Forum staff maintain regular contact with the Steering Committee and other advisors to ensure that it is responsive to audience needs and to gain insights on emerging issues. Steering Committee members are senior- level health policymakers from key congressional committees and support agencies involved in health care policy and financing issues, leadership staff from the House and the Senate, and high-ranking administrators from the executive branch.
Steering Committee Members
Melissa Bartlett
Counsel (R)
Committee on Energy and Commerce
U.S. House of Representatives
James R. Baumgardner, PhD
Deputy Assistant Director for Health
Health and Human Resources Division
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
Cybele Bjorklund
Staff Director (D)
Subcommittee on Health
Committee on Ways and Means
U.S. House of Representatives
Linda Bilheimer, PhD
Associate Director, Analysis and Epidemiology
National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Thomas B. Bradley, PhD
Chief
Health Cost Estimates Unit
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
Carolyn M. Clancy, MD
Director
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Edward Eliasberg, JD
Staff Attorney, Legal Policy Section
Antitrust Division
U.S. Department of Justice
Keith Fontenot
Deputy Assistant Director
Health and Human Resources
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
Richard Foster
Chief Actuary
Office of the Actuary
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Charlene M. Frizzera
Chief of Operations
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Edward Grossman, JD
Senior Counsel
Legislative Counsel
U.S. House of Representatives
Roger Herdman, MD
Director
National Cancer Policy Board
Institute of Medicine
Elizabeth Hilder, JD
Staff Attorney
Bureau of Competition
Federal Trade Commission
Marjorie Kanof, MD
Managing Director
Health Care Issues
U.S. Government Accountability Office
Thomas M. Kickham
Director
Partnership and Promotion Group
Center for Beneficiary Choices
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Lauren LeRoy, ex officio
President
Grantmakers in Health
Mark E. Miller, PhD
Executive Director
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Wendell Primus, PhD
Policy Advisor
Office of the Speaker
U.S. House of Representatives
A. Kathryn Power
Director
Center for Mental Health Services
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Steve Redhead
Head, Health Services, Research, and Aging Policy
Domestic Social Policy Division
Congressional Research Service
Library of Congress
Richard Rimkunas
Section Head, Income Support Research and Development
Domestic Social Policy Division
Congressional Research Service
Library of Congress
Andy Schneider
Chief Health Counsel
Committee on Energy and Commerce
U.S. House of Representatives
Donald Shriber
Associate Director, Washington Office
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Public Health Service
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Lana Skirboll, PhD
Director
Office of Science Policy
Public Health Service
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Lyman Van Nostrand
Deputy Director
Office of Planning and Evaluation
Health Resources and Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Marc Walton
Office of Policy, Planning, and Legislation
Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(February 3, 2010)
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