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CFAH Media Contact: Kafi Grigsby kgrigsby@cfah.org 202-387-2829

WASHINGTON — March, 29, 2010, Trudy Lieberman has been appointed a Fellow at the Center for Advancing Health (CFAH). She will be contributing content for the CFAH’s new website, The Prepared Patient Forum which will be launched in April. Lieberman will focus on the topic of paying for health care, including Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, commercial insurance policies, and other private sector ways to pay for care. Through columns, investigative reports, and information resources, the “Pay for Health Care” section of the CFAH’s Prepared Patient Forum website will help consumers navigate the increasingly complex health care system. Lieberman will also follow the implementation of health insurance reform activities and help people learn how to use and benefit from options created by the newly passed legislation.

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 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. She began her career as a consumer writer for the Detroit Free Press where her reporting became a model for consumer writers across the country. To read Trudy Lieberman’s complete biography visit: http://www.cfah.org/about/tlieberman_bio.cfm.

“We are pleased to welcome Trudy Lieberman to the Center for Advancing Health,” said Jessie Gruman, PhD, CFAH president and founder. “Trudy has always been an advocate for people in search of safe, decent health care. Her investigative reporting on important issues like managed care, Medicare and health reform advance CFAH’s work to help people make good choices about health and health care.”

About the Center for Advancing Health (CFAH)
Since 1992, CFAH has conducted research, communicated findings and advocated for policies that support everyone's ability to benefit from advances in health science. Through our Health Behavior News Service (HBNS), we translate complex scientific evidence into information that will ensure that each person can make good decisions about their health and health care. CFAH is an independent non-profit organization that is supported by a number of foundations (principally the Annenberg Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation) and individuals. For additional information visit: www.cfah.org.

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