Smoking Cessation Guideline Panel

• Michael C. Fiore, MD, MPH
• Panel Chair
• Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
• Director, Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
• University of Wisconsin Medical School
• Madison, Wisconsin
• Dr. Fiore completed medical school at Northwestern University and his internal medicine training at Boston City Hospital. His postgraduate education included a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology from Harvard University and a fellowship in pulmonary medicine and occupational health at the University of Perugia in Italy. Dr. Fiore received additional training in epidemiology as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer for the Centers for Disease Control, where he also completed a Preventive Medicine residency program. Dr. Fiore worked as a medical epidemiologist at the Office on Smoking and Health, where he contributed to a wide range of national research, educational, and policy projects to control the epidemic of tobacco-related diseases. Dr. Fiore is Director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical School and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine. At the University of Wisconsin, he is clinically active, treating patients both in internal medicine and for smoking cessation. He is also a consultant to the National Cancer Institute and continues to collaborate with the Office on Smoking and Health. Dr. Fiore is a nationally recognized expert on tobacco. He has written numerous articles, chapters, and books on cigarette smoking and is a coauthor of Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress -- A Report of the Surgeon General.

• William C. Bailey, MD
• Professor of Medicine
• Director, Lung Health Center
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Birmingham, Alabama
• Dr. Bailey is clinically active in the treatment of patients with pulmonary disease. He is the Principal Investigator of research projects in the areas of asthma, tuberculosis, and smoking cessation and is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books on these topics. In addition to his positions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he currently serves as the Tuberculosis Control Officer at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Birmingham. From 1989 to 1992, Dr. Bailey served as the Chairman of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Task Force on the Prevention of Asthma. He received the NHLBI Preventive Pulmonary Academic Award from 1989 through 1994.

• Stuart J. Cohen, EdD
• Director, Health Services Research Center
• Professor, Departments of Public Health Sciences and Internal Medicine
• Bowman Gray School of Medicine
• Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Dr. Cohen received his doctorate in Educational Foundations/Psychology from the University of Rochester. For the past 18 years, he has received grants to improve the quality of ambulatory primary care from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. In addition, a National Cancer Institute grant on developing methods to improve physician and dentist interventions in smoking cessation served as the basis for establishing the importance of having an office system include reminders for delivery of preventive services.

• Sally Faith Dorfman, MD, MSHSA
• Gynecologist, Public Health Consultant
• Cornwall and New York, New York
• Dorfman holds degrees in economics from Harvard/Radcliffe Universities, a master's degree in Health Services Administration and an M.D. from Stanford University, and trained in reproductive health epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is board certified both in obstetrics and gynecology and in public health/general preventive medicine. Dr. Dorfman has consulted for state, regional, national, and international organizations and was Commissioner of Health for Orange County, NY, from 1988 to 1994. She also has published and presented extensively for professional and lay audiences, serves as reviewer for several peer review journals, and is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. Dr. Dorfman maintains a limited office-based practice of ambulatory gynecology in Manhattan, which is affiliated with Cornell University Medical Center.

• Michael G. Goldstein, MD
• Assistant Psychiatrist-in-Chief
• The Miriam Hospital
• Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior
• Brown University School of Medicine
• Providence, Rhode Island
• Dr. Goldstein is board certified in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and currently serves as Medical Director of the Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at The Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Goldstein's primary research interests include developing interventions to enhance the delivery of smoking cessation and other preventive services in primary care settings. He has also received grant support to test combined behavioral and pharmacologic interventions for smoking cessation. Dr. Goldstein is a member of the Task Force on Nicotine Dependence of the American Psychiatric Association and serves as an Associate Editor of the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. He has published extensively in the areas of behavioral medicine, smoking cessation, and patient education and counseling.

• Ellen R. Gritz, PhD
• Professor and Chair
• Department of Behavioral Science
• University of Texas
• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Houston, Texas
• Dr. Gritz is a licensed psychologist and an established leader in cancer prevention and control research. She has published extensively on cigarette smoking behavior, including prevention, cessation, pharmacologic mechanisms, effects on weight, and special issues of women and other high risk groups, e.g., ethnic minorities, adolescents, and medical populations. Other areas of interest include adherence to cancer control regimens, chemoprevention, and psychosocial aspects of cancer. Dr. Gritz is an Associate Editor for Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, and serves on several editorial boards. She was the first recipient of the Joseph W. Cullen Memorial award for distinguished research in smoking.

• Richard B. Heyman, MD
• Chairman, Committee on Substance Abuse
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Cincinnati, Ohio
• A graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Heyman practices pediatric and adolescent medicine and serves on the faculty of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a consultant to several adolescent chemical dependency programs and lectures widely in the area of substance abuse. As chairman of the Committee on Substance Abuse of the American Academy of Pediatrics, he is responsible for overseeing the creation of the Academy's educational programs and materials, as well as the development of policy in the area of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse.

• John Holbrook, MD
• Professor of Medicine
• University of Utah School of Medicine
• University Hospital
• Salt Lake City, Utah
• Dr. Holbrook is a general internist who served as the Medical Director of the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He was an editor for more than fifteen of the Reports of the Surgeon General on smoking and health. He has written the chapter on tobacco (nicotine addiction) in six editions of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. He is active as a clinician, educator, and health care administrator in multiple aspects of smoking cessation.

• Carlos Roberto Jaen, MD, PhD
• Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, and Social and Preventive Medicine
• Director, Center for Urban Research in Primary Care
• State University of New York at Buffalo
• Buffalo, New York
• Dr. Jaen is a family physician and epidemiologist. He is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, and of Social and Preventive Medicine, at the University of Buffalo. A Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar, his research activities focus on prevention, particularly of tobacco use, and on health issues affecting poor urban residents. The Center for Urban Research in Primary Care brings together scholars and community residents to evaluate and intervene on health issues affecting residents of central city communities. He has been a member of the New York State Public Health Council since 1995.

• Thomas E. Kottke, MD, MSPH
• Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
• Department of Internal Medicine
• Mayo Clinic and Foundation
• Rochester, Minnesota
• Dr. Kottke is a clinical cardiologist, epidemiologist, and health services researcher whose primary interest is describing, defining, and overcoming the barriers to the delivery of clinical preventive services. He has published widely on the evidence that clinical support systems are necessary for physicians and other health care professionals to provide preventive services to the patients they serve. Dr. Kottke was a member of the first United States Preventive Services Task Force.

• Harry A. Lando, PhD
• Professor, Division of Epidemiology
• School of Public Health University of Minnesota
• Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Dr. Lando has worked in the field of smoking cessation since 1969. He has published extensively in this area and was a scientific editor of the 1988 Report of the Surgeon General: Nicotine Addiction. His research has focused primarily on the development of effective multicomponent behavioral programs for smoking cessation. He has received numerous awards for his work and has consulted actively with Federal and voluntary agencies, including the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control, the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

• Robert Mecklenburg, DDS, MPH
• Dental Coordinator, National Cancer Institute
• Smoking and Tobacco Control Program
• Potomac, Maryland
• Dr. Mecklenburg organized and manages dental affairs for the National Cancer Institute's Smoking and Tobacco Control Program. He chairs the National Dental Tobacco-Free Steering Committee and is vice-chairman of the World Dentistry Against Tobacco section of the Federation Dentaire Internationale. He chaired the committee on non-cancer oral effects of tobacco for the first Surgeon General's report on smokeless tobacco. He is the principal author of the NCI publications, Tobacco Effects in the Mouth and How to Help Your Patients Stop Using Tobacco: A Manual for the Oral Health Team. Dr. Mecklenburg has published and lectured widely in the United States and abroad about dental professionals' involvement in the creation of a tobacco-free society.

• Patricia Dolan Mullen, DrPH
• Professor and Deputy Director
• Center for Health Promotion Research and Development
• School of Public Health
• University of Texas
• Houston, Texas
• Dr. Mullen received her doctorate in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley. She has received many research grants to study smoking cessation during pregnancy. She has served on the Expert Panel on the Content of Prenatal Care and on numerous research advisory panels and boards for the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Cancer Society, and other national and international organizations, and was invited to write the section on smoking cessation during pregnancy for the 1997 Surgeon General's Report on Women and Smoking.

• Louise M. Nett, RN, RRT
• Research Associate
• PSL/Health ONE
• Clinical Research Division
• Center for Health Sciences Education
• Denver, Colorado
• Ms. Nett currently is a research associate at the HealthONE Center for Health Sciences Education in Denver, Colorado, and focuses on the early detection of chronic obstructive lung disease and lung cancer and smoking cessation. Her early work focused on critical care, pulmonary rehabilitation, and oxygen therapy. She is a member of the American Thoracic Society, the American Association for Respiratory Care, the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, and the American College of Chest Physicians. She is also active at the local level in Colorado. Ms. Nett has published and taught extensively and is the editor of the newsletter NICO-NOTES. She has received numerous awards and has consulted and lectured internationally.

• Lawrence Robinson, MD, MPH
• Deputy Health Commissioner
• Philadelphia Department of Public Health
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• As Deputy Commissioner for Health Promotion/Disease Prevention for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Dr. Robinson is responsible for development, planning, coordination, and evaluation of various programs delivering comprehensive medical, preventive, and health education services. He is a member of State and area antitobacco coalition groups and the Early Education Tobacco Prevention Project, chairman of the Philadelphia smoke-free task force, and clinical director of the Pro-Step nicotine patch program for city employees. He is also a board member of various groups, organizations, and agencies in the community.

• Maxine L. Stitzer, PhD
• Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Behavioral Biology Research Center
• Johns Hopkins/Bayview Medical Center
• Baltimore, Maryland
• Dr. Stitzer received her Ph.D. in Psychology and training in psychopharmacology from the University of Michigan. At Johns Hopkins, she has developed a varied and extensive grant-supported research program focusing on both pharmacological and behavioral approaches to the treatment of substance abuse. Her many publications reflect active research interests in both illicit drug abuse and tobacco dependence. She has been president of the Division on Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse of the American Psychological Association and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence.

• Anthony C. Tommasello, MS
• Director, Office of Substance Abuse Studies
• University of Maryland at Baltimore
• School of Pharmacy
• Baltimore, Maryland
• Mr. Tommasello, a pharmacist, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and Director, Office of Substance Abuse Studies, which he founded. He has worked in the addiction field since 1973 and acquired advanced degrees in both pharmacology and epidemiology, specializing in drug abuse and addiction. He is active in clinical research and treatment in addictions and has created educational programs that have served as national models for pharmacists and other health and human service providers. He is the president of the Maryland Pharmacists' Rehabilitation Committee, which provides advocacy and treatment access for impaired pharmacists. He has published in the areas of general principles of assessment and treatment, methadone maintenance care, and adolescent drug abuse and addiction. Mr. Tommasello is a Ph.D. candidate in Policy Sciences at UMBC, where his focus has been on health policy analysis. His dissertation is entitled, "The Effects of State Policies on Addiction Intervention in the Health Professions: The Case of Pharmacy."

• Louise Villejo, MPH, CHES
• Director, Patient Education Office
• Office of Public Affairs
• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• University of Texas
• Houston, Texas
• As the Director of the Patient Education Office at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Ms. Villejo is responsible for the design, implementation, evaluation, and management of patient and family education programs. She has assisted in the writing, publication, and production of more than 100 patient education booklets and videotapes. For the past 10 years, she has served on the National Cancer Institute's Patient Education Committee and Network as well as on numerous other Federal and private advisory and planning boards and committees. Ms. Villejo's publications include articles on smoking cessation and cancer patient education.

• Mary Ellen Wewers, PhD, RN
• Associate Professor
• Department of Adult Health and Illness Nursing
• College of Nursing
• Ohio State University
• Columbus, Ohio
• Dr. Wewers, an Adult Nurse Practitioner, has been conducting smoking cessation research since completing her Ph.D. in Nursing at the University of Maryland in 1986. She is funded by the National Institutes of Health to investigate reinforcement for nicotine in both human and animal models of dependence. Her clinical research has examined nurse-managed smoking cessation interventions. Dr. Wewers is Chair-elect of the Nursing Assembly of the American Thoracic Society and serves as Director of the Nursing Center for Tobacco Intervention at Ohio State University.

Consultants

• Timothy Baker, PhD
• Senior Scientific Consultant
• Professor, Department of Psychology
• Associate Director, Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
• University of Wisconsin Medical School
• Madison, Wisconsin

• Victor Hasselblad, PhD
• Statistical Methodologist
• Center for Health Policy Research and Education
• Duke University
• Durham, North Carolina

• David L. Schriger, MD, MPH
• Methodologist
• Associate Professor
• UCLA School of Medicine
• Los Angeles, California

Project Staff

• David W. Wetter, PhD
• Project Director
• University of Texas
• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Houston, Texas

• Connie Kohler, DrPH
• Project Co-Director
• Department of Health Behavior
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• School of Public Health
• Birmingham, Alabama

• Lisa D. Wetter
• Project Manager
• University of Texas
• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Houston, Texas

• Kathleen Reardon

• Sarah Trost
• Project Co-Managers

• Thomas M. Piasecki, MS

• Fang-Ying Shi, MS
• Project Research Associates
• Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
• University of Wisconsin Medical School
• Madison, Wisconsin

Additional Project Staff

• Douglas Jorenby

• Douglas Keehn

• Lisa Rogers

• Ann Schensky

• Scott Woller
• Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
• University of Wisconsin Medical School
• Madison, Wisconsin

Federal Liaisons

• Corinne Husten, MD, MPH
• Medical Officer
• Office on Smoking and Health
• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Atlanta, Georgia

• Cathy Melvin, PhD, MPH
• Chief, Program Services and Development Branch
• Division of Reproductive Health
• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Atlanta, Georgia

• Gary Giovino, PhD, MS
• Chief, Epidemiology Branch
• Office on Smoking and Health
• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Atlanta, Georgia

• Marc Manley, MD, MPH
• Chief, Public Health Applications Research Branch
• National Cancer Institute
• National Institutes of Health
• Rockville, Maryland

• Glen Bennett, MPH
• Coordinator, Advance Technologies Applications in Health Education
• Programs Office of Prevention, Education, and Control
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• National Institutes of Health
• Bethesda, Maryland

• Jack E. Henningfield, PhD
• Chief, Clinical Pharmacology Branch
• Addiction Research Center
• Intramural Research Program
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• National Institutes of Health
• Baltimore, Maryland

• Debra Rothstein, PhD
• Prevention Policy Advisor
• Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Washington, DC

Canadian Government Liaison

• Sylvie Stachenko, MD, MSC, FCFP
• Director, Disease Prevention
• Health Canada
• Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Article Reviewers

• Jane Anderson

• Julianne Brown

• Denise Doyle

• Thomas Piasecki

• Kathleen Reardon

• Fang-Ying Shi

• Valerie Stromquist

• Kathy Tiedje

• Sarah Trost

• Thomas Wodushek
• Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
• University of Wisconsin Medical School
• Madison, Wisconsin

AHCPR Staff

• Douglas B. Kamerow, MD, MPH
• Director, Office of the Forum for Quality and Effectiveness in Health Care

• Ernestine W. Murray, RN, MAS
• Panel Project Officer

• Harriett V. Bennett
• Public Affairs Specialist

• Sandra Katz Cummings
• Managing Editor

Contract Support

• Technical Resources International, Inc.
• Rockville, Maryland

• Gail J. Herzenberg, MPA
• Project Director

• Cheryl Campbell
• Panel Manager

• Marcia Feinleib
• Managing Editor

• Joanna Taylor
• Panel Editor

Peer Reviewers [a]

• David B. Abrams, PhD
• Professor and Director of Behavioral and Preventive Medicine Brown University School of Medicine
• Brown University School of Medicine
• Providence, Rhode Island

• Karen Ahijevych, PhD, RN
• Assistant Professor
• Ohio State University College of Nursing
• Columbus, Ohio

• Norman B. Anderson
• Associate Director
• National Institutes of Health
• Bethesda, Maryland

• Michele Bloch, MD, PhD
• Chair, Tobacco Control and Prevention Subcommittee
• American Medical Women's Association
• Alexandria, Virginia

• Angela Boykin
• Manager, Member Education and Wellness
• Health Source North Carolina
• Morrisville, North Carolina

• Thomas H. Brandon, PhD
• Assistant Professor of Psychology
• State University of New York at Binghamton
• Binghamton, New York

• Richard L. Brown, MD, MPH
• Assistant Professor
• University of Wisconsin Medical School
• Department of Family Medicine
• Madison, Wisconsin

• Blake Cady, MD, FACS
• Chief, Surgical Oncology
• Deaconess Hospital
• Boston, Massachusetts

• Deborah Caplan, MS, RN-CS
• American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
• Atlanta, Georgia

• Moon S. Chen, Jr.
• Professor and Chair
• Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion
• Ohio State University
• Columbus, Ohio

• Connie Conrad
• Project Officer
• Bureau of Policy Development
• Health Care Financing Administration
• Baltimore, Maryland

• David Coultas, MD
• Associate Professor of Medicine
• University of New Mexico School of Medicine
• Albuquerque, New Mexico

• Susan J. Curry, PhD
• Investigator
• Center for Health Studies
• Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound
• Seattle, Washington

• Jane Delgado, PhD
• President and Chief Executive Officer
• National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations
• Washington, District of Columbia

• Harriet de Wit, PhD
• Associate Professor
• Department of Psychiatry
• University of Chicago
• Chicago, Illinois

• Paul Fischer, MD
• University Family Medicine
• Augusta, Georgia

• Erica Frank, MD, MPH
• Assistant Professor
• Emory University School of Medicine
• Atlanta, Georgia

• Jacquelyn L. Fried, MS, RDH
• Associate Professor
• Department of Dental Hygiene
• University of Maryland Dental School
• Baltimore, Maryland

• Michael J. Geboy, PhD
• Director, Cooperative Health Education Program
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center
• Prescott, Arizona

• Sam P. Giordano, MBA, RRT
• Executive Director
• American Association for Respiratory Care
• Dallas, Texas

• Elbert D. Glover, PhD
• Director, Tobacco Research
• Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center
• Professor, Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry
• Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center
• West Virginia University
• Morgantown, West Virginia

• Thomas J. Glynn, PhD
• Acting Associate Director, Cancer Control Science Program
• National Institutes of Health
• Bethesda, Maryland

• Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD, RN
• Research Associate Professor of Medicine
• Washington University School of Medicine
• St. Louis, Missouri

• Dorothy K. Hatsukami, PhD
• Professor
• Department of Psychiatry
• University of Minnesota
• Minneapolis, Minnesota

• James G. (Gil) Hill
• Director, Office of Substance Abuse
• American Psychological Association
• Washington, District of Columbia

• Felicia Hodge, DrPH
• Director
• Center for American Indian Research and Education
• University of California, Berkeley
• Berkeley, California

• Freddie Ann Hoffmann, MD
• Deputy Director, Medicine Staff
• Office of Health Affairs
• Food and Drug Administration
• Rockville, Maryland

• Jack E. Hollis, PhD
• Senior Investigator
• Kaiser Permanente
• Center for Health Research
• Portland, Oregon

• Thomas P. Houston, MD
• Director
• Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health
• American Medical Association
• Chicago, Illinois

• Richard D. Hurt, MD
• Professor of Medicine
• Director, Nicotine Dependence Center
• Mayo Clinic
• Rochester, Minnesota

• Denise A. James
• Program Manager
• Fox Chase Cancer Center
• Cheltenham, Pennsylvania

• Martin J. Jarvis, MPhD
• Principal Scientist
• Imperial Cancer Research Fund
• Health Behaviour Unit
• London, England

• Rhys B. Jones, DDS, MS
• President
• American Association of Public Health Dentistry
• Cedar Rapids, Iowa

• Robert C. Klesges, PhD
• Professor of Psychology and Preventive Medicine
• University of Memphis
• Memphis, Tennessee

• D. H. Klevan, MD, FACP
• Health Partners Como Clinic
• St. Paul, Minnesota

• Jamie Kotch
• Manager
• Health Programs and Information
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
• Brookline, Massachusetts

• Donald S. Kwalick, MD, MPH
• Nevada State Health Officer
• Nevada Division of Health
• Carson City, Nevada

• Edward Lichtenstein, PhD
• Research Scientist
• Oregon Research Institute
• Eugene, Oregon

• Jonathan T. Lord, MD
• Senior Advisor for Clinical Affairs
• Office of the President
• American Hospital Association
• Chicago, Illinois

• Francis J. Mallon, Esq.
• Chief Executive Officer
• American Physical Therapy Association
• Alexandria, Virginia

• Betty J. Merriman
• Director, Patient and Family Education
• American Cancer Society
• Atlanta, Georgia

• Abby Millhauser, MS, NCC
• Program Supervisor
• Community Counseling and Resource Center
• Cockeysville, Maryland

• Edwin A. Mirand, MD
• Vice President and Dean
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute and SUNY at Buffalo
• Buffalo, New York

• Mildred S. Morse, JD
• Director
• National Smoking Cessation Campaign for African American Women
• Silver Spring, Maryland

• Alan R. Nelson, MD
• Executive Vice President
• American Society of Internal Medicine
• Washington, District of Columbia

• Raymond Niaura, PhD
• Associate Professor
• Department of Psychiatry
• Brown University School of Medicine
• Providence, Rhode Island

• Don M. Nielsen, MD
• Associate Medical Director for Quality
• Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program
• Oakland, California

• Judith K. Ockene, PhD
• Professor of Medicine
• Director, Division of Preventive and behavioral Medicine
• University of Massachusetts Medical School
• Worcester, Massachusetts

• C. Tracy Orleans, PhD
• Director
• Tobacco Control Research Fox Chase Cancer Center
• Princeton, New Jersey

• Kenneth A. Perkins, PhD
• Associate Professor of Psychiatry
• Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Stephen Rennard, MD
• Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
• University of Nebraska Medical Center
• Omaha, Nebraska

• Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH
• Professor
• Duke University Medical Center
• Durham, North Carolina

• M. Diane Roberts, DrPH
• Dean
• College of Health Professionals
• Wichita State University
• Wichita, Kansas

• William A. Robinson, MD, MPH
• Chief Medical Officer
• Health Resources and Services Administration
• Rockville, Maryland

• Patricia A. Rowell, PhD, RN
• Senior Policy Fellow
• American Nurses Association
• Washington, District of Columbia

• Linda Sarna, RN, DNSc, FAAN
• Assistant Professor
• American Cancer Society
• Professor of Oncology Nursing
• School of Nursing
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Los Angeles, California

• Manuel Schydlower, MD
• Professor
• Department of Pediatrics
• Texas Tech
• University Health Sciences Center
• El Paso, Texas

• Saul Shiffman, PhD
• Professor of Psychology
• University of Pittsburgh
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• John Slade, MD
• Associate Professor
• University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and the St. Peter's Medical Center
• New Brunswick, New Jersey

• Leif I. Solberg, MD
• Clinical Director of Research
• Group Health Foundation
• HealthPartners
• Bloomington, Minnesota

• Rodman D. Starke, MD
• Senior Vice President
• Science and Medicine
• American Heart Association
• Dallas, Texas

• Jane W. Swanson, MS, RN, CNAA
• Director, Ambulatory Nursing
• National Naval Medical Center Bethesda
• Bethesda, Maryland

• C. Barr Taylor, MD
• Professor of Psychiatry
• Stanford Medical Center
• Stanford, California

• Earl S. Ward, Jr., PharmD
• Associate Dean for Health and Administrative Services
• Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice
• Mercer University School of Pharmacy
• Atlanta, Georgia

• Kenneth E. Warner, PhD
• Richard D. Remington Collegiate Professor of Public Health
• Department of Health Management and Policy
• School of Public Health
• University of Michigan
• Ann Arbor, Michigan

• C. Edwin Webb, PharmD, MPH
• Vice President, Professional Affairs and Health Policy
• American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
• Alexandria, Virginia

• Gregory J. Westerbeck
• Director of Medical Marketing
• SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare
• Washington, District of Columbia