Appendix B
Biographical Sketches of Steering
Committee Members and Speakers
STEPHEN BLUMBERG (Speaker) is associate director for science in the Division of Health Interview Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Previously, he was the lead statistician for the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey, which regularly fields some of the world’s largest telephone surveys on children’s health, health care, and well-being, including the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs and the National Survey of Children’s Health. His research interests focus on survey strategies to identify vulnerable populations, such as children with special health care needs and children with autism spectrum disorder, and on the prevalence of wireless-only households and the impact of cell phones on coverage bias for telephone surveys. His honors include the 2008 young professional achievement award from the Coalition for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology, and the Warren J. Mitofsky innovators award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). He has served as president of AAPOR’s Washington-Baltimore chapter. He has a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.
DAVID CELLA (Speaker) is chair of the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and also holds positions there as director of the Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes at the Institute for Public Health and Medicine, and professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, and the departments of Medical Social Sciences, Preventive Medicine-Health and Biomedical
Informatics, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He is the developer of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy Measurement System for outcome evaluation in patients with chronic medical conditions. He is also the principal investigator of the statistical coordinating center for the NIH Roadmap Initiative to build a Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System and the principal investigator of a contract to develop item banks for the clinical trials supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine.
LISA J. COLPE (Speaker) is chief of the Office of Clinical and Population Epidemiology Research in the Division of Services and Intervention Research at the National Institute of Mental Health. (NIMH) A captain in the U.S. Public Health Service, she has previously served as senior program management officer at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; assistant director for Roadmap coordination at the National Institutes of Health, overseeing the agency’s Roadmap activities, and chief of the Psychopathology Risk and Protective Factors Research Program at NIMH. She is a clinical psychologist with postdoctoral training in epidemiology and survey methodology.
FREDERICK G. CONRAD (Member, Steering Committee) is a research professor at the Survey Research Center and director of the Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Michigan. His recent work has focused on respondents’ understanding of survey questions, biases in respondents’ judgments about the frequency of their behaviors, the effect of automatic progress feedback on respondents’ willingness to continue filling out a questionnaire, and the decision to participate in a survey among potential respondents. He has a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Chicago.
BENJAMIN G. DRUSS (Chair, Steering Committee) is professor and Rosalynn Carter chair in mental health in the Department of Health Policy and Management and director of the Center for Behavioral Health Policy Studies at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. He is working to build linkages between mental health, general medical health, and public health. He works closely with the Carter Center Mental Health Program, where he is a member of the Mental Health Task Force and Journalism Advisory Board. His research focuses on improving physical health and health care among persons with serious mental disorders. He has received a number of national awards for his work, including the health services research senior scholar award from the American
Psychiatric Association and the Armin Loeb award from the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association. He has served as an expert consultant to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. He has an M.P.H. from Yale University and an M.D. from New York University.
ROBERT D. GIBBONS (Speaker) is the Blum-Riese professor in the Departments of Medicine and Public Health Sciences, and director of the Center for Health Statistics, all at the University of Chicago. His research and policy interests involve the development and application of statistics to problems in the behavioral, biological, and environmental sciences, in particular, on the use of statistics in addressing questions in health care policy and the development of new statistical methods for the analysis of clustered or longitudinal data. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly, the Institute of Medicine), a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the American Statistical Association, the American Public Health Association, and Harvard University. He has a Ph.D. in statistics and psychometrics from the University of Chicago.
ROBERT F. KRUEGER (Member, Steering Committee) is a distinguished McKnight university professor and a Hathaway distinguished professor and serves as director of clinical training in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on the classification and etiology of psychopathology and personality, using psychometric, quantitative and molecular genetics, and neuroscience approaches. He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the American Psychopathological Association and a member of the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology. He has received a number of national and international awards, including the American Psychological Association’s award for Early Career Contributions, the early career contributions award from the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, and an American Psychological Foundation mid-career award. He is the editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders. He has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
RON MANDERSCHEID (Member, Steering Committee, and Speaker) is the executive director of the National Association of County Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Directors and adjunct professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he served as the director of Mental
Health and Substance Use Programs at the Global Health Sector of SRA International; as chief of the Survey and Analysis Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; and as chief of the Statistical Research Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. He serves on the boards of the Employee Assistance Research Foundation, the Danya Institute, the FrameWorks Institute, the Council on Quality and Leadership, the International Credentialing and Reciprocity Consortium, and the National Research Institute. He is a former member of the Advisory Committee on Healthy People 2020. He has received numerous federal and professional awards, including, most recently, the American Public Health Association Carl A. Taube lifetime achievement award in mental health. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. He has an M.A. in sociology-anthropology from Marquette University and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland.
MARK OLFSON (Speaker) is professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical School. He also serves as codirector of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Center for Education and Research on Mental Health Therapeutics. Previously, he served as the scientific director of the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University. His research interests focus on national patterns and trends in the utilization of mental health services and quality of care. He currently directs several studies on the delivery of mental health services in community settings, with an emphasis on the pharmacoepidemiology of psychotic and mood disorders. He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education. He has an M.P.H. from the Columbia University School of Public Health and an M.D. from Northwestern University.
D.E.B. POTTER (Speaker) is program analyst with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE). Previously she was a senior survey statistician at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). She leads an ASPE, AHRQ, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services joint project to develop risk adjustment methods for quality measures for home- and community-based services populations. Other responsibilities include managing the development of behavioral health quality measures and advancing quality measurement for the population with dementia. She serves on numerous technical expert panels and cross-agency work-groups. She has an M.S. in biostatistics from Georgetown University.
DARREL REGIER (Speaker) is senior scientist at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress in the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University. He also serves as an independent senior scientific consultant to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) on DSM-5 and research-related issues. Formerly, he was APA’s research director and director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education. For a substantial part of his career, he directed three research divisions in the areas of epidemiology, prevention, clinical research, and health services research at the National Institute of Mental Health. He contributed to the planning of the DSM-5 and to the National Advisory Mental Health Council’s reports to Congress on mental health insurance parity. He recently completed 20 years as the American editor of Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. He has a medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine.
NEIL RUSSELL (Speaker) is director of the Division of Surveillance and Data Collection in the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. His areas of expertise include behavioral health statistics and epidemiology; basic and applied research in behavioral health data systems and statistical methodology; as well as surveillance and data collection. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from Arizona State University with a focus in survey research.
NORA CATE SCHAEFFER (Member, Steering Committee) is Sewell Bascom professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and faculty director of the university’s Survey Center, where she teaches courses in survey research methods and conducts research on questionnaire design and interaction during survey interviews. She currently serves as a member of the advisory boards of Public Opinion Quarterly, the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and of the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey. She recently completed terms as the Council on Sections Representatives for the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association and as a member of the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations. Schaeffer is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. She has an M.A. degree in urban studies from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.
THEO VOS (Speaker) is a professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. He is a member of the research team for the Global Burden of Disease
study, which is coordinated by IHME. Prior to joining IHME, he was director of the Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness at the School of Population Health of the University of Queensland. While there, he led burden of disease studies in Australia and contributed to studies in Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. Previously, he led two large economic evaluation projects: the Assessing Cost-Effectiveness in Prevention project in Australia and the Setting Priorities Using Information on Cost-Effectiveness project in Thailand. He has a an M.Sc. in public health in developing countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a medical degree from State University Groningen, and a Ph.D. in epidemiology and health economics from Erasmus University.
