News Release

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July 3, 2006

Boise State Names New Director for Health Policy Center

Boise State University has named Ed Baker director of the Center for Health Policy. Currently an assistant professor of community and environmental health, Baker has 20 years of experience in health care working with hospitals, physicians, health care delivery systems and health care suppliers. He is the lead evaluator for the Ada County Healthy Communities Access Program federal grant and serves as a principal investigator for an Idaho Medicaid grant focused on providing family planning and preventive health care services to low-income women. Baker also works with the Idaho Primary Care Association in developing disease management programs and in creating new models to cover the uninsured

Baker earned a Ph.D. from Temple University and a master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of interest include health care policy, performance improvement and measurement, and managed care core competency development.

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Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208) 426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu

July 12 is the deadline for undergraduate academic degree-seeking students to submit admission materials to Boise State University for the fall 2006 semester. Students must meet the deadline if they plan to take more than seven credits or apply for federal financial aid. For more information, call (208) 426-1820 or go online at http://admissions.boisestate.edu.

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