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ROSLYNE SCHULMAN
Roslyne Schulman has been a Senior Associate Director for Policy Development at the American Hospital Association (AHA) since January 1999.
In this capacity, she is responsible for policy development related to hospital disaster preparedness and response. Roslyne is the co-lead of the AHA’s staff team for hospital readiness and helps to lead the AHA’s efforts in this area. From 2004-2006 she was principal investigator for the AHA’s federal contract with Health Resources and Services Administration on hospital implementation issues and solutions on Emergency Systems for Advanced Registration for Volunteer Healthcare Professionals and served as an ex-officio member of the Hospital Incident Command System National Working Group. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events. Roslyne is also the AHA’s liaison to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. She also represents hospitals as a member of the American Associaton of Blood Bank’s Interorganizational Task Force on Domestic Disasters and Acts of Terrorism; is a coordinating body member of Rx Response. Roslyne also participates in the federal Health Sector Coordinating Council; participates on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Survey and Certification Emergency Preparedness Stakeholder Communication Forum; and the American Medical Association’s National Disaster Life Support Education Consortium.
In addition, Roslyne has primary policy development responsibility in a number of other areas, including the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act; Medicare hospital outpatient, physician and ambulatory surgical center payment policy and other Medicare Part B issues; Medicare contracting reform; rural health clinic issues; FDA policy issues regarding drugs, blood and devices; the TRICARE hospital outpatient payment system; and other areas.
From 1992-1999, she worked for the American College of Emergency Physicians as Regulatory Representative, and from 1990-1992, she was a Legislative Assistant with the American Group Practice Association.
Ms. Schulman came to Washington, D.C. in 1989 as the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow. She received her Masters of Health Administration and Masters of Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh in 1989. Ms. Schulman received her Bachelors of Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984.
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