Skip to main content

The Role of Purchasers and Payers in the Clinical Research Enterprise Workshop Summary (2002) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

Appendix I: Speaker Biographies
Pages 83-89

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 83...
... In his position, Dr. Book is responsible for the company's medical management activities including health improvement initiatives, benefits management, NCQA accreditation activities, and health data reporting.
Read the entire page →
From page 84...
... Cutler joined Rhode Island Group Health Association, a staff model HMO. He has practiced general internal medicine, taught medical students and residents at Brown University teaching hospitals, and has assumed a range of administrative positions beginning with Chief of Internal Medicine in 1979.
Read the entire page →
From page 85...
... In addition to her WBGH responsibilities, Darling currently serves as co-chair of the National Committee on Quality Assurance Committee on Performance Measure, an independent non-profit association whose mission is to evaluate and report on the quality of the nation's managed care organizations. She is also a member of the Medical Advisory Panel, Technology Evaluation Center, run by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
Read the entire page →
From page 86...
... He is active in strategic planning and policy issues and coordinates and supports quality and medical management activities. He is a founding board member of and key liaison to the Institute for Clinical Systems Integration, a collaborative of Twin Cities medical groups that is implementing clinical practice guidelines.
Read the entire page →
From page 87...
... Lehman, PhD is President and CEO of the National Business Coalition on Health, and leads a movement of 100 business coalitions nationwide seeking cost effective, better quality healthcare for employees and their families. He oversees the effort to advance community-based health care reform by strengthening a national presence for local coalitions of employers that comprise NBCH' s membership.
Read the entire page →
From page 88...
... John Stevens, MD is interim Strategic Business Manager for the American Cancer Society's $116,500,000 Research and Health Professional Training Program and has been Vice President for Extramural Grants since 1988. In the latter capacity, he is responsible for managing the Society's $91,000,000 Research and Health Professional Training Grants portfolio, and the peer review system by which the 1,500 grant applications received annually by the Society are ranked in order of merit for funding.
Read the entire page →
From page 89...
... He currently is a member of Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and serves as a member of the Secretary of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing and has held a number of other federal appointments, including cabinet level advisory committees on health reform, infant mortality, children's health, violence, and radiation testing. Dale Whitney is Corporate Health and Welfare Manager at UPS and has responsibility for the health care and ancillary benefit programs for over 700,000 UPS employees, retirees and their families.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • health plan
  • plan quality
  • employee benefits
  • medical officer
  • quality improvement

  • chief medical
  • benefits committee
  • international society
  • medical management
  • local coalitions

  • physician executives
  • managed health
  • practice guidelines
  • employers managed
  • services research

  • health data
  • clinical practice
  • health professional
  • national business
  • executive vice

  • care association
  • national committee
  • professional training
  • management activities
  • disease management

  • scanlon recently
  • senior consultant
  • care plans
  • care quality
  • care organizations


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.