Health Management & Policy 
HSOP Job Market Candidates
Economics
Omar Alshanqeety (Ph.D. expected April 2010)
Dissertation Title: Modeling Medicare Part D Markets
Dissertation Committee: Richard Hirth, Dan Silverman, Edward Norton, and James Levinsohn.
Research Interests: Health Insurance Markets, Industrial Organization, Econometrics.
Contact Info: oalshanq@umich.edu
Personal website: http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/oalshanq/home
Ginger Smith Carls (Ph.D. expected December 2009)
Dissertation Title: Air quality, short-term morbidity, and the impact of public health alerts (working title)
Dissertation Committee: Richard Hirth, Lucas Davis
Research Interests:
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Contact Info: smithga@umich.edu
Chien-Chia Chuang (Ph.D. expected December 2009)
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Noncompliance on Economic Consequences and Transplantation Choice of the End-Stage Renal Disease Population (working title)
Dissertation Committee: Richard Hirth, Jack Wheeler, Dean Smith, Joseph Messana
Research Interests: Noncompliance and costs, pay for performance, prospective payment system, health care utilization and health outcome
Contact Info: ccchuang@umich.edu
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Personal Website
Hsien-Chang Lin (Ph.D. expected April 2010)
Dissertation Title: Technology Diffusion, Medication Utilization and Patient Outcomes: The Case of SSRIs in MDD Patients
Dissertation Committee: Daniel Eisenberg, Rajesh Balkrishnan, Dean Smith, Steven Erickson
Research Interests: Mental health policy, medication prescribing and utilization in patients with mental disorders, labor market of pharmacist, health outcomes research, pharmacoeconomics
Contact Info: hsclin@umich.edu
Edward Okeke (Ph.D. expected December 2009) hired!
Dissertation Title: The Causes and Consequences of Physician Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa (working title)
Dissertation Committee: Catherine McLaughlin, Dean Yang, Jeffrey Smith, Margaret Kruk and Daniel Eisenberg
Research Interests: Developing country health care systems, health worker migration, international health, health care financing
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Contact Info: blkwrt@umich.edu
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Interdisciplinary Studies
Ana Quinones (Ph.D. expected April 2010)
Dissertation Title: Trajectories of health in old age: ethnic differences (working title)
Dissertation Committee: Jersey Liang, Jane Banaszak-Holl, Mary Haan, Ana Diez-Roux
Research Interests: International and population health, comparative aging, health disparities, immigrant health
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Contact Info: anaq@umich.edu
Sociology
Emily Nicklett (Ph.D. expected May 2010)
Dissertation Title: Diabetes Health Trajectories: Racial/Ethnic, Class, and Gender Disparities
Dissertation Committee: Jersey Liang (co-chair), Renee Anspach (co-chair), Sarah Burgard, Jane Banaszak-Holl, Pamela Smock, Caroline Blaum
Research Interests: Health Disparities, Aging and the Life Course, Chronic Illness, Immigrant Mental Health
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Contact Info: enicklet@umich.edu
Organizational Studies
Larry Hearld (Ph.D. expected April 2009) hired!
Dissertation Title: Professional Staffing in Primary Care: Does Status Influence Continuity of Chronic Care?
Dissertation Committee: Jeffrey Alexander, Jane Banaszak-Holl
Research Interests: Physician organization development and management, professional staffing in organizations, interprofessional relationships, technology adoption and implementation.
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Contact Info: lrh@umich.edu |
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