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Member Spotlight
2020
Vice President of Policy, PHI
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Associate Economist, RAND Corporation and Principal Investigator, Economic Security Study Panel
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Director, Health Policy, West Health Policy Center
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Senior Vice President, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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Health Care Policy Analyst
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2019
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Author, Professor, Gerontology Expert
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Labor Lawyer, Professor, Workers’ Compensation Data Panel Member
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Economist and Fiscal Policy Analyst
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Executive Director, Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission
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Senior Health Fellow, American Academy of Actuaries
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Health Care Policy Analyst
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Policy Analyst, Senior Fellow, and Founding Member
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Senior Director, Disability Policy Engagement, Anthem, Inc.
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Author and Activist
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Associate Member and Policy Analyst, Social Security Advisory Board
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Non-profit Consultant, Visiting Professor at Princeton
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2018
Policy Analyst and Advocate
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Labor Economist, Author, and Senior Fellow
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Leading Economist, Professor, and Commentator
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Actuary and Social Security Expert
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Professor of Economics, Founding Member
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2017
Co-Chair of New Caregiving Study Panel and Gerontologist
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Co-Chair of New Caregiving Study Panel, IWPR President, and Research Professor
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Academy Board Member and Retirement and Employee Benefit Expert
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New Board Member, Truman Scholar, and Inequality Expert
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New Board Member, Researcher, and Adjunct Professor
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Health Policy Researcher, Analyst, and Author
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Executive Director, MACPAC, and Panelist, June 22nd Medicaid Forum
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Senior Health Policy Advisor, AARP, and Panelist, June 22 Medicaid Forum
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30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Member of the Academy, Distinguished Policy Analyst and Social Insurance Scholar
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30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Board Member, Public Servant
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30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Board Member, Prominent Social Security Historian and Advocate
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30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Board Member, Renowned Law Professor
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30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Board Member, Social Security Advocate and Scholar
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Political Scientist and Professor Emeritus, Yale University School of Management and Department of Political Science, and Faculty Fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies
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30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Board Member, Prominent Economist
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30th Anniversary Honoree, Founding Board Member, and Actuarial Expert
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New Member and Keynote Speaker at the 29th annual policy conference reception
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Panelist, "Caregiving and Social Insurance: Paid Family Leave and Long-Term Services," 29th Annual Policy Research Conference
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2016
Long Term Services and Supports Researcher and Senior Policy Analyst
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Health Care Innovator, Founding Academy Member, and Advisor to the Academy’s Study Panel on Strengthening Medicaid as a Critical Lever in Building a Culture of Health
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Vice Chair of the Academy’s Board of Directors
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William Spriggs: Recipient of the 2016 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Contributions in Social Insurance
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Incoming Assistant Professor, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and New Member, Board of Directors
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Managing Director, Poverty to Prosperity Program, Center for American Progress
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Economics Professor Committed to Educating Youth on Social Policy
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Co-chair of a new Academy Study Panel on the Role of Medicaid in Building a Culture of Health
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2015
Co-chair of a new Academy Study Panel on the Role of Medicaid in Building a Culture of Health
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Senior Economist at the W.E Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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2016 Conference Co-Chair
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2016 Conference Co-Chair
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Actuarial Health Insurance Expert
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Recipient of the 2015 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance
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2016 Conference Co-Chair
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2014
Policy Advocate and Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco
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2015 Conference Co-Chair
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2015 Conference Co-Chair
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2015 Conference Co-Chair
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Master Collaborator and Medicare Advocate
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Speaker, 2014 Member Luncheon
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Speaker, "Medicare and Medicaid: The Next 50 Years"
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Recipient of the 2014 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance
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Keynote Speaker, 2014 Conference
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2013
2014 Conference Co-Chair
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2014 Conference Co-Chair
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2014 Conference Co-Chair
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Senior Policy Analyst, Altarum Institute and Visiting Scholar, the Academy
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Dubbed “The Dean of Long-Term Care”
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Geriatrician, Hospice Physician, Health Services Research, and Policy Advocate
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Recipient of the 2013 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance
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2013 Conference Co-Chair
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2013 Conference Co-Chair
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2013 Conference Co-Chair
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2012
Executive Director, Generations United
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Meet the Academy's New President
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Director at Avalere Health and Academy member since 2011
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Executive Vice President, Policy for the AARP
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2012 Recipient of the Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance
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2012 Conference Speaker
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2011
2012 Conference Speaker
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2012 Conference Co-Chair
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2012 Conference Co-Chair
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Unemployment Insurance Distinguished Honoree - The Academy at 25: Celebrating Milestones and Envisioning the Future of Social Insurance
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Health Policy Distinguished Honoree - The Academy at 25: Celebrating Milestones and Envisioning the Future of Social Insurance
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Social Security Distinguished Honoree - the Academy at 25: Celebrating Milestones and Envisioning the Future of Social Insurance
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Workers’ Compensation Distinguished Honoree - The Academy at 25: Celebrating Milestones and Envisioning the Future of Social Insurance
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Disability Policy Distinguished Honoree - The Academy at 25: Celebrating Milestones and Envisioning the Future of Social Insurance
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Co-Chair of the Academy's 23rd Annual Conference
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Co-Chair of the Academy's 23rd Annual Conference
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2010
Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Founding Academy Member, Institute Professor (MIT)
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Director, Academy Board of Directors
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Co-Chair of the Academy's 23rd Annual Conference, Vice President of Public Policy, CIGNA
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2010 Robert M. Ball Award Event Committee Co-Chair
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2010 Robert M. Ball Award Event Committee Co-Chair
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2010 Recipient of the Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance
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2009
Co-Chair of the Academy's 22nd Annual Conference
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2010 Conference Co-Chair
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2010 Conference Co-Chair
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The 2009 receipient of the Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance
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Keynote Speaker at the Academy's 21st Annual Conference
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Keynote Speaker at the Academy's 21st Annual Conference
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2008
Co-Chair of the Academy's 21st Annual Conference
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Co-Chair of the Academy's 21st Annual Conference
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Recipient of the 2008 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance
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2007
Keynote Speaker at the Academy's 20th Annual Conference
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Keynote Speaker at the Academy's 20th Annual Conference
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2008 Conference Co-Chair
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2008 Conference Co-Chair
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2008 Conference Co-Chair
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Charles Betsey is a new member of the Academy's Membership Committee.
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Jill Quadagno is a new member of the Academy's Board of Directors and one of the newest members of the Membership Committee.
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Recipient of the 2007 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance
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Laurel E. Beedon is a Senior Fellow at the Academy, where she oversees the Academy's internship program and advises on disability policy issues.
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Kimberly Morgan, a newly elected member of the Academy, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.
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William M. Rodgers III, a newly elected Academy member, is a professor and Chief Economist for Rutgers University and brings to the academy years of experience in the field of socioeconomic research.
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2006
Robert A. Berenson, M.D., is co-chair of the NASI and NAPA study collaboration, Management Analysis of Approaches for Improving Access to Health Care
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Regina T. Jefferson, Professor of Law at the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University, is co-chair (with Jacob Hacker and Maya Rockeymoore) of NASI's 19th Annual Conference: “In Search of the Common Good: What Role for Social Insurance?”
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Ed Welch is the director of the Workers' Compensation Center in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University.
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The 2006 Robert M. Ball Award Winner
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Member of NASI's Membership Committee
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Member of NASI's Membership Committee
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Chair of NASI's Membership Committee
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Chair of the John A. Heinz Dissertation Award Committee
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Conference Co-Chair
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2005
Co-chair of NASI's 18th Annual Conference
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Co-chair of the Long-Term Care study panel
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Co-chair of the Long-Term Care study panel
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The 2005 recipient of the Robert M. Ball Award
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Christine Baker has been the Executive Officer of the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation (CHSWC) since its inception in 1994.
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Frederick Kilbourne has worked as an independent consulting actuary since 1964.
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Member of the “Uncharted Waters” Study Panel
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Member of the “Uncharted Waters” Study Panel
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2004
Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor at Yale University and Fellow at the New America Foundation.
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Deputy Director for Beneficiary Education in the Center for Beneficiary Choices at CMS.
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Vice-Chair of NASI's Workers' Compensation Steering Committee
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Vice-Chair of NASI's Workers' Compensation Steering Committee
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Chair of the Academy's Workers' Compensation Steering Committee
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Recipient of the first Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance
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Co-Chair of "Interaction of Workers' Compensation and Social Security Disability Insurance"
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Co-Chair of "Interaction of Workers' Compensation and Social Security Disability Insurance"
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Chair of the Academy's Development Committee
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2003
Conference Co-Chair
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Conference Co-Chair
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Conference Co-Chair
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