James Braude
Jim
Braude hosts Broadside: The News With Jim Braude, NECN's
nightly in-depth news and analysis program at 6:00 and 8:00.
Mr. Braude has an earlier history with NECN as host of the
station's Emmy Award-winning Talk of New England in the 1990's.
Every morning from 7:00-10:00, he co-hosts a radio talk-show at
96.9FM - The Jim and Margery Show - with Margery
Eagan of the Boston Herald.
Mr. Braude started his career as a legal services lawyer in the
South Bronx, and was the first president of the National Union of
Legal Services. He was the executive director of TEAM (Tax
Equity Alliance for Massachusetts), a tax reform group, from 1987
to 1996, and then served as a Cambridge City Councilor from 1999 to
2000. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York
University's Law School.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley
Re-elected to her second
term as Attorney General in 2010, Martha Coakley has devoted her
career to protecting children and public safety, standing up for
consumers and taxpayers, and fighting for equality for all.
Attorney General Coakley has charted a career as a distinguished
prosecutor on the state and federal levels before serving as
Middlesex District Attorney and now as the Commonwealth's first
female Attorney General.
First elected as Attorney General in 2006, Coakley quickly
confronted the challenge of addressing the economic crisis that
gripped our country shortly thereafter. Her office became a
national leader in holding Wall Street accountable by bringing
first-of-their-kind actions against investment giants such as
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. During these difficult
economic times, Coakley has also successfully worked to reduce
costs for consumers and taxpayers and vigorously prosecuted cases
of corruption and fraud. During the 2010 fiscal year alone, her
office recovered more than $660 million for taxpayers based on her
office's budget of $37 million. Her office has saved families
and businesses hundreds of millions of dollars by challenging
utility rate increases, and recovered over $100 million in Medicaid
fraud prosecutions - a record for the office.
Prior to her election as Attorney General, Coakley served for
eight years as Middlesex District Attorney, the largest county in
the Commonwealth. She is a former president of the Women's
Bar Association of Massachusetts, and has served on the Board of
Directors at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
A native of Western Massachusetts, Coakley received her B.A.
degree cum laude from Williams College in 1975, and her J.D. from
the Boston University School of Law in 1979.
David Cutler
David Cutler has developed
an impressive record of achievement in both academia and the public
sector. He served as Assistant Professor of Economics from 1991 to
1995, was named John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences
in 1995, and received tenure in 1997. He is currently the Otto
Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of
Economics and holds secondary appointments at the Kennedy School of
Government and the School of Public Health. David was
associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Social
Sciences from 2003-2008.
Honored for his scholarly work and singled out for outstanding
mentorship of graduate students, Professor Cutler's work in health
economics and public economics has earned him significant academic
and public acclaim. Professor Cutler served on the Council of
Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the
Clinton Administration and has advised the Presidential campaigns
of Bill Bradley, John Kerry, and Barack Obama. Among other
affiliations, Professor Cutler has held positions with the National
Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences.
Currently, Professor Cutler is a Research Associate at the National
Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Institute of
Medicine.
Professor Cutler is the author of Your Money Or Your Life:
Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System, published by
Oxford University Press. This book, and Professor Cutler's ideas,
were the subject of a feature article in the New York Times
Magazine, The Quality Cure, by Roger Lowenstein. Cutler was
recently named one of the 30 people who could have a powerful
impact on healthcare by Modern Healthcare magazine and one of the
50 most influential men aged 45 and younger by Details
magazine.
Susan Dentzer
Ms. Dentzer is the
editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, the nation's leading
peer-reviewed journal focused on the intersection of health, health
care and health policy in the United States and
internationally. One of the nation's most respected health
and health policy journalists, she is an on-air analyst on health
issues with the PBS NewsHour, and a frequent guest and commentator
on such National Public Radio shows as This American Life and The
Diane Rehm Show.
Dentzer is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, the
health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, and of the Council
on Foreign Relations, the independent, nonpartisan membership
organization and think tank dedicated to exploring the foreign
policy choices facing the United States and other countries.
At Health Affairs, Dentzer oversees the journal's team of nearly 30
editors and other staff in producing the monthly publication and
web site. Health Affairs has been described by the
Washington Post as the "Bible" of health policy. Its articles
and their authors are frequently cited in the Congressional Record
and in congressional testimony as well as in the news media.
The Health Affairs web site recorded 50 million page views in
2010.
Before joining Health Affairs in May 2008, Dentzer was on-air
Health Correspondent at the PBS NewsHour. From 1998 to 2008,
she led the show's unit providing in-depth coverage of health care
and health policy. Prior to joining the PBS NewsHour, she was
chief economics correspondent and economics columnist for U.S. News
& World Report, and previously was a senior writer at
Newsweek. Dentzer's other work in television has
included appearances as a regular analyst or commentator on CNN and
The McLaughlin Group. Her writing has also earned her several
fellowships, including a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University,
where she studied health economics and policy, and a U.S.-Japan
Leadership Program Fellowship, during which she researched the
effects of the rapidly aging Japanese population.
Dentzer is an elected member of the National Academy of Social
Insurance, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization made up of the
nation's leading experts on social insurance, is a fellow of the
Hastings Center, a nonpartisan research institution dedicated to
bioethics and the public interest. Dentzer is a member of the
Board of Directors of Research!America, the nation's largest
not-for-profit public education and advocacy alliance committed to
making research to improve health a higher national priority. She
is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the International
Rescue Committee, a humanitarian organization providing relief to
refugees and displaced persons around the world. She chairs the IRC
board's Program Committee, which oversees the organization's
activities in resettling refugees in the United States and in
dealing with refugees and displaced persons in roughly 25
countries. Formerly, Dentzer served on the Board of Directors
of the Global Health Council and was its chair from 2008-2010.
A graduate of Dartmouth and holder of an honorary master of arts
from the institution, Ms. Dentzer is a Dartmouth trustee emerita
and chaired the Dartmouth Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2004. She
serves on the Board of Overseers of Dartmouth Medical School.
Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH
Dr. Fisher is the James
W. Squires, MD Professor at Dartmouth Medical School and Director
for Population Health and Policy at The Dartmouth Institute for
Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He received his undergraduate
and medical degrees from Harvard University and completed his
internal medicine residency and public health training at the
University of Washington. He is the director of the Dartmouth Atlas
of Health Care and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Fisher's research has focused on exploring the causes of the
two-fold differences in spending observed across U.S. regions and
health care systems, on understanding the consequences of these
variations for health and health care, and on the development and
testing of approaches to performance measurement and payment reform
that can support improvement. The research revealed that most of
the differences in spending are due not to differences in health
status, preferences, prices or poverty, but rather to greater use
of discretionary services, such as the use of the hospital as a
site of care and specialist referrals or diagnostic tests that
would not have been ordered in lower spending regions. The findings
that per-capita spending -- on these services -- is essentially
uncorrelated with either quality or health outcomes highlighted the
potential opportunity to improve the efficiency of U.S. health
care.
Dr. Fisher's current policy work has focused on advancing the
concept of "accountable care organizations" (ACOs) and includes
co-directing, with Mark McClellan, a joint Brookings-Dartmouth
program to advance ACOs through research, coordination of public
and private initiatives and the creation of a learning
collaborative that includes several pilot ACO sites across the
United States.
Meredith B. Rosenthal, PhD
Dr. Rosenthal is
Professor of Health Economics and Policy in the Department of
Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public
Health. Dr. Rosenthal received her Ph.D. in health policy at
Harvard University in 1998. Her research examines the design
and impact of market-oriented health policy mechanisms, with a
particular focus on the use of financial incentives to alter
consumer and provider behavior.
Dr. Rosenthal's work has been published in the New England
Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical
Association, Health Affairs, and numerous other peer-reviewed
journals. Based on her work, Dr. Rosenthal has been called to
testify before the U.S. Congress and the California and
Massachusetts legislatures. In 2006, Dr. Rosenthal was
awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship in
recognition of her field-based research on physician
incentives. Dr. Rosenthal is member of the Massachusetts
Public Health Council, which promulgates regulations and advises
the Commissioner of Public Health on policy matters.
Lynda Young, MD
Massachusetts Medical
Society President Lynda Young, MD is a pediatrician with
Chandler Pediatrics in Worcester and Chief of the Division of
Community Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Memorial
Children's Medical Center. For the last two years, she has served
as MMS President-Elect and Vice President, respectively, and has
been a member of the Board of Trustees and House of Delegates.
Dr. Young has a long and distinguished record of activity in
organized medicine on the local, state, and national levels. A
member of the statewide organization since 1988, she has been a
member and chair of several committees and task forces, including
those on membership, long-range and strategic planning, and
continuing medical education. She is currently a member of the
Board of Trustees and a member of the Committee on Administration
and Management. She has served as president of the
Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and has
chaired its Committee on Continuing Education. A past president of
the Worcester District Medical Society, she has held every office
in the district and is currently a member of the Executive
Committee and the Committees on Finance, Membership, and
Personnel.
On the national level, Dr. Young is an alternate delegate to the
American Medical Association and a member of its Organized Medical
Staff Section. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of
Pediatrics and served on its National Nominating Committee.
She is also active in a number of Worcester organizations, serving
as a member of the Board of Directors of the Health Foundation of
Central Massachusetts, the International Center of Worcester, the
Pernet Family Health Service, and the City of Worcester Board of
Health.
A graduate of the State University of New York with an M.D. and
board-certified in pediatrics, Dr. Young is a Clinical Professor of
Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She
also serves as a host of two healthcare educational television
programs: Physician Focus, produced by the Massachusetts Medical
Society, and Health Matters, produced by the Worcester District
Medical Society. She has achieved numerous recognitions for
her professional and civic activities from several
groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the
Pernet Family Health Service, the YWCA of Central Massachusetts,
the Montachusett Girl Scout Council, Notre Dame Academy in
Worcester, and the City of Worcester's Advisory Committee on the
Status of Women.
