Members List: 2012

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) National Advisory Council on Healthcare Research and Quality has appointed a Subcommittee on Quality Measures for Children's Healthcare to review publicly nominated and Centers of Excellence (CoE)-developed children's health care quality measures for potential inclusion in improved core measure sets and for other CHIPRA purposes. Members of the Subcommittee are listed below.

Elizabeth Anderson
Co-Chair, Parent Advisory Group
American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Home Care
Brookline, MA

Andrea Benin, MD
Senior Vice President
Quality and Patient Safety
Connecticut Children's Medical Center
Hartford, CT

Gerard Carrino, PhD, MPH
Senior Vice President
Program Resource Development and Evaluation
March of Dimes
White Plains, NY

Stephen Downs, MD, MS
Director, General and Community Pediatrics
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN

Naihua Duan, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics (in Psychiatry)
Departments of Psychiatry and Biostatistics
Columbia University
New York, NY

Kim Elliott, PhD, CPHQ
Administrator, Clinical Quality Management
Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
Phoenix, AZ

Mary Evans, PhD
Distinguished University Health Professor Emerita
University of South Florida College of Nursing
Tampa, FL

Glenn Flores, MD, FAAP
Professor, Pediatrics and Public Health
University of Texas Southwestern
Director, Division of General Pediatrics
UT Southwestern Children's Medical Center of Dallas
Dallas, TX

Charles Gallia, PhD
Senior Health Policy Advisor
Division of Medical Assistance Programs
Oregon Health Authority
Salem, OR

Paul Glassman, DDS, MA, MBA
Director
Pacific Center for Special Care
Professor, Department of Dental Care
University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry
San Francisco, CA

Charles E. Irwin, Jr., MD
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine
Director, Health Policy, Department of Pediatrics
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA

Sherrie Kaplan, PhD, MPH
Assistant Vice Chancellor
Healthcare Measurement and Evaluation
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
Irvine, CA

Clint Koenig, MD, MA, MSPH
Medical Director
Monroe Plan for Medical Care
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

Sharon-Lise Normand, PhD
Professor, Health Care Policy (Biostatistics)
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Ann Page, R.N., MPH
Director, Health Care Delivery Management Administration
Department of Health Care Finance
Washington, DC

Laura Pickler, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
University of Colorado, Denver
Aurora, CO

Diane Rowley, MD, MPH
Professor of the Practice of Public Health
Department of Child and Maternal Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health
Chapel Hill, NC

Stephen Saunders, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer
APS Healthcare
Springfield, IL

Alan Spitzer, MD
Senior Vice President for Research, Education, and Quality
MEDNAX Services/Pediatrix Medical Group/American Anesthesiology
Sunrise, FL

Rajendu Srivastava, MD, MPH, FRCP
Associate Professor
Division of Inpatient Medicine
University of Utah Health Services Center
Salt Lake City, UT

Carole Stipelman, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Division of General Pediatrics
University of Utah School of Medicine
Lead Clinician
Central City Community Health Center
Salt Lake City, UT

Jeffery Thompson, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer
Medicaid Program
Washington State Health Care Authority
Olympia, WA

Kirsten Thomsen, PA
Commissioner
National Commission on Vision and Health
Alexandria, VA

Feliciano Yu, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Washington University School of Medicine
Chief Medical Information Officer, St. Louis Children's Hospital
St. Louis, MO