Foster Scholar Meetings
June 27 – August 8, 2013
Date
June 27, 2013
Location
Simches
Conference Room
#3130
Time
1:00 – 3:00pm
Presenter
Carolyn Clancy, MD
Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
A general internist and researcher, Dr. Clancy is an expert in engaging
consumers in their health care.
Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., was appointed Director of the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on February 5, 2003, and
reappointed on October 9, 2009. Prior to her appointment, Dr. Clancy
was Director of AHRQ's Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness
Research.
Dr. Clancy, a general internist and health services researcher, is a
graduate of Boston College and the University of Massachusetts
Medical School. Following clinical training in internal medicine, Dr.
Clancy was a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow at the
University of Pennsylvania. Before joining AHRQ in 1990, she was
also an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at
the Medical College of Virginia.
Dr. Clancy holds an academic appointment at the George Washington
University School of Medicine (Clinical Associate Professor,
Department of Medicine) and serves as Senior Associate Editor for the
journal Health Services Research. She serves on multiple editorial
boards, including Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of Family
Medicine, American Journal of Medical Quality, and Medical Care
Research and Review.
Dr. Clancy is a member of the Institute of Medicine and was elected a
Master of the American College of Physicians in 2004. In 2009, she
was awarded the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services
Research.
Dr. Clancy's major research interests include improving health care
quality and patient safety and reducing disparities in care associated
with patients' race, ethnicity, gender, income, and education. As
Director of AHRQ, she launched the first annual report to Congress on
health care disparities and health care quality.
Dr. Clancy lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, with
her husband, Bill. She enjoys jogging, movies, and spending time with
her extended family, especially her four nieces, who live in Virginia.
July 11, 2013
Simches
Conference Room
#3130
1:00 – 3:00pm
Andrew Morris-Singer, MD
Founder and President of Primary Care Progress
Andrew is both a primary care clinician and community organizer
with more than 15 years of experience working on field campaigns.
He is a general internist providing primary care at a new patientcentered medical home in Boston. In Spring 2009, Andrew founded
the precursor to PCP to advocate for improved primary care
programming at Harvard Medical School. As the President of PCP,
Andrew speaks around the nation about strategic community
engagement, clinical innovation, and direct action organizing around
primary care. As an instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School,
Andrew also teaches and mentors medical students and residents.
Uyen Doan, Manager of Training and Organizing
Uyen has devoted much of her life to organizing her communities to
fight for social justice. She continues to lead trainings that teach the
basic practices of organizing. She has a background in public policy
and global health, and she is also a doula in training, coaching women
through the birthing process. At Primary Care Progress, Uyen
coordinates the overall community organizing efforts, develops and
disseminates strategic organizing trainings, and works closely with
local teams of primary care advocates to help them build chapters and
take action to accelerate improvement in the primary care workforce
pipeline.
July 18, 2013
July 25, 2013
Yawkey
Conference Room
#2-210
1:00 – 3:00pm
Simches
Conference Room
#3130
1:00 – 3:00pm
John Goodson, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a
practicing internist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the
founder of the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation
and currently serves on the Center’s Executive Committee. He has a
lifelong interest in the education of primary care physicians and has
directed CME courses for over 30 years. His advocacy contributed to
the expansion of health care access in Massachusetts. He is currently
participating in physician payment reform efforts, specifically
focusing on the evaluation and management (E/M) service codes that
are the core metrics of primary care work. In this, he is collaborating
actively with many different professional societies (SGIM, ACP,
AAFP, AMA).
Stuart Altman, MD
Dr. Altman is an economist whose research interests are primarily in
the area of federal and state health policy. Among his many
professional achievements, he served 12 years as Chairman of the
congressionally legislated Prospective Payment Assessment
Commission (ProPac) formed to advise Congress and the
Administration on the functioning of the Medicare Diagnostic Related
Group (DRG) Hospital Payment System and other system reforms. He
is also Chair of The Health Industry Forum which brings together
diverse group leaders from across the health care field to develop
solutions for critical problems facing the healthcare system. Chair of
the Board of the Health Policy Commission (HPC). The new
agency is charged with monitoring the reform of Massachusetts
health care delivery and payment systems in order to reduce
costs and improve quality.
Wendy Everett
A pioneer and national health care leader, Wendy Everett, ScD, has
dedicated her career to improving the quality and affordability of
health care across the country, passionately supporting innovative
approaches that stem rising health care costs and inefficiencies in the
system. Member of the Board of the Health Policy Commission
(HPC). The new agency is charged with monitoring the reform of
Massachusetts health care delivery and payment systems in order to
reduce costs and improve quality.
With a breadth of health care experience spanning 40 years, Dr.
Everett was chosen to oversee the formation of the NEHI in 2002 as
its first president. Along with NEHI’s founders, Dr. Everett’s vision
was to create an independent, research-based organization that
convened diverse members of the health care industry to achieve the
common goal of addressing the most urgent health care issues.
Under her leadership, this vision has resulted in ground breaking
research on medical innovation, patient safety, health care spending
and health care information technology, and has influenced significant
national policy changes. Dr. Everett works with public and private
policymakers to translate NEHI’s research findings into long-term
solutions that improve health care quality and lower health care costs.
Previously, Dr. Everett held executive positions at the University of
California, San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) and Brigham and
Women’s Hospital in Boston. She has directed national demonstration
programs for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kaiser
Family Foundations. In the mid-1990s, she was Director of the
Institute for the Future, leading the Health and Health Care research
team and overseeing the creation of ten-year, national forecasts in
health and health care.
In addition, she has served on the boards of many philanthropic
foundations and non-profit organizations. Dr. Everett earned two
bachelor of science degrees, and she holds master’s and doctoral
degrees in health policy and management from Harvard University.
August 1, 2013
Simches
Conference Room
#3130
1:00 – 3:00pm
Larry Tye
Larry Tye runs the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship, which
is designed to help the media do a better job covering critical health
care issues. Each year it trains 10 medical journalists from
newspapers, radio stations and TV outlets from across the country, on
topics ranging from public health and mental health to insuring the
uninsured.
From 1986 to 2001, Tye was a reporter at the Boston Globe, where his
primary beat was medicine. He also served as the Globe’s
environmental reporter, roving national writer, investigative reporter,
and sports writer. Before that he was the environmental reporter at the
Courier-Journal in Louisville, and covered government and business
at the Anniston Star in Alabama.
Suzanne Koven, MD
Suzanne Koven received her B.A. in English literature from Yale and
her M.D. from Johns Hopkins. She also holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction
from the Bennington Writing Seminars. After her residency training
and chief residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, she joined the faculty
of Harvard Medical School and has practiced primary care internal
medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for over 20
years. She writes the AMWA award-winning monthly column, "In
Practice" in The Boston Globe as well as a blog by the same name at
boston.com. She also contributes the interview column, "The Big
Idea," to The Rumpus.net. Her essays, articles, and reviews have
appeared in The Boston Globe, JAMA, NEJM, Psychology Today,
and other publications. In 2013 she was a recipient of the Blue Cross
Blue Shield of Massachusetts Health Coverage Fellowship. Visit her
website at www.suzannekovenmd.com
August 8, 2013
Yawkey
Conference Room
#2-210
1:00 – 3:00pm
Josh Metlay MD Chief, Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts
General Hospital
Bio to follow.
Invited: Katrina Armstrong MD, Chair, Department of Medicine,
Massachusetts General Hospital