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Carolyn Clancy, MD, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, reported the addition of new members to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (Rockville, Maryland), which supports the task force.

David Grossman, MD, of Seattle; Sanford (Sandy) Schwartz, MD, of Philadelphia; and Timothy Wilt, MD, of Minneapolis will join the task force this month. Another new member, Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, of Phoenix, joined the Task Force last November.

The Task Force consists of 16 healthcare experts in the specialties of family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, geriatrics, preventive medicine, public health, behavioral medicine, and nursing.

Grossman, a pediatrician who has researched injury prevention and Native American health, serves as medical director of preventive care at Group Health (Seattle). Schwartz, an internal medicine specialist, is the Leon Hess professor of medicine, health management, and economics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton School (both Philadelphia). Wilt, an internal medicine specialist, is a professor in the department of medicine at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis Veteran Affairs Medical Center (both Minneapolis). Melnyk is dean and distinguished foundation professor in nursing at the Arizona State University College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation (Phoenix).

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is focused on disease and injury prevention and primary care.