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Appendix F: Biographical Sketches
Appendix F: Biographical Sketches
Pages 247-258
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Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, and other voluntary advisory bodies and corporate boards. Arthur L
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Among his many awards and distinctions, he is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (1992~; is the recipient of a meritorious service award from the Tennessee State Legislature (1993~; and the Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (1997~; and was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine (1999~. In addition, Dr.
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Dr. Ayanian is deputy editor of the journal Medical Care, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar, and a fellow of the American College of Physicians.
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Dr. Hernandez is a primary care internist who previously held a number of positions within the San Francisco Department of Public Health, including director of the AIDS Office, director of Community Public Health, county health officer, and finally director of health for the City and County of San Francisco.
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The Alliance is a purchasing cooperative owned by more than 175 member companies that contracts with providers, manages and reports data, performs consumer education, and designs employer and provider quality initiatives. Prior to his current position, Mr.
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In addition, Dr. Sofaer studies the role of community coalitions in pursuing public health and health care system reform objectives and has extensive experience in the evaluation of community health improvement interventions.
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Specific research topics include the economic effects of overtime pay regulation; immigrant labor market outcomes and welfare recipiency; the impact of labor unions on compensation, employment, and work schedules; the importance of sector-specif~c skills; and the relative economic status of Mexican Americans.
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Specific content areas of his research and intervention work have included alcohol, tobacco, violence, handguns, sexually transmitted diseases, cervical and breast cancer, affirmative action, suicide, and childhood lead poisoning.
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She came from the General Accounting Office, where she was a senior evaluator on studies of the Health Care Financing Administration, its management capacity, and its oversight of Medicare contractors. Prior to that, she was a reimbursement policy specialist at a national association representing nonprofit providers of long-term care services.
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Gerry Fairbrother is a senior scientist in the division of health and science policy and research director for the New York forum for child health at the New York Academy of Medicine. She also holds a faculty appointment as associate professor of epidemiology and social medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ Montefiore Medical Center, where she continues to maintain an appointment.
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Hanns Kuttner is a senior research associate with the Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured, a research program on the causes and consequences of uninsurance funded by The Robert WoodJohnson Foundation and located at the University of Michigan.
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