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Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members and Speakers
Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members and Speakers
Pages 223-238
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She is a Trustee of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, and sits on the Education and Services Committee of the National Arthritis Foundation and the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of Scleroderma Federation, Inc. for which she also writes a health information and exchange column.
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Badley, Ph.D., is an epidemiologist and health services researcher, who specializes in the epidemiology of chronic and disabling conditions, particularly musculoskeletal disorders. She is currently the Director of the Arthritis Community Research and Evaluation Unit (ACREU)
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Karen Davis, Ph.D., is president of The Commonwealth Fund, a national philanthropy engaged in independent research on health and social policy issues.
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After his residency in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Eisenberg was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar and earned a Master of Business Administration degree at the Wharton School.
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Since 1992 Dr. Eisenberg has been Program Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program.
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From 1979 through 1995, Dr. Grossman served at New England Medical Center as President and subsequently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and has recently been elected Chairman Emeritus.
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Dr. Grossman has served as Program Director of the Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Academic Health Centers; as an Administrative Board member of the Association of American Medical Colleges and subsequently as chairman of its Council of Teaching Hospitals; and as Chairman of the Academic Medical Center Consortium, a cooperative of twelve leading Academic Medical Centers that pioneered the use of health services research techniques to develop and implement effective and efficient health care delivery strategies.
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Holman, M.D., is Guggenheim Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He served as Chairman of the Nepal lrnent of Medicine for more than a decade, and is now Program Director for the Carnegie-Commonwealth and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Training Program as well as Co-Chief of the Division of Family and Community Medicine.
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In 1968 Dr. Levinsky became Chief of the Boston University Medical Service at Boston City Hospital and in 1972 was appointed Wade Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Boston University
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Brigham Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Center at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, a multidisciplinary research group performing studies on outcome, technology assessment, clinical decision making, clinimetrics, and the epidemiology of rheumatic disease disability and modifiable risk factors for high risk populations with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. He is an Attending Physician in the Division of General Medicine and the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Medical Director of Rehabilitation Services at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Medical Director of the Mariner at Longwood Subacute Rehabilitation Center in Boston.
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Manheim, Ph.D., is Acting Director of the Program in Health Care Financing at the Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies, Northwestern University, and Research Scientist at the Veterans Administrations Midwest Center for Health Services and Policy Research. After earning his doctorate in economics at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr.
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Mr. Mechanic has worked with over a dozen states on Medicaid financing and reimbursement policy and has conducted numerous studies of federal health care programs including the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP)
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directed a five year evaluation and technical assistance project involving Medicare reimbursement for case management and home care benefits to persons with dementia, and he has recently completed a three year project for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examining potential indicators and data sources for tracking the service needs, use, and processes of care for those with chronic health conditions.
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She is a member of a number of academic societies including the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.
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Edward Yelin, Ph.D., is Director of the Education, Epidemiology, and Health Services Research Component of the Multipurpose Arthritis Center at the University of California-San Francisco. He is also a member of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at UCSF; a member of the faculty of the Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Aging Health Policy Center at UCSF.
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