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Federal Issues - AACOM Nominations/Letters of Support 

AACOM monitors and advocates on federal issues that address or may impact osteopathic medical education.
Below are recent nominations made by AACOM and other nominations AACOM supports.



Department of Education
(ED)

2012 Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Student Loan Programs

  • Elaine Papas-Varas (UMDNJ-SOM)
    (letter of support 11/28/11; selected as alternate)

HEOA Negotiated Rulemaking

  • Sandra L. Rollins, MA (UMDNJ-SOM)
    (nominated 01/23/09)

National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity

  • Sandra Featherman, PhD, MA (UNE)
  • Matthew Schure, PhD, MPh, MA (PCOM)
  • Douglas L. Wood, DO, PhD (ATSU-SOMA)
    (nominated 07/22/09)


Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative, and Public Health Advisory Group

  • Anita Chopra, MD (UMDNJ-SOM)
  • Marilyn R. Gugliucci, PhD (UNECOM)
  • Janice A. Knebl, DO, MBA (UNTHSC/TCOM)
  • Silvia M. Ferretti, DO (LECOM)

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality

  • Ronald D. Deprez, PhD, MPH (UNECOM)
    (nominated 09/03/10)

                    Study Section Membership

  • Mark A.W. Andrews, PhD, MS (LECOM)
  • Bettina E. Bernstein, DO (PCOM)
  • Ralph O. Boling, DO (ATSU-KCOM)
  • Audra Lehman, MD (TUCOM-CA) 
  • Reza Nassiri, DSc (MSUCOM)
  • Mark A. Sanders, DO, JD, MPH, LLM (NSU-COM)
  • Patricia S. Sexton, DHEd (ATSU-KCOM)
  • Alexander Westerfelt, PhD, MSW (OU-COM)
    (nominated 09/30/10)

United States Preventive Services Task Force

  • Oliver W. Hayes, DO, MHSA (VCOM)
  • Lori Kemper, DO, MS (AZCOM)
    (nominated 11/29/10)
  • Margaret I Aguwa, DO, MPH (MSUCOM)
  • V. James Guillory, DO, MPH (KCUMB-COM)
  • John C. Licciardone, DO, MS, MBA (UNTHSC/TCOM)
    (letters of support 06/19/08)

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Board of Scientific Counselors, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases

  • Richard E. Reese, MD (UNECOM)
    (nominated 03/18/09)

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages

  • Hershey S. Bell, MD, MS (LECOM)
    (nominated 04/13/11)
  • Sheree Aston, OD, MA (Western U/COMP)
    (nominated 10/29/10)
  • Leonard Levy, MPH, DPM (NSU-COM)
    (nominated 10/29/10)

Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry

  • Anne C. Jones, DO
    (appointed 07/23/10; currently serving)
  • Thomas E. McWilliams, DO (ATSU-SOMA)
    (nominated 04/13/11)
  • William T. Betz, DO, MBA (UP-KYCOM)
    (nominated 07/25/11)
  • Joseph S. DeGaetano, DO, MSEd (NSU-COM)
    (nominated 07/25/11)
  • Kenneth H. Johnson, DO (UNECOM)
    (nominated 07/25/11)

Council on Graduate Medical Education

  • D. Keith Watson, DO (OU-COM)
    (nominated 06/30/09; currently serving)
  • Kenneth H. Johnson, DO (UNECOM)
    (nominated 04/13/11)
  • Douglas McGee, DO; Lindsay Reed Tjiattas-Saleski, DO
    (letter of support 07/02/09)

National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps

  • Thomas E. McWilliams, DO (ATSU-SOMA)
    (nominated 07/16/10) 
          

           Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH)

Advisory Committee on Minority Health

  • Jerry Cammarata, PhD (TOUROCOM-NY)


Government Accountability Office (GAO)

National Healthcare Workforce Commission

  • Barbara Ross-Lee, DO (NYCOM) 
  • (nominated 06/04/10)

Board of Governors of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

  • James Weinstein, DO
    (nominated jointly 06/04/10 with the American Osteopathic Association) 

 

 

 
 
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