Stuart H. Altman, PhD
Dean and Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy
Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Chair

Members of the Council

Henry J. Aaron, PhD
Senior Fellow
The Brookings Institution

David Blumenthal, MD
Director, Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital

Stuart M. Butler, PhD
Vice President, Domestic Policy
The Heritage Foundation

David M. Cutler, PhD
Professor of Economics
Harvard University

Karen Davis, PhD
President
The Commonwealth Fund

Paul B. Ginsburg, PhD
President
Center for Studying Health System Change

Judith R. Lave, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Care Systems
University of Pittsburgh

Harold S. Luft, PhD
Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California at San Francisco

Catherine G. McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Director, Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured
University of Michigan

Joseph P. Newhouse, PhD
Professor of Health Policy & Management
Harvard University

Mark V. Pauly, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Care Systems
University of Pennsylvania

Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD
James Madison Professor of Political Economy
Princeton University

Robert D. Reischauer, PhD
President
The Urban Institute

Robert M. Solow, PhD
Institute, Professor Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Burton A. Weisbrod, PhD
John Evans Professor of Economics
Northwestern University

Gail R. Wilensky, PhD
John M. Olin Senior Fellow
Project HOPE

Advisory Group

Linda H. Aiken, PhD, R.N.
Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Research
University of Pennsylvania

Thomas Chapman, M.P.H., Ed.D.
President and CEO
HSC Foundation

Helen Darling, M.A.
President
National Business Group on Health

Nancy W. Dickey, M.D.
President and Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs
Texas A&M University System Health Science Center

Robert S. Galvin, M.D.
Director, Global Health Care
General Electric Company

James J. Mongan, MD
President and CEO
Partners HealthCare System

Patricia M. Nazemetz
Vice President, Human Resources
Xerox Corporation

William L. Roper, MD, MPH
Dean, School of Medicine; Vice Chancellor. for Medical. Affairs
University of North Carolina

John W. Rowe, MD
Professor
Columbia University

Charles A. Sanders, MD, MPH
Retired Chairman and CEO
Glaxo, Inc.

Leonard D. Schaeffer
Senior Advisor
Texas Pacific Group

Gerald M. Shea
Assistant to the President for External Affairs
AFL-CIO

Deborah Steelman Macon
President
Steelman Health Strategies

Anthony L. Watson
Chairman and CEO
Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York

Consultant

Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD
Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair, Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University

Staff

Michael Doonan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Schneider Institutes for Health Policy
Brandeis University

Amy Smalarz, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Schneider Institutes for Health Policy
Brandeis University

Patricia Aloise
Conference Administrator
Schneider Institutes for Health Policy
Brandeis University