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The MIAC:

• Performed a periodic review of NQF Measure Incubator COI processes, policies, and guidelines to ensure their adequacy in guiding project priorities and collaborations and in mitigating real or perceived COI;
• Identified and reviewed potential scenarios where COI may arise and shared with NQF staff approaches to manage COI in these instances;
• Performed a periodic review of the Measure Incubator project portfolio and identified specific projects for a COI review; and,
• Responded to ad hoc requests from NQF staff to provide input on time-sensitive COI concerns related to new or existing Measure Incubator projects.

Members of the Measure Incubator^® Advisory Council included:

• Daniel J. Carlat, MD, Chief of Psychiatry, MelroseWakefield Healthcare, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Founder and President, Carlat Publishing, LLC, and Editor-in-Chief, The Carlat Psychiatry Report
• Michael Hager, MPH, MA, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hager Health, LLC
• Marty Makary, MD, MPH, FACS, Chief - Islet Transplant Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Barbara McNeil, MD, PHD, Ridley Watts Professor and Founding Head, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Dion A. Richetti, DC, Vice President of Accreditation and Recognition, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)

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