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<div style="text-align: center; ">PHYSICIANS AND THEIR PRACTICES</div>
<div style="text-align: center; ">UNDER HEALTH CARE REFORM:</div>
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<div style="text-align: center; ">A REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT and THE CONGRESS</div>
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<div><font size="3">“As the health care reform debate moves forward, a need was seen for a critical analysis of how various proposed changes relate to physicians, their practices and the patients they care for. To that end, a small but experienced group of
academics undertook a project to assess the current conditions and make recommendations for the future. The attached report is the product of that effort.”</font></div>
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<div><font size="3">The Project Team included the following members: </font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt; "><font size="3"><b>Richard A. Cooper, MD,</b> Professor of Medicine and Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Project Leader</font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt; "><font size="3"><b>Tom Getzen, PhD,</b> Professor of Risk, Insurance, and Healthcare Management, Temple University and Executive Director, iHEA - the International Health Economics Association.</font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt; "><font size="3"><b>Michael M.E. Johns, MD,</b> University Chancellor and Professor in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Emory University</font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt; "><font size="3"><b>Barbara Ross-Lee, DO, </b>Professor Family Medicine and Vice President for Health Sciences and Medical Affairs, New York Institute of Technology </font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt; "><font size="3"><b>George Sheldon, MD,</b> Zack D. Owens Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Social Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill</font></div>
<div style="padding-left: 18pt; text-indent: -9pt; "><font size="3"><b>Michael E. Whitcomb, MD,</b> Senior Lecturer in Health Policy, School of Public Health, George Washington University; former Editor in Chief, Academic Medicine and Senior Vice President
for Education, Association of American Medical Colleges </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Nancy Cooper, Coordinator<br>
Health Policy Fellowship<br>
307 Grosvenor Hall<br>
Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine<br>
Athens, OH 45701<br>
740 593-2017 phone<br>
740 593-1730 fax<br>
<a href="mailto:coopern@ohio.edu"><font color="#0000FF"><u>coopern@ohio.edu</u></font></a></font></div>
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