National Steering Committee

The CERTs National Steering Committee (NSC) provides scientific and policy guidance to the CERTs program and receives both scientific and logistical support from the CERTs Coordinating Center, which works closely with the NSC Chair and Chair-Elect in the executive and logistical planning of program activities, including meetings of the NSC. Members of the NSC include representatives from each CERT Research Center and the Coordinating Center, the Federal Government, and an at-large member from each of three sectors: patients/consumers, health care professional groups, and the therapeutics industry.

Chair

D. Craig Brater, M.D. (Chair starting January 2011)
Dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine
Vice-President, Indiana University

Chair-Elect

David J. Ballard, MD, MSPH, PhD, FACP (Chair-Elect starting January 2011; Chair, starting January 2013)
Senior Vice President
Chief Quality Officer
Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, Texas

Members

David Bates, MD, MSC
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Department of Medicine
Health Information Technology and Improving Use

Stephen Crystal, PhD
Research Professor II
The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Nancy Davenport-Ennis, BA
Chief Executive Officer
National Patient Advocacy Foundation

Robert S. Epstein, MD, MS
Senior Vice President &Chief Medical Officer
Medco

Thomas Gross, MD, MPH
Director, Division of Post-Market Surveillance
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Food and Drug Administration

Mark C. Hornbrook, PhD
CERTs Coordinating Center
Kaiser Permanente - The Center for Health Research

Bruce Lambert, PhD
Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago

Carole Lannon, MD, MPH
Department of Pediatrics
Cincinnati Hospital Children's Medical Center

Michael S. Lauer, MD, FACC, FAHA
Director, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Arthur Levin, MPH*
Director
Center for Medical Consumers

Gilbert J. L'Italien, ScD*
Executive Director, Global Health Outcomes & Epidemiology
Bristol Myers Squibb

Henri Manasse, PhD
Executive Director
American Society of Health System Pharmacists

Newell McElwee
Executive Director
U.S. Outcomes Research
Merck & Co., Inc.

Eric Peterson, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center

Kenneth Saag, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine
Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Scott Smith, PhD
Director, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research
Center for Outcomes and Evidence
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Anne Trontell, MD, MPH
Program Director
Centers for Education and Research in Therapeutics
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Gwen Zornberg, MD, ScD
Food and Drug Administration
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research