Panel Member : Health System Transformation to Meet the Challenge of Chronic Diseases (2008.01)
Raymond Baxter, Kaiser Permanente
Raymond J. Baxter joined Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals as senior vice president for Community Benefit in 2002.
Before he joined Kaiser Permanente, Dr. Baxter led The Lewin Group, a health research, policy and management consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., where he directed a national initiative for the United Auto Workers and the auto industry to assess and improve local health system performance.
Dr. Baxter served on two Institute of Medicine Committees: the Committee on the Safety Net, which prepared the March 2000 report “America’s Health Care Safety Net: Intact but Endangered” and the Committee on HIV Prevention, whose report “No Time to Lose” was released in September 2000.
He holds a doctorate from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. In 2001 the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, honored him as a Public Health Hero for his service in the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco.