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September 09, 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
Gregg Meyer, M.D., M.Sc.
Senior VP for Quality and Patient Safety
Massachusetts General Hospital
Medical Director of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO)

Gregg Meyer, M.D., M.Sc. is medical director of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO), the largest physician group practice in New England, where he provides leadership to the MGPO’s medical management efforts and directs the patient safety efforts of the Partners Healthcare System.

Dr. Meyer was previously Director of the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). There he was responsible for conducting and supporting research on the measurement, improvement, and reporting of health care quality including clinical performance measurement, patient safety issues, and consumer surveys. He has served on numerous key committees related to quality and safety including the Joint Commission’s Board of Commissioners, National Committee for Quality Assurance’s Committee on Performance Measurement, the World Health Organization’s Scientific Peer Review Group on Health Systems Performance Assessment, and NASA’s Medical Policy Board. Before his tenure at AHRQ, Dr. Meyer was an Associate Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) where he served as Division Director for General Medicine and coordinated the design and analysis of the Department of Defense’s National Quality Management Project. While at USUHS, Dr. Meyer was an active duty Medical Corps Officer. He recently retired as a Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve.

Dr. Meyer served as a fellow in the U. S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee’s health office, and is the author of over 90 articles, editorials, chapters and monographs. Board certified in internal medicine, Dr. Meyer is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Union College and magna cum laude graduate of Albany Medical College. He was a Rhodes Scholar and earned Masters degrees from Oxford University and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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