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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 75-84

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... = member of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement.
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... In 2009 Mr. Buettner and his partner, AARP, applied principles from The Blue Zones to Albert Lea, Minnesota, and successfully raised life expectancy and lowered health care costs by some 40 percent.
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... Goldfarb serves as director of ambulatory care performance improvement for the Jefferson University Physicians outpatient practices, overseeing the faculty practice plan's efforts to develop appropriate measures of quality, implement these measures, and develop and evaluate strategies to improve performance.
From page 78...
... in occupational medicine from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2001. He is a fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, where he chairs the Corporate Health Achievement Award.
From page 79...
... He is a past chair of the New Jersey Department of Health's Cardiac Health Advisory Council, a past board member of AcademyHealth in Washington, DC, a past board member of the New York Catholic Health Care System, and a past board member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health System in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
From page 80...
... He has been responsible for developing and managing comprehensive health promotion programs, integrating health promotion protocols into occupational medicine screenings, developing a wellness section of an electronic medical record, developing intensive clinical health promotion programs, training medical staff to refer qualified patients into intensive health promotion programs, creating grand rounds series, integrating health promotion concepts into medical school curriculum, and helping to develop a study to test the health and financial impacts of health promotion programs offered to Medicare recipients.
From page 81...
... Mr. Rost is currently serving as a member of the Georgia Child Obesity Project Steering Committee, a member of the Georgia Hospital Association's Care Transitions Action Group, a member of the National Business Group on Health's Value-Based Purchasing Committee, a board member of Healthy S ­ avannah, a board member of the Chatham County Safety Net Planning Council, and a member of the Savannah/Chatham County Community Indicators Coalition, and he serves on the St.
From page 82...
... Dr. Yarborough has more than 25 years of experience in guiding health initiatives for global corporations, including Exxon and Caterpillar, and in evaluating medical services for expatriates and international business travelers.
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... and international meetings, including the International Congress on Occupational Health held in Stockholm concerning global health care delivery systems and population health management and a TEDx session on healthy life expectancy in 2013.


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