THE WHITE HOUSE Office of Communications _________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release Contact: Bob Boorstin Thursday, April 22, 1993 Phone: 202-456-7151 HEALTH PROFESSIONALS TO REVIEW CLINTON PROPOSAL AS IT DEVELOPS The White House has brought in a new group of doctors, nurses, and other practicing health professionals to critically review the work of the President's Health Care Task Force. Since the beginning of the process, more than one hundred health professionals -- including more than sixty doctors -- have been involved in developing policy options. This new group will be called on to provide an outside critique. Members of the health professionals review group have not participated in developing health reform proposals for the Administration. The group will meet for a minimum of six days to conduct an intensive, critical review of working group proposals. To assess the effect of different policy options on doctors' offices, hospitals and health care settings, they will meet with working group members and question how reform will affect the delivery of care. "We're not going to be able to please everyone, but we want to make sure that the plan goes through a careful review process," said Hillary Rodham Clinton, chair of the Task Force. The group includes a family practitioner from rural Iowa, a Kansas pharmacist, and a hospital adminstrator in New Mexico, as well as physicians at the nation's leading medical centers. The group was chosen with racial, ethnic, and geographical diversity in mind, and there was a premium placed on getting a group with a variety of clinical experiences. Members include Arnold Relman, M.D., former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Jack Lewin, M.D., architect of Hawaii's health plan, Florence July, R.N., a critical care nurse from The Creek Nation, Oklahoma, and Patricia Kennedy Scott, a hospital administrator from Detroit. In its diversity of backgrounds and depth of clinical experience, the group is unprecedented. "The practical test for implementation of any health plan must be a critical review by health professionals and the patients they serve," said Ira Magaziner, the director of the Health Care Task Force. A list of the 47 health professionals on the group follows. They are legally considered special government employees, although they are not being paid for their work. HEALTH PROFESSIONALS REVIEW GROUP Stephen C. Gleason, DO Chair, Health Professionals Review Group Chief Medical Officer, Mercy Clinic System Family Practice Des Moines, Iowa Irwin Redlener, MD Vice Chair, Health Professionals Review Group Chief, Community Pediatrics, Montefiore Medical Center Pediatrician Bronx, New York Pat Ford-Roegner, RN, MSW Vice Chair, Health Professionals Review Group Health Consultant Atlanta, Georgia -------------------------------------------------- Susan Hershberg Adelman, MD Pediatric surgeon Detroit, Michigan Maria del Rosario Aguirre, MD Pediatrician San Antonio, Texas Betty Ahlgren, RN Staff Nurse Bellevue, Washington Richard Barr, MHA President, Presbyterian Health Care Services Albuquerque, New Mexico David Blumenthal, MD Chief, Health Policy Research & Development, Massachusetts General Hospital, Internist Boston, Massachusetts Rick Boxer, MD Urologist Milwaukee, Wisconsin Gwendolyn Braxton, RN, MSN Assistant Academic Vice President, Delaware State College Dover, Delaware Benjamin Chu, MD, MPH Senior Vice President for Medical & Professional Affairs, New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation New York, New York Jerome Connolly, PT Physical Therapist Billings, Montana LC Dorsey, DSW, LCSW Director, Delta Health Center Mt Bayou, Mississippi Barbara Fassbinder, RN, BSN Nurse Consultant Monona, Iowa Kevin Fickenscher, MD Associate Dean, Michigan State University Medical School Family Practice Kalamazoo, Michigan Janet Freedman, MD New York University Medical Center Rehabilitation Medicine Mt Kisco, New York Stephen H. Gorin, PhD Assistant Professor of Social Work University of New Hampshire Canterbury, New Hampshire Pedro Jose Greer, MD Asst Dean of Homeless and Poverty Medicine University of Miami Internist Miami, Florida John Hatch, PhD Professor, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina Lester Hosto, PhD Community Pharmacist, Arkansas Board of Pharmacy Little Rock, Arkansas Marshall Jackson, EMT Trauma Technician Upper Marlborough, Maryland Gloria Johnson-Powell, MD Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts Florence July, RN, BSN, CRRN Creek Nation Community Hospital Okemah, Oklahoma Jerilynn Kaibel, DC Chiropractor San Bernardino, California Pat Kennedy-Scott, JD, BA Vice President and CEO, Michigan Healthcare Corp. Detroit, Michigan Mi Ja Kim, RN, PhD Dean, College of Nursing, Univ. Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois Luella Klein, MD Professor of OB/GYN, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia Andrew Kumpuris, MD Cardiologist Little Rock, Arkansas Lance Laurence, PhD Psychologist, University of Tennessee - Knoxville Knoxville, Tennessee Judy Leavitt, RN, Med Maternal & Child Health Professor, Tomkins Cortland Community College (ret.) Ithaca, New York Jack Lewin, MD Director, Hawaii Department of Health Family Practice Honolulu, Hawaii Shelia McGuire, DDS, PhD Dentist President, Iowa Health Research Institute Boone, Iowa Kathryn Mershon, RN, MSN Nurse Administrator Louisville, Kentucky Pat Montoya, RN, MA Executive Director, New Mexico Health Resources Albuquerque, New Mexico Jeff Morris, MD, MPH Ophthalmic Surgeon San Diego, California Mary Mundinger, RN, DrPH Dean, Columbia University School of Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner New York, New York Arnold Relman, MD Editor in Chief Emeritus, New England Journal of Medicine Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts Susan Reynolds, MD Emergency Medicine Malibu, California Marily Rhudy, RPh Pharmacist Lawrence, Kansas Elena Rios, MD, MSPH State of California, Office of Health Planning & DevelopmentCalifornia Lawrence Scherr, MD, MACP Associate Dean, Cornell Medical College Manhasset, New York Julia R. Scott, RN National Black Women's Health Project Washington, DC Kenneth Shine, MD President, Institute of Medicine Cardiologist Washington, DC Pat Starck, RN, DSN Dean, School of Nursing, University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center Advanced Practice, Psychiatric/Mental Health Houston, Texas Reed V. Tuckson, MD President, Drew University of Medicine and Science Los Angeles, California Stanley Yarnell, MD Psychiatrist San Francisco, California Kneeland Youngblood, MD Emergency Medicine Dallas, Texas