Operational Excellence

January 20, 2010

Janice M. Beaverson, MD, Appointed to Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation

Prestigious appointment highlights Kaiser Permanente’s commitment to clinical leadership and excellence

Janice M. Beaverson, MD, associate medical director for Quality and Health Management for the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group and Chair, Clinical Advisory Board of Kaiser Permanente’s National Transplant Services has been appointed to serve on the Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The committee will advise the Secretary on all aspects of organ procurement, allocation and transplantation, including independent review and advice on organ allocation policies developed by the nation’s transplantation network.

As MAPMG’s executive physician lead for quality, Dr. Beaverson has management responsibilities for population care management, peer review and credentialing, senior services and Kaiser Permanente’s Mid-Atlantic States bone marrow and solid organ transplantation processes. She is also Medical Director for the Central East Transplant Hub of the NTS which provides case management quality oversight for the transplant care of over 2.5 million Kaiser Permanente members east of the Rockies.

“Dr. Beaverson’s appointment to the Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation is recognition of her expertise and superior work around transplant care and highlights our clinical excellence and leadership in this area,” said Bernadette Loftus, MD, The Permanente Medical Group’s associate executive director for the Mid-Atlantic States.

The Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation has up to 25 members comprised of non-governmental individuals with diverse backgrounds in fields such as organ donation, health care public policy, transplantation medicine and surgery, critical care medicine and other medical specialties involved in the identification and referral of donors, non-physician transplant professions, nursing, epidemiology, immunology, law and bioethics, behavioral sciences, economics and statistics, as well as representatives of transplant candidates, transplant recipients, organ donors, and family members.