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Joseph Antos
Mr. Antos's research focuses on the economics of health policy—including Medicare and broader health system reform, health care financing, health insurance regulation, and the uninsured—and federal budget policy. He has written and spoken extensively on the Medicare drug benefit and has led a team of experienced independent actuaries and cost estimators in a study to evaluate various proposals to extend health coverage to the uninsured. His work on the country's budget crisis includes a detailed plan to achieve fiscal stability and economic growth developed in conjunction with AEI colleagues.
Joseph Antos is also a health adviser to the Congressional Budget Office and recently completed two terms as a commissioner of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission. Before joining AEI, Mr. Antos was Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources at the Congressional Budget Office and held senior positions in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Management and Budget, and the President's Council of economic Advisers.
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Shannon Brownlee
Ms. Brownlee is a nationally known writer and essayist whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Slate, Time, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and BMJ among many other publications. She is best known for her groundbreaking work on overtreatment and the implications for health care policy. Her book, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, was named the best economics book of 2007 by New York Times economics correspondent David Leonhardt. Ms. Brownlee's current research and writing focus on issues surrounding clinical evidence, overuse of medical services, and productivity in the health care sector.
A former senior writer and editor at U.S. News & World Report, Ms. Brownlee lectures regularly at universities and medical schools. Her work has received numerous journalism awards, among them the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, the 2010 American Society of Journalists and Authors June Roth Award for Medical Journalism, and the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting.
Ms. Brownlee holds a master's degree in marine science from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where she received the Alumnae Achievement Award of 2012. She was named one of the 45 most influential graduates of UCSC in 2010, the 45th anniversary of the campus' founding. In 2009 she was named one of four writers who changed the world by the World Federation of Science Journalists. A former Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, she currently serves on the boards of Families USA and the Robert Graham Center of the American Academy of Family Practice. She is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and an Instructor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
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Suzanne Burke
Ms. Burke became Chief Executive Officer of Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio in 2005.
Previously, she worked for Hamilton County for 17 years serving as the Acting Hamilton County Administrator, Director of the Department of Job & Family Services, and Director of Administrative Services (County Budget Director) among other positions.
Ms. Burke has a master`s degree in Business Administration (Marketing) from Xavier University and a bachelor`s degree in Marketing with a minor in Gerontology from Miami University.
Ms. Burke is President of the Board of the Ohio Association of Area Agencies on Aging. She also serves on the boards of Every Child Succeeds; the Leadership Council of Human Services Executives; Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority; and iTN Greater Cincinnati.
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Susan Dentzer
Ms. Dentzer, a renowned health policy expert, health policy analyst for the PBS NewsHour, and former editor of the influential journal Health Affairs, currently serves as a senior health policy adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Ms. Dentzer completed five years as editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, which she transformed from a bimonthly academic publication to a topical monthly journal. She served as on-air health correspondent for the PBS NewsHour from 1998 to 2008, and remains an on-air analyst on health policy for the show. She is also a frequent guest on a number of National Public Radio programs, including This American Life and The Diane Rehm Show.
Ms. Dentzer is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a public member of the board of directors of the American Board of Medical Specialties, a nonprofit organization overseeing 24 approved medical specialty boards that set standards for board certification for the nation's physicians. She is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian organization providing relief to refugees and displaced persons around the world. She chairs the IRC board's Program Committee, which oversees the organization's activities in resettling refugees in the United States and dealing with refugees and displaced persons in roughly 25 countries.
A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1986-87, Ms. Dentzer is a graduate of Dartmouth and holder of an honorary master of arts from the institution. She is also a Dartmouth trustee emerita, and was the only woman to date to chair the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, from 2001 to 2004. She has served on the Board of Overseers of Dartmouth Medical School since 1993.
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John Feather, PhD
Dr. Feather is Chief Executive Officer of Grantmakers In Aging, the national association of grantmaking foundations and other organizations that work to improve the lives of older people. Prior to beginning that position in 2011, he was Executive Director and CEO of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, the national membership organization of pharmacists who specialize in care of older persons. Until 2002, he was Director of the AARP Andrus Foundation, the research and education charity of AARP.
For the seventeen years prior to that appointment in 1995, Dr. Feather held several positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo including Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology and Executive Director of the Primary Care Resource Center. Prior to that he was Director of the Western New York Geriatric Education Center.
Dr. Feather is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Society on Aging, Treasurer of the National Hispanic Council on Aging and Board Member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
Dr. Feather is an organizational sociologist by training, and received his undergraduate education at the University of Texas at Austin and his masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He has earned the designation of Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) and Certified Association Executive (CAE).
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Jennie Chin Hansen
Ms. Hansen is currently CEO of the American Geriatrics Society. In May, 2010, she completed her term as president of AARP following six years on the AARP national board of directors. Prior service includes nearly 25 years with On Lok, Inc., a nonprofit family of organizations providing integrated, globally financed and comprehensive community-based services for older people in San Francisco. On Lok's groundbreaking fully capitated and coordinated service delivery became the prototype for the 1997 federal law that incorporated the Program of All Inclusive Care to the Elderly (PACE) into the Medicare and Medicaid programs. In 2010, Ms. Hansen completed a six-year term as a federal commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). She currently serves as a board member of the SCAN Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). She also serves on the American Hospital Association (AHA) Equity of Care Committee and is co-chair of the steering committee for the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC). Since 2012, she has been appointed to the national Veteran's Administration Advisory Committee on Gerontology and Geriatrics and the Department of HHS' National Institutes of Health-National Advisory Council on Aging.
Ms. Hansen has received the Award for Productive Aging, a 2010 Innovator in Health Award from the New England Healthcare Institute and the 2011 Picker Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Patient-Centered Care in Long-Term Care.
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Senator Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson is a businessman, a public servant and family
man whose conservative, thoughtful and independent approach have made him a
leader in Georgia for over 30 years.
As a business leader, Johnny served as president of
Northside Realty for 20 years, presiding over the company’s growth into the
largest independent residential real estate brokerage company in the Southeast.
In politics, Johnny has served in the Georgia House, the Georgia Senate, and as
chairman of the Georgia Board of Education. He was elected three times to the
U.S. House before winning his U.S. Senate seat in 2004. He was re-elected to
the Senate in 2010.
In January 2013, Johnny was named to the U.S. Senate
Committee on Finance, which has jurisdiction over taxes, trade, Medicare and
Social Security and which plays a critical role in the debate over cutting
spending and reducing our nation’s debt.
Johnny and his wife, Dianne, have been married since 1968. They
have three grown children and nine grandchildren.
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Joanne Lynn, MD
Dr. Lynn is a geriatrician, hospice physician, health services researcher, quality improvement advisor, and policy advocate who has focused upon shaping American health care so that every person can count on living comfortably and meaningfully through the period of serious illness and disability in the last years of life, at a sustainable cost to the community. She now leads the Altarum Institute Center on Elder Care and Advanced Illness.
She recently has been a consultant to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a faculty member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and a clinical expert in improvement for the Care Transitions project at the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care. She has also been a senior researcher at RAND and a professor of medicine and community health at Dartmouth Medical School and at The George Washington University.
Dr. Lynn has published more than 250 professional articles, and her dozen books include The Handbook for Mortals, a guide for the public; The Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care, an instruction manual for clinicians and managers seeking to improve quality; and Sick to Death and Not Going to Take it Any More!, an action guide for policymakers and advocates. She has also authored amicus briefs for key appellate court cases and has been often interviewed by reporters. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a fellow of the American Geriatrics Society and The Hastings Center, and a master of the American College of Physicians.
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Anne Montgomery
Ms. Montgomery is a Senior Policy Analyst at Altarum Institute's Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness and a Visiting Scholar at the National Academy of Social Insurance.
From 2007 to 2013, Ms. Montgomery served as Senior Policy Advisor for the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, where she was responsible for developing hearings and legislation to improve nursing homes and home and community-based services in Medicaid, dually-eligible beneficiaries, health care workforce issues, elder abuse, dementia care, and community and social support services for older adults.
Ms. Montgomery has also served as a senior health policy associate with the Alliance for Health Reform in Washington, D.C., as a senior analyst in public health at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, and as a legislative aide for the Ways & Means Health Subcommittee.
Based in London as an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy in 2001-2002, she undertook comparative policy analysis of the role of family caregivers in the development of long-term care in the United Kingdom and the U.S. During the 1990's, Ms. Montgomery worked as a health and science journalist covering the National Institutes of Health and Congress.
A member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and Academy Health, Ms. Montgomery has an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in English literature from the University of Virginia, and has taken gerontology coursework at Johns Hopkins University.
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John Rother
John Rother is President and CEO of
the National Coalition on Health Care, America’s oldest and most diverse group
working to achieve comprehensive health system change. The Coalition’s membership
of more than 80 participating organizations includes medical societies,
businesses, unions, health care providers, faith-based associations, pension
and health funds, insurers, and groups representing consumers, patients, women,
minorities, and persons with disabilities.
Prior to joining the Coalition in 2011, Mr. Rother served as the
longtime Executive Vice President for Policy, Strategy, and International
Affairs at AARP. There he led the development of AARP’s policy positions
and advocacy strategies. Under his leadership, AARP engaged in robust
public policy research and analysis, public education, and advocacy on health
and retirement issues at the federal, state and international levels. Mr.
Rother wrote numerous articles and was a frequent speaker on health, retirement
security, the federal budget, and the boomer generation.
From 1981 to 1984, Mr. Rother was Staff Director and Chief Counsel
for the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging under the direction of Chairman
John Heinz (R-PA). From 1977 to 1981 he served as Special Counsel for
Labor and Health to U.S. Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY).
Mr. Rother is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of
Pennsylvania Law School. He is a member of the DC Bar, the National
Academy of Social Insurance, and the Gerontological Society of America.
Mr. Rother serves on several boards, including the American Board
of Internal Medicine Foundation, the National Quality Forum, the Alliance for
Health Reform, the Pension Rights Center, and Generations United. He also
serves on the MacArthur Foundation’s Aging Society Network and the Institute of
Medicine’s National Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care. He
has consistently been named as one of the Most Powerful People in Healthcare.
In 2010 Mr. Rother received the Robert
Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance from the National
Academy of Social Insurance for “lifetime advocacy to strengthen Social
Security and Medicare.”
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Mimi Toomey
Mimi Toomey, MA, leads the Office of Policy, Analysis and
Development at the HHS Administration for Community Living (ACL).ACL is the newest agency in HHS and brings
together the efforts and achievements of the Administration on Aging, the
Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and the HHS
Office on Disability to serve as the Federal agency responsible for increasing
access to community supports, while focusing attention and resources on the
unique needs of older Americans and people with disabilities across the
lifespan.
Toomey’s office identifies and analyzes emerging policy
issues and trends related to the aging and disability populations and advances
innovative program strategies consistent with the priorities established by the
Assistant Secretary for Aging/ACL Administrator.She has over 25 years of multi-level
experience on aging issues including directing local aging and disability community-based
programs and national non-profit projects.She has been at the federal level for ten years and currently is
focusing on policy as it relates to the Affordable Care Act around Medicare,
Medicaid, prevention, workforce issues and innovations.
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Senator Mark R. Warner
After four years in the
Senate, Senator Mark R. Warner has established himself as a national leader in
efforts to find bipartisan consensus both to make government more efficient and
to create balanced solutions to reduce the federal deficit. He has also
been a champion for our armed service members, as well as a leader in Congress
in efforts to promote private-sector innovation.
From 2002 to 2006, Senator
Warner served as Governor of Virginia, where he worked in a bipartisan way to
turn record budget deficits into a surplus and recruit 135,000 jobs to
Virginia, during which time Virginia was consistently recognized as the
nation’s “best-managed state” and “best state for business.”
Before entering public
office, Senator Warner was an early investor in the cellular telephone
business. He co-founded the company that became Nextel, and ultimately made
early investments in hundreds of start-up technology companies that have
created tens-of-thousands of private sector jobs.
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