New advisory group on health
Posted by Missy Krasner, Product
Marketing Manager
Every day, people use Google to learn more about an illness, drug,
or treatment, or simply to research a condition or diagnosis. We
want to help users make more empowered and informed healthcare
decisions, and have been steadily developing our ability to make
our search results more medically relevant and more helpful to
users.
Although we have some talented people here with extensive
backgrounds in health policy and technology, this is an especially
complex area. We often seek expertise from outside the company, and
health is no exception. We have formed an advisory council, made up
of healthcare experts from provider organizations, consumer and
disease-based groups, physician organizations, research
institutions, policy foundations, and other fields. The mission of
the Google Health Advisory Council is broadly to help us better
understand the problems consumers and providers face every day and
offer feedback on product ideas and development. It's a great
privilege for us to work with this esteemed group
Google Health Advisory
Council
(Institutions or affiliations are
listed for identification purposes only.)
Chairman
href="http://www.pmri.org/?p=mhb#biographical "
>Dean Ornish, M.D., Founder and President,
Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Clinical Professor of
Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Research Scientist, RAND Health, RAND Corporation
href="http://www.clevelandclinic.org/heartcenter/pub/professionals/cardiacconsult/2004/fall/cosgrove.htm" >
Delos M. Cosgrove, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, The Cleveland
Clinic
href="http://www.healthtechcenter.org/common_site/board.asp#coye"
>Molly Coye, M.D., M.P.H., Chief Executive
Officer, HealthTech
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Crippen"
>Dan Crippen, Former Congressional Budget
Office Director & Reagan White House Assistant
href="http://walmartstores.com/GlobalWMStoresWeb/navigate.do?catg=540&contId=35"
>Linda M. Dillman, Executive Vice
President, Risk Management, Benefits and Sustainability,
Wal-Mart
href="http://www.ansi.org/standards_activities/standards_boards_panels/hisb/Halamka.aspx?menuid=3" >
John Halamka M.D., M.S., Chief Information Officer, Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School and Chairman,
Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)
href="http://www.usnews.com/sections/opinion/bhealy"
>Bernadine Healy M.D., Former head of
the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Health Editor &
Columnist, U.S. News & World
Report
Bernie Hengesbaugh,
Chief Operating Officer, The American Medical Association (
href="http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/aboutus/theaafp/officersetc/directors/douglashenley.html"
>Douglas E. Henley, M.D., F.A.A.F.P.,
Executive Vice President, American Academy of Family Physicians
(AAFP)
href="http://medschool.ucsf.edu/about/leadership.aspx"
>David Kessler, M.D.,Former FDA
Commissioner, Vice Chancellor-Medical Affairs & Dean, School of
Medicine, UCSF
href="http://www.rwjf.org/about/staffbio.jsp?departmentId=47&id=8113"
>John Lumpkin M.D, Senior Vice President,
Director of Health Care Group, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
href="http://www.aarp.org/about_aarp/aarp_leadership/photos_bios/Articles/a2003-01-27-rother.html"
>John Rother, Group Executive Officer of
Policy & Strategy, AARP
Anna-Lisa Silvestre,
Vice President, Online Services,
>Kaiser Foundation
Health Plan, Inc.
href="http://www.fastercures.org/sec/executive" >Greg Simon,
J.D., President, FasterCures
href="http://www.chcf.org/aboutchcf/view.cfm?itemID=108866"
>Mark D. Smith, M.D., MBA, President &
Chief Executive Officer, The California HealthCare Foundation
href="http://www.pamf.org/publicaffairs/presskit/bios/tangp.html" >Paul
Tang, M.D., Internist & Vice President, Chief Medical
Information Officer, Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) &
Chairman, Board of Directors, American Medical Informatics
Association (AMIA)
href="http://www.geneticalliance.org/ws_display.asp?filter=bio.terry"
>Sharon Terry, M.A., President & Chief
Executive Officer, Genetic Alliance
John Tooker, M.D., MBA,
F.A.C.P., Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer,
American College of Physicians (ACP)
href="http://www.livestrong.org/site/c.khLXK1PxHmF/b.2662935/k.85C4/Management_Team.htm#Ulman"
>Doug Ulman, President, Lance Armstrong
Foundation
href="http://medicine.ucsf.edu/hospitalists/people/robert_wachter.html"
>Robert M. Wachter, M.D., Professor
of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco (UCSF);
Associate Chairman, UCSF Department of Medicine; Chief of the
Medical Service, UCSF Medical Center
href="http://imtooyoungforthis.org/about/leadership.html" >Matthew
Zachary, Cancer Patient Advocate, Founder & Executive
Director, The I'm Too Young for This! Cancer Foundation for
Young Adults
Update: Added
links to two more bios.
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