Health and Medicine Division and Transportation Research Board
Exploring Data and Metrics of Value at the Intersection of Health Care and Transportation: A Workshop June 6–7, 2016
Location: National Academy of Sciences Building, 2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC; Room 125
| 8:15 am | Welcome and overview of the day |
| Ysela Llort, former director, Miami-Dade Transit; planning committee chair | |
| Neil Pedersen, executive director, Transportation Research Board (TRB), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | |
| Clyde Behney, executive director, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
| 8:40 am | Setting the context: FTA-supported efforts |
| Carolyn Flowers, acting administrator, Federal Transit Administration (FTA), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) (Welcome) | |
| Bruce Robinson, acting associate administrator for program management, FTA (Overview of FTA’s Rides to Wellness initiative) | |
| Oscar Gomez, chief executive officer, Health Outreach Partners (Overview of the Rides to Wellness Community Scan) | |
| 9:15 am | Setting the context: Other relevant efforts in the field |
| Heidi Guenin, senior associate, GridWorks, Portland, Oregon | |
| 9:30 am | Q&A/discussion |
| Discussants: Flora Castillo, vice president of community and strategic engagement, UnitedHealthcare; Heather MacLeod, assistant director, Physical Infrastructure, Seattle Field Office, U.S. Government Accountability Office; Judy Shanley, vice president, Education and Youth Transition at Easterseals, Inc. (partner in National Center for Mobility Management); Julie Bershadsky, senior research specialist, Human Services Research Institute | |
| 10:10 am | Panel I: Examples of cross-sector collaboration to provide transportation services in urban settings (10 minutes/presenter) |
| Moderator: Nigel Wilson, professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; planning committee member | |
| Ann Lundy, vice president, Care Management, Health Care Service Corporation (by WebEx) | |
| Perry Meadows, medical director, Government Programs, Geisinger Health Plan | |
| Yahaira Graxirena, transportation planner, Central Massachusetts, Regional Planning Commission | |
| Xavier Arinez, chief operating officer, Family Health Center of Worcester, Massachusetts |
| Mary Blumberg, program manager, Strategic Planning and Development, Atlanta Regional Commission | |
| Katherine Kortum, study director, Between Public and Private Mobility, TRB | |
| 11:15 am | Q&A/discussion with panel I |
| Discussants: Jana Lynott, senior strategic policy advisor, AARP; J. Barry Barker, executive director, Transit Authority of River City, Louisville, Kentucky; Art Guzzetti, vice president–policy, American Public Transit Association (APTA); Valerie Lefler, president and chief executive officer, Liberty Mobility Now, Inc. | |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Panel II: Examples of cross-sector collaboration to provide transportation services in rural/small urban/suburban settings |
| Moderator: Rich Garrity, senior associate, RLS & Associates; planning committee member | |
| Judith Kell, hub operations manager, Pathways to Better Health of the Lakeshore, Mercy Health, Muskegon, Michigan | |
| David Faldmo, medical director, Siouxland Community Health Center, Sioux City, Iowa | |
| Suzanne Alewine, executive director, Missouri Rural Health Association | |
| Dennis Johnson, executive vice president, Policy and Advocacy, Children’s Health Fund | |
| 1:45 pm | Q&A/discussion with panel II |
| Discussants: Charles Carr, director, Intermodal Planning, Mississippi Department of Transportation; Amy Conrick, assistant director, Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA); Robin Phillips, executive director, National Rural Transit Assistance Program; Marianne Stock, division chief, Rural and Targeted Programs, FTA | |
| 2:45 pm | Break |
| 3:00 pm | Breakouts (presentations of local data and analyses, followed by discussion) |
| Facilitator: Michelle Proser, director of research, National Association of Community Health Centers; planning committee member | |
| Presentation: Linking Transportation, Health, and the Built Environment in Washington, DC—Anneta Arno, director, Office of Health Equity, Office of the Director, District of Columbia Department of Health; Raka Choudhury, citywide transportation planner, Progressive Transportation Services Administration, District (of Columbia) Department of Transportation (DDOT); Steve Strauss, deputy associate director, Progressive Transportation Services Administration, DDOT | |
| Presentation: Efficient and Effective Provision of Mobility to Health Care—Steve Yaffe, transit services manager, Arlington, Virginia | |
| Facilitator: Flora Castillo, vice president of community and strategic engagement, UnitedHealthcare | |
| Presentation: Smart Transit for Health Care—Moumita Dasgupta, principal investigator, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Amherst College; Sarah Anderson, business development manager, Cambridge Systematics, Inc. | |
| Presentation: Comparing Scheduled and Actual Transit Accessibility to Health Centers—Anson Stewart, Interdepartmental Transportation Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 4:00 pm | Reconvene in plenary for reporting back from breakout groups |
| Ysela Llort, planning committee chair | |
| 5:00 pm | Adjourn |
| 8:15 am | Welcome to Day 2 |
| Ysela Llort, planning committee chair | |
| 8:30 am | Panel III: Explore data sources available at different levels of government and in the public and private sectors; addressing a range of barriers (e.g., privacy, technical, operational) |
| Moderators: Catherine T. Lawson, professor, associate professor, Geography and Planning, State University of New York at Albany, and Paul Hughes-Cromwick, co-director, Center for Sustainable Health Spending, Altarum Institute; planning committee members | |
| Chris Barnett, co-director, Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems, University of Missouri at Columbia (and Community Commons) | |
| Roy Grant, consultant (formerly at Children’s Health Fund) | |
| Marcie Cynamon, director, Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | |
| Kelsey Walter, director of National Core Indicators-Aging and Disabilities, National Association of States United for Aging and Disabilities | |
| Karen White, director, Office of Statistical and Economic Analysis, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. DOT | |
| 9:30 am | Q&A/discussion with Panel III |
| Steve Yaffe, transit services manager, Arlington County; David Riley, director, Veterans Transportation Program, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Peter McNichol, chief, Quality Control, NEMT,1 Department of Vermont Health Access |
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| 10:15 am | Panel IV: Data and barriers continued; return on investment and incentives for greater effectiveness in connecting patients to transportation |
| Moderator: Marsha Regenstein, professor, Department of Health Policy, George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health; planning committee member | |
| Valerie Lefler, president and chief executive officer, Liberty Mobility Now, Inc. | |
| Alex Page, lead transportation planner, RideConnection, Portland, Oregon | |
| David Riley, director, Veterans Transportation Program, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs | |
| Julia Resnick, program manager, Health Research and Educational Trust, American Hospital Association (not present at workshop) | |
| 11:00 am | Q&A/discussion with Panel IV |
| Discussants: Virginia Dize, co-director, National Aging and Disability Transportation Center, National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, TRB accessibility committee; Ed Christopher, consultant (formerly, Federal Highway Administration); Joseph Cronin, John R. Kerr Research Chair in Marketing, Department of Marketing, and co-director of the Marketing Institute, College of Business, Florida State University | |
| 11:45 am | Reflections on the workshop, next steps |
| Ysela Llort, planning committee chair | |
| Vincent Valdes, associate administrator for research, demonstration, and innovation, FTA | |
| 12:30 pm | Closing remarks and adjournment |
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