Richard Moed
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Richard Moed has over 25 years of experience
in health care. He has served as chief operating officer of both community
and academic medical centers. Most recently, he led the operations at
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Connecticut.
He has also served as an executive and/or board member of several health
care services companies including CompCare, an occupational medicine
company, CLS, a clinical laboratory company and AMG, a physician management
company. Mr. Moed is experienced in developing and implementing research
collaboratives and has done so in numerous settings. Along with Drs.
Jette and Haley, Mr. Moed is a co-founder of CREcare LLC and serves
as its president and CEO. |
Alan
M. Jette
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Alan Jette (PT, M.P.H., Ph.D., Public Health Behavior)
is the director of the Boston University Health & Disability Research
Institute and Professor of Health Services at Boston University's School
of Public Health. Dr. Jette's research focuses on late-life exercise,
evaluation of treatment outcomes, and the measurement, epidemiology,
and prevention of late-life disability. The author of over 125 articles
in rehabilitation, geriatrics, and public health literature, Dr. Jette
has received prestigious research grants and fellowships from such nationally-recognized
organizations as the National Arthritis Foundation, the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Public Health
Service. He is also the recipient of many awards in the field, including
the Marian Williams Award, the Sage Publications Editor's Award, the
Robert Bartlett Recognition Award, the Barbara C. White Award, the Rose
Excellence in Research Award for Excellence in Orthopedic Physical Therapy
Research, the Golden Pen Award, the Helen J. Hislop Award, and the Sidney
and Elizabeth Licht Award. Dr. Jette currently chairs the Institute
of Medicine Panel on the Future of Disability in America. |
Stephen M. Haley
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Stephen M. Haley (PT, Ph.D. Educational Psychology)
is a senior research scientist at the Health and Disability Institute
at Boston University and a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation
Sciences at the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
at Boston University. He specializes in measurement of functional status
in children and adults, outcomes research, and the application of item
response theory models in computer adaptive testing applications in
rehabilitation and post-acute health care settings. He is the primary
author of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI), which
measures functional outcomes for young children. He is also a contributing
author to the School Function Assessment (SFA), a functional assessment
tool for elementary school children, and the Late-Life Function and
Disability Instrument, which measures physical functioning for older
adults in community settings. Dr. Haley is the recipient of the prestigious
5-year Independent Scientist Award from the National Institutes of Health,
NICHD, NCMRR. For the past 7 years, he has served as the Director of
Research for the Research Center for Children with Special Health Care
Needs at Franciscan Children's Hospital in Boston. |