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Appendix I
Committee Biosketches
Marthe R. Gold, MD, MPH (Chair), is the Logan Professor and chair of
the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine of the Sophie
Davis School of Biomedical Education of the City College of New York. She
is a graduate of the Tufts University School of Medicine and the Columbia
School of Public Health. Her clinical training is in family practice, and her
clinical practice has been in urban and rural underserved settings. She served
on the faculty of the University of Rochester School of Medicine from 1983
to 1990, and from 1990 to 1996 she was senior policy adviser in the Of-
fice of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS). Her focus at HHS was on financing of clinical
preventive services and the economics of public health programs. Dr. Gold
directed the work of the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medi-
cine, an expert panel whose report, issued in 1996, remains an influential
guide to cost-effectiveness methods for academic and policy uses. Dr. Gold’s
current work is on public and decision-maker views on the use of economic
analyses to inform resource-allocation decisions. She is also involved in
funded initiatives that seek to increase the level of patient engagement and
activation in community health-center settings. A member of the Institute
of Medicine, she has contributed to a number of its reports and has served
most recently on the communication collaborative of the Evidence-Based
Roundtable.
Steven M. Teutsch, MD, MPH (Vice Chair), became the chief science officer
of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health in February 2009,
where he continues his work on evidence-based public health and policy. He
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had been in the Outcomes Research and Management Program at Merck
since October 1997, where he was responsible for scientific leadership in
developing evidence-based clinical-management programs, conducting out-
comes research studies, and improving outcomes measurement to enhance
quality of care. Before joining Merck, he was director of the Division of
Prevention Research and Analytic Methods (DPRAM) in the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he was responsible for as-
sessing the effectiveness, safety, and cost effectiveness of disease and injury
prevention strategies. DPRAM developed comparable methods for studies
of the effectiveness and economic impact of prevention programs, provided
training in the methods, developed CDC’s capacity for conducting neces-
sary studies, and provided technical assistance for conducting economic and
decision analysis. The division also evaluated the effects of interventions in
urban areas, developed the Guide to Community Preventive Services, and
provided support for CDC’s analytic methods. He has served as a mem-
ber of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which develops the Guide,
and of America’s Health Information Community Personalized Health
Care Workgroup. He chaired the secretary of health and human services’
Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society (in the National
Institutes of Health Office of Science Policy) and serves on the Evaluation
of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention Working Group. Dr.
Teutsch received his undergraduate degree in biochemical sciences at Har-
vard University in 1970, an MPH in epidemiology from the University of
North Carolina School of Public Health in 1973, and his MD from Duke
University School of Medicine in 1974. He completed his residency training
in internal medicine at Pennsylvania State University, Hershey. He was certi-
fied by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1977 and the American
Board of Preventive Medicine in 1995 and is a fellow of the American Col-
lege of Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the
American College of Epidemiology. Dr. Teutsch is an adjunct professor in
the Emory University School of Public Health Department of Health Policy
and Management and the University of North Carolina School of Public
Health. He has published over 150 articles and 6 books in a broad array
of fields in epidemiology, including parasitic diseases, diabetes, technology
assessment, health-services research, and surveillance.
Leslie Beitsch, MD, JD, is the associate dean for health affairs and directs the
Center for Medicine and Public Health of Florida State University. Before
joining the University’s College of Medicine, Dr. Beitsch was Commissioner
of Health for the state of Oklahoma from June 2001 to November 2003.
Earlier, he had held several positions in the Florida Department of Health for
12 years, most recently as deputy secretary. He received his BA in chemistry
from Emory University and his MD from Georgetown University School
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of Medicine and completed his internship at the Medical College of South
Carolina. He received his JD from Harvard Law School.
Joyce D. K. Essien, MD, MBA, is director of the Center for Public Health
Practice of the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University and
Retired Medical Officer, Captain U.S. Public Health Service at the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Essien leads a team in collaboration
with the Sustainability Institute that is building and applying simulation
and syndemic modeling applications to diabetes to inform cross-sectoral
strategy, deliberation, and decision support for policy formulation and
strategic interventions at the national, state, and local levels to reduce the
present and future burden of diabetes. Dr. Essien was one of nine members
who received the 2008 inaugural Applied Systems Thinking Award from
the Applied Systems Thinking Institute for the magnitude of the problems
that were being addressed (chronic-disease syndemics and health system
transformation), the interdisciplinary composition of the team, and the long
track record of engagement and application in applied settings. Dr. Essien
is a coauthor of the Public Health Competency Handbook—Optimizing
Individual and Organizational Performance for the Public’s Health. She
serves on the Executive Committee of the Atlanta Medical Association; the
boards of directors of the VHA Foundation, the Atlanta Regional Health
Forum, and ZAP Asthma Consortium, Inc.; and the advisory committees
for the Association for Community Health Improvement, the Association
for Health Information Management Foundation, and the MPH program
at Florida A & M University, which she chairs. She is a member of the Bon
Secours Hospital System Board Quality Committee and the Institute for
Alternative Futures Biomonitoring Futures Project and Disparity Reducing
Initiative. The ZAP Asthma Consortium, Inc., cofounded by Dr. Essien, is
the recipient of the Rosalyn and Jimmy Carter Partnership Award. For her
service and contributions, Dr. Essien was a recipient in l999 of the Women
in Government Award from Good Housekeeping magazine, the Ford
Foundation, and the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers
University. She has also been a recipient of the Thomas Sellars Award from
the Rollins School of Public Health and the Unsung Heroine Award from
Emory University. Dr. Essien is one of three recipients of the 2008 Excellence
in Medicine Award from the American Medical Association Foundation.
David W. Fleming, MD, is director and health officer for Public Health in
Seattle & King County, a large metropolitan health department with 2,000
employees, 39 sites, and a budget of $306 million serving a resident popula-
tion of 1.9 million. Before assuming that role, Dr. Fleming directed the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Strategies program, in which
capacity he oversaw the foundation’s portfolios in vaccine-preventable dis-
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eases, nutrition, newborn and child health, leadership, emergency relief, and
cross-cutting strategies to improve access to health tools in developing coun-
tries. He is a former deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Dr. Fleming has published on a wide array of public health issues
and has served on multiple boards and commissions, including the board of
the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization. Dr. Fleming received
his medical degree from the State University of New York Upstate Medical
Center in Syracuse. He is board-certified in internal medicine and preventive
medicine and serves on the faculty of the departments of public health of the
University of Washington and Oregon Health Sciences University.
Thomas E. Getzen, PhD, is professor of risk, insurance, and health man-
agement at the Fox School of Business at Temple University and executive
director of iHEA, the International Health Economics Association, which
has 2,400 academic and professional members in 72 countries. He has also
served as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public Policy of Princeton University, the Wharton School
of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Centre for Health Economics of
the University of York. His textbook Health Economics: Fundamentals and
Flow of Funds (Wiley; 4th ed., 2010) is used in graduate and undergraduate
programs throughout the world. His research focuses on the macroeconom -
ics of health, finance, forecasting of medical expenditures and physician sup-
ply, price indexes, public health economics, and related issues. He recently
completed a model of long-run medical-cost trends for use by the Society of
Actuaries, building on the work of economists at the Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services and the Congressional Budget Office.
Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, LLD (Hon.), is the Linda and Timothy O’Neill
Professor of Global Health Law and the director of the O’Neill Institute
for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. He served
as the associate dean of Georgetown Law until 2008. He is also a profes-
sor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a visiting
professor at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He is a fellow of the
Hastings Center, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and the Royal Society of
Public Health. Professor Gostin is on the editorial boards of several journals
and is law editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He
directs the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Collaborating Centers on Public Health Law. Professor Gostin
is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and has chaired four IOM
committees.
George Isham, MD, MS, is senior adviser to HealthPartners, responsible
for working with the board of directors and the senior management team
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on health and quality-of-care improvement for patients, members, and the
community. Dr. Isham is also a senior fellow of the HealthPartners Research
Foundation and facilitates progress at the intersection of population health
research and public policy. He is active nationally and cochairs the National
Quality Forum–convened Measurement Application Partnership, chairs the
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) clinical program com-
mittee, and is a member of NCQA’s committee on performance measure-
ment. Dr. Isham is chair of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on
Health Literacy and has chaired three IOM studies and served on others
related to health and quality of care. In 2003, he was appointed a lifetime
National Associate of the National Academies in recognition of his contri-
butions to the work of IOM. He is a former member of the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention (CDC) Task Force on Community Preventive
Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality U.S. Preven-
tive Services Task Force, and he currently serves on the advisory committee
to the director of CDC. His practice experience as a general internist was
with the U.S. Navy, at the Freeport Clinic in Freeport, Illinois, and as a clini-
cal assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals
and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin.
Robert M. Kaplan, PhD, is the director for behavioral and social sci-
ences and director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
(OBSSR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Before joining NIH in
February 2011, Dr. Kaplan was Distinguished Professor of Health Services
at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Distinguished
Professor of Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine,
where he was principal investigator at the California Comparative Ef-
fectiveness and Outcomes Improvement Center. He led the UCLA–RAND
health services training program and the UCLA–RAND Center for Disease
Control and Prevention Prevention Research Center. He was chair of the
Department of Health Services from 2004 to 2009. From 1997 to 2004,
he was professor and chair of the Department of Family and Preventive
Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. He is a past president
of several organizations, including the American Psychological Association
Division of Health Psychology, Section J of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (Pacific), the International Society for Quality
of Life Research, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy of
Behavioral Medicine Research. He is a past chair of the Behavioral Science
Council of the American Thoracic Society. Dr. Kaplan is a former editor-in-
chief of Health Psychology and of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. He is
the author, coauthor, or editor of more than 18 books and about 470 articles
or chapters. The Institute for Scientic Information includes him in its list of
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the most cited authors in his field (defined as above the 99.5th percentile).
In 2005, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine.
Wilfredo Lopez, JD, is providing professional consulting services in pub-
lic health law to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
through a CDC independent contractor. Previously, he was a consultant
to the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
from 2007 to 2009, spearheading the NYC Health Code Revision Project.
From 1979 to 2006, Mr. Lopez served as a staff attorney, deputy general
counsel, and, from 1992, as general counsel to the New York City Depart-
ment of Health and Mental Hygiene. On his retirement in December 2006,
he was vested with the titles General Counsel Emeritus to the New York
City Department of Health and Counsel Emeritus to the New York City
Board of Health. Mr. Lopez is the author of articles in public health and
public health law. In 2007, Mr. Lopez, in collaboration with CDC, served
as executive editor of “The National Action Agenda for Public Health Legal
Preparedness.” He is the coeditor and coauthor of a textbook titled Law in
Public Health Practice. Mr. Lopez’s other professional activities in the field
include serving as a member of the National Advisory Committee to the
Public Health Law Research Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Founda-
tion (since 2009), and a member of a workgroup assisting CDC’s National
Center for Health Statistics in revising the Model State Vital Statistics Act
and Regulations (2009-2011).
Glen P. Mays, PhD, MPH, is the F. Douglas Scutchfield Endowed Profes-
sor of Health Services and Systems Research at the University of Ken-
tucky College of Public Health. Dr. Mays’s research centers on strategies
for organizing and financing public health services, preventive care, and
disease management strategies with a focus on estimating the health and
economic effects of these efforts. He directs the Public Health Practice-
Based Research Networks Program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation (RWJF), which brings together more than 900 public health
agencies and researchers from around the nation to study innovations in
practice. Dr. Mays also directs the National Longitudinal Survey of Public
Health Systems, which since 1998 has followed a nationally representative
cohort of U.S. communities to examine the implementation and impact of
multiorganizational public health strategies. He has published more than
50 articles and 2 books on his research, which has been funded by RWJF,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, the Health Resources and Services Administration,
and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Mays earned an undergraduate
degree in political science from Brown University, earned his MPH and PhD
in health policy and administration from the University of North Carolina at
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Chapel Hill, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health economics
at Harvard Medical School.
Phyllis D. Meadows, PhD, MSN, RN, is associate dean for practice in the
Office of Public Health Practice and clinical professor in the Department of
Health Management and Policy of the University of Michigan (UM) School
of Public Health, where her responsibilities include developing and teach-
ing courses in public health administration and public health policy in the
department and overseeing leadership training of public health professionals
for the office. As a senior fellow of health for the Kresge Foundation, Dr.
Meadows is designing a national initiative for community health centers.
Most recently, she served as director and public health officer of the Detroit
Department of Health and Wellness Promotion. Before that, she spent over
a decade as a program director at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, where
she worked in youth, health, health-policy, and education programming.
Dr. Meadows joined the UM School of Public Health faculty in February
2009 as a clinical professor and associate director of public health practice.
She holds a bachelor’s degree and an MS in nursing and a PhD in sociology
from Wayne State University (WSU). She is the recipient of numerous honors
and awards, including the WSU School of Nursing Lifetime Achievement
Award, the UM Distinguished Public Health Practitioner Award, and the
Michigan Department of Community Health Director’s Award for Innova-
tion in Public Health.
Mary Mincer Hansen, RN, PhD, is chair of the Master’s of Public Health
program and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Global
Health at Des Moines University. She is the former director of the Iowa
Department of Public Health in the cabinet of Governor Vilsack and was his
designee to Governor Huckabee’s National Governors Association Chair’s
Initiative “Healthy America,” which focused on addressing the obesity epi-
demic in America. She has testified before Congress on pandemic influenza
preparedness and testified before the Institute of Medicine’s Committee
on Pandemic Community Mitigation. Before being appointed as director
of the Department of Public Health, she was an associate professor in the
Drake University Department of Nursing, director of the Drake University
Center for Health Issues, president of the Iowa Public Health Foundation,
and a research fellow on a Centers for Disease Prevention and Control
patient safety grant at the Iowa Department of Public Health. Dr. Mincer
Hansen has served in many national positions, including being a member
of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Advisory Committee for Partners
Investing in Nursing’s Future and the Council of State Governments Public
Health Advisory Committee and president of the Association of State and
Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Currently, Dr. Mincer Hansen is an
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appointee to the National Health Care Workforce Commission. She also
serves on the Iowa Department of Public Health Advisory Council and Sena-
tor Harkin’s Nurse Advisory Committee and as president of the ASTHO
Alumnae Association. Her awards include the Iowa State University College
of Human Sciences Alumni Achievement Award, the Iowa Medical Society
Community Contribution Award, the Title V Friends of Iowa’s Children
Award, and the Iowa Public Health Association Henry Albert Memorial
Award for distinguished leadership.
Poki Stewart Namkung, MD, MPH, received her AB from the University of
California (UC), Berkeley; her MD from UC Davis; and her MPH from UC
Berkeley. She is a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine.
Dr. Namkung served as the health officer and director of public health for
the city of Berkeley from 1995 to 2005 and is now the health officer and
chief medical officer in the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency. She
has received many honors, including selection as a state scholar for the
Public Health Leadership Institute in 1996, the California Public Health As-
sociation–North Leadership Award in 2003, and the Outstanding Berkeley
Woman Award in 2005. She has served on many advisory boards and com-
missions and was elected president of the California Conference of Local
Health Officers for 2001-2003, president of the Health Officers Association
of California for 2003-2005, and president of the National Association of
County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) for 2006-2007. She cochairs
the Joint Public Health Informatics Taskforce, serves on NACCHO’s Public
Health Informatics Workgroup and Immunization Workgroup, and chairs
the NACCHO Adolescent Health Advisory Taskforce.
Margaret O’Kane, MHSA, has served as president of the National Commit-
tee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), an independent nonprofit organization
whose mission is to improve the quality of health care everywhere. Under
Ms. O’Kane’s leadership, NCQA has developed broad support among the
employer and health-plan communities; today, many Fortune 100 com-
panies will do business only with NCQA-accredited health plans. About
three-fourths of the nation’s largest employers use Healthcare Effectiveness
Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) data to evaluate the plans that serve
their employees. Ms. O’Kane was named Health Person of the Year in 1996
by Medicine & Health magazine. She also received a 1997 Founders Award
from the American College of Medical Quality, recognizing NCQA’s efforts
to improve managed-care quality. In 1999, Ms. O’Kane was elected a mem-
ber of the Institute of Medicine. In 2000, she received the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention’s Champion of Prevention Award, the agency’s
highest honor. Ms. O’Kane began her career in health care as a respiratory
therapist and went on to earn a master’s degree in health administration and
planning from the Johns Hopkins University.
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David Ross, ScD, directs the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII),
a program of the Task Force for Global Health, which is affiliated with
Emory University, and serves as corporate secretary of Global Health Solu-
tions, Inc., a nonprofit subsidiary of the Task Force. PHII supports public
health practitioners in their use of information and information systems
to improve community health outcomes. He received his ScD in applied
mathematics and operations research from the Johns Hopkins University.
His career spans health care research and administration, environmental
health research, and public health and medical informatics consulting. He
became the director of All Kids Count, a program of PHII supported by
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), in 2000, and later began
PHII, also with funding from RWJF. Dr. Ross was an executive with a pri-
vate health-information systems firm, a Public Health Service officer with
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and an executive
of a private, nonprofit health system. In 1983, he joined CDC’s National
Center for Environmental Health. During his career at CDC, he worked in
environmental health, CDC’s executive administration, and public health
practice. Dr. Ross was founding director of the Information Network for
Public Health Officials, CDC’s national initiative to improve the informa-
tion infrastructure of public health. His research and programmatic interests
reflect those of PHII: the strategic application of information technologies to
improve public health practice. He served as director of the RWJF national
program Common Ground and its InformationLinks national program. He
served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) core committee for the evalua-
tion of the U.S. government’s global HIV/AIDS PEPFAR program and on
the IOM panel recommending the research agenda for public health pre-
paredness, and he is a member of the Certification Commission for Health
Information Technology.
Martín J. Sepúlveda, MD, FACP, is a fellow and vice president of Health
Industries Research of the IBM Corporation. He leads a global team of
health industry subject matter experts guiding applied research in diverse
disciplines for health care systems solutions and transformation in mature
and rapidly growing countries worldwide. He previously served as IBM vice
president of integrated health services and led health policy, strategy, benefits
design and purchasing, occupational health, wellness, and health productiv-
ity for IBM globally. Dr. Sepúlveda is a fellow of the American College of
Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the American
College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He was elected an
honorary member of the American Academy of Family Medicine and serves
on the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the Common-
wealth Fund Commission for a High Performance Health System, and the
Institute of Medicine’s Population Health and Public Health Practice Board.
He chairs the Global Business Group on Health and the Institute for Health
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Benefits Innovation Research at the Employee Benefits Research Institute.
Dr. Sepúlveda received his MD and MPH from Harvard University. He
completed residencies in internal medicine at the University of California,
San Francisco Hospitals and in occupational and environmental medicine
at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, trained in the
Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion, and completed a fellowship in internal medicine at the University of
Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH, is a professor in the Department of Family
Medicine and director of the Center on Human Needs at Virginia Com-
monwealth University (VCU). He received his MD in 1984 from Emory
University and underwent residency training in family medicine at VCU.
Dr. Woolf is also a clinical epidemiologist and underwent training in pre-
ventive medicine and public health at the Johns Hopkins University, where
he received his MPH in 1987. He is board-certified in family medicine and
in preventive medicine and public health. Dr. Woolf has published more
than 150 articles in a career that has focused on evidence-based medicine
and the development of evidence-based clinical-practice guidelines with a
focus on preventive medicine, cancer screening, quality improvement, and
social justice. From 1987 to 2002, he served as science advisor to and then
a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Dr. Woolf edited the
first two editions of the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services and is author
of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice. He is as-
sociate editor of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and served
as North American editor of the British Medical Journal. He has consulted
widely on various matters of health policy with government agencies and
professional organizations in the United States and Europe and in 2001 was
elected to the Institute of Medicine.
