CHRB Announces Board Appointments and Reappointments For 2007-2008
The Commonwealth Health Research Board (CHRB) today announced the reappointments
of Mr. S. Lawrence Kocot, of Alexandria, and Dr. Mark J. Werner, of Roanoke for
a term of five years each. Dr. Dianne Reynolds-Cane has been appointed to the CHRB to serve a four-year
term.
Mr. Kocot received his Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center.
He also earned a Master of Legal Letters in International and Comparative Law,
With Distinction, from the Georgetown University Law Center. In addition, Mr.
Kocot holds a B.A. and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst. Mr. Kocot is currently Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) at the Department for Health
and Human Services in Washington, D.C. Mr. Kocot was originally appointed to the CHRB by Governor Warner in April 2002
and has been reappointed by Governor Kaine to serve a term of five years ending
April 1, 2012. Mr. Kocot currently serves as Chairman of the CHRB.
Dr. Werner serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Carilion
Medical Center in Roanoke, Virginia. In this role, his emphasis has been clinical program development and strategic
planning, quality improvement and outcomes assessment, and improving the
complex interfaces of medical education, hospital operations, and clinical
care. Dr. Werner graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from Rice University and
was an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate from Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine. He remained at Vanderbilt as a pediatric resident and chief resident before
completing a fellowship in adolescent medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He returned to Vanderbilt and served for many years as Director of Adolescent
Medicine achieving national recognition as a leader in adolescent health,
substance abuse prevention and early intervention. In addition to his medical training, Dr. Werner has a graduate degree in Medical
Management from Carnegie Mellon University. After many rewarding years at Vanderbilt, Dr. Werner shifted his career focus
toward health care administration and quality improvement. Prior to joining Carilion Medical Center, Dr. Werner served as a Vice President
for Medical Affairs and Director of Medical Education at Franklin Square
Hospital Center within the MedStar Health System in Baltimore, MD. As a physician leader he has successfully guided dramatic improvements in health
care quality, systematic re-design of hospital-based care, and implemented
innovative approaches to medical education and hospital-based services. Dr. Werner was originally appointed to the CHRB by the Joint Rules Committee in
April 2005. He has been reappointed by the Joint Rules Committee to serve a term of five
years ending April 1, 2012.
Dr. Dianne L. Reynolds-Cane is Medical Director of the Daily Planet Health Care
for the Homeless, a federally-qualified health center in Richmond. She is a
member of the Health Care Working Group of Attorney General McDonnell’s Government and Regulatory Reform Task Force, as well as Virginia’s Joint Commission on Health Care Stroke Systems Work Group, the Virginia State
Bar-Third District Committee, Henrico County’s Drug Court Advisory Committee and the boards of Sheltering Arms Hospital and
the United Way of Greater Richmond and Petersburg.. Dr. Reynolds-Cane is an
Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community
Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, a Williamson Institute Health Law
Fellow, a Public Policy Fellow of the Claude Moore Physicians Leadership
Institute and a Fellow of the U.S. Federation of State Medical Boards. She was
the recipient of gubernatorial appointments to Virginia’s Family and Children’s Trust Fund and to the Virginia Board of Medicine in 1999 where she served as
its President from 2003-04. Dr. Reynolds-Cane received her Doctor of Medicine from Howard University College
of Medicine in Washington, DC, and has three children. Dr. Reynolds-Cane has
been appointed to the CHRB by the Joint Rules Committee to serve a term of four
years ending March 31, 2011.
The CHRB was established in 1997 by the Virginia General Assembly using funds
provided from the conversion of Trigon from a mutual company to a stock
company. The CHRB awards grants for traditional medical and biomedical research
as well as research related to health services and the delivery of health care.
Other members of the CHRB include: Kamlesh N. Dave, M.D., Hopewell; The
Honorable George E. Broman, M.D., Forest; Jan Burrus, R.Ph., Alexandria; Robert
S. Call, M.D., Richmond;
