Speaker Biographies

A New Approach to Vaccine Development
A Discussion of the Institute of Medicine Committee Recommendations

December 1, 2003

Carmella Bocchino is vice president of medical affairs at AAHP/HIAA. She has over a decade of experience in designing quality improvement strategies, quality measurement and reporting, and public policy for managed care organizations. Ms. Bocchino is a registered professional nurse. Before her positions in health policy, Ms. Bocchino held administrative and clinical positions in critical care medicine and renal replacement therapy.

John E. Calfee

is a resident scholar at AEI. From 1980 to 1986, he served in the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Calfee taught marketing and consumer behavior in the business schools of the University of Maryland at College Park and Boston University, and he was a visiting senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Prices, Markets, and the Pharmaceutical Revolution (AEI Press, 2000) and Fear of Persuasion: A New Perspective on Advertising and Regulation (distributed by AEI Press, 1997).

Christine Grant

is a vice president at Aventis Pasteur. Her previous work at Aventis Pasteur included creating the Public Business center of activity. Ms. Grant is now working on a number of domestic and global issues, including the creation of collaborative systems to manage a global or pandemic influenza outbreak. From 1999 to 2001, she was the New Jersey commissioner of health and senior services. In that role, she was New Jersey’s chief health official, with responsibility for a 2,000 person, $2 billion agency. As a commissioner during Governor Christie Whitman’s administration, Ms. Grant led New Jersey’s efforts to manage the first North American West Nile fever outbreaks and handled managed-care company negotiations. She also created online public health systems for crisis management as well as communicable disease and bioterrorism reporting. Earlier Ms. Grant was a congressional aide and an executive at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She practiced law at McCarter & English. She has frequently written and commented on television about law and health care topics.

Robert B. Helms is a resident scholar and the director of health policy studies at AEI. He has written and lectured extensively on health policy, health economics, and pharmaceutical economic issues. Mr. Helms currently participates in the Consensus Group, an informal task force that is developing market-oriented health reform concepts. From 1981 to 1989, he served as the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation and deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Helms is the editor of several AEI publications on health policy: Medicare in the Twenty-first Century: Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform; American Health Policy: Critical Issues for Reform; Health Policy Reform: Competition and Controls; Health Care Policy and Politics: Lessons from Four Countries; and Competitive Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Mark V. Pauly

currently holds the positions of Bendheim Professor and chair of the Department of Health Care Systems at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and adjunct scholar at AEI. He is a professor of health care systems, insurance and risk management and business and public policy, at the Wharton School and professor of economics, in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pauly is a former commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission and an active member of the Institute of Medicine. His classic study on the economics of moral hazard was the first to point out how health insurance coverage may affect patients’ use of medical services. Mr. Pauly is currently studying the effect of poor health on worker productivity. His interests in health policy deal with ways to reduce the number of uninsured through tax credits for public and private insurance and appropriate design for Medicare in a budget-constrained environment. Mr. Pauly is a coeditor in chief of the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics and an associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.

Sara Rosenbaum is the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy and chair of the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University Medical Center at the School of Public Health and Health Services. She also directs the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program and the Center for Health Services Research and Policy. Over the years, Ms. Rosenbaum has played a major role in the design of federal and state legislative and regulatory health policy in a wide range of areas, including Medicaid, private health insurance and employee health benefits, health services for medically underserved persons, maternal and child health, civil rights, and public health. In 1993 and 1994, she worked for the White House Domestic Policy Council, where she directed the drafting of the Health Security Act for President Bill Clinton. In addition to her research and academic leadership activities, Ms. Rosenbaum is coauthor of Law and the American Health Care System (Foundation Press, NY) a widely used health law textbook, and also is a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator’s Award in Health Policy Research.

Frank A. Sloan

is the J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management; professor of economics; and director of the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management at Duke University. He was a research economist at Rand Corporation and on the faculties of the University of Florida and Vanderbilt University. Mr. Sloan’s research interests include alcohol-use prevention, long-term care, medical malpractice, and cost-effectiveness analyses of medical technologies. He has a long-standing interest in hospitals, health care financing, and health manpower. Mr. Sloan is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and was a member of the Physician Payment Review Commission.

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