Children with Special Health Care Needs: Findings from the National Survey on Children with Special Health Care Needs

Thursday, May 22, 2003, 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET

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Presenter Information

Michael Kogan, PhD
Director, Office of Data and Information Management
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Room 18-41
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-3145
Fax: (301) 443-3145
mkogan@hrsa.gov

Michael Kogan holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Yale University. He is currently the Director, Office of Data and information Management for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. In this position he is responsible for directing activities of the office with an emphasis on 1) maternal and child health research; 2) building the data capacity of federal, state and local areas in maternal and child health; and 3) building the maternal and child health epidemiology capacity in the United States.

Prior to this position, he worked as a Senior Epidemiologist at the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He serves on the editorial boards of Maternal and Child Health Journal and the American Journal of Public Health. His research interests include: the effect of prenatal and pediatric care services on maternal and child health, the effect of lack of health care coverage on access and continuity of care, multiple births and determinants of preterm birth.

Peter van Dyck, MD, MPH
Associate Administrator, Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Room 18-05
Rockville, MD 20857

Dr. van Dyck was appointed associate administrator for Maternal and Child Health, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services on August 17, 1999, after serving as acting associate administrator from August 3, 1998. He is responsible for an $1.2 billion program, which when combined with state partnership funds is over $4 billion, charged with promoting and improving the health of mothers, children, and families, particularly those who are poor or lack access to care. HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau administers the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grants to the States, the Healthy Start Initiative, the Traumatic Brain Injury and the Emergency Medical Services for Children Program, the Abstinence Education Program, and the bioterrorism hospital preparedness program.

Before this appointment Dr. van Dyck served as the first permanent director of MCHB’s Office of the State and Community Health, which was created in 1995 to be more responsive to state issues related to the MCHB block grant. In this position, he provided guidance to states, established reporting requirements, coordinated technical assistance and developed national information and data systems. Prior to that, he was senior medical advisor to the MCHB and HRSA directors for four years.

Before coming to the federal government in 1992, Dr. van Dyck was the Director of the Family Health Services Division of the Utah Department of Health and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah Medical Center. He has consulted widely both nationally and internationally, chaired numerous national committees, and been President of the Association of Maternal and Child Health Directors and Chair of the Maternal and Child Health Section of the American Public Health Association.

Merle McPherson, MD, MPH
Director, Division of Services for Children with Special Health Needs
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Room 18A-27
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-2350
mmcpherson@hrsa.gov

Dr. Merle G. McPherson is currently Director of the Division of Services for Children with Special Health Needs in the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Dr. Mcpherson received her medical degree from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Preventive Medicine and an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy oif Pediatrics. She has also worked with the Departments of Health and of Human Resources in the District of Columbia, with the Hawaii Department of Health, and with the Maryland Department of Health.

During a long and distinguished Federal career, Dr. McPherson has created a new model of health care delivery for children with special health care needs. In 1982, Dr. McPherson provided the leadership for the "Surgeon General's Workshop on Children with Handicaps and their Families" and over the past two decades, has successfully used the workshop as a catalyst to transform the Maternal and Child Health Bureau's legislative mandate and mission. Her leadership has been instrumental in replacing a deficit-based, categorical, medical model of care with a consumer-driven, family-centered and strength-based comprehensive model, which has become the standard of care for all children. This model is being increasingly utilized in adult health care settings as well. Dr. McPherson has also led the way to expand the family-centered care model for children with special health care needs internationally.

Paul Newacheck, DrPH
Co-Director, Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center, UCSF
University of California, San Francisco
3333 California St., Suite 265
San Francisco, CA 94118
Phone: (415) 476-3896
pauln@itsa.ucsf.edu

Paul W. Newacheck, is Professor of Health Policy at the University of California-San Francisco’s Institute for Health Policy Studies and at the University of California-Berkeley’s School of Public Health where he also teaches. With an interdisciplinary background in economics, public policy, and public health, Dr. Newacheck’s work has focused primarily on children with special health care needs. His research also addresses the relationships between race, class, health insurance and access to care. Dr. Newacheck serves as a member of several advisory committees and expert review panels, including the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (DHHS). He currently chairs the Technical Advisory Panel for the National Children with Special Health Care Needs Survey as well as the Technical Expert Panel for the new National Children’s Health Survey. He serves on the Editorial Board’s of The Future of Children, Health Services Research, and Ambulatory Pediatrics. Dr. Newacheck received his AB in Economics, a Masters of Public Policy, and Doctor of Public Health degrees at the University of California at Berkeley.