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Committee on Regional Health Data Networks Biographical Sketches
Pages 232-238

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From page 232...
... He led the Health and Quality Group on the $80 million. RAND Health Insurance Experiment, and he was co-principal investigator on the Health Services Utilization Study, which developed a method to assess appropriateness of care and applied it to carotid endarterectomy, coronary angiography, and endoscopy.
From page 233...
... He is also co-director of the Health Policy curriculum in Dartmouth's newly established postgraduate program in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. He received his undergraduate and MD degrees from Harvard and his Masters of Public Health from the University of Washington, where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.
From page 234...
... He served on the Task Force on Graduate Medical Education of the Hospital Association of New York State; on the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, the accrediting body for residency training in the United States; and on the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which accredits United States and Canadian medical schools. He is board chairman of the League of Voluntary Hospitals, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Greater New York Hospital Association, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hospital Association of New York State.
From page 235...
... Since his retirement from active cardiac surgery in 1989, he continues to work in a number of areas, including outcomes research, multiinstitutional studies, the chairmanship of the Cardiac Advisory Committee of the State of New York, and most recently the development and installation of a paperless computer-based medical record concomitantly with the application of a unique computer architecture at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center.
From page 236...
... She is the coauthor of Before Birth: Prenatal Testing for Genetic Disease, coeditor of Prenatal Screening, Policies and Values: The Example of Neural Tube Defects, The Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse and the Health Professions, and Promoting the Health of Adolescents: New Directions for the Twenty-first Century, and author of numerous articles on health, health policy, and human rights. MADISON POWERS, J.D., D.Phil., has written on legal, ethical, and public policy aspects of informational privacy, and has made numerous presentations and participated in panel discussions of privacy and health care.
From page 237...
... In addition, he received the Grace Murray Hopper Award of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1976 and has been a Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation Faculty Scholar in General Internal Medicine.
From page 238...
... Ms. Wailer has been an adjunct faculty member for the Health Law Institute at Chicago's School of Law, Loyola University, and is a frequent guest lecturer in the graduate health information management program of the University of Illinois at Chicago.


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