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SIDEBAR: MEDCAC Roster


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Rita Redberg, MD, MS, Chair
Professor of Medicine
UCSF School of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
University of California,
San Francisco, Medical Center

Art Sedrakyan, MD, PhD, Vice Chair
Associate Professor and Director
Patient Centered Comparative Outcomes Research Program
Weill Cornell Medical School

Harry Burke, MD, PhD
Associate Professor Biomedical Informatics and Medicine Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences
Clinician, Internal Medicine Service
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Allan M. Fendrick, MD
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Michigan School of Public Health

Mark D. Grant, MD, PhD
Director
Technology Assessment Technology Evaluation Center Center for Clinical Effectiveness
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Jo Carol Hiatt, MD, MBA, FACS
Chair, Inter-Regional New
Technology Committee
Kaiser Permanente

David Howard, PhD
Associate Professor
Health Policy and Management
Emory University

Gail Melkus, EdD, C-NP, FAAN Florence and William Downs
Professor in Nursing Research
Director, Muriel and Virginia Pless
Center for Nursing Research

Curtis Mock, MD, MBA
Senior Medical Director
Vice President, Medicare Advantage
UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement

Gerald A. White, Jr, MS,  AAPM, FACR
Medical Physicist
Penrose Cancer Center
St. Mary Corwin Regional
Medical Center

Industry Representative

Martin D. Marciniak, MPP, PhD Vice President
US Health Outcomes
GlaxoSmithKline

Guest Panel Members

V. Paul Doria-Rose, DVM, PhD Epidemiologist
National Cancer Institute
Division of Cancer Conrol and Population Sciences
Applied Research Program Health Services and Economics Branch

Michael K. Gould, MD, MS
Senior Research Scientist
Director for Health Services
Research and Implementation
Science
Kaiser Permanente
Southern California
Kaiser Permanente Research
Department of Research & Evaluation

Jeffrey B. Rich, MD
CardioThoracic Surgeon
Mid-Atlantic Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Ltd

Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH
Director
Center on Society and Health
Professor
Department of Family Medicine and Population Health
Virginia Commonwealth University

 

Invited Guest Speakers

Laurie Fenton Ambrose
President and CEO
Lung Cancer Alliance

Peter Bach, MD, MAPP
Attending Physician & Director
Center for Health Policy and Outcomes
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Doug Campos-Outcalt MD, MPA
Chair
Department of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix

Paul Pinsky, MD
Division of Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

CMS Liaison

Tamara Syrek Jensen, JD
Acting Director
Coverage and Analysis Group

Executive Secretary

Maria Ellis
Coverage and Analysis Group


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