Health Management and Policy

Along with providing education and training, department of Health Management and Policy 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.

Department Chair

Paula M. Lantz, Ph.D., M.S.
Clinical preventive services, women's health policy, child health policy, social inequalities in health, policy analysis methods.

Core Faculty

	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.
	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.
	Brant E. Fries, Ph.D. Long-term care policy & regulation, including nursing homes, home care, well-elderly in the community, palliative care, & psychiatric care.
	Kyle L. Grazier, Ph.D. Financing and delivery of mental health and substance abuse services; insurance and payment systems, benefits design; 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.
	Richard A. Hirth, Ph.D. Not-for-profit ownership, health insurance, long-term care, managed care, medical technologies, end-stage renal disease.
	Peter D. Jacobson, J.D., M.P.H. Role of the courts in shaping health policy; public health ethics; influence of law on public health and health care delivery.
	Margaret E. Kruk, M.D., M.P.H. Financing and utilization of maternal health services in low-income countries, use of stated preference methods in health care (discrete choice experiments), health system performance evaluation in sub-Saharan African and other low-income regions
	Paula M. Lantz, Ph.D., M.S. Clinical preventive services, women's health policy, child health policy, social inequalities in health, policy analysis methods.
	Christy Harris Lemak, Ph.D. Management and leadership in health care organizations, Medicaid policy, provider behavior, managed care, safety net organizations.
	Jersey Liang, Ph.D. Comparative aging, health, and health care.
	Richard L. Lichtenstein, Ph.D. Health services management and policy, racial and ethnic disparities in health, community-based participatory research, health insurance for children, effects of discrimination in access to health care.
	Catherine G. McLaughlin, Ph.D. The uninsured, managed care, market competition, and employer and employee benefit choice.
	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., M.A., M.S.W. Workforce diversity, strategic planning of diversity management in healthcare organizations, organizational culture, and spirituality & management.
	Edward C. Norton, Ph.D. Health economics, long-term care and aging, and econometrics.
	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.
	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., M.H.A. Quality of care, changing physicians' clinical behaviors, executive education.
	Kai Zheng, Ph.D. Information systems, health informatics, technology adoption and acceptance, evaluation of impact of technologies, human factors and HCI issues.

Faculty with Joint Appointments

	Rajesh Balkrishnan, Ph.D. Pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research, applied statistical methodology, effectiveness and quality of medical care measurement.
	Steven J. Bernstein, M.D., M.P.H. Quality of care, appropriateness, decision making, guidelines, women's health, cardiovascular disease, technology assessment.
	Thomas Buchmueller, Ph.D. Economics of health insurance and related policy issues.
	A. Mark Fendrick, M.D. Outcomes research, medical innovation, technology assessment, economic evaluation, cost effectiveness analysis, health care costs, prescription drug benefit design.
	Gary L. Freed, M.D., M.P.H. Immunization policy, health policy and health economics for children, children's health services research.
	Carmen R. Green, M.D. Acute, chronic, and cancer pain; pain management outcomes; clinician variability in decision-making; age, race, gender, and class disparities in health and pain care access; assessment and treatment; health policy.
	Jennifer J. Griggs, M.D., M.P.H. Health and health care disparities, quality of cancer care, patient-provider communication.
	Rodney A. Hayward, M.D. Health care quality measurement and improvement, chronic disease management, determinants of provider practice patterns.
	Joel D. Howell, M.D., Ph.D. Medical technology, health policy, history of medicine.
	Steven J. Katz, M.D., M.P.H. Financing and organization of health care, utilization of medical services.
	Kenneth M. Langa, M.D., Ph.D. Epidemiology and costs of chronic disease in older adults, particularly Alzheimer's and other dementias.
	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.
	Allison Beth Rosen, M.D., M.P.H., Sc.D. Quality of care, payment, policy, health care value, health policy.
	Christopher J. Sonnenday, M.D., M.H.S. Investigation of the patterns of utilization and outcomes of hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation, geographic and racial disparities in the utilization of and access to solid organ transplantation, variation in the care of GI cancers, and the multidisciplinary treatment of hepatobiliary malignancies.

Lecturers and Adjunct Faculty

	Thelma Jann Caison-Sorey, MD, MSA, FAAP Alternative models of delivery of health care and service to high-risk adolescents.
	Clifford E. Douglas, J.D. Tobacco, policy, law, public health policy, public health law, media, communications, advocacy, regulation.
	James P. Fitzgerald, M.H.A., F.A.C.H.E. Health care consulting, career planning, alumni relations.
	Edward B. Goldman, J.D. Health care law, research regulation, HIPAA privacy, legal aspects of genetics.
	Gregory S. Holzman, MD, MPH Social determinants of health, health promotion and disease prevention, elimination of health disparities and building better integration between clinical medicine, public health, and community-based organizations.
	Pamela Paul-Shaheen, Ph.D. Leadership development, policy development and implementation, strategic planning, change management, executive coaching, career transitioning.
	Douglas (Doug) L. Strong, M.B.A. Director and Chief Executive Officer of the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers.

Emeritus Faculty

	Rashid L. Bashshur, Ph.D. Telemedicine system development, implementation, and evaluation.
	Eugenia S. Carpenter, M.P.P. Health workforce, supply distribution and credentialing, planning, organization, and evaluation of delivery of health and human services.
	John H. Romani, Ph.D. Administration and organization of public health agencies, program, and services; factors affecting health and population development in transitional societes.
	J. William (Bill) Thomas, Ph.D., M.B.A. Risk adjustment; provider performance measurement, including quality of care, costs, and efficiency.