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The O’ConnorReport: Editorial Advisory Board
Felicia Bloom, MHS
Executive Director, National Association for Women's Health, Chicago, IL
John Campbell
Executive Director, Vermont Ethics Network, Montpelier, VT
Gerald L. Coe, JD
Principal, Coe and Associates, Seattle, WA
Rick Cooper, MHA
Administrator, The Everett Clinic, Everett, Washington
Sean Corry, CLU
Vice President, Sprague Israel Giles, Inc., Seattle, WA
Robert Crittenden, MD, MPH
Chief, Family Medicine Service, Harborview Medical Center and Director, Office of Educational Policy, Regional Affairs and Rural Health, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Nancy Dapper, MPA
Seattle, WA
Diane Giese, MPP
Marketing and Communications Manager, Strategy Software, Bellevue, WA
Jose Gonzalez, MHA
Founder and CEO, Latino Health Care, Long Beach, CA
Lance Heineccius, MS
Health Care Services Consultant, Seattle WA
Judith Huntington, MN, RN
Executive Director, Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA), Seattle, WA
Rabbi Anson Laytner
Executive Director, Multifaith Works, Seattle, WA
Brenda Loew, M.Ac. , L.Ac
Japanese Acupuncture Center, Seattle and Whidbey Island, WA
David Messerschmidt
Public Engagement Manager, Northwest Forum, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Allan Morris
President, Burdorf Interiors, Louisville, KY
Janet Parenteau, MBA
Principal, EDS Healthcare Global Industries Group, Plano, TX
Kassy Perry
President, Perry Communications Group, Inc., Sacramento, CA
J. Thomas Ranken
Seattle, WA
W. Featherstone Reid, JD
Seattle, WA
Robert A. Reid, MD
President, Commonwealth Clinical Systems, Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia
Terry Rogers, MD
Rogers, Ltd., Seattle, WA
Phil Sasich
Principal, InfoQuotient, Seattle/Bellevue, WA
Mark Strom, MD, MBA
CEO, Asterion.com, Renton, WA
Liz Taylor
Founder and Owner, Aging Deliberately, Bainbridge Island, WA
Sandra Walker, MD
Psychiatrist, Seattle, WA.
Lynn Woodman, MA, Ph.D.
Senior Care Connections, San Diego, CA
Felicia Bloom, MHS
Executive Director, National Association for Women's Health,
300 West Adams Street, Suite 328, Chicago, IL 60606-5101
Ms. Bloom is Executive Director, National Association for Women's Health (NAWH), the only professional trade association in women's health. It?s organizational and individual members include suppliers, providers, employers, payers, government and consumers. NAWH is dedicated to improving the quality of women's health by integrating the best of business, science, policy and clinical practice.
Prior to joining NAWH, Ms. Bloom served as the Project Director for Women's Health at the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP) in Washington, DC. She was responsible for the design and implementation of a national women's health and managed care project resulting in four reports identifying best practices in breast cancer, mid life women's health, obstetrics and pregnancy care, and domestic violence. The Commonwealth Fund supported this project.
Prior to AAHP, she managed a Centers for Disease Control project on tobacco control and prevention for women and girls at the American Medical Women's Association in Alexandria, Virginia. She has also worked as a Women's Research and Education Institute (WREI) Congressional Fellow for U.S. Representative Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY) and was responsible for issues pertaining to health care reform, women's health and aging.
Ms. Bloom holds a, B.A. in English and Women's Studies from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts and a Masters in Health Science from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Website: www.nawh.org E-mail: fbloom@nawh.org
John Campbell
Executive Director, Vermont Ethics Network
89 Main St., Drawer 20, Montpelier, VT 05620.
Mr. Campbell has been the executive director and only full-time staff since 1996 at the Vermont Ethics Network, a non-profit educational organization that exists to promote better understanding of ethical choices in modern health care. Prior to that, he served for ten years as executive director of the Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging, an Area Agency on Aging serving Rutland and Bennington Counties. From 1982-1986 he was executive director of a large home care corporation in Southeastern Massachusetts. A 1982 article he wrote for The Gerontologist entitled "A Time to Return to Cases" deals with home care situations and dilemmas encountered by elders in rural New Hampshire. He has a BA in English from Yale.
Gerald L. Coe, JD
Principal, Coe and Associates
Seattle, WA
Mr. Coe is founder and principal of his own legal and consulting practice since 1996. He has worked as an executive and attorney in managed care for over 20 years. His wide range of work in health care business and regulatory law includes providing on-going legal advice to several health insurers in Washington state; assisting a community HMO to transition from sole ownership to joint ownership; and working with several hospitals to develop strategies for integrated partnerships with physicians.
Prior to starting his own business, Mr. Coe served as President and CEO of Providence Health Plans in Washington, where he built and operated a statewide managed care company insuring over 150,000 individuals, as well as a PPO that served over 400,000 individuals. He developed Medicare and Medicaid products and the state's first point of service product. He has also been a senior executive at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound for over 12 years where he led the development of the country's first Medicare Risk contract.
Mr. Coe has served on numerous national boards, including Group Health Association of America (now American Association of Health Plans), the National Managed Care Congress, and the National Health Lawyers Association. He received his law degree from the University of Washington and has served on the clinical faculties at the University's School of Law and in the Master of Public Health in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
Rick Cooper,MHA
Administrator, The Everett Clinic
Everett, Washington
Mr. Cooper is Chief Executive Officer of The Everett Clinic, a 180-physician multi-specialty group practice with 10 locations in Snohomish County, Washington. He has been with the Clinic since 1977.
During his tenure, Mr. Cooper has helped position The Everett Clinic for success in a competitive market defined by managed care reform. In addition to managing operations and strategic planning for this rapidly-expanding group practice, he helped direct the formation of MedicalPartners Northwest, a regional management service organization with 60,000 prepaid patients. He also helped develop CliniTech, an information service organization serving 360 physicians.
Mr. Cooper has been active in several professional associations at the state and national level. He is Past President of the Washington State Medical Group Management Association and President-Elect of the American Medical Group Association. He is also a former board member of HealthPlus, the HMO owned and operated by Blue Cross of Washington and Alaska. Mr. Cooper received his master's degree in Hospital Administration from the University of Michigan.
Sean Corry, CLU, Vice President
Sprague Israel Giles, Inc.
Seattle, WA
Mr. Corry has been an Employee Benefits broker and consultant with Sprague Israel Giles since 1989 and is responsible for the firm's Employee Benefits practice. Prior to that he worked at Washington Health Network where he developed and marketed HMO and PPO programs to employers in Western Washington. He also worked for three years at The Prudential as a District Agent and Registered Representative, marketing business and personal insurance and retirement products.
Active professionally, he is a board member of the Washington State Health Insurance Pool (WSHIP) as a Consumer Representative and serves on the Washington State Insurance Commissioner's Life and Health Advisory Committee. Mr. Corry is also a member of the Employee Benefits Planning Association of the Pacific Northwest and the HealthChoice Agents Advisory Committee of the Association of Washington Business (AWB). Additional activities have included various advisory committees and boards with the Health Care Authority and Insurance Commissioner's Office.
Mr. Corry serves on the Board of Directors for the Boyer Children's Clinic in Seattle. He has been very active on health care issues and has worked to pass legislation requiring mental health parity and insurance coverage for children with birth disorders including phenylketonuria, sickle cell anemia, and neurodevelopmental disabilities. He has also been active on issues of retiree insurance coverage. He serves as the legislative liaison for the University of Washington's PKU clinic and participates on the Advisory Council for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant program, "Supporting Children at the End of Life: Improving Access and Quality of Care" at Children's Hospital.
He is a native of Wisconsin and holds a BS, Summa Cum Laude in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. He is also a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), The American College, Bryn Mawr, PA.
Robert Crittenden, MD, MPH
Chief, Family Medicine Service, Harborview Medical Center and Director, Office of Educational Policy, Regional Affairs and Rural Health, School of Medicine, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA
Dr. Crittenden has practiced as a Family Physician for over 20 years in Central and Southeast Seattle with urban underserved populations, worked for the state legislature, been a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow. His clinical interests are focused on underserved populations and his research and scholarly interests are focused on uninsured/access interests, insurance reform, health care reform and medical education. He is the director of health policy for School of Medicine and Chief of Family Medicine at Harborview, a county hospital which is managed by the University of Washington.
He was the Governor's Special Assistant for Health Policy with Governor Booth Gardner from 1988-1993 and Chair of the Health Task Force Staff Advisory Committee to the National Governors' Association 1990-91. He also served as a member of the State Employees Benefits Board and Acting Assistant Secretary of Health for Washington State. Prior to that time, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow for the National Academy of Science and served on the personal staff of Senator George Mitchell, who chaired the Subcommittee on Health of the Senate Finance Committee. He has also served as a practicing physician, Seattle Indian Health Board, Associate Executive Director, Washington Health Care Project that developed Washington State's Basic Health Plan, a LTJG in the US Coast Guard and a research assistant on the 'Eisenhower Commission,' the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
He serves on numerous boards and commissions: Washington State Health Insurance Pool (2000---); Chair, Washington Campaign for Kids 2001 Coalition (1999--); Permanent Board Member, Families USA, Washington DC (1993--); Executive Committee, National Academy of State Health Policy, Portland, Maine (1989--); President-elect, Washington Academy of Family Physicians. He is also a member of the Association for Health Services Research, National Rural Health Association, and has been a member and consultant with the Expert Panel on Rural Health and Rural Health Policy, Rural Health Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri. He has also served as a member of the Seasonal Workers Workgroup for Washington Health Services Commission and the National Advisory Committee on State Initiatives in Health Care Financing Reform, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
He holds BA from University of California at Berkeley, a Diploma in Social Studies from St. Peter?s College, Oxford, England, an MD from the University of Washington School of Medicine and an MPH from the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington.
Ms. Dapper has 15 years of experience in policy development and administration of the Nation's largest health insurance programs, Medicare and Medicaid. She was the Health Care Financing Administration's Regional Administrator in Seattle for Federal Region X for 7 years and has worked in managed care operations after leaving the government. She is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. She has a Master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Diane Giese, MPP
Marketing and Communications Manager, Strategy Software
Bellevue, WA
Ms. Giese is head of Marketing and Communications for Strategy Software, which produces STRATEGY!, database software program which helps organizations track and outsmart their competitors. Prior to joining Strategy, she was responsible for marketing, government affairs, media relations, union communications, Internet strategy and other strategic communications for Providence Health System in Washington State. She has also served as Public Policy and Compliance Manager for King County Medical Blue Shield (now Regence Blue Shield). Prior to moving to Washington State, she was in Government Affairs and Public Relations at San Diego Gas and Electric, a Legislative Analyst with San Diego Unified School District and a consultant to the Child Development Division of the California State Department of Education.
She holds an MPP in Business Government Relations from Harvard University and a BA in English, Cum Laude from San Diego State University.
Jose Gonzalez, MHA
Founder and CEO, Latino Health Care
Long Beach, CA
Mr. Gonzalez founded Latino Health Care in 1996, to provide a network of Latino health care providers to help provide access to quality health care services for the Latino community in Southern California. Latino Health Care now includes 25 hospitals, 2,300 doctors and 35,000 members and manages capitated revenues in excess of $25 million.
Prior to founding Latino Health Care, Mr. Gonzalez had his own successful consulting business, was President and CEO of Universal Medi-Co, which developed and managed ambulatory health care delivery networks and Director of Planning, Community Affairs and Development for St. Francis Medical Center in Lynnwood, California. He has also served as the Assistant Medical Director, University of California, Irvine Medical Center.
Mr. Gonzalez was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States in 1954. He holds a BA from California State University, Long Beach, California and an MPA from Pepperdine University.
He was featured in ?Ten Who Dared—Hispanic Entrepreneurs Who Have Succeeded Against the Odds? in 1996 by Hispanic Business and was appointed in July to serve on
Lance Heineccius, MS
Health Care Services Consultant
Seattle WA
Mr. Heineccius is an independent health services consultant to a variety of health plans, delivery systems and other organizations in the Puget Sound area. From 1993-95, he served as Director of Policy and Research for the Washington State Health Services Commission, the agency created to implement health care reform in Washington state. Over the past 20 years, he has provided technical support on a variety of health care issues to many organizations in the Pacific Northwest and nationally. Until 1993, he was as associate in the Seattle office of William M. Mercer and prior to that senior manager with KPMG Peat Marwick and research manager for SyteMetrics. He began his career as a health planner for Cowlitz and Wakiakum counties in Southwest Washington in 1977. He has a Master of Science Degree in Comprehensive Health Planning from UCLA.
Judith Huntington, MN, RN, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA),
Seattle, WA
Ms. Huntington has served with WSNA since January 1999. Prior to WSNA she served with the American Nurses Association (ANA) in Washington DC for nearly 10 years as the Director of Office of Strategic Planning, Director of Field Services and Director, Division of Government Affairs. During her tenure there, she directed the ANA's lobbying and political action activities; directed strategic planning and implementation for Nursing Agenda for Health Care Reform; and directed member services for state associations and the Center for Labor and Workplace Advocacy, and directed the association's strategic planning, program development and governance activities, as well as website development.
Ms. Huntington holds a BSN and MN from the University of Washington School of Nursing. She has held adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Washington; Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR; George Mason University, Center for Health Policy, Fairfax, VA; University of Maryland and currently Kent State University, OH.
Ms. Huntington received an Honorary Degree in 1998 from Kent State University for her work on health policy advocacy and the award winning Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (www.ojin.org)
Web site: www.wsna.org
e-mail: jhunting@wsna.org
Rabbi Anson Laytner
Executive Director, Multifaith Works
Seattle, WA
Rabbi Laytner is the Executive Director of Multifaith Works, a non-profit organization that works with faith communities to provide housing, personal and emotional support and counseling services for patients with AIDS and other terminal illnesses. He has overseen the strategic planning process for Multifaith Works and manages a $560,000 budget with 12 staff and 300 volunteers, including the operation of 4 living facilities. He created the Jewish AIDS Mitzvah Network, a collaborative project with Jewish Family Services and the Catholic Archdiocesan Housing Authority.
Prior to joining Multifaith Works, he was Director, Community Relations Council, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and founded the Washington Association of Jewish Communities. He also founded the Interfaith Council of Washington State in 1988. He is an author and teacher with an adjunct professorship in Theology and Religious Studies at Seattle University. He has authored one book two booklets and over 30 articles published locally and nationally.
Brenda Loew, M.Ac., L.Ac.
Japanese Acupuncture Center,
Seattle and Whidbey Island, WA
Ms. Loew has had a private acupuncture practice for nine years and is active in family and pediatric acupuncture in Seattle and Whidbey Island, WA...Ms. Loew has been on the Faculty of Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NIAOM) since 1994. She is an approved US instructor for the International Toyo Hari (Meridian Therapy) Association. She has been a visiting lecturer in the Department of Medical History and Ethics at the University of Washington since 1998, teaching the acupuncture component of the Alternative Approaches to Healing class. She has a strong background in Tibetan and Zen meditation as well as Tai Chi and Qi Qong.
She holds a BA cum laude from Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont and received her masters of Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, specializing in community development and alternative energy planning. She received her acupuncture training from the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NIAOM) from which she received her bachelors and masters in acupuncture. She also interned at the Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hangzhou, PRC. She has been specializing in Japanese acupuncture since 1991, and has trained extensively in the US, Japan and Europe.
David Messerschmidt
Public Engagement Manager, Northwest Forum, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA
Bio to come
Allan Morris, MS
President, Burdorf Interiors
Louisville, KY
Mr. Morris is President and CEO of Burdorf Interiors, an interior design and furnishings company for both commercial and residential clients. He also operates a horticultural product packaging and wholesale, distribution firm. He owns a number of commercial real estate buildings, which he manages. He also owns a holding company for dental laboratories.
Prior to his work in the retail sector, Mr. Morris founded the nation's second largest pre-paid dental health plan (CompDent Dental Plan) which was sold in a public offering in 1995. He was also one of the founders of the Association of Prepaid Dental Plans that represented the US prepaid dental health industry.
Mr. Morris served in the US Air Force for 27 years as a clinical laboratory officer during the Vietnam War and as an Admissions Liaison Officer with the USAF Academy. He currently serves on the City of Louisville Police Administrative and Internal Affairs Review Board, and the Greater Louisville Chamber of Commerce Healthcare Task Force. He holds a BA in Biology from the University of Louisville, KY and an MS in Ecology from Murray State University in Murray KY and completed other post graduate work at Ohio State University.
Janet Parenteau
Principal, EDS Healthcare Global Industries Group
Plano, TX
Ms. Parenteau has over 20 years experience in information technology for managed care organizations. She is currently with EDS, the second largest information technology services provider to the Health Care Industry, where she is a Principal in the Health Global Industries Group. The Global Industries Group provides health care thought leadership in applying leading technologies to assist EDS clients, both private and public, in the delivery and quality of health care.
Prior to joining EDS, she has served as Product Manager and/or Marketing Director for several software development firms including Erisco, Health Systems Integration, and Delphi Associates (a former subsidiary of Arthur D. Little). Before moving to Managed Care and Information Technology, she was with the Department of Public Welfare in Boston for 11 years.
Ms. Parenteau has a BA in International Relations from the University of Florida and an MBA, focusing on International Marketing, from Northeastern University in Boston.
Kassy Perry
President, Perry Communications Group, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
Ms. Perry oversees the creative direction and account management for all clients, including the planning and execution of all public relations efforts, including media relations, grassroots coalition building, crisis management, press conference coordination and special event planning.
She has managed dozens of national and statewide public relations campaigns, including the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance launched in March 2000 by Today Show anchor Katie Couric, cancer crusader Lilly Tartikoff and the Entertainment Industry Foundation. She is also a founding member of Citizens for the Right To Know, a coalition of voluntary health associations, health care provider organizations and patient advocacy groups whose goal is to ensure disclosure and basic consumer fairness within managed care.
A graduate of the University of California at Davis, Ms. Perry is a former television news producer and has managed public affairs for the California Department of Health Services, California Department of Mental Health, and the California Health and Welfare Agency. She also served as Deputy Communications Director and the chief spokesperson on health care, welfare reform and immigration issues for Governor Pete Wilson (R-CA).
Website: www.theperrygroup.com
e-mail: kassy@theperrygroup.com
J. Thomas Ranken, MBA
Seattle, WA
Mr. Ranken was most recently President & CEO of Axio Research Corporation that provides clinical trial services to life science researchers. Axio's primary customers are biotechnology and medical device firms conducting human clinical trials in order to gain FDA approval.
Prior to joining Axio, he was President of the Washington (state) Biotechnology and Biomedical Association (WBBA), which doubled its membership and quadrupled its revenues under his leadership. He also served for five years in government affairs with Immunex Corporation and seven years in banking prior to that time.
Mr. Ranken is a member of the Emerging Companies Section, Board of Directors, Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and served served as the Chairman of WBBA and co-chair of the Host Committee for the BIO 99 meeting in Seattle, WA. In 1994, he was named Outstanding Advocate for the Year by BIO for his leadership on high technology and tax reform in Washington State.
He is past president of the Board of Trustees of Harborview Medical Center, a public hospital owned by King County and managed as a teaching institution by the University of Washington. He has also served on the boards of Technology Alliance; Seattle Mental Health; Seattle Biomedical Research Institute; UW Physicians Network; the Municipal League; and the Crisis Clinic. He is also a member of University Sunrise Rotary.
His holds a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of Washington. He and his wife and 2 children reside in Seattle and when not working spends time playing with his children or his guitars.
Robert A. Reid, MD
President, Commonwealth Clinical Systems, Inc.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Dr. Reid founded Commonwealth Clinical Systems, Inc of Charlottesville, Virginia in 1973. He is the president and CEO. Commonwealth provides computer systems and services which aggregate and provide health information for a variety of organizations including statewide health statistics agencies, state Medicaid agencies, and private corporations. A subsidiary corporation, Commonwealth Health Alliance, Inc. pioneered the Clinical Quality Initiative (CQI), a method of reducing health care costs by undertaking clinical tasks at the community level which strengthen the clinical work of the individual physician in the office.
Dr. Reid has also served as Executive Director of Quality Physician Care, a program of the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians and the Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a Boettcher Foundation Scholar, and recently served as a member of the Governor's Advisory Board on Aging for Virginia.
Dr. Reid received his MD in 1967 from the University of Colorado. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Cornell University Hospitals and the University of Virginia. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia where he was chief of the Division of General Medicine from 1972-1984.
W. Featherstone Reid, JD
Seattle, WA
Mr. Reid is retired and works as a private consultant to the health care industry. He has served in many different capacities in health care. He currently chairs the Board of Visitors, School of Nursing, University of Washington and served as the Chair, State Board of Health, Washington State, from February 1995 to December 1998.
From 1964-1981, he was the Assistant to Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA). From 1964-77, he formulated positions on legislation and priorities in health, education, and social welfare; from November 1977-January 1981, he was the Chief Administrative Officer for the US Senate's Appropriations Committee. In January 1979, he was given the added responsibility of chief assistant to the President Pro Tempore of the US Senate.
He returned to Seattle in the early 80s and became the Senior Staff Counsel to the Senate Ways and Means Committee in the Washington State Legislature when the Basic Health Plan was passed. He has also served as Senior Executive Policy Assistant, Office of the Governor, with Governor Booth Gardner, and Senior Counsel, Senate Democratic Caucus, Washington State.
He is a Veteran and served in the Air Force during the Korean Conflict.
Mr. Reid holds a BA and JD degrees from the University of Washington.
Terry Rogers, MD
Rogers, Ltd.
Seattle, WA
Dr. Rogers practiced pulmonary and critical care medicine in Seattle for 15 years and was Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Swedish Hospital during that time.
In 1990 he joined King County Medical Blue Shield as the Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs and was the Chief Operating Officer as it transitioned into Regence Blue Shield. He left Regence in 1998 and is currently the medical director for Providence ElderPlace and for New Care Concepts, a home nursing company that specializes in complex cases. He also works with Spokane-based The Center for Work and Human Spirit. He and his wife Karin run a home-based company that deals in health and wellness issues and products.
Dr. Rogers is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Cornell University Medical College. His postgraduate training was at the University of Washington, where he holds the rank of Clinical Professor of Medicine. He is also a graduate of their certificate program in Biomedical Ethics.
Phil Sasich
Principal, InfoQuotient,
Seattle/Bellevue, WA
Bio to come
Mark Strom, MD, MBA
CEO, Asterion.com
Renton, WA
Dr. Strom is CEO of asterion.com, a leading intelligent, integrated clinical and financial health care application for risk bearing managed care organizations. He also serves as Vice President, Medical Affairs, Salus Media, Inc. in Santa Barbara, California and a peer reviewer with the Iowa Board of Medical Examiners. He has consulted widely with venture capital firms, biotech, pharmaceutical and healthcare services and insurance firms to develop strategic, marketing and business plans. He has been a consulting advisor to Perot Systems Corporation.
Dr. Strom was a practicing cardiac surgeon. He holds a BS from Union College, Schenectady, New York, an MD degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an MBA from Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA.
Liz Taylor
Founder and Owner, Aging Deliberately
Bainbridge Island, WA
Ms. Taylor writes and lecturers on aging issues and provides one to one counseling to families dealing with aging parents. Since 1994, she has written a monthly column on aging for The Seattle Times.
Prior to her current position, she worked in program development for OASIS Consultants the older adult services division of Highline/West Seattle Mental Health Center and served as an associate for the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of Washington. She has also managed her own private care management firm on long-term care and housing for the elderly and was manager of nursing home liaison services for Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound.
From 1972-83, she was appointed by then Commissioner Elizabeth Dole to direct a nation wide investigation of the nursing home industry while she served as an investigator for the Federal Trade Commission.
Sandra Walker, MD
Psychiatrist
Seattle, WA.
Dr. Walker is a psychiatrist in private practice in Seattle, Washington. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association's Joint Commission on Public Affairs. She is a member of the Board of the American Psychoanalytic Foundation and the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She also serves on the Board of Transitional Resources, Inc., a community mental health center. Prior to completing her MD at the University of Washington, she served as Community Relations Director for KCTS, the public television channel in Seattle. She received her BA in History from Harvard University.
Lynn Woodman, MA, Ph.D.
Senior Care Connections
San Diego, CA
Dr. Woodman is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years experience in private practice. She founded Senior Health Care Connections in 1997, a geriatric care firm that helps clients and their families arrange for the best, most appropriate and cost effective placements for elderly patients. Her professional experience includes work in county probation offices, Naval hospitals, and family service clinics.
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