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Biographical Sketches from
the Stakeholder Summit Since leaving clinical practice in general dentistry, Dr. Antman has sought opportunities to advance quality improvement and professionalism in health care. In 11 years at the American Medical Association (AMA), he has served in key staff roles for the AMA-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® (PCPI). Comprising representatives of over 100 national medical specialty and state medical societies, certifying boards, federal agencies, and health care professional organizations, the PCPI is committed to enhancing quality of care and patient safety by leading the development, testing, and maintenance of evidence-based clinical performance measures and measurement resources for clinicians. As lead staff to numerous, multi-disciplinary PCPI expert panels, Dr. Antman has reviewed clinical practice guidelines, guided panel members in the selection of clinical recommendations on which measures may be based, and managed the development and specification of comprehensive measure sets. Topics addressed by measure development panels staffed by Dr. Antman include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, perioperative care, stroke and stroke rehabilitation, prostate cancer, and care transitions. He has also participated in drafting several PCPI white papers on measure development methodology, most recently leading development of a position statement (currently under review by PCPI members) establishing a framework for the objective selection of guidelines from which PCPI panels may derive measures. Dr. Antman received his dental degree from the University of Illinois College of Dentistry and completed his MBA at the Keller Graduate School of Management. Dr. David Atkins is the Director of the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) program in the Office of Research and Development of the Veterans Administration. In that role, he oversees a network of nine research centers dedicated to studying and improving the implementation of new practices to improve the quality of care in the VA health system. Before coming to the VA, Dr. Atkins spent 12 years at Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, providing scientific oversight to their work on evidence-based practice, care management, and comparative effectiveness. He is a board certified internist and clinical epidemiologist. He received his MD from Yale University, completed his residency at Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and received his MPH from U. Washington where he completed a Primary Medicine Fellowship. Ethan Balk MD, MPH is Co-Director Tufts Center for Kidney Disease Guideline Development and Implementation, and Associate Director Tufts Medical Center Evidence-based Practice Center. Dr. Balk is an internist whose research focuses on evidence-based medicine, systematic review, guideline development, and assessment of data and literature quality. Since 2000, he has coordinated the collection, evaluation, grading, and synthesis of evidence for 10 sets of completed and ongoing clinical practice guidelines on chronic kidney disease for the US-based Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Outcomes Initiative (KDOQI) and the international Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO). He is currently working with Workgroups of nephrologists and other domain experts, together with the National Kidney Foundation, to finalize guidelines on Care of the Kidney Transplant Recipient and on guidelines for the Management of Glomerulonephritis. He has also led methodological teams coordinating a clinical practice guideline for the Society of Gynecological Surgeons, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He has also produced numerous systematic reviews and technology assessments for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Evidence-based Practice Center, since 1999. In addition to the clinical practice guidelines and reports to AHRQ, his publications include systematic reviews in the fields of cardiovascular disease, nutrition, nephrology, orthopedics, surgery, disability, and infectious diseases; methodology of systematic review, guideline development, and study quality assessment; and cost-effectiveness analyses. Jako Burgers, MD, PhD is a practicing physician and senior researcher at IQ healthcare, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, where his research interests focus on the development and dissemination of clinical practice guidelines to improve quality of patient care. He is also Senior Consultant at the Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement CBO, and founding member of the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N), an organization that works toward the development, adaptation and implementation of clinical practice guidelines and has a membership of 86 organizations from 37 countries. In 2007/2008, he served as chair of the network and gave lectures and training workshops in Taiwan, Australia, and Europe. In 2008-09 he is Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, based at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, conducting research on coordinated and integrated patient care. He is a member of the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute. Burgers has authored over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles on guidelines development and effectiveness in clinical practice, with publications in the Lancet, Quality and Safety in Health Care, International Journal of Quality in Health Care, and the British Journal of General Practice. He holds a medical degree from the Free University Amsterdam and a PhD from the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, where his dissertation, “Quality of Clinical Practice Guidelines,” received the CARE award in 2002. Dr. Roger Chou is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Medicine and Staff Physician in the Internal Medicine Clinic at OHSU. Dr. Chou is also Scientific Director of the Evidence-based Practice Center, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and an Investigator for the Scientific Resource Center of the AHRQ Effective Health Care Program (www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov). His research interests are systematic review methodology, meta-analysis, screening and preventive services, guideline development, and drug effectiveness. As an investigator at the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center, Dr. Chou has led systematic evidence reviews for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, AHRQ’s Comparative Effective Health Care Program, and the Drug Effectiveness Review Project. Dr. Chou has also been the Director of the American Pain Society (APS) Clinical Practice Guidelines Development Program since 2004. As Director of the APS Clinical Guidelines Program, Dr. Chou has led the development of clinical guidelines for the management of low back pain and the use of opioids for non-cancer pain, and for updating a number of other practice guidelines for APS. Dr. Chou has had over 35 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Vivian H. Coates is ECRI’s Vice President for Information Services and Health Technology Assessment. Ms. Coates developed and leads ECRI’s evidence-based medicine and health technology assessment program and works to enhance the program’s contribution to the healthcare community. Ms. Coates oversees ECRI’s Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC), and all related evidence-based programs, including the Health Technology Assessment Information Service for hospitals and health systems, health plans and health policymakers. She initiates and fosters relationships with the users of health technology assessment information to promote the use of evidence-based medicine in healthcare purchasing, delivery, coverage, and clinical practice guideline development. Ms. Coates is Project Director for ECRI’s contract with the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to develop, implement, and maintain the National Guideline Clearinghouse™, an Internet-accessible database of summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents, and also the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™, a database of evidence-based healthcare quality measures and supporting documentation. Since 1986, Ms. Coates has developed many of ECRI’s healthcare information resources, from concept and research stages through ongoing production and management. Her projects have included print publications, online and CD-ROM databases, ECRI’s medical device coding and classification system, and customized programs for the healthcare community. As a member of ECRI’s Executive Staff, she has broad management responsibilities that include the recruitment and oversight of personnel resources as well as the acquisition of material resources to support ECRI's mission to improve the safety, efficacy and cost effectiveness of healthcare.
Cheryl R. Dennison, RN, ANP, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Department of Health Systems and Outcomes and School of Medicine Division of Health Sciences Informatics. Dr. Dennison is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and 2008-2010 John A. Hartford Foundation Claire M. Fagin Fellow. Dr. Dennison has expertise in developing and testing interventions to reduce cardiovascular risk among high risk populations in the acute care and community settings. Her current NIH-funded research is focused on reducing system and provider barriers to heart failure guideline implementation in the acute care setting and promoting self management among patients with heart failure. She is developing and testing an innovative, interactive, Web-based clinical decision support system to improve nurse and physician implementation of national evidence-based guidelines and thereby improve quality of care among heart failure patients. In another trial, she is testing a care transition intervention designed to promote self management and improved outcomes among African American patients hospitalized for acute heart failure exacerbation. Dr. Dennison is co-investigator on several NIH-funded randomized controlled trials to test the effectiveness of community-based cardiovascular risk intervention programs targeting high risk urban populations. In addition, she is co-investigator on an NIH Fogarty Center-funded study assessing total cardiovascular risk and barriers to high blood pressure care among black South Africans. As a clinician and researcher, Dr. Dennison is committed to developing and testing interdisciplinary approaches to improve the quality of cardiovascular care across the care continuum to reduce cardiovascular risk for high risk, underserved populations. Dr. Kay Dickersin
is Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health, where she is Director of the Center for Clinical
Trials. She also serves as the Director of the US Cochrane Center
(USCC), one of 13 Centers worldwide participating in The Cochrane
Collaboration. Dr. Dickersin is an editor of the Cochrane Eyes and
Vision Review Group (CEVG), and oversees United States CEVG contributions,
with support from the National Eye Institute. Garabed Eknoyan is Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is a past president of the National Kidney Foundation, Founding Co-Chair of its Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative (DOQI), Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI), and of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO). Dr. Eknoyan chaired the Steering Committee of the multi-center HEMO Study and currently chairs the Data Safety Monitoring Board of the Frequent Hemodialysis Study both sponsored by the NIH-NIDDK. He is a founding member, past president and currently secretary-treasurer of the International Association for the History of Nephrology. He has authored over 300 articles and book chapters and served on the editorial boards of several journals including the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, American Journal of Nephrology, Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease, Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation, Seminars in Nephrology, and Clinical Nephrology. Dr. Eknoyan is an honorary member of several national nephrology societies and the recipient of a number of awards including the Award of Excellence of the American Association of Kidney Patients, the Award of Exceptional Leadership of the National Kidney Foundation, the Sandor Koranyi medal of the Hungarian Society of Nephrology, and the Medicus Hippocraticus Prize of the Fondation Internationale Hippocratique. Dr. Eknoyan received his medical degree from the American University of Beirut and served his residencies at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and Boston City Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism at the University of Texas southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Falck-Ytter, a trained gastroenterologist and hepatologist and an Assistant Professor of Medicine, has his research interest in the areas of liver disease and evidence translation. After spending three years as the associate director of the German Cochrane Centre training researchers in methodologies related to systematic reviews and meta-analyses, he joined the Case Western Reserve University faculty in 2004. Dr. Falck-Ytter is active in the development of a next generation system for grading evidence and recommendation (GRADE) to facilitate evidence translation and improve outcome of care. He has organized workshops and presented GRADE to a wide range of institutions, such as the UK’s National Institute of Clinical Excellence, UpToDate, the European Centers of Disease Control, the German Cochrane Center, and the Agency for Health Care Quality and Research. Martha M. Faraday, PhD, earned her doctorate in Medical Psychology (2000) with a specialty in methodology and biostatistics from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland. Her peer-reviewed publications reflect her focus as a working scientist on human and animal laboratory models of stress, feeding, and addiction. She also has expertise in social psychology, group facilitation, and group process. She currently performs statistical, methodological, and facilitation services to individuals and groups as a private consultant. Most recently, she has worked extensively with the American Urological Association on systematic reviews and meta-analyses to support guideline development efforts and process refinements to shorten timelines and improve product quality and usability. Marc N. Gourevitch, MD, MPH, is Dr. Adolph and Margaret Berger Professor of Medicine and founding Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Gourevitch leads NYU’s Population Health Research initiative, bridging multiple departments and several of NYU’s schools. He is Principal Investigator of NYU’s CDC-funded Fellowship in Medicine and Public Health Research, in which fellows and junior faculty develop applied research skills in addressing challenges in population health. His research interests center on health service utilization and clinical epidemiology among drug users and other underserved populations; integrating pharmacologic treatments for opioid and alcohol dependence into primary care; and effective strategies for promoting behavior change in general medical settings.
Dr. Harris is a Methodologist and Guideline Medical Editor with the Permanente Federation Care Management Institute (CMI) in Oakland, California. He is a Senior Physician with The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) in San Rafael, California and represents TPMG on the Federation Guideline Quality Committee. At the San Rafael Medical Center, he practices Urgent Care and has been a Primary Care Physician. He also works on medication and chronic pain management, screening standards, and Medical Spanish training. Dr. Harris holds a BS from Yale University in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, his MD from the University of New Mexico with an emphasis on primary care, an MPH in Medical Care Organization from the University of Michigan, and an MBA in Executive Management from the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He is Board Certified in Preventive Medicine, Occupational Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He has served as a General Medical Officer with the U.S. Public Health Service and Special Assistant to the Commissioner of Health and Environment of the Tennessee Department of Health and Environment (TDHE) Dr. Harris is a member of the Cochrane Collaboration Musculoskeletal and Back Groups and the Occupational Health Field. He has been involved with the development of practice resources and practice guidelines since 1978. He developed practice resources for the SE Alaska Regional Health Corporation, the SE Alaska EMS Consortium, the University of Alaska School of Nursing, Northern Telecom, the Alexander & Alexander Consulting Group, and Med-Fx LLC. He has developed consensus, data and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for Prudential, Aetna, CIGNA, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), the Texas Research and Oversight Commission and others. He was the lead author of the ACOEM guideline methodology. Roger C. Herdman initiated and currently directs the IOM National Cancer Policy Forum (May 2005 to date), which includes as members federal and private sector agencies or organizations in addition to at large academic/industry members. In October 2008, he was appointed Director of the IOM Board on Health Care Services in addition to his other duties. Also, from 1996 to date he has worked on IOM relations with the U.S. Congress He held positions of Assistant Professor and Professor of Pediatrics, respectively, at the University of Minnesota and the Albany Medical College between 1966-1979. In 1969, he was appointed Director of the New York State Kidney Disease Institute in Albany, New York, and then during 1969-1977 served as Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health where he was responsible for research, departmental health care facilities and the state’s Medicaid program at various times. In 1977, he was named New York State’s Director of Public Health. From 1979 until joining the US Congress’s Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) he was a Vice President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. In December 1983, he was named Assistant Director of OTA and then Acting Director and Director from January 1993-February 1996. After the closure of OTA, Dr. Herdman joined the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine as a Senior Scholar, where he directed studies on graduate medical education, organ transplantation, silicone breast implants, and the VA national formulary. On completing those studies he was appointed Director of the IOM/NRC National Cancer Policy Board from August 2000 through April 2005. Dr. Herdman
graduated from Yale University, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa,
BS, 1955; and Yale University School of Medicine, MD, 1958. He completed
his Internship at the University of Minnesota and served as a Medical
Officer, US Navy, 1959-61. Thereafter, Dr. Herdman completed a residency
in pediatrics and continued with a medical fellowship in immunology
and nephrology at Minnesota. Heddy Hubbard, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN Heddy Hubbard, PhD, MPH RN, FAAN is Director of Guidelines for the American Urological Association. She was formerly Acting Director for the Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Hubbard has been affiliated with various agencies in the U.S. Public Health Service and has addressed issues on cancer research, occupational health, maternal and child health, health professions, and health policy. She has authored over thirty publications on various aspects of health care. Dr. Hubbard received a nursing diploma from Bloomfield College/Presbyterian Hospital, a BSN from the University of Maryland, an MPH from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, a recipient of a Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellowship, and a member of the American Urological Association, Academy Health, American Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau International, Society for Urologic Nursing, and Montgomery County Maryland Medical Reserve Corps. Dr. Henry Jampel is currently the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs Professor of Ophthalmology, Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He received his bachelor's degree in Biology, summa cum laude, from Harvard College, and subsequently attended the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Jampel pursued both his ophthalmology residency training and glaucoma fellowship at the Wilmer Institute, and was then invited to join the faculty. In 1996, he received a Master's degree in Health Finance and Administration. He serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief of Ophthalmology, one of the premier journals in the field, and the official journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). He is the Chairman of the Research Committee of the American Glaucoma Society and a member of the AAO Ophthalmic Technology Panel. Marguerite Koster has been involved in evidence-based clinical practice guideline development and technology assessment at Kaiser Permanente (KP) for more than 17 years. She is currently the Practice Leader for the Technology Assessment & Guidelines (TAG) Unit, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, where she manages a staff of 10 research analysts in conducting systematic evidence reviews to support evidence-based clinical practice guideline development, medical technology evaluation, and health system implementation efforts. For many years, Ms. Koster has been actively involved within Kaiser Permanente in the development of evidence-based medicine and methodology standards for guideline development and technology assessment at the organization’s national and regional levels. She is currently a member of the KP Southern California Medical Technology Assessment Team (MTAT), the KP Interregional New Technology Committee (INTC), the KP National Guideline Directors, and the KP Guideline Quality Committee. Ms. Koster also has a long history of collaboration with external healthcare, professional and accrediting organizations on evidence-based clinical guidelines, technology assessments and performance measurement. In the mid-1990s, she worked with David Eddy, MD (at the time a Senior Advisor for Health Policy and Management to Kaiser Permanente Southern California) and the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) on the development of the organization’s first evidence-based clinical guideline and cost-effectiveness analysis for osteoporosis prevention and treatment. She is currently a member of the Joint Commission’s Osteoporosis Technical Advisory Panel, and actively participates in collaborative activities with external private, nonprofit and governmental organizations involved in the development of evidence-based technology assessments and clinical practice guidelines. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Ms. Koster was a research analyst at the University of Southern California’s Social Science Research Institute, where she conducted survey research and statistical analysis for grants funded by the National Institute of Justice and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. In addition, she taught sociology courses at Pitzer College (Claremont Colleges) and worked for many years as a psychotherapist specializing in residential drug treatment and recovery programs for court-referred and homeless adults with a history of substance addiction. Robert M. Krughoff is founder and president of Center for the Study of Services/Consumers’ CHECKBOOK, an independent, nonprofit consumer organization founded in 1974. The organization publishes local versions of Consumers' CHECKBOOK magazine in seven major metropolitan areas (Seattle/Tacoma, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Philadelphia, San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose, and Washington, DC). The magazine evaluates local service firms such as auto repair shops, hospitals, plumbers, and banks. CHECKBOOK also has nationally distributed products and services designed to help consumers choose quality and save money, including: Guide to Top Doctors, Consumers’ Guide to Hospitals, Guide to Health Insurance Plans for Federal Employees, the CarDeals rebate and incentive newsletter, and the CarBargains and LeaseWise services that help consumers throughout the U.S. get good prices on new cars. Krughoff is author of many of CHECKBOOK’s publications; CHECKBOOK’s products and services are available online at www.checkbook.org. In addition, Center for the Study of Services/Consumers’ CHECKBOOK has been, or currently is, the survey administrator/consultant for various large-scale surveys in which patients are asked to evaluate their physicians, hospitals, and health plans, including CMS’s CAHPS surveys of members of Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans, and the major surveys of patients about their physicians done by the Pacific Business Group on Health and Massachusetts Health Quality Partners. Mr. Krughoff currently serves on the board of directors of the Consumer Federation of America (1984-present) and has served on the board of directors of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine (1977-1989, Treasurer 1978-1989). Before founding Consumers’ CHECKBOOK, Krughoff served in the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (now the Department of Health and Human Services) as Director of the Office of Research and Evaluation Planning (1971-1973) and as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (1969-1971). He has been a member of advisory and study panels for IOM, AHRQ, NQF, NCQA, ECRI, and other organizations. Krughoff is a graduate of Amherst College and the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an associate editor of the Law Review. Catherine MacLean, MD, PhD serves as Staff Vice-President, Provider Performance at WellPoint, Inc., where she is a lead in the development and implementation of quality metrics including those for Centers of Excellence and quality-based incentive programs. She is an active participant in the national performance assessment arena having chaired or served on numerous quality–related technical expert panels and workgroups for the NIH, CMS, NCQA, NQF and the AQA Alliance. Prior to joining WellPoint, Catherine spent 15 years in academic medicine at UCLA, RAND and the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Health Care System as a rheumatologist and health services researcher. She was an investigator or principal investigator on numerous NIH and AHRQ-funded projects. She has an extensive background in systematic reviews/meta-analyses and the development and application of quality metrics. She retains appointments at RAND, UCLA and the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System and as an investigator for the Southern California Evidence Based Practice Center. Catherine obtained her B.S. in Pharmacology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, her MD from Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD in Health Services from the University of California, Los Angeles. Carol Matyka is a 14-year breast cancer survivor and Massachusetts field coordinator for the National Breast Cancer Coalition. She helped found the CARE Advocates at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, a patient advocacy group promoting consumer involvement in program development for breast cancer patients and their families. She has testified before the Massachusetts Legislature, peer-reviewed for breast cancer research proposals and often serves as spokesperson on issues affecting breast cancer patients She been involved in NBCC’s Quality Care Initiatives for more than a decade, including Guide to Quality Care for Breast Cancer, Measuring What Matters, and Beyond the Guidelines. She was named to the faculty of NBCC’s Quality Care Project LEAD in 2007.
Mary Nix is a health care professional with 26 years experience in clinical, educational, and research settings. Her focus for 16 years was in clinical pathology. The last 10 years she has focused on health services research and has been involved with a number of projects that use data meeting explicit criteria, informatics, and technology to disseminate evidence-based health information and affect its implementation. Ms. Nix currently oversees the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) www.guideline.gov, National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ (NQMC) www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov), and the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange www.innovations.ahrq.gov. Susan Norris received her MD and MSc in Experimental Surgery at the University of Alberta, Canada, and MPH from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. She practiced primary care medicine at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound (Washington State) for nine years, and was involved there in the development of evidence-based care processes at the system and practice levels. She then moved to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she led a systematic review work group within the Division of Diabetes. While at CDC, Dr. Norris published a number of widely-cited reviews on the effectiveness of diabetes education and weight control interventions for persons with diabetes, including a number of Cochrane reviews. Subsequently, she worked at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, MD where she developed a research agenda for the Agency on the health of older adults with multiple chronic conditions. Dr. Norris is
currently an Assistant Professor in the Department Medical Informatics
at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, and
she is an Investigator at the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center.
Dr. Norris performs comparative effectiveness reviews for the Drug
Effectiveness Review Project for States Medicaid Agencies. She contracts
with the American Urological Association to provide methodological
expertise for the development of their clinical practice guidelines,
and is conducting reviews on BPH and vasectomy. She directed development
of guidelines for the use of nonrandomized study designs in systematic
reviews for AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program. Susan worked
with the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, providing the evidence
review for current recommendations on screening adults for type
2 diabetes mellitus. Steve Phurrough is a Medical Officer in the Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness at the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Phurrough joined AHRQ in March 2009, and works on Effective Health Care projects including comparative effectiveness research. Prior to joining AHRQ, Dr. Phurrough was the Director of the Coverage and Analysis Group at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Using evidence-based medicine principles, Dr. Phurrough assisted in developing national policy on the appropriate devices, diagnostics and procedures that should be provided by the Medicare program. Phurrough joined CMS in 2001 as the Director of the Division of Medical and Surgical Services in the Coverage and Analysis Group after completing a career in the United States Army Medical Department. Dr. Phurrough was responsible for developing and implementing the CMS concept of coverage with evidence development which allows coverage of innovative technologies sooner if the technology is provided in a research study. In addition, he led in the establishment of national registries in an attempt to verify outcomes of clinical trials in real-world settings. Dr. Phurrough received his MD from the University of Alabama in Birmingham and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Practice and is a Certified Physician Executive by the American College of Physician Executives Milo Puhan is an Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His primary interest is in clinical trials, observational studies and meta-analyses for chronic diseases such as chronic obstructive lung disease. He also conducts methodological research for advanced meta-analytic approaches and patient-reported outcomes. Finally, he is involved in evidence-based guideline development to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice.
Dr Amir Qaseem is Senior Medical Associate in the Medical Education and Publishing Division at the American College of Physicians (ACP). Dr Qaseem is responsible for the American College of Physicians’ clinical practice guidelines program and writing of the evidence based guidelines. Dr Qaseem is also responsible for the American College of Physicians’ quality improvement programs and is Director of ACPNet, the College’s quality improvement network. Dr Qaseem is also in-charge of the ACP’s Diabetes Initiative pay-for-performance advisory board. Dr Qaseem was affiliated with the Pennsylvania State University where he taught courses on health policy, medical epidemiology, and health care medical needs. Dr Qaseem is currently affiliated with the Jefferson Medical College. Dr Qaseem’s research interests include improving quality of clinical care using evidence-based information, practice improvement, studying impact of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement on supply of various health care services, staffing, and quality of care issues. Dr Qaseem has published several peer-reviewed papers including clinical practice guidelines and health policy related issues. Dr Qaseem has been invited to speak and has presented at numerous national conferences on issues related to health policy and topics associated with access and quality of care. Karen A. Robinson is a faculty member in the divisions of Internal Medicine and Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Evidence-based Practice Center. Her research focuses on the identification, synthesis and presentation of evidence for informing healthcare decisions. In addition to expertise in the methodology of conducting systematic reviews, her work has included supporting guidelines development and dissemination by professional organizations. Ms. Robinson has been involved in the Cochrane Collaboration since 1995. Her current Cochrane affiliation includes serving as an Editor of the Cochrane Methodology Review Group. Finally, she has developed curricula for teaching evidence-based healthcare to a variety of audiences. Richard M. Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, is Professor and Chairman of Otolaryngology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. He is Chairperson of the Guideline Development Task Force for the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS), and also serves as Editor in Chief of the official Academy journal, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Rosenfeld has 20 years of experience with systematic reviews and guideline development, including work with the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, AAO-HNS, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Cochrane Ears, Nose and Throat Disorders Review Group, and the New York State Department of Health. He is author, coauthor, or editor of five books and over 200 scientific publications and textbook chapters. Dr. Rosenfeld has given over 500 scientific presentations and is recognized as an international authority on otitis media and evidence-based medicine. He has been listed for 10 years as one of “America’s Best Doctors” by Castle Connolly. Nancy Santesso is a Registered Dietitian and practiced clinically before completing a Masters of Library and Information Science. She is currently working with Dr. Holger Schunemann to implement Summary of Findings tables and the GRADE approach in Cochrane Systematic reviews. She is an editor of the Consumers and Communication Review Group and is also involved in the initiative to develop a format for and standardise Plain Language Summaries in Cochrane reviews. Her work with the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group in earlier years, primarily focussed on translating research from systematic reviews to consumers in the form of summaries, decision aids and other tools. Her work with the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group and the Consumers and Communication Review Group involved summarising systematic reviews of consumer interventions for policy use. Roberta W. Scherer, PhD, is an Associate Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Scherer is Associate Director of the US Cochrane Center as well as a Methodological Editor and Associate Director of the US satellite of the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group. She has been responsible for overseeing the handsearching effort for the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group since 2002, during which time handsearchers examined over 300 journal or conference-years and contributed over 8,000 citations to The Cochrane Library. Dr. Scherer has completed four systematic reviews and is in the process of completing two additional reviews. The reviews span interventions, etiology, methodology, and diagnostic accuracy on topics related to eyes and vision, kidney disease, and cancer. As part of her 15 year association with the Cochrane Collaboration, Dr. Scherer produced the first Cochrane methodology systematic review, examining publication bias in the subsequent full length publication of conference proceeding abstracts
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