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Naomi Aronson, PhD
Keith Mueller, PhD
NAOMI ARONSON, PHD
Naomi Aronson is the Executive Director of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Technology
Evaluation Center (TEC).
Dr. Aronson has overseen TEC’s development as a nationally recognized technology assessment
program and an Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) of the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ). She has directed over 300 technology assessments and 20 evidence reports
for AHRQ. Dr. Aronson is a member of the Methodology Committee of the Patient-Centered
Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
Dr. Aronson is a member of the Health Technology Assessment International Health Policy Forum,
the Institute of Medicine Genomics Roundtable, the Steering Committee of the Chicago-Area
DEcIDE Research Center, and the National Business Group on Health Committee on Evidence-
Based Benefit Design. Previously, she has represented the private sector on a U.S. Agency for
International Development Team providing technical assistance to the Hungarian government on
building evidence-based medicine capacity and also served on the Ontario Health Technology
Assessment Evaluation Review Team. She was a member of the Institute of Medicine Forum
on Drug Discovery Translation and Development, and a review committee co-chair for the
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Annual Meeting.
Prior to joining TEC, Dr. Aronson was a member of the Northwestern University faculty,
specializing in the sociology of science and medicine. She also was a post-doctoral fellow in
the Science, Technology and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
received research awards from the National Science Foundation and the American Council of
Learned Societies. Dr. Aronson’s academic research focused on how the organization of scientific
specialties in biomedical and clinical research affects the process of scientific discovery.
KEITH MUELLER, PHD
Keith J. Mueller is Gerhard Hartman Professor and Head, Department of Health Management
and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Iowa. He is also the Director of the Rural Policy
Research Institute (RUPRI) Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis. He has served as President of the
National Rural Health Association (NRHA) and as a member of the National Advisory Committee
on Rural Health and Human Services. He also served on the Advisory Panel on Medicare
Education for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Advisory Committee to the
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. He has published more than 140 scholarly articles
and policy papers, and received awards recognizing his research contributions from NRHA,
RUPRI, and the University of Nebraska. His expert testimony has been solicited by Congressional
committees, the Institute of Medicine and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. His PhD is
in Political Science from The University of Arizona, and he completed a faculty fellowship with The
Johns Hopkins University.