Steering Committee Members

The National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative commissioned expert papers on 19 priority focus areas for U.S. health policy by more than 150 leading researchers, scientists, and policy makers from across the United States. The purpose of the initiative was to compile expert information and viewpoints to inform debate and decision making around new directions for health and health care in the United States. The views presented in this series are those of the authors and do not represent formal consensus positions of the NAM, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, or the authors’ organizations. Please direct all inquiries to Elizabeth Finkelman at [email protected].

Victor J. Dzau, MD, National Academy of Medicine (Co-Chair)

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, Duke University (Co-Chair)

Sheila Burke, MPA, RN, Harvard Kennedy School

Molly J. Coye, MD, MPH, Network for Excellence in Health Care Innovation

The Honorable Thomas A. Daschle, Former U.S. Senator

Angela Diaz, MD, PhD, MPH, Mount Sinai

The Honorable William Frist, MD, Former U.S. Senator

Martha E. Gaines, JD, LLM, University of Wisconsin Law School

Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg, MD, National Academy of Medicine

Jane Henney, MD, National Academy of Medicine

Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, University of Pennsylvania

The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt, Former Governor of Utah and Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Ruth Parker, MD, Emory University School of Medicine

Lewis Sandy, MD, UnitedHealth Group

Leonard D. Schaeffer, University of Southern California

Glenn D. Steele, Jr., MD, PhD, xG Health Solutions 

Pamela Thompson, MS, RN, American Organization of Nurse Executives and American Hospital Association

Elias Zerhouni, MD, Sanofi and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation