Table Of ContentPanel on Measuring Medical Care Risk in Conjunction with
the New Supplemental Income Poverty Measure
Michael J. O’Grady and Gooloo S. Wunderlich, Editors
Committee on National Statistics
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PANEL ON MEASURING MEDICAL CARE RISK IN CONJUNCTION
WITH THE NEW SUPPLEMENTAL INCOME POVERTY MEASURE
MICHAEL J. O’GRADY (Chair), President, West Health Policy Center
DAVID M. BETSON, Department of Economics, University of Notre
Dame
JOHN L. CZAJKA, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Washington, DC
EDWIN C. HUSTEAD, Actuary (retired), Alexandria, VA
EMMETT B. KEELER, Pardee RAND Graduate School, School of Public
Health, University of California, Los Angeles
WILLARD G. MANNING, Harris School of Public Policy Studies,
University of Chicago
WILHELMINE D. MILLER, NORC at the University of Chicago
CATHY SCHOEN, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY
P.J. ERIC STALLARD, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University
GOOLOO S. WUNDERLICH, Study Director
JACQUELINE R. SOVDE, Program Associate
JESSICA BANTHIN, Consultant
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COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS
2011-2012
LAWRENCE D. BROWN (Chair), Department of Statistics, Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania
JOHN M. ABOWD, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell
University
ALICIA CARRIQUIRY, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
WILLIAM DuMOUCHEL, Oracle Health Sciences, Waltham, MA
V. JOSEPH HOTZ, Department of Economics, Duke University
MICHAEL HOUT, Survey Research Center, University of California,
Berkeley
KAREN KAFADAR, Department of Statistics, Indiana University
SALLIE KELLER, Provost, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
LISA LYNCH, Heller School for Social Policy Management, Brandeis
University
SALLY C. MORTON, Biostatistics Department, Graduate School of
Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
JOSEPH NEWHOUSE, Division of Health Policy Research and
Education, Harvard University
RUTH PETERSON, Department of Sociology (emeritus) and Criminal
Justice Research Center, Ohio State University
HAL STERN, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer
Sciences, University of California, Irvine
JOHN THOMPSON, NORC at the University of Chicago
ROGER TOURANGEAU, Westat, Rockville, MD
ALAN ZASLAVSKY, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard
Medical School
CONSTANCE F. CITRO, Director
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BOARD ON HEALTH CARE SERVICES
STEVEN A. SCHROEDER (Chair), Department of Medicine, University
of California, San Francisco
JOSEPH R. BAKER, Medicare Rights Center, New York
ELISABETH BELMONT, Mainehealth, Portland, ME
ROBERT A. BERENSON, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC
LISA A. BERO, School of Medicine, University of California, San
Francisco
DAVID BLUMENTHAL, Harvard Medical School and Mongan Institute
for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital
STUART BUTLER, Center for Policy Innovation, Heritage Foundation
JON B. CHRISTIANSON, School of Public Health, University of
Minnesota
JACK EBELER, Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., Washington, DC
ROBERT S. GALVIN, Equity Healthcare and Corporate Private Equity,
Blackstone Group, New York
REBEKAH E. GEE, Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Louisiana
State University
CARMEN R. GREEN, Schools of Medicine and Public Health, University
of Michigan Health System
MAREASA R. ISAACS, National Alliance of Multi-Ethnic Behavioral
Health Associations, Silver Spring, MD
BRENT C. JAMES, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research,
Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT
CHARLES N. KAHN, III, Federation of American Hospitals,
Washington, DC
ELIZABETH A. McGLYNN, Kaiser Permanente Center for Effectiveness
and Safety Research, Oakland, CA
CYNTHIA D. MULROW, University of Texas Health Science Center,
San Antonio
MARY D. NAYLOR, New Courtland Center for Transitions and Health
and Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative, University
of Pennsylvania
ALAN WEIL, National Academy for State Health Policy, Washington, DC
GAIL R. WILENSKY, Project HOPE, Bethesda, MD
ROGER HERDMAN, Board Director
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