Ladies and Gentlemen meet our preventative task force

A ten member panel with 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.. count them NINE men deciding we don't need so many mammograms...and the one woman came from you guessed it ladies..Chicago

from their website



The Task Force is an independent advisory panel that conducts impartial assessments of scientific evidence. Thus, although sponsored by the Government, its members are non-Federal and do not represent specific organization or Government agency views.


The recommendations and reports of the Task Force are not official statements or guidelines of the Public Health Service or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Further information about the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force can be obtained from David Atkins, M.D., M.P.H., or Carolyn G. DiGuiseppi, M.D., M.P.H., Wilco Building, Suite 310, 6000 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852 phone: 301/594-4015; fax: 301/594-4027.

Membership of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Alfred O. Berg, M.D., M.P.H.
Department of Family Medicine University of Washington Seattle, WA

David A. Grimes, M.D.
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences University of California at San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital San Francisco, CA

Robert B. Wallace, M.D., M.Sc.
Department of Preventive Medicine University of Iowa Iowa City, IA

Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P.
(Task Force Vice-Chairman) Department of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Boston, MA

Robert S. Lawrence, M.D.
School of Hygeine and Public Health The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD A.

Eugene Washington, M.D., M.Sc.
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences University of California at San Francisco/Mount Zion Medical Center San Francisco, CA

Paul S. Frame, M.D.
Tri-County Family Medicine Cohocton, NY Harold C. Sox, Jr., M.D.
(Task Force Chairman) Department of Medicine Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Hanover, NH

Modena E. H. Wilson, M.D., M.P.H.
Department of Pediatrics Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD

Dennis G. Fryback, Ph.D.
Department of Preventive Medicine University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, WI

Electronic Medical Records to save money? I think not.