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Appendix B: Moderator and Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 173-190

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From page 173...
... Before retiring as a Colonel in the United States Air Force in 2005, he served as Department Chair at Wilford Hall Medical Center, as Chief Consultant to the Surgeon General for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and as Commander of the 407th Expeditionary Medical Group in Iraq. He is an oral board examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in both general obstetrics and gynecology and maternal 173
From page 174...
... Dr. Bingham was the first Executive Director of the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative where she helped form the California Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review (CAPAMR)
From page 175...
... Frank A Chervenak, M.D., currently serves as the Given Foundation Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, as well as Obstetrician and Gynecologist-in-Chief and the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
From page 176...
... She has also directed studies on midwifery in the United States, emerging professions, health care personnel in the military, allied health professions and new practice models in primary care and medical specialties. She co-directed the Pew Health Professions Commission's national Taskforce on Health Care Workforce Regulation and was a principal author of its reports on health professions regulation.
From page 177...
... Public Health Services Prevention Task Force, the IOM Committee on Preventive Services for Women, the Board of Directors for the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine, regional Section Chair ACOG, and numerous health and public policy committees at both the state and national level including California Department Health Services Maternal Quality of Care Collaborative (CMQCC) Maternal Mortality Review, the Maternal Quality Indicator Working Group, and the American Medical Association Physician Consortium Performance Indicator Work Group, and the National Quality Forum.
From page 178...
... She is a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, member of the faculty at the University of Washington School of Public Health, fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and member of the IOM. Zsakeba Henderson, M.D., is a Medical Officer in the Maternal and Infant Health Branch in the Division of Reproductive Health at the CDC.
From page 179...
... Holly Powell Kennedy, Ph.D., CNM, FACNM, FAAN, is the current President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives and is the inaugural Helen Varney Professor of Midwifery at Yale University School of Nursing. Her research includes numerous studies exploring specific maternity care models and their relationship to health outcomes.
From page 180...
... Dr. Main currently serves on multiple national committees on Maternal Quality Measurement including National Quality Forum, ACOG, American Medical Association–convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement and the Joint Commission.
From page 181...
... She serves on the Executive Committee of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine as the immediate past president. She provides the clinical leadership for development and implementation of North Carolina's Pregnancy Medical Home initiative, a program designed to provide comprehensive, coordinated maternity care for pregnant Medicaid recipients.
From page 182...
... Her mission is to grow Community of Hope's Family Health and Birth Center in its reputation for providing quality and caring health services to the entire Washington, DC community, including many who are often overlooked in the area of specialized women's health care services. Brynne Potter, CPM, has worked in the field of midwifery since 1991 and has attended home births as a primary midwife for more than 10 years.
From page 183...
... She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on health care use and expenditures by vulnerable populations, health insurance, and health care financing issues. Her published work has appeared in leading professional journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, Pediatrics, the Journal of Health Economics, and Health Services Research.
From page 184...
... Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality award from the National Quality Forum and the Joint Commission in 2007. He received a bachelor of medicine/­ achelor of surgery degree from St.
From page 185...
... Sakala helped create two direction-setting consensus reports: "2020 Vision for a High-Quality, High-Value Maternity Care System" and "Blueprint for Action." Her current work focuses on implementing priority Blueprint recommendations within Childbirth Connection's Transforming Maternity Care project to improve the system that provides maternity care to the nation's women, newborns, and families. She was a Pew Health Policy Fellow at Boston University, which awarded her doctorate, and she received an M.S.P.H.
From page 186...
... He was the founder and principal investigator of the CVS Caremark Harvard Partnership for Improving Medication Adherence, a multi-disciplinary research initiative to improve how patients take medication, as well as the Pharmacy Care Research Institute, also funded by CVS Caremark. He received a career development award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to evaluate interventions to improve rational prescribing in cardiovascular disease, and a Pioneer Award from the RWJF to study the effect of labeling on medication use.
From page 187...
... In her position as Program Scientist for the NICHD Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Network, a network of 14 sites in the United States that performs clinical trials in high-risk pregnancies and for the Management of Myelomeningocele Study, the maternal-fetal surgery trial on the management of Myelomeningocele, Dr. Spong oversaw many advances that resulted in changes in clinical practice.
From page 188...
... , and headed the task force to develop the online AABC Perinatal Data Registry. She was primary investigator for a recently published multicenter, prospective study of the midwifery-led collaborative model of maternity care in U.S.
From page 189...
... Dr. Watterberg is an author on more than 60 peerreviewed publications, serves on NIH peer review panels, and is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society.


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