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| Paul Abourjaily,
PharmD, BCPS |
| Dr. Paul Abourjaily is a clinical pharmacy
specialist in primary care at Tufts 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. Dr. Bloomberg teaches health care quality improvement at Harvard School of Public Health. He is also a Physician Executive with HealthNEXT, a new enterprise that develops a culture of health within major employers seeking to reduce their health care costs by improving the health of their employees and covered dependents. Dr. Bloomberg was previously the Chief Medical Officer of Private Health Care Systems, a national managed care company, and prior to that 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 faculty at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (ICRHPS) at Tufts 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. His research focus is evidence-based medicine and meta-analysis, including developing reliable and efficient methods and tools to conduct systematic reviews and meta-analyses, cumulative meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, and systematic reviews of diagnostic tests, nutrition, clinical practice guidelines, and dissemination of evidence-based methods to other biomedical/healthcare disciplines.
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| Amy L. Lee, MD, FAAFP |
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Dr. Amy Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, where she leads the curricular key theme group on Culture and Health. She is also the founder and leader of the Tufts Culture and Health Curriculum Development Team, a group of diverse physicians, medical students, 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.
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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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| Helen M. Manson, MBChB, MRCGP |
| Dr. Helen Manson is currently a Family Physician, Lecturer in Medical Ethics and organizer of the Ethics and Law theme at Dundee University School of Medicine, Scotland. She qualified in Medicine 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. In the past, she was a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University Medical School, Boston and served on the Culture and Health Curriculum Development Team. Her special interests include medical ethics education and the ethics of healthcare resource allocation. |
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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 |
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David Nash is the Founding Dean and the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy at the Jefferson School of Population Health (JSPH) of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. JSPH provides innovative educational programming designed to develop healthcare leaders for the future. Dr. Nash is a board certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement. Among his numerous awards, in 2006, he received the Elliot Stone Award for leadership in public accountability for health data from the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) NAHDO. Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. Dr. Nash is a consultant to organizations in both the public and private sectors, and has numerous publications and appearances. He is on the Board of Directors for Humana Inc. and for Endo Pharmaceuticals.
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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, faculty at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies (ICRHPS) at Tufts Medical Center, and a practicing internist. Dr. Zucker is Director of the core course on Ethics in Clinical Investigation for the Clinical Research Training Program. Her research focus is on putting research into practice and in particular, on developing methods to enable widespread practice-based clinical research for the evaluation of treatment effectiveness. She also investigates clinical care in specific populations, and helps health practitioners understand evidence-based medicine and its implementation.
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