PANELISTS
Mary Sue Coleman has led the University of Michigan since being appointed its 13th president in August 2002.
Elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1997, Coleman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She co-chaired a major policy study of the Institute of Medicine, examining the consequences of uninsurance, and has become a nationally recognized expert on the issue.
For 19 years she was a member of the biochemistry faculty at the University of Kentucky. Her work in the sciences led her to administrative appointments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of New Mexico, where she served as provost and vice president for academic affairs. From 1995–2002, Coleman was president of the University of Iowa.
Patricia A. Maryland of Carmel, Indiana, is a hospital administrator with extensive experience in the health care sector. She has worked in various capacities and at several health care facilities, including the Cleveland Clinic and Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit. Maryland is now president of St. Vincent Hospitals and Health Services, Inc., in central Indiana.
St. Vincent, by partnering with other local safety net providers, created a comprehensive integrated delivery network in seven rural Indiana communities that found primary care home for almost 3000 people and reduced inappropriate emergency room use by 20 percent. St. Vincent is a member of Ascension Health, the nation’s largest Catholic and nonprofit health system. Consistent with its mission to serve all people with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable, Ascension Health is an innovative leader in transforming healthcare through patient-centered, holistic care of the highest clinical quality.
Maryland holds a doctorate degree in public health from the University of Pittsburgh.
Catherine G. McLaughlin of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a health economist with more than 21 years of research experience. She is currently a professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan, where she also serves as the Director of the Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured. Previously, she served on the faculty of Tufts University and worked at Georgetown University’s Center for Health Policy Studies.
McLaughlin has evaluated several health care programs for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has reviewed Michigan’s Medicaid managed-care demonstrations. She is a member of the Council on Health Care Economics and Policy and the executive committee of the American Society of Health Economists. McLaughlin has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin. She earned her undergraduate degree from Randolph-Macon Women’s College.
Deborah R. Stehr of Lake View, Iowa, is a healthcare advocate and a full-time care giver for her adult son Jonathan, who has cerebral palsy. On the basis of her extensive first-hand experience with the health care system, Governor Tom Vilsack appointed her to Iowa’s Health Consumer Advisory Council. Stehr has also served on the boards of the Iowa Citizen Action Network and USAction.
Kenneth Warner is dean of the U-M School of Public Health and an international authority on tobacco policy. He recently served as the World Bank’s representative to negotiations that led to the World Health Organization’s health treaty.
His 200+ professional publications have focused on economic and policy aspects of disease prevention and health promotion, with a special emphasis on tobacco and health. Warner also served as the senior scientific editor of the 25th anniversary U.S. Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health, published in 1989, is on the editorial boards of four professional journals, and chairs the board of the international journal Tobacco Control.