Faculty
- Dean G. Smith, Ph.D. is the Center's Director and is Professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Health Management and Policy, and Senior Associate Dean for Administration of the School of Public Health. Dr. Smith’s research explores the financial aspects of working with health care delivery and financing organizations. He has conducted extensive evaluations of managed care operations and has studied the implementation of economic analyses in clinical trials. Dr. Smith was the founding President/CEO of Good Health Michigan, Inc. and serves on the Board of Directors of Molina Healthcare of Michigan, a Medicaid HMO.
- A. Mark Fendrick, M.D. is the Center’s Co-Director and Professor at the University of Michigan in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Health Management and Policy. Dr. Fendrick’s research focuses on the clinical and economic assessment of medical interventions with special attention to the study of emerging technologies. He is Co-Director of the Consortium for Health Outcomes Innovation and Cost Effectiveness Studies, and Director of the Health Services Research Core Laboratory. Dr. Fendrick currently serves on the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee and is the Co-Editor in Chief of The American Journal of Managed Care.
- Allison B. Rosen, M.D., M.P.H, Sc.D. directs the Center’s Clinical Core and is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Health Management and Policy. Dr. Rosen’s research interests focus on the impact of drug benefit design on quality and value of health care. She provides detailed clinical expertise for the Center’s development and evaluation activities. Dr. Rosen was an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Health Services Research Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she completed her doctoral work in Health Policy and Management.
- Jenifer J. Martin, J.D. directs the Center’s Communications Core and is Director of Government Relations at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Prior to joining the University, she was a Senior Associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, where she represented a variety of health care clients before the United States Congress and the Administration. Ms. Martin has also held positions on Capitol Hill and in the White House.
- Michael E. Chernew, Ph.D. is the Center's consultant. Michael is professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School. Prior to taking his position at Harvard, he was a professor in the School of Public Health at Michigan and the Director of V-BID. His VBID related work focuses on assessing the impact of copay changes on clinical and economic outcomes.