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Appendix C: Participant Biographies
Pages 61-76

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From page 61...
... He has served on the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; the steering committee for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Centers for Research and Education on Therapeutics; the board of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research; the Advisory Council for North America of the Drug Information Association; and the editorial advisory board of Value in Health. He has chaired the Innovative Technology Advocacy Committee of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
From page 62...
... Califf served as FDA's Deputy Commissioner for Medical Products and Tobacco. In that capacity, he provided executive leadership to the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, and Center for Tobacco Products.
From page 63...
... Califf led major initiatives aimed at improving methods and infrastructure for clinical research, including the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative, a public–private partnership co-founded by FDA and Duke. He also served as the principal investigator for Duke's Clinical and Translational Science Award and the NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory coordinating center.
From page 64...
... LESLEY CURTIS, Ph.D., is a professor of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine and directs the Center for Pragmatic Health Services Research in the Duke Clinical Research Institute. A health services researcher by training, Dr.
From page 65...
... Curtis co-leads the Data Core for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Mini-Sentinel Initiative, co-leads the Electronic Health Record Core for the National Institute of Health's Health Care Systems Collaboratory, and co-leads the Data Standards, Security, Networking, and Infrastructure Task Force for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's National Clinical Research Network.
From page 66...
... His current work also covers electronic health records, natural language processing, medical devices, causal inference, and geriatric pharmacoepidemiology. He is an adjunct faculty member and mentor to several Ph.D.
From page 67...
... Prior to this, he was the senior vice president for Civilian Health Operations and chief health scientist at Science Applications International Corporation and a consultant for Warburg Pincus. In 2009, he completed 23 years of government service, most recently, for 2 years, as Acting Surgeon General of the United States.
From page 68...
... and the U.S. Department of Energy, where he was chief medical officer.
From page 69...
... Dr. Hernandez is currently engaged in numerous research initiatives and public–private partnerships leveraging digital health data from multiple sources, including electronic medical records, claims databases, and registries to track and improve health care costs, quality, and outcomes.
From page 70...
... RHONDA ROBINSON BEALE, M.D., is a seasoned health care executive with more than 30 years of experience in health care systems, managed care, and quality improvement in behavioral health and medical care. She is the senior vice president and chief medical officer for Blue Cross of Idaho, overseeing the Medical and Quality Management Division responsible for medical and behavioral service management for all market segments.
From page 71...
... As director of the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research, Dr. Rothman oversees a Center that engages more than 140 faculty across the university who are engaged in more than $50 million of funded research annually related to health services research, implementation science, behavioral research, health disparities research, quality improvement research, and other areas aimed at improving health outcomes.
From page 72...
... Her areas of focus include establishing the Oncology Center for Excellence and the Combination Products Policy Council as well as oversight for the EvGen initiative, the Offices of Good Clinical Practice, Orphan Products Development, and Pediatric Therapeutics; and modernization of Advisory Committee practices. Most recently, Dr. Sherman served as Associate Deputy Commissioner for Medical Products and Tobacco from October 2015 until Septem
From page 73...
... , is an investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and a psychiatrist in Group Health's Behavioral Health Service. He is also a research professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and chair of the national scientific advisory board of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance.
From page 74...
... He is also a director of Genome Research Limited. JON WHITE, M.D., Deputy National Coordinator, is a family physician who has dedicated his career to improving health and health care quality through the use and sharing of electronic health information.
From page 75...
... Department of Veterans Affairs) as well as key health care professional, patient, policy, and health IT stakeholder groups to implement major health care initiatives.


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