Chairman:
James R. Tallon, Jr., New York, New York
President, United Hospital Fund of New York; Secretary/Treasurer of the Alliance for Health Reform; Member of the boards of: The Commonwealth Fund, Chair; the Institute on Medicine as a Profession, the New York eHealth Collaborative, and the New York State Board of Regents. He is a member of the advisory board for the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence. Former: State Assemblyman, New York State Legislature (1975-1993) and Majority Leader (1987-1993).
Members:
Ron J. Anderson, M.D., Dallas, Texas
President and Chief Executive Officer, Parkland Health & Hospital System. Former: Member, Governor Richards’ Health Policy Task Force; Chairman, National Association of Public Hospitals; Texas Association of Public and Nonprofit Hospitals, Texas Hospital Association; Chair, National Public Health and Hospital Institute, Texas Institute for Health Policy Research; Member, Institute of Medicine, Professor of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas.
Kim Belshé, Sacramento, California
Senior Policy Advisor, Public Policy Institute of California; Member, California Health Benefit Exchange Board. Former: Secretary, California Health and Human Services Agency; Director, California Department of Health Services.
Sheila P. Burke, R.N., M.P.A., Washington, District of Columbia
Faculty Research Fellow, Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Senior Public Policy Advisor, Baker, Donelson, 2009 – present; Research Professor, Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute (2000-present). Former: Chair, Kaiser Family Foundation, Board of Trustees; Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2000-2007); Executive Dean and Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1996-2000); Chief of Staff to Senator Robert Dole, U.S. Senate (1986-1996); Deputy Chief of Staff to Senate Majority Leader (1985-1986); Deputy Staff Director of Senate Committee on Finance (1982-1985); Secretary of the Senate, 1995.
Fred Cerise, M.D., Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Vice President, Health Affairs and Medical Education, LSU Health Science Centers. Former: Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals; Administrator, Earl K. Long Medical Center.
Karen Davis, Ph.D., New York, New York
President, The Commonwealth Fund. Former: Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (1980-1995); Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation/Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1977-1980).
Susan Dentzer, Washington, District of Columbia
Editor-in-chief, Health Affairs journal; On-air health analyst, PBS NewsHour; Member of the Institute of Medicine and Council on Foreign Relations. On the boards of: Board of Overseers, Dartmouth Medical School; the International Rescue Committee; and Research!America. Former: Chief Economics Correspondent and Economics Columnist, U.S. News & World Report (1987-1997); Senior Writer, Newsweek; Board of Trustees, Dartmouth College (1993-2004). Former Board Member of: the Friends of the National Institute for Nursing Research and the Japan Society of New York.
The Honorable David Durenberger, St. Paul, Minnesota
Senior Health Policy Fellow, Opus College of Business, University of St. Thomas; Chair, National Institute of Health Policy; Board, National Coalition on Health Care; Advisory Board, Dominican University of California Health Services. Former: U.S. Senator from Minnesota (1978-1995); Chair, Health Subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee; Member Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Senate Environment Public Works Committee. Senator Durenberger has also served on various national health commissions and boards, including the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and the National Commission on Quality Assurance.
DeAnn Friedholm, Washington, District of Columbia
Campaign Director for Health Care Reform, Consumers Union. Former: Principal, Health Management Associates; U.S. Resident Budget Advisor, National Treasury of South Africa; Executive Director, Children’s Defense Fund of Texas; Commissioner of Health and Human Services, Texas Health and Human Services Commission; Texas Medicaid Director, Texas Health and Human Services Commission; Special Assistant for Health and Human Services, Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock; Director of Public Policy, Benedictine Health Resource Center; Executive Director, Texas Foundation for Human Services; Director of Health and Human Services, Office of Governor Mark White; Human Resources Coordinator, State of Texas Office of State-Federal Relations.
Jennifer L. Howse, Ph.D., White Plains, New York
President, March of Dimes Foundation. Former: Pennsylvania State Commissioner for Mental Retardation; Executive Director of Federal Court Appointed Willowbrook Review Panel.
Sylvia Drew Ivie, J.D., Los Angeles, California
Senior Deputy for Human Services for Mark Ridley-Thomas, L.A. County Board of Supervisors, 2nd District; Founder and former Director of The South Los Angeles Community Kitchen. Former: Consultant, The California Endowment, Disparities in Health in South LA; Faculty, LA Trade Tech, Community Health Leadership Training Program; Program Director, Steering Committee on the Future of the King/Drew Medical Center, California Endowment; Member, Hospital Advisory Board for King/Drew Medical Center. Former: Executive Director, T.H.E. Clinic, Inc. (16 years); Executive Director, National Health Law Program (10 years); Director, Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1 year); Nelson Mandela Award Winner for Health and Human Rights (1994).
Arthur Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.E.P., Washington, District of Columbia
Director and Vice President, RAND Health. Former: Director, Program in Public Health Systems and Preparedness; Paul O’Neill-Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis; Senior Principal Researcher, RAND Corporation; Professor and Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine; Health Policy Fellow, Majority Staff Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Director, Center for Injury Control at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Member of the Georgia Commission on Family Violence; Advisor, the Atlanta Police Department and other law enforcement agencies; Member of the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on 911; Recipient of the Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (1997).
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., Princeton, New Jersey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson. Former: Senior Vice President and Director, Health Care Group, RWJ (2001-2003); Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine, Director of Institute on Ageing, University of Pennsylvania; Associate Chief of Staff for geriatrics and extended care, Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center; member of White House Task Force on Health Care Reform.
Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D., Princeton, New JerseyJames Madison Professor of Political Economy, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Former: President, Association of Health Services Research.
Trish Riley, Brunswick, Maine
Visiting Fellow and Lecturer in state health policy, George Washington University; Commissioner, Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission. Former: Director, Governor’s Office of Health Policy and Finance, Augusta, Maine ;President, Center for Health Policy Development; Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy; Medicaid director, Executive Director, Maine Committee on Aging; Chair of National Task Force on Medicaid Managed Care.
Alan Weil, J.D., M.P.P., Washington, District of Columbia
Executive Director, the National Academy for State Health Policy and President of the Center for Health Policy Development (CHPD). Former: Director of the Urban Institute’s Assessing the New Federalism; Executive Director, Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing; Health Policy Advisor to Colorado Governor Roy Romer; Assistant General Counsel, Massachusetts Department of Medical Security.
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