PRISM Working Group Representatives

Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM)
Christine A. Sinsky, M.D., is a general internist in private practice engaged in issues that impact the future of general internal medicine. At the practice level this has focused on improving systems of care including patient access, information flow and team development. At the national level this work has been through the Society of General Internal Medicine, addressing issues related to the future model of chronic care, ambulatory practice redesign, equitable reimbursement, performance measurement, and pay for performance. Dr. Sinsky has given regional and national workshops on improving office practice and has been a consultant to several academic medical center general internal medicine departments regarding improving ambulatory practice.

David C. Lewis, M.D., is a Professor of Community Health and Medicine and the Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University. In 1982, he founded, and for eighteen years directed, the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. Dr. Lewis is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Medical School.

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
Daniel C. Vinson, MD, MSPH, is a family physician who worked in a small town for 11 years, then joined the faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia. In addition to his own outpatient clinics and teaching residents and medical students, he does research in alcohol issues. He's been funded in the past by an R01 from NIAAA.

American College of Physicians (ACP)
Amir Qaseem, MD, PhD, MHA, is responsible for the American College of Physicians’ clinical practice guidelines program and writing of the evidence based guidelines. He is also director of ACPNet, the College’s practice based research network. Dr Qaseem is also responsible for the ACP’s Diabetes Initiative pay-for-performance advisory board. Dr Qaseem’s research interests include improving quality of clinical care using evidence based methods, studying impact of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement on supply of various health care services, and staffing and quality of care issues.

Vincenza T. Snow, MD, FACP (Fellow of the American College of Physicians) is Director of the Clinical Programs and Quality of Care Department in the Medical Education and Publishing Division at the American College of Physicians (ACP). Dr. Snow is a general internist, with special interests in evidence-based medicine and quality improvement. Dr. Snow heads several quality improvement programs at ACP and the ACP Adult Immunization Initiative. She is a Senior Scholar in Department of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College.

Howard A. Heit, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.S.A.M., is board certified in internal medicine (diplomat) and gastroenterology (diplomat). He is also certified in addiction medicine by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and is certified as a medical review officer (MRO). He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Heit is also a member of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) and the American Pain Society (APS). Dr. Heit is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Heit has lectured and published extensively on the interface of pain and addiction medicine.

American College of Physicians (ACP)
Meghan Gannon, MSPH, is currently ACPNet Administrator in the Clinical Programs and Quality of Care Department at the American College of Physicians. She has experience in quality improvement and practice-based primary care research projects. Before this position she served as an intern in Uganda at Hospice Africa Uganda studying Palliative Care, with regards to HIV/AIDS.

Gail B. Slap, M.D., M.S., received B.A., M.D., and M.S. (Medical Anthropology) from the University of Pennsylvania and completed residency training in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, fellowship training in adolescent medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and research training as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is board certified in internal medicine and adolescent medicine. Dr. Slap has over 100 publications in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, has authored or edited four books, and has served on the editorial boards of three medical journals. She is past president of the Society for Adolescent Medicine and past regent of the American College of Physicians.

Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH is a professor of Medicine and Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and School of Public Health. Since 2002 he has been the Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine at the BUSM/Boston Medical Center (BMC). He has served as Medical Director of the Boston Public Health Commission’s Addiction Services for the past 13 years and was Director of the HIV-Diagnostic Evaluation Unit at BMC (1990 - 2003), a clinic for the initial evaluation, engagement, and triage of HIV-infected persons. His research has focused on alcohol and drug abuse, HIV infection and primary medical care with the following specific projects: delay in establishing medical care for HIV infection; linkage of substance abuse treatment and primary medical care; addressing substance abuse issues in the primary care setting; and the impact of alcohol and drug use in HIV-infected persons. He has received research support from NIAAA and NIDA with projects based in Boston, Russia and India.

American Geriatrics Society (AGS)
Alison A. Moore, MD, MPH, is a geriatrician and health services researcher from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Her research has focused on alcohol and aging, specifically the epidemiology of drinking and associations of drinking and mortality and disability, and also interventions to reduce risky use of alcohol among older adults with comorbidities in primary care.

Steven L. Phillips, MD, CMD, has worked throughout the entire continuum of care for older Americans. He has held appointments within the fields of academic and clinical geriatrics. Dr. Phillips is involved in the development and implementation of delivery models that are intended to make the transition from traditional Medicare fee-for-service to managed care. His managed care experience includes serving as Medical Director for a Medicare Risk HMO program and presently for a CMS designated Social HMO demonstration project Senior Dimensions Extended Care out of Las Vegas, Nevada.