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Appendix III: Committee Biographies
Pages 189-200

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From page 189...
... He is former President of the Society of General Internal Medicine and was Chairman of the Health Care Technology Study Section for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. He was the 1995 recipient of the PEW Health Professions Commission Award for lifetime achievement in Primary Care Research.
From page 190...
... She received the University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center Excellence in Scholarship Award; John P McGovern Outstanding Teacher Award; Committee on the Status of Women Distinguished Professional Woman Award; and the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching.
From page 191...
... He also has served on the Board of Directors of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation; and as program director of Practice Sights: State Primary Care Development Strategies, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national program. He is a Senior Research Fellow with the Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
From page 192...
... He is currently a Principal Investigator on a grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) entitled "Hispanic Health Services Utilization: Defining and Exploring Disparities" and on a grant from the Commonwealth Fund entitled "Cultural Competence in Health Care: A Practical Synthesis for Multilevel Policy Implementation." He is also Co-investigator on a National Cancer Institute grant entitled "Understanding Racial Differences in Lung Cancer Treatment." Dr.
From page 193...
... , one of the nation's largest ongoing health surveys, which is specially designed to be inclusive of California's ethnic and racial diversity. CHTS covers a broad range of health issues, including health status and conditions, a broad array of public health issues, and health insurance and access to care.
From page 194...
... Her efforts in directing the work of eight teams of researchers analyzing data from the National Medical Expenditure Survey resulted in the publication Achieving Equitable Access: Studies of Health Care Issues Affecting Hispanics and African Americans.
From page 195...
... He is currently Principal Investigator of the Whitehall studies of British civil servants, and Principal Investigator of the newly launched English Longitudinal Study of Aging. Together with the National Centre for Social Research, the International Centre for Health and Society conducts the Health Surveys for England and Scotland.
From page 196...
... Doriane Miller joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation staff as program vice president in ~ 997. She brought the foundation 15 years' experience as a community-based primary care provider who had worked with underserved, minority populations with a special interest in mental health and substance abuse issues.
From page 197...
... His research has involved clinical epidemiology, health services research and patient outcomes research using prospective methods of randomized controlled trials and cohort
From page 198...
... Dr. Powe led the End-Stage Renal Disease Patient Outcomes Research Team and the ESRD Quality (EQUAL)
From page 199...
... In addition to his scholarly work, he has assisted numerous community groups in conducting needs assessment and evaluation studies. He has written technical reports for community and state agencies on issues related to homelessness, discrimination confronting Hmong refugees and Filipino immigrants, multicultural education, Native Hawaiian health and mental health needs, and youth correctional programs.


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