Professional Activities

Academic Appointments:

2011 Adjunct Professor, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
2010

Director, Center for Medication Safety
Frank P and Josie M Fletcher Endowed Chair in Medication Safety and Efficacy South Carolina Centers of Economic Excellence Chair  in Medication Safety  and Efficacy
Professor, South Carolina College of Pharmacy (with tenure)

2006- 10 A.C. Buehler Chair in Economics and Aging, Buehler Center of Aging,   Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
2001- 10

Associate Director, VA Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care (CMC3) at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Lakeside CBOC

2000- 10 Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School (with tenure)
1994-00 Associate Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School
1994-00

Director HSR&D, VA Chicago Healthcare System-Lakeside Division

1991-94 Senior Research Associate, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
1991-94

Assistant Professor, Duke University School of Medicine

1989-91 Research Associate, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
1989-91 Consultant, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
1987-89

National Center for Health Services Research Post Doctoral Fellow, The RAND/UCLA Center for Health Policy, Santa Monica, CA

Hospital Appointments

2011 Dorn Veterans Administration Hospital, Staff Physician (Oncology)
2001-10

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Quality Improvement and Outcomes
Subcommittee

1998-10 Northwestern Memorial Hospital Quality Assurance Committee
1998- 10 VACHS Jesse Brown Scientific Research Committee
1987-91 Staff Physician, Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, UCLA Medical School, Los Angeles, CA
1982-83

Staff Physician, South Chicago Community Hospital, Chicago, IL

Other Professional Positions and Major Visiting Appointments:

1987-91 Consultant, RAND, Santa Monica, CA
1978

Research Assistant, Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Awards and Honors:

1991-97 Veteran's Administration Career Development Award, Health Services Research & Development
1989

PhD (with Honors in Social Science Methods), RAND Graduate School Program in Public Policy

1989

Masters in Public Policy, the Rand Graduate School

1987-89 National Center for Health Services Research Post-doctoral Fellowship The RAND/UCLA Center for Health Policy, Santa Monica, CA
1977

Phi Beta Kappa and High Honors Graduate in Mathematics (major), economics and chemistry (minors)
Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA

Major Committee Assignments:

National, International, and Regional:

2012

Member, Technical Expert Panel on Outpatient Cancer Therapies (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services)

2012 Reviewer, American Society of Hematology Abstracts (Health Services)
2012 Member, American Society of Clinical Oncology Expert Panel (Prostate Cancer)
2010

Co-Chair, Technical Expert Panel on Chemotherapy Infusion Quality Measures
(Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services)

2010

Scientific Advisory Board, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and Cancer Care Ontario Health Services Research Program

2007- 10 Council Member, National Council of American Cancer Society
2006

Member, AUA physician’s consortium, representing ASCO.

2005

VA Oncology Steering Committee Member

2003 Member, American Society of Hematology subcommittee on Quality of Care
2003- 07

Chairman, American Cancer Society Health Services Research Study Section

2003 Chairman, External Advisory Committee, Salt Lake City VA Translating Research into Practice program
2001-10 Co-Program Leader (Cancer Control) at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
2001

Faculty, American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Association of Cancer Research Faculty on Clinical Trial Methodology (Vail, Colorado)

2000-01

Chairman, American Society of Clinical Oncology Health Services Research Committee

2000

American Society of Clinical Oncology, advisor to the RAND/Harvard Quality Taskforce (Principal Investigator, Joe Bailes MD)

2000

Member, Institute of Medicine Committee on Cancer and the Medically Underserved (Chairman, Alfred Haynes MD PhD)

1999, 2002, 2003 American Society of Clinical Oncology Program Committee
1999

Consultant to Institute of Medicine Committee on Health Care Quality Improvement (Chairmen, Mark Chassin MD MPP)

1998- 10

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center/Northwestern University Scientific Review Committee

1998-99

VA National Quality Enhancement Research Initiative Executive Committee for Prostate Cancer

1998-99

Chairman on Off-the-Shelf Products, VISN12 Committee

1998-03 Co-Chairman, American Society of Clinical Oncology Guidelines Panel on Metastatic Prostate Cancer
1998-00

Committee Member, American Society of Hematology Guidelines Panel on Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

1998-00

Committee Member, American Society of Hematology Guidelines on Erythropoietin Use in Oncology

1998-00

Committee on the Optimization of Hematologic Care, American Society of Hematology

1996-00

Clinical Coordinator (Chicago), Department of Veterans Affairs Decision Support System

1996-98 Clinical Practice Committee Member, American Society of Hematology
1994-00

Outcomes Assessment Co-Chair, National Cancer Center Networks

1994-00

Member, Health Services Research Committee, American Society of Clinical Oncology

1994- 00 Co-Chairman, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Cost Analysis Task Force
1994-  10 Chairman, Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center Section on Health Services Research
1994-97 Veterans Affairs Regional Oncology Advisory Committee
1991-94 Member, Psycho-Oncology Committee of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B
1992 Patient Advocacy Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
1993

Technology Assessment Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

1993 Guidelines Committee for the Use of Hematopoietic Growth Factors, American Society  of Clinical Oncology
1991

American Society of Microbiology

1990

American Public Health Association

1987

American Society of Clinical Oncology

Major research Interests:

  • Adverse drug reactions
  • Costs and quality of cancer care
  • Health policy and minority issues for cancer patients
  • Low literacy and cancer prevention, screening, detection, and treatment
  • Pharmacoeconomics, pharmacovigilance, medication safety, disparities in pharmaceutical use, racial/ethnic disparities

Charles Lee Bennett

Professor

 

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