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Appendix F: Committee Biographies
Pages 363-366

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From page 363...
... Department of Health and Human Services as deputy assistant secretary for Planning and Evaluation/Health and then as acting assistant secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Previous positions include principal, Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., vice president at Group Health, Inc.
From page 364...
... He has also been on staff at Buffalo General Hospital since 1969. Previous memberships include IOM Committee on Career Paths for Clinical Research, and the National Institute of Dental Research Scientific Advisory Panel and Board of Scientific Counselors.
From page 365...
... Prior committee memberships have included IOM's Guidelines on Thyroid Cancer Screening; the Committee to Evaluate the Artificial Heart Program of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; and Workshops on the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Process and the Use of Drugs in the Elderly, both within the IOM. His publications and research have focused on screening for cancer and other conditions, applications of clinical decision theory and medical informatics to health policy, technology assessment and the individualization of patient care, cost-effectiveness analysis, clinical cardiology, telemedicine, ethics of various reimbursement models, and efficiency of care delivery.
From page 366...
... His research focuses on epidemiology of skin disease with special focus on nonmelanoma skin cancers, psoriasis, and cutaneous drug eruptions. He is particularly interested in risk factors for the development of nonmelanoma skin cancer, the relative cost-effectiveness of alternative therapies, and the assessment of treatment based on patient-oriented outcomes.


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