Policy Advisory Committee
Marilyn Moon (Chair)
Formerly a Senior Fellow with the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute, Dr. Moon is currently the Vice President and Program Director of the Health Program at the American Institute of Research. A nationally known economist, Dr. Moon was a trustee of the Medicare Trust Fund between 1995 and 2000, a board member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a member of the steering committee of the National Academy of Aging.
Barbara Cooper
Ms. Cooper joined the Commonwealth Fund in January 2003 as the senior program officer for Medicare’s Future. A leading expert on Medicare with more than 30 years of health services research and policy experience, Ms. Cooper worked in the federal agency responsible for the program beginning with its enactment in 1965. Most recently, she was deputy director to Bruce Vladeck at the Institute for Medicare Practice, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she directed policy research across a broad spectrum of topics related to the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Geraldine Dallek
Ms. Dallek is currently a health policy consultant with the Center for Health Services Research and Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. She has previously worked as a Project Director at Georgetown University Institute for Health Care Research and Policy, Director of Health Policy at Families USA and Executive Director of the Los Angeles-based Center for Health Care Rights. Ms. Dallek has written extensively on Medicaid, the Medicare+Choice Program and consumer protection issues in managed care.
Judy Feder
Dr. Feder is Professor and Dean of Georgetown Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University. Feder is also a senior scholar at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute. A widely published scholar, she began her three decades of policy research at the Brookings Institution, continued at the Urban Institute, and, since 1984, has flourished at Georgetown University. Her expertise on the uninsured, Medicare, Medicaid, and long-term care is regularly drawn upon by members of Congress, Executive officials, and the national media. Dr. Feder today pursues her policy leadership as senior advisor to the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and a variety of other projects.
Michael Hash
Mr. Hash is a principal at Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., a Washington based health consulting firm specializing in health policy and financing issues for a wide array of provider, consumer, foundation, and corporate clients. From March 1998 through December 2000, he served as the Deputy Administrator and Acting Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services), which administers Medicare, Medicaid and the State Child Health Insurance Program. He has held teaching positions at Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University, and is a member of the board at Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Jeanne Lambrew
Dr. Lambrew is an associate professor of health policy at George Washington University. She conducts policy-relevant research on Medicare, Medicaid and the uninsured, and long-term care. Dr. Lambrew worked on health policy at the White House from 1997 through 2001 as the program associate director for health at the Office of Management and Budget and as the senior health analyst at the National Economic Council. She is also a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Dr. Lambrew has her master’s degree and Ph.D. from the Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Lisa Potetz
Lisa Potetz is Director, Public Policy Research at the March of Dimes. She also works as an independent health policy consultant on Medicare and other issues. Her prior experience includes 15 years in government health policy positions, primarily focused on Medicare reimbursement policy and private health insurance issues as staff to both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission on Medicare hospital payment, and the Congressional Budget Office.
Bill Vaughan
is the Senior Policy Analyst for health issues at the Consumers Union. He previously served as Director of Government Relations at Families USA. His past areas of concentration include Medicare, managed care, national health care, COBRA health continuation and health insurance reform issues as well as a variety of Japanese trade issues.
Bruce Vladeck
is an Executive Director at Ernst & Young's Health Sciences Advisory Services (HSAS) practice. Prior to assuming this position, he served for sixteen months as Interim President of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). Dr. Vladeck was at Ernst & Young's HSAS from 2004 to 2006 as Senior Health Policy Advisor and the East Coast Director for the firm's Academic Medical Center (AMC) service line. Prior to joining E&Y, Dr. Vladeck was Professor of Health Policy and Geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He is a member of the NYC Board of Health, a Trustee of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, and a member of the Editorial Board of Health Affairs. From 1993 through 1997, Dr. Vladeck was Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA-now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Subsequent to his service at HCFA, Dr. Vladeck was appointed by President Clinton to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Dr. Vladeck has served as President of the United Hospital Fund of New York, and has held senior positions at Columbia University and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; from 1979 through 1982 he was Assistant Commissioner of the New Jersey State Department of Health. At the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected in 1986, Dr. Vladeck chaired the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People. Among many other honors and awards, Dr. Vladeck received the 1995 National Public Service Award and the 2005 Robert M. Ball Award of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Dr. Vladeck has published widely, perhaps most notably his book, Unloving Care: The Nursing Home Tragedy (Basic Books: 1980). He received his BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard College; and an MA and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan.