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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Speakers and Planning Committee
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Speakers and Planning Committee
Pages 93-116
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This has given him hands-on experience in negotiating the intersection between research, quality improvement, evidencebased practice, and public policy. Before serving as chief medical officer for the EPCs, Dr.
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Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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Helen Burstin, M.D., M.P.H., is the senior vice president for performance measures of the National Quality Forum (NQF) , a private, not-for-profit membership organization established in 1999 to develop and implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting.
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He is the co-editor of the American Journal of Managed Care and senior associate editor of Health Services Research.
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commission, Cal eConnect (health information exchange) board, Olmstead Advisory Committee, Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Advisory Committee, Child Welfare Council, Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Technical Services Board, County Medical Services Program Governing Board, State Mental Health Planning Council, California Workforce Investment Board, San Joaquin Valley Partnership, and Strategic Growth Council.
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While in Louisiana, he received funding from the Transforming Healthcare Quality through Information Technology program of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to begin development of a longitudinal cardiovascular information system for the statewide charity hospital system population.
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She leads the performance measurement work at the Brookings Engelberg Center for Health Reform, including efforts for the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, for the Long Term Quality Alliance, and for performance measurement in the work on accountable care organizations at Brookings.
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Stefan Gildemeister, M.A., has 15 years of experience in conducting health services research and studying health care markets to generate applied policy analysis on health care cost, quality, and access to care. During this time, Mr.
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Kate Goodrich, M.D., joined the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in September 2011, where she serves as a senior technical advisor to the director of the Office of Clinical Standards and Quality and as chief medical officer of CMS.
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, and is a member of NCQA's committee on performance measurement. He is also chair of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Technical Expert Panel on the National Impact Assessment of CMS Quality Measures and a member of the Agency for Healthcare Quality's National Steering Committee for the Development of Measures of Appropriate Clinical Preventive Services for Older Adults.
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. Prior to working for the federal government he was chief medical informatics officer and associate medical director at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Anderson Center for Health System Excellence at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. His work encompasses the application and study of quality improvement methods in a broad range of areas including primary and subspecialty care and public health settings to improve the health outcomes of children, families, and communities.
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, during which he conceived and launched a number of initiatives of ongoing policy importance, such as the Healthy People national goals and objectives, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and development of the Ten Essential Services of Public Health.
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He is a past recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Harold Amos Award and a current recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Investigator Award and a Russell Sage Foundation Award to study the effects of social assimilation on the health of Mexican immigrants. He is co-director of the UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research and directs the research methods cores for two federally funded centers on minority health and health disparities.
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Nussbaum, M.D., is executive vice president, clinical health policy, and chief medical officer for WellPoint, Inc. He is the key spokesperson and policy advocate for WellPoint.
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Dr. Nussbaum has served as president of the Disease Management Association of America, chairman of the National Committee for Quality Health Care, chair of the Chief Medical Officer Leadership Council of America's Health Insurance Plan (AHIP)
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Queram serves on the boards of the Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network, Wisconsin Health Information Organization, the Joint Commission, its subsidiary Joint Commission Resources, and Delta Dental of Wisconsin. He is also a member of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality National Advisory Council, the Quality Alliance steering committee, the AQA steering committee, and the editorial advisory group of the Commonwealth Fund publication Quality Matters.
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Research topics include quality measurement and transparency, competition in health insurance and health provider markets, public- and private-sector health care purchasing activities, and the impact of information and incentives in health care markets. He has led a federally funded research project examining the state of quality improvement activities at managed care plans as well as projects examining the impact and cost effectiveness of diabetes and disease management programs in federally qualified health centers and was principal investigator for the evaluation of the Commonwealth Fund's Evaluating the State Action to Avoid Rehospitalizations initiative.
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Stevens was chief medical officer at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) , where he was responsible for national clinical leadership of the Community and Migrant Health Center Program and for leadership of the HRSA/Bureau of Primary Health Care initiative on eliminating health disparities in underserved and minority populations.
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Dr. Stevens also established national quality improvement policies for clinical programs in health centers, including the opportunity for accreditation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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He has served as a member of that task force and of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which develops the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, as well as on America's Health Information Community Personalized Health Care Workgroup and the Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Prevention and Practice Workgroup.
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Valuck was the vice president of medical affairs at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he managed quality improvement, utilization review, risk management, and physician relations. Before that he served on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow; the White House Council of Economic Advisers, where he researched and analyzed public and private health care financing issues; and at the law firm of Latham & Watkins as an associate, where he practiced regulatory health law.
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Wilson, M.D., M.P.H., is senior advisor to the director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and leads the agency's work to support and coordinate the ongoing development and implementation of the National Quality Strategy called for by the Affordable Care Act.
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In 1994 she completed a General Medicine/Health Services Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School while obtaining her M.P.H. in health care management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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