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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Reactors
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Reactors
Pages 99-110
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The programs help more than 100,000 health care consumers and small businesses enroll in health insurance or access low-cost health care through a toll-free helpline and network of community-based organizations and small business-serving groups. She is a co-founder of Health Care for All New York Campaign, a statewide coalition of more than 150 organizations devoted to securing affordable, quality health care for all New Yorkers. She has published extensively and has been a frequent commentator about health policy issues.
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As a speaker, Ms. Cueva shares her vision worldwide at events such as Design Management Institute, Innovation Learning Network, Cleveland Clinic Patient Experience Summit, UXPA, IA Summit, Partners Center for Connected Health Symposium, Stanford MedicineX, Mobile World Congress, Health 2.0, and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
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screening among patients in federally qualified health centers. Building on this work, she was recently awarded an American Community Survey grant to evaluate follow-up strategies to improve regular CRC screening in rural clinics in the state.
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The ACP Foundation has distributed more than 5 million copies of these guides. Eric Ellsworth, M.B.A., M.S., is the director of health data strategy at Consumers' Checkbook, where he is responsible for new initiatives in Checkbook's health-related consumer tools, including health plan decision support tools on public and private health insurance exchanges, physician evaluation, and drug formulary evaluation.
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She has a particular interest in testing approaches that give consumers and patients more knowledge and control over their health and health care. Her studies examine topics such as how consumers understand and use health care information, how health literacy affects choices, enrollee behavior within consumer-driven health plans, and assessments of patient and consumer activation.
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Dr. James is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities and has served on several committees, including the Committee on Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2020. She also served on the committee of a National Academies consensus study titled A Framework for Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health.
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Janet Mentesane, M.S.W., has been the executive director of the Martin Luther King Health Center since 2003. The center is a nonprofit primary health care clinic and pharmacy that serves medically disadvantaged adults in northwest Louisiana.
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Morris, M.P.H., is the assistant project director for the Consumer Assistance Program grant through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. She has more than 15 years' experience providing community public health and public policy programming.
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Ruth Parker, M.D., is a professor of medicine and public health at the Emory University School of Medicine. She developed one of the first measurement tools to quantify patients' abilities to read and understand health information, the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults; co-wrote the definition of health literacy used by Healthy People, the National Institutes of Health, and the Institute of Medicine report Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion; and is the developer of a model of health literacy that is achieving growing recognition in the United States and internationally.
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. The new agency was created weeks after enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to implement provisions affecting private health insurance.
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He is a recipient of the Laureate Award from ACP and the Theodore Roosevelt Award for Distinguished Community Service. He has also received the 2011 Founders Award presented by the American College of Medical Quality in recognition of his long-standing national leadership and exceptional ability to foster and support health care quality improvement.
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Taylor served as the project director of the Southern Health Partners program. In this role she oversaw the program and provided technical assistance to consumer advocacy organizations within 12 southeastern states on a range of advocacy capacities, such as coalition building and maintenance, organizational strategic planning, and designing and implementing successful health advocacy campaigns.
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