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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Participants
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Participants
Pages 233-254
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Areas of focus for CAOR include analyses to identify pharmacogenomic opportunities and evaluate the impact of pharmacogenomic testing on clinical outcomes, the impact of plan design changes on drug utilization, health disparities in medication adherence, and integrated medical and pharmacy claims studies to monitor quality of care indicators for external clients. CAOR supports the development and evaluation of new products such as Specialty Pharmacy, Medicare Part-D pharmacy benefit, and clinical safety products.
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Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Ph.D., is a senior health economist at RAND, deputy director of RAND Health's Economics, Financing, and Organization Program, and director of Public Sector Initiatives for RAND Health. She specializes in insurance benefit design, health insurance markets, provider payment, and the care use and needs of the elderly.
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program in health policy at Harvard University, where she concentrated in health economics and specialized in the economics of the Medicare program. Her dissertation was entitled "Risk Selection in the Medicare Program" and included chapters on techniques for modeling healthcare costs, the effect of benefit packages on risk selection among Medicare+Choice Plans, and the costs of Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life.
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Dr. Cassel has served as the president of the American Federation for Aging Research, dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at Oregon Health & Science University, and chair of the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, where she was also professor of geriatrics and medicine.
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, is the senior associate editor of Health Services Research, and serves on multiple editorial boards (currently, Annals of Family Medicine, American Journal of Medical Quality, and Medical Care Research and Review)
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She is a member of: the Medical Advisory Panel, Technology Evaluation Center, run by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association; the Institute of Medicine's Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; the Cancer Care Measures Steering Committee of the National Quality Forum; the Board of the VHA Health Foundation, along with a number of other advisory and editorial boards. From 1992 through 1998, Ms.
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Dr. Emanuel served on President Clinton's Health Care Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and the bioethics panel of the Pan American Health
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Dr. Fendrick completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.
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In 1981-1982, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in Washington, DC, and worked as a committee staff person on the Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Health. He was chairman of the Health Outcomes Committee of the Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
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Also in 1992, he joined the faculty at Duke University, becoming associate vice chancellor for health affairs, where he served as medical director of government relations for the Medical Center and professor in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He has served as special consultant in health programs and policy to the State of Texas Department of Health and the North Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Commission.
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and the vice president of consulting and applied research for Thomson Reuters. The mission of the IHPS is to bridge the gap between academia, the business community, and the healthcare policy world -- bringing academic resources into policy debates and day-to-day business decisions and bringing health and productivity management issues into academia.
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He has published widely in the general healthcare trade press and in peer-reviewed journals and has been awarded research grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, and the eHealth Initiative.
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Meltzer's research explores problems in health economics and public policy with a focus on the theoretical foundations of medical cost-effectiveness analysis and the effects of managed care and medical specialization on the cost and quality of care, especially in teaching hospitals. Meltzer is currently completing a randomized trial comparing the use of doctors who specialize in inpatient care ("hospitalists")
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These care continuum services include strategies such as health and wellness promotion, disease management, and care coordination. Based in Washington, DC, DMAA represents more than 200 corporate and individual members in promoting the role of population health improvement to raise the quality of care, improve health outcomes, and reduce preventable healthcare costs for people with chronic conditions and those at risk for developing chronic conditions.
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He has served as president of the Disease Management Association of America, chairman of the National Committee for Quality Health Care, chair of America's Health Insurance Plan's (AHIP's) Chief Medical Officer Leadership Council, and a member of the AHIP Board, and he is professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine.
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Prior to joining, Parashar was deputy director of the Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group in the CMS Center for Medicare Management. The group was responsible for Medicare payment policy for a wide range of acute and ambulatory care services including inpatient and outpatient hospital services and physician services.
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Congress. He served almost 5 years as the executive director of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, a nonpartisan agency charged with making recommendations on Medicare policy issues to Congress.
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Moving forward, Don held the position of contract strategy director for Nexium with responsibility for the creation, negotiation, and implementation of contract strategies associated with the Nexium brand with respect to commercial and government customers. Don advanced into the role of senior director in Contract Strategy, where he provided leadership for the development and launch of the Medicare Access Standard Contract Offer and was responsible for negotiations across our commercial and Part D portfolio.
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He was awarded the Investigator in Health Care Policy Research Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study whether private and public sector healthcare purchasers are able to effectively use their health purchasing leverage to drive improvements in quality and reductions in medical errors. Dennis also served as an investigator on a five-year AHRQ-funded project with researchers from the University of California-San Francisco and the University of Michigan examining the impact of insurance market competition on the quality of care.
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Dr. Tuckson is currently executive vice president and chief of medical affairs at UnitedHealth Group, a Fortune 25 diversified health and well-being company.
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He is immediate past chair of the Secretary of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society. Additionally, he recently served as a commissioner, Certification Commission on Health Information Technology, and is currently a member of the Performance Measurement Workgroup, Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA)
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He is also a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Medical Association, and the New Jersey Medical Society.
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