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September 08, 2010

Pilot Program

Health IT and How it Impacts the Quality of Health Care in America
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Meet the Panel

Carolyn Clancy, M.D.
Director
AHRQ
Full Bio
Alan G. Merten, Ph.D.
President
George Mason University
Full Bio
Alison Rein
Former Assistant Director Food and Health Policy
National Consumers League
Full Bio
Gregory Bentz, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Medical Officer
INOVA Loudon Hospital
Full Bio
Theresa M. Davis, R.N., M.S.N.
Operations Director/Patient Care Director eICU
INOVA Health System
Full Bio
Gregg Meyer, M.D., M.Sc.
Senior VP for Quality and Patient Safety
Massachusetts General Hospital
Full Bio
Robert M. Kolodner, M.D.
National Coordinator
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Full Bio
Dave deBronkart
PatientSite System User
Patient at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Full Bio
Steven E. Wojcik
Vice President, Public Policy
National Business Group on Health
Full Bio
Deven McGraw
Chief Operating Officer
National Partnership for Women & Families
Full Bio
Geoffrey Brown, Ph.D.
Sr. VP/Chief Information Officer IT
INOVA Health System
Full Bio
Deven McGraw
Chief Operating Officer
National Partnership for Women & Families

Deven McGraw is the Chief Operating Officer of the National Partnership for Women & Families. In this role, she provides strategic direction and oversight for the programs in each of the National Partnership’s three core areas of advocacy: workplace fairness; access to quality, affordable health care; and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family. She previously served as Policy Counsel to the National Partnership, working in both the health care and work and family program areas.

Ms. McGraw is also very active on health information technology issues and national efforts to establish a nationwide health information network. She currently serves on the two workgroups of the American Health Information Community (AHIC): the Confidentiality, Privacy and Security Workgroup and the Personalized Health Care Workgroup. Both workgroups will be providing recommendations to AHIC and the Department of Health and Human Services about policies and practices that should be adopted to facilitate greater use of health information technology.

Prior to joining the National Partnership as the Chief Operating Officer, Ms. McGraw was an associate in the public policy group at Patton Boggs, LLP, focusing primarily on Medicare policy issues. She also was an associate in the health care group at Ropes & Gray in Boston, Massachusetts, and served as Deputy Legal Counsel to Governor Paul Cellucci and Lieutenant Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts, advising them on health care and economic development issues. Ms. McGraw also taught in the Federal Legislation Clinic at the Georgetown University Law Center for two years and served as the Clinic’s Acting Director from 2003-2004.

Ms. McGraw graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland, earning bachelor’s degrees in journalism and English. She earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1995 and was the Executive Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. She also has a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and earned an L.L.M. at Georgetown.

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