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Appendix F: Committee Biosketches
Pages 541-548

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From page 541...
... He currently serves on the National Research Advisory Council of the Department of Veterans Affairs. He served on numerous committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including the Board on Health Care Services and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.
From page 542...
... Charles Baumgart, M.D.,1 is senior medical director at xG Health Solutions, an organization that was spun out of Geisinger Health System, designed to partner with health care organizations nationally to bring Geisinger population health management expertise to local health care improvement efforts. He has worked with numerous health care systems, both academic and community-based, as well as with managed care organizations.
From page 543...
... from the University of Buenos Aires and a master's degree in public health and doctorate in health policy and management from the Johns H ­ opkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and has served on numerous committees of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, most recently on the Committee on Recommended Social and Behavioral Domains and Measures for Electronic Health Records.
From page 544...
... , and a professor of health policy and management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. His research interests and expertise include health economics, managed care, physician behavior, racial/ethnic and socio­ conomic disparities in health care, technological change in medicine, e and access, costs, and quality of care.
From page 545...
... His research aims to improve access to care for poor, minority, and other vulnerable populations and to eliminate racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health care. His current research explores the relationship between "place" and health care disparities and examines racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in hospital care.
From page 546...
... Eilers Professor of Health Care Management in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His research areas include access to health care, provider payment, disparities, and economic evaluation of medical and behavioral health interventions.
From page 547...
... Shih held several senior ­ management roles, including chief quality officer and vice president of strategy at IPRO, a leading independent, not-for-profit health care quality improvement organization. At IPRO, he developed and managed large-scale quality assessment and improvement projects for Medicare and Medicaid populations, as well as led IPRO's Health Care Transparency Group.


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