| Henry Aaron Henry J. Aaron is currently the Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. From 1990 through 1996 he was the director of the Economic Studies program. Dr. Aaron initially joined the Brookings staff in 1968. From 1967 until 1989 he also taught at the University of Maryland. In 1977 and 1978 he served as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He chaired the 1979 Advisory Council on Social Security. During the academic year 1996-97, he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Dr. Aaron is a graduate of U.C.L.A and holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the advisory committee of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the visiting committee of the Harvard Medical School. He is a member of the board of directors of Abt Associates and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He was a founding member, vice president, and chair of the board of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He has been vice president and member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association and was president of the Association of Public Policy and Management. He has been a member of the boards of directors of the College Retirement Equity Fund and Georgetown University.
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| Melinda Buntin Melinda Buntin, Ph.D. is the chair of the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine. She previously served as Deputy Assistant Director for Health at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), where she was responsible for managing and directing studies of health care and health care financing issues in the Health, Retirement, and Long-term analysis Division. Prior to joining CBO, Dr. Buntin worked at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, where she established and directed the economic analysis, evaluation, and modeling group, while on leave from RAND. At RAND, Dr. Buntin served as deputy director of RAND Health’s Economics, Financing, and Organization Program, director of Public Sector Initiatives for RAND Health, and co-director of the Bing Center for Health Economics. Her research at RAND focused on insurance benefit design, health insurance markets, provider payment, and the care use and needs of the elderly. She has an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton and a Ph.D. in Health Policy with a concentration in economics from Harvard University.
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| Ceci Connolly Ceci Connolly is the Managing Director of the Health Research Institute at PwC, a research organization dedicated to objective analysis on the issues, policies and trends important to health organizations and policymakers. Ms. Connolly is a veteran journalist, author and commentator who spent 25 years in the news business, reporting on national politics, health care, Latin America and natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. As the national health correspondent for the Washington Post, she chronicled enactment of the Affordable Care Act and was co-author of Landmark: The Inside Story of America’s New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All. During her years in journalism, she reported on six U.S. presidential campaigns and was a major contributor to the book Deadlock: The Inside Story of America’s Closest Election. She spent more than two years based in Mexico City, traveling extensively throughout Latin America. She produced a daily blog on Mexico’s 2006 presidential race, as well as a multimedia project on HIV-AIDS along the U.S.-Mexico border. Ms. Connolly is a board member for the nonprofit Whitman Walker Health, and is the first non-physician to receive the Mayo Clinic's prestigious Plummer Society Award for promoting deeper understanding of science and medicine. She also serves on the National Advisory Board of the Center for Sustainable Health Spending and was the recipient of a fellowship at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She has appeared on PBS’ Washington Week, The Early Show on CBS, NPR’s Diane Rehm Show and several news programs on MSNBC and the Fox News Channel. She has spoken at the prestigious National Press Club, the Chautauqua Institution, the Cleveland Clinic, numerous universities and health care conferences. Prior to joining PwC, Ms. Connolly was a senior adviser at the McKinsey Center for Health Reform. In her role at the Health Research Institute, Ms. Connolly oversees a team of independent analysts and writers who track major developments across the health care spectrum.
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| Zack Cooper Zack Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and Economics at Yale University. He is also a Resident Fellow at the school’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) where he serves as Director of the Health Policy Initiative. Professor Cooper’s work is focused on examining the intersection of public policy, health care and economics. In particular, his research centers on three areas. The first is examining how competition impacts heath care providers’ quality and productivity. The second is looking at pricing dynamics in the hospital industry and the extent that rising prices explain rising overall health spending. The third is studying the factors that explain productivity differences across hospitals. Professor Cooper received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and his PhD from the London School of Economics, where he remains a Faculty Associate at the school’s Centre for Economic Performance. Prior to his work in academia, Professor Cooper worked as a speechwriter and policy advisor to several senior policy-makers and politicians in Great Britain.
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| Richard Frank Richard G. Frank is the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. As the ASPE, Dr. Frank advises the Secretary on development of health, disability, human services, data, and science policy and provides advice and analysis on economic policy. Dr. Frank is on leave from his position as the Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, a position he has held since 1999. From 2009 to 2011 he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation directing the office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy. His research is focused on the economics of mental health and substance abuse care, long term care financing policy, and disability policy. Until his appointment, Dr. Frank was also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and recently served as an Editor for the Journal of Health Economics. From 1994 to 1999, Dr. Frank was Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Policy at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Frank previously held faculty positions at the Department of Health Policy and Management in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University from 1984 to 1994 and at the University of Pittsburgh from 1980 to 1984. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of Botswana from 1975 to 1976. He is the 2011 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Mental Health Association of Maryland. Dr. Frank was awarded the Georgescu-Roegen prize from the Southern Economic Association, the Carl A. Taube Award from the American Public Health Association, and the Emily Mumford Medal from Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry. In 2011 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Mental Health Association of Maryland. Dr. Frank received the John Eisberg Mentorship Award from National Research Service Awards. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1997. He is co-author with Sherry Glied of the book ‘Better but Not Well” (Johns Hopkins Press). Dr. Frank received a B.A. in Economics from Bard College and a PhD in Economics from Boston University.
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| Martin Gaynor Martin Gaynor is the E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and former Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. He is one of the founders of the Health Care Cost Institute, an independent non-partisan nonprofit dedicated to advancing knowledge about US health care spending, and served as the first Chair of its governing board. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an International Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon Dr. Gaynor held faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins anda number of other universities, and was a visitor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest in 1991. His research focuses on competition and antitrust policy in health care markets. He has written extensively on this topic, testified before Congress, and advised the governments of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom on competition issues in health care. He has won a number of awards for his research, including the Victor R. Fuchs Research Award, the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation Health Care Research Award, the Kenneth J. Arrow Award, the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship (finalist), and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. Dr. Gaynor received his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego in 1977 and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1983.
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| 0 | Lisa Grabert Lisa Grabert is professional staff for health subcommittee for the House Ways and Means committee for Chairman Ryan. In her capacity on Ways and Means Ms. Grabert has responsibility over the Medicare Part A portfolio. Prior to Ways and Means, she was a senior associate director of policy at the American Hospital Association (AHA). In her three years at AHA she worked with hospitals on quality and payment issues including accountable care organizations, bundled payment, value-based purchasing and readmissions. Prior to the AHA, Ms. Grabert was a policy analyst in the Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). She was with CMS for five years. At CMS, Ms. Grabert supported the strategic and operational implementation of CMS’ value-based purchasing initiatives for both inpatient and physician office fee-for-service Medicare. Ms. Grabert earned a Masters in Public Health, with an emphasis in Health Policy and Management from Emory University in Atlanta, GA and a Bachelor of Science degree with an emphasis in biochemistry and communication arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. | ||
| David Grabowski David C. Grabowski, PhD, is a professor of health care policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the economics of aging with a particular interest in the area of long-term care. His research has considered issues related to long-term care financing, organization and delivery of services. Dr. Grabowski is the principal investigator on ongoing grants from the National Institute on Aging examining Medicare payment incentives and the implications for nursing home volume, patient acuity and quality of care (R01 AG30079); selection and the impact of ownership on nursing home quality (R01 AG34179); and, public policy and the demand for long-term care insurance (R01 AG41109). Other ongoing projects include an examination of the economic incentives associated with hospitalizations from the nursing home setting, work analyzing the relationship between Medicare and Medicaid in long-term care, and an analysis of the growth in potential substitutes for nursing home care, such as assisted living. Dr. Grabowski is also leading a team at Harvard in the evaluation of the CMS Nursing Home Value-Based Purchasing Demonstration. Dr. Grabowski is a coeditor of the journal Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology and he is a member of the editorial board of Medical Care Research & Review and B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy. He was the 2004 recipient of the Thompson Prize for Young Investigators from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. Dr. Grabowski received his BA degree from Duke University and his PhD in public policy from the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.
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| Katherine Hempstead Since late 2013, Katherine Hempstead, PhD, has directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s work on health insurance coverage. In addition, Hempstead works on issues related to health care price transparency and value. She joined the Foundation in 2011 as a senior program officer in the Research-Evaluation-Learning unit. Previously, Hempstead was director of the Center for Health Statistics in the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. She also served as statistician/analyst in the Office of the Attorney General, New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, and as an assistant research professor at the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, where she currently holds a visiting faculty position. Hempstead also held positions at New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service, and at Catholic University, in Washington D.C. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Born in New Jersey, Hempstead received a PhD in Demography and History from the University of Pennsylvania, where she also earned a BA in Economics and History.
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| Joanne Kennen Joanne Kenen is the health care editor of Politico. Kenen has covered everything from Haitian voodoo festivals to U.S. presidential campaigns. (Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference.) Since arriving in Washington in 1994, she has focused on health policy and health politics. She joined POLITICO in Sept. 2011. Kenen got the newspaper bug in second grade (the Teeny Town News), spent way too much time at the Harvard Crimson and then found herself in Central America, where she had an Inter American Press Association fellowship. She worked for Reuters in New York, Florida and the Caribbean and Washington. As a Kaiser Family Foundation media fellow in 2006-07, she wrote about aging and palliative care. She spent three years writing and blogging about health policy at the nonpartisan New America Foundation. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic, Kaiser Health News, the Washingtonian, CQ, The Washington Post, the Center for Public Integrity, Health Affairs, AARP’s The Magazine and Bulletin, National Journal, Slate and Miller-McCune. She co-authored two books that have absolutely nothing to do with health: “The Costa Rica Reader” and a parenting book, “The Sleep Lady’s Good Night, Sleep Tight.” One was adopted in college courses. The other one made money. When she isn’t busy trying to figure out what Congress is up to (not that Congress always knows what Congress is up to), she can be found in Bethesda, Md., with her husband, Ken Cohen, and their two sons. When she needs a break from health policy, she writes about her kids, chocolate cake or cross-dressing female pirates.
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| Mark McClellan Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, is a senior fellow and director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative at the Brookings Institution. Within Brookings, his work focuses on promoting quality and value in patient centered health care. A doctor and economist by training, he also has a highly distinguished record in public service and in academic research. Dr. McClellan is a former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where he developed and implemented major reforms in health policy. These include the Medicare prescription drug benefit, the FDA’s Critical Path Initiative, and public-private initiatives to develop better information on the quality and cost of care. Dr. McClellan chairs the FDA’s Reagan-Udall Foundation, is co-chair of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, sits on the National Quality Forum’s Board of Directors, is a member of the Institute of Medicine, and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and senior director for health care policy at the White House, and was an associate professor of economics.
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| Anne Montgomery Anne Montgomery is a senior policy analyst at Altarum Institute’s Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness and a visiting scholar at the National Academy of Social Insurance. From 2007 to 2013, Ms. Montgomery served as senior policy advisor for the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, where she was responsible for developing hearings and legislation to improve nursing homes and home and community-based services in Medicaid, dually eligible beneficiaries, health care workforce issues, elder abuse, dementia care, and community and social support services for older adults. She has also served as a senior health policy associate with the Alliance for Health Reform in Washington, DC; a senior analyst in public health at the U.S. Government Accountability Office; and a legislative aide for the Ways & Means Health Subcommittee. Based in London as an Atlantic fellow in public policy in 2001–2002, Ms. Montgomery undertook comparative policy analysis of the role of family caregivers in the development of long-term care in the United Kingdom and the United States. During the 1990s, she worked as a health and science journalist covering the National Institutes of Health and Congress. A member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and Academy Health, Ms. Montgomery has an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in English literature from the University of Virginia and has taken gerontology coursework at The Johns Hopkins University.
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| Len Nichols Dr. Nichols, professor of health policy and director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, joined George Mason University in early 2010. He plans to continue the work began he began at the New America Foundation, bridging the worlds of health economics and health services research for health system stakeholders and clinical leaders, elected and appointed policy officials and journalists. He founded and directed Health CEOs for Health Reform, a group that was pivotal in helping policy makers see that delivery system reform and health insurance reform are necessary and feasible complements. Dr. Nichols has testified frequently before Congress and state legislatures, published widely in a variety of health journals, and is a popular public speaker on health policy and politics. Before joining George Mason, Nichols served as the director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation, the vice president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, a principal research associate at the Urban Institute, senior advisor for health policy at the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton Administration’s health reform effort, and chair of the Economics Department at Wellesley College. He has advised the World Bank and the Pan American Health Organization, as well as various state governments and departments of the U.S. Government. Because of his reputation as an honest and knowledgeable health policy analyst, he is frequently interviewed and quoted by major media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, National Public Radio, Lerher News Hour, the British Broadcasting Service, NBC Nightly News, ABC News Tonight, and CBS Evening News. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1980.
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| Charles Roehrig Charles Roehrig, PhD, is a Vice President and Institute Fellow who directs Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending. His research interests include timelier tracking of health spending, determining its sustainable growth rate, and modeling its future growth. He has overseen development of the Altarum Health Sector Economic Indicators, which provide monthly tracking of health spending, prices, utilization, and employment. Dr. Roehrig developed the Triangle of Painful Choices to illustrate the link between the federal budget and the sustainable rate of health spending. He also led the development of estimates of national health spending by medical condition (including spending on prevention) and has extended this research to include the impact of disease prevalence on expenditure growth. Dr. Roehrig is currently studying the impact of primary prevention on health spending and is modeling the impact of business cycles on health spending growth. He also has many years of experience in modeling health workforce supply and requirements. His work has been published in Health Affairs and the New England Journal of Medicine, and he blogs regularly for Altarum's Health Policy Forum and Health Affairs. In addition to his applied research, he has published in the field of theoretical econometrics in academic journals such as Econometrica and the Journal of Econometrics. Dr. Roehrig holds a PhD in economics and an MS in statistics from the University of Michigan and a BA in economics from Amherst College.
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| Louise Sheiner Louise Sheiner is a senior fellow in Economic Studies and policy director for the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy. She had served as an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System since 1993, most recently as the senior economist in the Fiscal Analysis Section for the Research and Statistics Division. In her time at the Fed, she was also appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1996), and served as Senior Staff Economist for the Council of Economic Advisers (1995-96). Before joining the Fed, Dr. Sheiner was an economist at the Joint Committee on Taxation. Dr. Sheiner pursues research on health spending and other fiscal issues. She received her PhD in economics from Harvard University, as well as an undergraduate degree in biology at Harvard.
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| Ben Sommers Dr. Sommers is a health economist and a physician whose main research interests are health policy for vulnerable populations, the uninsured, and the health care safety net. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the Outstanding Dissertation Award from AcademyHealth, a preeminent national association of health policy researchers, and the Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Sommers is a practicing primary care internist, and he is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. From 2011-2012, he served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and he has continued to serve part-time in an advisory role in 2013-2015. His current research projects focus on barriers to health care access among low-income adults, Medicaid policy, and national health reform.
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| 0 | Jay Sulzmann Jay Sulzmann serves as Legislative Director for Senator Johnny Isakson (GA). His professional responsibilities include overseeing the Senator’s legislative priorities and advising on health policy issues under the jurisdiction of the Committees on Finance and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), both of which Senator Isakson serves on. A native of Washington State, Mr. Sulzmann joined Senator Isakson’s staff in January 2013. He previously worked for Congressman Wally Herger of California from 2004 to 2012 and handled health policy during Congressman Herger's tenure as Ranking Member and then Chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health. Mr. Sulzmann holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. | ||
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