Richard Scheffler: Conversations with the Experts

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In Part II, the author has a series of conversations with twenty-seven leading professionals in health economics, academic medicine, health systems, advocacy organizations, policy bodies and foundations. These experts also were willing to go beyond their research and explore their hopes and expectations for health care delivery and the physician supply. Many of their ideas have not been published anywhere.

William J. Barcellona is vice president for government affairs at the California Association of Physician Groups. He serves as adjunct professor with the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning, and Development, teaching management of health care organizations. Formerly, he was deputy director of California's Department of Managed Health Care.

Peter R. Carroll, M.D., is chair and Ken and Donna Derr-Chevron Distinguished Professor, Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco. He is also associate dean of the UCSF School of Medicine and director of strategic planning and clinical services for the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. His work focuses on cancer induction, progression, and care.

Jordan J. Cohen, M.D., is president emeritus of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and chairs the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, which advances humanism in medicine through innovations in medical education. He is a former member of the Special Medical Advisory Group of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and has chaired the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Karen Davis, Ph.D., an economist, is president of The Commonwealth Fund, a national philanthropy engaged in research on health and social policy issues. She served as a deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services in the late 1970s. She is a member of the IOM Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Benefits, Payment and Performance Improvement Programs, and serves on the Panel of Health Advisors for the Congressional Budget Office.

Alain C. Enthoven, Ph.D., is the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, emeritus, at Stanford University, and a core faculty member at the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research. He was a founder of the Jackson Hole Group, a national think tank on health care policy.

Tracey O. Fremd, NP, is a reproductive endocrinology and infertility nurse practitioner. She works with underinsured Californians at Mar Monte Planned Parenthood, Sacramento. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Access Through Primary Care Initiative of the University of California, San Francisco, and is a past president of the California Association for Nurse Practitioners (CANP).

Gary Gitnick, M.D., is a professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Digestive Diseases at the UCLA School of Medicine. He heads the largest gastroenterology division in the world. He was chief of staff of the UCLA Medical Center and was medical director of the UCLA Health Care Programs. He was president of the Medical Board of California, and founded the Fulfillment Fund, which provides long-term educational mentoring to disadvantaged students.

Donald Goldmann, M.D., is senior vice president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). He is on the infectious diseases clinical staff at Children's Hospital Boston, and he is a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research group applies the principles of clinical epidemiology to the study of clinical outcomes of nosocomial infections.

Atul Grover, M.D., Ph.D., is associate director of the Center for Workforce Studies at the Association of American Medical Colleges. He lectures and conducts workshops for leaders in academic medicine. He is a board-certified internist and practicing hospitalist with a doctorate in health and public policy. Earlier, he served as chief medical officer in the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis at the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Kevin Grumbach, M.D., is professor and chair of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and chief of family and community medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. He is the director of the UCSF Center for California Health Workforce Studies.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., is president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She was director of the Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania, and chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine. She served in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as deputy administrator of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. Lavizzo-Mourey was a member of the White House Task Force on Health Care Reform and was a consultant to the White House on issues of health policy.

Philip R. Lee, M.D., is senior scholar, Institute for Health Policy Studies, and professor emeritus of social medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a consulting professor in human biology at Stanford University. Lee has served as assistant secretary for health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was a founder and director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies, and served as chancellor of UC-San Francisco.

Arnold Milstein, M.D., is medical director at the Pacific Business Group on Health and the National Health Care Thought Leader at William M. Mercer. He worked with the National Committee for Quality Assurance to develop the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS), and is a member of the Performance Measures Coordinating Committee. Dr. Milstein is an associate clinical professor at UC-San Francisco Medical Center, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine.

Ian Morrison, Ph.D., is president emeritus of the Institute for the Future and chair of its Health Advisory Panel. He is a past director of the Health Research and Education Trust (HRET) of the American Hospital Association. He is a director of the Center for Health Design and of the California HealthCare Foundation. He also serves as a member of the Stakeholders Advisory Committee of the Program for Health Systems Improvement at Harvard University.

Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., is a pediatrician and the Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy in the George Washington University's School of Public Health and Health Services. He is a contributing editor to Health Affairs and the editor of that journal's "Narrative Matters" section. Mullan is director of the Hirsh Program in Medicine and Public Policy.

Joseph P. Newhouse, Ph.D., is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University. He heads the Interfaculty Initiative on Health Policy and chairs the Committee on Higher Degrees in Health Policy. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Health Economics, serves on the Board of Health Advisors of the Congressional Budget Office, and has been a member and vice chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPac).

Edward O'Neil, Ph.D., is a professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine, Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences at UC-San Francisco. He heads the Center for the Health Professions, a research, advocacy, and training institute. O'Neil was executive director of the Pew Health Professions Commission, and has been a consultant to WHO and other major organizations.

Mark V. Pauly, Ph.D., is the Bendheim Professor and chair of the Department of Health Care Systems in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a professor of health care systems, insurance and risk management, and business and public policy at the Wharton School, and a professor of economics in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

Robert Pearl, M.D., is executive director and CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, headquartered in Oakland, California. He is board-certified in plastic and reconstructive surgery, and he serves on the faculty of the Stanford Medical School, where he is a clinical professor of plastic surgery. Over the past several years, he served as a visiting professor at Stanford Business School, Duke University School of Medicine, and Harvard School of Public Health.

Philip A. Pizzo, M.D., is dean of the Stanford School of Medicine. Formerly, he was the physician-in-chief of Children's Hospital in Boston and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He served as chief of the National Cancer Institute's pediatric department, and was acting scientific director for NCI's Division of Clinical Sciences.

Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D., is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy, and a professor of economics and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. He has been a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences since 1978, and is a past president of the Association of Health Services Research.

Edward S. Salsberg is a senior associate vice president and the director of the Center for Workforce Studies at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in Washington, D.C. He is also on the faculty at the George Washington University Medical Center. Prior to joining AAMC, Salsberg was the executive director of the Center for Health Workforce Studies, which he established in 1996 at the School of Public Health at the University at Albany of the State University of New York.

Steven Schroeder, M.D., is Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, at UC-San Francisco, and also heads the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. Between 1990 and 2002 he was president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has published extensively in the fields of clinical medicine, health care financing and organization, prevention, public health, and the workforce.

Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Organization Behavior at the School of Public Health and Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the dean of the School of Public Health at Berkeley. He is a past editor of Health Services Research and has served as president of the Association for Health Services Research.

Mark D. Smith, M.D., is president and CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation. He is a member of the clinical faculty at UC-San Francisco and an attending physician at the Positive Health Program for AIDS care at San Francisco General Hospital. He has served on the Performance Measurement Committee of the National Committee for Quality Assurance.

John E. Wennberg, M.D., is the Peggy Y. Thomson Chair in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences and director emeritus of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He is a professor in Dartmouth's Department of Community and Family Medicine and in the Department of Medicine. He is the founding editor of The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which examines medical resource intensity and utilization in the United States.

Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at Project HOPE. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and has served two terms on its governing council. From 1990 to 1992, she was administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, directing the Medicare and Medicaid programs. She chaired the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPac), and testifies frequently before Congressional committees.

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