Panel of Health Advisers

CBO has a panel of health advisers consisting of widely recognized experts in health policy and the health care sector. Members of the panel have a variety of backgrounds, areas of expertise, and experience. They generally serve three-year terms, and are sometimes reappointed. The agency hosts periodic meetings of the advisers and solicits their views between meetings. Through these interactions, CBO benefits from the advisers’ understanding of cutting-edge research and the latest developments in health care delivery and financing. As a result, the quality of CBO’s analysis of health policy is greatly enhanced. Although such experts provide considerable assistance, CBO is solely responsible for the accuracy of its work.

Katherine Baicker, Ph.D.

  • C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
  • Board of Directors, Eli Lilly

John Bertko, F.S.A., M.A.A.A.

  • Chief Actuary, Covered California

Thomas Betlach, M.P.A.

  • Director, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System

M. Kate Bundorf, M.B.A., M.P.H., Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Health Research and Policy, School of Medicine, Stanford University

Lawrence P. Casalino, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.

  • Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health and Chief of the Division of Healthcare Policy and Economics, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University

Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D.

  • Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Michael Chernew, Ph.D.

  • Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Leemore Dafny, Ph.D.

  • MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Roger Feldman, Ph.D.

  • Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance and Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota

Amy Finkelstein, Ph.D.

  • Ford Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jay M. Gellert, B.A.

  • President and Chief Executive Officer, Health Net
  • Member of the Board of Directors, Ventas

Roy Goldman, Ph.D., F.S.A., M.A.A.A., C.E.R.A.

  • Board of Directors, Society of Actuaries

Brent James, M.Stat., M.D.

  • Chief Quality Officer and Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Leadership, Intermountain Healthcare

David Lansky, Ph.D.

  • President and Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Business Group on Health

Thomas Lee, M.Sc., M.D.

  • Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey Associates

Teresa D. Miller, J.D.

  • Insurance Commissioner, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Peter Neumann, Sc.D.

  • Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health in the Tufts Medical Center and Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine, Tufts University

Stephen T. Parente, Ph.D.

  • Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair of Health Finance and Director of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

Daniel Polsky, Ph.D.

  • Professor of Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine, Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management in the Wharton School, and Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Lewis G. Sandy, M.D.

  • Senior Vice President, Clinical Advancement, UnitedHealth Group