Participant Bios
THE COMMONWEALTH FUND 2007 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HEALTH CARE POLICY PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES GERARD F. ANDERSON is a professor of health policy and management and professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Hospital Finance and Management, and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Program for Medical Technology and Practice Assessment. He recently stepped down as the national program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored program “Partnership for Solutions: Better Lives for People with Chronic Conditions.” Anderson is currently conducting research on chronic conditions, comparative insurance systems in developing countries, medical education, health care payment reform, and technology diffusion. He has directed reviews of health systems for the World Bank and USAID in multiple countries. He has authored two books on health care payment policy, published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, testified in Congress over 35 times as an individual witness, and serves on multiple editorial committees. Prior to his arrival at Johns Hopkins, Anderson held various positions in the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he helped to develop Medicare prospective payment legislation. PETER BACH, M.D., is associate attending physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine. He is a National Institutes of Health-funded researcher with expertise in quality of care and epidemiologic research methods. His research on health disparities, variations in healthcare quality, and lung cancer epidemiology has appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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