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Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation
Board on Health Care Services
Forum Membership Bios
Paul H. O’Neill (Co-Chair)
Paul H. O’Neill is a founder of Value Capture, LLC, where he provides counsel and support to health care executives and policymakers who share his conviction that the value of health care operations can be increased by 50 percent or more through the pursuit of perfect safety and clinical outcomes. He was the 72nd Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, serving from 2001 to 2002. During his 21 month tenure, the lost workday rate among Treasury employees fell by more than 50 percent. He was the chairman and CEO of Alcoa from 1987 to 1999 and retired as chairman at the end of 2000. Mr. O’Neill led Alcoa to become the safest workplace in the world, while increasing its market capitalization by more than 800 percent. Today, Alcoa operates across more than 40 countries at a lost workday rate that is 20 times lower than the average rate for American hospitals. Prior to joining Alcoa, Mr. O’Neill was president of International Paper Company from 1987 to 1985 and was vice president from 1977 to 1985. He served as the deputy director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget from 1974 to 1977, where he served on staff beginning in 1967. He worked as a computer systems analyst with the U.S. Veterans Administration from 1961 to 1966. During his government service, Mr. O’Neill helped to shape many of the policies which define the American health care system today. He serves as a board member at the National Quality Forum, RAND, and more than a dozen other major corporations and non-profit organizations.
Thomas F. Boat, M.D. (Co-Chair)
Thomas F. Boat, M.D.is director of The Children's Hospital Research Foundation and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics. He also is physician-in-chief and a member of the board of trustees of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
A pediatric pulmonologist by training, Dr. Boat worked early in his career to define the pathophysiology of airway dysfunction and more effective therapies for chronic lung diseases of childhood, such as cystic fibrosis. More recently he has worked at local and national levels to improve subspecialty training and clinical care in pediatrics.
Dr. Boat joined Cincinnati Children's in 1993, after serving as chairman of the department of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Previously, he was co-director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland.
U.S. News & World Report recently ranked the Department of Pediatrics among the top four pediatric programs at medical schools in the United States. When Dr. Boat joined Cincinnati Children's, the department of pediatrics included 144 faculty, with total external grant funding of less than $20 million. Today, the department includes more than 300 full- and part-time faculty. Total sponsored program awards now exceed $100 million. In addition, more than a dozen new division chiefs have been appointed since 1993, and nearly a dozen new divisions or programs have been created. He has also fostered patient care efforts that have resulted in rapid growth of clinical programs and measurable improvements in the quality of child health care and its delivery.
Dr. Boat is a member of the Institute of Medicine. He has served as a member and chair of the Biochemistry II Study Section of the National Institutes of Health, and as a council member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. He chairs the Research Development Program Advisory Committee for the National Cystic Fibrosis Association, and is a member of their Medical Advisory Committee. He has been chair of the American Board of Pediatrics and president of the Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs. Dr. Boat is a past president of the American Pediatric Society, and is a recipient of the St. Geme Award from the Federation of Pediatric Organizations.
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Paul B. Batalden, M.D.
Paul B. Batalden, M.D. is the Director of the Institute for Clinical Improvement Leadership and Health Professional Development of the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences and Professor of Pediatrics and of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. He is the Program Director of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency program, a combined residency program which offers graduate medical study in the leadership of the improvement of quality of patient care. Dr. Batalden founded the VA National Quality Scholars Program and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Health Professions Educational Collaborative in Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Health Administration schools for the development of learning opportunities in the improvement of patient care. He was the founding chair of the board of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and continues on its board. He currently serves as an advisor to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Medical Specialties in the development of general competencies and patient care and professional educational outcomes measurement for physician specialists.
He has published numerous papers and books and made video tapes about the improvement of health care quality and safety. His work in health care quality improvement has been recognized by the Codman Award, the Dupont Award, the AHA Award of Honor, and the Founder’s Award of the American College for Medical Care Quality. He has served as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, a judge for the VA National Kizer Quality Award and as a commissioner for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations.
He has previously served as Ernest Breech Chair of Quality Improvement Education and Research, Henry Ford Health System; Head, Quality Resource Group, HCA; COO, Park Nicollet Medical Center, Director; Health Services Research Center, Park Nicollet Medical Foundation; Co-director, Kellogg Pharmaceutical Clinical Scholars Program; General Pediatrician, Co-director, Community-University Otitis Media Research Program; Assistant Surgeon General, USPHS and Director of the Bureau of Community Health Services; Medical Director, U.S. Job Corps.
He is currently a member of the Institute of Medicine and the governing board of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Alliance.
Ignatius Bau, J.D.
Ignatius Bau, J.D.is a Program Director at The California Endowment, managing the foundation’s work on health care disparities, language access, cultural competency and health workforce diversity. He is currently managing grants to public and non-profit hospitals and health systems, health plans, physicians associations, local health departments, programs and national accreditation organizations. Prior to joining The California Endowment in 2003, Bau worked at the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) for seven years and at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area for 10 years. Bau and APIAHF led community efforts that resulted in the creation of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and he was the principal author of the first report from the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He also has served on the board of directors of numerous non-profit, community-based organizations, as well as a number of government committees and task forces, including the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National HIV Prevention Planning Group, and the California Department of Health Service’s Task Force on Multicultural Health. He also has been a member of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Public Advisory Group, the National Quality Forum Work Group on Minority Healthcare Quality Measurement and several Technical Advisory Committees for the California Health Interview Survey.
Jay E. Berkelhamer, M.D.
Jay E. Berkelhamer,M.D. of Atlanta, Georgia, is Chief Medical Officer at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Clinical Professor at Emory, Adjunct Professor at Morehouse and a general pediatrician.
A native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, raised in Chicago, Dr. Berkelhamer attended the University of Michigan, and trained in Pediatrics at the University of Chicago. Following residency and USPHS in Norfolk, he joined the University of Chicago faculty and practiced general pediatrics. He started the academic general pediatric division, directed the residency training program, served as associate chair of the department, and performed clinical research.
After 20 years, he became Chair of Pediatrics at the Henry Ford Health System. Collaborating with Children’s Hospital of Michigan, he established The Child Health Network and worked with the University of Michigan to start a managed care program for special needs children.
Having legislative experience as a RWJ Health Policy Fellow, Dr. Berkelhamer advocates for children’s issues and is a national spokesperson for the AAP. He was President of the Illinois Chapter and has served at the chapter and national levels on numerous committees, including chairing national committees (State Government Affairs and Quality Improvement and Management). His section activities include Community Pediatrics, International Child Health, and Administration and Practice Management.
He is the President of the American Academy of Pediatrics as of October 2006. He is a Past President of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association and the Chicago Pediatric Society. He serves actively on the community boards, and he has been on the Pediatric Residency Review Committee. He is married with three children and two grandchildren.
Marshall H. Chin, MD
Marshall H. Chin, MD, MPH, FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, is a general internist with extensive experience improving the care of vulnerable patients with chronic disease. He is Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change National Program Office, a new major effort to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Dr. Chin is Associate Director, Chicago NIDDK P60 Diabetes Research and Training Center; Co-Director of Research in the Section of General Internal Medicine; and Research Associate at the Center for Health Administration Studies and the Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging, at the University of Chicago.
Over the past 10 years, Dr. Chin and his community partners from the MidWest Clinicians’ Network consortium of community health centers have engaged in a series of studies funded by AHRQ, NIDDK, and RWJF to improve the quality of diabetes care in health centers that serve the indigent. These multifactorial, community-based interventions include rapid quality improvement, chronic disease management, provider training in behavioral change, and patient empowerment interventions. Dr. Chin is also performing the national evaluation of the Bureau of Primary Health Care’s Health Disparities Collaborative, the most comprehensive effort to improve the quality of care in health centers yet to be undertaken. For his work with community health centers, Dr. Chin received the 2001 National Association of Community Health Centers Innovative Research in Primary Care Award and the 1999 MidWest Clinicians’ Network Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Chin is a graduate of the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine and completed residency and fellowship training in general internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Carolyn Clancy, M.D.
Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., was appointed Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on February 5, 2003. Prior to her appointment, Dr. Clancy had served as AHRQ's Acting Director since March 2002 and previously was Director of the Agency's Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research (COER).
Dr. Clancy, who is a general internist and health services researcher, is a graduate of Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Following clinical training in internal medicine, Dr. Clancy was a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She was also an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond before joining AHRQ in 1990.
Dr. Clancy holds an academic appointment at George Washington University School of Medicine (Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine) and serves as Senior Associate Editor, Health Services Research. Dr. Clancy has served on multiple editorial boards (currently Annals of Family Medicine, American Journal of Medical Quality, and Medical Care Research and Review). Dr. Clancy has published widely in peer reviewed journals and has edited or contributed to seven books. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was elected a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2004.
Her major research interests include various dimensions of health care quality and patient, including women's health, primary care, access to care services, and the impact of financial incentives on physicians' decisions.
Dr. Clancy lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C, with her husband, Bill. She enjoys jogging, movies, and spending time with her extended family, especially four nieces in Virginia.
Catherine D. DeAngelis, M.D., M.P.H.
Catherine D. DeAngelis, M.D., M.P.H is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the American Medical Association, Editor-in-Chief of Scientific Publications and Multimedia Applications, and Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (LOA). She received her M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine, and her M.P.H. from the Harvard Graduate School of Public Health (Health Services Administration), and her pediatric specialty training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. DeAngelis oversees JAMA as well as nine Archives publications and JAMA related website content. Before her appointment with JAMA, she was vice dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and from 1994-2000, she was editor of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. She also has been a member of numerous journal editorial boards.
She has authored or edited 11 books on Pediatrics and Medical Education and has published over 200 original articles, chapters, editorials, and abstracts. Most of her recent publications have focused on conflicts of interest in medicine, on women in medicine, and on medical education. Dr. DeAngelis is a council member of the National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has served as an officer of numerous national academic societies including past chairman of the American Board of Pediatrics and Chair of the Pediatric Accreditation Council for Residency Review Committee of the American Council on Graduate Medical Education. She is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health.
Julie L. Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H.
Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H. became the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) on July 3, 2002.
Before becoming CDC Director and ATSDR Administrator, Dr. Gerberding was Acting Deputy Director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), where she played a major role in leading CDC’s response to the anthrax bioterrorism events of 2001. She joined CDC in 1998 as Director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, NCID, where she developed CDC’s patient safety initiatives and other programs to prevent infections, antimicrobial resistance, and medical errors in healthcare settings. Prior to coming to CDC, Dr. Gerberding was a University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) faculty member and directed the Prevention Epicenter, a multidisciplinary research, training, and clinical service program that focused on preventing infections in patients and their healthcare providers. Dr. Gerberding is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at Emory University and an Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at UCSF.
She earned a B.A. magna cum laude in chemistry and biology and an M.D. at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Gerberding then completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at UCSF, where she also served as Chief Medical Resident before completing her fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology and Infectious Diseases at UCSF. She earned an M.P.H. degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990.
Dr. Gerberding is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha (medical honor society), American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), American College of Physicians, Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Epidemiology Society, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Institute of Medicine.
In the past, Dr. Gerberding served as a member of CDC’s National Center for Infectious Diseases’ Board of Scientific Counselors, the CDC HIV Advisory Committee, and the Scientific Program Committee, National Conference on Human Retroviruses. She has also been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, the American Medical Association, CDC, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the National AIDS Commission, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the World Health Organization.
Dr. Gerberding's editorial activities have included appointment to the Editorial Board of the Annals of Internal Medicine, appointment as an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Medicine, and service as a peer-reviewer for numerous internal medicine, infectious diseases, and epidemiology journals. Her scientific interests encompass patient safety and prevention of infections and antimicrobial resistance among patients and their healthcare providers. She has authored or co-authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters and contributed to numerous guidelines and policies relevant to HIV prevention, post-exposure prophylaxis, management of infected healthcare personnel, and healthcare-associated infection prevention.
Dr. Gerberding resides in Atlanta with her husband, David, who is a software engineer. Her step-daughter Renada is a law student at the University of Virginia. Dr. Gerberding relaxes by scuba diving, reading on the beach, gardening, and doting on her three cats.
Jeremy Grimshaw, MBChB, Ph.D., FRCGP
Jeremy Grimshaw, MBChB, Ph.D., FRCGP is the Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Program of the Ottawa Health Research Institute and Director of the Centre for Best Practice, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa. He holds a Tier 1 Canadian Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake and is a Full Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa. Dr. Grimshaw received a MBChB (MD equivalent) from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He trained as a family physician prior to undertaking a PhD in health services research at the University of Aberdeen. He moved to Canada in 2002.
His research focuses on the evaluation of interventions to disseminate and implement evidence based practice. He is the Director of the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre. He is the Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care (EPOC) group and he has been involved in a series of systematic reviews of guideline dissemination and implementation strategies. He has been involved in over 20 cluster randomized trials of different dissemination and implementation strategies conducted in a wide range of settings (including community pharmacy settings, family medicine settings and secondary and tertiary care level settings) and have evaluated a wide range of interventions (for example, educational meetings, educational outreach, organizational interventions, computerized guidelines) relating to a wide range of behaviors. He has also undertaken research into statistical issues in the design, conduct and analysis of cluster randomized trials. More recently his research has focused on assessing the applicability of behavioral theories to health care professional and organizational behavior. He has over 160 peer reviewed publications and 35 monographs and book chapters.
Jerome H. Grossman, M.D.
Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Harvard/Kennedy School Health Care Delivery Policy Program. Grossman is also Chairman Emeritus of New England Medical Center, Inc., where he served as Chairman and CEO from 1979-1995, and is an honorary physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital. As a Senior Fellow at M-RCBG, Grossman authored a report on the state of health care in Massachusetts. He was the first IOM member to Chair a National Academy of Engineering Committee on the Impact of Academic Research on Industrial Performance, and is now serving as Co-chairman of the NAE/IOM Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery Systems. He serves as a director/trustee of The Mayo Clinic Foundation, Penn Medicine (University of Pennsylvania Medical School and Health System), the Stryker Corporation, and the Committee for Economic Development. He is co-authoring a book with Clay Christensen on Disruptive Innovation in Health Care.
Judith M. Gueron, Ph.D.
Judith M. Gueron, Ph.D., is a Scholar in Residence at MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization. She joined MDRC (formerly called the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation) as research director at its founding in 1974 and served as its president from 1986 through August 2004. Under her leadership, MDRC became one of America’s most prominent policy research organizations, with a mission to design and evaluate social and education programs aimed at improving the well-being of low-income Americans and to enhance the effectiveness of policy and practice.
At MDRC, Dr. Gueron directed many of the largest federal and state evaluations of interventions for low-income adults, youth, and families and was a pioneer in developing research methods that have made it possible to base social programs on rigorous evidence of effectiveness.
Dr. Gueron is past president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, has served on several National Academy of Sciences committees and federal advisory panels, and has frequently testified before Congress. In 1988, Dr. Gueron was awarded the American Evaluation Association’s Myrdal Prize for Evaluation Practice in recognition of high-quality studies of employment issues. In 2004-05, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. In 2005, she received the inaugural Richard E. Neustadt award from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, to be bestowed annual to an individual “who has created powerful solutions to public problems, drawing on research and intellectual ideas as appropriate.” She serves on the Board of Directors of Alcoa, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.
Dr. Gueron received her B.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Andrea Kabcenell, R.N., M.P.H.
Andrea Kabcenell, RN, MPH, is an Executive Director at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a core faculty member in the Institute’s research and demonstration initiative and serves as Deputy Director of Pursuing Perfection, a $21 million demonstration of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Ms. Kabcenell has directed 14 Breakthrough Series Collaboratives since this approach to improvement was developed in 1995. With that experience, she developed and led IHI’s Breakthrough Series College, which spreads the methods of collaborative improvement to other organizations. Her research and teaching in Cornell University's Department of Policy, Analysis, and Management focused on chronic illness, quality, and diffusion of innovation. Prior to her appointment at Cornell, she served as Senior Program Officer at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Richard Kahn, Ph.D.
Richard Kahn, Ph.D., is Chief Scientific and Medical Officer of the American Diabetes Association, which is located in Alexandria, Virginia.
Dr. Kahn has senior managerial responsibility for all of the scientific and medical affairs of the Association, which can be divided into five major areas. First, he is responsible for the Association's professional education activities, consisting of many clinical conferences and symposia, research conferences, and the largest diabetes-related clinical and scientific meeting in the world -- the Association's Annual Scientific Sessions. Second, Dr. Kahn has senior responsibility for the development of the Association's clinical practice guidelines and clinical consensus reports, which provide guidance and direction to health professionals who deliver diabetes care. Third, the Association's research program is under Dr. Kahn’s overall responsibility. This Program awards nearly 40 million dollars of support annually to scientists nationwide. Fourth, Dr. Kahn provides senior staff direction for the many professional books and journals produced by the Association. Finally, he oversees the Association's professional "certification" or Recognition Programs - the Diabetes Education Recognition Program and the Diabetes Provider Recognition Program..
Prior to joining the American Diabetes Association, Dr. Kahn was Chief of Scientific Affairs for the American Red Cross in St. Louis, Missouri, and an Associate Professor of Pathology at Washington University.
Dr. Kahn received his doctorate in physiology from Georgetown University and has published over 50 original research reports as well as numerous book chapters. He has received many awards, honors, invited lectureships and is a member of a variety of professional organizations.
Raynard S. Kington, M.D.
Raynard S. Kington, M.D. was appointed Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as of February 9, 2003. The Deputy Director, NIH, functions as the Principal Deputy Director to the Director, NIH; and shares in the overall leadership, policy direction, and coordination of NIH biomedical research and research training programs of NIH's 27 Institutes and Centers. Prior to this appointment, he had been Associate Director of NIH for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research since September, 2000. In addition to this role, from January, 2002 to November, 2002, he served as Acting Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Prior to coming to NIH, Dr. Kington was Director of the Division of Health Examination Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As Division Director, he also served as Director of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), one of the nation's largest studies to assess the health of the American people. Prior to coming to NCHS, he was a Senior Scientist in the Health Program at the RAND Corporation. While at RAND, Dr. Kington was a Co-Director of the Drew/RAND Center on Health and Aging, a National Institute on Aging Exploratory Minority Aging Center.
Dr. Kington attended the University of Michigan, where he received his B.S. with distinction and his M.D. He subsequently completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Michael Reese Medical Center in Chicago. He was then appointed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. While at the University of Pennsylvania, he completed his M.B.A. with distinction and his Ph.D. with a concentration in Health Policy and Economics at the Wharton School and was awarded a Fontaine Fellowship. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
Dr. Kington's research has focused on the role of social factors, especially socioeconomic status, as determinants of health. His current research includes studies of the health and socioeconomic status of black immigrants, differences in populations in willingness to participate in genetic research, and racial and ethnic differences in infectious disease rates. His research has included studies of the relationship between wealth and health status; the health status of U.S. Hispanic populations; the determinants of health care services utilization; the economic impact of health care expenditures among the elderly; and racial and ethnic differences in the use of long-term care.
Joel Kupersmith, M.D.
Joel Kupersmith, M.D is the Chief Research and Development Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs. He is a graduate of New York Medical College where he also completed his residency in internal medicine. Subsequently, he completed a cardiology fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. After research training in the Department of Pharmacology, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, he joined the faculty of the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine where he rose to the rank of Professor and was Director of the Clinical Pharmacology section. After this he became Chief of Cardiology and V.V. Cooke Professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Medicine at the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University and then Dean, School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Vice President for Clinical Affairs at Texas Tech University as well as CEO of the Faculty Practice. In this position there were many advances in the medical center including a marked stepwise drop in faculty attrition rate; legislative initiatives; growth of the research enterprise; important recruitments; many educational initiatives; construction projects; improved scores of entering students and increased number of minority students. Dr. Kupersmith also had a lead role in designing and in the process to establish a new medical school in El Paso, Texas. Subsequently, Dr. Kupersmith was a Scholar-in-Residence at both the Institute of Medicine and the Association of American Medical Colleges before assuming duties as Chief Research and Development Officer at VHA. Dr. Kupersmith has 154 publications and two books. His earlier research interests were in the area of electrophysiology, the causes and treatment of heart rhythm abnormalities and implantable cardioverter defibrillators. Subsequently, he published on cost effectiveness of heart disease treatments and most recently his work has been on health policy issues. Dr. Kupersmith has been on many national and international committees involved in heart disease and journal editorial boards. He is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Dr. Kupersmith is a winner of an Affirmative Action Award from the University of Louisville and an Alumni Association distinguished achievement award from New York Medical College. Dr. Kupersmith has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Hastings Center for ethics. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and several others.
Laura C. Leviton, Ph.D.
Laura Leviton has been a Senior Program Officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey since 1999, overseeing 44 evaluations and $68 million in research to date. She was formerly a professor at two schools of public health, where she collaborated on the first randomized experiment on HIV prevention, and later on two large place-based randomized experiments on improving medical practices. She received the 1993 award from the American Psychological Association for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. She has served on two Institute of Medicine committees: the committee to evaluate preparedness for terrorist attack, and the committee to assess the Hearing Loss Prevention Program of the National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). She was appointed by the Secretary of DHHS to the National Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Leviton was President of the American Evaluation Association in the year 2000 and has co-authored two books: Foundations of Program Evaluation and Confronting Public Health Risks. She is interested in all aspects of evaluation methodology and practice. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Kansas and postdoctoral training in research methodology and evaluation at Northwestern University.
Brian S. Mittman, Ph.D.
Brian S. Mittman, Ph.D. is Senior Social Scientist at the VA/UCLA/RAND Center for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service Center of Excellence, where he has worked since 1993. He served as Interim Associate Director of the VA Health Services Research and Development Service, directing the QUERI program (Quality Enhancement Research Initiative), from September 2002 through June 2004. His teaching experience includes masters- and doctoral level courses while serving as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health (2003-2006), as a visiting faculty member at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management (1987-1993) and in the UCSD School of Medicine/UCSD Extension executive masters program in healthcare organization leadership (2001-2003). From 1986 to 2002 he was a social scientist and consultant at RAND, working in domestic policy areas such as labor, education and health. His training includes an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, a Master’s Degree in Sociology from Stanford University and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford.
Dr. Mittman’s research interests focus on system- and clinician-targeted methods to improve healthcare quality and performance and to facilitate implementation of evidence-based clinical practices. Dr. Mittman has published, lectured and consulted in these areas throughout the U.S. and abroad, working with a diverse group of organizations ranging from medical specialty societies and voluntary health (disease advocacy) agencies, to private and public healthcare delivery organizations. Dr. Mittman has served as a peer reviewer and editorial board member for several healthcare journals and research grant programs (including NIH, VA, AHRQ, CDC, NSF) and as an advisory board member for various research centers, studies and healthcare technology firms. He is founding Co-Editor in Chief of the new journal Implementation Science.
Leslie Norwalk, J.D.
Leslie V. Norwalk, J.D., is the Deputy Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In this role she directs the complex and demanding task of implementing the hundreds of changes to be made under the Medicare Modernization Act. Ms. Norwalk continues to direct the day-to-day operations of Medicare, Medicaid, Child Health Insurance Programs, Survey and Certification of health care facilities and other federal health care initiatives, such as physician referral regulations, HIPAA and EMTALA.
CMS has the second-largest budget outlay of the Federal Government, directly responsible for $1 out of every $3 spent on healthcare in the United States. The organization insures approximately 25% of the population of the United States (more than 84 million beneficiaries) including the elderly, disabled, and some of the lowest income individuals in the country. CMS processes over one billion claims each year and it contracts with approximately one million providers.
Prior to serving the Bush Administration, she practiced law in the Washington, D.C. office of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. where she advised clients on a variety of health policy matters. She also served in the first Bush administration in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.
Ms. Norwalk, a native of Dayton, OH, earned a juris doctor degree from the George Mason University School of Law, where she was a Dean’s Scholar and an editor of the George Mason Law Review. She earned a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in economics and international relations from Wellesley College.
Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a prominent researcher in health policy and organization behavior at the University of California, Berkeley and is dean of the School of Public Health. Dr. Shortell is known as a leading academic voice advocating reform of the nation's health system. His research has helped establish determinants of health outcomes and quality of care for health care organizations. As Blue Cross of California distinguished professor of health policy and management, Dr. Shortell holds a joint appointment at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health and the Haas School of Business. He also is affiliated with UC Berkeley's Department of Sociology and UC San Francisco's Institute for Health Policy Studies. Dr. Shortell is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. He has received the Baxter-Allegiance Prize, considered the highest honor worldwide in the field of health services research. He also has received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research and the Gold Medal award from the American College of Healthcare Executives for his contributions to the field. He serves on the boards of the Health Research and Educational Trust and the National Center for Healthcare Leadership. Dr. Shortell received his bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame; his master's degree in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles; and his Ph.D. in behavioral science from the University of Chicago. Before coming to UC Berkeley in 1998, he held teaching and research positions at Northwestern University, the University of Washington, and the University of Chicago. During 2006-2007 he is a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Marita G. Titler, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Marita G. Titler, PhD, RN, FAAN, serves as Director of Research, Quality, and Outcomes Management in the Department of Nursing Services and Patient Care at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa and is a Clinical Professor at the University of Iowa College of Nursing. During her 20 year tenure at UIHC, she also served in the role of 1) a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Critical Care, and 2) Senior Associate Director, Clinical Outcomes and Resource Management. She is Director of 1) the Translation Core of the 2.34 million dollar federally funded Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center Grant (P30 NR003979/NINR; Tripp-Reimer, Principal Investigator) and 2) the Institute of Translational Practice on the 3.49 million dollar Department of Veterans Affairs Center of Excellence grant (HFP 04-149; Rosenthal, Principal Investigator) Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice (CRIISP). She served as Principal Investigator and recently completed a 1) 1.5 million dollar AHRQ Grant on Evidence-Based Practice: From Book to Bedside (1RO1 HS10482), 2) competing continuation From Book to Bedside: Promoting and Sustaining EBPs in the Elders (2 R01 HS010482), and 3) 1.3 million dollar NINR Grant on Nursing Interventions & Outcomes in 3 Older Populations (1 R01 NR05331). She is currently Co-Principal Investigator on the 2.8 million dollar National Cancer Institute Grant on Cancer Pain in Elders: Promoting EBPs in Hospices (1R01CA115363-01).
Her current program of research focuses on translation science, interventions to improve outcomes of adults with chronic illnesses, and dissemination of evidence-based practice guidelines for the elderly. She is currently a member of the AHRQ HCTDS study section and the Appalachian Regional Healthcare Board of Trustees.
Dr. Titler is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and has published and spoken nationally and internationally on evidence-based practice, outcomes management, and translation science. She has served as chair of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses National Research Committee, is a past member of the Research Coordinating Committee of the American Lung Association, and past chair of the Program Planning Committee for the Nursing Assembly of ATS and MNRS. She is a past member of the International Evidence-Based Working Group of Sigma Theta Tau International, and is currently a member of the 1) Sigma Theta Tau International’s Research & Scholarship Advisory Council, 2) VA HCS National Evidence-Based Practice Work Group, and 3) Stroke QUERI External Advisory Committee
Her awards include the INA Teresa Christy Award, the 1996 AACN Distinguished Research Lecturer, the 1997 Sigma Theta Tau International Research Utilization Award, the 2001 Sigma Theta Tau Clinical Scholarship Award, the 2004 Midwest Nursing Research Society Health Policy and Research Section Award, and the 2005 Sigma Theta Tau International Elizabeth McWilliams Miller Award for Excellence in Research.
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