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Mark A. Bloomberg, MD, MBA, FACPE
Dr. Mark Bloomberg is President of The Bloomberg Health Care Group, a consulting practice dedicated to the education of medical students, residents, practicing physicians and physician executives. He was previously the Chief Medical Officer of Private Health Care Systems, a national managed care company, at which he was clinically responsible for more than 120 health plans located throughout the country with a combined membership of over 7 million lives. Prior to that position, Dr. Bloomberg was the Corporate Medical Director of Tufts Health Plans.

Dr. Bloomberg completed his clinical training at Rutgers Medical School and St. Elizabeth's Hospital of Boston, followed by 12 years of solo internal medicine practice. Initially spending six of those years combining a busy clinical practice with increasing commitments to medical management, he has been a full-time physician executive since 1987.

Dr. Bloomberg received his MBA from Northeastern University, and is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Medical Management. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives. Dr. Bloomberg has served on the Board of Directors of the American College of Physician Executives and is currently a leader of the College’s Forum on Health Care Delivery. He has been a Physician Reviewer for the National Committee for Quality Assurance since 1992 and a member of the Review Oversight Committee since 1996.

A frequent speaker in the area of medical management with special emphasis on developing and directing managed care provider networks and the application of quality improvement techniques to clinical practice, Dr. Bloomberg has published numerous articles in these areas. His book, Physicians in Managed Care: A Career Guide, explores the roles of physicians in managed care settings.

 
Sheldon Greenfield, MD
Sheldon Greenfield, MD is Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Professor in the Department of Medicine at University of California, Irvine College of Medicine. Previously, Dr. Greenfield was Director of the Primary Care Outcomes Research Institute at New England Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Greenfield was associated with the UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health and the Rand Corporation in California, including the position of Co-Director of the Joint RAND-UCLA Center for Health Policy Study. He has pioneered research in increasing patients’ participation in care and using outcomes to determine the value of that participation.

Beginning in 1984 Dr. Greenfield served as the Medical Director of the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), which sought to compare systems of care, specialties, various aspects of interpersonal care and resource use to outcome. He is one of the nation’s leading clinician outcomes researchers, with numerous publications, committee assignments, and awards. Dr. Greenfield was Principal Investigator of the Type II Diabetes Patient Outcome Research Team (PORT), and is Chairman of the Diabetes Quality Improvement Program, a joint venture of the HCFA, NCQA and the ADA. He is currently serving as Chair of The National Diabetes Quality Alliance, a coalition of all U.S. organizations involved in diabetes care. He is also former President of the Society of General Internal Medicine and was Chairman of the Health Care Technology Study Section for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

Dr. Greenfield earned an AB from Harvard College and an MD degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed his residency and a fellowship in infectious disease at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Mass.

 
David B. Nash, MD, MBA, FACP

David Nash is The Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor and Chairman of the Department of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Dr. Nash, a board certified internist, founded the original Office of Health Policy in 1990. From 1996 to 2003, he served as the first Associate Dean for Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College. In 2004, he was named Co-director of the Masters Program in Public Health at Jefferson.

Internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care improvement, his publications have appeared in more than 60 articles in major journals and in a dozen edited books, including A Systems Approach to Disease Management by Jossey-Bass Publishers and Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer by Jones and Bartlett Publishers. In 1995, he was awarded the Latiolais Prize by the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy for his leadership in disease management and pharmacoeconomics. He was named an honorary distinguished fellow of the American College of Physician Executives in 1998.

Dr. Nash's national activities include appointment to the JCAHO Advisory Committee on Performance Measurement, the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT) Board, and membership on the Board of Directors of the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA) - three key national groups focusing on quality measurement and improvement. He continues as one of the principal faculty members for quality of care issues of the American College of Physician Executives in Tampa, Florida, and the developer of the ACPE Capstone Course on Quality. Dr. Nash is on the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Partnerships in Quality Education program, bringing together managed care organizations and leading academic medical centers.

Dr. Nash received his BA in economics from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York; his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; and his MBA in Health Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.