December 3, 1990 Washington, D.C.

John A. Benson, Jr., M.D., President, American Board of Internal Medicine

John Coombs, M.D., Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Physician Practice Guidelines, American Hospital Association

Janet M. Corrigan, Ph.D., Director, Medical Directors Division, Group Health Association of America

William R. Darrow, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, Medical Section, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association

Bruce V. Davis, M.D., Director, Department of Preventive Care, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound

Susan Dean-Baar, M.S., R.N., C.R.R.N., Co-Chairperson, Committee on Nursing Practice Standards and Guidelines, American Nurses Association

Donalda Ellek, Ph.D., Manager, Office of Quality Assurance, American Dental Association

Burton S. Epstein, M.D., Chairman, Committee on Standards of Care, American Society of Anesthesiologists

John H. Ferguson, M.D., Director, Office of Medical Applications of Research, National Institutes of Health

Joyce Frieden, Business and Health

Ron Geigle, J.D., Geigle and Associates

Barbara Greenberg, Ph.D., Project Coordinator, Standards, American College of Radiology

Jerome H. Grossman, M.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, New England Medical Center

Michael A.W. Hattwick, M.D., Practice of Internal Medicine, Annandale, Virginia

Edward J. Huth, M.D., Member, Clinical Efficacy Assessment Subcommittee and Editor Emeritus, Annals of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians

Karen Ignagni, M.B.A., Director, Employee Benefits, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

Alan Kaplan, J.D., Consultant, American Association of Retired Persons

Edmund F. Kelly, Ph.D., President, Employee Benefits Division, /Etna Life and Casualty

Joyce V. Kelly, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Clinical Services, Association of American Medical Colleges

Gregory Michael Lenhart, M.S., Senior Scientist, Private Health care Systems

Candace L. Littell, Vice President for Policy, Research, and Evaluation, Health Industry Manufacturers Association

Carol A. Lockhart, Ph.D., Executive Director, Greater Phoenix Affordable Health Care Foundation

Trisha McGillan, R.N., B.S.N., J.D., Staff Attorney/Long Term Care Nurse Specialist, American Health Care Association

Jane Mulvey, Senior Analyst, Public Policy Institute, American Association of Retired Persons

Daniel J. O'Neal, M.A., R.N., C.N.A.A., Assistant Director, Congressional and Agency Relations, American Nurses Association

Harold Alan Pincus, M.D., Deputy Medical Director and Director, Office of Research, American Psychiatric Association

Shirley D. Rivers, J.D., Assistant Director, Office of Quality Assurance, American Medical Association

Kenneth B. Roberts, M.D., Member, Task Force on Quality of Care, American Academy of Pediatrics

James Rosenblum, J.D., Member, Policy Subcommittee, Medicine and Law Committee, American Bar Association

Arnold Rosoff, J.D., Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania

David B. Siegel, M.D., Medical Director and Vice President for Health and Medical Affairs, Health Alliance Plan of Michigan, Group Health Association of America

Nicole Simmons, Health Care Financing Administration

Sara V. Sinclair, R.N., B.S.N., N.H.A., Administrator, Sunshine Terrace Foundation and Chairman, Long Term Care, Professional Technical Advisory Panel, JCAHO, American Health Care Association

Edward J. Stemmler, M.D., Executive Vice President, Association of American Medical Colleges

David Tennenbaum, Director, Medical Necessity Program, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

Theresa Varner, M.S.W., M.A., Senior Coordinator, Health Team, Public Policy Institute, American Association of Retired Persons

Andrew H. Webber, Executive Vice President, American Medical Peer Review Association

John F. Beary III, M.D., Senior Vice President, Science & Technology, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association

Janet M. Corrigan, Ph.D., Director, Medical Directors Division, Group Health Association of America

Carole Cronin, Vice President and Director, Quality Resource Center, Washington Business Group on Health

Donalda Ellek, Ph.D., Manager, Office of Quality Assurance, American Dental Association

Susan Gleeson, Executive Director, Technology Management Department, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

Norma M. Lang, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., President, American Nurses Foundation

Ronald S. Lankford, M.D., (Federation of American Health care Systems), Vice President of Medical Affairs, Health Care Division, Humana, Inc.

Candace L. Littell, Vice President for Policy, Research, and Evaluation, Health Industry Manufacturers Association

Daniel R. Longo, Sc.D., President, Hospital Education and Research Trust, American Hospital Association

Robert E. McAfee, M.D., Vice Chair of the Board, American Medical Association

Joel Miller, Deputy Director, Insurance, Managed Care, and Provider Relations Division, Health Insurance Association of America

Malcolm Schoen, M.D., Medical Advisor, Consumers Union

Edward J. Stemmler, M.D., Association of American Medical Colleges

Loring Wood, M.D., U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Joseph F. Boyle, M.D., Executive Vice President, American Society of Internal Medicine

Betty King, Executive Director, IMCARE, American Society of Internal Medicine

Dr. James N. Cooper, Chair, AGA Committee on Patient Care, American Gastroenterological Association

Pamela M. Cramer, Vice President, Education and Membership Services, College of American Pathologists

LeBaron W. Dennis, M.D., Chair, ASPRS Guidelines Committee, American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons

Paul A. Ebert, M.D., Director, American College of Surgeons

James W. Fletcher, M.D., Society of Nuclear Medicine

Lea Gamble, Director, Health Policy Research, American Academy of Ophthalmology

Lee Goldman, M.D., President, Society of General Internal Medicine

Michael Greenberg, M.D., American Academy of Neurology

Nancy Peacock Heath, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Policy and Research, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

James F. Kelly, D.D.S., American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

Donald G. Langsley, M.D., Executive Vice President, American Board of Medical Specialties

Daniel J. Ostergaard, M.D., Vice President for Education and Scientific Affairs, American Academy of Family Physicians

Harold Pincus, M.D., Deputy Medical Director and Director, Office of Research, American Psychiatric Association

Lester Rosen, M.D., Chair, Standards Task Force of ASCRS, American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons

Clark C. Watts, M.D., American Association of Neurological Surgeons

Richard S. Wilbur, M.D., J.D., Executive Vice President, Council of Medical Specialty Societies

Steven Woolf, M.D., Scientific Advisor, Expert Panel on Preventive Services, American College of Preventive Medicine

Judy Young, Director, Practice Management, American College of Emergency Physicians

Frank J. Malouff, M.S.H.A., Executive Director, American Podiatric Medical Association

Russ Newman, Ph.D., J.D., Assistant Executive Director, Practice Directorate, American Psychological Association

Terry Nickels, D.O., F.A.C.G.P., American Osteopathic Association