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 Presenters
and Discussants
Meet
our participants for this Cyber Seminar!
Presenters
E.
Kathleen Adams, Ph.D.
 Dr.
Adams is an associate professor in the Rollins School of Public
Health at Emory University. In her career as a health economist,
she has completed an extensive amount of health services research
focused on low-income, vulnerable populations. She has directed
several large projects related to Medicaid populations and policies
at the national level and has worked extensively on issues of access
for low-income women and children. Examples of her work include
evaluation of Medicaid’s EPSDT program, changes in provider
participation in Medicaid related to fee changes and implementation
of managed care, comparisons of utilization/costs of Medicaid and
privately insured and most recently, the impact of the Child Health
Insurance Program (CHIP) in Georgia and Alabama on children’s
access to care. Dr. Adams has also completed extensive work on the
effects of prenatal smoking on infant outcomes and costs in her
work with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). She is currently
working to derive costs of evidence-based smoking cessation programs
for pregnant women in three settings—public clinic, managed
care and state quit lines—in order to estimate potential net
savings. Finally, she is completing a major project on the effects
of welfare reform on the insurance status of pregnant women and
in turn, their use of early and adequate prenatal care. Dr. Adams
received her Ph.D. in economics from University of Colorado in Boulder,
CO. She earned her Masters and B.A. from Florida State University.
Learn
more about Adams’
HCFO grant.
Genevieve
M. Kenney, Ph.D.
 Dr.
Kenney is a Principal Research Associate and health economist at
The Urban Institute, with over twenty years experience conducting
research. Her health policy research has focused on analyzing the
effects of public policies on access and coverage for low-income
populations. Currently, she is co-director of the Urban Institute’s
multi-year evaluation of the State Children’s Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP). As part of her work on SCHIP, she has examined
a range of issues, including family coverage policies and SCHIP
financing; participation in Medicaid and SCHIP and barriers to enrollment;
access and use differentials among low-income children; effects
on children of family coverage expansions; and impacts of SCHIP
expansions on insurance coverage, crowd-out and access to care.
She recently completed a project designed to examine the impacts
of Medicaid managed care on prenatal care timing and birth weight.
In previous research, she has conducted analyses of Medicaid expansions
for pregnant women and children. She received her Ph.D. in Economics
and a M.A. in Statistics from University of Michigan. She earned
her B.A. from Smith College.
Learn
more about Kenney’s
HCFO grant.
Discussants
Debbie
I. Chang
 Ms.
Chang is Director of Strategic Development and Policy at the National
Academy for State Health Policy. She leads development of the organization’s
health policy agenda and work including fundraising of projects
and provides strategic direction on the Academy’s projects
including those related to Medicaid, the State Children’s
Health Insurance Program, managed care, and drug coverage and costs.
She is also leading an effort to analyze and make recommendations
on improving the Medicaid program. From
1999-2003, Ms. Chang was Deputy Secretary of Health Care Financing
of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She oversaw
Medicaid and the Maryland Children’s Health Program with an
annual budget of $3.3 billion and 600 staff. Prior
to working for the State of Maryland, Ms. Chang held various positions
in the federal government. Most notably, in 1997 to mid-1999, Ms.
Chang led the implementation of the State Children’s Health
Insurance Program for the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA),
the Federal agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, now called
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). She was the
Director of the Office of Legislation for HCFA from July 1994 to
July 1998. Prior to her tenure at HCFA, Ms. Chang worked for over
5 years as the Senior Health Policy Advisor to Senator Donald W.
Riegle, Jr., who chaired the Finance Subcommittee on Health for
Families and the Uninsured. Ms. Chang has a Master’s of Public
Health Policy and Administration from the University of Michigan
and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
Rachel
Benson Gold
 Rachel
Benson Gold is the Director of Policy Analysis and Washington Office
Operations in The Alan Guttmacher Institute's Public Policy Division.
She joined the Institute in 1979. Her expertise is on the role of
the public and private sectors in financing reproductive health
care. Ms. Gold is the author of several reports and articles in
the field of reproductive health and recently completed an analysis
of Medicaid support for family planning services in the managed
care era. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the
National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. Ms.
Gold earned a Master of Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University and
B.A. with Honors in Government from Wesleyan University.
Moderator
Deborah
Rogal
 Ms.
Rogal is a Senior Manager at AcademyHealth which was formed in June
2000 following the merger of the Alpha Center and the Association
for Health Services Research (AHSR). She joined the Alpha Center
in 1991. She serves as Deputy Director for The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation's Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) initiative. In addition, she has assisted with the administration
and provision of technical assistance under the Foundation's State
Initiatives in Health Care Reform program. For five years prior
to joining the Alpha Center, Ms. Rogal was a Senior Planning Associate
and then a Program Manager at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
There she conducted analyses on utilization, cost, and demographics
in support of product management for the Medicare supplementary
insurance product. She then incorporated these analyses into annual
rate filings, program development, and program operations. Ms. Rogal
received her Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government and her B.A. with Honors from Ohio
State University.
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