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APPENDIX
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Committee Biographies
ROBERT E. TRANQUADA, M.D., is Norman Topping/National Medical
Enterprises Professor of Medicine and Public Policy at the University of
Southern California (USC). Dr. Tranquada came to USC after receiving his
M.D. degree from Stanford (1955) and completing his internship and residency
in internal medicine at the University of California in 1959. He has held a
number of progressively more responsible positions at USC and founded the
Department of Community Medicine and Public Health in 1966. Dr. Tranquada
also established and directed the Watts Health Center from 1965 to 1969. He
was the dean of the School of Medicine from 1986 to 1991. Dr. Tranquada is
a member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. He received the Association Distinguished
Alumni Award from Stanford Medical Alumni in 1990. Dr. Tranquada is the
author of over 50 scientific and educational papers and book chapters.
PAULA K. DIEHR, Ph.D., is Professor of Biostatistics and Health Services
at the University of Washington. She spent 1975 to 1976 as a researcher at the
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). She has been a member
of the Health Care Technology study section for AHCPR and of the Mental
Health Services study section for the National Institute of Mental Health and is
currently an advisor to the Office of Technology Assessment study on health
insurance and access. She served on the editorial board of Medical Care and is
currently on the editorial board of Health Services Research. She has presented
several Association for Health Service Research (AHSR) workshops on analysis
of utilization data and on small-area variation analysis. Dr. Diehr has worked
almost exclusively in health services research, beginning with the Seattle Prepaid
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Health Care Project in the early 1970s. Since then she has been involved in
research about the use of health services, with a special emphasis on mental
health services; different insurance and provider plans; health status; diagnostic
rules for headache, cough and ankle trauma; health services for older adults;
people without health insurance; survey methods; and evaluation of community-
based health promotion programs. Her recent article on small-area variation
analysis received the 1991 AHSR award for Article of the Year.
DEBORAH A. FREUND, M.P.H., Ph.D., is Vice-Chancellor for academic
Affairs and Dean of the Faculties at Indiana University, Bloomington (IU). She
has served as special advisor to the president of the IU system. She is Professor
of Public Affairs in Health Economics in the School of Public and
Environmental Affairs and holds appointments in the Departments of Economics
and Internal Medicine. In addition she directs the Otis Bowen Research Center
at IU.
She received her M.A., M.P.H., and Ph.D. degrees in public health and
economics at the University of Michigan and then embarked on a career in the
administrative, policy, and research sectors. After managing the ambulatory care
and surgery departments of a major teaching hospital and holding positions in
federal and state government, she moved to the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill where she spent nine years as a faculty member in its School of
Public Health.
She has published extensively and is particularly noted for her research on
Medicaid case management, pharmacoeconomics, and outcomes. She is the only
nonphysician principal investigator of the federally fended Patient Outcome
Research Teams. She is also author of The Cost Effectiveness Guidelines for the
Evaluation of Pharmaceuticals in Australia. In 1991, she received the Kershaw
Prize for significant contributions to policy research from the Association for
Public Policy Analysis and Management, in 1990 the Conrad Elvejam Award
from the Wisconsin State Medical Society, and in 1981 the Jay S. Drotman
Memorial Award from the American Public Health Association "for challenging
public health practice." She is the past chair of the board of the Association of
University Programs in Health Administration and sits on the board of directors
of the Association for Health Services Research. From 1987 to 1989, she was
chair of the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association.
She has been on nine editorial boards, including all the major health services
journals.
JOHN C. GREENE, D.M.D, M.P.H., is Professor and Dean Emeritus at
the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry. He
received his dental degree from the University of Louisville and his public health
degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds honorary
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doctor of science degrees from three universities. Dr. Greene's career in the U.S.
Public Health Service spanned three decades. During that time he served in
many capacities including Deputy Surgeon General, Chief Dental Officer, and
Director of the Bureau of Health Resources Development. He became Dean of
the School of Dentistry at UCSF in 1981 and continued in that capacity until his
retirement in 1994. His professional interests include epidemiology, disease
prevention and health promotion, health professions education, and health policy.
He has more than 100 publications on topics such as the epidemiology of
periodontal diseases and birth defects and the health effects of the use of
smokeless tobacco among professional baseball players. He is a diplomate and
past president of the American Board of Dental Public Health. He was a
member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and continues on its senior
advisory panel. Dr. Greene has received numerous awards and honors. Among
them are the Distinguished Service Medal from the Public Health Service, the
Award of Merit from the World Dental Federation, and the Outstanding
Professional Award from the Pierre Fauchard Academy. He is an elected
member of the Institute of Medicine and has served on its governing council.
He is past president of both the American and International Associations for
Dental Research. He is former chair of the Council of Deans of the American
Association of Dental Schools and is a member of the World Health
Organization's Expert Advisory Panel on Oral Health. Dr. Greene is now
serving as co-chair of the UCSF Chancellor's Task Force on the Impact of
Health Care Reform on the Academic Health Center and is associated with the
Pew Center for the Health Professions. He also is serving on the National
Institutes of Health Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health and
is continuing his work on the use of smokeless tobacco in addition to a variety
of other activities at UCSF.
MERWYN R. GREENLICK, Ph.D., is Past Vice-President, Research, of
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals; Director of the Kaiser Permanente Center for
Health Research from its inception in 1964; and Professor and Chair, Department
of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University.
He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology at Portland State
University, the School of Public Administration of the University of Southern
California, and the University of Hawaii School of Public Health. Dr. Greenlick
received his Ph.D. degree in medical care organization from the University of
Michigan, specializing in sociology and social psychology. He has served as
research advisor to many projects throughout the country and as an advisor to
several foreign government research and medical care projects. A major
contributor to public policy at the state and national levels, he was recently
named Director of the new Oregon Health Policy Institute. Dr. Greenlick was
elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in
1971. Dr. Greenlick's research activities have been in the areas of large-scale
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demonstration projects in the organization and financing of medical care and of
behavioral interventions to prevent disease and promote health. He was a
co-principal investigator for the Medicare Prospective Payment Demonstration
Project ("Medicare Plus") which provided care to more than 7,600 Medicare
beneficiaries on a capitation basis. He is currently the principal investigator of
the Kaiser Permanente site of the Social HMO project ("Medicare Plus II"),
which is investigating the financial feasibility of providing an integrated
comprehensive range of acute and long-term care services for the "frail" elderly.
He also serves as the chair of the research committee of the national Social HMO
Research Consortium. Dr. Greenlick has had extensive experience in clinical
trials, both at the local and national levels, and has provided considerable
national leadership in this area. He was principal investigator in Portland for the
Dietary Intervention Study in Children and is Chair of the National Design and
Analysis Committee. He was one of the principal investigators on the clinical
trial studying the treatment of systolic hypertension among the elderly. He was
also a Portland Project Director for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial
(MRFIT) sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. He has
also developed and directed the highly successful Training Institute in Research
Management, a yearly program to train research scientists in managing research
projects and organizations. Dr. Greenlick has published extensively in the field
of health and health services research. He is the primary author of 41 articles,
books, monographs, and chapters and has contributed to 52 other publications.
In 1994 the Association for Health Services Research presented Dr. Greenlick its
Presidential Award for his contributions to the field.
ADA SUE HINSHAW, Ph.D., Rob. has served as Dean and Professor at
the University of Michigan School of Nursing since July 1994. Before that, Dr.
Hinshaw was the first permanent director of the National Institute of Nursing
Research at the National Institutes of Health. From 1975 to 1987, Dr. Hinshaw
served as Director of Research and Professor at the University of Arizona
College of Nursing in Tucson, and as Director of Nursing Research at the
University Medical Center's Department of Nursing.
She has held faculty
positions at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of
Kansas.
Throughout her career, Dr. Hinshaw has conducted nursing research,
including projects on the quality of patient caregiving and nursing staff turnover.
She has given hundreds of presentations, and her findings have been widely
published in over 300 journal articles, books, and abstracts. In addition, she has
served on numerous scientific advisory committees and task forces, has received
many honors, and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at various schools
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DAVID A. KINDIG, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Preventive Medicine and
Director of the Wisconsin Network for Health Policy Research (a University-
sponsored program to build a Wisconsin health services research community and
to conduct policy analysis of state relevance) at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine. He served as Vice-Chancellor for
Health Sciences at the University from 1980 to 1985. Dr. Kindig was Director
of Montef~ore Hospital and Medical Center (1976-1980) and Deputy Director of
the Bureau of Health Manpower, U.S. Department of Health, Education and
Welfare (1974-1976~. He is currently Chair of the Federal Council of Graduate
Medical Education, and on the Board of Directors of the Association of
University Programs in Health Administration and of the Association for Health
Services Research. A member of the editorial board of Medical Care Review
and Health Affairs, Dr. Kindig has written extensively on both medical and
health policy issues. He received a B.A. degree from Carleton College and M.D.
and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago School of Medicine.
KEVIN J. LYONS, PH.D., is Associate Dean in both the College of Allied
Health Sciences and the College of Graduate Studies at Thomas Jefferson
University. He also directs the Center for Collaborative Research in the College
of Allied Health Sciences and oversees nursing and allied health graduate
programs. Dr. Lyons holds academic appointments as Associate Professor of
Administration in the Department of General Studies and Associate Professor in
the Department of Occupational Therapy. He also serves on the faculty at the
Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches
graduate courses in research design, leadership, and management, and he advises
graduate students. Dr. Lyons has presented numerous papers at scientific
meetings, particularly in the area of collaborative research, developing faculty
scholarship, geriatric rehabilitation, and leadership in nursing and allied health.
He has also published in these fields, and he recently received the J. Warren
Perry Distinguished Author Award from the Association of Schools of Allied
Health Professions. Dr. Lyons has been active in research development on a
national level. He serves on peer review panels for the National Institute on
Disability and Rehabilitation Research and the Bureau of Health Professions, sat
on the steering committee of the Forum on Allied Health Data, and reviews
proposals for the American Educational Research Association and the American
Evaluation Society Association. He has also been active in the Association of
Schools of Allied Health Professions and was recently elected a Fellow in that
organization.
ALBERT G. MULLEY, Jr., M.D., is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
After receiving degrees in medicine and public policy from Harvard University,
he completed his residency training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General
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Hospital. He has remained at Harvard, where he is currently Associate Professor
of Medicine and Associate Professor of Health Policy, and at Massachusetts
General Hospital, where he is Chief of the General Internal Medicine Unit. He
is the author and editor of Primal Care Medicine and of many articles in the
medical and health services research literature. Dr. Mulley's research has
included the evaluation of intensive care and the cost-effectiveness of prevention
strategies and other common clinical practices. Recent work has focused on the
use of decision analysis, outcomes research, and preference assessment methods
to distinguish between warranted and unwarranted variations in clinical practices.
He recently served on the Institute of Medicine Medicare Quality Assurance
Committee and is a member of the Clinical Efficacy Subcommittee of the
American College of Physicians.
WILLIAM L. ROPER, M.D., M.P.H., is Senior Vice President and Chief
Medical Officer for The Prudential Health Care System, with responsibility for
health care operations supporting The Prudential's five regions, and its HMO and
point-of-service health plans that are offered in over 40 locations nationwide.
Dr. Roper joined The Prudential in 1993 as President of the Prudential Center
for Health Care Research. Before coming to The Prudential, Dr. Roper was
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, from 1990 until
1993. He previously served as deputy assistant to the President for domestic
policy and director of the White House Office of Policy Development and was
administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration.
DONALD M. STEINWACHS, Ph.D., is Chair and Professor in the
Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Hygiene and Public Health and has joint appointments in the
Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, in the
Department of Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences, School of Medicine, and in the School of Nursing. In addition, Dr.
Steinwachs is Director of the Johns Hopkins University Health Services Research
and Development Center. His current research includes (1) studies of medical
effectiveness and patient outcomes for individuals with specific medical, surgical,
and psychiatric conditions; (2) studies of the impact of alternative organizational
and financial arrangements on access to care, quality, utilization, and cost; and
(3) studies to develop better methods to measure the effectiveness of systems of
care, for example, HMOs and other insured populations. He has a particular
interest in the role of routine management information systems as sources of data
for evaluating the effectiveness and cost of health care. Dr. Steinwachs is also
Director of the Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland Center on
Organization and Financing of Care to the Severely Mentally Ill. The Center was
established in 1987 through support of the National Institute of Mental Health.
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The interdisciplinary faculty conducts a range of studies on issues involving
policy, organization, and financing of care for individuals with severe and
persistent mental illnesses. Dr. Steinwachs is Past President of the Association
for Health Services Research and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences. He serves as a consultant to federal agencies and
private foundations and serves on the boards of directors of the Health Outcomes
Institute and Mathematica Policy Research.
BAILUS WALKER, Jr., Ph.D., M.P.H., is Professor of Environmental and
Occupational Medicine, Associate Director, University Cancer Center, Howard
University Medical Center, and the American Public Health Association's
Congressional Fellow (1994) in the Office of Congressman Louis Stokes. From
1990 to 1994 he was Dean of Public Health Faculty and Co-director of the
Center for Health Policy, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center,
Oklahoma City. Dr. Walker has served as Commissioner of Public Health for
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Chairman of the Massachusetts Public
Health Council (1983-1987~. Earlier (1981-1983) he was State Director of
Public Health for Michigan. From 1979 to 1981 he was Director of
Occupational Health Standards, Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
U.S. Department of Labor. Dr. Walker is Past President of the American Public
Health Association and a distinguished Fellow of the Royal Society of Health
(London). He was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine in 1989.
Dr. Walker has served on numerous IOM-NAS committees, including the
Committee to Study the Future of Public Health in the United States. Dr.
Walker is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds a Ph.D. in
environmental and occupational medicine from the University of Minnesota.
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