Speaker biographies

Dr. Peter B. Bach joined the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a senior adviser to the administrator in February 2005. Dr. Bach’s work at CMS focuses on improving evidence about the effect of therapies and devices and revising payments to enhance care quality. He also is the agency lead on cancer policy. Dr. Bach is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine; in addition, he is an Associate Attending Physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He is a National Institutes of Health funded researcher with expertise in quality of care and epidemiologic research methods. His research on health disparities, variations in health-care quality, and lung cancer epidemiology has appeared several elite medical journals.

Amitabh Chandra is an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University. He is a faculty research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, and at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His current research focuses on the effect of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act on labor markets, the role of medical malpractice litigation on the delivery of health care, and the economics of neonatal health and cardiovascular care. His research has been published in the The American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Health Affairs. He is an editor of the journal Economics Letters. He has been a faculty member at Dartmouth and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been a consultant to the National Academy of Science, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the RAND Corporation. He is the recipient of an Outstanding Teacher Award and is the first-prize recipient of the Upjohn Institute's International Dissertation Research Award.

Christopher Foreman is professor and director of the social policy program at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses on political institutions and the politics of inequality. Professor Foreman came to the school in 2000 after more than a decade at the Brookings Institution, where he continues as a non-resident senior fellow in the governance studies program. In The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice (Brookings, 1998), Foreman addresses the opportunities and constraints facing advocates and policymakers in the search for environmental equity. His interests include the politics of health, race, regulation, and government reform.

Linda S. Gottfredson is professor of education and affiliated faculty in the University Honors Program at the University of Delaware. She has published extensively on the impact of general intelligence on personal functioning in different life domains, including school, work, and health. Her articles and edited volumes, including "Intelligence and Social Policy" in Intelligence, examine how race and sex differences in abilities and interests create sociopolitical dilemmas for democratic societies and yield censored science. She has focused most recently on what makes some daily tasks more cognitively demanding than others, thereby putting less intellectually able individuals at greater risk of accidents; non-adherence to medical regimens; and failure to master the basic reading, writing, and reasoning tasks of modern life. She is on the editorial board of various journals, including Intelligence.

Jonathan Klick is the Jeffrey A. Stoops Professor of Law at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida and an adjunct scholar at AEI. He has published widely about health-care economics and issues related to individuals’ access to care.

Dr. Sally Satel is a resident scholar at AEI and the staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C. She serves on the advisory committee of the Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. After completing her residency at Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Satel was an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University from 1988 to 1993. From 1993 to 1994 she was a policy fellow with the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. She has written widely in academic journals on topics in psychiatry and medicine and has published articles on cultural aspects of medicine and science in numerous magazines and journals. Dr. Satel is author of Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion (AEI Press, 1999), PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (Basic Books, 2001), and coauthor, with Christina Hoff Sommers, of One Nation Under Therapy (St. Martin’s Press, 2005).

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