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John E. McDonough is Executive Director of Health Care For All, Massachusetts' leading consumer health advocacy organization. From 1998 through 2003, he was an Associate Professor at the Heller School, Brandeis University, and a Senior Associate at its Schneider Institute for Health Policy. From 1985 to 1997, he served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives where he co-chaired the Joint Committee on Health Care. In 1996, he led the successful campaign for passage of health access legislation to cover uninsured children, funded by new tobacco taxes, legislation which served as a model for the federal State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Dr. McDonough teaches at the Harvard School of Public Health. His articles have appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs and other journals. He has written two books, Experiencing Politics: A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care by the University of California Press and the Milbank Fund in 2000, and Interests, Ideas, and Deregulation: The Fate of Hospital Rate Setting by the University of Michigan Press in 1997. He received a doctorate in public health from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan in 1996 and a master's in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1990.
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Mark A. Peterson, PhD
Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, UCLA School of Public Affairs
Past Editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Presentation: Introduction to Health Care Policy |
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A specialist on American national institutions and a political scientist, much of Professor Peterson's scholarship focuses on interactions among the Presidency, Congress, and interest groups, evaluating their implications for policy making, both within the general domain of domestic policy and with special attention to health care policy.
From 1993 to 2002, Professor Peterson was the editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, a leading bimonthly scholarly journal in the field. He later chaired the journal's Executive Committee. Previously he was on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Politics and of PS: Political Science & Politics. In addition, Professor Peterson chairs the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy Research program and is a member of the National Advisory Committees for the Foundation's Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) program.
Professor Peterson has also been engaged in policy making more directly. As an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, he served as a Legislative Assistant for Health Policy in the Office of U.S. Senator Tom Daschle. During 2000-2003 he was on the Study Panel on Medicare and Markets organized by the National Academy of Social Insurance.
At UCLA, Professor Peterson chaired the Department of Public Policy from 2001 to 2005. He is a Faculty Associate of the Center for Health Policy Research; Co-Director of the Policy Core, Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services; and on the faculty boards of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy, the Center for Society & Genetics, the Center for Policy Research on Aging, and the Institute for Social Science Research.
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Robert Brook, MD, ScD
Vice-President and Director, RAND Health
Professor of Medicine, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Professor of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health
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Robert Brook is Vice-President and Director of RAND Health, Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine and Professor of Health Services at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he where he also directs the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. A board-certified internist, he received his M.D. and Sc.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University. He has been on the medical school faculty at UCLA since 1974, and divides his research time between UCLA and RAND.
A prolific scholar, Bob has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles in the course of his long and productive career. He conducted pioneering work in the field of quality measurement. He operationalized the concept of appropriateness by establishing the scientific basis for determining whether various medical and surgical procedures were being used appropriately. More than any other individual, he is responsible for focusing policymakers' attention on quality-of-care issues and their implications for the nation's health. Most of the quality of care and health status measures being used today throughout the developed world were developed by Bob or by research teams that he led. Bob's personal contribution to improving health care services in the United States and abroad is amplified many times by his training, either formally or informally, the best and the brightest-and the most influential-of an entire generation of health services scholars.
Bob has received numerous professional honors, including the Peter Reizenstein Prize, 2000, for his paper "Defining and Measuring Quality of Care: A Perspective from US Researchers," the National Committee for Quality Assurance Health Quality Award for pursuit of health care quality at all levels of the health system, Research!America's 2000 Advocacy Award for Sustained Leadership at the National Level, the Robert J. Glaser Award of the Society of General Internal Medicine, the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award of the American College of Physicians, and the Distinguished Health Services Research Award of the Association of Health Services Research. He is an elected member of many professional organizations, including the Institute of Medicine, the American Association of Physicians, the Western Association of Physicians, and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He was selected as one of 75 Heroes of Public Health by Johns Hopkins University and is a member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars.
In 2005, Bob was awarded the Institute of Medicine's prestigious Gustav O. Lienhard Award for the advancement for personal health care services in the United States. In 2002, Bob was named chair of a panel to advise the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development on how to report outcomes of coronary artery bypass graft surgery at California hospitals. Most recently, Bob received the David E. Rogers Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. This award recognizes a medical school faculty member who has made major contributions to improving the health and health care of the American people.
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C. Duane Dauner, MS
President and Chief Executive Officer, California Hospital Association |
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C. Duane Dauner was appointed president/CEO of the California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (CAHHS) in November 1985. On January 1, 1996, CAHHS transformed into the California Hospital Association (CHA) and Mr. Dauner was appointed president/CEO of this new organization, as well. CHA is devoted to statewide representation and advocacy for California's health care organizations and is one of the nation's largest state health care associations, representing nearly 400 hospitals and health systems.
Mr. Dauner's association with hospitals began in Kansas in 1966. In 1975, he left the Kansas Hospital Association to become president/CEO of the Missouri Hospital Association. Mr. Dauner has been active in national hospital and health care issues, serving on numerous American Hospital Association (AHA) and American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) committees. He also is a fellow of ACHE. He has served as a member of the AHA Board of Trustees and the Hospital Research and Educational Trust Board of Trustees, an affiliate of AHA. In addition, he has authored numerous articles and a book, and is a nationally known leader on health issues.
In 2002, Mr. Dauner received ACHE's highest honor, the Gold Medal Award, which is bestowed on outstanding leaders who, through a career of service, have made significant contributions to the health care profession and field, and who best exemplify leadership at the organizational, local, state and national levels. In 2004, he received the Mathies Award for Vision and Excellence in Healthcare Leadership, which is given in recognition of courageous and creative leaders in health care administration and policy whose commitment and accomplishments are a model for others to emulate in changing the shape of health care. In 2006, he received the UCLA Health Services Alumni Association Leader of Today award. Also in 2006, he was the recipient of the Health Care Executives of Southern California Lifetime Achievement award.
Mr. Dauner has served on the boards of numerous professional, business and political organizations. He is a past chair of Californians Allied for Patient Protection (CAPP), a coalition of providers and health liability insurers organized to preserve the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 (MICRA). He also lectures for several university graduate programs in health care administration. Mr. Dauner attended Pepperdine University in California and Wichita State University in Kansas, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees. He taught mathematics and logic at Wichita State University and, following postgraduate study at the University of Nebraska, became an assistant professor at Washburn University of Topeka, Kansas.
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Susan Fleischman, MD
National Vice President for Medicaid, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. |
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Susan Fleischman, MD is National Vice President for Medicaid, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. In this new role she is responsible for the creation and implementation of effective strategy for Kaiser Health Plan to participate in Medicaid in its 8 regions. Before joining Kaiser she was a Medical Director for Wellpoint, State Sponsored Business. In this role she provided medical oversight to a program serving 2 million members insured through government payers including Medicaid and SCHIP. Prior to joining Wellpoint, Dr. Fleischman was Medical Director of the Venice Family Clinic in Los Angeles, a clinic that provides health care services to low-income uninsured individuals and families, including the homeless. Under her direction the clinic received the Pew Primary Care Achievement Award in 1997. Dr. Fleischman was also an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA, teaching community medicine to residents and medical students. As an advocate for the poor and homeless she provides technical expertise on care for the underserved as well as on homeless healthcare to community collaborators nationwide.
Dr. Fleischman is active in political advocacy and is a past president of the California Primary Care Association, a past chair of the National Advisory Council to the National Health Service Corps, as well as past member of the National Healthcare for the Homeless Council. Dr. Fleischman is also a past president of the Bay District of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, and a current Los Angeles County Medical Association counselor. She has also been an active participant in MEDPIN, Medicine for People in Need, which attempts to bring state-of-the-art medications to those who cannot afford them.
Dr. Fleischman received her M.D. degree from UCLA in 1984 and completed internship and residency at UCLA in Internal Medicine. She is a graduate of the first class of the California Healthcare Foundation Medical Leadership Fellowship and has participated as faculty for the program. She has been recognized for community service by the Los Angeles American Medical Women's Association. The Santa Monica YWCA named her Woman of the Year in 2000. She is the mother of two small children, ages 7 and 9, and enjoys running, hiking, yoga, music, and scuba diving.
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Loretta Jones, MA
Founder and Executive Director of Healthy African American Families (HAAF) II |
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Loretta Jones, M.A., is the founder and Executive Director of Healthy African American Families (HAAF) II. As a "Community Gatekeeper," Loretta Jones has dedicated her entire life towards the hope and healing of community and society-at-large. Her career as a civil rights activist, health policy advocate, and social architect has spanned more than 30 years. In an effort to level the playing field for all people, Ms. Jones continues her unyielding commitment as a change agent against disparities in human health, development, and opportunity. She is a co-investigator of the NIMH UCLA/RAND Center for Research on Quality in Managed Care, the NIA UCLA Center for Health Improvement in Minority Elderly (CHIME), and the NIH Drew/UCLA Project EXPORT, as well as a recipient of numerous CDC grants and contracts. She is a member of the UCLA Institutional Review Board (IRB) for protection of human subjects and on the National Children's Study-Los Angeles Ventura County Study Center (NCS-LAVSC) Committee. In addition, she is a Community Faculty member and on the 4-Year Medical School Planning Committee at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science. She is also a member of the NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Community Child Health Research Network (CCHN), and a member of the American Academy of Nursing Advisory Council. She was the lead author on an article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (Jones L, Wells K, "Strategies for Academic and Clinician Engagement in Community Participatory Partnered Research." JAMA, January 24, 2007). She served as a Commissioner for the Joint Center Health Policy Institute's Dellums Commission (2005-2006) and was a Family and Youth Stakeholder Member for the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) in 2005. In 2004, Ms. Jones was honored as the first recipient of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Award for National Contribution to Minority Health Programs, Research and Surveillance - Department of Reproductive Health. She also served as a member of the Advisory Council planning NICHD's longitudinal child health study and chaired its Social Justice committee. Loretta Jones currently resides in Los Angeles, California, the area she so tirelessly serves.
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Thomas M. Priselac, MPH
President and CEO, Cedars-Sinai Health System
Chair-elect, American Hospital Association
National Healthcare Leadership Awardee |
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Thomas M. Priselac is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Cedars-Sinai Health System -- a position he has held since January 1994.
Mr. Priselac has been associated with Cedars-Sinai since 1979. Prior to being named President and CEO, he was Executive Vice President from 1988 to 1993. Before joining Cedars-Sinai, he was on the executive staff of Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh.
Mr. Priselac has served on many boards in the health care field and currently serves as the immediate past Chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges. He has been selected as Chair-Elect of the American Hospital Association, beginning 2008. He also is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Board, where he chairs the Health Care Committee. He formerly chaired the Hospital Association of Southern California, the California Healthcare Association, and the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Teaching Hospitals. The holder of the Warschaw/Law Endowed Chair in Healthcare Leadership at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Mr. Priselac also serves as an adjunct professor at the UCLA School of Public Health and is an author and invited speaker on a variety of contemporary issues in healthcare.
A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Priselac obtained a bachelor's degree in Biology from Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, and a master's in Public Health, Health Services Administration and Planning, from the University of Pittsburgh.
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