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Appendix F
Committee Member and
Staff Biographies
COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHIES
Gail L. Warden, M.H.A., FACHE (Chair), president emeritus of Detroit-
based Henry Ford Health System, served as its president and chief executive
officer from April 1988 to 2003. Prior to this role, Mr. Warden served as
president and chief executive officer of Group Health Cooperative of Puget
Sound as well as executive vice president of the American Hospital Associa-
tion. He serves as a director of Picker Institute Inc. He has been a director
of National Research Corp. since January 2005. He served as a director of
Comerica Inc. from July 2000 to December 31, 2006. Mr. Warden serves
in numerous leadership positions, as chairman to several national health
care committees and as board member to many other health care–related
committees and institutions. In addition, he is a professor of health manage-
ment and policy for the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He
serves the Detroit, Michigan, community through various memberships on
local governing committees and groups. Mr. Warden received an honorary
doctorate in public administration from Central Michigan University and
an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Rosalind Franklin Univer-
sity of Medicine and Science, a master of hospital administration from the
University of Michigan, and a bachelor of arts from Dartmouth College.
James P. Bagian, M.D., is the director of the Center for Healthcare Engi-
neering and Patient Safety and is a professor in the Medical School and the
College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. Previously, he served
as the first director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National
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Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) and the first chief Patient Safety Officer
for the VA from 1999 to 2010, where he developed numerous patient
safety–related tools and programs that have been adopted nationally and
internationally. Dr. Bagian served as a NASA astronaut and is a veteran
of two Space Shuttle missions including as the lead mission specialist for
the first dedicated Life Sciences Spacelab mission. His primary interest and
expertise involves the development and implementation of multidisciplinary
programs and projects that involve the integration of engineering, medical
and life sciences, and human factor disciplines. Presently, he is applying
the majority of his attention to the application of systems engineering ap-
proaches to the analysis of medical adverse events and the development
and implementation of suitable corrective actions that will enhance patient
safety primarily through preventive means. He received his B.S. in mechani-
cal engineering from Drexel University and his M.D. from Jefferson Medi-
cal College at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Bagian was elected to both
the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
and has served on or chaired numerous National Research Council (NRC)
and IOM committees.
David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc., is the director of the Center for Patient Safety
Research and Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is the
chief of the Division of General Medicine. He is also the medical director
of clinical and quality analysis, information systems (IS). He is a professor
in medicine at Harvard Medical School and has a joint appointment at the
Harvard School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and
Management. He serves as one of the directors of the clinical effective-
ness program. He is also external program lead for research for the World
Alliance for Patient Safety of the World Health Organization. Dr. Bates
received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Stanford University, his M.D.
from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and his M.Sc. in health policy and
management from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Bates’s primary
informatics interest has been the use of computer systems to improve pa-
tient care, especially with respect to clinical decision support. He has done
extensive work on evaluating the incidence and prevention of adverse drug
events. Another area of focus has been on improving efficiency and quality
using information systems with regards to diagnostic testing. He also has
done a series of studies focusing on health information technology policy.
Dedra Cantrell, R.N., B.S.N., M.S., C.P., is the chief information officer of
Emory Healthcare, Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia. Emory Healthcare is an inte-
grated academic health care system committed to caring for patients and
their families, educating health care professionals for the future, pursuing
discovery research and clinical innovation, and serving its community. The
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clinical arm of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University,
Emory Healthcare is the largest, most comprehensive health system in the
state of Georgia. Ms. Cantrell earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from
Brenau University and worked as a registered nurse in multiple capaci-
ties before becoming involved in health care information technology. She
went to Emory in 1994 as director of Patient Services Information Systems
for the Emory University Hospital and then moved the following year to
become a senior business analyst in the Emory Healthcare Information
Services Department. Ms. Cantrell was promoted to director of client and
application services in 1996, named executive director of Emory Health-
care Information Services in 1998, and was promoted to chief information
officer in 2000. Ms. Cantrell recently earned her master’s degree in organi-
zational management from Capella University.
David C. Classen, M.D., M.S., is an associate professor of medicine at the
University of Utah and an active consultant in infectious diseases at the Uni-
versity of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, and he is also a senior
partner at CSC. He served as chief medical resident at the University of
Connecticut. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious dis-
eases. He was the chair of Intermountain Healthcare’s clinical quality com-
mittee for drug use and evaluation and was the initial developer of patient
safety research and patient safety programs at Intermountain Healthcare.
In addition he developed, implemented, and evaluated a computerized
physician order entry program at LDS Hospital that significantly improved
the safety of medication use. He was a member of the IOM committee that
developed the National Healthcare Quality Report and was also a member
of the IOM committee on patient safety data standards. He chaired the
QUIC (federal safety taskforce)/Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
collaborative on improving safety in high-hazard areas. Dr. Classen was
co-chair of the IHI’s collaborative on perioperative safety and the surgical
safety collaborative. He was also a faculty member of the IHI/National
Health Foundation Safer Patients Initiative in the United Kingdom. In
addition, Dr. Classen is a developer of the “Trigger Tool Methodology” at
IHI, used for the improved detection of adverse events, which is currently
being used by more than 500 different health care organizations through-
out the United States and Europe. Dr. Classen also leads the development
and publication of the new compendium of strategies for the prevention of
health care–associated infections jointly released by the Infectious Disease
Society of America, the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology, The Joint
Commission, the American Hospital Association, and the Association of
Practitioners of Infection Control. He currently co-chairs the National
Quality Forum’s (NQF’s) patient safety common formats committee and is
an advisor to the Leapfrog Group and has developed and implemented the
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computerized provider order entry (CPOE)/EHR flight simulator for the
Leapfrog Group and the NQF. This EHR flight simulator has been used to
evaluate hundreds of inpatient and ambulatory EHR systems after imple-
mentation across the United States and the United Kingdom. He received
his M.D. from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and an M.S.
in medical informatics from the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Richard I. Cook, M.D., is a physician, educator, and researcher at the
University of Chicago. His current research interests include the study of
human error, the role of technology in human expert performance, and pa-
tient safety. He worked in the computer industry in supercomputer system
design and engineering applications and later received his M.D. from the
University of Cincinnati. Since November 1994, he has been faculty in the
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care of the University of Chicago.
Dr. Cook has investigated a variety of safety issues in such diverse areas
as urban mass transportation, semiconductor manufacturing, and military
software systems. He is often a consultant for not-for-profit organizations,
government agencies, and academic groups. His noteworthy publications
include “Gaps in the Continuity of Patient Care and Progress in Patient
Safety,” “Operating at the Sharp End: The Complexity of Human Error,”
“Adapting to New Technology in the Operating Room,” and the mono-
graph A Tale of Two Stories: Contrasting Views of Patient Safety.
Don E. Detmer, M.D., M.A., is medical director of advocacy and health
policy of the American College of Surgeons, professor emeritus and profes-
sor of medical education in the Department of Public Health Sciences at
the University of Virginia, and visiting professor at the College of Health-
care Information Management Executives (CHIME), University College of
London. Dr. Detmer is a member of the IOM as well as a lifetime associ-
ate of the National Academies, a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science as well as the American Colleges of Medical
Informatics, Sports Medicine, and Surgeons. Dr. Detmer is immediate past
president of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), past chair-
man of the Board on Health Care Services and the membership committee
of the IOM, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and
the board of regents of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). He was
a member of the national Commission on Systemic Interoperability. He
chaired the 1991 IOM study The Computer-Based Patient Record and
co-edited the 1997 version of the same report. He was a member of the
committee that developed the IOM reports To Err Is Human and Crossing
the Quality Chasm. His education includes an M.D. from the University
of Kansas and an M.A. from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Detmer’s
research interests include national health information policy, quality im-
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provement, compartment syndromes, and management of academic health
centers. He has written and edited a number of research articles, books,
book chapters, and monographs on these topics.
Meghan Dierks, M.D., is assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medi-
cal School, in the Division of Clinical Informatics at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She also holds a position of di-
rector of clinical systems analysis at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
In these roles, Dr. Dierks conducts a broad range of both operational and
research activities in the areas of clinical systems analysis, risk analysis,
decision analysis, and human factors engineering (emphasis on cognitive
engineering and macroergonomics). Dr. Dierks is a board-certified general
surgeon who trained at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and
the Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts. She completed the Harvard-
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) program in biomedical infor-
matics supported by an NLM training grant and was the Douglas Porter
Fellow in Informatics at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She
has a baccalaureate degree from Brown University and an M.D. from the
University of Texas Health Science Center–Houston. In addition to her aca-
demic position at Harvard Medical School, she has been a visiting scholar
and research affiliate at MIT and is an adjunct faculty at the University of
Maryland Division of Reliability Engineering. She is a former executive
medical director for GE Healthcare IT, where she provided clinical input
to design controls and was responsible for risk analysis. In her role as ex-
ecutive medical director, Dr. Dierks also held a leadership role in clinical
research operations across all of GE Healthcare. Dr. Dierks spent 3 years
with the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Devices and
Radiological Health working on a range of cross-departmental projects
under the deputy director that focused on risk analysis, mitigation, and
strategic planning around medical devices shortages.
Terhilda Garrido, M.P.H., is vice president, health information technology
transformation and analytics, within the national quality and care delivery
organization at Kaiser Permanente. Her team is responsible for realizing
the strategic value and maximizing opportunities for Kaiser Permanente’s
electronic health record. She also currently co-leads Kaiser Permanente’s ef-
forts to qualify for “meaningful use.” Her areas of focus include evaluation
of new EHR–based innovations, strategic impact of personal health records
(PHRs)/EHRs, the business case for Kaiser Permanente’s investment, leverag-
ing health IT to improve quality, patient safety, efficiency, and equity. She has
published on these topics and lends her expertise to various organizations
within the health care industry. Prior to joining Kaiser, she did economic
modeling and consulting for the European Economic Community and oth-
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ers. Ms. Garrido holds an operations research degree in engineering from
Princeton University and a master’s degree in public health in biostatistics
from University of California at Berkeley. She completed graduate work at
the Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City.
Ashish Jha, M.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor of health policy and
management at the Harvard School of Public Health and an associate
professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also an associ-
ate physician at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and VA Boston
Healthcare System. Over the past 3 years, he has served as special advisor
for quality and safety to the VA. Dr. Jha received his M.D. from Harvard
Medical School in 1997 and trained in internal medicine at the University
of California, San Francisco, where he also served as chief medical resident.
He completed his general medicine fellowship from Brigham and Women’s
Hospital and Harvard Medical School and received his M.P.H. in clinical ef-
fectiveness from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004. He joined the
faculty in July 2004. Dr. Jha is a practicing general internist with a clinical
focus on hospital care. The major themes of his research include (1) quality
of care provided by health care systems with a focus on safety, efficiency,
and effectiveness; (2) health information technology as a tool to reduce dis-
parities and improve the quality, efficiency, and safety of care; (3) disparities
in care, with a focus on the quality of care provided by minority-serving
providers; and (4) hospital governance and its impact on quality of care.
Michael Lesk, Ph.D., is professor of library and information science at
Rutgers University and past department chair (2005-2008). After receiving
a Ph.D. in chemical physics, Dr. Lesk joined the computer science research
group at Bell Laboratories, and from 1984 to 1995 managed computer
science research at Bellcore. He was then head of the division of informa-
tion and intelligent systems at the National Science Foundation (1998-
2002), and then joined Rutgers. He is best known for work in electronic
libraries, and his book Practical Digital Libraries was published in 1997
by Morgan Kaufmann and the revision Understanding Digital Libraries
appeared in 2004. His research has included the CORE project for chemi-
cal information, and he wrote some Unix system utilities including those
for table printing (tbl), lexical analyzers (lex), and intersystem mail (uucp).
His other technical interests include document production and retrieval
software, computer networks, computer languages, and human–computer
interfaces. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery,
received the Flame award from the Usenix association, and in 2005 was
elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He chairs the NRC board
on research data and information.
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Arthur Aaron Levin, M.P.H., is co-founder and the director of the Center
for Medical Consumers, a New York City–based nonprofit organization
committed to informed consumer and patient health care decision making,
patient safety, evidence-based, high-quality medicine, and health care sys-
tem transparency. Mr. Levin was a member of the IOM committee on the
quality of health care that published the To Err Is Human and Crossing the
Quality Chasm reports. Mr. Levin also was a member of the committee that
issued an IOM letter report in October 2007, Opportunities for Coordina-
tion and Clarity to Advance the National Health Information Agenda, and
served on the committee that wrote Knowing What Works in Health Care:
A Roadmap for the Nation published in fall 2008. He is a former member
of the IOM’s Board for Health Care Services. He is currently serving as
chair of the NQF Consensus Standards Approval Committee and is co-chair
of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Committee on
Performance Measures. Mr. Levin ended 4 years of service on FDA’s Drug
Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee (DSaRM) in May 2007
and continues to serve on select FDA advisory committees as a consultant
expert in drug safety and risk management representing consumers. He
also serves on the boards of the Foundation for Informed Medical Deci-
sion Making and the Citizens Advocacy Center in Washington. Mr. Levin
is a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) a not-for-profit, multistakeholder
organization. NYeC was created to provide and support a governance pro-
cess that provides policy direction to New York State’s HEAL investment
of more than $200 million dedicated to advancing health IT and health
information exchange (HIE). NYeC is also the recipient (on behalf of the
state) of more than $50 million in HIE and regional extension center (REC)
grants from the Office of the National Coordinator. Mr. Levin earned his
M.P.H. in health policy from Columbia University School of Public Health
and a B.A. in philosophy from Reed College.
John R. Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H., is the senior vice president and the direc-
tor of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s health care group, where he
is responsible for the overall planning, budgeting, staffing, management,
and evaluation of all program and administrative activities. Before joining
the Foundation in April 2003, Lumpkin served as director of the Illinois
Department of Public Health for 12 years. During his more than 17 years
with the department, he served as acting director and prior to that as
associate director. Dr. Lumpkin is a member of the IOM of the National
Academies and a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians
and the American College of Medical Informatics. He has been chairman
of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and served on
the Council on Maternal, Infant and Fetal Nutrition, the Advisory Com-
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mittee to the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion, and the IOM Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in
the 21st Century. He has served on the boards of directors for the Public
Health Foundation and the NQF, as president of the Illinois College of
Emergency Physicians and the Society of Teachers of Emergency Medicine,
and as speaker and board of directors member of the American College of
Emergency Physicians. He has received the Arthur McCormack Excellence
and Dedication in Public Health Award from the Association of State and
Territorial Health Officials, the Jonas Salk Health Leadership Award, and
the Leadership in Public Health Award from the Illinois Public Health
Association. Dr. Lumpkin also has been the recipient of the Bill B. Smiley
Award, the Alan Donaldson Award, the African American History Maker,
and Public Health Worker of the Year of the Illinois Public Health Asso-
ciation. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Vimla L. Patel, Ph.D., D.Sc., FRSC, is a senior research scientist at the
New York Academy of Medicine and an adjunct professor of biomedical
informatics (BMI) at Columbia University in New York. Previously she was
a professor of BMI and co-director at the Center for Cognitive Informatics
and Decision Making in the School of Biomedical Informatics at the Uni-
versity of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. From 2007-2009, she
served as interim chair and vice chair of the BMI department in the Ira A.
Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University, moving from
Columbia University in New York. She has also served on the faculty at
McGill University as a professor in the Department of Medicine, and as the
director of the Centre for Medical Education, as well as the director of the
Cognitive Science Center. She was an elected fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada (Academy of Social Sciences), the American College of Medical
Informatics, and the New York Academy of Medicine. She was a recipient
of the annual Swedish “Woman of Science” award in 1999. She received an
Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Victoria in 1998,
in recognition of her contributions through cognitive studies in the domain
of health informatics. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Biomedical
Informatics and sits on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence in
Medicine and Advances in Health Science Education. She is a past assistant
editor of AI in Medicine and has served on the editorial boards of Medical
Decision Making, the Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Comput-
ers in Biology and Medicine. She has served as vice-chair of AMIA’s 2009
Scientific Program Committee, vice-chair (membership) of the International
Medical Informatics Association, and chair of the editorial committee for
MedInfo 2001. As a leader in adapting methods/theories from cognitive
science and in innovating new approaches that provide scientific founda-
tion for medical education, her research includes the role of cognition in
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designing a safer clinical workplace. Her studies focus on complexity of the
distributed cognitive system that underlies critical care decisions, generation
of medical errors, and on the impact of technology on human cognition
for competent performance. After moving to the United States in 2000, she
became the principal investigator on two R01 awards (from the National
Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Mental Health) and on
additional awards from the National Library of Medicine and the National
Cancer Institute. Currently, she directs a major 5-year James S. McDonnell
Foundation research project on Complexity and Error in Health Care with
a focus on patient safety. She is a prolific writer with more than 250 schol-
arly publications spanning biomedical informatics, education, clinical, and
cognitive science journals.
Philip Schneider, M.S., FASHP, is clinical professor and associate dean for
academic and professional affairs for the University of Arizona, College of
Pharmacy at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. His prior 33 years at Ohio
State University included directing the Latiolais Leadership Program at the
Ohio State University, an interprofessional program to advance leadership
in pharmacy and improve the medication use system to reduce adverse
drug events. Mr. Schneider was selected as the recipient of the 2008 Harvey
A. K. Whitney Award, known as health-system pharmacy’s highest honor,
for his outstanding contributions to the practice of pharmacy in health
systems. In 2006, he was presented with the Donald E. Francke Medal for
significant international contributions to health-system pharmacy. He is
a past president of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and
past president of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutri-
tion, having served for 10 years as the first editor-in-chief of Nutrition in
Clinical Practice, one of its official publications. Active in international
pharmacy, he is currently vice president and co-chairman of the Centen-
nial Programme Committee of the Board of Pharmaceutical Practice of the
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). Mr. Schneider received a
B.S. in pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin, an M.S. in clinical hos-
pital pharmacy from the Ohio State University, and a certificate of residency
from the Ohio State University Hospitals. During his 40 years of profes-
sional and academic service, he has published more than 170 articles and
abstracts in professional and scientific journals, 38 book chapters, edited 7
books, and given more than 500 contributed or invited presentations in 22
countries and the United States.
Christine A. Sinsky, M.D., FACP, is a general internist at Medical Associates
Clinic and Health Plans in Dubuque, Iowa. She is a director on the Ameri-
can Board of Internal Medicine, serves on the physician advisory panel for
the NCQA physician recognition programs, is a member of the Society of
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General Internal Medicine’s patient centered medical home (PCMH) work-
ing group, and is a consultant for the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary
Care Innovation at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Sinsky is a
frequent invited lecturer on practice innovation, redesign, and the PCMH
including for the American College of Physicians, IHI, the Patient Centered
Primary Care Collaborative, as well as private and academic medical cen-
ters. Dr. Sinsky received her B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, and completed her postgraduate residency and was
chief resident at Gundersen Medical Foundation/La Crosse Lutheran Hos-
pital in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
Paul C. Tang, M.D., M.S., is an internist and vice president, chief inno-
vation and technology officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and
is consulting associate professor of medicine (biomedical informatics) at
Stanford University. Dr. Tang is vice chair of the federal Health Informa-
tion Technology Policy Committee and chair of its Meaningful Use Work
Group. Established under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act, the group advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
on policies related to health information technology. An elected member
of the IOM, Dr. Tang chaired an IOM patient safety committee, which
published reports in 2003 and 2004: Patient Safety: A New Standard for
Care and Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System. He is
also a member of the IOM Board on Health Care Services. Dr. Tang chairs
the NQF’s Health Information Technology Advisory Committee and is a
member of the NQF Consensus Standards Approval Committee. Dr. Tang is
a past chair of the board for the American Medical Informatics Association.
He is a member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
(NCVHS) and co-chair of the NCVHS quality subcommittee. Dr. Tang
co-chairs the measurement implementation strategy work group of the
Quality Alliance Steering Committee and chairs the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation’s National Advisory Council for ProjectHealth Design. He
has published numerous papers in medical informatics, especially related
to EHRs, PHRs, and quality, and he has delivered more than 280 invited
presentations to national and international organizations and associations.
Dr. Tang is a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the
American College of Physicians, the College of Healthcare Information
Management Executives, and the Healthcare Information and Management
Systems Society.
STAFF BIOGRAPHIES
Samantha M. Chao, M.P.H., is a senior program officer and study director
at the IOM, where she has primarily worked on issues related to health
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care quality and patient safety. She has directed studies resulting in the
reports Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions and
HIV and Disability: Updating the Social Security Listings. Previously, she
directed the Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement
and Implementation, which brought together leaders in the field to dis-
cuss methods to improve the quality and value of health care through the
strengthening of research. She previously staffed the Pathways to Quality
Health Care Series, which reviewed performance measures to analyze health
care delivery, evaluated Medicare’s Quality Improvement Organization
Program, and assessed pay for performance and its potential role in Medi-
care. Prior to joining the IOM, she completed an M.P.H. in health policy
with a concentration in management at the University of Michigan School
of Public Health. As part of her studies, she interned with the American
Heart Association.
Pamela Cipriano, Ph.D., is the 2010-2011 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-
Residence at the IOM. As an accomplished hospital and nursing executive,
she has led multiple patient care departments at academic medical centers
for the past 20 years. She served as chief nursing officer and chief clinical
officer of the University of Virginia Health System from 2000 to 2009
and currently holds a faculty appointment as research associate professor
at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. She is also editor-in-chief
of American Nurse Today, the official journal of the American Nurses
Association. Dr. Cipriano chaired the American Academy of Nursing’s
Workforce Commission, studying technology solutions to improve the work
environment to make patient care safer and more efficient. Throughout her
career, she has been a leader in national nursing organizations addressing
issues of policy, administration, quality, technology, and clinical practice.
She currently serves on The Joint Commission’s National Nursing Advisory
Council and the National eHealth Collaborative Board.
Roger C. Herdman, M.D., was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He gradu-
ated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1951; earned a B.S. from Yale Univer-
sity, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1955; and earned his M.D. from
Yale University School of Medicine in 1958. He interned at the University
of Minnesota, and was a medical officer with the U.S. Navy from 1959 to
1961. Thereafter, he completed a residency in pediatrics and continued with
a medical fellowship in immunology/nephrology at Minnesota. He held
positions of assistant professor and professor of pediatrics at the University
of Minnesota and the Albany Medical College between 1966 and 1979. In
1969, he was appointed director of the New York State Kidney Disease
Institute in Albany. During 1969-1977, he served as deputy commissioner
of the New York State Department of Health and was responsible for re-
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search, departmental health care facilities, and the Medicaid program at
various times. In 1977, he was named director of New York State’s Depart-
ment of Public Health. From 1979 until joining the U.S. Congress’s Office
of Technology Assessment (OTA), Dr. Herdman was a vice president of the
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. In 1983, he
was named assistant director of OTA and then acting director and director
from January 1993 to February 1996. After the closure of OTA, he joined
the IOM as a senior scholar, and subsequently served as director of the
National Cancer Policy Board and the National Cancer Policy Forum. He
is now the director of the Board on Health Care Services.
Jensen N. Jose, J.D., is a research associate for the Board on Health Care
Services at the IOM. Prior to joining the IOM, Mr. Jose held the position
of legal intern at FDA, Office of the Ombudsman, where he assisted in
handling complaints and issues against FDA. Mr. Jose received his B.S. in
biology and B.A. in political science from the University of Washington in
2007 and received his J.D. from the University of Maryland in 2010.
Herbert S. Lin, Ph.D., is chief scientist at the computer science and tele-
communications board, NRC of the National Academies, where he has been
study director of major projects on public policy and information technol-
ogy. These studies include a 1996 study on national cryptography policy
(Cryptography’s Role in Securing the Information Society), a 1991 study
on the future of computer science (Computing the Future), a 1999 study of
Defense Department systems for command, control, communications, com-
puting, and intelligence (Realizing the Potential of C4I: Fundamental Chal-
lenges), a 2000 study on workforce issues in high technology (Building a
Workforce for the Information Economy), a 2002 study on protecting kids
from Internet pornography and sexual exploitation (Youth, Pornography,
and the Internet), a 2004 study on aspects of the FBI’s information technol-
ogy modernization program (A Review of the FBI’s Trilogy IT Modernization
Program), a 2005 study on electronic voting (Asking the Right Questions
About Electronic Voting), a 2005 study on computational biology (Cata-
lyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology), a 2007 study
on privacy and information technology (Engaging Privacy and Informa-
tion Technology in a Digital Age), a 2007 study on cybersecurity research
(Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace), a 2009 study on health care
informatics (Computational Technology for Effective Health Care: Immedi-
ate Steps and Strategic Directions), a 2009 study on offensive information
warfare (Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition
and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities), and a 2010 study on cyber deterrence
(Proceedings of a Workshop on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies
and Developing Options for U.S. Policy). Prior to his NRC service, he was
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a professional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services
Committee (1986-1990), where his portfolio included defense policy and
arms control issues. He received his doctorate in physics from MIT.
Joi D. Washington is a research assistant for the IOM Board on Health Care
Services. Prior to joining the IOM in May 2008, Ms. Washington held the
position of registrar at the National Minority AIDS Council in which she
oversaw the registration process for two large national conferences. Ms.
Washington received her B.S. in public and community health from the
University of Maryland, College Park, in 2007 and is currently pursuing a
dual master’s degree in health care administration and business administra-
tion from the University of Maryland, University College.
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