Voices on Health Care Policy

February 22, 2008

Michael R. Cousineau, Ph.D., is an expert on health care policy and reform for the underserved and uninsured. He is associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine, and also serves as a consultant to the Los Angeles Department of Health Services in the area of ambulatory care planning and evaluation, and public health.
Contact him at (213) 821-0700 or cousinea@usc.edu.

David A. Goldstein, M.D., is an expert on health care reform and medical ethics, including patients’ rights and end-of-life treatment decisions. He is associate professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Geriatric, Hospital and General Internal Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine, as well as co-director of the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics.
Contact him at (323) 226-6571, (323) 442-5100 or dgoldste@hsc.usc.edu.

Joel W. Hay, Ph.D., is an expert on prescription drug costs and health insurance reform. He is associate professor of pharmaceutical economics and policy at the USC School of Pharmacy.
Contact him at (323) 442-3296 or jhay@usc.edu.

Steven Chen, Pharm.D., is an expert on the role of clinical pharmacy in community health care and related policy issues. Chen, associate professor of clinical pharmacy at the USC School of Pharmacy, heads the school’s safety-net clinic program, which delivers clinical pharmacy services to homeless and low-income patients in Los Angeles.
Contact him at (323) 442-1556 or chens@usc.edu.

Martin Pera, Ph.D., has provided extensive advice to state, national and international regulatory authorities on the scientific background to human embryonic stem cell research. Pera is professor and director of the USC Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine. He is also a founding member of the Hinxton Group and serves on the Steering Group of the International Stem Cell Initiative.
Contact him at (323) 442-2172 or pera@usc.edu.