Speaker biographies
Joseph 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 is also a commissioner on the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission. Prior to coming to AEI, Mr. Antos served as assistant director for health and human resources at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the division within the CBO that provides Congress with analyses of proposed changes to federal programs and policies in areas such as health, income security, education, employment, and housing. 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 served as deputy chief of staff and the principal deputy assistant secretary for management and budget at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Edward Langston, M.D.,a family physician in private practice in Lafayette, Ind., has
been a member of the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees since June 2003. In June 2006 he was chosen as chairman-elect for 2006–2007, a position he will hold for 2007–2008. He has served in the AMA House of Delegates since 1987, first as an alternate delegate and then as delegate from Indiana. Most recently, he served as an alternate delegate and delegate of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Also within the AMA, he has been a member and chairman of the Specialty and Service Society, and a member of the Council on Medical Education (1997–2003).
Mark Miller has more than nineteen years of health policy experience and has held several important policy, research, and management positions in health care. Prior to serving as assistant director of health and human resources at the Congressional Budget Office, he was the deputy director of health plans at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Before working at CMS, Miller was the health financing branch chief at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Prior to joining OMB, Miller was a senior research associate at the Urban Institute.
Bruce Steinwald is a director in the health care team of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Washington, DC. He supervises the preparation of health policy analyses, testimonies, and reports to the U.S. Congress on Medicare payment systems and on other health-care financing issues. Before joining the GAO in June 2002, Mr. Steinwald was an independent consultant specializing in health economics analysis for health-care delivery and financing organizations. In the 1990s, Mr. Steinwald was vice president of Covance Health Economics and Outcomes Services, Inc., where he directed the company’s Outcomes Studies Group division and initiated its European practice. In the 1980s, Mr. Steinwald worked in the Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, and was the deputy director of the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (forerunner to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission). Mr. Steinwald has authored or coauthored numerous publications in health services research and policy since the 1970s.
Gail Wilensky is a senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health education foundation, where she analyzes and develops policies relating to health care reform and to ongoing changes in the health care environment. From 1990 to 1992, she was administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, overseeing the Medicare and Medicaid programs. She also served as deputy assistant to President George H. W. Bush for policy development, advising him on health and welfare issues from 1992 to 1993. From 1997 to 2001, she chaired the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, and from 1995 to 1997, she chaired the Physician Payment Review Commission. From 2001 to 2003, she co-chaired the President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans, which covered health care for both veterans and military retirees. Ms. Wilensky testifies frequently before congressional committees, acts as an adviser to members of Congress and other elected officials, and speaks nationally and internationally before professional, business and consumer groups.
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