Members of the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality
Jane F. Barlow, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A. (2009)
Dr. Barlow is responsible for the delivery of health care for over 600,000 employee, retirees and dependents in the U.S. at a cost of over $1.7 billion annually. She has an extensive background in creating and implementing health care benefits and health program for employees and is a strong advocate for patient centered care. Previously Dr. Barlow served as Federal Aviation Adminstration (FAA) Senior Aviation Medical Examiner for the Texas Rehabilitation Commission, Medical Director for the Family Health Center in Del Rio, Texas, Director of Occupational and Environmental Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and flight surgeon at Beal Air Force Base California. She currently co-chairs the National Committee on Evidence-based Benefit Design, National Business Group on Health. She has published frequently on keeping healthy in the workplace and is a national speaker on patient-centered care.
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Timothy J. Brei, M.D. (2009)
Dr. Brei, a recognized expert on diagnosing and treating children with disabilities, has written and presented extensively on the subject. Dr. Brei himself has Spina Bifida and serves on the Board of many national, regional and local committees, including DAMAR Homes, Inc., for children and adolescents with severe disabilities and behavior disorders, and the Spina Bifida Association of America. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.
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Andrew J. Fishmann, M.D., F.C.C.P., F.A.C.P. (2009)
Dr. Fishmann is an experienced hospitalist, as well as, co-founder and Board Member of Cogent Healthcare, Inc. In addition, Dr. Fishmann is the Director of the Intensive Care Unit, Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, and is in private practice with California Lung Associates. Dr. Fishmann received his B.A. in Biology from Franklin and Marshall College and his M.D. from the Temple University Medical School, and his Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship from the University of California, San Diego.
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Robert S. Galvin, M.D. (2010)
Board certified in internal medicine, Dr. Glavin is responsible for medical services internationally of 225 clinics, 750 physicians and nurses and 1.5 million patient visits including oversight of wellness and disease management programs and occupations medicine programs. He is also adjunct professor at Yale University School of Medicine. Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Glavin co-funded the Leapfrog Group and Bridges to Excellence. He is a member of the National Commission on Quality Accreditation. He served on the Department of Defense (DoD) Task Force on the future of Military Health Care, and the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a Highly Effective Health Care Systems. He has been a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committees and has reviewed IOM Reports. He has been asked to testify and present on the issues of health care costs and quality before both Congress and Secretaries of Executive Departments. Dr. Galvin received his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. at the Boston University School of Management.
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M. Carolina Hinestrosa, M.A., M.P.H. (2009)
Ms. Hinestrosa is a leader in representing cancer patients and cancer survivors. Her expertise has been called upon by the Institute of Medicine, the National Quality Forum, and the National Cancer Institute, to serve on a variety of committees involving detection and treatment of cancer. Previously, she founded and was executive director of Nueva Vida, Inc., a non profit organization delivering comprehensive support to Latinas with breast and cervical cancer. Ms. Hinestrosa also coordinated the development of the Latina Health Radio Network that broadcast a daily Spanish language program on health promotion and disease prevention and is a well known speaker at the World Conferences on Breast Cancer Advocacy.
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Wishwa N. Kapoor, M.D., M.P.H. (2010)
Dr. Kapoor is an expert in health services research, most recently examining the outcomes and evaluation of syncope, and outcomes, cost, and quality of pneumonia. As the Director of the Center for Research on Health Care, he has developed the Clinical Research Training Program and teaches research methodology courses in the program. Dr. Kapoor has extensive experience in mentoring fellows and junior faculty. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, a American Academy of Pediatrics, Past President of Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) and recipient for the Robert J. Glaser award for Exceptional Achievement in Teaching and Research. Dr. Kapoor has been a member of the grant review committee for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and has testified before Congress on Residency Programs. He has published hundreds of research papers in peer reviewed professional and scientific publications and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Medicine and the Journal of International Medicine. Dr. Kapoor received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering, and his M.D. at Washington University, St. Louis, and his M.P.H. in Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Kathleen Lohr, Ph.D. (2010)
Dr Lohr is also Research Professor at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Previously, Dr. Lohr's served as the director for the Division of Health Care Services for the Institute of Medicine, Technical Information Specialist in the Bureau of Health Professions, Department of Health Education and Welfare, and was a researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and School of Hygiene and Public Health. She has published countless, articles, monographs and books and is in demand as a member of diverse advisory panels for both the public and private sector. She is the 2005 recipient of the Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research Lifetime Achievement Award, given by the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, and a Fellow of the Association for Health Services Research. Dr. Lohr received her B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University, and her Ph.D. from RAND Graduate Institute, Santa Monica, CA.
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Thomas P. Miller, J.D. (2009)
Mr. Miller is a senior policy professional with 30 years experience in economic and regulatory policy, communication and legal issues in health policy, among other expertise.
He has participated in health care forums including consumer driven health care, insurance deductibles and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), the uninsured and long term care. He directed health policy studies at the CATO Institute and has been a journalist in both broadcast and print media. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from New York University and received his J.D. degree from Duke Law School.
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Neil R. Powe, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A. (2009)
Dr. Powe is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, a multidisciplinary research and training center at Johns Hopkins focused on clinical and population-based research. He also is Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management at Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health. He directs the Clinical Research Scholars Program, the Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program and the Clinical Epidemiology Program at Hopkins which have trained a cadre of physicians and population scientists in clinical research. He has published over 270 articles on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, value of health care technologies, and the effectiveness of the health care system. His major areas of interest and expertise are kidney and cardiovascular diseases; effectiveness and outcomes research and; economic evaluations in health care. He has studied physician decision making and other determinants of use of medical practices including payers' decisions about insurance coverage for new medical technologies, the effect of financial incentives on the use of technology, efficiency and outcomes in for-profit versus non-profit health care institutions, and the relation between hospital volume, technology and outcomes. Dr. Powe is author of more than 270 articles and among his many honors are membership in the Institute of Medicine, the John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research from the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Distinguished Educator Award from the Association of Clinical Research Training..
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Michael K. Raymond, M.D. (2010)
Dr. Raymond is currently the Associate Chief Medical Quality Officer for NorthShore University HealthSystem, Skokie Hospital. As former Chief Medical Officer for the Rush North Shore Medical Center, Dr. Raymond implemented a quality improvement paradigm that established an effective process for collecting measures and reporting performance and encouraging employee feedback. Previously, Dr. Raymond served as Medical Director of the Physicians Hospital Organization (PHO) of the Rush North Shore Medical Center. In that capacity he managed all aspects of care, including contracting, utilization management, pay-for-performance initiatives and outcomes measurement. During his tenure, PHO has consistently exceeded its performance targets. Under his leadership the Rush North Shore PHO became one of the first integrated delivery systems in Illinois to implement a Clinical Integration program using physician profiles and report indicators of performance. Dr. Raymond is also an expert in the key performance indicators (KPI) from Medicare commercial payors and other external review agencies. Dr. Raymond received his B.S. from Bradley University, and his M.D., from the Universidad Autonomo De Ciudad, Juarez, Mexico.
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David L. Shern, Ph.D. (2010)
Dr. Shern was named in 2006 as the president and CEO of Mental Health America, formerly the National Mental Health Association (NHMA), the country's oldest and largest nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness. Prior to joining NMHA, Dr. Shern served as dean of the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute (FMHI) at the University of South Florida, one of the largest research and training institutes in behavioral health services in the United States. He also founded and directed the National Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health—a National Institute of Mental Health-funded services research center—located in the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH).
His work has spanned a variety of mental health services research topics including eopdemiological studies of the need for community services; the effects of differing organizational, financing and service delivery strategies on continuity of care and client outcome and the use of alternative service delivery strategies such as peer counseling and self help on the outcomes of care. In 2006 Shern received the Carl Taube award from the American Public Health Association in recognition of his career contributions to mental health services research.
Dr. Shern received his Bachelor of Science, Masters and PhD in Psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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William Smith, Pharm.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., F.A.S.H.P. (2010)
Dr. Smith has been Professor of Pharmacy and Executive Associate Dean for the past 10 years. He serves as a member of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Pharmacy Executive Committee, Non-traditional Pharm.D. Program and Curriculum Committee, as well as a member of the Research Grants Program Selection Plan of the American Society of Hospital-base Pharmacists (AHSP). In his previous positions, Dr. Smith served as Vice President, Research Administration, where he was responsible for administrations of research programs and Assistant Dean for the Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. He was also Chair, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Bouve College of Pharmacy and Health Science, Northeastern University. Dr. Smith received his Pharm.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, and his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science from Auburn University.
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Myrl Weinberg, CAE (2010)
Ms. Weinberg is president of the National Health Council, an umbrella organization whose members are 50 of the leading voluntary health agencies committed to quality health care, and representing over 100 million individuals with chronic disease and /or disabilities. For over 30 years Ms. Weinberg's career has focused on health, medical research, and long-term care and she has held managerial and leadership positions in many different health care organizations including, the American Diabetes Association and the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation. She was selected to serve on the congressionally mandated Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee to assess how research priorities are established at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and has served on numerous boards. Ms. Weinberg pursued advanced graduate study at Purdue University, holds an M.A. in Special Education from Georgia Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee, and holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Arkansas.
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Anthony C. Wisniewski, J.D. (2009)
As Executive Director for Health Policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Wisniewski is responsible for health policy issues pending before the U.S. Congress and federal agencies. Previously, he served as head of public policy for the biotechnology company MedImmune, Inc. Mr. Wisniewski received his J.D. from Notre Dame University and his B.A. from the Catholic University of America.
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