2012 Board of Directors
2012 Board
Katherine Baicker, Ph.D., Chair
Professor
Harvard School of Public Health
Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Ph.D., Past Chair
Director
Kaiser Permanente Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research
Paul Wallace, M.D., Vice Chair
Senior Vice President and Director, Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research
The Lewin Group
Catherine Hoffman, Sc.D., R.N., Secretary
Deputy Director of the California Medicaid Research Institute (CaMRI)
University of California, San Francisco
Robert St. Peter, M.D., Treasurer
President and CEO
Kansas Health Institute
Margarita Alegria, Ph.D.
Professor
Harvard Medical School
Director
Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research
Cambridge Health Alliance
Lynn A. Blewett, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Minnesota
School of Public Health
Timothy S. Carey, M.D., M.P.H.
Sara Graham Kenan Professor
of Medicine and Social Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John M. Colmers, M.P.H.
Vice President for Health Care Transformation and Strategic Planning
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
José J. Escarce, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
UCLA School of Medicine
Darrell J. Gaskin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Health Economics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Don Goldmann, M.D.
Senior Vice President
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Atul Grover, MD, PhD, FACP, FCCP
Committee on Advocacy and Public Policy (CAPP) Chair *
Chief Public Policy Officer
Association of American Medical Colleges
Romana Hasnain-Wynia, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Healthcare Equity
Associate Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Vincent Mor, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Community Health
Alpert Medical School
Brown University
Len Nichols, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics
Professor of Health Policy
George Mason University
Lisa Rubenstein, M.D., M.S.P.H
Professor of Medicine
VA Greater Los Angeles and UCLA
Senior Scientist, RAND
Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., M.P.H.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H.
President & CEO
AcademyHealth
Paul C. Tang, M.D., M.S.
Vice President, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Joseph Thompson, M.D.
Arkansas Surgeon General
Professor
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Craig Thornton, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Health Research
Mathematica’s Health Services Research Division
* CAPP Chair is an ex officio voting member of the Board
