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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Pages 183-196

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... Dr. Arterburn is the past Chair of the Adult Obesity Measurement Advisory Panel for the National Committee on Quality Assurance, the Founding Chair of the Health Services Research Section of The Obesity Society, and past Chair of the HMORN Obesity Research Network.
From page 184...
... Dr. Frosch completed his PhD in clinical health psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and a fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
From page 185...
... She has served on several advisory panels and commissions, including the National Advisory Counsel for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Health Care Quality Forum, United Health Group Advisory Panel, and National Advisory Council for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality Initiative. She is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications.
From page 186...
... She has done ground breaking research demonstrating that patients can be taught to participate effectively in medical decisions with positive effects on patients' health outcomes. Her work on the application of psychometric techniques to the assessment of performance of varying levels of the health care system, from health care organizations to individual physicians, has made her a national expert on this current and controversial topic.
From page 187...
... Current research projects examine ethics for a learning health care system, including quality improvement and comparative effectiveness, informed consent in randomized trials, ethics issues that arise in international health research, and ethics and public health preparedness.
From page 188...
... She is leading efforts to examine how physicians and patients make decisions about treatment for stable coronary artery disease, to investigate the effects of implementing patient decision aids into primary care practice, and to develop a metric that can be used to assess the quality of decision making in patients with cardiac disease. She has published both quantitative and qualitative research in peer-reviewed journals including JAMA and Health Affairs, as well as JAMA Internal Medicine, where she also serves on the editorial board.
From page 189...
... He subsequently spent 3 years in the National Health Service Corps in Rochester, New York, and Los Angeles, California, before pursuing a fellowship in clinical epidemiology. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of North Carolina (UNC)
From page 190...
... Breast Care Center premedical intern. Her current projects include studying the biology surrounding breast cancer recurrence, designing support programing for metastatic breast cancer patients at UCSF, and participating in the patient decision support program at the UCSF Breast Care Center.
From page 191...
... She also serves as both a member of the leadership team for her local Camp Oasis program and the founding chair of the ImproveCareNow and Collaborative Chronic Care Network Patient Advisory Council. Her passion for the integration of new social technologies and pediatric patient access to social support has allowed her panelist and presentation opportunities at both national and international meetings held at Stanford University, Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard Medical School, among others.
From page 192...
... Dr. Sofaer's major research and policy interests include patient engagement, patient-centered care, public deliberation to guide health policy, comparative quality and cost reporting for low literate and vulnerable populations, quality measurement, the Medicare program, improving health care for older adults and people with disabilities, tobacco control, the use of multistakeholder coalitions to improve population health and health care delivery, and health 192
From page 193...
... She is a member of the American Association of Public Opinion Research, and has been a reviewer, presenter, and discussant at its national conferences. Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, is the founding Director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the Leonard Davis Institute (CHIBE LDI)
From page 194...
... Wolfson earned national recognition for spearheading the development of the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS™) , convening the RxHealthValue coalition to provide independent information on the pharmaceutical industry, and co-sponsoring with the American College of Physicians the journal Effective Clinical Practice.
From page 195...
... . She was previously a premedical intern at the UCSF Breast Care Center.


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