Dave Camp represents the people of the 4th Congressional District of Michigan, one of the largest congressional districts land-wise east of the Mississippi, encompassing all or parts of 14 counties in northwest and mid-Michigan. First elected to Congress in 1990, Camp made an “unusually rapid rise to prominence,” according to the major national policy journal, Congressional Quarterly. A native of Midland, Camp has earned a reputation for paying close attention to the needs of his constituents. In the House of Representatives, Camp is the third most senior Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, is the Ranking Republican Member on the Health Subcommittee, and also serves as a member of the Human Resources Subcommittee. The committee is considered one of the most powerful in Washington, with jurisdiction over tax, tariff and trade laws, plus Medicare and Social Security. On Ways and Means, Camp first made his mark in 1996 by playing a crucial role in the passage of the historic welfare reform legislation. Time magazine credited Camp’s activity as the “decisive breakthrough” that led to the bill’s enactment. Since then, Camp has pushed to move the massive Medicare program towards preventive health care with legislation like the Cholesterol Screening Act, and lower tax rates across the board for families and employers while arguing for a long term overhaul and simplification of the U.S. tax code.
As an attorney in private practice before his first election, Camp worked extensively with parents and children in the foster care system. His experiences in this field gave him the background and insight to introduce landmark Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1996, co-sponsor the Intercountry Adoption Act in 2000 and author the Adoption Promotion Act of 2003. Camp’s work in this field has led to him to become one of the House’s leading adoption and foster care proponents and experts. Camp, who was born in Midland, Mich., earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Albion College in Albion, Mich., and graduated with a J.D. from the University of San Diego. He and his wife Nancy continue to reside in Midland with their three children.
Since his days as co-director of the Oregon Gray Panthers, Senator Wyden has been one of the nation’s leading voices on health care. He authored the first federal law to protect seniors from unscrupulous Medicare insurance scams, and during a 1994 congressional hearing, Wyden’stough questioning exposed the tobacco industry’swillingness to lie about the addictivenessof their products.In late 2006, Senator Wyden proposed the first major bipartisan health care reform legislation in more than a decade, the Healthy Americans Act (HAA), whichguarantees quality, affordable, portablehealth coverage for everysingle American. Insurance companies would no longer be able to deny or cancel coverage due to illness or injury, and according to an independent, non-partisan analysis, the HAA wouldcut health costsby more than $1.48 trillion over the next decade.
In addition to working at VRI, Brazile serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. She has served as a senior lecturer at the University of Maryland, resident fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics and as the Senator Wyona Lipman Chair at Rutgers University Center for American Women in Politics. Brazile is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including Washingtonian Magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Washington, D.C., Essence Magazine’s 50 Most Powerful Women in America and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Award for Political Achievement. Brazile, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana earned her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1981 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Louisiana State University in May 2005. Firmly grounded in her humble Louisiana roots, Brazile is a fierce advocate for the poor and minorities. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the guiding agency charged with addressing the state’s recovery after Hurricane Katrina. She is currently the Founder and Managing Director of Brazile and Associates, a political consulting and grassroots advocacy firm based in the District of Columbia.
Donna Brazile is one of the best known, most influential African American women in modern American political life. She is Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute (VRI), an organization established in 2001 to help protect and promote the rights of all Americans to participate in the political process. Brazile is the author of Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics, a memoir about her life in the political arena, and co-author of What We Do Now, published by Melville House in 2004. Brazile, a well-versed Democratic political strategist, made history as the first African American women to lead a major presidential campaign when she served as Campaign Manager for Gore-Lieberman 2000. Prior to joining the Gore campaign, Brazile was Chief of Staff and Press Secretary to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia where she helped guide the District’s budget and local legislation on Capitol Hill. A veteran of numerous national and statewide campaigns, Brazile worked on several presidential campaigns for Democratic candidates, including Carter-Mondale in 1976 and 1980, Rev. Jesse Jackson’s first historic bid for the presidency in 1984, Mondale-Ferraro in 1984, U.S. Representative Dick Gephardt in 1988, Dukakis-Bentsen in 1988, and Clinton-Gore in 1992 and 1996; and Gore-Lieberman 2000. Brazile is a weekly contributor and political commentator for CNN, a political consultant for ABC News, and a contributor to NPR’s Political Corner. She is also a columnist for Roll Call Newspaper, Ms. Magazine, and the author of a syndicated column.
Leonard Burman is director of the Tax Policy Center, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Dr. Burman served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis from 1998 to 2000, and as Senior Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office from 1988 to 1997. He is the author of a book, The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy: A Guide for the Perplexed, and numerous articles, studies, and reports. He is also a commentator for Marketplace. Recent research has examined the individual alternative minimum tax, the changing role of taxation in social policy, and tax incentives for savings, retirement, and health insurance. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.
Dan L. Crippen served, until January 3, 2003 as the fifth director of the Congressional Budget Office.Dr. Crippen, who was appointed in February 1999, has served in senior positions in the White House and the United States Senate and is a specialist in issues relating to the federal budget, health care and retirement. From 1987 to 1989, Dr. Crippen served as an advisor to President Reagan on all issues relating to domestic policy, including the preparation and presentation of the federal budget. In the Senate, he served as chief counsel and economic policy adviser to the Senate Majority Leader from 1981 to 1985. He has provided service to several national commissions. Before joining CBO, he was a principal with Washington Counsel, a law and consulting firm. He has also served as executive director of the Merrill Lynch International Advisory Council and as a founding partner and senior vice president of the Duberstein Group.
Since his departure from the Congressional Budget Office, Dr. Crippen has worked with companies emerging from bankruptcy; testified before Congress and the Federal Trade Commission; and, advised stock exchanges on the future of financial markets. He serves on several boards of companies in the heath care industry, both public and private; serves on the national nominating committee for the National Association of Securities Dealers; conducts research on health care; and contributes articles to journals and newspapers. He currently chairs the Quadrennial Social Security Technical Advisory Panel, reviewing the work of the Social Security actuaries and advises Office holders at al levels, including presidential campaigns, on domestic policy. Crippen is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Economic Association and serves on Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the CBO Panel of Economic Advisors.
David Cutler has developed an impressive record of achievement in both academia and the public sector. He served as Assistant Professor of Economics from 1991 to 1995, was named John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences in 1995, and received tenure in 1997. He is currently the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the department of economics and Kennedy School of Government, and associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Social Sciences. Honored for his scholarly work and singled out for outstanding mentorship of graduate students, Professor Cutler's work in health economics and public economics has earned him significant academic and public acclaim. Professor Cutler served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration and advised the Presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley and John Kerry. Among other affiliations, Professor Cutler has held positions with the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Professor Cutler is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Institute of Medicine. Professor Cutler is the author of Your Money Or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System, published by Oxford University Press. This book, and Professor Cutler's ideas, were the subject of a feature article in the New York Times Magazine, The Quality Cure, by Roger Lowenstein. Cutler was recently named one of the 30 people who could have a powerful impact on healthcare by Modern Healthcare magazine.
Ezekiel Emanuel is Chair of the Department of Clinical Bioethics, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, and a breast oncologist. After completing Amherst College, he received his M.Sc. from Oxford University in Biochemistry. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University. His dissertation received the Toppan Award for the finest political science dissertation of the year. In 1987-88, he was a fellow in the Program in Ethics and the Professions at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. After completing his internship and residency in internal medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and his oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, he joined the faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Emanuel was an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School before joining the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Emanuel developed The Medical Directive, a comprehensive living will that has been endorsed by Consumer Reports on Health, Harvard Health Letter, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He has published widely on the ethics of clinical research, health care reform, international research ethics, end of life care issues, euthanasia, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, and many other medical journals. His book on medical ethics, The Ends of Human Life, has been widely praised and received honorable mention for the Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He has also published No Margin, No Mission: Health-Care Organizations and the Quest for Ethical Excellence and co-edited Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research: Readings and Commentary. Dr. Emanuel served on President Clinton's Health Care Task Force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), and on the bioethics panel of the Pan-American Healthcare Organization. Dr. Emanuel has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UCLA, the Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School, and the Kovtiz Professor at Stanford Medical School.
Paul B. Ginsburg is President of the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). Founded in 1995, HSC conducts research to inform policymakers and other audiences about changes in organization of financing and delivery of care and their effects on people. Data are gathered through the Community Tracking Study, which includes surveys of households and physicians and site visits to interview health system leaders in 12 communities that are representative of the nation. HSC is widely known for the objectivity and technical quality of its research and its success in communicating it to policy makers and the media as well as to the research community. A sister organization to Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., HSC is funded principally by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, but also receives funding from other foundations and from government agencies. To learn more about HSC, please visit its web site: www.hschange.org.
Dr. Ginsburg served as the founding Executive Director of the Physician Payment Review Commission (now the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission). Widely regarded as highly influential, the Commission developed the Medicare physician payment reform proposal that was enacted by the Congress in 1989. Dr. Ginsburg was a Senior Economist at RAND and served as Deputy Assistant Director at the Congressional Budget Office. Before that, he served on the faculties of Duke andMichigan State Universities. He earned his doctorate in economics from Harvard University. Dr. Ginsburg is a noted speaker and consultant on the changes taking place in the health care system and the future outlook. In addition to presentations on the overall direction of change, recent topics have included cost trends and drivers, consumer driven health care, provider payment, future of employer-based health insurance and competition in health care. In 2007, for the fifth time, Dr. Ginsburg was named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 100 most powerful persons in health care. He recently received the first annual HSR Impact Award from AcademyHealth, the professional association for health policy researchers and analysts. He is a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a Public Trustee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and served two elected terms on the Board of AcademyHealth.
R. Glenn Hubbard was named Dean of Columbia Business School on July 1, 2004. A Columbia faculty member since 1988, he is also the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics. As a faculty member at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he is Professor of Economics. Prior to becoming Dean, he was the Co-Director of Columbia Business School’s Entrepreneurship Program. Professor Hubbard received his BA and BS degrees summa cum laude from the University of Central Florida, where he received the National Society of Professional Engineers Award. He also holds AM and PhD degrees in economics from Harvard University, where he received fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School as well as the University of Chicago. Professor Hubbard also held the John M. Olin Fellowship at the National Bureau of Economic Research, at which he remains affiliated with research programs in monetary economics, public economics, corporate finance and industrial organization. Additionally, he is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington and a member of the International Advisory Board of the MBA Program of Ben-Gurion University. His research spans tax policy, monetary economics, corporate finance and international finance.
In addition to writing more than 90 scholarly articles in economics and finance, Professor Hubbard is the author of two leading textbook on money and financial markets as well as co-author of Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System. His commentaries have appeared in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, Nikkei and the Daily Yomiuri, as well as on television (on PBS’s Nightly Business Report) and radio (on NPR’s Marketplace). In government, Professor Hubbard served as deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department for Tax Policy from 1991 –1993. He supervised administration efforts on revenue estimates, tax reform and health policy. From February 2001 until March 2003, he was chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. His responsibilities included advising the president on economic policy, tax and budget policy, emerging market financial issues, international finance, health care and environmental policy.
Theodore R. Marmor, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management at Yale School of Management, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Adjunct Professor Emeritus of the Yale Law School. Dr. Marmor is also a 2007-2008 Adjunct Public Policy Professor at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is also a former Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s post-doctoral program in Health Policy & Social Science. A graduate of Harvard University and Wadham College at Oxford, Professor Marmor specialty is the politics of both the contemporary welfare state in the United States and its counterparts among the industrial democracies. The author or co-author of eleven books, he has published over a hundred articles in a wide range of scholarly journals and number of op-ed contributions to major US newspapers. The 2nd edition of The Politics of Medicare was published in 2000; the first edition of this book became something of a political science classic. Other published books include Understanding Health Care Reform (1994), Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? (1994), and America’s Misunderstood Welfare State (1992). His most recent book is Fads Fallacies and Foolishness in Medical Management and Policy, World Scientific Publishing, 2007. He has testified before Congress about social policy, consulted with government and non-profit agencies and been an expert witness in cases involving asbestos liability and health financing controversies. He is a fellow of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Chris Matthews hosts Hardball with Chris Matthews, Monday through Friday on MSNBC (5 and 7 PM EST). Matthews is also the host of The Chris Matthews Show, a syndicated weekly news program produced by NBC News and distributed by NBC Universal Television Distribution. Mr. Matthews is a regular commentator on NBC’s Today show. A television news anchor with remarkable depth of experience, Matthews has distinguished himself as a broadcast journalist, newspaper bureau chief, Presidential speechwriter, and best-selling author. In March 2004, he received the David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. He has also been awarded The Abraham Lincoln Award from the Union League of Philadelphia and in 2005 he received the Gold Medal Award from the Pennsylvania Society. Matthews worked for 15 years as a print journalist, 13 of them as Washington Bureau Chief for The San Francisco Examiner (1987 - 2000), and two years as a national columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, which was syndicated to 200 newspapers by United Media. Prior to that, Matthews spent 15 years in politics and government, working in the White House for four years under President Jimmy Carter as a Presidential speechwriter and on the President’s Reorganization Project, in the U.S. Senate for five years on the staffs of Senator Frank Moss (Utah) and Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine), and as the top aide to Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. for six years.
Matthews is the author of four best-selling books, including American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions (2002), a New York Times best seller. His first book, Hardball (1988) is required reading in many college-level political science courses. Kennedy & Nixon (1996) was named by The Readers Digest “Today’s Best Non-fiction” and served as the basis of a documentary on the History Channel. Now, Let me Tell What I Really Think (2001) was another New York Times best-seller. His latest book, Life’s a Campaign, was released in 2007. Mr. Matthews did graduate work in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Matthews also worked for two years as a trade development advisor with the U.S. Peace Corps in the southern African nation of Swaziland. Matthews was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Institute of Politics. He holds 16 honorary PhDs.
In addition to his campaign work, Murphy advises several Fortune 500 corporations and leading interest groups. He has advised leaders in five foreign countries. He is a founding partner in the Washington DC based public policy management firm of DC Navigators. Mike Murphy is a frequent writer for the Weekly Standard and writes and performs radio commentary for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Murphy has appeared on Meet the Press, CNN’s The Capital Gang, Crossfire, Hardball, Face the Nation and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Murphy was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In 2001 he was an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard's JFK School of Government.
Michael Murphy is one of the Republican Party’s most successful political media consultants. Murphy has been called a “media master” by Fortune magazine, the GOP’s “hottest media consultant” by Newsweek, and the leader of a “new breed” of campaign consultants by Congressional Quarterly. Murphy has handled strategy and advertising for over 26 successful senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns, including the successful gubernatorial races of Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, John Engler, Tommy Thompson, Christie Whitman, Dirk Kempthorne and Terry Branstad as well as the successful Senatorial races of Lamar Alexander, Slade Gorton, Spence Abraham, Jeff Sessions, Dirk Kempthorne, Steve Symms, Paul Coverdell, and Larry Pressler. In 2000, Murphy served as senior strategist for Sen. John McCain’s Presidential campaign. In 2003 Murphy was senior strategist for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s historic election as Governor of California.
Michael J. O’Grady, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago and Principal of O’Grady Health Policy LLC, a private health consulting firm. He is a veteran health policy expert with 24 years working in Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Dr. O’Grady was the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 2003 to 2005. The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) is the principal advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services on policy development in health, disability, aging, human services, and science and data; and provides advice and analysis on economic policy. Prior to his appointment Dr. O’Grady most recently served as the Senior Health Economist on the majority staff of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress under Chairman Robert Bennett (R-UT). At the Committee, his work focused primarily on Medicare reform, the uninsured and other national health issues.
Prior to joining the Joint Economic Committee, Dr. O’Grady was a Senior Research Director at Project Hope’s Center for Health Affairs, where his work focused on Medicare reform issues. Dr. O’Grady also served as a senior health staff on the Senate Finance Committee’s majority staff under Chairman Bill Roth (R-DE). His work at Finance dealt with Medicare issues, including the implications of moving to a more market-based approach to Medicare, prescription drug proposals, the Medicare+Choice program and Medicare’s long-term solvency and financial viability. Before joining the staff of the Senate Finance Committee, he was a senior analyst with the Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare (Breaux/Thomas). He has also worked at the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC), The Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress and the Office for Civil Rights in both the Department of Health Education and Welfare and the Department of Education. He holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Rochester.
Mark D. Smith, MD, MBA, is the President and CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation. The Foundation is an independent philanthropy with assets of $800 million, headquartered in Oakland, California and dedicated to improving the health of the people of California through its three program areas; Innovations For The Underserved, Better Chronic Disease Care, and Market and Policy Monitor. A board-certified internist, he is a member of the clinical faculty at the University of California San Francisco and an attending physician at the Positive Health Program for AIDS care at San Francisco General Hospital. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and serves on the board of the National Business Group on Health.
Prior to joining the California HealthCare Foundation, Dr. Smith was Executive Vice President of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and previously served as Associate Director of the AIDS Service and Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University. He has served on the Performance Measurement Committee of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the editorial board of the Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr. Smith received a B.A. in Afro-American Studies from Harvard College, an M.D. from the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.B.A. with a concentration in health care administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Called "a different kind of labor chief" and a "courageous, visionary leader who charted a bold new course for American unionism," Stern began working as a social service worker and member of SEIU Local 668 in 1973 and rose through the ranks before his election as SEIU president in 1996. After launching a national debate about the fundamental change needed to unite the 9 out of 10 American workers who have no organization at work, Stern led SEIU out of the AFL-CIO and founded Change to Win, a new six-million member federation of seven major unions dedicated to giving workers a voice at their jobs. Stern is the author of the book, A Country That Works (Free Press), which offers a fresh prescription for the vital political and economic reforms America needs to get back on track.
Andy Stern is the president of a 1.9 million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), CTW, CLC, the fastest-growing union in North America. As both a labor leader and an activist, Stern is a leading voice and aggressive advocate for practical solutions to achieve economic opportunity and justice for workers; to ensure affordable, quality health care for all; to promote quality public services; and to guarantee that globalization benefits not just big corporations but also working people. To that end, Stern has spearheaded bold new partnerships with community allies, employers, and other worker organizations, and he has helped elect officials of both major parties.
Bruce C. Vladeck, PhD, rejoined Ernst & Young LLP Health Sciences Advisory Services as Executive Director and Senior Health Policy Advisor in September, 2007, having completed his tenure as Interim President of The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. In March, 2006, newly-elected Governor Jon Corzine asked Vladeck to undertake interim management of the university. Prior to joining E&Y in 2004, Dr. Vladeck was Professor of Health Policy and Geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He is a member of the New York City Board of Health, a Trustee of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, and a member of the Editorial Board of Health Affairs.
From 1993 through 1997, Dr. Vladeck was Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). In that position, he directed the Medicare and Medicaid programs, providing health insurance to more than 65 million Americans with combined annual expenditures of more than $300 billion. Subsequent to his service at HCFA, Dr. Vladeck was appointed by President Clinton to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Before joining the federal government, Dr. Vladeck served ten years as President of the United Hospital Fund of New York. He also held positions on the faculty of Columbia University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; from 1979 through 1982 he was Assistant Commissioner of the New Jersey State Department of Health. At the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected in 1986, 5Dr. Vladeck chaired the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People. Among many other honors and awards, Dr. Vladeck received the 1995 National Public Service Award and the 2005 Robert M. Ball Award of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Dr. Vladeck has published widely, perhaps most notably his book, Unloving Care: The Nursing Home Tragedy (Basic Books: 1980). He received his BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard College; and an MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan.
From 1990 – 1992, she was Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, directing the Medicare and Medicaid programs. She also served as Deputy Assistant to President (GHW) Bush for Policy Development, advising him on health and welfare issues from 1992 to 1993. From 1997 to 2001, she chaired the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on payment and other issues relating to Medicare, and from 1995 to 1997, she chaired the Physician Payment Review Commission. From 2001 to 2003, she co-chaired the President’s Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation’s Veterans, which covered health care for both veterans and military retirees. In 2007, she served as a Commissioner on the President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors. Dr. Wilensky testifies frequently before Congressional committees, acts as an advisor to members of Congress and other elected officials, and speaks nationally and internationally before professional, business and consumer groups. She received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a PhD in economics at the University of Michigan.
Gail R. Wilensky, PhD, an economist, and a Senior Fellow at Project HOPE (an international health education foundation) analyzes and develops policies relating to health care reform and to ongoing changes in the health care environment. Dr. Wilensky is a Commissioner on the WHO’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, is co-chair of the Department of Defense task force on the Future of Military Health Care, is Vice Chair of the Maryland Health Care Commission and serves as a trustee of the Combined Benefits Fund of the United Mineworkers of America and the National Opinion Research Center. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, former chair of the board of directors of Academy Health, former trustee of the American Heart Association, and a current or former director on numerous other organizations. She is also a director on several corporate boards.
