Steering Committee

William M. Tierney, MD, Chair
Executive Director
Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Improvement and Research
Indiana University School of Medicine

Stephen P. Spielberg, MD, PhD, Chair-Elect
Marion Merrell Dow Chair of Pediatric Pharmacogenomics
Children's Mercy Hospital
Kansas City

Barbara Alving, MD
Director
National Center for Research Resources
National Institutes of Health

David Bates, MD, MSC
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Department of Medicine
Health Information Technology and Improving Use

Janice Bush, MD
Vice President
Benefit Risk Management
Johnson & Johnson

Elizabeth Chrischilles, PhD
Professor, Associate Head Admissions and Curriculum
College of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa

Stephen Crystal, PhD
Research Professor II
The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Nancy Davenport-Ennis
Executive Director
National Patient Advocacy Foundation (NPAF)

Robert S. Epstein, MD, MS
Senior Vice President & Chief Medical Officer
Medco

Thomas Gross, MD, MPH
Director, Division of Post-Market Surveillance
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Food and Drug Administration

Mark C. Hornbrook, PhD
CERTs Coordinating Center
Kaiser Permanente - The Center for Health Research

Bruce Lambert, PhD
Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago

Carole Lannon, MD, MPH
Department of Pediatrics
Cincinnati Hospital Children's Medical Center

Henri Manasse, PhD
Executive Director
American Society of Health System Pharmacists

Newell McElwee
Vice President
Evidence Based Strategies Group
Medical Division, Pfizer, Inc.

David Meltzer, MD, PhD
University of Chicago
Department of Medicine

Alvin Mushlin, MD, ScM
Professor and Chair
Department of Public Health
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Eric Peterson, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center

Richard Platt, MD, MS
Professor and Chair
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
Harvard Pilgrim HMORN, Harvard Medical School

Wayne Ray, PhD
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Director
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Kenneth Saag, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Scott Smith, PhD
Director, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research
Center for Outcomes and Evidence
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Judy Staffa, PhD, RPh
Lead Epidemiologist Food and Drug Administration

Brian Strom, MD, MPH
Director
Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Maria Suarez-Almazor, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
MD Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas

Anne Trontell, MD, MPH
Program Director
Centers for Education and Research in Therapeutics
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Raymond Woosley, MD, PhD
President and CEO
The Critical Path Institute at the University of Arizona