Metaphysical Society of America, the American Medical Associa-
tion, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
JAMES R. POSNER is executive vice-president of Voluntary Hospitals of
America, Inc., where he is in charge of insurance programs for more
than 750 hospitals. Dr. Posner is a graduate of Harvard College and the
Sorbonne, was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Buenos Aires, and
holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He taught statistics at the
Bernard Baruch Graduate School of Business Administration in New
York City and was vice-president of the national health care unit of
Marsh & McLennan, Inc., where he designed, negotiated, and planned
programs in liability insurance, self-insurance, and risk management.
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ANNE H. SCrr~VSKY is chief of the health economics division of the Palo
Alto Medical Research Foundation and teaches at the Institute for
Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, University of California, San
Fiancisco. She did postgraduate work at the London School of Economics
and received an M.A. in economics from Columbia University. Ms.
Scitovsky is a member of the Institute of Medicine's council on health
care technology, the American Public Health Association's publications
advisory board, and the U.S. General Accounting Off~ce's health advi-
sory committee. She served on the President's Commission for the Study
of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Re-
search and on the advisory pane] on life-sustaining technologies and the
elderly of the U.S. Congress' Office of Technology Assessment.
BARBARA H. STARFIELD is associate professor of pediatrics and professor
of health care organization at the Johns Hopkins University. She holds
an M.D. from the State University of New York and an M.P.H. from
Johns Hopkins, where she also completed her internship and residency.
Dr. Starfield is a member of the editorial board of Medical Care Review,
Pediatrics, and the International Journal of Health Services. She is a
member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Public Health Asso-
ciation, and the American Pediatric Society.
WALTER J. WADLING~N is dames Madison Professor at the University of
Virginia School of Law and professor of legal medicine at the University
of Virginia School of Medicine. He received an LL.B. from Plane Uni-
versity, where he was editor-in-chiefofthe li'!aneLawReview end was a
Fulbright Scholar at the University of Edinburgh. Mr. Wadlington is
admitted to the bar in Louisiana and Virginia. He is a senior program
consultant for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and director of the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation medical malpractice program. He is a
member of the board of directors of the American Society of Law and
Medicine, chair-elect ofthe American Association of Law Schools section
on law and medicine, and a member of the American Law Institute. Mr.
Wadlington has taught and written extensively in the areas of children
in the legal system, family law, health care regulation, and legal re-
sponses to biomedical technology.
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