U.S. Preventive Services Task Force gets three new physician members

M. (Tonette) Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH
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Three new physicians have begun four-year terms on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).

Sei Lee, MD, MAS
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They join the 16-member panel that reviews evidence and makes recommendations about clinical preventive services, including screenings and counseling. Its members come from preventive medicine and primary care, including internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, behavioral health, obstetrics and gynecology, and nursing. The panel is independent, but convened and supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Sarah Wiehe, MD, MPH
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USPSTF is seeking nominations by March 15 for new members to start terms in January 2025. Details about the nomination process are available online.

USPSTF published these brief biographies in its announcement and longer bios on its website.

• M. (Tonette) Krousel-Wood, MD, MSPH, is a professor and the Jack Aron endowed chair in primary care medicine in the Tulane School of Medicine Department of Medicine. She is the founding director of the Tulane Center for Health Outcomes, Implementation, and Community Engaged Science (CHOICES). She serves in several leadership roles at Tulane, including as the associate provost for the health sciences, senior associate dean of faculty in the School of Medicine, and associate dean for public health and medical education.
• Sei Lee, MD, MAS, is a professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Senior Scholar for the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Quality Scholars fellowship. Dr. Lee also chairs the American Geriatrics Society Quality and Performance Measurement Committee. He is a geriatrician and palliative care physician and has cared for patients in the clinic, hospital, and nursing home settings.
• Sarah Wiehe, MD, MPH. Wiehe is the Jean and Jerry Bepko professor of pediatrics and associate dean of community and translational research at Indiana University School of Medicine. She is a research scientist at the Regenstrief Institute and adjunct professor of epidemiology at Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University. Dr. Wiehe co-directs the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and leads its community engagement program.