Attachment B: Technical Expert Panel

Attachment B:

AHRQ Measurement for Performance Improvement in Physician Practices –

Technical Expert Panel (TEP) Members

Dr. Howard B. Beckman	Dr. Howard B. Beckman, a board-certified Internist, is Clinical Professor of Medicine, Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He serves as Chief Medical Officer of EagleDream Health (EDH).
Dr. Cheryl Damberg	Dr. Cheryl Damberg is the RAND Distinguished Chair in Health Care Payment Policy.
Dr. J. Richard Goss	Dr. J. Richard Goss currently serves as the Medical Director of Harborview Medical Center and the Director of Quality Metrics Reporting for University of Washington Medicine. Dr. Goss is a Professor with the Department of Medicine and the Associate Dean of the UW School of Medicine.
Dr. Neil Korsen	Dr. Neil Korsen is a Family Physician/Geriatrician with 18 years of practice experience, mostly in small towns in Maine.
Dr. Lisa Schilling	Dr. Lisa Schilling is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics. She is a practicing General Internist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado. She is the Medical Director for the Office of Value Based Performance. She also currently leads the Health Informatics Core within the Adult and Child Consortium for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science and is a co-Principle Investigator of the pSCANNER PCORNet project and Director of SAFTINet, a distributed research network supported by AHRQ.
Dr. Steve Shortell	Dr. Steve Shortell has served as Principal Investigator on the National Surveys of Physician Organizations (NSPO 1, 2, and 3), and has an expertise is in conceptualizing, measuring, and analyzing organizational factors that are associated with physician organization and health system performance.
Dr. Barbara Spivak	Dr. Barbara Spivak is an Internist practicing in Watertown, Massachusetts at Mount Auburn Medical Associates. Since 1997, she has also been President and Chairperson of the Board of the Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association (MACIPA).
Dr. Reva Winkler	Dr. Reva Winkler serves as the National Quality Forum’s Senior Director of Performance Measures and participated in the Physicians Performance Measures workgroup.