Altarum Institute
www.altarum.org

  • Rosemary is a board member of the Altarum Institute, a non-profit health system research organization that serves the public good.

The Hastings Center
www.thehastingscenter.org

  • Rosemary is Senior Advisor to The Hastings Center, a nonpartisan research institution dedicated to bioethics and the public interest.  

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine
archinte.jamanetwork.com/journal.aspx

  • Rosemary is founding editor of the “Less is More” narrative series in JAMA Internal Medicine where physicians and patients share their experience of overuse of medical care or how it was avoided. 

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
www.acgme.org

  • Rosemary is a public member of the board of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, a private professional organization responsible for the accreditation of about 9,200 residency education programs. Residency education is the period of clinical education in a medical specialty that follows graduation from medical school, and prepares physicians for the independent practice of medicine. 

    She is a public member on the ACGME Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) committee whose purpose is to increase the educational emphasis on patient safety demanded by the public in sponsoring institutions that receive federal taxpayer dollars.

Consumers Union Safe Patient Project
www.safepatientproject.org

  • Rosemary is a member of Consumers Union Safe Patient Project that advocates for public policies to improve the safety of health care.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
www.rwjf.org
  • Rosemary led national health care quality and safety initiatives at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, NJ for 16 years.  

    She was chief architect of its $200 million national strategy to establish inpatient palliative care programs whose numbers have since increased from about 10 in the 1990s to more than 1600. 
    www.capc.org/capc-growth-analysis-snapshot-2011.pdf

    She conceived of a national technical assistance center to help hospitals establish palliative care, which became the Center to Advance Palliative Care     www.capc.org.

    She worked with Bill Moyers and Public Affairs Television on the PBS documentary, "On Our Own Terms" 
    www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms.

    She is recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
    www.aahpm.org/about/default/awards.html.

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