Richard Moed

Richard Moed has over 25 years of experience in health care. He has served as chief operating officer of both community and academic medical centers. Most recently, he led the operations at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Connecticut. He has also served as an executive and/or board member of several health care services companies including CompCare, an occupational medicine company, CLS, a clinical laboratory company and AMG, a physician management company. Mr. Moed is experienced in developing and implementing research collaboratives and has done so in numerous settings. Along with Drs. Jette and Haley, Mr. Moed is a co-founder of CREcare LLC and serves as its president and CEO.

 

Alan M. Jette

Alan Jette (PT, M.P.H., Ph.D., Public Health Behavior) is the director of the Boston University Health & Disability Research Institute and Professor of Health Services at Boston University's School of Public Health. Dr. Jette's research focuses on late-life exercise, evaluation of treatment outcomes, and the measurement, epidemiology, and prevention of late-life disability. The author of over 125 articles in rehabilitation, geriatrics, and public health literature, Dr. Jette has received prestigious research grants and fellowships from such nationally-recognized organizations as the National Arthritis Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Public Health Service. He is also the recipient of many awards in the field, including the Marian Williams Award, the Sage Publications Editor's Award, the Robert Bartlett Recognition Award, the Barbara C. White Award, the Rose Excellence in Research Award for Excellence in Orthopedic Physical Therapy Research, the Golden Pen Award, the Helen J. Hislop Award, and the Sidney and Elizabeth Licht Award. Dr. Jette currently chairs the Institute of Medicine Panel on the Future of Disability in America.

 

Stephen M. Haley

Stephen M. Haley (PT, Ph.D. Educational Psychology) is a senior research scientist at the Health and Disability Institute at Boston University and a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University. He specializes in measurement of functional status in children and adults, outcomes research, and the application of item response theory models in computer adaptive testing applications in rehabilitation and post-acute health care settings. He is the primary author of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI), which measures functional outcomes for young children. He is also a contributing author to the School Function Assessment (SFA), a functional assessment tool for elementary school children, and the Late-Life Function and Disability Instrument, which measures physical functioning for older adults in community settings. Dr. Haley is the recipient of the prestigious 5-year Independent Scientist Award from the National Institutes of Health, NICHD, NCMRR. For the past 7 years, he has served as the Director of Research for the Research Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs at Franciscan Children's Hospital in Boston.