National Board of Advisors*

Chair:
Claire Fagin, PhD, RN
Consultant
(Dean Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing)

Polly Bednash, PhD, RN
Executive Director
American Association of Colleges of Nursing

Mark Beers, MD
Editor-in-Chief, Emeritus
The Merck Manuals

Marilyn Chow, DNSc, RN
Vice President
Patient Care Services
Kaiser Permanente

Lynn Emmolo
Marketing Consultant
Formerly Sr. Vice President,
Global and U.S. Marketing, Avon

Michael Freedman, MD
The Diane & Arthur Belfer
Professor of Geriatric Medicine
Director
Division of Geriatrics
NYU Medical Center/ Bellevue Hospital Center

Matina Horner, PhD
President Emeritus
Radcliffe College

Susan Lamontagne
Founder and Principal
The Public Interest Media Group

Katie Maslow, MSW
Director
Managed Care Initiative
Alzheimer's Association

Margaret McClure, EdD, RN
Professor
New York University, School of Medicine and The College of Nursing

David Mechanic, PhD
René Dubois University
Professor of Behavioral Sciences
Director
Institute for Health Health Care Policy & Aging Research
Rutgers University

Susan Reinhard, PhD, RN
Co-Director
Center for State Health Policy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

John Rowe, MD
Professor
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
(Former CEO, Aetna Insurance)

Dale Russakoff
National Correspondent
The Washington Post *as of March 2007

Claire M. Fagin
CHAIR