Steering Committee

The BBCIC Steering Committee manages the consortium’s charter, operational policies and procedures, and research plans. The Steering Committee oversees public communications for BBCIC activities and findings. 

BBCIC Steering Committee Members

  • Chairperson: Mark Cziraky, PharmD, Vice President, Elevance Health, and President, Carelon Research
  • Rebekah Angove, Vice President Patient Experience and Evaluation, Patient Advocate Foundation
  • Robert Ball, MD, MPH, Deputy Director, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • Leah Christl, PhD, Executive Director, Global Regulatory and R&D Policy, JAPAC Lead and Global Biosimilars, Amgen
  • Hillel Cohen, MD, PhD, Executive Director, Scientific Affairs, Sandoz 
  • Bahar Coley, Project Manager, Research Operations, Carelon Research
  • Jeffrey R. Curtis, Marguerite Jones Harbert – Gene Ball Endowed Professor of Medicine, University of Alabama, Division of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology
  • Amy Gross, PharmD, BCPP, Director, Clinical Specialists, Express Scripts Inc
  • Katherine Harris, Principal Scientist, Carelon Research
  • Anna Hyde, Vice President of Advocacy and Access| Department of Advocacy and Access, Arthritis Foundation
  • James T. Kenney, MBA, RPh, Founder and President, JTKENNEY, LLC
  • Dottie McCabe, PhD, FCP, Executive Director, Clinical Development & Medical Affairs, General Medicine, Immunology & CNS, Boehringer-Ingelheim
  • Aaron B. Mendelsohn, PhD, MPH, Senior Health Services Researcher, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
  • Robert S. Miller, MD, FACP, FASCO, FAMIA, Chief Medical Science Officer, CancerLinQ, American Society of Clinical Oncology

  • Pamala A. Pawloski, PharmD, BCOP, FCCP, Senior Research Investigator, HealthPartners Institute

  • Ahmed Shelbaya, MD, MPH, Senior Director, Global Health Outcomes Research, Pfizer Inc.

  • Darren Toh, ScD, Professor, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

  • BBCIC Staff: Cate Lockhart, PharmD, PhD, Executive Director, BBCIC
  • BBCIC Staff: Cara McDermott, PharmD, PhD, Research Consultant, BBCIC
  • BBCIC Counsel: George Constantine, JD, Counsel, BBCIC