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 Amy
Bonomi is a Research Associate at the MacColl Institute
for Healthcare Innovation, Center for Health Studies, Group
Health Cooperative. Ms. Bonomi completed graduate training
in public health at the University of Washington, with a
specific emphasis on social and behavioral aspects of disease
onset and manifestation. Her research emphasis includes
quality of life and health status measurement, primarily
in the areas of cancer, chronic pain, and asthma. She is
currently serving on a panel of experts at the Mayo Clinic
to summarize the body of evidence regarding clinically meaningful
change in quality of life scores. Ms. Bonomi also works
on measurement approaches to assist health care organizations
in evaluating how well they are providing care for people
with chronic diseases and has evaluated multi-level system
approaches to improve outcomes for people with chronic illnesses.
These activities are part of a 5-year, $25 million project
funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve
health services nationwide for the chronically ill. Ms.
Bonomi and her colleagues have extended this measurement
work to recent research being undertaken by the National
Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) to develop national
health care quality indicators for chronic disease.
 Dr.
Wagner is a general internist/epidemiologist and Director
of the W.A. MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation
at the Center for Health Studies (CHS), Group Health Cooperative
of Puget Sound. He is also Professor of Health Services
at the University of Washington School of Public Health
and Community Medicine. Current research interests include
the development and testing of population-based care models
for diabetes, frail elderly, cancer, and other chronic illnesses;
the evaluation of the health and cost impacts of chronic
disease and cancer interventions, interventions to prevent
disability and reduce depressive symptoms in older adults;
and evaluating health care innovations directed at the chronically
ill. Dr. Wagner has written two books and more than 200
journal articles. As of June 1998, he directs the Improving
Chronic Illness Care (ICIC) National Program, a 5-year,
$25 million program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
to assist health systems nationwide in improving care for
the chronically ill. He is also Principal Investigator of
the Cancer Research Network, an NCI funded consortium of
10 HMOs conducting collaborative cancer effectiveness research.
 Michael
Von Korff, ScD is a Senior Investigator at the Center for
Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative. He is also an
affiliate professor in the departments of psychiatry and
health services of the University of Washington Schools
of Medicine and Public Health. His major research interests
are the management and outcomes of depression and of chronic
pain among primary care patients, and determinants of disability
and health care use in these patient populations. He serves
as an advisor to the World Health Organization's initiative
on assessing disability. He has published more than 120
papers in peer-reviewed journals and has received awards
for his research from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
and the American Association for the Study of Headache.
He is a fellow of the Society for Behavioral Medicine and
the Association for Health Services Research.
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