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Diane Rowland, ScD, MPA
Dr. Rowland is executive vice president of The Henry
J. Kaiser Family Foundation and executive director of
The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
She is associate professor in the Department of Health
Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University School
of Hygiene and Public Health, the president-elect of
the Association for Health Services Research, and a
Brookdale senior fellow. Dr. Rowland has served on staff
of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health
and the Environment and the Health Care Financing Administration.
Dr. Rowland received her MPA from the University of
California-Los Angeles, and ScD in health policy and
management from Johns Hopkins.
Richard Baron, MD
Dr. Baron is an internist and president and CEO of Healthier
Babies, Inc., a collaborative of Medicaid HMOs in the
Philadelphia area. He was CMO at Health Partners, a
non-profit, provider-sponsored Medicaid HMO, for 9 years,
overseeing growth from 10,000 to 100,000 members, and
led the organization through NCQA accreditation in 1993.
He was project director of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-
and Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS)-funded
program to foster development of a clinical data collection
for pregnant women on Medicaid in counties served by
HealthChoices, Pennsylvania's managed care Medicaid
program. The grant led to the creation of Healthier
Babies, Inc. Dr. Baron received his MD from Yale, and
served for three years in the National Health Service
in rural Southeast Tennessee.
Robert Master, MD
Dr. Master is an internist with more than 25 years experience
in clinical management of patients with advanced chronic
illness and disability. He was medical director of the
Massachusetts Medicaid program and was chair of the
Health Services Department of the Boston University
School of Public Health, where he is associate professor
of Public Health. He was president and medical director
of Community Medical Alliance (CMA), an experimental
HMO caring for individuals with severe disabilities
and AIDS. Subsequent to CMA's merger with Neighborhood
Health Plan in 1996 (a plan serving low-income individuals
in Massachusetts), Dr. Master has been CMO of the combined
organizations.
Dorothy L. Powell, EdD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Powell is associate dean for Nursing in the College
of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Allied Health Sciences at
Howard University. She has held teaching and administrative
positions at Thomas Nelson Community College, Norfolk
State University, George Mason University, and Hampton
University. She has worked with underserved populations
in the areas of homelessness, environmental health,
adolescent pregnancy, and international development.
She has served on the National Advisory Councils on
Nursing Education and Research Resources, and is a board
member of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing,
and Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Powell
holds an MS in maternal-infant nursing from Catholic
University of America, and an EdD in higher education
administration from the College of William and Mary.
Robert Hurley, PhD
Dr. Hurley is associate professor of Health Administration
at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth
University. He has been teaching courses in managed
care for more than a decade and has published more than
50 journal articles, book chapters, and monographs on
this topic. He has testified before state legislatures
and the US Senate Finance Committee on his research,
which includes examining the impact of managed care
on community health and human service providers in Philadelphia;
tracking the entry and exit of commercial HMOs in the
Medicaid; and examining health plan and provider contracting
and compensation strategies. Dr. Hurley received his
PhD in health policy and administration from the University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Public Health.
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