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National Committee on Evidence-Based Benefit Design
Member List November 2007 through 2008

Business Group Members

Exxon Mobil
Clarion Johnson MD (Chair)
Medical Director

Aircraft Gear Corporation
Jim Knutson
Risk Manager

American Express
Jim Dwyer
Vice President, Global Benefits

Assurant, Inc.
Sheila Sweeney
Vice President, Benefits

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Naomi Aronson PhD
Executive Director, TEC

CIGNA HealthCare
Michael Showalter
Senior Vice President, HealthCare Strategy & Marketing

Dell, Inc.
Kathleen Angel
Director, Global Benefits

Federal Express Corporation
Beth Casteel
Managing Director, Employee Benefits-HealthCare

Fidelity Investments
Kristy Trzcinski
Benefits Manager

Florida Power & Light
Melissa Miller
Director, Employee Benefits & Services

General Electric Company
Anna Fallieras
Program Leader, Health Care Initiatives

General Mills, Inc.
Jeanne Denz
Director, Global Benefits

General Motors Corporation
Shelly Hoffman
Director, Health Care Plans

Hewitt Associates, LLC
Jennifer M. Boehm
Principal
Health Management Consulting Practice

Honeywell
Dahna Baisley
Director, Healthcare Strategy & Delivery

JPMorgan Chase
Wayne Burton MD
Senior Vice President and Medical Executive

Lowe's
Bob Ihrie
Senior Vice President, Employee Rewards & Services

Marriot International, Inc.
Jill Berger
Vice President, Health and Welfare Plan
Management and Design

Medco Health Solutions
Russell Teagarden
Vice President Clinical Practices & Therapeutics
Morgan Stanley
Risa Erbes
Executive Director

National Business Group on Health
Helen Darling
President

PepsiCo, Inc.
Greg Heaslip
Vice President, Benefits

Perdue Farms, Inc.
Roger Merrill MD
Chief Medical Officer

Permanente Medical Group
Sharon Levine MD
Assoc. Exec. Director, Physician and
Professional Support Services

Pitney Bowes
Brent Pawlecki MD (Chair, Work Group on End of Life Care)
Associate Medical Director

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated
Fred Williams
Director, Benefits and Strategic Alliances

Sprint Corporation
Collier Case
Director Health and Productivity

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc
Melissa Metzgar
Vice President, Global Benefits

The Boeing Company
Terry Wolf
Manager, Benefits Policy and Strategy-
Health and Productivity

Time Warner
Dawn Werle
Executive Director, Benefits

Union Pacific Railroad Company
Jackie Austad
General Director of Benefits & Wellness

UnitedHealth Group
Vince Kerr MD
President, Care Solutions

Verizon Communications
Brian Waggenspack
Sr. Staff Consultant - Healthcare
Verizon Corporate Benefits

Visant Corporation
Shari Davidson
Vice President, Benefits

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Lisa Cummings
Director of Benefits and
Design Compliance

Watson Wyatt Worldwide
Bruce Kelley PhD
Senior Consultant

WellPoint/ Anthem
Sam Nussbaum MD
Executive Director and Chief Medical Officer


Outside Experts

AARP
Joyce Dubow
Senior Advisor
Office of Policy and Strategy

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Carolyn Clancy MD
Director

American Academy of Pediatrics
Christoph Diasio, MD
National RVU Chair

American Board of Internal Medicine
Ann Greiner
Vice President of Policy

American College of Cardiology
Janet Wright MD
Chair, Disease Management Committee

American College of Physicians
John Tooker MD
EVP and CEO

California HealthCare Foundation
Jill Yegian PhD
Director, Health Insurance Program

Consumers Union
Gail Shearer
Director, Health Policy Analysis

Department of Veterans Affairs
Alex Ommaya MD
Director Translational Research
Harvard Medical School
Barbara McNeil MD PhD
Ridley Watts Professor and Head of the
Department of Health Care Policy

Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations

Dennis O'Leary MD
President

National Committee for Quality Assurance
Peggy O'Kane
President

RAND Corporation
Elizabeth McGlynn PhD
Associate Director, Center for Research
on Quality in Health Care

The Robert Graham Center
Bob Phillips MD
Director, Policy Studies in Family Medicine
and Primary Care

Thomas Jefferson University
David Levin MD
Chairman, Department of Radiology

University of Virginia
Kerr White MD
Professor Medicine-Health Science



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