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| Paul Abourjaily,
PharmD, BCPS |
| Dr. Paul Abourjaily is a clinical pharmacy
specialist in primary care at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston,
MA, where he directs an outpatient medication clinic in the
General Medical Associates primary care practice, and serves
as pharmacy consultant to the hospital IPA. He is board certified
in pharmacotherapy and also serves as an adjunct assistant professor
of clinical pharmacy for students from the Massachusetts College
of Pharmacy. Dr Abourjaily serves as an active member on various
pharmacy committees on both the hospital and health plan level.
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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. |
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| Marc M. Edelstein,
MD, PhD |
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Dr. Marc Edelstein is the Chief Medical Officer and Co-Director for the Tufts Health Care Institute (THCI)
and Tufts University School of Medicine Office of Continuing Education (TUSM/OCE).
Dr. Edelstein has more than 25 years experience in both clinical and administrative health care. He served as the CEO for a
large community-based Physician Organization in the Greater Boston area as well as a senior Physician Executive in several roles,
including Chief Medical Officer for a large Florida-based, not-for-profit Managed Care Health Plan. He has practiced medicine
in a number of clinical settings including as a fulltime faculty member of the University of Miami School of Medicine. In addition
to his medical degree, Dr. Edelstein also earned a PhD in Philosophy/Medical Ethics. He has served on several institutional
Ethics Committees and taught courses in both the Philosophy of Medicine and Medical Ethics.
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| Elaine Enright,
RN, CCM |
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Ms. Elaine Enright is the Director of Case Management and
Clinical Education for Primary Care, LLC of Braintree, Massachusetts.
Primary Care, LLC is a community based physician organization
consisting of over 200 primary care physicians on Massachusett's
south shore. Ms. Enright is responsible for the development
and coordination of continuing education for physicians, case
managers, and clinical staff across the Primary Care network.
She provides support and resources for a staff of 17 RN Case
Managers, and is the Case Management liaison to contracted
health plans, providers, and tertiary facilities in Boston.
In addition, Ms. Enright is responsible for the development
and implementation of Case Management programs and initiatives.
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| Neal Friedman, MD |
| Dr. Neal M. Friedman is a Board
Certified Endocrinologist with an extensive background in diabetes,
disease management, care management, and quality improvement.
He most recently was the Vice-President and Medical Director
for Quality Improvement and Evidence Based Practice at Kaleida
Health in Buffalo, New York. He is also a Clinical Associate
Professor, Department of Medicine at the State University of
New York and active on the Evidence Based Medicine Committee.
Previously, Dr. Friedman spent nineteen years at Lovelace Health
Systems, the Lovelace Clinic Foundation, and Lovelace Healthcare
Innovations in various clinical, research and administrative
positions. |
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| James Hyde MA, SM |
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James Hyde is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health and
Family Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine and Director of the Tufts Master’s
Program in Health Communication. He has written, published and presented extensively on
issues related to risk communication and health literacy. He is co-author of three papers,
two of which focused on the development of enhanced literacy materials for low literacy populations.
In addition, his work on asthma management in managed care settings focused on issues
related to the readability of clinical asthma management materials used in managed care settings. He was one
of ten External Reviewers for the recently issued IOM Report: Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion (IOM 2004)
and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Health Communication. He also serves as a member of the Tufts-NEMC/TUHS IRB.
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| Joseph Lau, MD |
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Dr. Joseph Lau is Professor of Medicine at Tufts University
School of Medicine and clinical-investigator at the Division
of Clinical Care Research at Tufts-New England Medical Center. He
is the director of one of the twelve Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality's Evidence-based Practice Centers and
of the Training Evidence-based Practitioners project.
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| Harry L. Leider, MD, MBA, FACPE |
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Dr. Harry Leider, a board certified internist, is Senior
Vice President of Interactive Forums, Inc. a national health
care consulting and market research firm. He has provided
consultative services to a broad range of managed care and
physician organizations in the areas of leadership training
for physician executives, organizational change, disease management,
clinical quality improvement, and practice management. Previously
Dr. Leider was Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President
of Product Strategy for CardioContinuum, a national disease
management company. He has held several positions in the managed
care arena.
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| Susan M. Murray, RN, ANP, MPH |
| Ms. Susan Murray has over 25 years of experience
as a health-care clinician and executive. She practiced nursing
in the acute care setting, taught staff nurses, and was the
administrator of the Employee Health Service at a West Suburban
Hospital. Ms. Murray is also an Adult Nurse Practitioner. |
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| Thomas Mayer, MD, MBA |
| Dr. Thomas Mayer is the Executive Director
of Managed Care Education for the Institute for Health Care
Advancement, a Southern California not-for-profit foundation
dedicated to advancing and innovating the best practices and
solutions to care for populations across the health care continuum.
Dr. Mayer was previously the Senior Vice President of Medical
Affairs for Friendly Hills Health Care Network, a 400 physician
multispecialty medical group based in Southern California. Friendly
Hills has accepted capitation for almost 20 years and provided
health care to over 400,000 members through 25 different capitated
HMOs. This includes more than 22,000 capitated Medicare members
and 107,000 capitated MediCal (Medicaid) enrollees. |
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| David B. Nash, MD, MBA, FACP |
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Dr. David B. 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.
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| Joseph Raduazzo, MD |
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Dr. Joseph Raduazzo is Medical Director of Pharmacy Services
and Employer
Relations at Tufts Health Plan, Waltham, MA. Previously, he
was the Medical Director of the Brockton Hospital, Brockton,
Massachusetts, and its Physician Hospital Organization; and
Assistant Program Director for the Boston University Medical
Center Transitional Residency Program at Brockton Hospital.
Dr. Raduazzo has been an active member of P&T committees
on both the Hospital and Health Plan level.
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| Deborah R. Zucker, MD, PhD |
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Dr. Deborah R. Zucker is Assistant Professor of Medicine
at Tufts University School of Medicine, clinical investigator
in the Department of Medicine's Division of Clinical Care
Research, and a practicing internist in the General Medical
Associates clinic at Tufts-New England Medical Center. She is Assistant
Director of the Tufts-NEMC-AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center and
co-investigator for an AHRQ sponsored Program to Train Evidence-based
Practitioners. Dr. Zucker's research focuses on developing
methods to enable widespread practice-based clinical research
through the combination of individual patient (n-of-1) studies.
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| Helen M. Manson, MBChB, MRCGP |
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Dr. Helen Manson is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University Medical School, Boston. She qualified in Medicine at Dundee University in Scotland, became a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners of the United Kingdom in 1994, and completed the Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School in 2004. She practiced Family Medicine in the United Kingdom for seven years and has also worked in the pharmaceutical industry. She serves on the Culture and Health Curriculum Development Team, which promulgates cultural competence educational initiatives at Tufts University Medical School. Her special interests include medical ethics education and the ethics of healthcare resource allocation.
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| Amy L. Lee, MD |
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Dr. Amy Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Community Faculty at the Tufts Family Medicine Residency at Cambridge Health Alliance. She is the founder and leader of the Tufts Culture and Health Curriculum Development Team, a group of diverse physicians and community leaders dedicated to improving cultural competency training. She has an undergraduate degree in Medical Anthropology from Brown University, and graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine and the Tufts Family Medicine Residency where she served as Chief Resident. She is board certified in Family Medicine and cares for a diverse patient population in private practice in addition to teaching medical students and residents.
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