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Appendix D Biographical Sketches
Pages 47-51

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From page 47...
... He chairs the End of Life Committee convened by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, which is developing consensus recommendations for clinical care near the end of life. He directs the national coordinating office for the Initiative to Strengthen the Patient-Provider Relationship in a Changing Health Care Environment, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
From page 48...
... Goldman led the effort to enact the Video Privacy Protection Act and led efforts to protect people's health, credit and financial information, and personal information held by the government. She was the legislative director ofthe Minnesota affiliate ofthe ACLU from 1984 to 1986.
From page 49...
... The Health Privacy Project also recently released two reports: The State of Health Privacy: An Uneven Terrain/A Comprehensive Survey of State Health Privacy Statutes; and Best Principles for Health Privacy: A Report of the Health Privacy Working Group. CRAIG WALTER HENDRIX is associate professor of medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he is currently director of the Johns Hopkins' University Drug Development Unit.
From page 50...
... Dr. lezzoni has conducted numerous studies for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the HCFA, and private foundations on a variety of topics, including the use of clinical data to predict hospitalization costs and patient outcomes, comparing severity of illness across teaching and nonteaching hospitals, evaluating the utility of severity information for quality assessment, identifying complications of care using 1 · · ~ , · ~ , ~ · · ~ .
From page 51...
... Ms. Walter has spoken extensively on health information technology law issues for organizations such as the American Bar Association, American Health Lawyers Association, American Health Information Management Association, University Health System Consortium, Association for Health Services Research, and Healthcare Information Management Systems Society.


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