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Priscilla Chatman, JD
Priscilla Chatman is a public policy attorney with extensive experience in health care issues. She understands, and is able to communicate, the interface between science, law, public policy and legislation. She has experience with a range of health care issues, including health care reform, prescription reimbursement, access for the underserved, women’s health and clinical trials.
Priscilla Chatman has held numerous government relations positions including Director of Government Relations and Advocacy for the American Urological Association, Vice President for Government for the Lupus Foundation of America, Counsel and Director of Government Relations for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and Special Assistant for then US Senator Harris Wofford. Her in-depth knowledge of Medicare and her dynamic leadership skills led to her twice being appointed Chair of the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations, a coalition of 54 national organizations that address health issues for senior citizens.
At the University of Maryland School of Medicine she was instrumental in getting passed into law a bill that required insurance plans to pay for medical costs incident to clinical trials when the patient’s life was in danger. Ms. Chatman conceptualized and led in the passage of a bill that provided state funded mammograms for low income women. Ms. Chatman received her bachelor’s degree from Temple University and her juris doctorate from Widener University School of Law where she graduated Order of the Barrister for outstanding achievement in oral advocacy.
Susan D. Ross, MD, FRCPC
Susan Ross, owner of S.D. Ross Consulting, is a renowned expert in Evidence-based Medicine. She co-founded the successful company, MetaWorks, which pioneered software and methodology for meta-analysis and systematic literature review. Under her leadership, MetaWorks’ technical teams performed systematic reviews and meta-analyses and analyses of electronic medical records databases, to help answer questions of clinical safety, effectiveness, and value. This led to their recognition as an AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research Quality) Evidence-based Practice Center. Dr. Ross is on the faculty of Tufts University School of Medicine and an attending physician at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. She is also Associate Editor of the International Journal of User-driven Healthcare, addressing the challenge of how best to marry Evidence-based Medicine with User-Driven Healthcare. You may learn more about her at sdrossconsulting.com.
