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2001 Conference
Speaker Bios:
Following
are brief profiles of our distinguished conference participants:
Kenneth
Apfel
Kenneth S. Apfel served as Commissioner of the U.S.
Social Security Administration (SSA) from 1997 until
his term ended in January 2001. He was the first Senate-confirmed
Commissioner of Social Security after SSA became an
independent agency and Congress authorized the Cabinet-level
position. During his tenure as Commissioner, Apfel significantly
strengthened the policy, planning and public education
activities at the Social Security Administration. He
also played a leadership role in efforts to strengthen
childhood disability programs and to enable persons
with disabilities to return to work. In addition, he
served from 1997 to 1999 as a member of the President's
Management Council.
Dolores
Briones
Dolores Briones is a County Judge from El Paso. Her
many awards include Outstanding Young El Pasoan, from
the El Paso Jaycees, Governors Commission for Women,
appointed by Governor Ann Richards, Adelante Mujer Hispana
Distinguished Service Award. She is also a founding
member of the Hispanic Women Network of Texas and a
member of American Association of University Women.
Chris
Britton
Chris Britton is a Policy Advisor for the Governor of
Texas.
Dean
Clancy
Dean Clancy, 36, currently serves as a senior policy
advisor to House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas).
He advises the House leadership on legislative, policy,
and political matters, with a special emphasis on health
care. He has served Representative Armey since 1993.
Before that, he served as a speechwriter for HUD Secretary
Jack Kemp (1991-93), a staff writer for Vice- President
Dan Quayle (1989-90), and in various capacities in the
Reagan White House (1986-89), beginning with his first
job as a mail reader in the White House basement. He
holds a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service from
Georgetown University (1986) and a master’s in
journalism from Columbia University (1991). He lists
among his pastimes “smoking, drinking, and avoiding
exercise.”
The
Honorable Garnet Coleman
The Honorable Garnet Coleman serves as Texas State Representative
for District 147 in Houston, which is composed of Third
Ward, Fourth Ward, Downtown and the Hobby Airport Area.
First elected to office in 1991, Representative Coleman
currently serves as vice-chairman of the House Public
Health Committee and as a member of the House Appropriations
Committee. He also served on the Joint Blue Ribbon Task
Force on the Uninsured from 1999-2000. Over the years,
Representative Coleman has earned a reputation as a
leader in the areas of health care financing, economic
development, welfare reform and education. He is the
primary author of the Comprehensive Indigent Health
Care Reform Act of 1999 and is one of the joint authors
of the CHIP legislation passed in 1999.
Edwin
Dorn
Edwin Dorn, who has a Ph.D. in political science from
Yale University, became Dean of the LBJ School in 1997.
He previously served for four years as Assistant Secretary
and then as Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel
and Readiness. In that capacity, he was the Defense
Secretary's senior advisor on recruitment, training,
pay, and benefits for the Defense Department's total
force of more than three million people (active duty
military, reservists, and civilians). He also exercised
control over the Defense Health Program, the Defense
Equal Opportunity Management Institute, and other human
resource programs.
Before joining the Department of Defense, Dorn was a
Senior Staff Member at the Brookings Institution, where
he developed executive education programs for government
and private sector managers. From 1981 to 1990, he served
as Deputy Director for Research at the Joint Center
for Political and Economic Studies. He also has been
Director of Executive Operations for the U.S. Department
of Education, Special Assistant in the U.S. Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare, and Deputy Director
of Evaluation for the Model Cities Program of Houston.
Anne
Dunkelberg
Anne Dunkelberg is a Senior Policy Analyst with the
Center for Public Policy Priorities, where she focuses
on policy and budget issues related to Health Care access,
as well as general issues related to immigrants’
access to public benefits. She joined the Center in
1994, coming from the State Medicaid Director’s
Office at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
Anne is a native Texan, and received her B.A. from the
University of Texas at Austin, and her M.P.A. from the
LBJ School of Public Affairs at U.T. Austin.
Jocelyn
Guyer
Jocelyn Guyer specializes primarily on state and national
health policy issues in her position as a Policy Analyst.
She has written numerous analyses on issues pertaining
to the new child health block grant, Medicaid, and TANF.
In addition, she provides technical assistance and conducts
trainings for state organizations working on these issues.
She has a Masters degree in Public Affairs from Princeton
University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs. During graduate school, she authored
papers on Medicaid managed care issues for the Center
for Health Care Strategies. Guyer has also served on
the legislative staff of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
working on welfare, child support, and health care reform.
Dianne
Longley
Dianne Longley is Director of the State Planning Grant
study of uninsured Texans at the Texas Dept. of Insurance.
Ms. Longley has worked with numerous legislative committees
on issues regarding health insurance including the recent
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Uninsured Texans and the Joint
Interim Committee on Mandated Health Benefits. She has
been with the department for 18 years and currently
serves as a member of the Texas Health Care Information
Council, the National Data Interchange Standards Task
Force, and the State Agency Advisory Committee for the
East Texas Rural Access Program.
David
Lurie
David Lurie is the Director of the Austin Travis County
Health & Human Services Department.
Mark
McClellan, M.D., Ph.D.
Mark McClellan, MD, Ph.D, is Assistant Professor of
Economics at Stanford University. McClellan has worked
extensively with administrative data sets as a method
to assess the impact of medical technology. He has worked
with AHCPR sponsored PORTs at Harvard (on acute myocardial
infarction) and at Stanford (on cardiac arrhythmias).
He has analyzed the impact of coronary angiography as
the outcome of acute myocardial infarction using a novel
statistical approach (instrumental variables).
David
Pinkus
David Pinkus is the President of Small Business United
of Texas, the spokesgroup for Small Business in Texas.
Past leadership positions he has held include President
of Associated Landscape Contractors of America, President
of the Texas Association of Landscape Contractors, Co-Chairman
of the Texas Delegation to the 1986 White House Conference
on Small Business, and Chairman, 1987 Texas Conference
on Small Business.
James
Rohack, M.D.
Jim Rohack, MD, is a senior staff cardiologist at Scott
& White Clinic in Temple, serves as medical director
of Scott & White Health Plan, and is an associate
professor of medicine at Texas A&M College of Medicine.
He is a former chief of staff at Brazos Valley Medical
Center in College Station and was a member of its board
of trustees.
Pablo
Schneider
Pablo Schneider is President of ACTI, BlueCross/BlueShield
of Mexico, and was a key executive in the development
and implementation of BlueCross BlueShield de México.
He previously directed Group Health, Cross-Border, Medicare,
and Medicaid Development/Marketing for CHG, and directed
the Employee Benefits Division at E.J. Phelps &
Co., a large regional insurance brokerage.
David
Warner
David C. Warner's major teaching and research interests
are economics, health policy, and health finance. A
graduate of Princeton University and Syracuse University
(Ph.D. in Economics), he formerly taught at Wayne State
University and Yale University and was Deputy Director
of the Office of Program Analysis of the New York City
Health and Hospitals Corporation.
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