AHRQ Announces New Members
of Preventive Services Task Force
January 23, 2004 - The Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) announced Jan. 15 five new members to its
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that reviews primary care
and prevention evidence and develops recommendations for clinical
preventive services: Leon Gordis, M.D., M.P.H., Dr. P.H.;
Kimberly Gregory, M.D., M.P.H.; Judith Ockene, Ph.D. M.Ed.;
Diana Petitti, M.D., M.P.H.; and Barbara Yawn, M.D., M.Sc.
The new chair will be 2-year member Ned Calonge, M.D., M.P.H.,
chief medical officer of the Colorado Department of Public
Health and Environment.
Dr. Gordis is a professor in the departments of Epidemiology
and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
and co-director of the Center for Epidemiology and Policy
in the Department of Epidemiology of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health. Dr. Gregory is director of Maternal-Fetal
Medicine and director of Women's Health Services Research
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and associate
professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA's
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and at the UCLA
School of Public Health's Department of Community Health Sciences.
Dr. Ockene is professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts
Medical School. Dr. Petitti, an expert in preventive medicine,
is director of research and evaluation at Kaiser Permanente
of Southern California in Pasadena. Dr. Yawn is director of
research at Olmsted Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota,
and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Family Medicine
and Community Health at the University of Minnesota.
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