Meryl Bloomrosen, MBI, MBA

Ambassadors, Organizational Ambassador, South

Maryland
Representing: Patient and Caregiver Advocacy Organizations

Meryl Bloomrosen is Senior Vice President of Policy, Advocacy, and Research for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA). She works with various stakeholders including patients, providers, researchers, policy makers, and government officials. Her areas of focus include patient engagement, patient-centered outcomes, health literacy, and health information technology. Bloomrosen was Vice President for Public Policy, Thought Leadership, and Practice Excellence at AHIMA; Vice President of Public Policy at AMIA; Vice President of Programs at eHI; and a senior policy analyst at the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPAC). She has graduate certificates in health information management from the US Public Health Service and in biomedical informatics from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She has an MBA in information systems from GW University and a master’s degree in biomedical informatics from OHSU. She has completed the Medical Informatics MBL/NLM Course Fellowship program at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She blogs at www.disruptivewomen.net.

Interest Areas:

  • PCORI’s Assessment of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options Funding Priority
  • PCORI’s Improving Healthcare Systems Funding Priority
  • PCORI’s Communication and Dissemination Research Funding Priority
  • PCORI’s Addressing Disparities Funding Priority
  • PCORI’s Accelerating PCOR and Methodological Research Funding Priority
  • Health and healthcare outcomes of racial and ethnic minority groups
  • Health and healthcare outcomes of low-income groups
  • Health and healthcare outcomes of women
  • Health and healthcare outcomes of older adults (age 65 and older)
  • Health and healthcare outcomes of residents of rural areas
  • Health and healthcare outcomes of individuals with special healthcare needs, including individuals with disabilities
  • Health and healthcare outcomes of individuals whose genetic makeup affects their medical outcomes
  • Health and healthcare outcomes of individuals  with low health literacy/numeracy and limited English proficiency