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Appendix A
Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members and Staff
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Michael M. E. Johns, M.D. (Co-Chair), is the chancellor of Emory Uni-
versity and executive vice president for health affairs, emeritus. Before he
became chancellor in 2007, he led Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Health
Sciences Center from 1996 to 2007. The center is the largest, most com-
prehensive health care system in Georgia, and he led its extensive facili-
ties improvement plan, which included new biomedical research, nursing
school, vaccine center, and cancer institute buildings, and the complete re-
configuration and rebuilding of Emory’s midtown Crawford Long Hospital
(now Emory University Hospital Midtown) campus. Dr. Johns co-chaired
Emory’s University-wide Strategic Planning Committee that set the strategic
direction of the university for the next decade or more. From 1990 to 1996,
he served as dean of the School of Medicine, vice president of the medi-
cal faculty, and head of the physician practice plan at the Johns Hopkins
University. Prior to that, beginning in 1984 as a professor and chair of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins, he also served
as associate dean for clinical practice and reorganized the faculty practice
plan, and planned and developed the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center.
Joining the Department of Otolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery at
the University of Virginia Medical Center in 1977, he rose from the posi-
tion of assistant professor to professor. From 1975 to 1977, he served as
assistant chief of the Otolaryngology Service at the Walter Reed Army
Medical Center. Dr. Johns has been a significant contributor to many of
the leading organizations and policy groups in health care, including the
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Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Commonwealth
Fund Task Force on Academic Health Centers, and the Association of Aca-
demic Health Centers (AAHC). Dr. Johns serves on the Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences’ (USUHS’s) Board of Regents, as well
as on various other boards, including Johnson & Johnson, the Genuine
Parts Company, AMN Healthcare, the National Health Museum, and the
Satcher Health Leadership Institute. He is a past member of the National
Governing Board of the Clinical Center and of the Council of the National
Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
He has served as a member of the board of directors and as president of the
American Board of Otolaryngology, as chair of the AAHC, and as chair of
the AAMC’s Council of Deans. He served as editor of the Archives of Oto-
laryngology from 1992 to 2005, and serves on the editorial board of the
Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Johns received his bach-
elor’s degree from Wayne State University and graduated with distinction
from the University of Michigan Medical School, where he remained for
his internship and residency. He is an Institute of Medicine (IOM) member
and has served as vice chair of the IOM Council and as a member of the
Governing Board of the National Research Council, as well as on many
committees, including as chair of the Committee on Optimizing Graduate
Medical Trainee (Resident) Hours and Work Schedules to Improve Patient
Safety from 2007 to 2009.
Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A. (Co-Chair), is the dean of the
School of Public Health, Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor
of Health Policy & Management, and professor of organization behavior
in the School of Public Health and the Haas School of Business at the
University of California, Berkeley. He has affiliated appointments to the
Department of Sociology and serves as a member of the Center for Health
Research, the Industrial Relations Institute, and the Institute for Personal-
ity and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and at
the Institute for Health Policy Research at the University of California,
San Francisco. His research interests include organizational correlates of
quality and outcomes of care; the evaluation of total quality management
and community-based health improvement initiatives; strategic change in
the health care sector (i.e., evolution of integrated delivery systems); and
strategic alliances between physicians and other health entities. He teaches
courses in strategic management of health services and organization be-
havior in health. Dr. Shortell was A.C. Buehler Distinguished Professor of
Health Services Management and professor of organization behavior in the
J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University
from 1982 to 1998. He was assistant professor from 1974 to 1976, associ-
ate professor from 1976 to 1979, and professor from 1979 to 1982 in the
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School of Public Health and Community Medicine in the Department of
Health Services at the University of Washington. Dr. Shortell has published
14 books and monographs, and more than 250 reports and editorials. He
received his B.B.A. in business administration from the University of Notre
Dame, his M.P.H. in hospital administration/public health from the Univer-
sity of California, Los Angeles, and his M.B.A. in business administration
and Ph.D. in behavioral science from the University of Chicago Graduate
School of Business. He is an IOM member and has served as a member of
the IOM Council and on its executive committee. Dr. Shortell is past chair
of the Gustave Lienhard Award committee. He has also served as a member
of the IOM Membership Committee and the Section 11 chair of the IOM
Membership Section Leaders. In addition, he has been a member of many
committees, including serving as the chair of the Subcommittee on Quality
Improvement Organizations’ Evaluation from 2004 to 2006.
Nancy R. Adams, R.N., M.S.N., is a senior partner with Martin, Blanck
& Associates (Martin-Blanck), a federal health services consulting firm
based in Falls Church, Virginia. Martin-Blanck provides critical assistance
to public and private sector clients focused on federal and state health
care delivery systems. Martin-Blanck has more than two dozen senior
executive partners with expertise in health care policy, program develop-
ment, management, informatics, and strategic planning. Ms. Adams joined
Martin-Blanck in August 2005 after a distinguished career as a military
officer and as a senior executive in the federal government. She is one of
Martin-Blanck’s leading experts on federal health acquisition policies and
procedures. In addition, she brings extensive clinical, administrative, and
senior management experience with large, complex government health
care systems, and has demonstrated experience and competency as an
organizational leader, an effective communicator, and a resource manager
with results that have produced performance improvements. Ms. Adams
served as the source selection authority for five major, multibillion-dollar
health care procurements for the Department of Defense (DoD). All pro-
curements were accomplished on time and two awards were sustained on
appeal with the General Accounting Office. In addition to shepherding
the unprecedented contracting effort to completion, she also defined the
business planning process and the organizational structure for the military
services and TRICARE Management Activity to administer the three re-
gional health care support contracts. Following the procurement process,
Ms. Adams was the initial regional director for the TRICARE Regional
Office-North and was responsible for managing the DoD health care con-
tract for 20 state regions, worth more than $1 billion annually. From 1998
to 2002, Ms. Adams (MG rank) served as the commanding general of the
Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, a 266-bed tertiary care medical
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center with 3,000 personnel and a $245 million annual budget. She led the
organization to a perfect score on the survey by the Joint Commission. She
also had responsibility for TRICARE Pacific, serving 527,960 beneficiaries
in Hawaii and throughout the Pacific. Prior to this command, Ms. Adams
(BG rank) commanded the William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort
Bliss, Texas, a 200-bed tertiary care medical center with 1,800 personnel
serving 400,000 beneficiaries. From 1991 to 1995, she served concurrently
as the chief of the Army Nurse Corps and the assistant surgeon for person-
nel, and was the first commander of the newly created Center for Health
Promotion and Preventive Medicine. Prior to these leadership positions, she
served in a variety of clinical nursing and nursing administration positions
in the U.S. Army Medical Department and the DoD. Ms. Adams holds a
bachelor’s degree in nursing from Cornell University and a master’s degree
in nursing from Catholic University. She is a fellow in the American Acad-
emy of Nursing (AAN).
George K. Anderson, M.D., M.P.H., is executive director of the Association
of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS). AMSUS, the nonprofit
society of the federal health agencies, operates from a headquarters located
in Bethesda, Maryland. He is an experienced physician executive who, prior
to his current position at AMSUS, was an independent medical technology
consultant. He served as chief executive officer at Oceania, Inc., a medical
software company, from 1999 to 2001, and as chief executive officer of
the Koop Foundation from 1997 to 1998. Dr. Anderson was in military
service for 30 years and retired from active duty in the grade of major gen-
eral. He served in the Air Force as a flight surgeon, an aerospace medicine
staff officer, and a commander of several medical organizations in Korea,
Germany, and the United States. He serves as a director of the Environ-
mental Tectonics Corporation, in Southhampton, Pennsylvania, as well as
on several advisory boards and groups. Dr. Anderson received his M.P.H.
degree from Tulane University and his M.D. degree from the University of
Michigan Medical School. He is a past president of the American College of
Preventive Medicine, a past chairman of the American Board of Preventive
Medicine, and currently serves on the IOM Board on the Health of Select
Populations (BSP) and the Defense Health Board.
Peter B. Angood, M.D., is the chief executive officer of the American
College of Physician Executives (ACPE). Prior to joining the ACPE, he
provided senior executive health care consultant experience for small-,
medium-, and large-size health care organizations across a variety of focus
areas. He recently completed a 2-year engagement with the National Qual-
ity Forum (NQF) as a senior advisor on patient safety and continues with
the NQF part time to help guide projects focused on improving national
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patient safety and health care quality. He also recently provided technical
expertise on projects related to the National Priorities Partnership’s goal of
improving the safety of America’s health care system. Prior to engaging as a
health care consultant, Dr. Angood was the chief patient safety officer and
a vice president for the Joint Commission, where he oversaw the annual
development of the commission’s national patient safety goals and several
other enterprise-wide patient safety initiatives. He continues to work with
the World Health Organization’s Alliance for Patient Safety initiative after
helping to lead early development of the organization’s Collaborating Cen-
ter for Patient Safety Solutions and other patient safety programs. After
initially practicing with the hospitals of McGill University, Dr. Angood was
subsequently recruited into surgery faculty and hospital administrative po-
sitions at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and Washington
University in St. Louis. Prior to joining the Joint Commission, he was a pro-
fessor of surgery, anesthesia, and emergency medicine at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Angood is a fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons (Canada), the American College of Surgeons, and the American
College of Critical Care Medicine. He has a history of active committee in-
volvement with numerous professional medical societies and recently served
as president for the Society of Critical Care Medicine, a 14,000-member
international organization. Dr. Angood is author of approximately 130
peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, editorials, and book chapters. His research
interests have addressed leading-edge clinical care problems, patient safety,
injury prevention, benchmarking, outcomes management, resource utiliza-
tion, health services, medical education, advanced medical and telemedicine
technologies, and the utility of simulation technology. Dr. Angood received
his medical degree from the University of Manitoba in Canada and com-
pleted his training in general surgery at McGill University in Montreal, as
well as fellowship training in trauma surgery and critical care medicine at
the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
Lawton R. (Robert) Burns, Ph.D., M.B.A., is chair of the Health Care
Management Department, James Joo-Jin Kim Professor, and professor of
health care management in the Wharton School at the University of Penn-
sylvania. He is also director of the Wharton Center for Health Management
& Economics. He teaches courses on health care strategy, strategic change,
organization and management, managed care, and integrated delivery sys-
tems. From 1998 to 2002, he was a visiting professor in the Department
of Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine,
where he taught corporate strategy to physicians. Dr. Burns taught previ-
ously in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and
the College of Business Administration at the University of Arizona. He
has analyzed physician-organization integration over the past 25 years. In
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recognition of this research, he was named the Edwin L. Crosby Memorial
Fellow by the Hospital Research and Educational Trust in 1992. Dr. Burns
has also published several papers on the array of vehicles for integrat-
ing physicians and hospitals, the structure and performance of physician
networks, the market forces that shape the growth of group practices and
investor-owned networks, and the organizational options for physicians in
a consolidating industry. In addition to this research, Dr. Burns has con-
ducted extensive analyses of the Allegheny Health Education & Research
Foundation bankruptcy, and is now completing a book on the bankruptcy
and the Philadelphia hospital market. He has completed a book on supply
chain management in the health care industry, titled The Health Care Value
Chain (Jossey-Bass, 2002). The study focuses on the strategic alliances and
partnerships developing between pharmaceutical firms and distributors,
disposable manufacturers, medical device manufacturers, group purchas-
ing organizations, and organized delivery systems. He has also completed
a companion volume, The Business of Healthcare Innovation (Cambridge
University Press, 2005), which examines the market structure and trends in
the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and information system
sectors of the global health care industry. Dr. Burns received an Investigator
Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the reasons for
failure in organizational change efforts by health care providers. Dr. Burns
served on the editorial board of Health Services Research. He is a past
member of the Grant Review Study Section for the Agency for Health Care
Policy & Research. He is also a life fellow of Clare Hall at the University
of Cambridge. He received his doctorate in sociology and his M.B.A. in
health administration from the University of Chicago. Dr. Burns served on
the IOM Board on Health Care Services from 2003 to 2006.
Emmanuel G. Cassimatis, M.D., is president and chief executive officer of
the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG®)
and chair of the board of directors of the Foundation for the Advancement
of International Medical Education and Research, a separate, nonprofit
foundation of the ECFMG. Prior to joining the ECFMG on July 1, 2009,
he served as the vice president for affiliations and international affairs
and the associate dean for clinical affairs and professor of psychiatry,
F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, USUHS. In addition to his duties at
the ECFMG, Dr. Cassimatis continues to serve as professor of psychiatry at
the USUHS School of Medicine. Dr. Cassimatis served on active duty with
the U.S. Army for more than 25 years. His military assignments included
tours as director of psychiatric residency training at the Walter Reed Army
Medical Center, psychiatry consultant to the Army Surgeon General, and
director of medical education for the U.S. Army Medical Department. His
military awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal and the Legion
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of Merit (with Oak Leaf Cluster). Dr. Cassimatis is a member of the U.S.
Medical License Examination Composite Committee and the World Federa-
tion for Medical Education Executive Council, and president of the Hellenic
American Psychiatric Association (APA). He was a delegate to the American
Medical Association (AMA) House from the AMSUS for many years, and
was a member and chair of the AMA’s Council on Medical Education, Sec-
tion Council on Federal and Military Medicine, and Specialty and Service
Society. Dr. Cassimatis also completed 4 years on the Institutional Review
Committee and 7 years on the board of directors of the Accreditation
Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the last 2 years as
chair. He is a life fellow of AMSUS, a fellow of the American Academy
of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, and a distinguished life fellow
of the APA. Dr. Cassimatis is a graduate of the University of Chicago, the
Harvard Medical School, and the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. He
recently served on the IOM Committee on Qualifications of Professionals
Providing Mental Health Counseling Services under TRICARE from 2009
to 2010.
Timothy C. Flynn, M.D., became senior associate dean for clinical affairs
at the University of Florida College of Medicine and chief medical officer
for Shands Hospital at the University of Florida in September 2010. In
both roles, he serves as a point person for planning and implementing qual-
ity and patient safety initiatives, areas he has focused on throughout his
career at the College of Medicine, and especially while serving as interim
senior associate dean for clinical affairs. In his 26 years with the college,
Dr. Flynn has filled a number of leadership roles, including chief of surgery
at the Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, program director
for the general surgery residency, and associate dean for graduate medical
education. As a professor of surgery, he has distinguished himself nationally
in graduate medical education and academic surgery. After his Navy service
and his residency, he served as an assistant professor at the University of
Texas Medical School for 4 years before going to the University of Florida
in 1984. He has held several national appointments with the Veterans Ad-
ministration. He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical
Society and has served as president of the Alachua County Medical Society.
In 2010, he was elected chair of the ACGME’s board of directors. In addi-
tion, he is chair of the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors,
a past chair of the American Board of Surgery, and former president of
the Association of Program Directors in Surgery and the Association of
VA Surgeons. Dr. Flynn graduated from Louisiana State University with a
bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1971 and earned his medical degree from
the Baylor College of Medicine in 1974. He completed his surgery residency
at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas, and
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is board certified in general surgery, vascular surgery, and surgical critical
care.
Larry M. Manheim, Ph.D., is a research professor in the Institute for
Healthcare Studies and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabili-
tation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His interests
have involved using large datasets to (1) look at aging and individual risks
of high medical costs, disability, and long-term care use; (2) analyze hospital
and post-acute care organization responses to changes in Medicare payment
rules using Medicare data; and (3) evaluate cost effectiveness of health
care system interventions using primary interview and Medicare data. Dr.
Manheim has a master’s degree in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics from
the University of California, Berkeley.
John E. Maupin, Jr., D.D.S., M.B.A., is president and chief executive officer
of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and has more than 30 years of
experience in health care administration, public health, and academic medi-
cine. Prior to joining MSM on July 1, 2006, Dr. Maupin served as president
of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, for 12 years. His other
senior administrative positions have included executive vice president and
chief operating officer of MSM; executive director, Morehouse Medical
Associates; chief executive officer of Southside Healthcare, Inc., Atlanta,
Georgia; deputy commissioner for Medical Services, Baltimore City Health
Department, Baltimore, Maryland; and dental director and chief of medical
staff, West Baltimore Community Health Center. Dr. Maupin was a career
dental officer in the U.S. Army Reserves, retiring in 1997 with more than
28 years of service, including 2 years of active duty at the Walter Reed
Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, and 9 months of active duty
service during Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He has served on numerous
health-related task forces, scientific panels, and advisory councils. Most
notably, he was recently appointed to the National Health Care Workforce
Commission. Dr. Maupin is past president of the National Dental Associa-
tion and the Association of Minority Health Profession Schools. He also
currently serves on the board of directors of LifePoint Hospitals, Inc., a
nonurban, acute care hospital management company; HealthSouth, Inc.,
a national rehabilitative health care services management company; and
Regions Financial Corporation, a regional multibank holding company.
Dr. Maupin attended San Jose State College and earned a D.D.S. degree in
1972 from Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry. The following
year he completed a general dentistry residency at Provident Hospital in
Baltimore, Maryland, and subsequently received an M.B.A. degree in 1979
from Loyola College in Baltimore.
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Karen L. Miller, R.N., Ph.D., is the senior vice chancellor for academic and
student affairs at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She has also
served as the dean of and a professor at the University of Kansas Schools
of Nursing and Health Professions since 1996. Prior to her dean’s appoint-
ment, Dr. Miller was the vice president and a chief nursing officer at the
Children’s Hospital, Denver, and an associate professor at the University
of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Dr. Miller has more than 35 years of
health care executive experience. She completed her baccalaureate degree
at Case Western Reserve University and received her master’s and doctoral
degrees from the University of Colorado. Her research has been in the
areas of health systems, finance, and patient care outcomes in health care.
Throughout her career, she has published and presented on organizational
leadership in health care, financial management of clinical services, and
nursing workforce issues. Dr. Miller is the president of KU HealthPartners,
Inc., a University of Kansas faculty practice plan and direct clinical services
corporation for nursing and allied health professionals. She also serves on
the board of directors of the University of Kansas Hospital and the board
of directors of the University of Kansas Research Institute. Among past
national appointments, Dr. Miller was a member of the 2002 Commission
on Workforce for Hospitals & Health Systems of the American Hospital
Association. In 2004, Dr. Miller completed a 4-year term on the National
Advisory Council on Nursing Education and Practice of the U.S. Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services and she served from 1995 to 2000
on the National Advisory Council of the National Institute of Nursing Re-
search (NINR) of the NIH. She served on the Workforce Advisory Council
for the AAHC from 2005 to 2007 as a representative for nursing and allied
health professions. In 2008, she completed a 2-year term as president of the
Board of the Friends of the NINR. Dr. Miller commenced service on the
board of directors of the Watson Caring Science Institute during 2011. She
was named a fellow of the AAN in 1995 and a fellow of the Association of
Schools of Allied Health Professions in 2010.
Frances M. Murphy, M.D., M.P.H., is president of Sigma Health Con-
sulting, LLC, a health services consulting firm located in Silver Spring,
Maryland. Dr. Murphy serves as a consultant on health care management,
public health, neurosciences and mental health, health information tech-
nology, and veterans’ and military health. She has focused particularly on
health information technology, in addition to the transformation of health
care delivery systems. Prior to establishing Sigma Health Consulting, Dr.
Murphy had a distinguished federal career, including more than 25 years
as a physician, educator, researcher, and health care executive. From 1999
to 2002, she served as the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA’s) deputy
under secretary for health (DUSH) and chief operating officer for the VA’s
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integrated health care system. From 2002 to 2006, she served as the DUSH
for health policy coordination and worked extensively on improving mental
health care services as the VA’s member of the President’s New Freedom
Commission on Mental Health. Dr. Murphy chaired the VA secretary’s
Mental Health Task Force and led the Veterans Health Administration’s
Action Agenda: Achieving the Promise—Transforming VA Mental Health-
care. From 1983 to 1987, Dr. Murphy served in the U.S. Air Force as the
staff neurologist at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, and on the faculty
of the USUHS. She is board certified in neurology and earned her M.D.
from the Georgetown University School of Medicine and her M.P.H. from
the USUHS. She currently serves on the IOM’s Committee on the Readjust-
ment Needs of Military Personnel, Veterans, and Their Families: Phase 2,
and has been appointed to serve as a member of the BSP and the National
Academy’s Institutional Review Board.
J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D., is the chief medical informatics officer for
Siemens Health Services. Prior to joining Siemens, he was the founding chief
executive officer of the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) and
was director of medical informatics at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., and
a Sam Regenstrief Professor of Medical Informatics at the Indiana Univer-
sity School of Medicine. He has spent more than 25 years developing and
implementing scientific and clinical systems and evaluating their value. With
his colleagues from the Regenstrief Institute, he created a community-wide
electronic medical record (called the Indiana Network for Patient Care)
containing data from many sources, including laboratories, pharmacies,
and hospitals in central Indiana. The system currently connects a majority
of acute care hospitals in central Indiana and includes inpatient and out-
patient encounter data, laboratory results, immunization data, and other
selected data. In order to create a sustainable financial model, Dr. Overhage
helped create the IHIE, a not-for-profit corporation. In addition, he has
developed and evaluated clinical decision support, including inpatient and
outpatient computerized physician order entry and the underlying knowl-
edge bases to support them. He practiced general internal medicine for
more than 20 years, including in the ambulatory, inpatient, and emergency
care settings. Over the last decade, Dr. Overhage has played a significant
regional and national leadership role in advancing the policy, standards,
financing, and implementation of health information exchange. He serves
on the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics and the Health
Information Technology Standards Committee, as well as serving on the
board of directors of the NQF and being engaged in a number of national
health care initiatives. Dr. Overhage is a member of the IOM and a fellow
of the American College of Medical Informatics and the American College
of Physicians. He received the Davies Recognition Award for Excellence in
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Computer-Based Patient Recognition for the Regenstrief Medical Record
System. Dr. Overhage received his B.A., with high honors, in physics from
Wabash College and his Ph.D. in biophysics and his M.D. from the Indiana
University School of Medicine. Dr. Overhage was a resident in internal
medicine, a medical informatics and health services research fellow, and
then chief medical resident at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Susanne Tropez-Sims, M.D., M.P.H., is associate dean of clinical affilia-
tions and professor of pediatrics at Meharry Medical College, and adjunct
professor of pediatrics at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine in Nashville,
Tennessee. She directs the Adolescent Clinic at Meharry. She specializes in
general pediatric care, adolescent medicine, and child abuse. She directed
an HIV/AIDS prevention program entitled MINDS (Moving in New Direc-
tions) in two public schools in Davidson County for 5 years. She joined
the faculty at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in 1988 as the
director of the pediatric emergency room and, in 1989, she became the divi-
sion chief of the ambulatory division. During this period, Dr. Tropez-Sims
was also the maternal and child health director for the New Orleans Health
Department. Under her leadership, the Child Abuse Program became more
organized and became an integral part of the pediatric residency and the
emergency residency training. She received an award from the state of
Louisiana Council for Child Abuse for her contribution in this area. Dr.
Tropez-Sims was instrumental in improving and ensuring the medical ser-
vices for two school-based clinics (G.W. Carver Junior/Senior High School
and Booker T. Washington Junior/Senior High School) in New Orleans. In
1982, she joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and served as director of the Outpatient Pediatric Clinic for the Wake
Area Health Education Center. She was a child medical examiner for North
Carolina, training physicians, police, social workers, and lawyers across
the state in the evaluation of child abuse. In 1997, she received the first na-
tional American Academy of Pediatrics Martin Ushkow Community Service
Award for her work in school health. Dr. Tropez-Sims is a graduate of the
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, where she received her
M.D. and M.P.H. in maternal and child health. She was the second minority
to complete her internship and residence in pediatrics at the North Carolina
Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Carolyn (Cindy) Watts, Ph.D., became professor and chair of the Depart-
ment of Health Administration at the Virginia Commonwealth University
in August 2010. Prior to this appointment, she was a professor in the
Department of Health Services at the University of Washington, where
she held adjunct appointments in the Department of Economics and the
Evans School of Public Affairs. She served as the director of the health
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policy analysis and the process track of the M.P.H. program; as a director
of the extended M.P.H. program in health services; and as a core faculty
member of the Institute for Public Health Genetics. Her research work has
focused on organizational, reimbursement, and regulatory issues in health
care markets, and health care industry structure and incentives. An ac-
complished scholar, her work is widely published in academic literature. In
addition to her academic appointments, Dr. Watts has worked extensively
with numerous provider and policy organizations. She was a board member
of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, chaired the 2006 Wash-
ington State Certificate of Need Program Task Force, was director of the
Washington Health Legislative Conference, and has been a consultant to the
Washington State Hospital Association. Dr. Watts received her M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees in political economics from the Johns Hopkins University.
CONSULTANTS
David K. Barnes is the head of Advanced Policy Solutions, Bethesda,
Maryland. Mr. Barnes is the former director of the Social Security Ad-
ministration’s (SSA’s) Office of Disability Evaluation Policy. At the SSA, he
oversaw development, implementation, and analysis of disability decision-
making policy for both the Social Security Disability Insurance and the
Supplemental Security Income disability programs. In his 27-year career,
Mr. Barnes developed a reputation not only as a preeminent authority
on disability policy and decision making but also as a respected expert in
research and development, personnel management, team building, procure-
ment, rule making, and litigation.
Thomas A. D’Aunno, Ph.D., is the executive vice dean of the Mailman
School of Public Health at Columbia University. His research focuses on the
organization and management of health care services. He has a particular
interest in leadership, organizational change, and performance improve-
ment, and has examined these issues in a variety of national studies of
health care organizations that have been funded by the National Institute
on Drug Abuse, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the
Pew Memorial Trust. Dr. D’Aunno was previously a faculty member at the
University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and, most recently, at
INSEAD, where he held the Novartis Chair in Healthcare Management. He
has published articles in leading management and health journals, includ-
ing the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management
Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of the American
Medical Association, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Dr.
D’Aunno has been a member of the editorial boards of several journals,
including the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Journal of Health and
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Social Behavior, and the Academy of Management Review. In addition,
he has consulted and taught executive education courses on several topics,
including leadership, performance management, high-performance teams,
organizational design, and organizational change. Dr. D’Aunno is a past
chairman of the Academy of Management Division of Health Care Man-
agement and a recipient of that division’s award for career distinguished
service.
PRINCIPAL STAFF
Frederick (Rick) Erdtmann, M.D., M.P.H., is currently the director of the
BSP and the Medical Follow-up Agency at the IOM. Prior to joining the
IOM, he was a career military physician in the U.S. Army. While in the mili-
tary, he served as chief of several large departments of preventive medicine
at U.S. and overseas installations. He also was commander of the military
community hospital at Ft. Carson, Colorado, and later served as hospital
commander for the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Erdtmann had
several assignments at the Army Surgeon General’s Office, where he worked
on military health care policies. He received his undergraduate degree from
Bucknell University and an M.P.H. degree from the University of California,
Berkeley. He is a graduate of Temple University’s Medical School and is
board certified in the specialty of preventive medicine. The board that Dr.
Erdtmann directs was responsible for managing a major study involving
the disability decision process for the SSA and two other disability-related
studies for the Veterans Administration in the recent past.
Michael McGeary is a senior program officer at the BSP, serving concur-
rently as the director of the Committee on Evaluation of the Lovell Federal
Health Care Center Merger and the Committee of Medical Experts to As-
sist Social Security on Disability Issues. He recently served as the director
of the Committee on Social Security Cardiovascular Disability Criteria. He
is a political scientist specializing in health, science, and technology policy
analysis and program evaluation. Before 2004, he was an independent con-
sultant to government agencies, foundations, and nonprofit organizations
in issues of science and technology. Between 1981 and 1995, Mr. McGeary
was at the IOM and the National Academy of Sciences, where he was staff
director of more than a dozen major reports on such topics as federal fund-
ing of research and development; graduate education and employment of
scientists and engineers; and priority setting, funding, and management of
the NIH. From 2004 to 2007, he was staff director for the IOM committees
that recommended improvements in the systems for determining disability
of the SSA and the VA, respectively. Mr. McGeary is a graduate of Harvard
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College and completed all requirements for a doctorate in political science
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology except the dissertation.
Susan R. McCutchen is a senior program associate at the BSP supporting
the work of the Committee on Evaluation of the Lovell Federal Health Care
Center Merger and the Committee of Medical Experts to Assist Social Se-
curity on Disability Issues. She has been on staff at the National Academies
for more than 30 years and has worked in several institutional divisions
and with many different boards, committees, and panels within those units.
The studies in which she has participated have addressed a broad range of
subjects and focused on a variety of issues, including science and technol-
ogy for international development, technology transfer, aeronautics and the
U.S. space program, natural disaster mitigation, U.S. education policy and
science curricula, needle exchange for the prevention of HIV transmission,
the scientific merit of the polygraph, human factors/engineering, research
ethics, disability compensation programs, health hazard evaluation, and
medical and public health preparedness for catastrophic events, including
nuclear detonations. She has assisted in the production of more than 50
publications and was an editor for A 21st Century System for Evaluating
Veterans for Disability Benefits and Assessing Medical Preparedness to
Respond to a Terrorist Nuclear Event: Workshop Report. Ms. McCutchen
has a B.A. in French, with minors in Italian and Spanish, from Ohio’s Mi-
ami University, and an M.A. in French, with a minor in English, from Kent
State University.
LaVita Sullivan is a senior program assistant with the BSP supporting the
work of the Committee on Evaluation of the Lovell Federal Health Care
Center Merger and the Committee of Medical Experts to Assist Social Se-
curity on Disability Issues. Prior to joining the National Academies in 2008,
Ms. Sullivan spent 5 progressive years with the DoD, where she served as
a program analyst and contributed to the streamlining of administrative
processes and procedures. She is a certified event planner and is currently
pursuing her undergraduate degree in communications at the University of
Maryland University College.
