In May 2006, AcademyHealth's board of directors appointed a panel of esteemed researchers to serve on the first AcademyHealth Methods Council. Comprised of experts in the variety of fields that represent health services research and health policy, its purpose is to assist AcademyHealth in developing strategies for professional development in Health Services Research methods that take into account member needs, as well as the Council's view of future needs in the areas of training in best practices and the development of new methods.

The Methods Council is appointed for a term of three years. All content included in this Web site has been reviewed by a subset of Methods Council members.

Below is a list of the current Methods Council members and their bios. You may also print a copy of the Council Roster.

Methods Council Members  

Bryan Dowd, Ph.D., Chair
Professor
Division of Health Services Research and Policy
University of Minnesota

Linda Bilheimer, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Analysis and Epidemiology
National Center for Health Statistics

Randall Brown, Ph.D.
Vice President and  Director
Health Care Research
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Peter Buerhaus, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Senior Associate Dean for Research
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing

Steven Cohen, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Kelly Devers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Health Administration and Family Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University

José Escarce, Ph.D., M.D.
Senior Natural Scientist
RAND

Mark Helfand, M.D., M.S., M.P.H.
EPC Director
Oregon Health Policy Institute, Portland VAMC
Oregon Health and Science University

Lisa Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital

Judith Kasper, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University

Emmett Keeler, Ph.D.
Senior Mathematician
The Health Program
RAND

Richard Kronick, Ph.D.
Professor
Family and Preventive Medicine
University of California San Diego

Bryan Luce, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Science Policy
United BioSource Corporation

Diane Martin, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Health Services
University of Washington

Timothy McBride, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Dean for Public Health
Washington University in St. Louis

Barbara McNeil, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairperson
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

John O’Donnell, Ph.D., M.A.
Vice President
Global Health Outcomes & Database Research
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

A. James O'Malley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Statistics
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

Steven Pearson, M.D.
Special Advisor, Technology and Coverage Policy
Clinical Bioethics
National Institute for Health

Sara Rosenbaum, J.D.
Hirsh Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy
School of Public Health and Health Services
George Washington University

Jean Slutsky, P.A., M.S.P.H.
Director
Center for Outcomes and Evidence
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Shoshanna Sofaer, Dr. P.H.
Robert P. Luciano Professor of Health Care Policy
School of Public Affairs
Baruch College

Edward Sondik, Ph.D.
Director
National Center for Health Statistics

Michael Stoto, Ph.D.
Professor
Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies

Joseph Terza, Ph.D.
Professor
University of North Carolina at Greensboro