Concordium: Recap 2015

Erin Holve, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.P.P., is senior director of research and education in HSR. In this role, Dr. Holve leads AcademyHealth’s work on analytic methods and research resources for the field of health services research (HSR). She is principal investigator of several projects on patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and comparative effectiveness research (CER) including the Electronic Data Methods Forum (www.edm-forum.org). Her recent published work has focused on the infrastructure—including training—needed in order to build learning health systems to improve patient care and outcomes. She is founding editor and editor-in-chief of AcademyHealth’s open access peer reviewed journal, eGEMs.

Dr. Holve has developed and led several fellowship and training opportunities, including the Delivery System Science Fellowship and has served as a senior advisor to a numerous national programs. She has also served as a reviewer for federal grant programs and journals in HSR, and is a current Board Member of the Association of Public Data Users (APDU). Areas of research expertise include trends in access and coverage in private health insurance and long-term care insurance, health privacy, and advanced methods for HSR, including analysis of complex surveys. She has designed information architecture and led development of several websites including www.StateHealthFacts.org and www.hsrmethods.org. Previously she worked for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the US Department of Health and Human Services, and consulted for state and local health departments and delivery systems. Dr. Holve holds a PhD in Health Services Research from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Masters degrees in public health and public policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

William Borden, M.D., M.B.A., is an associate professor of medicine and health policy at the George Washington University, and the director of healthcare delivery transformation at the GW Medical Faculty Associates. In addition to practicing cardiology, Dr. Borden leads the accountable care organization, quality improvement efforts, and population health strategy. He served as a senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the US Department of Health and Human Services and as a medical officer at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. His research focuses on policy approaches to improving quality of care, including the impact of hospital value-based purchasing on socioeconomically disadvantaged hospitals, the dissemination of patient-centered outcomes research, and how population health can best be implemented. Dr. Borden was previously on faculty at the Weill Cornell Medical College. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Borden trained at the University of Chicago, where he also served a year as chief medical resident and earned an M.B.A. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of both the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association.

Edwin Lomotan, M.D., is acting director and chief of clinical informatics for the Health IT Division at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). He leads AHRQ’s Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Clinical Decision Support (CDS) initiative, which aims to increase the use of PCOR findings in clinical practice through CDS. Before joining AHRQ, Dr. Lomotan was Health IT Branch Chief in the Office of Quality and Data in the Bureau of Primary Health Care at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). While at HRSA, he led the Health Center-Controlled Network grant program, which aims to improve health care quality through health IT at community health centers across the country. Dr. Lomotan is board-certified in pediatrics and in clinical informatics. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his pediatrics residency and informatics fellowship at Yale University.

Marguerite Ro, Dr.P.H., is the chief of the Assessment, Policy Development, and Evaluation (APDE) unit and director of the Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention (CDIP) section of Public Health – Seattle & King County. Recent success based upon developing and strengthening Public Health’s partnerships with other sectors include the groundbreaking work with the County’s healthcare systems in developing a collaborative countywide community health needs assessment. Dr. Ro has focused her efforts on working with diverse communities to eliminate health inequities among our nation’s most at-risk populations. She is a member of the CDC Advisory Committee to the Director, Health Disparities Subcommittee and a former chair of the HHS Advisory Committee on Minority Health. As Deputy Director of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, she played a leadership role in the development of Health Through Action a groundbreaking partnership program to close health gaps for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Prior to that Dr. Ro served as senior policy analyst for Community Voices, a national demonstration project to improve access to care for vulnerable populations, while she was at Columbia University as an assistant professor. Dr. Ro obtained her masters and doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.