GAO announces new PCORI board members

The Government Accountability Office yesterday named two new members to six-year terms on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board of Governors: Russell Howerton, M.D., chief medical officer and vice president of clinical operations at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC; and Kathleen Troeger, director of outcomes research at Hologic Inc. Reappointed to six-year terms on the board were: Christine Goertz, vice chancellor for research and health policy at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, IA; Sharon Levine, M.D., associate executive director for The Permanente Medical Group of Northern California; Ellen Sigal, chairperson and founder of Friends of Cancer Research; and Robert Zwolak, M.D., vascular surgeon at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. Grayson Norquist, M.D., chief of the psychiatry service at Grady Health System in Atlanta, also was reappointed to a three-year term as board chair.