Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

AHRQ Research Summit on Learning Health Systems

September 15, 2017

BIOSKETCHES

Sharon Arnold

Dr. Arnold helps lead the Agency’s efforts to develop the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the health care system and help Americans, health care professionals, and policymakers make informed health decisions. Prior to coming to AHRQ, she directed the Payment Policy and Financial Management Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), where she led work related to program payments and developed the premium stabilization programs for private insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Dr. Arnold has held a number of other positions in health policy, including Vice President at AcademyHealth, where she directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant program Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization, which provided funding to academic researchers for policy-relevant research on health care financing topics; and Director of the Program Development and Information Group at CMS, where she directed Medicare payment demonstrations and the implementation of risk adjustment in Medicare.

David Atkins

Dr. Atkins is currently the Director of Health Services Research and Development (HSRD) Service at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a $94 million intramural research program with more than 600 funded PIs and 245 projects aimed at improving the health and care of veterans. Dr. Atkins joined the VA in 2008, serving from 2008 to 2012 as Director of VA/HSRD's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), which focuses on implementation of evidence-based innovations to improve health care for veterans.

From 1996 to 2008 Dr. Atkins served at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), where he was the Chief Medical Officer at the Center for Outcomes and Evidence. At AHRQ he was the Coordinator for Clinical Preventive Services, directing an array of programs and research on clinical preventive services and health promotion including serving as Scientific Director for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Dr. Atkins received his M.D. degree from Yale University, is board-certified in internal medicine, and has a Master of Public Health degree in epidemiology from the University of Washington.

- 1 - Amy Bassano

Ms. Bassano is the Deputy Director of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to assuming this position in April 2016, Ms. Bassano was the Director of the Patient Care Models Group at CMMI leading CMS’s efforts on bundled payments including the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Initiative and the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) model and the development of physician specialty models such as the Oncology Care Model. In addition, she was responsible for the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model and the Medicare Care Choices Model. Ms. Bassano also held senior management positions in the Center for Medicare at CMS overseeing Medicare payment policy for a variety of areas including inpatient and outpatient hospitals, physicians, ambulatory surgical centers, clinical laboratories, and Part B drugs. Prior to her tenure at CMS, Ms. Bassano was a Program Examiner at the Office of Management and Budget, where she was the lead Medicare analyst on Medicare Part B and D issues. Ms. Bassano has an M.A. degree in policy studies from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. degree in history from Tufts University.

Andrew Bindman

Dr. Bindman is Professor of Medicine, Health Policy, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics and an affiliated faculty member within the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. He served as Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) from May 2016 until the conclusion of the Obama administration. He is a primary care physician who has practiced and taught clinical medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital while also conducting health services research to improve care within the health care safety net. In 2009-2010 he was a Robert Wood Johnson health policy fellow on the staff of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee and helped draft legislative language for the Affordable Care Act. From 2011 to 2014 Dr. Bindman served as a senior adviser to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and later was a senior adviser to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He received his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

Ryan Bohochik

Mr. Bohochik is Director of Revenue Cycle Applications at Epic, where he recently celebrated his 10-year anniversary. He currently works with all of the revenue cycle applications in addition to leading the Health Plan and Value Based Analytics teams. Previous to his role as a product manager, he led implementations for Epic community members in the United States and internationally. Mr. Bohochik graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin.

- 2 - Jeffrey Brady

Rear Admiral Jeffrey Brady, M.D., M.P.H., serves as an Assistant Surgeon General in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service and is assigned to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as Director of the AHRQ Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS). He is a member of the AHRQ Senior Leadership Team and leads a part of the Agency that conducts several AHRQ programs, including:

• Patient Safety Research • Healthcare-Associated Infections Program • Patient Safety Organizations Program • National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports (QDR) • Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Program

The AHRQ Patient Safety Research Program which RADM Brady led from 2009 to 2013 supports projects aimed at understanding and enhancing the safety of health care through approaches such as increased teamwork prevention of healthcare-associated infections, the effective use of medical simulation expansion of a culture of patient safety, and other health care quality improvement initiatives.

Alison Brecher

Ms. Brecher is the Program Manager for Health Policy and Professionalism at the ABIM Foundation. In this role, she manages the Foundation's health policy and professionalism-related activities including the ABIM Foundation Forum and the John A. Benson Jr. MD Professionalism Article Prize. Additionally Ms. Brecher supports Foundation initiatives through the facilitation of meetings research writing and other high-level projects.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Ms. Brecher was a Contact Center Representative with ABIM, where she answered inquiries from candidates, program directors, outside organizations, and the public regarding the American Board of Internal Medicine. Previously she worked as an Assistant Language Teacher with the JET Programme in Shibukawa, Japan.

Ms. Brecher received her bachelor's degree in behavioral science and French from Drew University and holds a Master of Public Health degree from Thomas Jefferson University. She also holds a certification in public health awarded by the National Board of Public Health Examiners.

Brad Bunten

CAPT Bunten is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who considers San Diego, California, his home. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a bachelors degree in biology in 1991 and then went on to study medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Upon earning his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1995, he completed a transitional internship at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. CAPT Bunten completed an emergency medicine residency at the Naval Medical Center San Diego from 1999 to 2002 and an anesthesiology residency at the National Capital Consortium in Bethesda, Maryland, from 2005 to 2008. In 2014, he earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Auburn University’s Physician Executive M.B.A. program.

In July 2017, CAPT Bunten transferred to the National Capital Region Medical Directorate to serve as the Chief Medical Officer for the region. His prior assignment was as Navy Medicine’s Chief Medical Officer at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. His work has been focused on: patient safety, clinical quality, process improvement, and high reliability.

CAPT Bunten is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology and the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

- 3 - Francis Chesley

Dr. Chesley is the Director of the Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Populations and the Offices of Minority and Women's Health of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). He provides leadership in the development of health services research training career development and institutional infrastructure programs; is the AHRQ Research Integrity Liaison Officer; coordinates the AHRQ Institutional Review Board and Research Data and Safety Monitoring activities; directs the Agency's research grant application peer review program; manages and conducts health services research on priority populations and health disparities; serves as the AHRQ Regulatory Policy Officer; and is responsible for the development and implementation of Agency extramural research policies and procedures.

Dr. Chesley received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University, his M.D. degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine, completed postgraduate residency training in internal medicine at the Georgetown University Medical Center, including serving as Chief Medical Resident, and completed a General Internal Medicine Clinical Fellowship in the Department of Medicine at the Georgetown University Medical Center.

Aneesh Chopra

Mr. Chopra is the President of CareJourney, a member-driven company that harnesses open health data to provide insights and workflow for population health organizations. It was launched by Hunch Analytics, a “hatchery” he co- founded incubating ideas that improve the productivity of health and education markets. From 2009 to 2012 he served as the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer and prior to that as Virginia's 4th Secretary of Technology. His public service focused on better public/private collaboration as described in his 2014 book “Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government.” In 2011 he was named to Modern Healthcare's list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare and in 2008 to Government Technology magazine's Top 25 in their Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers issue. He is a Member of the Council on Virginia's Future and earned his master's degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School in 1997 and his bachelor's degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1994."

James Cleeman

Dr. Cleeman is Senior Medical Officer and Director of the Division of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI), Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He directs AHRQ's major program of research and implementation to develop, evaluate, and promote the broad application of evidence-based strategies to prevent HAIs. Before joining AHRQ in 2010, Dr. Cleeman served for 25 years as founding Coordinator of the National Cholesterol Education Program at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, where he spearheaded the U.S. effort that significantly lowered cholesterol levels and reduced the risk for cardiovascular disease. He previously held a series of senior health policy positions in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now HHS). In the private sector he served as Manager, Medical and Health Care Consulting, Peat Marwick, and Vice President for Strategic Planning, Pennsylvania Hospital. Dr. Cleeman received his B.A. degree with honors from Harvard College and his M.D. degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.

- 4 - Robert Cofield

Dr. Cofield has served as the Vice President and Chief Clinical Operations Officer for University of Kentucky HealthCare since August 2015. In this role, he is responsible for the effective coordination and management of UK HealthCare's clinical services and operations throughout the State of Kentucky. His vision for UK HealthCare is focused on the delivery of high-quality and cost-efficient patient care operations in an enhanced culture of patient safety and employee and faculty engagement and on the development and recognition of excellent service provided to patients and families by the faculty and team members. Dr. Cofield previously served at the University of Virginia (UVA) Medical Center, where he served as Associate Vice President of Hospitals and Clinics Operations starting in 2010. He joined UVA Medical Center after serving 10 years in a variety of leadership roles at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System. He completed his administrative fellowship at Tulane University Hospital and Clinics and received his Master of Health Administration and Doctor of Public Health degrees in health systems management from Tulane University. Dr. Cofield is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Joel Cohen

Dr. Cohen is the Director of the Center for Financing Access and Cost Trends at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. His group is responsible for the design, fielding, dissemination, and analysis of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and conducts research and provides technical assistance both within and outside the Federal government on issues related to health care access and financing in the United States.

Diane Cousins

Ms. Cousins is a Health Scientist Administrator with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) since 2009, where she is Acting Director for the Patient Safety Organization (PSO) Division in the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. In this role, she works with listed PSOs, prospective PSOs, providers, and other members of the public in the implementation of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005. Prior to joining AHRQ, she was Vice President of the Department of Healthcare Quality and Safety at the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) (1981-2008), where she operated quality and safety reporting programs for medication errors, drug products, medical devices, and radiopharmaceuticals for human and veterinary medicine. From 1999 to 2005 while at USP, she led national efforts to enact Federal legislation to provide legal privilege for patient safety reports submitted to national reporting programs which culminated in the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act in 2005. Ms. Cousins is a graduate of Rutgers University and is a registered pharmacist in Maryland.

David Cutler

Dr. Cutler has developed an impressive record of achievement in both academia and the public sector. He was an Assistant Professor of Economics from 1991 to 1995, named John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences in 1995, and received tenure in 1997. He is currently the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics and was named Harvard College Professor in 2014. Professor Cutler holds secondary appointments at the Kennedy School of Government and the School of Public Health.

Dr. Cutler served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration and has advised the presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley, John Kerry, and Barack Obama as well as being Senior Health Care Advisor for the Obama Presidential Campaign.

Dr. Cutler was a key advisor in the formulation of the recent cost control legislation in Massachusetts and is one of the members of the Health Policy Commission created to help reduce medical spending in that State. He advises

- 5 - many companies and groups on health care. Dr. Cutler received an A.B. degree from Harvard University (1987) and a Ph.D. degree in economics from MIT (1991).

Cheryl Damberg

Dr. Damberg is a principal policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, RAND Distinguished Chair in Health Care Payment Policy, and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She is a national expert in the areas of pay for performance (P4P) and value-based purchasing applications of performance measures, physician and hospital performance measurement measures of cost-efficiency/resource use, and evaluating the effects of performance measurement systems and alternative payment models. She has twice provided congressional testimony regarding repeal of the SGR and embedding P4P elements into Medicare payments for physicians (enacted with passage of MACRA). Currently Dr. Damberg is principal investigator and director of a 5-year $17.5 million AHRQ center to study the evolution of health systems and identify factors that contribute to high performance and adoption of evidence- based practices.

Darren DeWalt

Dr. DeWalt is Chief of the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and John R. and Helen B. Chambliss Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. DeWalt is a practicing general internist researcher and quality improvement leader. His areas of expertise span ambulatory quality improvement, health literacy-related interventions, and patient-reported outcomes. He recently spent 2 years leading the Learning and Diffusion Group at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation and remains actively involved in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative. He is a member of the executive leadership team for the UNC Senior Care (a Next Generation ACO at UNC).

Dr. DeWalt is a former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics and also served as chief resident in internal medicine. He received his medical degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Francis Duffy

Dr. Duffy is a general internist and Professor of Internal Medicine and Medical Informatics. He is presently the principal investigator for AHRQ's EvidenceNOW Healthy Hearts for the Oklahoma project.

Chris Dymek

Dr. Dymek is the Director of the Division of Health Information Technology (IT) within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ's) Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement. She is a computer scientist who has held senior health IT contract researcher positions. She also led an electronic medical record implementation for five Adventist Healthcare facilities and served as Chief Technology Officer for the Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. In addition to her work in the health and human services sector, Dr. Dymek has directed large-scale IT implementations as well as re-engineering and organization effectiveness efforts for the electric utility industry.

- 6 - Peter Embi

Dr. Embi is an internationally recognized researcher, educator, and leader in the field of clinical and translational research informatics with numerous peer-reviewed publications and presentations describing his innovations in the field. Dr. Embi serves as President and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute and holds related leadership roles at Indiana University and its Health System. He previously served in various leadership positions at The Ohio State University, (OSU) including Interim Chair of Biomedical Informatics, Informatics Director of the OSU Center for Clinical and Translational Science, and Chief Research Information Officer at the OSU Wexner Medical Center. Prior to that he was on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine, where he was the founding Director of the UC Center for Health Informatics. Among his numerous awards recognitions, Dr. Embi is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, and Chair-elect of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Karen Feinstein

Dr. Feinstein is President and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and its two operating arms, the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) and Health Careers Futures (HCF). They perform a unique mix of grantmaking, research, teaching, coaching, and project management. Under her leadership, JHF and PRHI have become leaders in patient safety, health care quality, and workforce issues. Dr. Feinstein founded HCF to stimulate health care workforce development and helped lead the formation of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), a national coalition of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives.

Dr. Feinstein is regarded as a leader in health care quality improvement and frequently presents at national and international conferences. She is a founding member of the national Women of Impact coalition and co-founder of the Women's Health Activist Movement Global (WHAMglobal), which forms networks of advocates and experts to improve health care delivery and outcomes equity and leadership. Dr. Feinstein earned her bachelor's degree in American history at Brown University, her M.S.W. degree at Boston College, and her doctorate at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.

Elliott Fisher

Dr. Fisher is Director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the John E. Wennberg Distinguished Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Fisher is recognized for several major contributions to research and policy. He led seminal research on the promise and perils of using large databases for health care research work that helped to validate the quality of the data and demonstrated how such data could be used to answer important epidemiologic and policy questions. His current research focuses on identifying the policy and organizational factors that enable health systems to improve their performance on cost and quality.

He has published over 150 research articles and commentaries. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and completed his internal medicine residency and public health training at the University of Washington. He serves on the boards of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

- 7 - Christopher Forrest

Dr. Forrest is Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Management at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Director of the CHOP Applied Clinical Research Center, which is devoted to advancing multi-institutional clinical and health services research in routine pediatric health care settings. Dr. Forrest serves as the Principal Investigator of the PEDSnet (pedsnet.org), a national consortium of children's hospitals (>5 million children) that conducts patient-centered outcomes research among children and youth. He is the Chair of the Research Committee for PCORnet, the national clinical research network funded by PCORI. He also chairs the Steering Committee for the NIH program called PEPR, which evaluates patient-reported outcome measures for children with chronic conditions. Dr. Forrest received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from Boston University and completed his Ph.D. degree in health policy and management at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Charles Friedman

Dr. Friedman is the Josiah Macy Jr. Professor of Medical Education and Chair of the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Friedman's department is a “first in the Nation” medical school academic department dedicated to the sciences of learning at all levels from scale including large-scale learning health systems. It is home to an interdisciplinary faculty, a new graduate program in “Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems,” and a new journal: Learning Health Systems. Dr. Friedman is the site PI for Michigan's participation in the LHSNet PCORI CDRN. Prior to coming to Michigan, Dr. Friedman held executive positions at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: from 2007 to 2009 as Deputy National Coordinator and from 2009 to 2011 as ONC's Chief Scientific Officer.

Dominick Frosch

Dr. Frosch is a Senior Scientist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute and Chief Care Delivery Evaluation Officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. He is also Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA and previously served as Patient Care Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Dr. Frosch's research has focused on advancing patient engagement and patient-centered care for 20 years. His methodological expertise includes intervention development, randomized efficacy and effectiveness trials implementation, science measurement, and qualitative methods.

Dr. Frosch's work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Informed Medical Decisions Foundation. He has published over 110 articles, editorials, and chapters in the scholarly literature (h- index=40) and serves as Deputy Editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Robert Goerge

Mr. Goerge is a Senior Research Fellow at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago (UC) with more than 30 years of research focused on improving the available data and information on children and families, particularly those who require specialized services related to maltreatment, disability, poverty, or violence. His work provides high-quality information to policymakers to improve the programs serving children and their families. He is a Senior Fellow at the Harris School for Public Policy Studies and a Senior Fellow at the UC Computation Institute. Dr. Goerge developed Chapin Hall's Integrated Database on Child and Family Programs in Illinois, which links the administrative data on social service receipt, early care and education, criminal and juvenile justice, employment health care, and benefit programs to provide a comprehensive picture of child and family use of publicly provided or financed service programs. He earned a Ph.D. degree in social policy from the University of Chicago.

- 8 - Don Goldmann

As Chief Scientific Officer Emeritus. Dr. Goldmann deepens the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) credibility in improvement science by forging relationships with key scientific academic and HSR organizations. He has experience across the translational research continuum (bench science, epidemiology clinical trials, and implementation research). He ensures the rigor and dissemination of IHI's results-oriented work. He explores new ways to teach, bringing promising innovations to in-person and distance-learning. He is lead faculty for an IHI/HarvardX MOOC on Practical Improvement Science. He is Co-Director of the Harvard-wide Pediatric HSR Fellowship Program, which he founded (funded since 1994 via NRSA T32 Training Grants). He leads a Harvard College General Education course that explores how global infectious diseases lead to social injustice. He advocates for integration of improvement science and IT/technology to accelerate progress toward equity and population health. He serves on the AHRQ National Advisory Council and the boards of AcademyHealth and the Institute for Medicaid Innovation. He is Professor of Pediatrics (part time), Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Erin Grace

Ms. Grace is Deputy Director of the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In this role, she works with the Center Director to manage the five divisions of the Center: General Patient Safety, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI), Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), National Quality and Disparities Report (QDR), and Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®). She most recently served as Division Director for the General Patient Safety Program, where she managed the Agency's activities related to patient safety including funding of grants and contracts, and development and dissemination of evidence-based tools and resources. Previously Ms. Grace served as Chief of Health IT Translation at AHRQ, where she focused on knowledge translation, evaluating the impact of the AHRQ Health IT Portfolio's work, and assessing the future research needs to be addressed by the Portfolio.

Prior to coming to AHRQ, Ms. Grace served as Senior Vice President for the Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland. Ms. Grace received her master's degree in health administration from The Ohio State University.

Reshma Gupta

Dr. Gupta is a practicing internal medicine physician and the Medical Director for Quality and Value Improvement at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, fulfilled her residency and chief residency at the University of Washington, Seattle, and completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship with a master’s degree in health policy and management at UCLA.

Dr. Gupta's work has focused on health system innovation policy implementation redesign and education to better define and improve the culture of delivering high-quality care at lower cost. She has worked as an expert advisor with the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation to test new models of value promoting payment reform. Her research created the first High Value Care Culture Survey and evaluated drivers of value-based decision-making. She has also studied the learning environment for trainees in value-based care. Dr. Gupta serves nationally as the Director of Evaluation and Outreach at Costs of Care Inc. a global NGO working to curate provider insights to provide high- quality care and lower costs.

- 9 - Andrew Hamilton

Mr. Hamilton is a master’s-prepared Nurse Informaticist with 17 years of experience in both inpatient nursing care and outpatient community health as well as nursing administration. As the Chief Informatics Officer, he is responsible for developing clinical decision support and National Clinical Performance Measures and integrating them into electronic health records. He is leading the organization's efforts related to developing health IT support for Meaningful Use Patient-Centered Medical Homes and Care Coordination. Recently Mr. Hamilton launched designed and led the development of an innovative Enterprise Data Warehouse program to support quality reporting research and care coordination. He is an adjunct faculty at Loyola University School of Nursing and the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Nursing. He holds a B.S. degree in nursing and an M.S. degree in nursing business and health systems administration with a focus on nursing informatics from the University of Michigan School of Nursing. Mr. Hamilton is a Fellow of the third class of the Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Kelly Harder

Mr. Harder is the Director of the Community Services Division in Dakota County, which is the third most populated county in Minnesota. Within Community Services he has oversight of social services, public health community corrections, income maintenance, child support, veteran services, and 4-H/extension programs. Through the Social Determinants of Health framework, he has been working passionately over the past years toward moving their organization and community of human serving providers into a fully integrated service delivery model of care using their Community Services Value Curve & Self-Sufficiency Matrix. Mr. Harder currently serves on the Executive Board for APHSA and is the Chair of the APHSA National Council of Local Human Service Administrators. He believes that we as a collective body of caring leaders can and will bend the curve on generational poverty in our country. His call for action is “If not now then when?” “If not us then who?”

William Hazel, Jr.

Dr. Hazel is serving his second term as Secretary of Health and Human Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia, a post he took in January 2010. As Secretary, Dr. Hazel oversees 11 State agencies with more than 16,000 employees, covering such diverse programs as Medicaid, Behavioral Health, Social Services, and Aging and Rehabilitation. These combined agencies spend approximately one-third of Virginia's budget. During his first term as Secretary, he led the Virginia Health Reform Initiative, helped establish the Virginia Center for Health Innovation, and served as the Founding Chair of ConnectVirginia, Virginia's health information exchange.

Experience has demonstrated that the needs of Virginia and its citizens require both an inter-agency and inter- secretariat approach, and in his second term Dr. Hazel has focused on working across agency and secretariat lines.

Dr. Hazel co-chairs the Children's Cabinet with the Secretary of Education, working across secretariats to find innovative ways to support Virginia's children and families. He also has co-chaired the Governor's Task Force on Improving Mental Health Services and Crisis Response with the Secretary of Public Safety and the Lieutenant Governor, and co-chairs the Governor's Task Force on Prescription Drug and Heroin Abuse with the Secretary of Public Safety.

He also has co-chaired the Governor’s Task Force on Improving Mental Health Services and Crisis Response with the Secretary of Public Safety and the Lieutenant Governor, and co-chairs the Governor’s Task Force on Prescription Drug and Heroin Abuse with the Secretary of Public Safety.

- 10 - Howard Holland

Mr. Holland leads Office of Communications (OC) efforts to promote the results of Agency-sponsored research and foster the use of AHRQ tools and products. Before serving as OC's Director, he served as special assistant to then- AHRQ Director, Carolyn Clancy. Prior to that, he was a member of the Communications Office staff, focusing on media and marketing activities. Before entering Federal service, he was manager of external communications for the American Occupational Therapy Association, was Physician Liaison and Assistant Director of Public Affairs and Marketing at National Hospital for Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, and also worked at the Metropolitan Washington, DC, office of the Arthritis Foundation. He is a graduate of Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, and Duke University's Divinity School.

Erin Holve

Dr. Holve is Director of the Department of Health Care Finance's (DHCF) Health Care Reform and Innovation Administration (HCRIA) within the Government of the District of Columbia. HCRIA creates and tests new delivery system and payment models among Medicaid providers with the goal of enhancing health care quality, improving care and outcomes promoting health equity, and enhancing the value and efficiency of DHCF's programs. In this role Dr. Holve also chairs the DC Health Information Exchange Policy Board and oversees the District's Medicaid EHR incentive program. Dr. Holve has more than 15 years of experience in health policy and health services research. She is a widely published and cited author of reports and peer-reviewed articles on health insurance access as well as health IT infrastructure needed to build learning health systems and was founding editor of the open-access peer- reviewed journal eGEMs. Dr. Holve holds a Ph.D. degree in health services research from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and master’s degrees in public health and public policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jim Jirjis

Dr. Jirjis joined the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) in August 2013 as Chief Health Information Officer of the Clinical Services Group. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois-Champaign (B.S. cum laude), the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine (M.D.), and Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management (M.B.A.). He is board-certified in internal medicine and completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC).

Before joining HCA, Dr. Jirjis practiced internal medicine at VUMC, where he served as Medical Director of Primary Care and Chair of the Medical Records Committee. He was appointed Assistant Chief Medical Officer at VUMC in 2002, promoted to Chief Medical Information Officer in 2005, and served as Director of the Innovation Integration team 2009-2013.

Dr. Jirjis is a longtime champion of electronic medical record (EMR) adoption among the health care community. Among his many notable achievements, Dr. Jirjis developed and led implementation of the VUMC Medical Home, which was awarded a $19 million grant in 2012 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

- 11 - Gopal Khanna

Appointed Director in May 2017, Mr. Khanna leads AHRQ’s efforts to develop the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the health care system and help Americans, health care professionals, and policymakers make informed health decisions.

Mr. Khanna possesses a wealth of public-sector experience in Federal and State governments and specializes in data-driven strategies to improve organizational performance. He comes to AHRQ from Illinois, where he was Director of the FRAMEWORK Project, which developed the vision for Illinois’ Healthcare and Human Services Innovation Incubator. Mr. Khanna led a cross-functional team to design the buildout of a secure data platform to provide a 360-degree view of each family and person who receives State services, facilitating efficient program management, strategic policymaking, and customer-centric services delivery. Lessons learned from the effort will be used to stand up additional innovative enterprise data management projects to support other State agencies.

Mr. Khanna was also Minnesota’s first Chief Information Officer and served the second Bush Administration in senior policy positions including Chief Information Officer and Chief Financial Officer for the Peace Corps and Chief Financial Officer of the Executive Office of the President’s Office of Administration.

Prior to his Government service, Mr. Khanna held executive positions in private-sector information technology, finance, operations, strategic planning, business development, consulting, and startup ventures.

Mr. Khanna earned a bachelor’s degree in economics, mathematics, and political science from Christ Church College in Kanpur, India, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Maine. Mr. Khanna served as President of the National Association of State CIOs from 2008 to 2009. He is a recipient of the prestigious Federal 100 Award and has been recognized for his IT expertise in publications including Computerworld, Government Technology, Information Week, and Twin Cities Business.

Seth Krevat

Dr. Krevat is the Assistant Vice President of Safety at MedStar Health, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and an attending physician of palliative medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Dr. Krevat was recruited to MedStar Health to lead the development of their comprehensive safety program. He is responsible and accountable for all patient safety and risk reduction programs across MedStar Health. Under his guidance MedStar has experienced massive culture change: implemented the tools and behaviors of a High Reliability Organization, implemented a new event review process to evaluate serious safety events through the lens of safety science, and leveraged the value of increasing numbers of incident reports submitted by MedStar's workforce. Dr. Krevat received a bachelor's degree in economics and English from Tufts University and a medical doctorate from Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Harry Kwon

Dr. Kwon is the Director of the Division of Research Education in the Office of Extramural Research, Education, and Priority Populations at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). This division manages AHRQ's research education fellowship and career development award programs. Prior to AHRQ, Dr. Kwon served as a Health Scientist in the Office of Communications and Public Liaison at the National Cancer Institute, and prior to Federal service he was a Technical Director at Macro International (now ICF). Dr. Kwon serves on a number of boards including as the Vice Chair of the Education Board of the American Public Health Association and a board member of the Council on Education for Public Health. Locally he previously served two terms on the Montgomery County, Maryland, Commission on Health. Dr. Kwon received a B.A. degree in social ecology and a B.S. degree in biological sciences from the University of California, Irvine, a Master of Public Health degree from San Diego State University, and a Ph.D. degree in public and community health from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is

- 12 - credentialed as a Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing.

Seth Landefeld

Dr. Landefeld is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed his undergraduate work at Harvard and New College Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He received his medical degree from Yale and trained in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and in clinical epidemiology at Harvard. He serves on the American Board of Internal Medicine, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation Board of Directors, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System Board of Directors.

Christopher Landrigan

Dr. Landrigan is a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Children's Hospital and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He was the founding Chair and is currently an Executive Council Member of the Pediatric Research and Implementation in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network, a network of hospitalists from over 100 hospitals working to study and improve hospital care. He has been studying patient safety for 20 years, focusing on provider sleep deprivation as well as miscommunications. His work on sleep deprivation contributed to national changes in resident work hour policy. His work on miscommunications led to the development of I-PASS, a handoff improvement bundle that has been found to significantly reduce injuries due to medical errors. He continues to work on disseminating the I-PASS program and adapting it to address a range of health care communication issues.

Lisa Latts

Dr. Latts is Deputy Chief Health Officer for IBM Watson Health. She is a national leader in health care quality and has nearly 20 years of experience in health care delivery, working to improve lives of patients. She has worked as a health insurance executive, as a consultant, and for one of the Nation's leading academic medical centers helping to deliver high-quality care to its faculty and employees. She is currently helping IBM Watson Health bring cognitive computing and machine learning to advance the idea of value-based care and help solve the pressing problems that physicians, employers, and payers are facing.

At Anthem Dr. Latts was at the forefront of health care transformation, directing initiatives, pay for performance centers of excellence, and the patient-centered medical home and partnerships with accountable-care organizations.

Dr. Latts is board certified in internal medicine and has subspecialty expertise in medical complications in pregnancy. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Minnesota, an executive M.B.A. degree from the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business, and an M.S.P.H. degree from the University of Colorado.

Vivian Lee

From 2011 to 2017, Dr. Lee served as Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, Dean of the School of Medicine, and CEO of University of Utah Health Care, where she was responsible for an annual budget of more than $3.3 billion, a health care system, health insurance plan, over 1,400 physicians, and five colleges: Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health, and a new School of Dentistry. During her tenure, she led the University of Utah to recognition for its health care delivery system innovations that enable higher quality at lower costs and with higher patient satisfaction, expanded the School of Medicine class size by 50%, and spearheaded a $500 million campus transformation construction project. In May 2017, Dr. Lee began a 1-year sabbatical. An MR radiologist funded by the NIH for 20 years, Dr. Lee is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the NIH Council of

- 13 - Councils. She is also a director on the boards of Merrimack Pharmaceuticals and Zions Bancorporation. Dr. Lee is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, received a doctorate in medical engineering from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, earned her M.D. degree with honors from Harvard Medical School, and graduated as valedictorian from the New York University Stern EMBA program.

Michael LeFevre

Dr. LeFevre is the Future of Family Medicine Professor and Vice Chair of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri–Columbia (MU) and the Medical Director for Population Health for MU Health Care. He teaches residents and medical students in the inpatient and outpatient settings and maintains an active practice across the full breadth of Family Medicine, including inpatient work and through 2012 obstetrics. He served as Chief Medical Information Officer for MU Health Care and directed the implementation of the electronic medical record across the system from 2002 through 2012. Much of his academic effort has been in the area of evidence-based medicine and clinical policies, and he completed more than a decade of work on the United States Preventive Services Task Force in April 2016 including 3 years as co-vice chair and a year as chair. He was also a member of the Joint National Conference on Prevention Detection and Treatment of Hypertension (JNC 8). He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2011. He has B.S.E.E., M.D., and M.S.P.H. degrees from the University of Missouri and has been on the faculty there since 1984.

Karen Llanos

Ms. Llanos is the Director of the Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program at the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Medicaid Innovation Accelerator Program (IAP) launched in 2014 provides technical support to States' ongoing Medicaid delivery system reform efforts across programmatic areas such as physical-mental health integration, community-based LTSS, and substance use disorders. In addition, IAP works with States to build capacity around quality measurement; value-based payment and financial simulations; data analytics; and performance improvement. To date IAP has worked with 31 States, the District of Columbia, and three Territories through its direct technical support activities.

Edwin Lomotan

Dr. Lomotan is a Medical Officer and Chief of Clinical Informatics for the Health IT Division in AHRQ's Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement. His areas of focus include clinical decision support, child health informatics, and patient safety. He currently leads AHRQ's clinical decision support (CDS) initiative, which aims to advance evidence into practice through CDS and to make CDS more shareable standards-based and publicly available. Before joining AHRQ, Dr. Lomotan was Health IT Branch Chief in the Office of Quality and Data in the Bureau of Primary Health Care at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). While at HRSA, he led the Health Center- Controlled Network grant program, which aimed to improve health care quality through health IT at community health centers across the country. Dr. Lomotan is board-certified in pediatrics and clinical informatics. He received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his pediatrics residency and informatics fellowship at Yale University. He also spent several years in community pediatric practice in Connecticut before joining Federal service in 2010.

- 14 - Virginia Mackay-Smith

Ms. Mackay-Smith is Associate Director of AHRQ's Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets (CDOM). In this role she leads the Center's strategic planning and directs program development and management across all Center projects. Her responsibilities also include directing all supervisory and staff development activities in CDOM. Before coming to AHRQ, Ms. Mackay-Smith was a division director in the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Prior to this, she worked for more than 20 years in public health-related fields including directing a national resource center for campus-based substance abuse and violence prevention and serving in a variety of positions in higher education directing prevention health promotion and academic success programs. She began her career with 5 years at the National Institutes of Health working on a range of program development and evaluation projects. She received her master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Martin Marshall

Dr. Marshall is Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL and Programme Director for Primary Care at UCLPartners, and leads Improvement Science London, an initiative to promote and embed the science of improvement across the health service and academic sectors. In November 2016 he was elected to Vice Chair (External Affairs) of the RCGP. Previously he was Director of R&D at the Health Foundation, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England and Director General in the Department of Health, a clinical academic at the University of Manchester, and a Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy.

He has been a GP for 28 years, now serving an inner-city community in Newham East London. He is a fellow of the RCP and FPHM and was a non-executive director of the Care Quality Commission until 2012. He has over 200 publications in the field of quality of care and in 2005 was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for Services to Health Care.

Andrew Masica

Dr. Masica serves as Vice President and Chief Clinical Effectiveness Officer for Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH). Dr. Masica graduated from Harvard, received his M.D. degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine, underwent residency training at University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, and completed a clinical pharmacology research fellowship and a Master of Clinical Investigation program at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. At BSWH, Dr. Masica has maintained system-level roles in quality patient safety and health services research while continuing to practice clinically as a board-certified hospital-based internist. His main research interests are in the areas of clinical effectiveness and delivery science. He has received funding as a principal or co- investigator on several studies funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institutes of Health, PCORI, and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation as well as pharma. Dr. Masica has been designated as a Senior Fellow by the Society of Hospital Medicine and has an appointment as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Texas A&M Health Sciences Center (Dallas campus).

James McGinnis

Dr. McGinnis has been a physician epidemiologist and active frontline participant for more than four decades in national and international health policy and programs. He is now Senior Scholar at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), NAM Leonard D. Schaeffer Executive Officer, and Executive Director of the NAM Leadership Consortium for a value and science-driven health system. Also an elected Member of the NAM, he held earlier executive appointments in government, philanthropy, and global health.

- 15 - David Meyers

Dr. Meyers a board-certified family physician and began serving as AHRQ's first Chief Medical Officer (CMO) in August 2015. He currently is engaged in AHRQ's strategic planning around learning health systems and leads EvidenceNOW, AHRQ's $110 million initiative to help primary care practices improve the heart health of their patients through quality improvement support and the implementation of new evidence.

Prior to his appointment as CMO, he directed AHRQ's Center for Primary Care Prevention and Clinical Partnerships and Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement (CEPI). He has also directed the Agency's Practice-Based Research Network initiatives and served as the Acting Scientific Director for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Before joining AHRQ in 2004, he practiced family medicine including maternity care in a community health center in southeast Washington, D.C., and directed the Georgetown University Department of Family Medicine's practice- based research network CAPRICORN.

Karen Migdail

Ms. Migdail has served as Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor at AHRQ since 2011. In this capacity, she is responsible for managing the operations of the Office of the Director coordinating the activities of the AHRQ Senior Leadership Team and advising on general policy issues affecting the Agency and its programs and serving as a congressional affairs liaison.

Dan Miller

Mr. Miller is a Social Science Researcher in AHRQ's Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets. He primarily works on the Comparative Health Systems Performance (CHSP) initiative and is helping to lead CHSP's effort to develop a comprehensive public compendium of U.S. health systems that will identify the key health IT, organizational, and financial attributes of effective health systems. Mr. Miller is also part of the cross-center team at AHRQ that is working to help health organizations build the capacity to become Learning Health Systems. Prior to joining AHRQ, he worked for over 10 years at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He worked on the initial rollout of the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, focusing on payment policy, pricing, and risk adjustment. Starting in 2010, he joined the CMS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight Payment Policy and Financial Management Group, where he helped develop the payment methodology and implement the risk adjustment, reinsurance, risk corridor, and premium and cost-sharing subsidy programs of the Affordable Care Act.

Therese Miller

Dr. Miller is currently the Deputy Director for the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement. She joined the Agency in 2004 to serve as the Senior Coordinator for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. In 2008, she became the lead of the Prevention/Chronic Care Portfolio and in 2015 helped to launch the new Division of Practice Improvement, serving as its Director. She attended the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, earning a doctoral degree in public health and a Certificate in Health Communications. Dr. Miller is deeply interested in the power of combining data and stories to effectively communicate evidence and improve health care.

- 16 - Kamila Mistry

Dr. Mistry directs the Division of Priority Populations Research at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), where she is also the Senior Advisor for Child Health and Quality Improvement. In these roles Dr. Mistry leads a number of national initiatives focused on measuring and reducing health and health care disparities and improving quality and safety for priority populations; these include the Pediatric Quality Measures Program and the Safety Program for Perinatal Care. Additionally she recently co-chaired AHRQ's initiative to develop Learning Health Systems Researcher Competencies.

Dr. Mistry completed her National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She received a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health and an M.P.H. degree from the Department of Health Policy and Management, both from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition to her role at AHRQ, Dr. Mistry is a part-time Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of General Pediatrics, where she mentors postdoctoral fellows and conducts research.

Susan Moore

Dr. Moore is the Assistant Director of the Center for Health Systems Research at Denver Health and the lead for the mHealth Research Methods Core in the Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Her research focuses on health informatics and the use of mobile health technology to deliver patient-centered care, particularly on the design implementation and use of health information technology in the health care delivery system context. Dr. Moore has additional expertise in mixed methods research and the qualitative evaluation of intervention impact and on the assessment of provider and patient experience with the use of technological solutions. She received her B.S. degree in biological sciences from the University of New Orleans and her M.S.P.H. degree from the Colorado School of Public Health and completed her doctorate in health and behavioral sciences at the University of Colorado Denver. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Informatics at the Colorado School of Public Health.

David Muhlestein

Dr. Muhlestein is Chief Research Officer at Leavitt Partners. He directs the study of accountable care organizations through the LP Center for Accountable Care Intelligence and leads the firm's quantitative evaluation of health care markets. He is an expert in using policy analysis, predictive modeling, and applied analytics to understand the evolving health care landscape.

Dr. Muhlestein also serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor of The Dartmouth Institute (TDI) at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and is a visiting fellow at the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative. In both of these roles, he conducts research to translate learnings of high-performing organizations for the benefit of the broader health care system.

Dr. Muhlestein earned his doctorate in health services management and policy, J.D., M.H.A., and M.S. degrees from The Ohio State University, and a B.A. degree from Brigham Young University.

- 17 - Mary Naylor

Dr. Naylor is the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and Director of the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health at Penn Nursing. For more than two decades, Dr. Naylor has led a multidisciplinary team of clinical scholars and health services researchers in generating and disseminating research findings designed to enhance the care and outcomes of chronically ill older adults and their family caregivers. She is the architect of the Transitional Care Model, a care management approach proven in multiple NIH clinical trials, and foundation-sponsored implementation efforts to improve older adults' experience with care and health outcomes while decreasing use of costly health services. Dr. Naylor is the 2016 recipient of AcademyHealth's Distinguished Investigator Award, a recognition of significant and lasting contributions to the field of health services research. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2005 and is a member of the Leadership Consortium on Value and Science-Driven Health Care. She co-chairs the Care Culture and Decision-Making Innovation Collaborative. Dr. Naylor also is a member of the RAND Health Board of Advisors and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Advisory Council.

David Newman-Toker

Dr. Newman-Toker is an internationally recognized leader in neuro-otology, acute stroke diagnosis, and diagnostic errors research. He is Professor of Neurology, Otolaryngology, and Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He directs the Armstrong Institute Center for Diagnostic Excellence, which seeks to catalyze efforts to improve diagnostic performance develop the science of diagnostic safety and enhance diagnostic research. His goal is to achieve better outcomes through better diagnosis. He has been the principal investigator for multiple NIH, AHRQ, and foundation grants including an ongoing NIH clinical trial to reduce stroke misdiagnosis in the emergency department. He has published over 100 journal articles and given more than 200 invited lectures on dizziness and diagnostic errors. He is a leader in the national movement to eliminate patient harms from diagnostic error. He is a founding member of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and serves as Vice President of SIDM's Board of Directors as well as Chair of SIDM's Policy Committee. He has served as an expert consultant to AHRQ, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Quality Forum on diagnostic safety and quality.

Sally Okun

Ms. Okun is Vice President of Advocacy Policy and Patient Safety at PatientsLikeMe, an online research-based patient network. She is responsible for bringing patient voice and insight to diverse advocacy and health policy discussions at the national and global levels and is the company's liaison with external organizations, government, and regulatory agencies, including a Research Collaboration Agreement with the FDA's Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology and co-PI for a sub-award through Scripps Translational Research Institute for the NIH All of Us Research Program's Participant Technology Center.

Ms. Okun is a frequent speaker at workshops and forums on patient data and policy and has contributed to numerous publications, discussion papers, and articles. A registered nurse for over three decades, her clinical practice specialized in palliative and end-of-life care. She received her nursing diploma from the Hospital of St. Raphael School of Nursing and holds a bachelor's degree in nursing from Southern Connecticut State University as well as a master's degree in health and human services management from Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

- 18 - Alexander Ommaya

Dr. Ommaya is Senior Director of Clinical and Translational Research and Policy at the Association of American Medical Colleges. In this role he is responsible for linking the research enterprise to clinical care and creating strategic alliances between U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals. Dr. Ommaya also represents the AAMC nationally on issues related to research and science policy administration, workforce development, and education and training. Prior to joining the AAMC, Dr. Ommaya held positions with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Academy of Medicine, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the U.S. Senate. He also has served as a senior researcher for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Program and as a senior biologist at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Ommaya received his doctoral degree in health policy and management from Johns Hopkins University and a master's degree in biopsychology from Mount Holyoke College.

Frank Opelka

Dr. Opelka is a physician executive, a surgeon, and the Medical Director for Quality and Health Policy at the American College of Surgeons. He has focused his efforts on alternative payment models, interoperability solutions, graduate medical education, workforce, and surgeon burnout (emotional well-being).

Dr. Opelka serves on several national initiatives within the National Quality Forum, the Health Care Learning and Action Network, and the Surgical Quality Alliance. Dr. Opelka is the founder and Chair of the Surgical Quality Alliance. He also serves on the PCPI board and leads a team building a new performance measure framework for surgical patients.

Dr. Opelka serves as an academic surgeon with clinical appointments as a Professor of Surgery at Louisiana State University, Professor of Surgery at George Washington University, and visiting Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard University. He serves as a member of editorial boards and reviewer for five international peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Opelka has edited several surgical textbooks and published and delivered over 200 scientific manuscripts and presentations.

Mamatha Pancholi

Ms. Pancholi is a Senior Social Scientist in AHRQ's Center for Delivery Organization and Markets (CDOM). In this role she leads and oversees a multidisciplinary team to improve and implement the AHRQ Quality Indicators - a federal initiative to maintain and improve a set of standardized evidence-based measures derived from hospital discharge data for use in quality improvement, public reporting, and value-based purchasing at the Federal, State, and local levels. Ms. Pancholi has also served in leadership roles on related AHRQ programs such as the MONAHRQ and the AHRQ Measure Development Center (which supports cross-Agency measure initiatives). Prior to joining CDOM, she spent 10 years as a Social Scientist in AHRQ's Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends serving in various analytic and management roles to support the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Survey Insurance Component and Medical Provider Component ranging from developing curriculum and conducting workshops on how to use MEPS data to managing the development and release of MEPS public use event data files. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematical statistics from the University of Maryland.

- 19 - Stephen Parente

Dr. Parente is Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair of Health Finance in the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. As a Finance Professor, he examines insurance health IT and health reform. He is Governing Chair of the Washington, D.C.-based Health Care Cost Institute, a nonprofit with private insurer data representing 60 million insured. Dr. Parente has been nominated (pending U.S. Senate confirmation) to serve as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He served as a U.S. Congressional Budget Office health adviser a health policy adviser for the McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign and a Legislative Fellow in the office of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV). He has a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University.

Jyotishman Pathak

Dr. Pathak is the Frances and John L. Loeb Professor of Medical Informatics and Chief of Division of Health Informatics at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, in New York City. His current research focuses on secondary uses of electronic health record (EHR) data for clinical and health care delivery research, clinical decision support systems for personalized therapeutics, and integration of genomic data within EHRs. Dr. Pathak received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Iowa State University (2007) and a B.Eng. in computer science and engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India (2002). Dr. Pathak's research has been funded by multiple major national grants from the NIH, AHRQ, PCORI, NSF, American Heart Association, and several private foundations. He has published over 180 papers including many book chapters and invited reviews.

Kshemendra Paul

Mr. Paul provides strategic direction and transformation support to the DHS Chief Information Officer. Through the previous Administration, Mr. Paul served as the program manager for the Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE). In this role, he was the U.S. Government lead for advancing terrorism-related information-sharing. Mr. Paul worked closely with Federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial partners as well as private sector and international allies to balance the needs for information-sharing and safeguarding to enhance national security and protect the American people.

Mr. Paul began his Federal service in 2005 as the chief architect at the Department of Justice (DOJ) where he led the delivery of the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) across public safety law enforcement and homeland security sectors. From that position, he moved on to serve as the Federal Chief Architect in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). His tenure spanned two administrations, four budgets, and an $80 billion portfolio. At OMB Mr. Paul directed initiatives that promoted innovation and transparency within the government including Data.gov. He holds B.S.E.E., B.S. (Math), and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Maryland.

Richard Platt

Dr. Platt is Professor and Chair of the Harvard Medical School Department of Population Medicine and Executive Director of the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. He is Principal Investigator of the FDA Sentinel System. He led the development with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health of ESPnet, a system for doing real-time EHR- based surveillance for both syndromes of interest and individually notifiable conditions. He is also Co-Principal Investigator of the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet) Coordinating Center, which is developing standard methods for extracting and using EHR data for multiple uses.

Dr. Platt also co-leads the coordinating center of the NIH Health Care System Research Collaboratory and leads a CDC Prevention Epicenter. He co-chairs the CER Innovation Collaborative of the National Academy of Medicine's

- 20 - Leadership Consortium for a Value and Science-Driven Health System and is a member of the American Medical Colleges Advisory Panel on Research.

Peter Pronovost

Dr. Pronovost is a patient safety champion, a practicing critical care physician, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, a prolific researcher publishing over 800 peer-reviewed publicationss, and a global thought leader informing U.S. and global health policy. His scientific work leveraging checklists to reduce catheter-related bloodstream infections has saved thousands of lives and earned him high-profile accolades including being named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine, receiving a coveted MacArthur Foundation genius grant” in 2008. The life-saving intervention has been implemented State by State across the United States. Today these catheter infections that used to kill as many people as breast or prostate cancer have been reduced by 80%. After demonstrating the ability to eliminate one harm in most health systems, Dr. Pronovost sought to eliminate all harms. Toward that goal, Dr. Pronovost is the Johns Hopkins Medicine Senior Vice President for Patient Safety and Quality and the founder and Director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality.

Ram Raju

As Senior Vice President and Community Health Investment Officer, Dr. Raju evaluates the needs of Northwell Health's most-vulnerable communities and provides solutions for them by collaborating with community-based organizations. He is responsible for promoting sustaining and advancing an environment that supports equity and diversity and helping Northwell eliminate health disparities.

Former President and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals and CEO for the Cook County Health and Hospitals System, Dr. Raju served as Vice Chair of the Greater New York Hospital Association and currently serves on the boards of numerous city, State, and national health care organizations. He was selected for Modern Healthcare's 100 Most- Influential People in Healthcare, one of the Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare, and one of the 50 Most- Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare.

Todd Rasmussen

Colonel Rasmussen completed his medical degree at Mayo Medical School and surgical training with the Air Force. He returned to Mayo for vascular surgery training, after which he was assigned to the National Capital Area just before 9/11/2001. In 2004 Colonel Rasmussen began a series of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan as well as a vascular injury and hemorrhage control and resuscitation research and innovation program. Colonel Rasmussen's research efforts have resulted in numerous publications, book chapters, textbooks, and patents. He has given a TED talk on the transformation of military trauma care and its impact on civilian medicine, and in 2017 a device he co- invented was featured in The New York Times Health section. In 2017 he became Associate Dean for Research at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University and attending surgeon at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. His awards include the Gold Headed Cane for distinction in clinical and academic practice and the Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey Award for excellence in military surgery, and in 2015 he was recognized as a Hero in Military Medicine by the Center for Public-Private Partnerships.

- 21 - Richard Ricciardi

Dr. Ricciardi serves as the Director, Division of Practice Improvement, at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Prior to joining AHRQ in 2010, Dr. Ricciardi served on active duty in the Army for 30 years and had numerous positions as a pediatric and family nurse practitioner, clinical research scientist, and senior leader within the U.S. Department of Defense. At AHRQ Dr. Ricciardi's research focuses on primary care practice transformation and practice improvement in the areas of team-based care quality and safety, care of patients with multiple chronic conditions, and implementation science. Dr. Ricciardi maintains a part-time clinical practice at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Donald Rucker

Dr. Rucker serves as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He previously worked as a clinical professor of emergency medicine and biomedical informatics at The Ohio State University and Premise Health, a worksite clinic provider where he served as Chief Medical Officer.

Brigid Russell

Ms. Russell joined the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 2014, where she serves as a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Director. In this role, she provides strategic guidance and coordinates special projects for the Director, including research and cross-cutting operational topics. She currently co-leads development and implementation of AHRQ's activities around Learning Health Systems.

Prior to joining AHRQ, Ms. Russell was a health insurance specialist in the Payment Policy and Financial Management Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, where she worked to implement the program payments and premium stabilization programs for private insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

Ms. Russell received a Master of Healthcare Administration degree from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor's degree in economics from Georgetown University.

Lewis Sandy

Dr. Sandy is Executive Vice President of Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group (UHG). At UHG he focuses on clinical innovation payment/delivery reforms to modernize our health care system and physician/health professional collaboration. He also is a principal in the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform and Modernization with a focus on payment/delivery innovation and policy. From 2003 to 2007 he was EVP and CMO of UnitedHealthcare. He was EVP of the RWJF from 1997 to 2003. An internist and former health center medical director at the Harvard Community Health Plan in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Sandy received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University. A former RWJF Clinical Scholar and Clinical Fellow in Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, he served his internship and residency at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He serves on a number of Boards and Advisory Groups including the Board of the National Quality Forum (NQF) and Panel of Health Advisors for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). He is a Senior Fellow of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management.

- 22 - Darshak Sanghavi

Dr. Sanghavi is the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Translation at OptumLabs. Prior to his current role, he was the Director of Preventive and Population Health at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he oversaw the development of large pilot programs aimed at improving the Nation’s health care costs and quality. In this capacity, he was the architect of numerous initiatives, including the $157 million Accountable Health Communities model, the Medicare beneficiary Million Hearts Cardiovascular Risk Reduction model, and the certification and design of the $1 billion Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program.

Dr. Sanghavi was formerly the Richard Merkin Fellow and a managing director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution, where he directed efforts to better engage clinicians in health care payment and delivery reform. He is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and the former Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in which role he was charged with clinical and research programs dedicated to children's heart defects.

Dr. Sanghavi is an award-winning medical educator who has worked in medical settings around the world and published dozens of scientific papers on topics ranging from the molecular biology of cell death to tuberculosis transmission patterns in Peruvian slums. A frequent guest on NBC's Today and past commentator for NPR's All Things Considered, Dr. Sanghavi is a contributing editor to Parents magazine and a health care columnist with Slate, and has regularly written about health care for The New York Times, Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. His best-seller, A Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's Tour of the Body, was named a best health book of the year by The Wall Street Journal. Dr. Sanghavi has spoken widely on medical issues at national conferences and advised Federal and State health departments. He is also a former visiting media fellow of the Kaiser Family Foundation and a winner of the Wharton Business Plan Competition. He previously worked for several years as a U.S. Indian Health Service pediatrician on a Navajo reservation. Educated at Harvard College and Johns Hopkins Medical School, Dr. Sanghavi completed his pediatrics residency and cardiology fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston.

Lucy Savitz

Dr. Savitz has more than 30 years of experience in health care delivery and health services research. She is Vice President for Health Research for Kaiser Permanente (KP) Northwest and Director for the KP Centers for Health Research in Oregon and Hawaii. Most recently she was Assistant Vice President for Delivery System Science in the Intermountain Healthcare Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research, where she was responsible for facilitating mission critical health services research. Dr. Savitz was on the Board of Directors for the High Value Healthcare Collaborative, overseeing the Discovery and Dissemination Board Subcommittee, a group of 14 leading delivery systems across the United States committed to driving transformational change. Dr. Savitz has led more than two dozen applied projects in health care system settings. She is faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. At AcademyHealth, Dr. Savitz is Chair of the Methods Council, serves on the Delivery System Science Fellowship Program Committee, and is Chair of the Committee for Advocacy in Public Policy. For CMS she is an invited member of the Executive Leadership Council and the National Advisory Council for AHRQ. She also serves on the National Policy Council for AARP.

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Dr. Scanlon is a Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Director of the Center for Health Care and Policy Research in the College of Health and Human Development at The Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on understanding the role of measurement, incentives, quality improvement, and individual and organizational behavior change for improving important health care outcomes, including clinical quality, patient experience, and economic efficiency. Dr. Scanlon was recently named Distinguished Professor at Penn State. He was the 2014 recipient of the Evan G. and Helen G. Pattishall Outstanding Research Achievement Award, given by the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State. This award honors a faculty member's outstanding research contributions occurring or culminating within the past several years. He has published more than 100 articles, book chapters, and reports. Dr. Scanlon is a frequent speaker to academic, policy, and practice audiences.

Bruce Seeman

Mr. Seeman, a member of AHRQ's communications team since 2006, became Director of Media Relations in 2016. He currently supervises efforts to promote the Agency's work through press outreach, blogging, social media, and other venues. Before coming to AHRQ he worked for 25 years as a newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C., Miami, Norfolk, and northern Colorado.

Joe Selby

After obtaining his M.D. degree from Northwestern, Dr. Selby moved to Northern California for internship, a family medicine residency, and eventually an M.P.H. degree at the University of California, Berkeley. His fellowship project concerned behavioral factors in cardiovascular disease. He stayed in the bay area at Kaiser Permanente for 27 years including 13 as Director of Research supervising up to 50 investigators and 500 staff members. He has had academic appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, San Francisco, and Stanford. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles on far-ranging topics such as quality measurement and improvement, primary care delivery, colorectal cancer screening, and many studies that could be classified under the heading of comparative effectiveness, largely in the areas of diabetes, HTN, and cardiovascular disease. He has received honors from the U.S. Public Health Service and the American Epidemiological Society, and Kaiser Permanente, and in 2009 was elected into the Institute of Medicine. In July 2011 he became the first ED of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). PCORI's mandate is to improve the quality and relevance of the evidence available in order to help patients, caregivers, employers, insurers, and policymakers make informed health care decisions.

Stephen Shortell

Dr. Shortell is Professor of the Graduate School and the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management Emeritus at the School of Public Health and Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley, where he also co-leads the Center for Healthcare Organizational and Innovation Research (CHOIR) and the Center for Lean Engagement and Research (CLEAR) in health care. From 2002 to 2013, he served as Dean of the School of Public Health at Berkeley.

A leading health care scholar, Dr. Shortell and his colleagues have received numerous awards for their research examining the performance of integrated delivery systems; the organizational factors associated with quality and outcomes of care; and the factors associated with the adoption of evidence-based processes for treating patients with chronic illness. He is currently conducting research on patient engagement and the performance of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) with a 3-year PCORI-funded grant and on Lean applications in health care. He is also Co-PI on a 5-year AHRQ-funded Center of Excellence award (with The Dartmouth Institute and the High-Value Health Care Collaborative) to examine the adoption and implementation of innovations to create high-performing

- 24 - health systems. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a recent recipient of the AHA/HRET TRUST Visionary Leadership Award.

Lisa Simpson

Dr. Simpson has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of AcademyHealth since 2011. A nationally recognized health policy researcher and pediatrician, she is a passionate advocate for the translation of research into policy and practice. Her research and over 80 articles and commentaries in peer-reviewed journals focus on the role of evidence and data to improve health and health care, particularly for children and vulnerable populations.

Before joining AcademyHealth, Dr. Simpson spent 8 years as a professor of pediatrics, first as an Endowed Chair in Child Health Policy at the University of South Florida and then as the Director of the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. She served as the Deputy Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 1996 to 2002. Dr. Simpson serves on the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and Health Policy Scholars Program National Advisory Councils and the editorial boards for the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research. In October 2013 Dr. Simpson was elected to the Institute of Medicine.

Thomas Staiger

Dr. Staiger is a Professor in the University of Washington School of Medicine's Division of General Internal Medicine. He has been the Medical Director of the University of Washington Medical Center since 2008. He has extensive experience in operational quality improvement. He is active in the Society of General Internal Medicine and currently chairs the society's Health Policy Committee. His academic interests include evaluating the role of anticipatory systems in improving safety in health care, the diagnostic evaluation of low back pain, promoting scholarship in quality improvement, and educating physicians regarding leadership and quality improvement.

Earl Steinberg

Dr. Steinberg is a nationally known expert in evaluation and improvement of the quality and efficiency of health care. He currently is CEO of xG Health Solutions, a company formed by Geisinger Health System to help other health care delivery systems improve their clinical and financial performance. Previously Dr. Steinberg was Executive Vice President of Innovation and Dissemination at Geisinger, Senior Vice President for Clinical Strategy, Quality, and Outcomes at WellPoint Inc., President and CEO of Resolution Health, Vice President of Covance Health Economics and Outcomes Services Inc. and Director of its Quality Assessment and Improvement Systems Division, and Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Steinberg received his A.B. degree from Harvard College (summa cum laude), his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School, and a Master of Public Policy degree from the Kennedy School of Government. His residency training in internal medicine was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Steinberg is a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and AcademyHealth and has published more than 125 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

- 25 - John Steiner

Dr. Steiner is a senior investigator in the Institute for Health Research (IHR) at Kaiser Permanente Colorado. He trained in primary care internal medicine at the University of Colorado and received an M.P.H. degree from the University of Washington. Prior to 2008 he was a tenured professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. From 2008 to 2016 he served as Senior Director of the IHR. He has also served as Chair of the Governing Board of the Health Care System Research Network (2012-14) and the Kaiser Permanente National Research Council (2013-15). His research interests include health equity, social determinants of health prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease and diabetes treatment adherence, and the use of electronic health data to promote organizational learning and research.

Leslie Tucker

Ms. Tucker is an independent consultant with three decades of experience leading policy and program development and strategies to achieve their implementation at the State and Federal levels. From 2009 to 2016 she served as Vice President, Policy, for the American Board of Internal Medicine and ABIM Foundation, where she helped policymakers and other stakeholders begin to recognize and value medical professionalism as a powerful force for improving quality, and where she helped chart the strategic direction of the Choosing Wisely© Campaign. Previously, as a Senior Program Officer at The Pew Charitable Trusts, she worked to achieve scientific and stakeholder consensus on policies to guide the safe commercialization of emerging bio and nano-technologies. At the State level, she led Strategic Planning, Policy, and Outreach at the Rhode Island Department of Human Services, guiding welfare reform and Medicaid/SCHIP policies. Her earlier experience includes government relations and rural practice support for the AAFP; service as Senior Legislative Assistant to U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY); and health policy analyst to the U.S. House Select Committee on Aging. Ms. Tucker received her B.A degree in political science from Yale.

James Weinstein

As a former chair of Orthopaedics at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, former Director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI), past President of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic, and immediate past CEO and President of D-H Health system, Dr. Weinstein appreciates that there are many challenges facing all health systems as we strive to improve care for our patients. Times like these require creative thinking and innovative partnerships both within and outside traditional medicine. These connections inform his work as a spine surgeon with its focus on the diagnosis, treatment, and study of spinal disorders and were important as he developed the primary classification system used for treating spine tumors. This approach has also been essential to his career as a Principal Investigator, from the NIH-funded Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial studying 2500+ patients in 11 States over 15 years and recently the High Value Healthcare Collaborative learning network funded via a CMS Innovation award to study health systems across 31 States. Medical education is also important, and it was with the next generation of researchers in mind that he established the NRSA-funded T32 Dartmouth Orthopaedic Clinician/Researcher Training Program

- 26 - Daniel Wolfson

Mr. Wolfson is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the ABIM Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation focused on advancing medical professionalism and physician leadership to improve the health care system. Mr. Wolfson has been instrumental in leading the Choosing Wisely® campaign (www.choosingwisely.org), a multi-year effort engaging more than 75 medical specialty societies to promote conversations between physicians and patients about utilizing the most appropriate tests and treatments and avoiding care that may be unnecessary and could cause harm.

Previously Mr. Wolfson served for nearly two decades as the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance of Community Health Plans (formerly The HMO Group) the Nation's leading association of not-for-profit and provider-sponsored health plans. During his tenure, Mr. Wolfson earned national recognition for spearheading the development of the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS).

Mr. Wolfson received his master's degree in health services administration from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Herbert Wong

Dr. Wong is the Director of the Division of Markets and Systems Research in AHRQ’s Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets. In this role, he leads AHRQ’s Comparative Health System Performance Initiative to study how health care delivery systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care. Leading a professional research staff with diverse training, skills, and backgrounds, he provides strategic direction for research in the areas of markets and systems.

Trained as an economist, he has over 24 years of experience working for the Federal Government on health care- related issues and research database development. In his past research, he has analyzed issues related to pricing and competition in the market for physician and hospital services; examined the factors affecting physician practice styles and resource utilization; explored the response of hospitals to global budgets; examined the interaction of hospital and physician costs; investigated the determinants of hospital payments and costs; explored service utilization, enrollment, and competition in managed care organizations; and assessed selection bias in Medicare HMOs. Dr. Wong’s current research includes explorations of the role of quality in the hospital services market and the impact of market forces on health care cost, access, and quality.

Dr. Wong’s work appears in journals such as Health Services Research, Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, Medical Care, Medical Care Research and Review, Southern Economic Journal, and Review of Industrial Organization. He serves on the editorial board of Medical Care Research and Review. In addition, Dr. Wong served as the Vice Chairman of the Maryland Health Services Cost and Review Commission.

Before coming to AHRQ, Dr. Wong taught courses in industrial organization, microeconomic theory, and statistics at Northwestern and Loyola universities. He also worked as a research analyst at the American Medical Association and served as a special assistant for health policy analysis at the Office of Management and Budget. Dr. Wong received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in economics from Northwestern University. He earned his B.A. degree in economics from Brandeis University.

- 27 - Hal Yee

Dr. Yee is Chief Medical Officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the Nation's second largest metropolitan health system, which includes four academic medical centers, a large ambulatory care network, and affiliations with the University of Southern California (USC), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Drew Medical Schools. He serves on the Board of the California Association of Public Hospitals and the advisory boards of the UCLA and USC CTSIs. He was Rice Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and CMO and Chief of Gastroenterology at San Francisco General Hospital. He has more than 20 years of grant funding and has authored over 80 publications. His research focuses on disruptive interventions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health care delivery. Most notably, he (1) conceived and architected the implementation and evaluation of an award-winning electronic specialty care consultation management system in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, (2) developed and implemented a novel approach, the Expected Practice that effectively standardizes clinical decision-making and behavior, and (3) transformed the LA County Health System into a model for testing disruptive health care innovations that improve the quality and efficiency of clinical care.

Jaime Zimmerman

Ms. Zimmerman works on strategic projects in the Office of the Director at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She serves as Designated Management Official for the AHRQ National Advisory Council and spearheads work related to AHRQ's Annual Research Conferences and Summits. Prior to AHRQ, she served as Director of a large NIH-funded clinical research trial at Mount Sinai Medical Center and a consultant to New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Ms. Zimmerman earned her M.P.H. degree from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

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