Along
with
providing
education
and
training,
our
department's
faculty
and
researchers
have
achieved
national
and
international
reputations
for
excellence
in their
respective
fields
of research
and
expertise.
Short
summaries
of faculty
are
detailed
below.
Jeffrey
A. Alexander, Ph.D.
Physician-system
alignment,
governance
of
public-private
community
health
partnerships,
organization
and
staffing
practices,
and
the
effects
of
managed
care.
Jane
Banaszak-Holl, Ph.D.
Inter-organizational
dynamics
and
changes
in
the
business
strategy,
services
and
health
outcomes
of
health
care
organizations.
Steven
J. Bernstein, M.D., M.P.H.
Quality
of
care,
appropriateness,
decision
making,
guidelines,
women's
health,
cardiovascular
disease,
technology
assessment.
Judith
G. Calhoun, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Organizational
change
management,
marketing
and
public
relations
outcomes
assessment,
and
peer
and
self-evaluation
processes
in
the
health
professions.
James
D. Chesney, Ph.D.
Health
politics,
political
science,
impact
of
public
policies
on
health
care
financing
and
delivery.
Toby
Citrin, J.D.
Community-based
partnerships,
genetics/genomics
and
public
health,
civic
engagement,
public
health
practice.
Daniel
Eisenberg, Ph.D.
Mental
health
and
substance
use
services
and
policy.
Jennifer
Elston Lafata, Ph.D.
The
use
of
claims
data
to
evaluate
medical
care
quality
and
costs,
and
cancer
and
diabetes
management.
A.
Mark Fendrick, M.D.
Outcomes
research,
medical
innovation,
technology
assessment,
economic
evaluation,
cost
effectiveness
analysis,
health
care
costs,
prescription
drug
benefit
design.
James
P. Fitzgerald, M.H.A., F.A.C.H.E.
Health
care
consulting,
career
planning,
alumni
relations.
Gary
L. Freed, M.D., M.P.H.
Immunization
policy,
health
policy
and
health
economics
for
children,
children's
health
services
research.
Brant
E. Fries, Ph.D.
Long-term
care
policy,
regulation,
nursing
home,
home
care,
cross-national
comparisons,
mental
health
policy.
Zelda
Geyer-Sylvia, M.P.H.
Managed
care
programs.
Edward
B. Goldman, J.D.
Health
care
law,
research
regulation,
HIPAA
privacy,
legal
aspects
of
genetics.
Ellen
J. Gordon, Ph.D.
Health
politics,
political
science,
comparative
politics,
Russian
and
East
European
politics,
politics
of
nationalism,
politics
of
citizenship
and
immigration.
Kyle
L. Grazier, Ph.D.
Managed
care,
financing
and
delivery
of
mental
health
and
substance
abuse
services,
health
care
management.
Scott
L. Greer, Ph.D.
Politics
of
health
policymaking
in
developed
countries.
John
R. Griffith, M.B.A., F.A.C.H.E.
Managing
acute
care
organizations.
Mary
E. Harrington, M.P.P.
The
uninsured,
low
income
populations,
community-based
programs
evaluation,
managed
care.
Rodney
A. Hayward, M.D.
Health
care
quality
measurement
and
improvement,
chronic
disease
management,
determinants
of
provider
practice
patterns.
Richard
A. Hirth, Ph.D.
Not-for-profit
ownership,
health
insurance,
long-term
care,
managed
care,
medical
technologies,
end-stage
renal
disease.
Joel
D. Howell, M.D., Ph.D.
Medical
technology,
health
policy,
history
of
medicine.
Peter
D. Jacobson, J.D., M.P.H.
Health
law
and
policy,
public
health
law
and
policy,
tobacco
control
law
and
policy,
violence
prevention.
Steven
J. Katz, M.D., M.P.H.
Financing
and
organization
of
health
care,
utilization
of
medical
services.
Duane
M. Kirking, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Assessing
and
improving
the
quality
and
cost
effective
provision
of
medications.
Paula
M. Lantz, Ph.D., M.S.
Clinical
preventive
services,
women's
health
policy,
child
health
policy,
social
inequalities
in
health
program
evaluation.
Helen
G. Levy, Ph.D.
Health
economics,
public
finance
and
labor
economics,
health
insurance.
Jersey
Liang, Ph.D.
Comparative
aging,
health,
and
health
care.
Richard
L. Lichtenstein, Ph.D.
Health
services
management
and
policy,
community-based
participatory
research,
health
insurance
for
children.
Howard
Markel, Ph.D., M.D.
History
of
epidemics
and
public
health,
pediatrics,
genetics,
immigration,
addiction
and
substance
abuse
in
the
US,
American
urban
history.
Catherine
G. McLaughlin, Ph.D.
The
uninsured,
managed
care,
market
competition,
and
employer
and
employee
benefit
choice.
Laurence
F. McMahon, Jr., M.D., M.P.H.
Evaluation
of
clinical
practice
variation,
evaluation
of
outcomes
of
care,
population-based
clinical
practice
profiling,
care
for
gastrointestinal
conditions,
evaluation
and
management
of
inpatient
clinical
practice.
David
Mendez, Ph.D.
Smoking
control,
product
and
service
quality
on
demand,
policies
regarding
residential
radon,
operations
research,
distance
learning,
executive
education.
Valerie
L. Myers, Ph.D.
Organizational
behavior,
organizational
culture,
faith-based
interventions,
religious
organizations
and
health
care.
Harold
A. Pollack, Ph.D.
Substance
abuse
policy,
children
with
special
health
care
needs,
HIV
prevention,
hepatitis,
infant
mortality
prevention,
child
nutrition,
cost-effectiveness,
welfare
policy,
prenatal
drug
use.
Scott
B. Ransom, D.O., M.B.A., M.P.H.
Transforming
the
health
care
delivery
system,
quality
improvement,
health
economics,
and
leadership
development.
Dean
G. Smith, Ph.D.
Health
care
financial
management,
health
insurance,
managed
care,
managerial
accounting,
pharmacoecomomics,
outcomes
research.
Gail
Warden, M.H.A.
Practical
legislative,
regulatory
and
economic
health
care
policy.
Kenneth
E. Warner, Ph.D.
Tobacco,
economics,
policy,
public
health
policy.
Larry
H. Warren, M.A.
Human
resources
management,
hospital
administration.
Lowell
M. Weiner, M.D.
Managed
care
organizations,
physicians
in
managed
care.
Jack
Wheeler, Ph.D.
Health
care
finance,
health
economics,
health
care
managerial
accounting,
health
care
financing
systems,
children's
health
economics,
economics
of
end-stage
renal
disease.
Leon
Wyszewianski, Ph.D.
Quality
of
care,
changing
physicians'
clinical
behaviors,
executive
education.
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