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 Arlene
S. Bierman, MD, MS, a general internist, geriatrician, and health
services researcher, is a Senior Research Physician in the Center
for Outcomes and Effectiveness at the US Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality in the US Department of Health and Human
Services. Her research, using large secondary databases, is directed
at examining the impact of models, service, delivery, and finance
on access, quality, and health outcomes among older adults, with
a special focus on socioeconomically disadvantaged populations
and the unique needs of older women. She has authored numerous
peer-reviewed publications in these areas. She serves on many
federal and non-federal advisory committees including the Interagency
Forum on Aging Statistics, the Data Work Group for the National
Healthcare Disparities Report, the Technical Expert Panel on Chronic
Disease Care and Prevention for the Doctor's Office Quality Project,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the Geriatric
Measures Advisory Committee of the National Commission on Quality
Assurance. Dr. Bierman served as a Senior Associate Editor of
the Journal of General Internal Medicine. She received her medical
degree from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine
in Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Fellow, and her masters
degree in the Clinical Evaluative Sciences from Dartmouth Medical
School. Previously, she was Director of the Primary Care Internal
Medicine residency program and Director of the Department of Ambulatory
Care, at Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York and on the faculty
of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
 Dr.
Bubolz has been on the faculty at Dartmouth Medical School since
1986. He is Senior Research Associate and Senior Lecturer in Community
and Family Medicine and Director of Data Development in the Center
for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. He is biostatistician for
Medicare's Patient Safety Monitoring System, a nationwide surveillance
project using both medical records and administrative data. Dr.
Bubolz is a member of CMS's Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC)
where he is Deputy Project Director for training and outreach
activities. As a review board member for the Canada Foundation
for Innovation, he participates in evaluating national infrastructure
development projects to support health-related teaching and research.
From 1995-2000 he was a member of AHRQ's Prostate Cancer PORT
team. From 1986-98 he led the group that designed a system for
managing a billion record medical care claims database. He has
developed analytic methods and software to support studies of
outcomes and small area variations and has used them in helping
to produce the 1996 and 1998 Dartmouth Atlases of Health Care.
He was a member of AHCPR's Prostatectomy PORT team, and chaired
AHCPR's Use of Claims Data Work Group. He has worked closely with
CMS's (former) Bureau of Data Management and Strategy in making
Medicare's claims data useful for small area and outcomes studies.
Dr. Bubolz teaches ECS 143, a practicum in claims data analysis
for health policy and epidemiology in the graduate program at
Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. Dr. Bubolz
received his Ph.D. in sociology and statistics from Iowa State
University in 1974 and, from 1974 to 1985, was on the faculty
in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University where
he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in statistical computing
and data analysis, while managing a computer applications development
group.
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