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Appendix D
Biosketches of Committee Members
Paul J. Wallace, M.D., is director of the Center for Comparative Effective-
ness Research at the Lewin Group. Formerly, Dr. Wallace was medical
director of health and productivity management programs at the Perman-
ente Federation. Dr. Wallace is an active participant, program leader, and
perpetual student in clinical quality improvement, especially in the area of
translation of evidence into care delivery using people- and technology-
based innovation supported by performance measurement. As Kaiser
Permanente’s (KP’s) medical director for health and productivity manage-
ment programs, he led work to extend KP’s experience with population-
based care to further develop and integrate wellness, health maintenance,
and productivity enhancement interventions. He also is active in the design
and promotion of systematic approaches to comparative effectiveness as-
sessment and accelerated organizational learning. Dr. Wallace was previ-
ously executive director of KP’s Care Management Institute (CMI) from
2000 to 2005, and he continues as a senior advisor to CMI and to Avivia
Health, the KP disease management company established in 2005. Dr.
Wallace is a graduate of the University of Iowa School of Medicine and
completed further training in internal medicine and hematology at Strong
Memorial Hospital and the University of Rochester. Board-certified in
internal medicine and hematology, he previously taught clinical and basic
sciences and investigated bone marrow function as a faculty member at the
Oregon Health Sciences University. Dr. Wallace is a member of the Board
for AcademyHealth and serves as board chair for the Center for Informa-
tion Therapy. He has previously served on the National Advisory Council
for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Medical
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Coverage Advisory Committee for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services, the Medical Advisory Panel for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Technology Evaluation Center, the board of directors for DMAA: The Care
Continuum Alliance, and the Committee on Performance Measurement and
Standards Committee for the National Committee for Quality Assurance
(NCQA). Dr. Wallace is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board
on Population Health and Public Health Practice and has participated in a
number of IOM activities.
Anne M. Barry, J.D., M.P.H., has 30 years of experience in state public
service in a career that includes gubernatorial appointments to high-level
leadership positions in four separate administrations. She currently serves
as deputy commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Human Services,
where she oversees both programmatic and operational activities. Immedi-
ately prior to her recent appointment as deputy commissioner in January
2011, Ms. Barry was chief compliance officer for the Department of Health
and Human Services, with responsibility for legal, ethical, licensing, internal
and external audit, and program oversight activities. Before joining the De-
partment of Health and Human Services, Ms. Barry was appointed deputy
commissioner of finance in the Governor Pawlenty administration after 4
years in that position for the Governor Ventura administration. As deputy
commissioner of finance, she was responsible for overall agency leadership
and management in the areas of accounting, budget, cash and debt man-
agement, economic forecasting, and financial information systems. Prior to
her appointments in the Department of Finance, Ms. Barry was appointed
by Governor Carlson as commissioner of health, a position she held from
June 1995 to January 1999. She also served as deputy commissioner of
health. Ms. Barry serves as adjunct faculty for the School of Public Health
in the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota. She earned
her juris doctorate from William Mitchell College of Law and her master of
public health administration degree from the University of Minnesota. She
also holds a bachelor of arts degree in occupational therapy from the Col-
lege of St. Catherine. She is currently a candidate for a Ph.D. in kinesiology
at the University of Minnesota.
Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D., is president of the New York Academy of Medi-
cine. Dr. Boufford also is professor of public service, health policy, and
management at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and
clinical professor of pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine.
She served as dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public
Service at New York University from June 1997 to November 2002. Prior
to that, she served as principal deputy assistant secretary for health in the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from November 1993
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to January 1997, and as acting assistant secretary from January 1997 to
May 1997. While at HHS, she served as U.S. representative on the execu-
tive board of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1994 to 1997.
From May 1991 to September 1993, Dr. Boufford served as director of the
King’s Fund College, London, England, a royal charity dedicated to the
support of health and social services in London and the United Kingdom.
She served as president of the New York City Health and Hospitals Cor-
poration, the largest municipal system in the United States, from December
1985 until October 1989. Dr. Boufford was elected to membership in the
IOM in 1992. She is currently the IOM foreign secretary and is a member
of its Executive Council, Board on Global Health, and Board on African
Science Academy Development. She attended Wellesley College for 2 years
and received her B.A. (psychology) magna cum laude from the University of
Michigan and her M.D., with distinction, from the University of Michigan
Medical School. She is board-certified in pediatrics.
Shaun Grannis, M.D., M.S., FAAFP, is a research scientist with the
Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and assistant professor of family medicine,
Indiana University School of Medicine. He received an aerospace engineer-
ing degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and under-
went postdoctoral training in medical informatics and clinical research at
Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine. He joined
Indiana University in 2001 and collaborates closely with national and in-
ternational public health stakeholders to advance technical infrastructure
and data sharing capabilities. Dr. Grannis is a member of WHO’s Col-
laborating Center for the Design, Application, and Research of Medical
Information Systems, where he provides consultancy on issues related to
health information system identity management; the implementation of au-
tomated patient record matching strategies; and collaboration with WHO
on the design, development, and implementation of enterprise medical
record system architectures. Dr. Grannis recently completed an analysis of
automated regional electronic laboratory reporting that revealed substan-
tial increases in the electronic capture rates for diseases of public health
significance as compared with traditional, manual, paper-based procedures.
He developed methods for protecting the privacy and confidentiality of
protected health information used for public health syndromic surveillance.
He also is project director for an ongoing initiative integrating data flows
from more than 120 hospitals across the state of Indiana for use in public
health disease surveillance and clinical research. He serves as director of
the Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics. Dr. Grannis
oversees the development of operational standards-based laboratory data
interfaces between public health clinical laboratories and an electronic clini-
cal messaging application used by both public health officials and clinicians.
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As co-chair of the U.S. Health Information Technology Standards Panel’s
Population Health technical work group, he helped lead the development
of technical interoperability specifications for nationally recognized public
health information technology use cases.
Larry A. Green, M.D., is professor and Epperson Zorn chair for innovation
in family medicine and primary care at the University of Colorado School
of Medicine. Previously, he practiced medicine in Van Buren, Arkansas,
in the National Health Service Corps. He has remained a faculty mem-
ber throughout his career, during which he has served in various roles,
including practicing physician, residency program director, developer of
practice-based research networks, and department chair. In 1999 he be-
came founding director of the Robert Graham Center in Washington, DC,
a research policy center sponsored by the American Academy of Family
Physicians focused on family medicine and primary care. He served on the
steering committee for the Future of Family Medicine Project, which ad-
vanced the development of the patient-centered medical home. He directed
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Prescription for Health national
program, focused on incorporating health behavior change in redesigned
primary care practices. He is a founding board member for Partnership
2040, a community-based participatory research enterprise in the Denver
area. Dr. Green has received the Curtis Hames Award and the Maurice
Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research. He is
a member of the IOM. He graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston, Texas, and performed his residency in family medicine in Roch-
ester, New York, at Highland Hospital and the University of Rochester.
Kevin Grumbach, M.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Fam-
ily and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
(UCSF). He is director of the UCSF Center for California Health Workforce
Studies, co-director of the UCSF Center for Excellence in Primary Care,
and co-director of the Community Engagement and Health Policy Program
for the UCSF Clinical Translational Science Institute. His research interests
include the health care workforce, innovations in the delivery of primary
care, translational and implementation science, and racial and ethnic di-
versity in the health professions. With Tom Bodenheimer, he co-authored
the best-selling textbook on health policy Understanding Health Policy: A
Clinical Approach and the book Improving Primary Care: Strategies and
Tools for a Better Practice. Dr. Grumbach received a Generalist Physician
Faculty Scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the
Health Resources and Services Administration Award for Health Workforce
Research on Diversity, and the Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence and
Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education.
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He is a member of the IOM. He practices family medicine at the Family
Health Center at San Francisco General Hospital, and chairs the Primary
Care Steering Committees for the San Francisco Department of Public
Health and the UCSF Medical Center.
Fernando A. Guerra, M.D., M.P.H., is director of health for the San Antonio
Metropolitan Health District. Dr. Guerra’s career reflects a long-standing
interest and involvement in pediatric care, public health, and health policy.
His expertise is in improving access to health care systems for infants,
women, children, and the elderly and improving access to health care for
migrant children. He is also active with local, national, and international
forums on a variety of health issues. Dr. Guerra has served on the Commit-
tee on Ethical Issues in Housing-Related Health Hazard Research Involv-
ing Children; the Frontiers of Research on Children, Youth, and Families
Steering Committee; the Committee on Using Performance Monitoring to
Improve Community Health; and the Committee on Overcoming Barriers
to Immunization. He is an IOM member and a former member of the Board
on Children, Youth, and Families and has participated as a member of the
Roundtable on Head Start Research. He has received the James Peavey
Award from the Texas Public Health Association and the Job Lewis Smith
Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics, and is a Kellogg Fellow
of the Harvard School of Public Health, among many other awards and
honors. Dr. Guerra holds a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, an
M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health, and an M.D. from the
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
James Hotz, M.D., is clinical services director and co-founder of Albany
Area Primary Health Care, a community health center with 13 clinical
sites that serves 40,000 citizens in rural Southwest Georgia. In addition to
being a practicing internist, Dr. Hotz is heavily involved in health policy
around issues of access and health disparity. He was a board member of
the Georgia Association of Primary Health Care and was the first physician
to be president of the association. Dr. Hotz served two terms on the board
of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), is
a member of the NACHC Clinical Services and Legislative Affairs Com-
mittees, and is coordinator for cancer screening for the NACHC Quality
Center. Since 2006 Dr. Hotz has been on the Steering Committee of the
Georgia State Cancer Plan and is co-chairperson of the Early Detection and
Screening Work Group. He is medical director and serves on the board of
directors of the Southwest Georgia Cancer Coalition, an organization that
he helped found in 2001. Dr. Hotz is a member of the Council of Regional
Cancer Coalitions of Georgia and was chairperson from 2004-2008. He is
active in medical education, serving on the faculty of the Medical College
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of Georgia and the Admissions Committee of Mercer University School of
Medicine. He is on the board of directors of the Southwest Georgia Area
Health Education Center and was the founding president of the board in
1990. Dr. Hotz received the Clinical Recognition Award for Education and
Training from NACHC in 1991, the Community Health Leadership Award
from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 1995, the Leadership Award
of the Georgia Chapter of the American College of Physicians in 2008,
and the James Alley Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Ru-
ral Health Care in 2009. In 2011 he was made a Master of the American
College of Physicians. He is the author of the novel Where Remedies Lie
based on his experience as a rural health center physician. A graduate of
Cornell University and the Ohio State University School of Medicine, Dr.
Hotz started his career as a legislative assistant to Kansas Representative
Dr. William Roy addressing health reform issues.
Alvin D. Jackson, M.D., is former director of the Ohio Department of
Health. Previously he served as medical director of the Community Health
Services Center in Fremont, Ohio; he began his career at the center during
his 4-year family practice residency. During his tenure, the center expanded
access to services with a fully equipped mobile unit, which extended health
care services to 12 counties and has served as an immunization center at
local schools. Dr. Jackson also served as chief of staff at Memorial Hospi-
tal in Fremont and staff physician at the Sandusky County Department of
Health. He served as president of the Midwest Clinicians Network in 2000
and was clinician’s state representative to the Ohio Association of Commu-
nity Health Centers in 2001. Dr. Jackson has received Pfizer’s Ohio Quality
Care Award, HHS’s Clinician Award, and a Robert Wood Johnson Com-
munity Health Leadership Award. He graduated from Andrew University
in Michigan with a B.S. in biology, received his medical degree from the
Ohio State University, and received an honorary doctor of humane letters
degree from Heidelberg College.
Bruce E. Landon, M.D., M.B.A., M.Sc., is professor of health care policy
at Harvard Medical School and professor of medicine at the Beth Is-
rael Deaconess Medical Center, where he practices internal medicine. Dr.
Landon’s primary research interest has been assessing the impact of differ-
ent characteristics of physicians and health care organizations on physician
behavior and the provision of health care services. He currently serves as
principal investigator for an RO1 grant from the National Institute on
Aging that involves studying the impact of physician financial incentives
and other practice-related characteristics on the costs and intensity of care
for Medicare beneficiaries. Dr. Landon has also been particularly inter-
ested in studying organizational approaches to improving the quality of
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care. He recently completed a national evaluation of the Health Resources
and Services Administration (HRSA) Health Disparities Collaboratives, the
primary quality improvement activity for the nation’s community health
centers. Dr. Landon has been interested in larger organizational entities,
such as managed care health plans, as well, and has studied quality of
care and patient experiences in Medicare’s managed care program. He has
extensively studied the experiences of state Medicaid agencies with man-
aged care and compared quality within Medicaid managed care and private
managed care plans. He also developed a research program with vascular
surgeons to study the comparative effectiveness of treatment strategies for
vascular disease. Dr. Landon graduated summa cum laude from the Whar-
ton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a major in finance. He
received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine and an M.B.A. with a concentration in health care management
from the Wharton School. He also received an M.Sc. in health policy and
management from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Landon is a
fellow of the American College of Physicians and an elected member of the
American Society of Clinical Investigation.
Danielle Laraque, M.D., is chair of the Department of Pediatrics and vice
president of the Infants & Children’s Hospital of Brooklyn, Maimonides
Medical Center. Previously, she was chief of the Division of General Pe-
diatrics and vice chair for public policy and advocacy at the Mount Sinai
School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. Her academic appointments
have included professor of pediatrics, professor of preventive medicine, and
the Endowed Debra and Leon Black Professor of Pediatrics. Dr. Laraque
received her B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA). She completed her medical studies at UCLA, where she received
the Roy Markus Scholarship. Her internship and residency were completed
at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she was also a Robert
Wood Johnson fellow in general academic pediatrics. Dr. Laraque directed
the joint Mount Sinai Faculty Development Program for Primary Care and
Clinician Research Fellowship (General Academic Pediatrics and General
Internal Medicine), and over a period of about a decade trained countless
fellows, residents, and medical students. She is a nationally and internation-
ally recognized expert in injury prevention, child abuse, adolescent health
risk behaviors, and health care delivery in underserved communities. In
the past several years, she has focused on system changes to integrate the
identification, diagnosis, and treatment of children’s mental health prob-
lems in primary care settings. Dr. Laraque is immediate past president of
the Academic Pediatric Association and was vice chair of the American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) District II (New York State). She was AAP
representative as the 2001 U.S. Public Health Service primary care policy
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fellow and was a member of the National Institute of Mental Health Stand-
ing Committee on Interventions for Disorders Involving Children and Their
Families (2006-2010).
Catherine G. McLaughlin, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy
Research, Inc. (MPR). and professor in the Department of Health Manage-
ment and Policy at the University of Michigan. Dr. McLaughlin has studied
various topics related to health economics. She has published numerous
articles on issues surrounding the working uninsured, the determinants
of health plan choice, and market competition and health care costs. Her
current research interests are focused on the impact of health information
technology on health care markets, Medicare beneficiary enrollment be-
havior, patient-centered medical homes and low-income uninsured adults,
disparities in health care utilization, and barriers to access. Dr. McLaughlin
is an elected member of the IOM and the National Academy of Social Insur-
ance and a member of the Council on Health Care Economics and Policy.
She served as a senior associate editor of Health Services Research and is
currently on its editorial board.
J. Lloyd Michener, M.D., is professor and chairman of the Department of
Community and Family Medicine at Duke University and director of the
Duke Center for Community Research. He is a member of the board of
the Association of Academic Medical Colleges, co-chair of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) Community Engagement Steering Committee, a
member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Founda-
tion Working Group on Public Health and Medical Education and the NIH
Fogarty/Ellison Fellowship Program Selection Committee, and director of
the Duke/CDC program in primary care and public health of the American
Austrian Foundation Open Medical Institute. Dr. Michener is past president
of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research and past chair of
the Council of Academic Societies of the Association of American Medical
Colleges, and has served as a member of the board of the Association of
Departments of Family Medicine and the National Patient Safety Founda-
tion board of governers. He has played a leadership role in system rede-
sign at Duke, including expansion of the physician assistant program and
development of the master’s program in clinical leadership. Dr. Michener
has focused on finding ways of making health care work better through
teams, community engagement, and practice redesign. He has overseen the
obesity and chronic disease prevention programs of the Kate B. Reynolds
Trust, a program designed to lower chronic disease rates in low-income
areas across North Carolina, and the obesity prevention programs of the
North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund. Dr. Michener earned
his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1974 and his
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medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1978. He joined Duke as
a resident in 1978, receiving the national Mead Johnson Award in Family
Medicine in his senior year. He went on to become a Kellogg Fellow, after
which he joined the Duke faculty in 1982.
Robert L. Phillips, Jr., M.D., M.S.P.H., is a family physician and director of
the Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary
Care in Washington, DC. The Graham Center functions as a division of
the American Academy of Family Physicians, with editorial independence,
staffed by a small research team focused on providing evidence to help
inform policy making. It publishes extensively, most recently in the special
primary care issue of Health Affairs, and was recently cited in both Parade
magazine and Forbes. Dr. Phillips is a graduate of the University of Florida
College of Medicine and underwent residency training at the University
of Missouri, Columbia. He completed a 2-year National Research Ser-
vice Award research fellowship and practiced in a federal housing feder-
ally qualified health center in Boone County, Missouri. He now practices
part-time in a community-based residency program in Fairfax, Virginia.
Dr. Phillips holds faculty appointments at Georgetown University, The
George Washington University, and Virginia Commonwealth University.
He recently served as vice chair of the U.S. Council on Graduate Medical
Education, which advises the U.S. Congress and the administration.
David N. Sundwall, M.D., is clinical professor of public health, University
of Utah School of Medicine, and vice chair of the Medicaid and CHIP Pay-
ment and Access Commission (MACPAC). Dr. Sundwall served as execu-
tive director of the Utah State Department of Health from 2005 to 2010,
where he supervised a workforce of more than 1,200 employees and a
budget of almost $2 billion. He was president of the Association of State
and Territorial Health Officials from 2007 to 2008. Dr. Sundwall served
as president of the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA)
from September 1994 through May 2003, when he was appointed senior
medical and scientific officer. The ACLA is a not-for-profit organization
representing the leading national, regional, and local independent clini-
cal laboratories. Previously, he was vice president and medical director of
American Healthcare System (AmHS), at that time the largest coalition
of not-for-profit multihospital systems in the country. Dr. Sundwall has
extensive experience in federal government and national health policy, in-
cluding service as administrator, HRSA, Public Health Service, HHS, and
assistant surgeon general in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health
Service (1986-1988). During this period, he had adjunct responsibilities at
HHS, including serving as co-chairman of the HHS Secretary’s Task Force
on Medical Liability and Malpractice and as the HHS Secretary’s designee
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to the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality (1981-1986). Dr.
Sundwall is board-certified in internal medicine and family practice and
licensed to practice medicine in Utah and the District of Columbia.
Mary Wellik, M.P.H., B.S.N., is former director of public health, Olmsted
County, Minnesota, and has practiced public health in the community
setting in clinic services and administration. Her practice has focused on
strengthening community partnerships to improve health status and the
development of public health policy. Ms. Wellik is past co-chair of the
Minnesota eHealth Initiative and is a member of the National Association
of County and City Health Officials Informatics work group. She has held
numerous leadership positions, including in the local Community Health-
care Access Collaborative and in development of the Olmsted County
Multicultural Healthcare Alliance. She served as co-chair of the Minne-
sota Health Improvement Partnership, member (current) of the governance
board of the Southeast Minnesota Beacon Program, chair of the Local
Public Health Association of Minnesota, and co-chair of its Legislative
Committee.
Winston F. Wong, M.D., M.S., serves as medical director for community
benefit at Kaiser Permanente, with joint appointments at the Permanente
Federation and the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. In this role, he is re-
sponsible for developing and cultivating partnerships with communities and
agencies in advancing population management and evidence-based medi-
cine, with particular emphasis on safety net providers and the elimination of
health disparities. Dr. Wong also is a member of multiple national advisory
committees, addressing issues in cultural competence, health care access,
and improving health care for vulnerable populations. A previous captain
in the Commissioned Corp of the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. Wong was
awarded the Outstanding Service Medal while serving as both chief medical
officer for HRSA, Region IX, and its director of California Operations. Dr.
Wong received both his master’s degree in health policy and his medical de-
gree from the University of California, Berkeley-San Francisco Joint Medi-
cal Program. A board-certified family practitioner, he continues a practice in
family medicine at Asian Health Services in Oakland, where he previously
served as medical director. Dr. Wong also serves as vice chairperson for the
National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians.
