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PARTICIPANT BACKGROUNDS
Christine Bishop, AB ‘68 PhD ‘74 is Atran Professor of Labor Economics at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. She has conducted research and taught courses in health-policy-relevant economics over a remarkable period in the field’s evolution, focusing especially on Medicare services and long-term services and supports for older adults. Her recent work concerns labor markets for direct care workers, linkages between Medicare acute and post-acute services (home health, skilled nursing facilities), and quality of life in nursing homes. In 2012-13, an Atlantic Health and Aging Policy Fellowship supported her work in the Office of Disability, Aging and Long-term Care Policy, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and service as staff to the short-lived Commission on Long-Term Care, U.S. Senate.
Gene Bishop is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She practiced General Internal Medicine in Philadelphia for over 30 years, and taught residents and students in the outpatient setting. In 2001, she received a Physician Advocacy fellowship from the Soros Foundation for physicians to partner with community advocacy organizations to correct societal inequities. In retirement she has taught a course on Public Health Advocacy and Activism at the Drexel School of Public Health. She currently teaches Penn medical students in a course on “doctoring” and volunteers regularly at a clinic serving the undocumented. She has been a forever member of Physicians for a National Health Program, and has had much experience as both patient and practitioner.
Dan Burnes, MD, MPP from the Harvard Medical School, and the Kennedy School of Public Policy, trained as an Internist and a Dermatologist. His career focus has been on transforming our Healthcare System to be more patient-focused, quality-oriented, and cost-effective. Burnes began his career starting a Federally sponsored HMO in Hartford Ct. In the early ‘80s he formed an HMO Management Company with Harvard Community Health Plan and today continues his dermatology practice with HCHP. Burnes worked as an independent consultant with physicians and hospitals to prepare for the “Clinton Health plan” in the ‘90s. He assisted HCHP physicians in forming an independent organization in the early ‘00s and then became Interim CEO of Harvard Vanguard and Atrius Health, merging six physician groups into one.
Topher Cutler, MHA, FACHE
- 20 yrs. in hospital administration
- 25+ yrs. as governance and strategy consultant to the CEOs and Boards of hospitals, medical groups and health care organizations