Steering Committee Bios
Richard Baron, MD, FACP
Dr. Baron practices general internal medicine at Greenhouse Internists, P.C., a four doctor group located 3 blocks from where he lives in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia. Greenhouse serves an economically and racially diverse community and provides over 16,000 patient encounters per year. Dr. Baron served as Chief Medical Officer of Health Partners, a not for profit Medicaid HMO set up by 4 teaching hospitals in Philadelphia, from 1988 to 1996. In recognition of his work to improve delivery of preventive care services and immunizations, he received the American College of Physicians' 1997 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award. In 1998, he founded Healthier Babies, a regional collaboration of Medicaid HMOs and other stakeholders focused on improving birth outcomes in the Medicaid population in Philadelphia and four surrounding counties. He was the architect of the Best Clinical and Administrative Practices program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Center for Health Care Strategies, working with medical leadership of Medicaid health plans around the country in learning collaboratives to improve the quality of care for their members. This program has reached plans serving over half the Medicaid Managed care population in the U.S. He also was the Co-Director of the RWJF National Program "Improving Asthma Care for Children." In July, 2004 Dr. Baron and practice colleagues implemented an EHR at Greenhouse, publishing their experience in the Annals of Internal Medicine in August, 2005. Dr. Baron will become Chair-Elect of the American Board of Internal Medicine on July 1, 2007 and Chair on July 1, 2008.
Virginia U. Collier, MD, FACP
Virginia U. Collier, MD, FACP graduated in 1972 from Sweet Briar College summa cum laude with highest honors in Chemistry. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1976, where she was chosen as the outstanding clinician of her graduating class, and she completed her internal medicine residency training and nephrology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1976 - 1980. From 1980 - 1989, she practiced general internal medicine and nephrology in a rural Maryland town on the Chesapeake Bay, and in 1989 she joined the staff of the Medical Center of Delaware (now Christiana Care Health System) as the director of the Jefferson Medical College Fourth Year Medical Student Program. In 1991, she became the Residency Program Director in Internal Medicine, and in 1994, she was made Vice Chair of the Department. She was recently named the Hugh R. Sharp, Jr. Chair of Medicine at Christiana Care Health System.
She is a member of the Society for General Internal Medicine and the Chiefs of General Internal Medicine. She has served as an elected member of the Council of the Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine (APDIM) and recently completed a 4 year term as the Governor of the Delaware Chapter of the American College of Physicians. She began her first 3 year term on the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians in April 2004. She has also served as an associate editor for several of ACP's Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Programs (MKSAP) and is the author of numerous articles on medical education.
Nina Miles Everett, MD
Dr. Everett is currently Medical Director at Maryland Physicians Care. She was previously employed for twelve years at Baltimore Medical System where she was responsible for Clinical Initiatives, Clinical Operations and Special Programs for seven health centers and five school based health sites. Dr. Everett is a Board Certified Internist who trained at and was Chief Resident for the Residency Program in Social Medicine (RPSM) at Montefiore Medical Center. Following this she completed a part time fellowship in HIV Primary Care and Substance Abuse while working as a faculty member of RPSM. She completed her internship at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (formerly Francis Scott Key). Her Medical Degree was received at Howard University while her undergraduate training was done at the University of Pennsylvania. Additional training includes a Faculty Development Program in Teaching Skills at Johns Hopkins Bayview and certification to use Buprenorphine to treat opiod addiction.
Dr. Everett's special interests include Continuous Quality Improvement, JCAHO preparedness, and Clinician-Patient Interaction especially around developing patient self management goals. She is in the midst of implementing an Electronic Medical Record in her multi-office practice which employs 45 clinicians.
David N. Gans, FACMPE
David Gans is the Director of Practice Management Resources for Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). As such, he is the staff resource on medical group practice management. He is an educational speaker, author of a monthly column in MGMA Connexion, and provides technical assistance to the association in all areas of practice management. His responsibilities include directing research and development of new products and services for the association, and managing research projects funded by federal agencies and private foundations.
Mr. Gans received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from the University of Notre Dame, a Masters of Science degree in Education from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Science in Health Administration degree from the University of Colorado. Mr. Gans retired from the United States Army in the grade of Colonel, with over 31 years of Active and Army Reserve service in the Army Medical Service Corps. He is a Certified Medical Practice Executive and a Fellow in the American College of Medical Practice.
Terry Hammons, MD
Terry Hammons, MD is Senior Vice President/Research and Information at the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA). Before joining MGMA in 1999, he was Assistant Vice President for Quality and Managed Care at the American Medical Association from 1997 to 1999. Previous to his time at AMA, Dr. Hammons was Vice President for Physician Management and Change for Northeast Ohio Community Health Plan, developing a physician-partnership managed care network for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Ohio.
From 1990 through 1996, Dr. Hammons was responsible for leading efforts to improve patient care outcomes and quality at two academic medical centers, University Hospitals of Cleveland and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has served on the faculties of the Schools of Medicine of the University of Iowa and Case Western Reserve University. As Deputy Director of the Physician Payment Review Commission from 1987-1990, Dr. Hammons helped develop Medicare physician payment reform enacted by Congress in 1989.
Sachin H. Jain
Sachin Jain is an MD/MBA candidate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School and a magna cum laude graduate in government of Harvard College. He co-founded and chairs the Harvard/Commonwealth Health Policy Education Initiative, a program that uses interactive clinical cases to educate medical students and physicians about health care access, quality, and disparities. Along with Donald Berwick, he authored the chapter, "Systems and Results: The Basis for Quality in Prepaid Group Practice" in Alain Enthoven and Laura Tollen's book, Toward a Twenty-First Century Health System. He is presently authoring a Harvard Business School case study on institutional response to catastrophic medical errors and is an editor of the forthcoming book, "The Soul of a Doctor" (May 2006, Workman Press, New York). He has worked previously for the Alpha Center for Health Policy (now AcademyHealth), the Radcliffe Institute for Public Policy, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He has been awarded the Somers Long-term Care Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, and the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship.
Charles M. Kilo, MD, MPH, FACP
Dr. Kilo is the CEO of GreenField Health, a primary care practice focused on developing new ways of delivering patient care. In addition to providing care to patients, Greenfield Health serves as a consulting company to organizations interested in performance improvement, medical practice redesign, and strategic planning. He is a Fellow and Senior Faculty of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) where he was previously Vice President. At IHI, he developed and led the international Idealized Design of Clinical Office Practices initiative. This work sparked a national focus on medical practice performance improvement.
Chuck works regularly with IHI, the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), and others on issues pertinent to health care quality and medical practice performance improvement. He is on the Advisory Committee for the Association of American Medical College's Institute for the Improvement of Clinical Care. He served as the Co-Chair of the CMS sponsored "Doctor Office Quality - Information Technology" initiative in California. He is on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Medical Excellence, TransforMED (a subsidiary of the AAFP focused on assisting family physicians to implement fundamental system redesign in their practices), and Kryptiq Corporation, a provider of secure messaging and workflow software for health care.
M. Rashad Massoud, MD, MPH
Dr. Massoud is Senior Vice President at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, MA, overseeing IHI's Strategic Partnerships - the key customers working with IHI on innovation and transformation. In his previous capacities he directed URC's Quality & Performance Institute, where he led several improvement efforts around the globe including working on developing the World Health Organization's (WHO) strategy for design & scale-up of antiretroviral therapy to meet the 3x5 target and large scale improvement in the Russian Federation. He also founded and for several years led the Palestinian health care quality improvement effort. He was founding member and chaired the Quality Management Program for Health Care Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa (QMP-MENA). He worked as a Medical Officer with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. He has also consulted for and collaborated with several NGOs, KPMG, UNICEF, the World Bank, USAID and WHO.
David M. Stevens, M.D.
Dr. Stevens is the senior medical officer for quality improvement in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and its Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. He is providing major leadership in AHRQ's mission to translate research into action. Major initiatives include a AHRQ/Robert Wood Foundation sponsored learning collaborative to reduce health disparities with nine major national health plans; a care management improvement project with six state Medicaid agencies; a partnership with the CDC to develop interventions for the prevention of type II Diabetes Mellitus; an improvement collaborative with End Stage Renal Disease providers; and a partnership with the American Hospital Association's Quality Center focused on hospital chief quality officers.
Prior to this position, he was a practicing family physician and medical director for over seven years at community health centers in the South Bronx and in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Stevens continues to provide clinical care at a federally qualified health center, Greater Baden Health Services, which serves Prince Georges County and Southern Maryland. A member of the commissioned corps of the US Public Health Service, he has received numerous awards, including the commissioned corps meritorious service medal, the DHHS Award for Distinguished Service and the Arthur S. Fleming Award, a private-sector award for outstanding federal employees who have made extraordinary contributions to government.
Joseph W. Stubbs, MD, FACP
Joseph W. Stubbs, MD, FACP, is an internist practicing in Albany, Ga. Dr. Stubbs was first elected to the ACP Board of Regents in April 2003. He was re-elected to the Board in January 2006 to serve a second three-year term. He is currently Chair of the ACP Medical Service Committee and a member of the ACP Member Insurance Subcommittee.
Dr. Stubbs has been very active in the Georgia Chapter, joining the Governor's council in 1988 and serving on the Public and Professional Communications Committee, the Health and Public Policy Committee, and as Chapter Secretary. He served as Governor of the Georgia Chapter for the 1999-2003 term. In 2003, he was named a Laureate of the Georgia Chapter. That year, the Georgia Chapter was recognized by ACP with an Evergreen Award for outstanding chapter activities in the advocacy area.
Michael C. Tooke, MD, FACP
Dr. Tooke recently accepted the position of SrVP/CMO at Shore Health in Maryland. We hope he'll continue to collaborate with us and stay in touch. Dr. Tooke earned his Bachelors Degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and his Medical Degree from Tulane Medical School in New Orleans. Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Dr. Tooke served his medicine internship at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Tooke has earned a Graduate Certificate in Leadership Coaching from George Washington University, and is a certified Motorola Six Sigma Green Belt. His principle quality improvement work is in the physician office setting.
Jonathan P. Weiner, Dr.P.H.
Dr. Jonathan P. Weiner is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also holds a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is the Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Health Services Research and Development Center, where he is the principal investigator for many large research studies.
Dr. Weiner is a well-known health services researcher, health policy analyst and lecturer. His areas of expertise include: quality of care, primary care/ambulatory care, evaluative research, managed care/health insurance, case-mix/risk adjustment, health workforce planning, health IT & electronic health records, and cross-national comparisons.
He is on the research advisory board of the National Blue Cross-Blue Shield Association. He is a member of the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC) that provides scientific advice on which technologies the Medicare program should cover. He is the co-developer and R&D team leader of the Johns Hopkins ACG case-mix methodology, which is widely used around the world.
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