The 2010-2012 William Ziff CFAH Fellowship program is so named in honor of the late publisher William Ziff for his leadership in building both print and online information resources for consumers. Like William Ziff, who worked to bring consumers better information, CFAH Fellows have demonstrated their commitment to providing health care consumers with information to make better choices about their health and health care. The CFAH Fellows program brings together leading patient engagement experts for a lively exchange of ideas about how to raise the visibility and credibility of new thinking and new approaches to people's participation in their care. These been appointed to serve a two-year term as a William Ziff Fellow.
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Carol Alter, MD is the Director of Policy and Community Outreach and an Associate Professor in the Georgetown University Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Alter is a psychiatrist with over 20 years experience in diverse settings in health care including clinical practice, research, administration, health care delivery and the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Alter is an active participant in the American Psychiatric Association, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the American Psychosocial Oncology Society. She played an instrumental role in both the development and the implementation of the 2007 Institute of Medicine report: Cancer Care for the Whole Patient through her advocacy for the report’s completion and implementation. More information about Carol Alter.
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Connie Davis, MN, ARNP is a geriatric nurse practitioner and health care consultant. From 1998 to 2005, Ms. Davis was the Associate Director for Clinical Improvement at the MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation. She has worked to institute a patient-centered seniors’ outpatient clinic, lead a pilot project to improve health literacy and served as senior faculty with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in their work with the Indian Health System. She currently serves as the quality improvement lead for a provincial program to promote partnerships in patient care in British Columbia. She devotes her time to efforts that improve the partnership between patients and health care professionals, concentrating on rural, remote and underserved populations. More information about Connie Davis.
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Judith Hibbard, PhD, MPH is a Professor of Health Policy at the University of Oregon. Dr. Hibbard is the lead author of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) that measures an individual’s knowledge and skill for self-management. It is being used by researchers and practitioners nationally and internationally to more effectively tailor support for patient self-management. Dr. Hibbard also advises many health care organizations, foundations, and initiatives and has served on several advisory panels and commissions, including the National Advisory Counsel for AHRQ, the National Health Care Quality Forum, United Health Group Advisory Panel and National Advisory Council for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. More information about Judith Hibbard.
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Trudy Lieberman, a journalist for 40 years, was recently director of the health and medical reporting program at the Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York. She had a long career at Consumer Reports specializing in insurance, health care and health care financing. Lieberman was also the director of the Center for Consumer Health Choices at Consumers Union. She is a contributing editor to the The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review and will continue to blog for its website, CJR.org, about the press coverage of health care, Social Security, and other income security issues. More information about Trudy Lieberman.
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Kate Lorig, RN, DrPH is the Director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center and Professor of Medicine in the Stanford School of Medicine. She has spent more than two decades developing and evaluating community-based patient education programs in English and Spanish for people with chronic conditions, and most recently, she’s done the same for programs offered online. More information about Kate Lorig.
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Molly Mettler, MSW is the Senior Vice President for Healthwise where she advocates for a transformation in the role of the health care consumer from a passive recipient to one who’s stronger, more active and involved in his or her own care. Ms. Mettler is past chair of the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and continues to serve on its Board and Leadership Council. She was the founding chair for the NCOA’s Health Promotion Institute in 1990. In addition, she serves on the National Advisory Board for the Practice Change Fellows Program, a two-year fellowship supporting health professionals in developing leadership skills and content expertise to positively influence care for older adults. Ms. Mettler has written four books and is a well known speaker, key media source and advocate for informed patients. More information about Molly Mettler.
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Dale Shaller, MPA is principal of Shaller Consulting, a health policy analysis and management consulting practice based in Stillwater, Minnesota. He has devoted nearly three decades to the design, implementation and evaluation of health care quality measurement and improvement programs, with a special focus on listening to the voice of the patient and promoting methods for engaging consumers in managing their health and health care. His work on measuring and improving the experience of patients and families has been based in the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) program funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He has served as a member of the Harvard and Yale CAHPS research teams, working on patient experience survey design, measurement and reporting issues. He has directed the National CAHPS Benchmarking Database since its inception in 1998 and is a co-author of The CAHPS Improvement Guide and other articles related to strategies for improving the patient experience as measured by CAHPS. More information about Dale Shaller.
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Joshua J. Seidman, PhD is the founder and former president of the Center for Information Therapy. At the IxCenter, Dr. Seidman focused on stimulating innovation, diffusing best practices, and evangelizing for a patient-centered orientation to implementation of HIT applications. More information about Josh Seidman.
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David S. Sobel, MD, MPH is director of Patient Education and Health Promotion for The Permanente Medical Group and Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Region. Dr. Sobel practices primary care with Kaiser Permanente and was the physician lead for the national initiative in Patient-Centered Care for the Care Management Institute of Kaiser Permanente. More information about David Sobel.
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Shoshanna Sofaer, MPH, DrPH is the Robert P. Luciano Professor of Health Care Policy at the School of Public Affairs, Baruch College. She previously held academic positions at George Washington University Medical Center and the UCLA School of Public Health. She completed her MPH and DrPH degrees at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Sofaer conducts research and publishes on topics including: developing quality measures that resonate with consumers and patients; designing public reports on comparative health care quality; developing tools patients can use to engage productively in their health and health care; and the developing state and local partnerships to pursue community health and health care improvement objectives. She is nationally known for her expertise in qualitative and mixed methods research and consults and trains widely on these issues. She is frequently requested to speak to health care stakeholders about her research and experience. More information about Shoshanna Sofaer.
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