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| Mark A. Bloomberg, MD, MBA, FACPE |
| Dr. Mark Bloomberg is President of The Bloomberg
Health Care Group, a consulting practice dedicated to the education
of medical students, residents, practicing physicians and physician
executives. He was previously the Chief Medical Officer of Private
Health Care Systems, a national managed care company, at which
he was clinically responsible for more than 120 health plans
located throughout the country with a combined membership of
over 7 million lives. Prior to that position, Dr. Bloomberg
was the Corporate Medical Director of Tufts Health Plans.
Dr. Bloomberg completed his clinical training at Rutgers
Medical School and St. Elizabeth's Hospital of Boston, followed
by 12 years of solo internal medicine practice. Initially
spending six of those years combining a busy clinical practice
with increasing commitments to medical management, he has
been a full-time physician executive since 1987.
Dr. Bloomberg received his MBA from Northeastern University,
and is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Medical
Management. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
at Tufts University School of Medicine and a Distinguished
Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives. Dr.
Bloomberg has served on the Board of Directors of the American
College of Physician Executives and is currently a leader
of the College’s Forum on Health Care Delivery. He has been
a Physician Reviewer for the National Committee for Quality
Assurance since 1992 and a member of the Review Oversight
Committee since 1996.
A frequent speaker in the area of medical management with
special emphasis on developing and directing managed care
provider networks and the application of quality improvement
techniques to clinical practice, Dr. Bloomberg has published
numerous articles in these areas. His book, Physicians
in Managed Care: A Career Guide, explores the roles of
physicians in managed care settings.
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Sheldon Greenfield, MD |
Sheldon Greenfield, MD is Director of the
Center for Health Policy Research and Professor in the Department
of Medicine at University of California, Irvine College of Medicine.
Previously, Dr. Greenfield was Director of the Primary Care
Outcomes Research Institute at New England Medical Center and
Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Greenfield was associated
with the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health and the
Rand Corporation in California, including the position of Co-Director
of the Joint RAND-UCLA Center for Health Policy Study. He has
pioneered research in increasing patients’ participation
in care and using outcomes to determine the value of that participation.
Beginning in 1984 Dr. Greenfield served as the Medical Director
of the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), which sought to compare
systems of care, specialties, various aspects of interpersonal
care and resource use to outcome. He is one of the nation’s
leading clinician outcomes researchers, with numerous publications,
committee assignments, and awards. Dr. Greenfield was Principal
Investigator of the Type II Diabetes Patient Outcome Research
Team (PORT), and is Chairman of the Diabetes Quality Improvement
Program, a joint venture of the HCFA, NCQA and the ADA. He
is currently serving as Chair of The National Diabetes Quality
Alliance, a coalition of all U.S. organizations involved in
diabetes care. He is also former President of the Society
of General Internal Medicine and was Chairman of the Health
Care Technology Study Section for the Agency for Health Care
Policy and Research.
Dr. Greenfield earned an AB from Harvard College and an MD
degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
He completed his residency and a fellowship in infectious
disease at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass.
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| David B. Nash, MD, MBA, FACP |
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David Nash is The Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor
and Chairman of the Department of Health Policy at Jefferson
Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
Dr. Nash, a board certified internist, founded the original
Office of Health Policy in 1990. From 1996 to 2003, he served
as the first Associate Dean for Health Policy at Jefferson
Medical College. In 2004, he was named Co-director of the
Masters Program in Public Health at Jefferson.
Internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management,
medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement,
his publications have appeared in more than 60 articles in
major journals and in a dozen edited books, including A
Systems Approach to Disease Management by Jossey-Bass
Publishers and Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer
by Jones and Bartlett Publishers. In 1995, he was awarded
the Latiolais Prize by the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
for his leadership in disease management and pharmacoeconomics.
He was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American
College of Physician Executives in 1998.
Dr. Nash's national activities include appointment to the
JCAHO Advisory Committee on Performance Measurement, the Foundation
for Accountability (FACCT) Board, and membership on the Board
of Directors of the Disease Management Association of America
(DMAA) - three key national groups focusing on quality measurement
and improvement. He continues as one of the principal faculty
members for quality of care issues of the American College
of Physician Executives in Tampa, Florida, and the developer
of the ACPE Capstone Course on Quality. Dr. Nash is on the
National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Partnerships in Quality Education program, bringing together
managed care organizations and leading academic medical centers.
Dr. Nash received his BA in economics from Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York; his MD from the University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry; and his MBA in Health Administration
from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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