[Margerie]

I must apologize for screwing up the top part of my original post (too much copy, pasting and linking) Believe it or not, but the government's website can be confusing. The LIST at the top was actually the 2002 task force. Everything below the scorecard IS the current panel member's bio information.

The Current 2009 Members of the Task Force

Bruce Nedrow (Ned) Calonge, M.D., M.P.H. (Chair)- Associate Professor of Family Medicine and of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Diana B. Petitti, M.D., M.P.H. (Vice Chair)- Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Fulton School of Engineering, at Arizona State University

Susan Curry, Ph.D- dean of the College of Public Health and distinguished professor of health management and policy at the University of Iowa

Allen J. Dietrich, M.D.- board-certified family physician, is a professor of community and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School

Thomas G. DeWitt, M.D.- Professor of Pediatrics

Kimberly D. Gregory, M.D., M.P.H.- Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Director of Women's Health Services Research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

David Grossman, M.D., M.P.H.- board-certified pediatrician

George Isham, M.D., M.S.- Medical Director and Chief Health Officer for HealthPartners, a large health care organization in Minnesota

Michael L. LeFevre, M.D., M.S.P.H.- Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri School of Medicine

Rosanne Leipzig, M.D., Ph.D.- board-certified internist and geriatrician


Lucy N. Marion, Ph.D., R.N.- family medicine/psychiatric nurse practioner


Joy Melnikow, M.D., M.P.H.- professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and associate director of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research at the University of California Davis. She is currently a deputy editor of Medical Care, standing member of the health services organization and delivery study section at the National Institutes of Health


Bernadette Melnyk, Ph.D., R.N., C.P.N.P/N.P.P.- pediatric and psychiatric nurse practioner


Wanda Nicholson, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.- board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and a perinatal epidemiologist

J. Sanford (Sandy) Schwartz, M.D.- board-certified internal medicine specialist

Timothy Wilt, M.D., M.P.H.- board-certified internal medicine specialist

and folks this score card is not much different:

family medicine- 5
biomed informatics- 1
health management and policy (PhD)- 1
pediatrics- 2
ob/gyns- 2
internal medicine- 3
nurse pracitioners (family medicine/psychiatry/peds)- 2

but most importantly (IMHO) the score is STILL:

oncologists- 0
radiologists- 0
breast cancer surgeons/specialsists- 0

sorry for the inconvenience, I will make a note at my original post to hopefully prevent the whiplash

also the quote in my original bio of Dr. Isham was from the USPSTF site itself and not his health care organization's website