RWJ Health Policy Fellowships Advisory Board
Robert Graham MD, Chair
Professor of Family Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Sheila P. Burke, MPA, RN, Vice Chair
Faculty Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Research Professor Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute
Peter Budetti, MD, JD
Edward E. & Helen T. Bartlett Foundation Professor of Public Health
University of Oklahoma College of Public Health
Kenneth B. Chance, Sr., DDS
Professor and Division Chief of Endodontics
University of Kentucky, College of Dentistry
Jack C. Ebeler, MPA
Consultant
Ebeler Consulting
Judy Feder, PhD
Professor and Dean
Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Robert J-P. Hauck, PhD
Deputy Executive Director
American Political Science Association
Nancy Johnson
Senior Public Policy Advisor
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Angela Barron McBride, PhD, RN
Distinguished Professor and University Dean Emerita
Indiana University School of Nursing
Mario Pacheco, MD
Residency Director
St. Vincent Hospital
Howard K. Rabinowitz, MD
Ellen M. and Dale W. Garber Professor of Family Medicine
Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
Jeanne C. Sinkford, DDS, PhD
Associate Executive Director
The American Dental Education Association
Robert Otto Valdez, PhD
Senior Health Scientist
RAND Health Sciences Program
A. Eugene Washington, MD, MSc
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
University of California, San Francisco
Board Biographies
 Peter P. Budetti, MD, JD, is the Edward E. & Helen T. Bartlett Foundation Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Administration and Policy in the College of Public Health of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Dr. Budetti pursues an active research and policy agenda in the areas of health law, health care coverage and financing, and child health. Dr. Budetti was the Founder and Director of the Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies at Northwestern University, Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, appointed as Professor with joint tenure in the Department of Preventive Medicine and in the Kellogg School of Management, and as Professor in the School of Law and the Department of Pediatrics. Previously, Dr. Budetti was the Director and Founder of the Center for Health Policy Research, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, holding an endowed chair as the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Care Law and Policy, in the Department of Health Services Management and Policy, School of Business and Public Management, with joint appointments in the School of Law and the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Budetti is and has been Principal Investigator on numerous extramural funded projects. He was a member of the core legislative drafting group for President Clinton's Health Security Act throughout 1993, and was on leave from The George Washington University to serve as a member of the professional staff for health reform of the Senate Committee on Finance during 1994. Between 1984 and 1990, Dr. Budetti was Counsel to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in the United States House of Representatives, and from 1975 through 1984 he was with the Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, leaving as Associate Professor-in-Residence of Social Medicine in Pediatrics. Dr. Budetti is a Pediatrician and lawyer. His medical degree is from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and his law degree is from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley. His undergraduate degree was awarded magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Budetti is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance in 1996. Dr. Budetti is licensed (inactive) to practice medicine and is a member of the Bar of the State of California.
Sheila P. Burke, MPA, RN, FAAN, is the Smithsonian’s Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer. Before joining the Smithsonian Institution in June of 2000, Burke was executive dean and lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. She served as the chief of staff to former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole from 1986 to 1996 and was elected to serve as secretary of the Senate in 1995. Burke served as deputy chief of staff to the Senate Majority Leader from 1985 to 1986, as deputy staff director of the Senate Committee on Finance from 1982 to 1985, and as a professional staff member of the committee from 1979 to 1982. Burke is an adjunct faculty member of Georgetown University Public Policy Institute. She serves as an adjunct lecturer at both the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and is a fellow of the school’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. From 1980 to 1981, Burke was a research assistant at the Center for Health Policy and Management (now the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Burke currently serves as a member of the board of trustees of the University of San Francisco. She is a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Chair of the Kaiser Family Foundation, Palo Alto, California; the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid and Uninsured, in Washington, DC; the board of trustees of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation; and chair of the study panel of the Committee on the Assessment of the US Drug Safety System, Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC. She also serves on a number of corporate boards, including the Chubb Corporation, and WellPoint Health Networks. Burke, 54, is a native of San Francisco. She earned a master of public administration from Harvard University in 1982 and a bachelor of science in nursing from the University of San Francisco in 1973. In 1999, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in military medicine from the University of the Uniform Health Services and a Doctor of Humane letters from Marymount University in June 2005. Early in her career, she worked as a staff nurse (1974) in Berkeley, Calif.
 Kenneth B. Chance, Sr., DDS, FACD, FICD is Professor and Division Chief of Endodontics at the University of Kentucky, College of Dentistry. He received a BS degree from Fordham University in 1975 and a DDS degree from Case Western Reserve University, School of Dental Medicine in 1979. He received postgraduate training at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, General Practice Residency Program in NYC, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Dental School (UMDNJ-NJDS) in Endodontics in 1982. At UMDNJ-NJDS, Dr. Chance served as head of the Department of Endodontics, assistant dean of External Affairs, and University Federal Relations Advisor. He was director for the Health Policy Program at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC. Dr. Chance served as dean and professor at the Meharry Medical College, School of Dentistry in Nashville, Tennessee. He was elected Member-At Large of the Administrative Board of the Council of Deans of the American Dental Education Association. He has served on major committees including: the Institute of Medicine Committee on National Institutes of Health Research Priority Setting Process, and Chairman of the Governor’s Oral Health Policy 2000 Advisory Committee for New Jersey. In 1991, Dr. Chance was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the Office of Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). He was also a PEW National Dental Leadership Development Fellow in 1991. Dr. Chance has received more than fifty awards, citations and special recognitions including; the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Excellence Award in Education, Governor of Tennessee Outstanding Achievement Award, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Community Service Award. He has fellowships in the American and International College of Dentists, Omicron Kappa Upsilon Honor Society, Academy of Political Science, Pierre Fauchard Academy, and was elected Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academy of Practice in Dentistry. Dr. Chance presently serves on the Case Western Reserve University Board of Trustees, as Vice Chairman of the Academic Affairs and Student Life Committee, and is a member of the Audit and University Relations Committees. He has numerous publications and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals and has made more than sixty invited presentations, both nationally and internationally.
 Jack Ebeler, MPA, is a consultant in health care policy and health care. He provides counsel on the federal policy environment and the changing health care marketplace, and focuses on how to shape and respond to that environment to achieve better coverage, care and affordability. Jack serves on the Health Care Services Board of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the boards of directors of Families USA and the National Academy of Social Insurance, the Health Care Services Board of Inova Health System in Virginia, and the National Center for Health Care Leadership, and a number of advisory boards and committees, including the RAND Corporation’s Health Care COMPARE project and the California Health Benefits Review Program. He was designated in 2003 as a lifetime National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. Previously, Jack was president and CEO of the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP), a national association of 14 leading health pla ns and provider organizations. Before working at ACHP, he was senior vice president and the first director of the Health Care Group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 1995 and 1996 he served in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, first as deputy assistant secretary for planning and evaluation/health and then as acting assistant secretary for planning and evaluation. Prior to that he was a principal at the consulting firm Health Policy Alternatives, vice president at HealthPartners in Minnesota, on the staff of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, special assistant to the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, (now the CMS), an analyst at the Congressional Research Service and at the federal Medicaid program. He has a Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1980), and a B.A. from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA (1971). Jack is married to Carolyn Wallace Ebeler, who is an employment and transition representative at James Madison High School in the Fairfax County Public School system. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.
Judy Feder, PhD, is Professor and Dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and was the 2006 Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District. She is one of the nation's leaders in health policy--most particularly, in efforts to understand and improve the nation's health insurance system. A widely published scholar, her three decades of policy research began at the Brookings Institution, continued at the Urban Institute, and, since 1984, has flourished at Georgetown University. Her expertise on the uninsured, Medicare, Medicaid, and long-term care is regularly drawn upon by members of Congress, Executive officials, and the national media. Feder has also held leadership policy positions, both in the Congress and in the Executive Branch. As staff director of the congressional Pepper Commission (chaired by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV), Feder is widely credited with setting the stage for the health reform debate of the 1990s. In 1993, she was appointed to the Department of Health and Human Services, where she worked to expand health insurance coverage, effectively manage Medicare and Medicaid, and assure the safety of food and drugs. Feder today pursues her policy leadership first and foremost by educating future policy leaders at Georgetown’s Public Policy Institute. She continues her research as co-director (with Sheila Burke) of the Georgetown University Long-term Care Financing Project and as senior advisor to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Feder is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the National Academy of Social Insurance; a former chair and board member of AcademyHealth; and a board member the Center for American Progress Action Fund Committee. She is also a member of the National Research Council’s Standing Committee on Research and Evidentiary Standards, the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships Program Advisory Board, and the Hamilton Project’s Advisory Council. Feder is a political scientist, with a B.A. from Brandeis University (1968) and a Master's (1970) and Ph.D. (1977) from Harvard University.
 Robert Graham, MD, currently is Professor of Family Medicine, and the Robert and Myfanwy Smith Chair in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, School of Medicine, a position he has held since March of 2005. In August of 2001, he returned to the US Public Health Service as the Director of the Center for Practice and Technology Assessment in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In December, 2002, he moved to assume the responsibilities of the Acting Deputy Director for the Agency. From 1985 to 2000 he served as the Executive Vice President of the American Academy of Family Physicians. The Academy, with then approximately 97,000 members, is the largest physician organization in the nation devoted solely to the issues of primary care education and practice. As its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Graham was responsible for developing and implementing organizational programs and policies that would contribute to improving health policy nationally, and the delivery of family physicians’ services locally. Upon his departure as the Academy’s CEO in August of 2000, he spent a sabbatical year as Scholar in Residence in the Academy’s Policy Center in Washington, D.C. During the period 1970-1985 his primary professional activity was in prior service as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Public Health Service (PHS). In the PHS he held a variety of positions in the Health Services and Mental Health Administration, the Bureau of Health Manpower, and the Health Resources Administration. After serving two years on detail as a staff member of the Senate Health Subcommittee, Dr. Graham returned to the Executive Branch in 1980, and was subsequently named the first Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, and appointed an Assistant Surgeon General. Throughout his career Dr. Graham has spoken extensively and written about a number of critical topics in health policy, such as health care reform and the need for universal coverage, federal health workforce policy, and the organizational characteristics of effective health systems. Dr. Graham’s contributions and expertise in health policy have be recognized by his election to the Institute of Medicine, and his selection as Treasurer of the bipartisan Alliance of Health Reform. In September of 2000, the Academy renamed its Center for Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care “The Robert Graham Center”. Dr. Graham, a native of Kansas, is a graduate of Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana (1965), and the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, Kansas (1970).
Robert J-P. Hauck, PhD, is deputy executive director of the American Political Science Association (APSA), editor of the Association's journal, PS: Political Science & Politics, and director of the APSA's Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs. He also oversees APSA's activities related to public support for social science research, scientific integrity, human subject protection and other issues related to professional conduct. Dr. Hauck is on the faculties of the Center for Special Studies, Holy Cross College (Worcester, MA) and the department of political science of Smith College (Northampton, MA). His area of interest is health care policy. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs. Prior to joining APSA, he was assistant director, Center for the Study of Children and Families, Institute of Public Policy Studies, Vanderbilt University and assistant director of Vanderbilt's mental health policy postdoctoral fellowship program. He has also served as a consultant to the Preventive Intervention Research Center for Child Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. Hauck received his B.A. from Colby College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
 Nancy Johnson is currently a senior public policy advisor in Baker Donelson’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the Firm's Federal Public Policy Group. She focuses on health care, tax and trade matters on behalf of Baker Donelson clients. Ms. Johnson served 24 years in Congress, from 1983 to 2007, representing the fifth district of Connecticut. The most senior woman in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 109th Congress, she is a recognized authority on national health care and tax policy. Hailed by the non-partisan Almanac of American Politics as “one of the most active and productive legislators in the House,” Ms. Johnson’s legislative accomplishments include a variety of matters related to health care, taxes, manufacturing, children’s issues , and the environment. She co-authored the national Children's Health Insurance Program, was a principal author of the Medicare Modernization Act and authored numerous health policy initiatives as chairman of the Health Subcommittee. As a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee and a free-trade proponent, Ms. Johnson played an integral role in passage of every major tax bill, trade agreement and health care initiative during her tenure on the committee. She was the first Republican woman to be appointed to the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and also the first woman to chair one of its subcommittees. As a member and chairman of the Health Subcommittee, Ms. Johnson co-authored the laws that expanded Medicare to cover prescription drugs, chronic care management, increased preventive health benefits and care offered by nurse specialists, physician assistants and nutritionists. She also introduced the health information technology legislation that led to the establishment of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the Department of Health & Human Services and fought for congressional support to encourage health care providers to adopt technology capable of providing electronic health records, decision support systems and other capabilities to reduce medical errors and improve care quality. As chairman of the Human Resources Subcommittee, Ms. Johnson improved foster care programs, expanded the Independent Living Program to support teenagers aging out of foster care and going to college or transitioning into the work place. She championed transitional health and child care benefits for families leaving public assistance and led the adoption of much stronger laws to enforce child support responsibilities. As the chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee, she authored a series of taxpayer rights bills that provided protections for individuals and small businesses. Under her chairmanship the recommendations of the commission to reorganize the IRS were reviewed and the law changed to make the IRS a more consumer- friendly, modern and accountable agency.
 Angela Barron McBride, PhD, RN, received her bachelor's degree in nursing from Georgetown University, her master's degree in psychiatric-mental health nursing from Yale University, and her PhD in developmental psychology from Purdue University. She is Distinguished Professor-University Dean Emerita at Indiana University School of Nursing. Dr. McBride is known for her contributions to women’s health, particularly the psychology of parenthood, and to psychiatric-mental health nursing. Her first book The Growth and Development of Mothers was recognized as one of the best of 1973 by both The New York Times and the American Journal of Nursing. She went on to author How to Enjoy a Good Life with Your Teenager (1987), which was a selection of Psychotherapy Book Review. Her book (co-edited with Joan K. Austin) entitled Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Integrating the Behavioral and Biological Sciences earned a 1996 Book-of-the-Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing. She has contributed to more than fifty other books, and has published numerous articles in both professional journals (Nursing Research, Research in Nursing and Health, Sex Roles, Developmental Psychology, American Psychologist, etc.), and popular magazines (e.g., Ms. Magazine, Women’s Day). Dr. McBride served as president of Sigma Theta Tau International (1987-1989), the honor society of nursing, during the building of the International Center for Nursing Scholarship in Indianapolis. She has served on the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (1987 to 1991), on the advisory committee of NIH's Office of Research on Women's Health (1997-2001), and as president of the American Academy of Nursing (1993-1995). She has served on the boards of a number of professional journals and annuals, e.g., Research in Nursing and Health, Annual Review of Nursing Research, Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, Encyclopedia of Nursing Leadership. She currently serves on a number of boards/advisory committees, e.g., Clarian Health Partners (she chairs the board’s Committee on Quality and Patient Care), Hartford Foundation’s "Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity" Program (she provides direction to their annual leadership conference), NIH Specialized Centers of Research on Sex and Gender Factors, Society for Women’s Health Research. In 1988, University Hospitals of Cleveland presented her with the MacDonald Hospital for Women Award for contributions to women's health. She has received honorary doctorates from the University of Cincinnati (1983), Eastern Kentucky University (1991), Georgetown University (1993), Medical College of Ohio (1995), University of Akron (1997), and Purdue University (1998). In 1995, she received the "Outstanding Contributions to Nursing and Health Psychology" Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division 38 on Health Psychology; that same year, she was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine where she later served as a Scholar-in-Residence (2003-04). In 1999, the Indianapolis Business Journal and The Indiana Lawyer named her one of most "influential women" in Indianapolis; in 2005 she received the Community Spirit Torchbearer Award of the Indiana Commission for Women.
Mario F. Pacheco, MD, is a Board Certified family physician who has provided comprehensive family care to medically indigent populations. He is the founding director of the Northern New Mexico Family Practice Residency Program, a rural residency training track sponsored by the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Medicine. A 1986 graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Dr. Pacheco completed his residency in family medicine at the University of New Mexico Department of Family and Community Medicine. He completed a one-year Fellowship in Health of the Public at UNM and subsequently worked as a staff physician at La Familia Medical Center for 10 years. He is a diplomat and a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. In 2000 he began a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship at the Institute of Medicine in Washington D.C., and subsequently worked for the New Mexico Department of Health until July, 2002 when he resumed the residency directorship at St. Vincent Hospital. He has authored several papers in the field of U.S.–Mexico Border Health and school-based health centers with an emphasis on innovative health education strategies for training students and residents on preventative adolescent health approaches. His main professional interest is exploring ways to improve health services access to rural and uninsured families in Northern New Mexico where health statistics are consistently among the worst in the nation.
Howard K. Rabinowitz MD, is the Ellen M. and Dale W. Garber Professor of Family Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. Since 1976, he has served as Director of Jefferson's Physician Shortage Area Program, a special admissions and educational program that has been successful in increasing the supply and retention of family physicians in rural areas, as detailed in publications in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Rabinowitz is a past-President of the American Board of Family Practice (1992-93), the former Secretary of the American Board of Family Practice’s Pisacano Leadership Foundation, and a former member of the Step II Committee on Public Health and Preventive Medicine of the United States Medical Licensure Examination (USMLE). From 1992-2000, he was a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Generalist Physician Initiative. From 1993-94, Dr. Rabinowitz was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the Office of Senator John D (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D, W. Va.). He also served as a consultant to the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) for their Sixth Report to Congress on "The Effect of Managed Care on the Physician Workforce and Medical Education". From 1997-2002, he was national Project Director and Co-Director of HRSA's $8 million "UME-21" project (Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21st Century), a program to develop curricular innovations to better prepare medical students to practice in the changing health care environment. He is the author of over 50 scholarly publications, and his book, Caring for the Country: Family Doctors in Small Rural Towns was published in 2004. He currently serves on the Editorial Board and as the Series Editor of the Health Policy section of the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice. Dr. Rabinowitz is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences.
Jeanne C. Sinkford, BS, DDS, MS, PhD, FACD, FICD, DSc, is Associate Executive Director and Director at the Center for Equity and Diversity, American Dental Education Association (formerly American Association of Dental Schools). Dr. Sinkford was Chair of the Department of Prosthodontics, Associate Dean at the Howard University College of Dentistry and member of the graduate school faculty prior to her appointment as Dean. She served in the deanship at Howard from 1975-1991. She has served on numerous committees and advisory councils of national significance including: the National Advisory Dental Research Council; Directors Advisory Council, National Institutes of Health; Governing Board of the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry; Advisory Board, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships Program; Committee A, Council on Dental Education and Chair, Appeal Board Council on Dental Education, American Dental Association; Council on Dental Research, American Dental Association; Dental Educational Review Panel, American Fund for Dental Education; and the Special Medical Advisory Group (SMAG) for the Veterans Administration; Council, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; NRC Governing Board, National Academy of Sciences. She serves on Advisory Boards at the Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Temple University School of Dentistry, Howard University College of Dentistry, Indiana University School of Dentistry and West Virginia University National Advisory Council. Dr. Sinkford served as consultant to the National Board of Dental Examiners; Chair, Appeal Board, Commission on Dental Accreditation, American Dental Association; President, Southern Conference of Dental Deans and Dental State Examiners; Chair, Council of Deans, American Association of Dental Schools; Member of the Dental Devices Classification Panel, Food and Drug Administration and Chair, Anatomical Board for the District of Columbia. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine National Academy of Sciences, Member Health Professions Partnerships Initiative (HPPI) National Advisory Committee, Member Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Advisory Committee and the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American College of Dentists. In addition to more than 80 publications in leading professional journals, Dr. Sinkford has written a Manual for Crown and Bridge Prosthodontics, a curriculum for dental materials and oral physiology, and guidelines for postgraduate study in adolescent dentistry. Her most significant contribution to advanced dental education has been the nationally acclaimed background document for the Graduate Education Workshop, co-sponsored by the American Dental Association and the American Association of Dental Schools. Dr. Sinkford holds honorary degrees from Georgetown University, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Detroit-Mercy University. She is a native Washingtonian and the wife of Dr. Stanley M. Sinkford.
Robert Otto Valdez, PhD, conducts policy analyses and research at RAND where he is a Senior Health Scientist. He is also president of Valdez & Associates an education and management consulting firm. Dr. Valdez previously served as Dean and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the MCP Hahnemann University School of Public Health. Previously, Dr. Valdez was Professor of Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health and directed the health services doctoral studies program. He is nationally recognized as an expert on health services research methodology, the U.S. health care system, and health policy analysis. Dr. Valdez received his Ph.D. from the RAND Graduate School for Public Policy Studies where he specialized in studies of health care financing and quality of care for children. Dr. Valdez has been active in health policy and health services research at the national, state, and local levels. In 1998, he served as Special Senior Advisor to the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. From 1993 to 1996 he served in a dual capacity at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Public Health Service and Director of Interagency Health Policy, Health Care Financing Administration. His responsibilities covered a wide range of issues including children and adolescent health initiatives; managed care developments and their effects on the public health care system; care for the uninsured; and state health care reforms. Prior to joining the Department of Health and Human Services, he served as a Senior Advisor to the White House on health care reform. Dr. Valdez has provided service on numerous national advisory boards, including the National Cancer Institute’s Hispanic Cancer Prevention and Control program; the Office of Technology Assessment’s Adolescent Health Study; the Robin Hood Foundation “Kids having Kids” project; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation’s “Opening Doors” Program; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Investigator Awards for Health Policy Research Program, the Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, the Covering Kids Program, and the Supporting Families after Welfare Reform. He recently served on an Academy of Social Insurance study group examining the long-term financing needs and options for Medicare. On the state and local levels, Dr. Valdez has provided policy analyses on numerous health related issues throughout the Southwestern states, especially issues related to the uninsured and Medicaid. He regularly contributes work to the California Department of Health Services, the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, and the Department of Insurance. In addition, he regularly collaborates with the California Senate Office of Research and legislative committees. More recently he has worked with the states of California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware on public health infrastructure rebuilding. In Los Angeles County, Dr. Valdez has examined racial and ethnic disparities in health and medical care. He served in various advisory capacities to the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Department of Sanitation, and the Long Beach Department of Health. Recently he worked with the greater Philadelphia region health authorities to improve a region-wide infectious disease surveillance system. Dr. Valdez is the author of numerous studies on children’s health and health care finance. He has served as a board member or advisor to numerous community agencies, including the Public Health Institute, Latino Issues Forum, Children NOW, the Public Health Trust, St. Francis Medical Center Foundation, and The Children’s Partnership. Dr. Valdez served on the Executive Board of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Red Cross. He was the founding Chair of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California and currently serves on the board as Vice-chair.
A. Eugene Washington, MD, MSc, is Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is also Professor of Gynecology, Epidemiology, and Health Policy in the School of Medicine at UCSF. He co-founded UCSF’s Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations in 1993 and served as the director from its establishment through July 2005. He was Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences from 1996 to 2004. He also co-founded the UCSF-Stanford Evidence-based Practice Center and served as its first director from 1997 to 2002. Before joining the faculty at UCSF sixteen years ago, Dr. Washington worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Over the last two decades, Dr. Washington as been a national leader in assessing medical technologies, developing clinical practice guidelines, and establishing disease prevention policies, particularly for women's health. He has published extensively in his major areas of research, which include prenatal genetic testing, cervical cancer screening and prevention, noncancerous uterine conditions management, quality of health care, and racial/ethnic disparities in health outcomes. In 1997, Dr. Washington was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. A 1976 graduate of the UCSF School of Medicine, Dr. Washington also received a BS degree from Howard University, an MPH degree from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and an MSc degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed residencies in preventive medicine at Harvard University and in gynecology and obstetrics at Stanford University, and was a health policy scholar at UCSF’s Institute for Health Policy Studies. Dr. Washington currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the California HealthCare Foundation, and as a member of the Board of Common Sense Media.
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