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Sherry Glied served as a Senior Economist for health care and labor market policy to the President's Council of Economic Advisors, under both President Bush and President Clinton in 1992-1993. She also was a participant in President Clinton's Health Care Task Force in 1993. She is studying the US employer-based health system, and researching ways to expand health insurance among uninsured Americans.
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Marcia
Angell, MD was named one of the 25 most influential Americans by Time
magazine in 1997. She has authored a number of publications related
to ethics and policy, including Science on Trial:The Clash of Medical
Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case (1996).
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Gail
Wilensky serves as Chair of the Medicare
Payment Advisory Committee,
which advises Congress on all payment and expenditure issues related
to Medicare. Her previous position was in the White House, serving
as Deputy Assistant to the President for Policy Development, where
she advised President Bush on health and welfare issues. She came
to the White House after serving as the Administrator of the Health
Care Financing Administration (HCFA) where she directed the Medicare
and Medicaid programs. |
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Bruce Vladeck was Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) from 1993 to 1997, directing the Medicare and Medicaid programs. He played a central role in the formulation and enactment of Medicare, Medicaid, and Child Health provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Earlier in his career, he served ten years as President of the United Hospital Fund of New York.
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Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD is Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in the history of medicine, medical institutions, and health policy and is the author of American Medicine and the Public Interest (1971) and In Sickness and In Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century (1999). |
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Uwe
Reinhardt has served on a number of government committees and commissions,
including the National Council on Health Care Technology and as
Commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission. He is a
member of the National Leadership Coalition on Health Care, a private
sector initiative to develop options for health care reform, co-chaired
by former Presidents Carter and Ford. Dr. Reinhardt serves on a
number of health policy-related advisory panels, and is Commissioner
of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. |
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Thomas
Murray's research interests cover a broad range of ethical issues
in medicine and science. He is Chair of the National Institutes
of Health Center for Human Genome Research's Task Force on Genetics
and Insurance. Dr. Murray is the current President of the American
Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He is the former Director
of the Center for Biomedical Ethics in the School of Medicine at
Case Western Reserve University. |
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Haavi
Morreim's research focuses on the ethical and legal implications
of medicine's changing economics. She has a joint appointment as
Professor in the Division of Health Services and Policy Research
at the University of Tennessee. Her book, Balancing Act: The New
Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics, was first published
in 1991. |
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David
Eddy, who is widely credited with coining the term "evidence-based
medicine," is the author of five books, numerous articles, and
a series of essays for the Journal of the American Medical Association.
He has served on many international commissions, including Consumers
Union and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA),
and is the Chief Scientist for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association's
TEC (Technology Evaluation and Coverage) Program. Dr. Eddy directed
the Center for Health Policy Research and Education at Duke before
becoming an independent researcher and writer. |
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Gail
R. Wilensky, PhD
Rosemary
A. Stevens, PhD
Thomas
H. Murray, PhD
