March 22, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Joseph R. Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at AEI and an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. He was the assistant director for health and human resources, the division providing Congress with analyses of proposed changes to federal programs and policies in areas such as health, income security, education, employment, and housing, at the Congressional Budget Office. Mr. Antos was the director of the Office of Research and Demonstrations and deputy director of the Office of the Actuary at the Health Care Financing Administration. He was the deputy chief of staff and the principal deputy assistant secretary for management and budget at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Charles Boult, M.D., is a geriatrician by training and has extensive experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of systems of health care for older populations. His current research includes Guided Care, a new model of primary care for older people with multiple chronic conditions. He has also published projections of the number of disabled older Americans in the twenty-first century and has provided consultation to dozens of health care organizations. He created the first validated instrument for identifying high-risk older persons (the Pra) and coedited a book titled New Ways to Care for Older People: Building Systems Based on Evidence (Springer Publishing Company, 1999). He now edits the “Models and Systems of Geriatric Care” Section of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. At Johns Hopkins University, he directs the Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care in the School of Public Health, and he leads the health services research program of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology in the Medical School’s Department of Medicine.

Sandra Foote is director of the Health Insurance Reform Project at George Washington University. The Health Insurance Reform Project is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to promote development of new ideas for improving national health policy and programs, particularly for chronically ill populations (www.hirp.gwu.edu). Ms. Foote has recently authored an article on “Population-Based Disease Management Under Fee-for-Service Medicare” that appeared as a Health Affairs Web Exclusive (July 31, 2003). From 1982 to 1997, Ms. Foote was a senior executive of Community Care Network, an employer-sponsored PPO serving self-insured employers and union trust funds and group health and workers’ compensation insurers nationally. She was a founder and director of CCN, Inc. She has also held program development positions at the University of California–San Diego School of Medicine; the National Center for Health Services Research; the Office of Health Planning; Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health; and the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Rhonda M. Medows, M.D., FAAFP, is the former secretary of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration, which manages Florida’s $13.8 billion Medicaid program for 2.3 million people. Before joining the agency, she was a medical director at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida in Jacksonville and was responsible for the Health Plan Quality Compliance division and the Medical Coverage Guideline Development Area. She served on the Board of Directors of the Florida Blue Charitable Foundation. From 1993 to 2000, Dr. Medows was in private practice at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, specializing in family medicine. From 1989 to 1993, she was associated with Kaiser Permanente in Atlanta as a family physician. She has been a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the National Medical Association, the American College of Physician Executives, the Florida Medical Association, the Florida Academy of Family Physicians, and the National Association of Managed care Physicians. In addition, she has been active in the We Care Jacksonville Volunteer Physician program, a member of the Florida Commission on Excellence in Health Care (2000), on the Board of Directors of the Hubbard House Women’s Crisis Center in Jacksonville (1997-2001), the Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women in Jacksonville (1998-Present), and on the Board of Directors of the Ponte Vedra Beach Chamber of Commerce (1998-2000).

Louis F. Rossiter is director of the Executive Fellowship Program for State Budget Officers at the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. Mr. Rossiter was formerly the secretary of health and human resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia. As secretary, Mr. Rossiter managed thirteen agencies, 17 thousand employees, and a $5 billion budget to enhance the health and independence of all Virginians. He also directed the implementation of Governor Gilmore’s new private health insurance program for children and families; ensured significant improvement in the state’s mental health system; created new policy initiatives in the emerging field of human genetics; and managed the major information technology projects in the Secretariat. Mr. Rossiter was formerly a professor and funded researcher at the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University and its nationally ranked Department of Health Administration from 1982 to 2000. He was the first director of the Williamson Institute for Health Studies on the MCV Campus. He took a leave of absence from MCV from 1989 to 1992 to serve as senior policy adviser to the administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration.

Richard P. Vance, M.D., M.A., is president and chief executive officer of Corsolutions. With his vast product development expertise, clinical insight, and business understanding of the health care delivery market, Mr. Vance has guided CorSolutions to be the first privately held disease management company to earn full patient and practitioner accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Disease Management Accreditation. He joined CorSolutions as chief medical officer and chief operating officer in 2000, bringing his frontline perspective from years with a national health insurance company to spearhead a number of product enhancements. Mr. Vance continues to take an active leadership role in the disease management industry’s quality initiatives, by serving as a member of the board of the Disease Management Association of America. In addition, Mr. Vance is an active member of the Center for Corporate Innovation, Executives Club of Chicago, College of American Pathologists, and the National Association for Managed Care Physicians. A respected medical expert, Mr. Vance has also authored more than eighty-five articles, abstracts, clinical posters, and book chapters and speaks regularly at industry conferences and symposia.

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