Quality of Cancer Care Measures Project Steering Committee

Robert E. Wittes, MD (Co-Chair)
Physician-in-Chief, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Helen Darling, MA (Co-Chair)
President, National Business Group on Health, Washington, DC

Vivien W. Chen, PhD
Chair, Epidemiology Program and Acting Associate Dean, Louisiana State University Medical Center,
New Orleans, LA

Alfred M. Cohen, MD
Director and CEO, Markey Cancer Center, Lexington, KY

Christopher E. Desch, MD
American Society of Clinical Oncology Health Services Committee, Alexandria, VA

Craig C. Earle, MD, MSc
Partners HealthCare, Boston, MA

Harmon Eyre, MD
Chief Medical Officer, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA

Thomas W. Hartman, BA
Director, Administration, IPRO, Lake Success, NY

Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD
Director of Population Sciences and Deputy Director, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center

Jerod M. Loeb, PhD
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Oakbrook Terrace, IL

James Mortimer, BA
Consultant, Barrington, IL

Greg Pawlson, MD, MPH
Executive Vice President, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington, DC

Christopher Rose, MD
Department of Radiologic Oncology, Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, CA

Ellen Severoni, RN
President, California Health Decisions, Orange, CA

Joseph Simone, MD
Simone Consulting, Dunwoody, GA

Ellen Stovall
Executive Director, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Silver Spring, MD

Burton F. VanderLaan, MD
Region Medical Director, Aetna, Chicago, IL

Michelle van Ryn, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

DeLois Weekes, DNSc, RN
President and CEO, Cox College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Springfield, MO                  

Federal Partner Liaisons

Peter Bach, MD
Policy Advisor, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Washington, DC

Steven Clauser, PhD
Senior Scientist for Performance Measurement and Program Evaluation, National Cancer Institute,  
Bethesda, MD

Marybeth Farquhar, RN, MSN
Senior Advisor, Quality Indicators Initiative, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD

Melinda Jones, MS
Health Insurance Specialist, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

Mary C. White, ScD
Chief, Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA