2004
ANNUAL RESEARCH MEETING
The premier forum for health services research
Agenda
San Diego • June 6 – 8
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Dear Colleague:
In the 10 years since we last held our Annual Research Meeting in San Diego, health
services research concerns have become even more relevant. Health care costs are
again escalating faster than national income; millions more Americans are uninsured;
new concerns have been raised about the quality of health care; and public health
faces unexpected threats. Clearly, the research of AcademyHealth members is more
important than ever in helping policymakers and practitioners make critical and necessary choices.
The 2004 meeting will highlight significant new work across a wide range of topics, reflecting the breadth
of research this field offers. By bringing researchers together with policy analysts, managers, and practitioners, this meeting provides unique opportunities for research to inform health care decision-making.
We welcome Vint Cerf, Ph.D., as our keynote speaker. He will discuss the implications of technology and
the Internet for health care. His accomplishments have been instrumental in the work of health services
researchers and his vision for the future is likely to be similarly inspiring.
Many of you have taken a leadership role behind the scenes, ensuring that this meeting remains “the premier forum for health services research.” I would like to thank the planning committee, review committees, and conference faculty for their contributions; they make this tremendous undertaking possible.
I hope you enjoy your stay in San Diego. Thank you for being a part of our 2004 Annual Research Meeting.
Sincerely,
Sherry Glied, Ph.D.
Chair, Annual Research Meeting
Professor, Department of Health Policy
and Management
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
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Policy & Research
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ihps
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School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
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Research and Quality
National Center for Health Statistics
Annual Research Meeting Themes
Below is a key depicting this year’s Annual Research Meeting themes. Several sessions listed throughout the agenda portion of this book have theme bullets next to the title to help guide you through the sessions. This guide may
prove helpful as you determine the session you would like to attend.
Themes
B
Behavioral Health
I
International
C
Child Health
L
Long-Term Care
R
Chronic Care Delivery
A
O
Management
& Organization
Coverage & Access
M
D
Disparities
H
Health Insurance Markets
P
Medicare & Medicare
Prescription Drugs
Public Health
Q
T
W
Quality & Patient Safety
Technology, Innovation
& Evaluation
Workforce
Table of Contents
Conference Agenda
Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Monday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Tuesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Affiliate Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Session Information
Types of Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Sessions by Theme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Most Outstanding Abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Poster Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Exhibit Program
Exhibitor Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Exhibitors by Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Exhibit Hall Floor Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Conference Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Continuing Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
Awards
Distinguished Investigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Alice S. Hersh New Investigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Article-of-the-Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Dissertation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Student Poster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
NCHS/AcademyHealth Health Policy Fellow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Committees
Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Annual Research Meeting Planning Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Abstract Reviewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Boards of Directors
AcademyHealth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Coalition for Health Services Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
AcademyHealth Membership
Individual Member Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Organizational Affiliates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Interest Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
Student Chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Conference Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Speaker Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Map of Hotel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
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Sunday
7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Registration
8:15 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Student Breakfast
Meet-the-Experts
California Ballroom
Experts: Linda Aiken, University of Pennsylvania;
Arlene Ash, Boston University Medical Center;
Judith Feder, Georgetown University; Sherry Glied,
Columbia University; James Knickman, The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation; Elizabeth McGlynn, RAND;
David Mechanic, Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey; Robert Reischauer, The Urban Institute;
Thomas Rice, University of California, Los Angeles;
Sara Rosenbaum, George Washington University;
Diane Rowland, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation;
Stephen Shortell, University of California, Berkeley
All students are invited to attend this breakfast to meet informally
with leading health services researchers and policymakers.
7:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
The Impact of Regulation, Markets &
Information on Quality in Nursing Homes
L
Pacific Three
Chair: Mary Jane Koren, The Commonwealth Fund
Panelists: David Grabowski, University of Alabama at
Birmingham; Ciaran O’Neill, University of Ulster,
Jordanstown; Shoshanna Sofaer, Baruch College
Roundtable: Market forces, publicly available information,
and regulation are three powerful drivers of nursing homes’
behavior. The speakers will begin by considering the history
and impact of each on nursing home quality. However,
because these forces tend to operate interdependently, panelists will consider how they might be channeled to reinforce
each other and used synergistically to improve performance.
Likewise, the panel will reflect on what lessons might be
derived from the experience of the nursing home industry
for other long-term care sectors such as home care.
International
Breakfast Meeting
(Open)
Getting Evidence-Based Psychosocial
Treatments into Practice: Evidence &
Challenges in Behavioral Health
Sunrise
Pacific Two
Policy Innovations in the United Kingdom,
Canada, and New Zealand: Opportunities for
Cross-National Learning
Chair: Robin Osborn, The Commonwealth Fund
Panelists: Ronald Paterson, Health and Disability
Commissioner, New Zealand; Steven Morgan,
Centre for Health Services and Policy Research,
University of British Columbia, Canada; Stephen Dunn,
Section Head and Policy Advisor, Foundation Trust
Financial Regime, UK Department of Health
Sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund
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9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
B
Chair: Kenneth Wells, University of California, Los Angeles
Panelists: Robert Cullen, Prince George’s County Health
Department; Jeanne Miranda, University of California, Los
Angeles; Margo Picou, Consultant; David Shern, University of
South Florida; Barbara Vickrey, University of California, Los
Angeles
Roundtable: This roundtable will present teams of investigators
and community agency participants to discuss efforts to
improve aspects of psychosocial services for chronic illnesses,
reviewing study goals of services and dissemination efforts,
study findings (if applicable), challenges faced, and solutions
found/attempted from diverse perspectives. The exemplar conditions are providing psychotherapy for depression in community settings, building new directions for improving services
from schizophrenia after the PORT findings, and improving
outreach and services for dementia.
Real World Uses of Risk Adjustment
(Predictive Modeling)
Pacific Six/Seven
Chair: Arlene Ash, Boston University Medical Center
Panelists: James Naessens, Mayo Clinic;
Rong Yi, DxCG, Inc.
Methods Workshop: The panel will discuss a range of current
uses for risk adjustment models in managing health care
workflow and costs. Topics include using pharmacy records
versus other data to predict future drug costs, identifying persistently high primary care users, and profiling specialist care.
H
Innovations in Health Insurance
Royal Palm Two
Chair: Richard Lindrooth, Medical University
of South Carolina
Call for Papers:
M. Kate Bundorf, Stanford University
“The Incidence of the Health Care Costs of Obesity”
Dominick Esposito, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
“Prescription Drug Demand for Therapeutic Substitutes:
Do Copayments and Insurer Non-Price Rationing Influence
Patient Utilization?”
Srikanth Kadiyala, Harvard University
“The Causal Effect of Managed Care on Quality: Evidence
from Cancer Screening Guideline Discontinuities”
Anthony LoSasso, Northwestern University
“Immigrants and Employer-Provided Health Insurance”
The Delivery System Counts: Organizational
Structure & the Quality of Care
O
Sunset
Chair: Jane Banaszak-Holl, University of Michigan
Call for Papers:
Askar Chukmaitov, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Variations in Quality Outcomes among Hospitals in
Different Types of Health Systems, 1995 – 2000”
Ann Scheck McAlearney, Ohio State University
“Adoption and Use of Handheld Computers
in Clinical Practice”
Patricia Parkerton, University of California, Los Angeles
“Does Primary Care Practice Autonomy Influence
Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates?”
Bruce Siegel, George Washington University
“Improving the Performance of the Safety Net:
Findings of the Urgent Matters Project”
Medicare & Medicare Prescription Drugs:
Expense or Investment?
M
Royal Palm Five/Six
Chair: Len Nichols, Center for Studying
Health System Change
Call for Papers:
Chad Abrams, Johns Hopkins University
“Identifying High Risk Medicare Enrollees, Improved
Identification and Payment Possible?”
Bryan Luce, MEDTAP International, Inc.
“Estimating the Value of Investment:
Medicare and Overall U.S. Health Care Services”
Steven Morgan, University of British Columbia
“Drug Expenditures in Canada: A Population-Based
Analysis of Trends and Causes”
Bruce Stuart, University of Maryland at Baltimore
“The Impact of Prescription Coverage on Drug
and Non-Drug Spending under Medicare”
Zhou Yang, Michigan State University
“How Much Would a Medicare Prescription Drug
Benefit Cost? Offsets in Medicare Part A Cost
by Increased Drug Use”
Sunday
Andrew Coburn, University of Southern Maine
“Who Uses Individual Health Insurance and for How Long?
An Analysis of the 1996 – 2000 SIPP”
Carol Simon, Boston University
“Are Practice Structure and Market Competition Related to
the Quality of Care Delivered by Office-Based Physicians?”
Public Health Risks, Costs
& Prevention Strategies
P
Royal Palm Four
Chair: Linda McKibben, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
Call for Papers:
Tatiana Andreyeva, RAND
“Health Care Costs of Moderate and Severe Obesity”
Yuhua Bao, University of California, Los Angeles
“Is Some Physician Advice on Smoking Cessation Better
than No Advice? An Instrumental Variable Analysis
of the 2001 National Health Interview Survey”
Lisa Faulkner, Public Health Institute
“The Impact of Obtaining Documented Informed Consent
for Population-Based Voluntary Supplemental Newborn
Screening in California”
David Howard, Emory University
“Impact of Low Health Literacy on Medical Costs”
Douglas Levy, Harvard Medical School
“Maternal Smoking and the 1998 Master Settlement
Agreement”
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Web Resources: News from NLM & Beyond
Pacific Four/Five
Chair: Marjorie Cahn, National Library of Medicine
Panelists: Betsy Humphreys, Lisa Sedlar, and Catherine
Selden, all from the National Library of Medicine
Research Resources: Placing increased emphasis on
resources to support health services research and public
health, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has developed a new section of its Web site (www.nlm.nih.gov)
devoted to these topics. Come learn about these new and
improved Web resources from NLM (and its public and
private partners), including collaborative projects, databases, subject access projects, outreach and training, publications, and research and informatics initiatives.
Research Agenda at the National Cancer
Institute: Priorities & New Opportunities in
Health Services & Outcomes Research
Royal Palm Three
Chairs: Martin Brown and Steven Clauser, both from the
National Cancer Institute
Research Agenda: This session will present and discuss
National Cancer Institute (NCI) current and anticipated
research programs and funding opportunities in health services
and outcomes research, emphasizing the pathways for seeking
and obtaining extramural support from this largest of the NIH
institutes and centers. NCI’s research priorities in health services research and outcomes encompass a wide range of topics,
including cancer outcomes measurement, quality-of-care
assessment and improvement, and a host of topics in the economics of cancer care, including analyses of costs, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness. There is also a focus on how the
tools of health services research and outcomes research can be
applied to understand and reduce disparities in access to cancer services and health outcomes.
experts, who are current or former state legislators, will present
their perspectives on the issue. They will be joined by the director of an agency that is responsible for providing research data
to a state legislature.
Investigating the Factors that Influence
Hospitalization for Chronic Medical Conditions
R
Royal Palm One
Chair: Nancy McCall, RTI International
Call for Panels:
Erica Brody, RTI International
“Do Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions Affect Beneficiaries’
Experience and Satisfaction with Health Care?”
Nancy McCall, RTI International
“Are Changing Rates of Admission for Chronic Medical
Conditions Simply a Reflection of Changes in the
Demographics, Health Status, and Geographic
Migration Patterns of the Elderly?”
Lee Mobley, RTI International
“Spatial Analysis of Healthcare Markets: Separating
the Signal from the Noise in Ambulatory Care Sensitive
Condition Admission Rates”
Sujha Subramanian, RTI International
“Does Access to Usual Source of Care and Supplemental
Insurance Prevent Hospitalization for Chronic Medical
Conditions among the Elderly?”
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Is There a Future for Integrated Care Systems
in the Consumer Era?
Royal Palm One
View from the State Legislature:
Translating Research into Policy
Pacific One
Chair: Mitch Greenlick, Oregon State House of
Representatives
Panelists: Bruce Goldberg, Office of Oregon Health Policy and
Research; Phil Lopes, Arizona State House of Representatives;
James Tallon, United Hospital Fund of New York
Special Session: This session will examine the role of health
services research information from the perspective of the state
legislature. Three health services researchers/health policy
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Chair: Robert Crane, Kaiser Permanente
Panelists: Kenneth Chuang and R. Adams Dudley, both
from the University of California, San Francisco; James
Robinson and Stephen Shortell, both from the University of
California, Berkeley
Roundtable: Today, responsibility for health care decisions
is increasingly placed on consumers. Consumer choice can
encourage some quality and efficiency improvements, but
that alone is insufficient. Care delivery systems must be
aligned to support this task. This panel will explore lessons
learned from existing integrated care systems, such as
Kaiser Permanente, Group Health, and HealthPartners.
What is known about quality and efficiency in such sys-
tems? What has caused them to succeed or fail? What
role will they play in an increasingly consumer-driven
insurance market? What does their experience tell us
about the prospects for transforming health care as
called for by the Institute of Medicine?
Understanding Approaches to Account for
Clustering of Observations in HSR
Pacific Two
Chair: A. Russell Localio, University of Pennsylvania
Methods Workshop: This workshop will focus on the
approaches for analyzing clustered data from randomized and observational studies, with special emphasis
on binary outcome data. It will also cover lesswell-known analytic challenges, such as confounding
by cluster, the sometimes overlooked assumptions of
volume outcome studies, and the risks of estimates
with substantial bias. Finally, there will be an overview
of tips for presenting results in a clinically meaningful
manner. The session will include copies of the slides
and a bibliography.
Determinants of Access & Quality of Care
Pacific Six/Seven
Chair: Elizabeth Ozer, University of California,
San Francisco
Call for Papers:
David Brousseau, Medical College of Wisconsin
“Pediatric Quality of Care is Associated with
Primary Care Provider Type”
Susan Haber, RTI International
“Ethnic Disparities in SCHIP: The Role of Acculturation”
Ian Hill, The Urban Institute
“The Covering Kids and Families Evaluation: Findings
from Parent Focus Groups on Access to Care”
Moira Inkelas, University of California, Los Angeles
“Mental Health Need and Access to Services for CSHCN”
Sue Kim, University of California, San Francisco
“Access and Satisfaction with Care for CSHCN in
Medicaid Managed Care and Other Types of Health
Plans: An Analysis of the 2000 MEPS”
Learning from International Policy Change
Sunset
Chair: Huw Davies, University of St. Andrews
Call for Papers:
Carl-Ardy Dubois, London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine
“Managing the Workforce for a Changing Healthcare
System: Lessons from the European Experiences”
Naomi Fulop, London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine
“Organizational Turnaround: Lessons from a Study
of ‘Failing’ Health Care Providers in England”
Michael Harrison, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
“Market Reforms in Europe: Dynamics of Policy Fashion”
Peter Hussey, Johns Hopkins University
“How Does the Quality of Medical Care Compare
in Five Countries?”
Steven Morgan, University of British Columbia
“A Decade of Evidence-Based Prescription Drug
Purchasing in British Columbia”
W Evidence for Planning the Future
Health Care Workforce
Royal Palm Two
Chair: Lori Melichar, The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
Sunday
C
I
Call for Papers:
Carol Brewer, University at Buffalo, The State
University of New York
“Factors Influencing Registered Nurses’ Decisions to Work”
Judith Cooksey, University of Maryland, Baltimore
“Genetics Workforce Concern: A Limited Supply of
Medical Geneticists”
Nancy Hanrahan, University of Pennsylvania
“Crisis in the Mental Health Workforce:
The State of the Advanced Practice Nurse Workforce”
Lynn Unruh, University of Central Florida
“Impact of Patient Turnover on Nurse Staffing”
Diane Watson, University of British Columbia
“What’s Up Docs? Population-Based Supply and
Use of Family Doctors, 1991 – 2001”
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A
The Uninsured
Pacific One
Patient Safety 2004: Connecting the
Dots to Reduce Harm
Q
Royal Palm Five/Six
Chair: Kenneth Thorpe, Emory University
Call for Papers:
Susan Busch, Yale University
“Case Management of Uninsured Emergency Department
Patients: Results from an Economic Analysis of a
Randomized Controlled Trial”
Li-Wu Chen, University of Nebraska Medical Center
“The Pent-up Demand for Health Care of the Uninsured
Near Elderly When They Are Approaching Age 65”
Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
“The Accessibility of Specialty Care for California’s
Uninsured”
Patricia Ketsche, Georgia State University
“The Effect of Employment-Based Health Insurance on
Wages and Returns to Tenure: Evidence that High- and
Low-Wage Workers Differ”
Judy Zerzan, Oregon Health and Science University
“The Demise of Oregon’s Medically Needy Program:
Effects of Losing Prescription Drug Coverage and
Pharmaceutical Company Drug Assistance Programs”
Medical Care Use of Residential
Care Patients
L
Royal Palm Four
Chair: Penny Hollander Feldman, Visiting Nurse
Service of New York
Call for Papers:
Becky Briesacher, University of Maryland, Baltimore
“The Effect of Federal Drug Therapy Guidelines on
Patient Safety in Nursing Homes: A Natural Experiment”
Susan Horn, Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research
“Cost-Benefit Analysis of Nursing Home Registered Nurse
Staffing Times”
Orna Intrator, Brown University
“The Effect of Medicaid Rate on Potentially Preventable
Hospitalizations from Nursing Home”
Sophia Kazakova, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
“Reduction in Mortality Associated with Influenza and
Pneumococcal Vaccination of Elderly in Nursing Homes”
Charles Phillips, Texas A&M University System Health
Science Center
“Medicare Expenditures for Residents in Assisted Living:
Data from a National Study”
Chair: Daniel Stryer, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
Call for Papers:
Didem Bernard, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
“Adverse Patient Safety Events: Costs of Readmissions and
Patient Outcomes Following Discharge”
Kimberly Galt, Creighton University
“Medication Safety in the Primary Care Physician’s Office”
Daniel Harris, CNA Corporation
“A Comparison of Medical Error Reports Submitted to a
Voluntary Patient Safety Reporting System by Different
Classes of Reporters: A Report from the ASIPS Collaborative”
Dennis Scanlon, Pennsylvania State University
“The Impact of the Leapfrog Group on Hospital
Patient Safety Practices”
Donna Woods, Northwestern University
“Patient Safety Problems in Adolescent Medical Care”
Help with Publishing Instead of
Perishing: Meet the Editors
Pacific Four/Five
Chair: Bradford Gray, Milbank Quarterly
Panelists: Jeffrey Alexander, Medical Care Research and
Review; Robert Cunningham, Health Affairs; Harold
Luft, Health Services Research; Colleen McHorney,
Medical Care; Mark Schlesinger, Journal
of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Skill and Career Development: In this session, editors
from leading health services research and policy journals will briefly describe their journals’ niches and
comment on factors that affect the likelihood that submission’s will find their way into print. There will be
time for comments and questions from the audience.
Research Agenda of AHRQ
Pacific Three
Chair: Francis Chesley, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
Research Agenda: This session will provide an update on
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality programs,
provide an overview of new research priorities, and
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describe new funding opportunities. Health information
technology research funding opportunities will be
described and innovative recent activities and potential
future directions for the Agency’s Translating Research
into Practice and Policy program will be described. Key
findings from the recently released National Healthcare
Quality Report and the National Healthcare Disparities
Report will be highlighted including opportunities to use
these reports in quality improvement efforts and to
address health care disparities.
Diversity in Health Services Research
Royal Palm Three
Chair: Vanessa Gamble, Johns Hopkins University
Panelists: Kelly Devers, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Robert Mayberry, Morehouse School of
Medicine; Eliseo Perez-Stable, University of California,
San Francisco; Robert Valdez, RAND
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Opening Luncheon Plenary
Atlas Ballroom
Welcoming Remarks
Sherry Glied, Conference Chair
Columbia University
Taking Internet’s Temperature:
Prescriptions for the 21st Century
Vinton Cerf
Technology Strategy, MCI
Alice S. Hersh New Investigator
Award Presentation
Awardee: David Studdert, Harvard School
of Public Health
Presenter: Michael Chernew, University of Michigan
How Much, How Soon? Coverage
Decisions in the Medicare Program
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California
Chair: Sean Tunis, Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services
Panelists: Tanisha Carino, Health Strategies
Consultancy, LLC; Susan Bartlett Foote, University of
Minnesota; Peter Neumann, Harvard University;
Steven Pearson, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Roundtable: Over the past five years, the Medicare
program has substantially altered its approach to making national coverage decisions by adopting an explicit, evidence-based approach to policy development;
appointing an independent expert advisory committee;
and conducting all of its activities with full public disclosure. Perhaps because of these advances, another
layer of challenges to developing coverage policies has
become apparent. This session will explore several
specific critical challenges now faced when making
these decisions, including the appropriate balance
between local and national policy, the role of economic
factors in decision making, and the degree of deference granted to physician and patient preferences. The
session will conclude with a participatory exercise that
will stimulate panelists and audience members to
think creatively about strategies that Medicare might
use to further improve its national coverage process.
Sunday
Special Session: This panel will focus on the importance of ensuring diversity in health services research.
AcademyHealth, through a grant from the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation, is taking a leadership role in this pursuit.
Panelists will present the project’s findings to date and
will provide their perspective on the importance of
diversity in this field.
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Health Information Technology for the
Health Care Sector: Where Are We?
How Can We Get Where We Need to Go?
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Sunset
Chair: Helen Burstin, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
Panelists: Mark Leavitt, Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society; Arnold Milstein,
William M. Mercer, Inc.; Paul Tang, Palo Alto Medical
Foundation
Roundtable: While many consider health information
technology as a transformational force in patient safety
and quality of care, there has been limited diffusion within the health care sector. In this policy roundtable, the
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panel will consider the current and future status of information technology in health care from the perspectives
of government, private purchasers, vendors, and health
care providers. Discussion will include barriers to widespread implementation, potential quality and cost benefits, and strategies to accelerate adoption.
Methodological Challenges in Detecting &
Intercepting Medical Errors & Adverse Events
Royal Palm One
Chair: Donald Goldmann, Children’s Hospital, Boston
Panelists: Harvey Murff, Department of Veterans
Affairs; Richard Platt, Harvard Pilgrim Health
Care/Harvard Medical School
Methods Workshop: This session will review diverse
methodologies for detecting and preventing medical
errors and adverse events. Methods for detecting and
preventing events in real time (including automated
methods)and the use of computerized databases for
research will be emphasized. The potential for translating research methods into the real world of clinical care
will be assessed and research priorities highlighted.
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Health Insurance Changes
Royal Palm Five/Six
Chair: Thomas Buchmueller, University of
California, Irvine
Call for Papers:
Linda Blumberg, The Urban Institute
“Effects of an Economic Boom on Health Insurance
Status” and “Exploring the Decline in Employer
Sponsored Insurance”
Michael Chernew, University of Michigan
“Increasing Health Insurance Premiums and the Decline
in Insurance Coverage”
Richard Kronick, University of California, San Diego
“The Response of Small Business to Variation in the Price of
Insurance: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial”
Len Nichols, Center for Studying Health System Change
“Uninsured Decliners of Employer Sponsored Health
Insurance: How They Changed from 1997 – 2003”
Supported in part by The Lewin Group
W Impact of Practice Organization &
Demographics on the Workforce
Pacific Four/Five
Evidence-Based Management: Translating
Research into Practice
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Pacific Two
Chair: Thomas Rundall, University of California,
Berkeley
Panelists: Huw Davies, University of St. Andrews;
Jean-Louis Denis, University of Montreal; Jean Slutsky,
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Invited Papers: At the core of evidence-based management (EBM) is the notion that managers should incorporate into their decision making the best available
research. There is growing interest among researchers
and decision-makers in strengthening the role of
research in decision making. The panelists will identify
the barriers to EBM within the health management
research communities and within health organizations; discuss strategies for overcoming those barriers;
and present real world examples of programs designed
to increase EBM in health care organizations within
the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
Supported in part by AUPHA and the Center for Health
Research, University of California, Berkeley
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Chair: Sean Clarke, University of Pennsylvania
Call for Papers:
Gwendolyn Greiner, VA Puget Sound Health Care System
“RN Characteristics and Staffing Patterns: A Comparison of
VHA and Non-VHA Hospital RNs in the United States”
Cheryl Jones, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Educational Preparation and Registered Nurse Turnover”
Rebecca Lewis, American College of Radiology
“Women in Radiology”
Elizabeth Mertz, University of California, San Francisco
“Evaluation of Strategies to Recruit Oral Health Care
Providers to Underserved Areas in California”
Patricia Stone, Columbia University
“Turnover of Critical Care Registered Nurses”
Focus on Prescription Drug Use: Data from
the National Center for Health Statistics
Royal Palm Two
Chair: Diane Makuc, National Center for
Health Statistics
Panelists: Amy Bernstein, Catharine Burt, and Ryne
Paulose, all from the National Center for Health Statistics
Research Resources: Prescription drugs are an increasingly important component of health care. Drug utilization has been changing rapidly, affected by third-party
coverage, marketing practices, new clinical guidelines,
and the availability of new drugs. Data on trends in drug
use are available from multiple sources including medical
records and personal interviews. This session will
describe the data collected on medications in national
health care provider- and population-based surveys and
how these data can be used to inform health policy. The
types of research and policy questions that can be
addressed by each data source will be highlighted.
Chair: David Shern, University of South Florida
Panelists: Junius Gonzales, National Institute of
Mental Health; Harold Perl, National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; Jack Stein, National
Institute on Drug Abuse
Research Agenda: The institutes will provide an overview
of current areas of services research, highlight recent key
findings, and discuss future direction and funding opportunities.
Medicaid Reform & Enforceable Rights:
Implications of a Changing Legal Landscape
for Access & Quality
Pacific One
Chair: Sara Rosenbaum, George Washington University
Panelists: Timothy Stolfus Jost, Washington and Lee
University; Jeanne Lambrew, George Washington
University; Cindy Mann, Georgetown University;
Alan Weil, The Urban Institute
Does Participation in Collaborative Quality
Improvement Programs Improve Care for
Patients with Chronic Illness?
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Royal Palm Four
Chair: Emmett Keeler, RAND
Call for Panels:
David Baker, Northwestern University
“Improvements in Communication, Education, and
Self-Management Through Implementation of the Chronic
Care Model for Patients with Heart Failure”
Jill Marsteller, National Center for Health Statistics
“The Role of Team Effectiveness in Improving Chronic Illness
Care”
Roberto Vargas, RAND
“Do Collaborative Quality Improvement Programs Reduce
Cardiovascular Risk for Persons with Diabetes?”
Sunday
Research Agenda of NIAAA, NIDA, NIMH
Royal Palm Three
Special Session: This session will explore judicial developments over the past decade that affect Medicaid’s public
policy status as an enforceable legal right. The session will
also consider approaches to legislative and regulatory
reform through the Health and Human Services
Secretary’s demonstration authority that similarly could
alter the fundamental structure of Medicaid as an enforceable right. The panel will then consider the health services
access and quality implications of such a transformation
and review possible agendas for future research.
Impacts of Incremental Public Health
Insurance Expansions
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Pacific Three
Chair: Barbara Lyons, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Call for Panels:
Ted Joyce, National Bureau of Economic Research
“Chip Shots: Association Between the SCHIP and
Immunization Rates”
Genevieve Kenney, The Urban Institute
“Effects of the SCHIP on Insurance Coverage
of Low-Income Children”
Thomas Selden, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality
“How Much Can Really Be Saved by Rolling Back SCHIP?
The Marginal Cost of Public Health Insurance for Children”
Phillip Cooper, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality
“The Effect of SCHIP Expansions on Health Insurance
Decisions by Employers”
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3:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Using Report Cards to Drive Consumer
Choice
Sunrise
Pacific Six/Seven
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Chair: David Howard, Emory University
Comparative Quality Measures and Innovation in
the Use of Incentives
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Panel I
Comparative Measures of Health Systems’ Quality
Chair: Heather Palmer, Harvard University
Panelists:
Peter Scherer, OECD Directorate for Employment,
Labour, and Social Affairs
“OECD’s Health Project”
Call for Panels:
M. Kate Bundorf, Stanford University
“The Effects of Health Plan Performance Measurement and
Reporting on Quality of Care for Medicare Beneficiaries”
Roger Feldman, University of Minnesota
“The Effect of Quality information on Consumer Choice
of Health Plans: Evidence from the Buyers Health Care
Action Group”
Judith Hibbard, University of Oregon
“Short and Long-Term Effects of a Public Performance
Report on Hospital Reputation”
David Howard, Emory University
“Cards and Consumer Choice in Kidney Transplantation”
Colin Feek, Ministry of Health, New Zealand
“Commonwealth’s Five Country Study”
John Miller, Population Health and Surveillance,
Provincial Health Services Authority, Canada
“Canada’s Inter-Provincial Comparative Measures”
4:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Exhibits
Martin McKee, London School and European Observatory
“How Useful are Comparative Exercises?”
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
4:40 p.m. – 4:55 p.m.
Report on The Commonwealth Five Country
Survey of Hospital Executives
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Panelists:
Robert Blendon, Harvard University
Robin Osborn, The Commonwealth Fund
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. – Panel II
Incentives to Improve Quality: Experiences
from Abroad
Chair: Arnold Milstein, William M. Mercer, Inc.
Panelists:
Peter Smith, York University, United Kingdom
Hong-Jen Chang, Bureau of National Health Insurance, Taiwan
Niek Klazinga, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton University, United States
Sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund and Taiwanese Bureau
of National Health Insurance
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Future of Medicaid & SCHIP
Pacific One
Chair: Diane Rowland, The Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation
Panelists: Judith Feder, Georgetown University;
Alina Salganicoff, The Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation; Kristen Testa, The Children’s Partnership,
California; Alan Weil, The Urban Institute; Gail
Wilensky, Project HOPE
Roundtable: While much progress has been made in
extending health insurance to low-income populations
through Medicaid and SCHIP, rising costs, the state
fiscal crisis, and the growing federal deficit are in tension with efforts to maintain and improve coverage of
low-income people. Approaches to reform health and
long-term care coverage are again under discussion.
This session will provide national and state perspectives on the coverage challenges and implications of
reform proposals.
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Innovations in Patient Safety
Pacific Two
Chair: Daniel Stryer, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality
Methods for Health Care Quality
Improvement Research
Royal Palm Four
Chair: Haya Rubin, Johns Hopkins University
Panelists: Ada Sue Hinshaw, University of Michigan;
Brent James, Intermountain Health Care Institute for
Healthcare Delivery Research; Jonathan Perlin,
Department of Veterans Affairs; David Stevens,
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Panelists: Kelvin Baggett, Johns Hopkins University;
Denise Dougherty, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality; Lisa Rubenstein, VA Greater Los Angeles
Healthcare System; Kenneth Wells, University of
California, Los Angeles
Roundtable: Improvements in patient safety during the
past few years have tended to be local phenomena, resulting in incremental advances. This panel will present innovations in four critical areas that together hold promise for
more global, substantial, and sustainable change.
Speakers will discuss the roles for education and training,
changes in the health care workforce, and information
technology in developing a safer health care system.
Methods Workshop: The need for quality improvement
in health care has never been greater, but many questions remain about the most effective strategies and
combination of strategies for quality improvement.
There is a need for health services researchers to turn
their attention to this important area. This workshop
will provide guidance on methods for conducting quality improvement research in real world settings and
publishing that research.
Supported in part by the Department of Health Care
Policy & Research, Mayo Clinic
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Outlook for Medicare PPOs
Prescription Drugs & Behavioral Health
Royal Palm One
Chair: Haiden Huskamp, Harvard Medical School
Chair: Paul Ginsburg, Center for Studying Health
System Change
Panelists: Thomas Croghan, RAND; Patricia Deverka,
Medco Health Solutions, Inc.; Benjamin Druss, Emory
University; Stephen Soumerai, Harvard Medical School
and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care; Julie Zito, University
of Maryland, Baltimore
Panelists: Robert Hurley, Virginia Commonwealth
University; Brian Jeffrey, PacifiCare Health Systems;
William Scanlon, Georgetown University
Roundtable: This panel will look into the future concerning how the Medicare Advantage Preferred Provider
Organization (PPO) products will evolve, the challenges
they will face, and the potential for improving care or
reducing costs through care coordination and other
techniques. How will they differ from commercial PPO
models? How extensive a market share will they garner? What types of beneficiaries will they attract?
Socioeconomic Status & Health
Sunday
Royal Palm Five/Six
Invited Papers: The past quarter-century has brought
dramatic advances in the treatment of mental illness,
including the introduction of many new psychotropic
drugs. This session will discuss changes in psychotropic
drug utilization patterns for children, the impact of private sector cost-containment mechanisms and public
sector regulations aimed at reducing drug costs and/or
improving quality, and the effect of generic entry on use
and spending for these classes of drugs.
Pacific Four/Five
Strategies for Moderating the Long-Term
Impact of Childhood Obesity
Chair: Jose Escarce, University of California,
Los Angeles
Sunset
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Chair: Christopher Forrest, Johns Hopkins University
Panelists: Dana Goldman and Michael Hurd,
both from RAND
Methods Workshop: This session will describe the evidence on the relationship between socioeconomic status and health, assess the mechanisms underlying this
relationship, and examine methods to identify causal
effects in observational data.
Panelists: Scott Gee, Kaiser Permanente; Roland Sturm,
RAND; Joseph Thompson, University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences
Invited Papers: Childhood obesity has become one of
the newest imperatives in public health. As with adults,
overweight children are at risk for morbidity and mortality due to coronary heart disease, colorectal cancer, and
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arthritis. Although there are no simple policy responses for
reducing the burden of childhood obesity, several innovative
approaches are emerging and will be discussed in this session. Panelists will make the case that the contours of future
childhood obesity programs and policies must be multifocal, targeted at populations, occur in multiple settings,
and be coordinated across several local, state, and federal
agencies.
Health Care Information Systems: Imminent
Solutions or Distant Hope?
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Pacific Six/Seven
Chair: Stephen Parente, University of Minnesota
Call for Papers:
Andrew Chang, Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations
“Bridging Terminology and Classification Gaps Between
Patient Safety Information Systems: A Comparison of Two
Coding Schemas for Near Misses and Adverse Events”
Vicki Fung, Kaiser Permanente
“Use of e-Health Services (1999 – 2002): Mountains
or Molehills?”
Ann Scheck McAlearney, Ohio State University
“Handheld Computers as Technology Innovation
in Clinical Practice”
Julie Sakowski, Sutter Institute for Research and Education
“Bar Code Point of Care Medication Administration Systems
for the Prevention of Inpatient Medication Errors”
Timothy Weddle, Loyola University, Chicago
“Influences of Social Factors on Computer Use by Rural
Primary Care Physicians”
MEPS: A National Information Resource to
Support Health Care Research & to Inform
Health Care Policy & Practice
Royal Palm Two
Chair: Steven Cohen, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality
Panelists: Karen Beauregard and Joel Cohen, both from the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Research Resources: AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel
Survey (MEPS) collects data on the specific health services
that Americans use; how frequently they use them; the cost
of these services and how they are paid; as well as data on
the cost, scope, and breadth of private health insurance
held by and available to the U.S. population. MEPS is
unparalleled for the degree of detail in its data, and its ability to link health service medical expenditures and health
insurance data to the demographic, employment, economic, health status, utilization of health services, and other
characteristics of survey respondents. Moreover, MEPS
provides a foundation for estimating the impact of changes
in sources of payment and insurance coverage on various
economic groups or special populations of interest, such
as the poor, the elderly, veterans, the uninsured, and racial
and ethnic minorities. In this session, the presenters will
report findings from recent and ongoing studies on health
care costs and coverage and provide an update on recent
enhancements to the survey to inform health care policy
and practice.
Research Agenda of CMS
Royal Palm Three
Measurement & Improvement: Where Are
We Now & Where Are We Headed?
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California
Chair: Jeroan Allison, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Call for Papers:
Sheri Eisert, Denver Health Medical Center
“The Effect of Using Rules Technology with Computerized
Provider Order Entry (CPOE) in Medication Error Reduction
in an Outpatient Setting”
Anne-Marie Audet, The Commonwealth Fund
“Measure, Learn, and Improve: Have Physicians Begun to
Engage in the Quality Improvement Cycle?”
P. Todd Korthuis, Oregon Health and Science University
“Gaps in Quality of Care for HIV-Infected Veterans”
Joachim Roski, National Committee for Quality Assurance
“New Directions in Quality Measurement: Moving Towards
Standardized Performance Measurement for Physician Offices”
Sujha Subramanian, RTI International
“Evaluation of the CDC Guideline for the Prevention of
Surgical Site Infection”
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Chair: Stuart Guterman, Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services
Research Agenda: This session will describe the analytic priorities of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) and how they fit into its mission to identify, design,
test, develop, and implement improvements to Medicare,
Medicaid, and the SCHIP, for which CMS is responsible at
the federal level. Presentations will review the issue areas in
which research is being conducted or planned, as well as
demonstration projects that provide the opportunity to test
improvements in Medicare policy. Activities related to the
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and
Modernization Act of 2003 will be discussed.
The Effects of the Balanced Budget Act of
1997 on Hospital Finances, Uncompensated
Care Provision & Quality of Care
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Pacific Three
Chair: Kevin Volpp, University of Pennsylvania
Call for Panels:
Gloria Bazzoli, Virginia Commonwealth University
“The Influence of Health Policy and Market Factors on
the Hospital Safety Net”
Tamara Konetzka, Philadelphia VAMC
“Financial Winners and Losers from BBA and BBRA
among Short-Term Acute-Care Hospitals”
Jack Needleman, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Influence of Health Policy and Market Factors on
Quality in the Hospital Safety Net”
Kevin Volpp, University of Pennsylvania
“The Effect of the Medicare Balanced Budget Act on
Process of Care for AMI Patients”
Exhibit Hall
Features:
◆ Child Health
◆ Coverage & Access
◆ Long-Term Care
◆ Management & Organization
◆ Public Health
◆ Quality & Patient Safety
◆ Workforce
◆ Student Posters
The AcademyHealth poster program, which has
grown in size and recognition over the years, is an
integral and popular feature of the meeting and an
effective mechanism for research dissemination
and networking. Visit informally with the presenters
to learn about their state-of-the-art research.
Poster Session A
Sunday, 6:45 – 8:00 p.m. (reception)
Poster Session B
Tuesday, 7:30 – 8:45 a.m. (breakfast)
Sunday
6:45 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Poster Session A & Reception
Poster Program
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Monday
7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Registration
7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Continental
Breakfast
Royal Palm Court
8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Paying for Quality: Emerging Concepts,
Experiments & Evidence
Roundtable: Although relatively little information is currently available about the quality of care being delivered, is the
information we do have sound enough to be used by decision-makers? This session will address issues related to
improving the validity of measures for motivating and evaluating quality improvement, the use of measurement theory to design better measures and use them to make attributions to different levels of care, the use of patient surveys
for assessing the quality of care provided by individual
physicians, and challenges in the use of risk-adjusted outcomes to evaluate hospital quality. Panelists will discuss
areas where measures are ready for use and areas where
more work needs to be done.
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Pacific Two
Chair: Douglas Conrad, University of Washington
Panelists: Arnold Milstein, William M. Mercer, Inc.; Barry
Saver, University of Washington; Peter Smith, University of
York; Gary Young, Boston University and Department of
Veterans Affairs
Roundtable: Across the United States, health plans, purchasers, and provider organizations are implementing quality-based financial incentives for hospitals and physicians. At
the same time, the United Kingdom has embarked on a new
General Medical Services (GMS) contract in which a significant share of physician practice payment is based on explicit
quality metrics. This session will address the concepts
behind financial incentives for clinical quality and will present emerging insights from three important quality incentive
initiatives: The Rewarding Results Demonstration Program,
the Leapfrog Group Standards for quality in hospitals, and
the GMS Contract. The panelists and audience will explore
the implications of this incentive innovation for management, policy, and practice.
The Science of Quality Measurement:
Are We Getting It Right?
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California
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Impact of SCHIP on Vulnerable Children:
Findings from the Child Health Insurance
Research Initiative
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Pacific Four/Five
Chair: Cindy Brach, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality
Panelists: Andrew Dick, University of Rochester; Elizabeth
Shenkman, University of Florida; Peter Szilagyi, University
of Rochester Medical Center
Invited Papers: Focusing on minority children and children
with special health care needs, this session will describe
SCHIP’s impact on health care and health outcomes, what
delivery features are associated with better care, and insurance continuity of SCHIP enrollees. Specifically, panelists
will answer the questions: Did SCHIP improve asthma care
and reduce asthma symptoms? Are certain practice settings or characteristics associated with better access and
quality for vulnerable children? Are vulnerable children
more likely to disenroll from SCHIP and/or become uninsured after SCHIP, and are health care experiences during
SCHIP related to disenrollment?
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New Capitated Alternatives in Medicare
Royal Palm One
Chair: Elizabeth McGlynn, RAND
Chair: Melvin Ingber, Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services
Panelists: Cheryl Damberg, Pacific Business Group on
Health; Timothy Hofer, University of Michigan; Dana Gelb
Safran, Tufts-New England Medical Center; Joe Selby,
Kaiser Permanente
Panelists: John Kautter and Gregory Pope, both from
RTI International; John Robst, Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services
Invited Papers: Medicare has been moving toward
incorporating more private sector options for beneficiaries. These private plans are usually paid a monthly capitated amount for each enrollee. Capitated plans are
becoming more diverse in the degree to which they
manage care and in the degree of specialization. With
this growth, and with the processes of competition and
bidding being added to defining capitated payments,
risk adjustment is becoming an important part of the
payment system. This panel will present information
from an evaluation of the new Preferred Provider
Organizations (PPO) in Medicare, a report on how
functional status is integrated into the payment of capitated plans specializing in the care of the frail elderly,
and a report on the new risk adjustment system for
plans specializing in end stage renal disease and for
these enrollees in the regular Medicare+Choice plans.
Disparities in Treatment for & Impact
of Mental Illness
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Pacific Six/Seven
Call for Papers:
Jim Banta, University of California, Los Angeles
“Severe Mental Illness and Congestive Heart Failure
Outcomes among Veterans”
Pinka Chatterji, Harvard Medical School
“The Effect of Mental Disorders on Labor Market
Outcomes among Latino Americans”
Jeffrey Harman, University of Florida
“Disparities in the Adequacy of Depression Treatment
in the United States”
Shin-Yi Wu, RAND
“Sustainability and Spread of Chronic Illness Care
Improvement”
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Effects of Cost-Sharing & Reimbursement
Sunrise
Chair: Willard Manning, University of Chicago
Call for Papers:
Robin Clark, University of Massachusetts Medical School
“A Medicaid Buy-in Program’s Effects on Costs and Earnings”
Peter Cunningham, Center for Studying Health
System Change
“The Effects of Medicaid Reimbursement on Access to
Care of Medicaid Enrollees: A Community Perspective”
John Hsu, Kaiser Permanente
“Cost-Sharing for Emergency Care—Is It Safe? Findings
on Health Outcomes from the Safety and Financial
Ramifications of ED Copayments (SAFE) Study”
Mary Reed, Kaiser Permanente
“Self-Reported Effects of Prescription Drug Cost-Sharing:
Decreased Adherence and Increased Financial Burden”
Nathan West, RTI International
“The Impact of Premiums on Wisconsin’s
BadgerCare Program”
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Disparities & the Care of Children
Pacific One
Amy Kilbourne, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
“Racial Differences in Quality of Care for Bipolar Disorder”
Chair: Anne Beal, The Commonwealth Fund
Leigh Ann White, Johns Hopkins University
“Mental Health and Employment Transitions
among Low-Income Women”
Call for Papers:
David Brousseau, Medical College of Wisconsin
“Disparities for Latino Children in Receipt of Timely
Medical Care”
Organizational Factors Associated with
Successful Chronic Care Delivery
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Pacific Three
Chair: Douglas Roblin, Kaiser Permanente Georgia
Call for Papers:
Stephen Davidson, Boston University
“Measuring Gradations of Quality in Chronic Disease Care”
Marjorie Pearson, RAND
“Chronic Care Model (CCM) Implementation Emphases”
Julie Schmittdiel, University of California, Berkeley
“The Effect of Primary Health Care Orientation on
Chronic Illness Care Management”
Monday
Chair: Greer Sullivan, University of Arkansas
Alexander Tsai, Case Western Reserve University
“A Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Improve Chronic
Illness Care”
Alex Chen, Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles
“Children at Risk of Receiving Sub-Standard Asthma Care—
Findings from a Nationally Representative Sample”
Glenn Flores, Medical College of Wisconsin
“Unequal Treatment for Young Children? Racial and
Ethnic Disparities in Early Childhood Health and
Healthcare” and “Does Disadvantage Start at Home?
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Early Childhood Home
Routines, Safety, and Educational Practices/Resources”
Leo Morales, University of California, Los Angeles
“Mortality among Very Low Birth Weight Infants
in Hospitals Serving Minority Populations”
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Technology Assessment: Identifying Value
in Innovation
Research Agenda of CDC
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Sunset
Chair: Kathryn McDonald, Stanford University
Royal Palm Three
Chair: Linda McKibben, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
Call for Papers:
Melinda Henne, Stanford University
“Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Technologies: The
Case of Insurance Mandates for the Treatment of Infertility”
Panelists: Maureen Lichtveld, Tanya Popovic, and Dixie
Snider, all from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
David Samson, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
“A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Left Ventricular Assist
Devices as Destination Therapy for End-Stage Heart Failure”
Research Agenda: Dr. Julie Gerberding is leading CDC in a
new direction. The “Future’s Initiative” is her plan to
ready the nation’s prevention agency for the 21st Century
to better serve its customers. An essential part of this
plan is redesigning how CDC does business with its
health systems research partners. This panel will inform
attendees of the new Office of Public Health Research and
other exciting developments at the CDC.
Melony Sorbero, RAND
“The Cost-Effectiveness of RSV Prophylaxis:
Using Decision Analysis to Build a Better Guideline”
Claudia Steiner, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
“Increasing Health Care Costs: The Price of Innovation?”
Xinhua Yu, University of Minnesota
“Unequal Utilization of New Technologies by Race:
Adjusting for Geography in the Use of TUNA and TUMT
among Medicare Beneficiaries”
A Quiet Revolution: Role of the Courts
in Health Systems Change
Royal Palm Four
The Health Care Financing & Organization
(HCFO) Program: Grants for Policy Relevant
Research (& More!)
Royal Palm Two
Chair: Anne Gauthier, AcademyHealth
Panelists: Bonnie Austin, AcademyHealth; Stephen
Parente, University of Minnesota
Skill and Career Development: AcademyHealth serves as the
national program office for The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation’s HCFO program, a multifaceted initiative seeking to bridge the policy and research communities. The program funds grants on significant health care policy and market developments, convenes meetings, and disseminates
results to public and private stakeholders in a number of
ways. Learn the ins and outs of getting a HCFO grant and
working with program staff from the idea stage to the grant
phase to getting your findings in the right hands. The panel
features program staff and a current grantee.
Chair: M. Gregg Bloche, Georgetown University Law Center
Panelists: Gail Agrawal, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill; David Hyman, University of Maryland;
George Young, George Parker Young Law Firm
Special Session: By default, federal courts have become
key health policymakers. Interest group gridlock has paralyzed Congress, but over the past few years federal judges
have remade the rules of the medical marketplace. States
now have the authority to require independent review of
coverage denials, forbid selective contracting with
providers, and do other things that federal law once
barred them from doing. This spring, in Aetna v. Davila,
the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether patients can
sue health insurers for negligent withholding of coverage
and care. Why have the courts stepped so assertively into
the health policy fray, and what has been the impact of the
revolution they have brought about?
Does Hospital Financial Condition Affect
Patient Care & Safety?
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Royal Palm Five/Six
Chair: Gloria Bazzoli, Virginia Commonwealth University
Call for Panels:
Sema Aydede, University of Florida
“A Profile of Inpatient Care and Safety in Hospitals with
Differing Case-Mix and Financial Condition”
Jan Clement, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Disparities in Quality and Safety Outcomes, 1995 – 2000”
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Richard Lindrooth, Medical University of South Carolina
“How Much of the Variation in Hospital Financial
Performance Is Explained by Service Mix?”
Mei Zhao, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Hospital Financial Distress and Patient Outcomes:
A Panel Study”
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
& 3:15 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Exhibits
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Translating Disparities Research into
Policy & Practice
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California
Chair: Edward Guadagnoli, Harvard Medical School
Roundtable: Although many studies have demonstrated that racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in
health care exist, less attention has been devoted to
identifying strategies to reduce these disparities. This
panel will discuss challenges and approaches to identifying, designing, and implementing policies and practices to reduce disparities in health care.
I Where Are We in IT? An International
Perspective
Pacific Two
Chair: Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton University
Panelists: Hong-Jen Chang, Bureau of National Health
Insurance, Taiwan; Kieke Okma, The Hague;
Humphrey Taylor, Harris Interactive
Roundtable: Information technology has long been
viewed as the “white knight” who can rescue the laborintensive and globally inefficient health systems of the
world from a growing shortage of health workers. In
this session, the panel will explore how far down that
path different nations have gone.
Innovative Statistical Approaches in Health
Services Research: Bayesian Approaches to
Missing Data, Multiple Informant Analyses
& Propensity Scores
Monday
Panelists: Joseph Betancourt, Massachusetts General
Hospital; E. Richard Brown, University of California,
Los Angeles; Maisha Cobb, Aetna Health Plans;
Kaytura Felix-Aaron, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality; Kevin Fiscella, University of Rochester
efforts to use current electronic data and to encourage
broader use of standards based interoperable electronic health records (EHR). The panel will show current
use of electronic clinical data for disease surveillance,
as well as specific implementations of national standards used for health data exchange. The urgent need
for enhanced preparedness can help accelerate the
national EHR effort through focused collaboration
between clinical and public health partners.
Pacific Three
Chair: Sharon-Lise Normand, Harvard Medical School
Panelists: Thomas Belin, University of California,
Los Angeles; Nicholas Horton, Smith College
Emerging Health Threats & Emerging
Health Information Systems: Getting Public
Health & Clinical Medicine to Real Time
Response
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Pacific Four/Five
Chair: John Loonsk, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
Panelists: John Lumpkin, The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation; Richard Platt, Harvard Pilgrim Health
Care/Harvard Medical School
Roundtable: To rapidly detect an emerging disease like
SARS or a bioterrorist event, public health must obtain
real time information across multiple health care data
sources. Public health has thus been at the forefront of
Methods Workshop: This session will consist of three
related tutorials describing and illustrating innovative
analytic approaches for missing data, multiple outcomes, and causal inference. First, new methods for
handling missing continuously scaled items in multivariate data will be discussed. The idea is to extract
common factors to reduce the number of covariance
parameters to be estimated in a multivariate normal
model. The methods will be illustrated in a study of an
emergency room intervention for adolescents who
attempted suicide and in a clinical trial of oral-surgery
patient to examine quality of life outcomes. Second,
regression-based methods for analyzing multiple
source outcomes (e.g., self-reports, family members,
health care providers, administrators) will be presented. The idea is to embed the correlated multiple out
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comes within a general linear model framework that
can be extended to handle stratification, clustering, and
sampling weights. Methods will be illustrated using the
Eastern Connecticut Child Survey. Third, methods for
estimating treatment or policy effects in the absence of
randomization using regression and stratification techniques via propensity scores will be reviewed. The key
ideas involve mimicking the randomized setting where
all participants have a positive probability of participating. Methods will be illustrated using observational
data to examine the effect of introducing a behavioral
carve-out in a population of adult schizophrenics.
Polly Noel, Veterans Evidence-Based Research,
Dissemination and Implementation Center
“Collaborative Care Needs and Preferences of Primary
Care Patients with Multimorbidity”
Angela Thrasher, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Motivational Interviewing to Support Antiretroviral
Treatment Adherence”
A
Access to Health Care & Insurance
Pacific One
Chair: Joel Cantor, Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey
Improving Quality of Care in the VA:
Wins, Losses, Errors & Ties
Q
Sunrise
Call for Papers:
Teresa Coughlin, The Urban Institute
“The Disabled and Access to Care in Managed Care”
Chair: Lisa Rubenstein, VA Greater Los Angeles
Healthcare System
Lisa Dubay, The Urban Institute
“Effects of the SCHIP on Access to Care, Use of
Services and Health Status”
Panelists: Steven Asch, VA Greater Los Angeles
Healthcare System; Robert Brook, RAND; Bradley
Doebbeling, Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis; Laura Petersen, Houston VA Medical
Center; Elizabeth Yano, VA Greater Los Angeles
Healthcare System
Sarah Laditka, University of South Carolina
“Physician Supply and Effectiveness of the Primary
Health Care System”
Invited Papers: The VA has invested significant
resources in improving the quality of care delivered to
eligible veterans over the past decade. This session
focuses on the VA as a national demonstration project.
The session explores key practice and policy lessons
learned from the VA experience and their applicability
to other health care systems and settings.
Sharon Long, The Urban Institute
“How Well Does Medicaid Work in Improving Access to Care?”
Marlene Niefeld, Johns Hopkins University
“Ambulatory Care Sensitive Condition Hospitalizations
among Elderly Medicare and Medicaid (Dual) Enrollees”
Plan & Beneficiary Decisions in the
Medicare+Choice Program
M
Pacific Six/Seven
Chair: Adam Atherly, Emory University
Innovative Strategies to Integrate Patients
into Chronic Care Delivery
R
Royal Palm One
Chair: Michael von Korff, Group Health Cooperative
Call for Papers:
Suzanne Austin Boren, University of Missouri, Columbia
“Evidence-Based Checkup for Patient Education Web Sites”
Dawn Clancy, Medical University of South Carolina
“Evaluating Concordance to American Diabetes Association
Standards of Care for Type 2 Diabetes Through Group Visits
in an Uninsured or Inadequately Insured Patient Population”
Kun Gao, University of Washington
“Managing Old-Age Diabetes: The Effect of Health
Club Enrollment and Use on Medical Costs and
Outcomes among Older Adults”
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Call for Papers:
Curtis Florence, Emory University
“Transitions in Health Plan Choice: Changes in FEHBP Plan
Selection When Beneficiaries Begin Medicare Coverage”
Rachel Halpern, University of Minnesota
“Medicare+Choice Plan Decisions, 1999 – 2001”
Mary Laschober, BearingPoint
“Impact of Medicare+Choice Lock-In Provisions:
Who Would Be Affected?”
Matthew Maciejewski, University of Washington
“Medicare Drug Benefits and Selection Bias in HMO
Enrollment and Mortality in Diabetes”
Peter Neumann, Harvard University
“Quality of Evidence and CMS Review Times for
Medicare National Coverage Decisions, 1998 – 2003”
Go Behind the AHRQ/NIH Study Section
Door: A Mock Review
Sunset
Chair: Ming Tai-Seale, Texas A&M University Health
Sciences Center
Panelists: Scott Andre, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality; Willard Manning, University of Chicago;
Barbara Yawn, Olmsted Medical Center
CSAT: Using Data to Foster Quality
Improvement
Royal Palm Three
Chair: Joan Doty Dilonardo, Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment/SAMHSA
Panelists: Craig Anne Heflinger, Vanderbilt University;
Toni Krupski, Washington State Division of Alcohol and
Substance Abuse; Kevin Mulvey, Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment/SAMHSA
Research Agenda: This session will provide new information about how several different types of data can be used
to foster quality improvement. Examples will be drawn
from plan-based performance measurement, state data
systems, and federal performance improvement systems.
Medical Debt: Causes, Consequences
& Policy Implications
Royal Palm Four
Chair: Robert Seifert, Brandeis University
Call for Panels:
Jennifer Edwards, The Commonwealth Fund
“How Medical Debt Threatens Economic Security
and Access to Care: Findings from the Commonwealth
Fund’s 2003 Survey of Health Insurance and Access”
Melissa Jacoby, Temple University
“Medical Bankruptcy Incidence and its Legal
and Practical Limits”
Becky Miles-Polka, Within Reach Consulting
“Medical Debt: Causes and Responses in Des Moines, Iowa”
Monday
Skill and Career Development: The federal grant review
process could appear mysterious or rather daunting to
fledgling grant applicants. This panel brings together a scientific review administrator at AHRQ and three study section members of AHRQ and NIH—representing health
services research, economics, and medicine—to give participants an opportunity to understand the process of federal grant proposal review through a mock review. The
variation in roles played by panelists in the review process
and reviewers’ own grant-making experience will provide
participants a wide range of perspectives and rich grounds
for interaction. Discussion topics include, but are not limited to: 1) communicating a research plan to reviewers
unfamiliar with technical language, 2) using the Summary
Statement to revise and resubmit a proposal, and 3) working with federal project officers.
Special Session: Although the medical malpractice system influences access to health care, its cost, and its
quality, malpractice reform has generally been perceived as a legal and political rather than health policy
problem. Recurrent, severe crises in availability and
affordability of malpractice insurance are now forcing
the issue onto the health policy agenda. This session
presents state and national research findings from the
Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania, supported
by The Pew Charitable Trusts, assessing the impact of
malpractice liability on physician and hospital supply,
patient safety, and the physician-patient relationship.
Jeffrey Prottas, Brandeis University
“Hospital Practices and Medical Debt”
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Informing Medicare Policy on Post-Acute Care
Royal Palm Five/Six
Chair: Joseph Newhouse, Harvard Medical School
Call for Panels:
Sharon Cheng, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
“Informing Medicare Policy on Post-Acute Care”
Sally Kaplan, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
“Long-Term Care Hospitals’ Role in Medicare Post-Acute Care”
Chapin White, National Bureau of Economic Research
“Medicare’s New Prospective Payment System for Skilled
Nursing Facilities: Effects on Staffing and Quality of Care”
The Medical Malpractice Crisis as a
Health Policy Problem
Royal Palm Two
Chair: William Sage, Columbia Law School
Panelists: David Becker, University of California, Berkeley;
Chris Hyman, Columbia Law School; Michelle Mello,
Harvard University; David Studdert, Harvard University
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12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Luncheon Plenary
model in community health centers, and 3) an expert
in researching the effectiveness of a chronic care program in a large HMO.
Atlas Ballroom
Presentation of AcademyHealth Awards
Distinguished Investigator
Awardees: Stuart Altman, Brandeis University;
Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton University
Presenter: Robert Blendon, Harvard University
Article-of-the-Year
Awardee: Elizabeth McGlynn, RAND
Presenter: Kelly Devers, Virginia Commonwealth
University
Dissertation
Awardee: Anita Tucker, University of Pennsylvania
Presenters: Peter Buerhaus, Vanderbilt University;
Julie Sochalski, University of Pennsylvania
Student Poster
Awardee: TBA
Presenter: Lucy Savitz, RTI International
Tables will be designated by theme to facilitate
informal discussion.
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Modeling Options for Health Care Reform:
Key Assumptions & Their Implications
A
Pacific Three
Chair: Linda Bilheimer, The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
Panelists: Gestur Davidson, University of Minnesota;
A. Bowen Garrett, The Urban Institute; Sherry Glied,
Columbia University
Roundtable: Economists use complex microsimulation
models to estimate the impacts of health care reform
proposals on coverage and health care costs. Such estimates are highly sensitive to the many assumptions
that modelers must make about the behavioral
responses of different groups and the performance of
health care markets. At this roundtable, researchers
will discuss research in three areas in which assumptions critically affect cost and coverage estimates: the
extent to which expansions of public coverage displace
private coverage; how premiums are determined in the
nongroup market; and the extent to which employers
pass health insurance costs on to their workers in the
form of lower wages.
Supported in part by The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid
and the Uninsured
Caring of the Elderly Near the End-of-Life:
Studies of Hospice Care & Informal Care
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R Understanding & Improving the Quality
of Chronic Care
Pacific Two
Chair: Kevin Grumbach, University of California,
San Francisco
Panelists: Brian Austin, Group Health Cooperative; Jane
Czech, Project Dulce; Bruce Fireman, Kaiser Permanente
Roundtable: The Chronic Care Model as conceptualized
by Ed Wagner and colleagues has been widely
embraced as a method for structuring more effective
care for patients with chronic illness. What is the evidence that this model can be implemented in real
world practices, be financially viable, and yield
improvements in patient-oriented outcomes? To
address these questions, this roundtable will offer perspectives from: 1) an innovator in promoting dissemination of the chronic care model, 2) a leader in implementing and sustaining a Latino-focused chronic care
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Pacific Six/Seven
Chair: David Grabowski, University of Alabama
at Birmingham
Call for Panels:
Richard Lindrooth, Medical Unversity of South Carolina
“Do Non-Profit and For-Profit Hospices Behave Differently?”
Anthony LoSasso, Northwestern University
“How Do Families Allocate Elder Care Responsibilities
among Siblings?”
Edward Norton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Informal Care and Health Care Use of Older Adults”
Donald Taylor, Duke University
“Do Selection or Treatment Effects Explain Differences in
Medicare End-of-Life Costs among Hospice and Usual Care
Decedents?”
Measuring Aspects of Organizations
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Medicare Beneficiaries & Prescription Drugs
Pacific One
Chair: Stephen Shortell, University of California,
Berkeley
Chair: Brigid Goody, Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services
Panelists: Jeffrey Alexander, University of Michigan;
G. Ross Baker, University of Toronto; Paul Cleary, Harvard
Medical School; Kelly Devers, Virginia Commonwealth
University; Shoshanna Sofaer, Baruch College
Panelists: Daniel Gilden, JEN Associates; Melvin
Ingber, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services;
Cindy Thomas, Brandeis University; Marian Wrobel,
Abt Associates, Inc.
Methods Workshop: Panelists will discuss existing and
new instruments for measuring organizational dimensions that influence health care organizational performance. These include leadership, readiness for change, a
culture of patient safety, and teamwork effectiveness,
among others.
Invited Papers: With the passage of the Medicare
Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act
of 2003, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
is planning for the implementation and evaluation of the
Part D Medicare prescription drug benefit. One of the
most challenging aspects of this effort is to piece together information on Medicare beneficiaries and their prescription drug utilization and expenditures from a variety
of public and private data sources. The research findings
presented at this session represent exploratory work on
a range of issues including the enrollment, drug utilization and spending patterns of low-income populations
in voluntary drug benefit programs using data from
state pharmacy assistance programs, the development
of risk adjustment methodologies for paying private
plans using data from the Federal Employees Health
Benefits Program, and the selection of comparison
groups for program evaluation using data from the
Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey.
Public Reporting of Data on Quality:
Why & How?
Q
Pacific Four/Five
Chair: Judith Hibbard, University of Oregon
Panelists: Kristin Carman, American Institutes for
Research; Gregory Pawlson, National Committee for
Quality Assurance; Meredith Rosenthal, Harvard
University; Dana Gelb Safran, Tufts-New England
Medical Center
Invited Papers: Public reporting on health care quality
is used to inform consumer choice, ensure accountability, and stimulate quality improvement. Recently,
reporting efforts have moved to a focus on physicianor physician group-level performance. The panelists
will present research that examines physician grouplevel public performance reports from a number of
angles: their efficacy in influencing consumer choice of
physicians; the cultural and psychological barriers to
consumer use of this type of comparative information;
and the strategies, including advances in the measurement methods and quality improvement approaches,
used by providers to prepare for the public release of
performance information.
Supported in part by Battelle Memorial Institute and the
Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research,
University of California, San Francisco
Monday
California
Challenges in Using Evidence-Based
Practices in Substance Abuse Treatment
B
Royal Palm One
Chair: Mady Chalk, Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment/SAMHSA
Panelists: Kevin Hennessy, Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration;
Todd Molfenter, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Invited Papers: This session will provide new information about issues involved in implementation of evidence-based practice. The papers will discuss creating
an organizational climate for clinical and administrative change, and case examples of successes and failures in implementation.
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D
Disparities in Primary Care
VA: Research That Makes a Difference
Sunset
Royal Palm Three
Chair: Kevin Fiscella, University of Rochester
Chair: Philip Crewson, Department of Veterans Affairs
Call for Papers:
Peter Bach, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
“Characteristics of Primary Care Physicians Who Treat Whites
and Blacks in the United States”
Panelists: Brian Mittman, VA Greater Los Angeles
Healthcare System; Robert Morgan, VA Medical Center,
Houston; Min-Woong Sohn, VA Hines Hospital; Donna
Washington, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Jessica Greene, University of Oregon
“The Role of Race in Physician Participation in Medicaid:
What Happens When Poverty and Race Are Conflated?”
Verna Lamar-Welch, Emory University
“The Effects of Survey Methodology on Race, Ethnicity, and
Health Status Reporting”
Deborah Taira, Hawaii Medical Service Association
“Ethnic Disparities in the Impact of Copayment on
Adherence to Anti-Hypertensive Medications among
Asian Pacific Americans”
Courtney Harold Van Houtven, VA and Duke
Medical Centers
“Perceived Racism and Delay of Pharmacy Prescriptions”
Research Agenda: The Veterans Health Administration, one of
the largest integrated health care systems in the United States,
is committed to improving health care quality and efficiency.
Serving 4.9 million patients a year, VA offers interesting challenges and opportunities for gathering comparative data and
measuring impact. Recent findings on Medicare use by veterans, perceptions of gender disparities in VA health care,
access to pharmacy benefits, and lessons learned from the VA
Quality Enhancement Research Initiative will be highlighted.
Research Agenda of the Foundations
Royal Palm Two
Key Challenges in the Management of
Health Care Organizations
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Sunrise
Chair: Thomas Rundall, University of California, Berkeley
Call for Papers:
James Bramble, Creighton University
“PDA Prescribing in Outpatient Settings: Barriers
and Solutions”
John Fortney, University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences
“Are Community-Based Primary Care Services a Substitute or
Complement for Specialty and Inpatient Services?”
Shannon Mitchell, Yale University
“Gender Disparities in Healthcare Experiences:
The Impact of Managed Care Practices”
Nicole Quon, Yale University
“Trustbusters: The Prevalence and Predictors
of Trust Violations in American Medicine”
Diane Rittenhouse, University of California,
San Francisco
“Medicaid Managed Care: Determining Predictors
of Provider Organizations’ Use of Organized Processes
to Improve Care”
Chair: Lauren LeRoy, Grantmakers In Health
Panelists: Marguerite Johnson, W.K. Kellogg Foundation;
James Knickman, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation;
Alina Salganicoff, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation;
Stephen Schoenbaum, The Commonwealth Fund
Research Agenda: Foundations support health services
research, policy analysis, and evaluation in a wide range of
issue areas. Panelists in this session will describe the funding
priorities of four national foundations that are major funders
of research and evaluation. They will also share an insider’s
view of what factors foundations consider when making decisions about what and how to fund in this area.
How Can Health Services Research Make
a Stronger Contribution?
Royal Palm Five/Six
Chair: W. David Helms, AcademyHealth
Panelists: Charles Baker, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care;
Arnold Milstein, William M. Mercer, Inc; Robert Reischauer,
The Urban Institute
Special Session: In light of increasing pressures to
improve health care quality, address pressing patient safety issues, and control rising health care costs, health services research needs to play a stronger role in informing
public and private health coverage decisions. This means
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a heightened focus on what works and what doesn’t
work. Leaders from the health care purchasing and
health plan worlds will review the challenges they face
in making informed, cost-effective decisions. They will
also share their views on how the field can help this
country build a more efficient and effective health care
system.
Recent Advances in Applied Multivariate
Methods: Interaction Terms in Nonlinear Models
Pacific Three
Chair: Edward Norton, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Chair: David Howard, Emory University
Methods Workshop: Although applied researchers frequently estimate models with interaction terms, such
models can be hard to interpret. This workshop will
explain why computing the marginal effect of a change
in two variables is more complicated in nonlinear models than in linear models. There will be many examples,
and user-friendly Stata code will be provided.
Call for Panels:
Darren DeWalt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Chronic Disease Management Mitigates the Relationship
Between Literacy and Health Outcomes”
Social Network Analysis in Health Services
Research: Theory, Methods & Examples
New Research on Health Literacy
Royal Palm Four
David Howard, Emory University
“Impact of Low Health Literacy on Medical Costs”
Lynn Nielson-Bohlman, Institute of Medicine
“Health Literacy Research and the IOM Report”
Michael Paasche-Orlow, Boston University
“The Prevalence of Low Health Literacy”
The Promise & Problems of Medical
Technology: Enhancing Value or Driving Costs?
T
Pacific Two
Chair: Alvin Mushlin, Weill Medical College of
Cornell University
Chair: Douglas Wholey, University of Minnesota
Panelists: Jane Banaszak-Holl, University of Michigan;
Thomas Rundall, University of California, Berkeley
Methods Workshop: The Institute of Medicine report
Crossing the Quality Chasm describes health care systems
as complex adaptive systems: “[A health care system is] a
set of connected or interdependent parts or agents.”
Social networks analysis provides theory and methods
that can be used to analyze the pattern of relations, connections, and agents. The seminar provides an overview
of social network theory and methods, shows examples of
the use of social network analysis in health services
research, and illustrates the use of social network methods to analyze care teams within medical clinics.
Monday
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Pacific Six/Seven
Trends & Innovations in Insurance Design:
Implications for Cost, Access & Quality
H
Panelists: David Blumenthal, Massachusetts General
Hospital; Alan Garber, Stanford University;
Annetine Gelijns, Columbia University
Roundtable: This roundtable will consider the issues
and problems posed by advances in medical technology, and review established and new approaches.
Panelists will review the role that technology plays not
only in rising health care costs, but also in enhancing
value, outcomes, and quality of care, as well as the economic forces promoting technology innovation and
limiting it. Panelists will discuss technology assessment illustrating both its value and the current limits
of evidence-based decision making in managing technological change. Recent advances and uses of costeffectiveness analysis as a tool to inform policymaking
will be described. The role of institutions, particularly
academic health centers, both as consumers of high
tech and producers of the ideas and research behind
technological innovation, will be emphasized.
California
Chair: Jon Christianson, University of Minnesota
Panelists: Richard Kronick, University of California,
San Diego; Stephen Parente, University of Minnesota;
Greg Scandlen, Galen Institute; Humphrey Taylor,
Harris Interactive
Invited Papers: Consumer-directed, or consumer-driven,
health plans are being offered as benefit options by an
increasing number of employers, although there is to date
relatively limited evidence regarding their performance or
the experience of consumers in these plans. This session
presents research findings related to consumer-directed
health plans and discusses issues concerning their potential impact on the private health insurance system.
Supported in part by the Center for Studying Health
System Change
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Screening & Intervention for Alcohol & Drug
Use Problems in Trauma Patients: If They
Improve Public Health & Save Money, Then
Why Don’t We Do Them?
B
Royal Palm Three
Chair: Harold Perl, National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Panelists: Lawrence Gentilello, UT Southwestern
Medical School; Dan Hungerford, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention; Dennis Kelso, San Diego
Health and Human Services Agency; Michael Sise,
Scripps Mercy Hospital
Invited Papers: This session will address screening,
brief intervention, referral, and treatment (SBIRT) as an
opportunity for improving access to specialized treatment and as early treatment for untreated drinkers and
drug users. It will describe the content and effectiveness of SBIRT in general, followed by a closer focus on
the operations of a community-based, multiple-agency
model in San Diego County to engage non-dependent
and dependent substance users during visits for emergency medical services as well as the implementation
of a specific program in the trauma department of a
major urban San Diego hospital. Next, it will examine
the professional, legal, and other barriers to implementation of SBIRT interventions on a national level and
conclude with a discussion by a California state senator
on the public policy issues.
Public Health Infrastructure: Identifying
& Closing the Gaps
P
Pacific Four/Five
Chair: Glen Mays, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Call for Papers:
Margaret Coleman, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
“Optimizing Use of Resources for Conducting
Practice-Based Immunization Assessments”
David Eisenman, RAND
“Racial/Ethnic Differences in Trust of Public Health
to Respond Fairly After Bioterrorism”
Peggy Honoré, Emory University
“Public Health Finance: An Investigation of Jurisdiction
Funding Patterns and Performance Capacity”
L. Michele Issel, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Competency of Public Health Nurses and Faculty
in the Essential Public Health Services”
Mei Zhao, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Rural Hospitals’ Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention Services: Relationships with External Forces
and Hospital Characteristics”
What About Structure? Organizational
& Financial Effects on Quality
Q
Royal Palm Two
Chair: Joachim Roski, National Committee
for Quality Assurance
Long-Term Care Financing: Private Sector
Solutions & International Comparisons
L
Sunset
Chair: Vincent Mor, Brown University
Panelists: Judith Feder, Georgetown University;
Manfred Huber, Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD); Jeanne
Lambrew, George Washington University; Christopher
Murtaugh, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Invited Papers: Special annuities, reverse mortgages,
specialized tax incentives, and public-private partnerships are considered as alternative forms of private
financing for long-term care. Two of these, annuities
and reverse mortgages designed to facilitate purchase
of long-term care insurance, will be described. To place
U.S. thinking into perspective, the results of a new
OECD study comparing long-term care financing models in 19 countries are presented emphasizing the public private mix of funding. Discussion will focus on the
viability of mixed models in the United States.
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Call for Papers:
Jose Escarce, University of California, Los Angeles
“Health Care Market Structure and the Quality of
Care Provided by Safety Net Hospitals”
Nancy Keating, Harvard Medical School
“Do Increases in Managed Care Market Share Influence
Quality of Cancer Care in the Fee-For-Service Sector?”
Gareth Parry, Children’s Hospital, Boston
“The Relationship Between Nosocomial Bacteraemia and
Organizational and Structural Factors in a Random
Sample of 54 U.K. Neonatal Intensive Care Units”
Hude Quan, University of Calgary
“Mortality Associated with Physician Volume and
Specialty in Myocardial Infarction Patients”
B
Mental Health in Community Context
Sunrise
Chair: Kenneth Wells, University of California,
Los Angeles
Call for Papers:
Ricky Bluthenthal, RAND
“Witness for Wellness: A Community-University
Participatory Research Mental Health Initiative”
Christine Eibner, RAND
“Does Relative Poverty Predict the Need for
Mental Health Care?”
Alka Indurkhya, Harvard University
“Which Dimensions of Continuity of Mental
Health Care Lead to Improved School Outcomes?”
Ingrid Rystedt, Dartmouth Medical School
“Longitudinal Relationships among Family Caregiving
Intensity, Caregiver Role Strain and Treatment Outcomes for
Persons with Comorbid Mental Illness and Substance Abuse”
Susan Stockdale, University of California, Los Angeles
“The Effects of Community Risk and Resource Variables on
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Need and Access to Care”
Strategies to Address Health Disparities
Pacific One
Chair: Kaytura Felix-Aaron, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
Call for Papers:
Bradford Gray, New York Academy of Medicine
“Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Appropriate Use
of High-Volume Hospitals”
Richard Kravitz, University of California, Davis
“Providing Health Care Services to the Formerly Homeless:
A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Outcomes”
Chaya Merrill, George Washington University
“Examination and Evaluation of Initial State
Implementation of the Breast and Cervical Cancer
Prevention and Treatment Act”
Peter Shin, George Washington University
“Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities:
Estimating the Impact of High Health Center
Penetration in Low-Income Communities”
Jane Sisk, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
“Developing an Intervention to Improve Quality of Care
and Reduce Health Disparities in Minority Communities”
Royal Palm One
Chair: Richard Rettig, RAND
Call for Panels:
Wade Aubry, University of California, San Francisco
“Insurers’ Perspectives on HDC/ABMT”
Cynthia Farquhar, University of Auckland
“Women with Breast Cancer and HDC/ABMT in the US”
Peter Jacobson, University of Michigan
“Values in Conflict: HDC/ABMT Legal Issues”
Richard Rettig, RAND
“HDC/ABMT: Implications for Policy, Delivery and Practice”
Student Poster Panel
Royal Palm Four
Chair: Lucy Savitz, RTI International
Special Session:
Miriam Fordham, University of Kentucky
“Health Service Cost and Utilization among Overweight
Children and Adolescents”
Michael Lin, University of California, Berkeley
“Motivation to Improve Chronic Disease Care in
Three Quality Improvement Collaboratives”
David Radley, Dartmouth College
“Off-Label Prescription among Office-Based Physicians”
Meena Seshamani, University of Pennsylvania
“The Effect of Cuts in Medicare Reimbursement on
Quality of Hospital Care”
Monday
D
Evaluating a New Breast Cancer Procedure:
Values in Conflict
M Will the New Medicare Drug Plan Lead to
Lower Spending on Medical Services?
Royal Palm Five/Six
Chair: Geoffrey Joyce, RAND
Call for Panels:
Michael Furukawa, University of Pennsylvania
“Selection Bias and the Effects of Prescription Drug
Coverage on Non-Drug Medical Spending: Evidence from
the 1994 – 1999 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey”
Boyd Gilman, RTI International
“Will the Substitution of Drug for Non-Drug Care under a
Voluntary Drug Benefit Lower Medicare Spending?
Evidence from a State Pharmacy Assistance Program”
Frank Lichtenberg, Columbia University
“Prescription Drug Coverage, Drug Vintage, and
Medical Expenditure of Medicare Beneficiaries:
Evidence from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey”
Zhou Yang, Michigan State University
“How Much Would a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Cost? Offsets in Medicare Part A Costs by Increased Drug Use”
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5:45 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Meeting of AcademyHealth Members
Sunrise
AcademyHealth Board officers
will report on the state of
AcademyHealth, including membership and financial reports as
well as announcements of
upcoming programs. This is also the first opportunity
to hear the slate of nominees for membership election
to the Board of Directors.
Exhibit Program
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Beach Party by the Pool
Entertainment provided by:
The popular exhibit program includes universitybased and other health services and policy research
programs, professional/trade associations and
research affiliates, research consulting firms, federal
agencies, foundations, publishers, and
computer/software companies, and other commercial vendors. The Career Center is also located in the
Exhibit Hall and is available during Exhibit Hall hours.
Each year, nearly 95 percent of conference participants visit the Exhibit Hall during the meeting.
Dedicated exhibit hours feature poster sessions
and meal functions. Take advantage of the many
opportunities in the Exhibit Hall.
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Tuesday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Registration
Inside the Black Box: How Actuaries Price
Health Insurance
7:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Exhibits
Sunset
Chair: Kara Clark, Society of Actuaries
7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Poster Session B
& Continental
Breakfast
Exhibit Hall
Features:
◆ Behavioral Health
◆ Chronic Care Delivery
◆ Disparities
◆ Health Insurance Markets
◆ International
◆ Medicare & Medicare Prescription Drugs
◆ Technology, Innovation & Evaluation
◆ General Posters
9:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Public Policy & Childhood Obesity:
Emerging Policy Options
Panelists: Cathi Callahan, Actuarial Research
Corporation; John Lloyd, Ernst & Young LLP; Lisa
Tourville, Ingenix; Jerome Winkelstein, Blue Cross of
California
Methods Workshop: Evaluations of health insurance expansion proposals require modeling of the interplay between
health insurance premiums and the number of individuals
covered. This session is designed to give health policy
researchers a greater understanding of the factors involved
in the pricing of various types of health insurance. Panelists
will first provide an overview of the health insurance marketplace and how pricing considerations differ between lines of
business, with an emphasis on the particulars of the individual and small group markets. The critical role of trend
analysis in the pricing process will also be closely examined.
Panelists will then discuss some of the pricing-related
issues that need to be considered in the assessment of
health insurance expansion proposals, such as benefit
design, adverse selection, and induced demand.
C
Pacific Three
Chair: James Sallis, San Diego State University
Panelists: Debra Cohen and Roland Sturm,
both from RAND
Roundtable: An emerging research literature is exploring
what types of public policy interventions could help
change the trends in childhood obesity rates. This session will feature three presentations exploring research
findings and the implications for developing public policy options. Issues related to nutrition, policy, the use of
economic incentives, and the push toward government
efforts to make the built environment more exercisefriendly will be considered.
Sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Using Mixed Qualitative & Quantitative
Methods in Health Services & Policy Research
Pacific Four/Five
Chair: Shoshanna Sofaer, Baruch College
Panelists: Elizabeth Bradley, Yale University; Kristin
Carman, American Institutes for Research;
Steven Woolf, Virginia Commonwealth University
Methods Workshop: An increasing number of research
efforts in our fields finds that a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods are required. This panel will identify and
discuss those methods using examples from the experience of the presenters. They will discuss the wide range of
contexts in which mixed methods are appropriate and the
special challenges involved in using these methods, including creating an appropriate research design; dovetailing
data collection instruments and methods; analyzing data
that can sometimes be both complementary and conflicting; and working with a research team whose epistemological assumptions may be at odds.
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M
Medicare Drug Benefits
Royal Palm One
Chair: Roger Feldman, University of Minnesota
Panelists: Marisa Elena Domino, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill; Geoffrey Joyce, RAND; Steven
Pizer, Boston University; Dennis Shea, Pennsylvania
State University; Robert Town, University of Minnesota
Invited Papers: This panel consists of four papers on the
topic of Medicare and Prescription Drugs. Two of the
papers deal specifically with aspects of the new
Medicare drug program that will start in 2006. Will poor
and near-poor beneficiaries take up this coverage, and
how much will prescription drug plans that exclude or
severely restrict coverage of brand name drugs cost?
The other two papers investigate the implications of
managed care plans with drug coverage for physician
behavior and enrollee health. Both patient enrollment
and physician involvement in managed care are associated with increases in psychiatrists’ price sensitivity
when selecting drug treatments for depression, and
enrollment in Medicare+Choice plans without drug coverage appears to increase patient mortality.
Pacific Six/Seven
Chair: Barbara Gage, RTI International
Call for Papers:
Leslie Foster, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
“Do Children with Developmental Disabilities Benefit
from Consumer-Directed Medicaid Supportive Services
Programs?”
Wen-Chieh Lin, University of Missouri, Columbia
“Varied Regional Responses to Medicare Post-Acute Care
Prospective Payment Systems”
Christopher Murtaugh, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
“Access to Medicare Home Health Care: How Has It
Changed Following the Introduction of PPS?”
Donald Taylor, Duke University
“Do Selection or Treatment Effects Explain Differences in
Medicare Costs among Hospice and Normal-Care
Decedents?”
Courtney Harold Van Houtven, VA and Duke
Medical Centers
“Home- and Community-Based Waivers for Disabled Adults”
R
Issues in Chronic Care Delivery & Quality
Migration & the Global Health Care
Workforce: Balancing Competing Demands
Royal Palm Two
California
Chair: Sherrie Kaplan, University of California, Irvine
Chair: Linda Aiken, University of Pennsylvania
Call for Papers:
Wenke Hwang, Johns Hopkins University
“Persistent High Out-of-Pocket Costs among Medicare
Beneficiaries”
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Panelists: James Buchan, Queen Margaret University
College, Scotland; Richard Cooper, Medical College of
Wisconsin; Barbara Stilwell, World Health
Organization, Geneva
Invited Papers: International migration of physicians
and nurses is increasing rapidly as demand for health
professionals in countries with well-resourced health
care systems exceed their domestic production.
However, reliance on international migration may delay
or prevent host countries from undertaking necessary
steps to develop a sustainable domestic supply of
physicians and nurses. Moreover, the supply of health
professionals in developing countries is at risk of being
depleted, creating risks to global health. This panel will
provide new information on trends in physician and
nurse migration and its potential consequences.
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Long-Term Care Community Services
& Market Factors
L
Sarah Sampsel, National Committee for Quality Assurance
“Measuring Quality of Care in People with Arthritis”
Jay Shen, Governors State University
“Adverse Maternal Outcomes among Asthma Women”
Brad Smith, University of Texas Health Science Center
at San Antonio
“Does Literacy Impact the Effectiveness of a Disease
Management Program in Congestive Heart Failure?”
David Zingmond, University of California, Los Angeles
“Is Managed Care Superior to Traditional Fee-For-Service
among HIV-Infected Beneficiaries of Medi-Cal?”
Insurance Coverage Issues & Effects
Pacific One
David Howard, Emory University
“Report Cards and Consumer Choice in Kidney
Transplantation”
Chair: Jessica Banthin, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
Nancy Mitchell, RTI International
“Public Reporting Formats That Motivate Older
Consumers to Compare Medicare Health Plan Options”
Call for Papers:
Julia Costich, University of Kentucky
“‘Churning’: SCHIP Coverage Discontinuity and
Its Consequences”
Julie Rainwater, University of California, Davis
“Consumers’ Use of Quality Information When
Selecting a Health Plan”
A
Amy Davidoff, The Urban Institute
“Effects of the SCHIP on Health Insurance and Access to
Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs”
Demand-Driven Research: Working
Through Delivery-Based Networks
Gerry Fairbrother, New York Academy of Medicine
“Costs of Enrolling Children in Medicaid and SCHIP”
Pacific Two
Nancy Lenfestey, RTI International
“Churning: Disenrollment and Reenrollment in
Wisconsin’s Medicaid and BadgerCare Programs”
Chair: Irene Fraser, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality
D Health Literacy, Cultural Competence
& Perceived Racism
Royal Palm Four
Call for Papers:
Mary Catherine Beach, Johns Hopkins University
“Cultural Competence: A Systematic Review of Health
Care Provider Educational Interventions”
Linda Cummings, National Public Health and
Hospital Institute
“Serving Diverse Communities in Hospitals and
Health Systems”
Shoou-Yih Lee, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
“Development of an Easy-to-Use Spanish Health
Literacy Assessment Tool”
Ninez Ponce, University of California, Los Angeles
“Language Barriers and Seniors: Implications for
Medicare Policies”
Amal Trivedi, Harvard Medical School
“Impact of Perceived Discrimination on Use of
Preventive Services”
Empowering Patients: The Impact of Public
Reporting & Direct Patient Involvement
Q
Skill and Career Development: The traditional model of
research is supply-driven: researchers come up with
questions, test hypotheses, write up and publish their
findings, and then move on to the next project. One
way to increase the likelihood that health care leaders
will use research to actually inform decision making is
to shift to a more demand-driven model, which
requires rethinking and occasionally merging the roles
of researchers and users. Delivery-based research networks can achieve this merger. This panel will include
presentations from representatives of three such networks: the Integrated Delivery System Research
Network led by AHRQ, the HIV Research Network also
led by AHRQ, and the Center for Health Management
Research housed at the University of Washington.
Tuesday
Chair: Joseph Betancourt, Massachusetts
General Hospital
Panelists: Douglas Conrad, University of Washington;
Kelly Gebo, Johns Hopkins University; Lucy Savitz,
RTI International
Research Agenda of the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation (OASPE/DHHS)
Royal Palm Three
Chair: William Marton, OASPE/DHHS
Panelists: Barbara Greenberg, Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services; Ann McCormick,
OASPE/DHHS; K. Lynn Nonnemaker, U.S. General
Accounting Office
Royal Palm Five/Six
Chair: Julie Brown, RAND
Call for Papers:
Donna Havens, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Hospital Ratings: Quality Measures or Mere Puffery?”
Research Agenda: Panelists will present the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s
research agenda for FY 2004. The focus will be on
health and long-term care research, human services
policy, and departmental data needs.
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11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
cal assessment of Republican and Democratic proposals for health reform in the next election are also likely
to depend heavily on cost and consequence estimates.
This roundtable will discuss how policymakers should
and do use health policy estimates and budget scores.
People with Disabilities: Do They Have the
Same Access?
D
Instrumental Variables
Pacific Six/Seven
Pacific Three
Chair: Susan Palsbo, National Rehabilitation Hospital
Center for Health and Disability Research
Chair: John Brooks, University of Iowa
Panelists: Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Boston University;
Holly Hollingsworth, Washington University, St. Louis;
Trudy Mallinson, Northwestern University
Roundtable: The lack of a universally accessible health
system results in significant access disparities for more
than 50 million Americans with chronic physical,
behavioral, developmental, or sensory disabilities. The
panel will report cutting-edge research addressing this
national health issue from three perspectives: the
development of surveillance methods of accessibility
and receptivity of communities to people with disabilities; issues of access to post-acute care resulting from
the extension of prospective payment to rehabilitation
hospitals; and evidence of how different types of clinical providers respond to the needs of patients with different types of disabilities. Panelists will also discuss
how clinical services and national health policy might
be changed to improve access and health for people
with disabilities, using real world examples.
Methods Workshop: The amount of treatment variation
in retrospective databases tempts researchers wanting
to estimate the effects of treatments in practice, but
the danger of selection bias hinders the interpretation
of results with these data, even when risk adjustment
methods and other techniques that account for
observed differences among patients are employed.
Instrumental variable estimation has been proposed to
overcome the selection bias problem in observational
studies with retrospective data and offers an interpretation that serves to complement and not substitute for
randomized control trial estimates. Using several
applied examples, this session will: 1) define selection
bias and describe how instrumental variable estimation
overcomes this problem, and 2) provide the appropriate interpretation of estimated instrumental variable
treatment effects. It will emphasize the assumptions
underlying instrumental variable estimation and
approaches (statistical and theoretical) for finding
instrumental variables that satisfy these assumptions.
The United States in a World Prescription
Drug Market
I
Policy by Numbers: The Role of Budget
Estimates & Scoring in Health Care Reform
A
California
Pacific One
Chair: William Scanlon, Georgetown University
Chair: Sherry Glied, Columbia University
Panelists: Linda Bilheimer, The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation; Judith Feder, Georgetown University;
Len Nichols, Center for Studying Health System
Change; Kenneth Thorpe, Emory University; Timothy
Westmoreland, Georgetown University
Roundtable: Estimating the budget costs of health
insurance proposals—called scoring when done by
government agencies—is an imprecise art that usually
depends on many untested or untestable assumptions.
For example, the Medicare prescription drug “donut
hole” was invented so that policymakers could achieve
budget targets. These budget scores can play a critical
role in the design of health policies. Media and politi-
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Panelists: Gerard Anderson, Johns Hopkins University;
Anna Cook, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.; Panos
Kanavos, London School of Economics and Political
Science; Bruce Stuart, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Invited Papers: U.S. prescription drug prices are generally perceived as considerably higher than in other
countries. Proposals to reduce U.S. consumers’ costs,
either through importation of drugs or U.S. purchasers
using leverage to secure larger discounts, are countered by concerns about potential quality problems
with imported drugs and possible loss of research and
development funds for innovative drugs due to manufacturers’ reduced profits. This panel will discuss the
measurement of international drug price differences
and the implications of those differences for U.S. purchasing power. It will also examine issues related to
importation of drugs, including how lessons from
experience with importation in the European Union
may apply to the United States and the potential
impacts of current proposals to allow importation.
P
Public Health & Disaster Preparedness
Pacific Two
Chair: Robert Valdez, RAND
Panelists: Kristine Gebbie, Columbia University;
Nicole Lurie, RAND; Carmen Nevarez, Public Health
Institute
Royal Palm Five/Six
Chair: Patrick Vivier, Brown University
Call for Papers:
T.M. Bird, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
“Racial Disparities in Hospital Admissions and Surgical
Management of Children with Appendicitis”
Ruey-Kang Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
“Changes in Newborn Delivery During a Period of Rapid
Expansion of Medicaid Managed Care in Los Angeles and
Orange County, California”
Lesley Curtis, Duke Clinical Research Institute
“Use of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs by Children and
Adolescents in the United States: A Retrospective Cohort Study”
James Robbins, University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences
“Newborn Hospitalizations for Birth Defects in the
Pre- and Post-Folic Acid Fortification Periods”
Ying Tabak, Cardinal Health Information Companies
“Age-Specific Pathophysiologic Mortality Models for
General Pediatric Inpatients”
Policy Developments in Mental Health
& Substance Abuse
B
D
Disparities in Hospital Care
Sunset
Royal Palm Four
Chair: Edward Guadagnoli, Harvard Medical School
Chair: Nancy Wolff, Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey
Call for Papers:
David Bott, Dartmouth Medical School
“Veteran Status is Not an Independent Risk Factor
for CABG Mortality”
Tuesday
Invited Papers: In 2002 Congress sent $1.6 billion to
states and cities to use toward public health and
bioterrorism preparedness. Are local public health
agencies better prepared to respond to current and
emerging public health threats and emergencies than
two years ago? This session will examine how local
public health systems have used federal preparedness
grant dollars and at what price to other critical public
health functions.
Child Health Challenges: New Research
Approaches
C
Call for Papers:
Lori Achman, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
“Coverage of Mental Health Benefits and Parity Laws”
Elizabeth Bradley, Yale University
“Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Time to Acute
Reperfusion Therapy for Patients Hospitalized with
Myocardial Infarction”
Martha Beattie, Public Health Institute
“Cost-Effectiveness of Public Sector Substance Abuse
Treatment: Comparison of a Managed Care Approach
to a Traditional Public Sector System”
Kevin Fiscella, University of Rochester
“Separate and Unequal: Hospital Racial Segregation
and Disparity in Pressure Ulcers in New York State”
Jeremy Bray, RTI International
“The Cost Offset of Behavioral Health Treatment
in Medicaid”
Peter Groeneveld, University of Pennsylvania
“Technology Diffusion, Geographic Variation, and
Racial Disparities among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries:
1989 – 2000”
Alexander Cowell, RTI International
“The Association Between Federal Block Grants and
Individual Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Expenditures”
Meena Seshamani, University of Pennsylvania
“The Effect of Cuts in Medicare Reimbursement on
Quality of Hospital Care”
Neil Jordan, University of South Florida
“Effect of Managed Care on Treatment Costs for a
Medicaid Population with Psychiatric Disabilities”
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Royal Palm Three
Call for Panels:
Arnold Chen, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
“Patient Safety among Medicare Beneficiaries”
Chair: Stuart Guterman, Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services
Angela Merrill, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
“Quality of Care for Medicare Claimants with Diabetes:
1992 and 2001”
Panelists: David Baugh, Gerald Riley, and Daniel
Waldo, all from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services
Sheila Roman, Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services, and Timothy Lake, Mathematica
Policy Research, Inc.
“Preventable Hospitalizations among Medicare
Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries,1995 to 2001”
CMS Databases
Research Resources: This session will include descriptions of three sets of data activities being conducted by
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The
Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey collects information on Medicare beneficiaries, their health care utilization and spending patterns, sources of health insurance coverage, and other data describing their circumstances. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End
Results (SEER) Medicare Database merges information
from the National Cancer Institute’s SEER files and
Medicare claims data. The Medicaid Analytic Extract
contains person-level and claims data on Medicaid
enrollees for nearly all states. The discussion will focus
on the contents of these databases and their applications to health services research.
Best Abstracts & Article-of-the-Year
Royal Palm One
Chair: Michelle Dolfini-Reed, CNA Corporation
Special Session:
Elizabeth McGlynn, RAND
“The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults
in the United States” (Article-of-the-Year Awardee)
Yuhua Bao, University of California, Los Angeles
“Is Some Physician Advice on Smoking Cessation Better
than No Advice?”
Alka Indurkhya, Harvard University
“Which Dimensions of Continuity of Mental Health
Care Lead to Improved School Outcomes?”
Marlene Niefeld, Johns Hopkins University
“Ambulatory Care Sensitive Condition Hospitalizations
among Elderly Medicare and Medicaid (Dual) Enrollees”
Monitoring Outcomes of Medicare-Funded
Health Care with Administrative Data:
The Medicare Quality Monitoring System
M
Royal Palm Two
Chairs: Lein Han, Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services; Myles Maxfield, Mathematica
Policy Research, Inc.
Daniel Stryer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Measure, Learn & Improve: Is the Science
of Quality Improvement Applied by
Physicians? What Can be Done to Accelerate
Adoption?
Q
Pacific Four/Five
Chair: Anne-Marie Audet, The Commonwealth Fund
Call for Panels:
Anne-Marie Audet, The Commonwealth Fund
“Measure, Learn, and Improve: Have Physicians Begun
to Engage in the Quality Improvement Cycle?”
David Leach, Accreditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education
“The Formation of Residents: Acquiring the Habit
of Quality Improvement”
John Tooker, American College of Physicians
“What Can Professional Organizations Do to Foster
Adoption of Quality Improvement Principles and
Methods by Practicing Physicians?”
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Luncheon Plenary
Atlas Ballroom
AcademyHealth Chair Address
Health Services Research:
Does it Matter?
David Blumenthal
Massachusetts General Hospital
Tables will be designated by theme
to facilitate informal discussion.
AcademyHealth gratefully acknowledges the
following for general conference support:
Johnson & Johnson, Health Policy Group
RAND Health
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2004 Affiliate Meetings
Friday, June 4
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Seminars in Health Services Research Methods
❂
An Introduction to Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
in Health Care
Royal Palm Ballroom One/Two
❂
The Why & How of Risk Adjustment
Royal Palm Ballroom Three/Four
❂
Qualitative Data Analysis Software: Choosing a
Program That’s Right for You
Royal Palm Ballroom Five/Six
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
The Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowships
in Health Care Policy Final Reporting Seminar
Garden Salon One
Invitation Only
Saturday, June 5
7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
10th Annual National Research Service
Award (NRSA) Trainees Conference
Crescent
Registration required (may register on-site)
Grand Ballroom
Invitation Only
8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Annual Health
Services Research Meeting
Sunrise
Invitation Only
8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Building Bridges: Making a Difference
in Long-Term Care 2004 Colloquium
Pacific Salon Two
Registration required (may register on-site)
9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
6th Annual Child Health Services Research
Meeting: What Works in Child Health Services
Research
AHRQ is sponsoring this meeting in affiliation with the
Annual Research Meeting. A variety of topics related to
children’s health care will be covered.
Garden Salon One
Registration required (may register on-site)
Health Workforce Research Meeting
1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Identifying Evidence-Based Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Programs: Introduction
to SAMHSA’s National Registry of Effective
Programs and Practices (NREPP)
Garden Salon Two
Open
3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Health Services Research and Health Policy
Center Directors Meeting
AcademyHealth is pleased to host a meeting of health services research and policy center directors at its Annual Research
Meeting. This substantive session will focus on the shared
concerns and interests of all centers.
Sunset
Open to HSR and HP Center Directors and Designees
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Behavioral Health Services Research Interest
Group Meeting
Garden Salon Two
Open
9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Public Health Systems Research Meeting
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
CDC is sponsoring the third annual affiliate meeting
with the Annual Research Meeting to showcase public
health systems research.
Sunset
Registration required (may register on-site)
State Health Research & Policy Interest
Group Meeting
Terrace Pavilion
Open
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5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
8:15 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing
Issues: Focus on Safety and Quality
Child Health Interest Group Business Meeting
Pacific Salon One
Open
5:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
NRSA Reception and Poster Session
AcademyHealth conference attendees are invited
to meet the trainees at the 10th annual NRSA
reception and poster session.
Grand Ballroom
Open
Sunday, June 6
Brittany
Open
8:15 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Long-Term Care Interest Group
Business Meeting
Eaton
Open
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Harvard University Health Policy Summer
Program Luncheon
Brittany
Invitation Only
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
7:15 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Interest Group Chairs Breakfast
Fairfield
Invitation Only
Harvard Medical School Fellows Dinner
Brittany
Invitation Only
7:45 p.m. – 9:45 p.m.
7:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Policy Innovations in the United Kingdom,
Canada, and New Zealand: Opportunities
for Cross-National Learning
Stuart Altman Reception
Garden Salon One
Invitation Only
Sunrise
Open
Monday, June 7
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
International Exchange Speakers Breakfast
7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Stratford
Invitation Only
AHRQ Enhanced Emphasis on Translating
Research Into Practice and Policy
8:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Sheffield
Open
NRSA HRSA Program Directors Meeting
Garden Salon Two
Invitation Only
8:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
T32 Program Directors Meeting
Garden Salon One
Invitation Only
8:15 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Student Breakfast (Meet-the-Experts)
California
Open to all Students
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7:15 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
AcademyHealth Organizational
Affiliate Breakfast
Terrace Pavilion
Open to Organizational Affiliates
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
A Report on The Commonwealth Fund International
Working Group on Quality Indicators
Garden Salon Two
Open
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Kellogg Diversity in HSR Student Focus Group
Health Economics Interest Group Meeting
Clarendon
Invitation Only
Stratford
Open
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Quality Measures and Managed Care
Markets Project Meeting
Women’s Health Interest Group Meeting
Fairfield
Invitation Only
Brittany
Open
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
International Committee Meeting
Health Information Technology
Interest Group Meeting
Stratford
Invitation Only
Eaton
Open
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
University of California, Berkeley
Alumni Reception
International Working Group on Quality
Indicators Technical Subcommittee Meeting
Brittany
Invitation Only
Fairfield
Invitation Only
7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Medical Care Research and Review
Annual Board Meeting
Garden Salon One
Invitation Only
5:45 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Meeting of AcademyHealth Members
Sunrise
Open
Wednesday, June 9
8:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
International Working Group on Quality
Indicators Technical Subcommittee Meeting
Stratford
Invitation Only
8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday, June 8
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Meeting of EXCEED Center Directors
Stratford
Invitation Only
Seminars in Health Services Research Methods
❂
Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP): Data &
Tools to Support Improvement in Health Care
Royal Palm Ballroom One/Two
❂
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Data:
What Every Researcher Should Know
Royal Palm Ballroom Three/Four
2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
What Do We Know About Quality? Key Findings
from the First National Healthcare Quality and
Disparities Reports
Clarendon
Open
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Types of Sessions
Call for Panels
Poster Sessions
Sessions feature a group of related research presentations that are selected through a competitive peerreview process.
Sessions provide a forum for researchers to discuss
their latest findings and answer questions about their
work. The poster presentations provide a mechanism
for research dissemination and networking among
colleagues with similar research interests.
Call for Papers
Sessions feature presentations showcasing the latest
findings from health service research. Papers are
selected through a competitive peer-review process.
Invited Papers
Sessions feature cutting-edge research from three or
four leading researchers.These results help shape the
course of future health care debates and the operation and structure of health care delivery systems.
Methods Workshops
Workshops provide an opportunity for researchers to
share technical information and knowledge on established and emerging techniques of health services
research.
Policy Roundtables
Interactive sessions facilitate exchange between
researchers and users of research to promote the
application of findings to problems of policy, management, and clinical practice. Panelists discuss the
implications of research for policy and practice.
Audience participation is strongly encouraged.
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Research Agendas
Sessions highlight current funding priorities of major
federal agencies and foundations that provide support for health services and policy research. They may
also showcase work-in-progress and recently completed research of the organizations.
Research Resources
Workshops provide information on different databases and other important resources for health services
researchers.
Skill and Career Development Workshops
Workshops encourage the next generation of health
services researchers by developing skills that will help
enhance their careers.
Sessions by Theme
Behavioral Health
Sunday
9:30 a.m.
Getting Evidence-Based Psychosocial
Treatments into Practice: Evidence
& Challenges in Behavioral Health
5:00 p.m.
Prescription Drugs & Behavioral
Health
Monday
8:30 a.m.
Disparities in Treatment for & Impact
of Mental Illness
2:00 p.m.
Challenges in Using Evidence-Based
Practices in Substance Abuse
Treatment
4:00 p.m.
Screening & Intervention for Alcohol
& Drug Use Problems in Trauma
Patients: If They Improve
Public Health & Save Money, Then
Why Don't We Do Them?
5:00 p.m.
Strategies for Moderating the LongTerm Impact of Childhood Obesity
Monday
8:30 a.m.
Impact of SCHIP on Vulnerable
Children: Findings from the Child
Health Insurance Research Initiative
Tuesday
9:15 a.m.
Public Policy & Childhood Obesity:
Emerging Policy Options
11:15 a.m.
Child Health Challenges: New
Research Approaches
Chronic Care
Delivery
Sunday
9:30 a.m.
Investigating the Factors that
Influence Hospitalization for Chronic
Medical Conditions
Mental Health in Community Context
Tuesday
11:15 a.m.
Policy Developments in Mental
Health & Substance Abuse
3:00 p.m.
Does Participation in Collaborative
Quality Improvement Programs
Improve Care for Patients with
Chronic Illness?
Monday
Child Health
Sunday
8:30 a.m.
Organizational Factors Associated
with Successful Chronic Care Delivery
11:30 a.m.
Determinants of Access & Quality
of Care
10:30 a.m.
Innovative Strategies to Integrate
Patients into Chronic Care Delivery
3:00 p.m.
Impacts of Incremental Public Health
Insurance Expansions
2:00 p.m.
Understanding & Improving the
Quality of Chronic Care
Tuesday
9:15 a.m.
Issues in Chronic Care Delivery &
Quality
Coverage & Access
Sunday
11:30 a.m.
The Uninsured
3:00 p.m.
Impacts of Incremental
Public Health Insurance Expansions
Health Insurance Changes
5:00 p.m.
Future of Medicaid & SCHIP
Monday
8:30 a.m.
Effects of Cost-Sharing &
Reimbursement
10:30 a.m.
Access to Health Care & Insurance
2:00 p.m.
Modeling Options for Health Care
Reform: Key Assumptions & Their
Implications
Tuesday
9:15 a.m.
Insurance Coverage Issues & Effects
11:15 a.m.
Policy by Numbers: The Role of
Budget Estimates & Scoring in Health
Care Reform
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Disparities
International
Monday
Sunday
8:30 a.m.
Disparities & the Care of Children
11:30 a.m.
Learning from International Policy
Change
10:30 a.m.
Translating Disparities Research into
Policy & Practice
2:00 p.m.
Disparities in Primary Care
4:00 p.m.
Strategies to Address Health
Disparities
Monday
10:30 a.m.
Where Are We in IT? An International
Perspective
Tuesday
11:15 a.m.
The United States in a World
Prescription Drug Market
Tuesday
9:15 a.m.
Health Literacy, Cultural Competence
& Perceived Racism
11:15 a.m.
People with Disabilities: Do They
Have the Same Access?
Disparities in Hospital Care
Health Insurance
Markets
Sunday
9:30 a.m.
Innovations in Health Insurance
Monday
8:30 a.m.
Paying for Quality: Emerging
Concepts, Experiments & Evidence
4:00 p.m.
Trends & Innovations in Insurance
Design: Implications for Cost, Access
& Quality
Management &
Organization
Sunday
9:30 a.m.
The Delivery System Counts:
Organizational Structure & the
Quality of Care
3:00 p.m.
Evidence-Based Management:
Translating Research into Practice
5:00 p.m.
The Effects of the Balanced Budget
Act of 1997 on Hospital Finances,
Uncompensated Care Provision &
Quality of Care
Long-Term Care
Monday
Sunday
8:30 a.m.
Does Hospital Financial Condition
Affect Patient Care & Safety?
9:30 a.m.
The Impact of Regulation, Markets &
Information on Quality in Nursing
Homes
2:00 p.m.
Key Challenges in the Management of
Health Care Organizations
11:30 a.m.
Medical Care Use of Residential Care
Patients
Monday
2:00 p.m.
Caring for the Elderly Near the Endof-Life: Studies of Hospice Care &
Informal Care
4:00 p.m.
Long-Term Care Financing: Private
Sector Solutions & International
Comparisons
Tuesday
9:15 a.m.
Long-Term Care Community Services
& Market Factors
Medicare &
Medicare
Prescription Drugs
Sunday
9:30 a.m.
Medicare & Medicare Prescription
Drugs: Expense or Investment?
3:00 p.m.
How Much, How Soon? Coverage
Decisions in the Medicare Program
5:00 p.m.
Outlook for Medicare PPOs
Monday
8:30 a.m.
New Capitated Alternatives in
Medicare
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10:30 a.m.
Plan & Beneficiary Decisions in the
Medicare+Choice Program
Informing Medicare Policy
on Post-Acute Care
2:00 p.m.
Medicare Beneficiaries & Prescription
Drugs
4:00 p.m.
Will the New Medicare Drug Plan
Lead to Lower Spending on Medical
Services?
Tuesday
11:15 a.m.
Public Health & Disaster
Preparedness
Quality & Patient
Safety
Sunday
11:30 a.m.
Patient Safety 2004: Connecting the
Dots to Reduce Harm
11:15 a.m.
Measure, Learn & Improve: Is the
Science of Quality Improvement
Applied by Physicians & What Can be
Done to Accelerate Adoption?
Technology,
Innovation &
Evaluation
Sunday
9:15 a.m.
Medicare Drug Benefits
3:00 p.m.
Using Report Cards to Drive
Consumer Choice
3:00 p.m.
Health Information Technology for
the Health Care Sector: Where Are
We? How Can We Get Where We
Need to Go?
11:15 a.m.
Monitoring Outcomes of MedicareFunded Health Care with
Administrative Data: The Medicare
Quality Monitoring System (MQMS)
5:00 p.m.
Measurement & Improvement:
Where Are We Now & Where Are We
Headed?
5:00 p.m.
Health Care Information Systems:
Imminent Solutions or Distant Hope?
Tuesday
Innovations in Patient Safety
Public Health
Monday
Sunday
8:30 a.m.
The Science of Quality Measurement:
Are We Getting It Right?
9:30 a.m.
Public Health Risks, Costs &
Prevention Strategies
5:00 p.m.
Strategies for Moderating
the Long-Term Impact of
Childhood Obesity
Monday
10:30 a.m.
Emerging Health Threats & Emerging
Health Information Systems: Getting
Public Health & Clinical Medicine to
Real Time Response
4:00 p.m.
Public Health Infrastructure:
Identifying & Closing the Gaps
10:30 a.m.
Improving Quality of Care in the VA:
Wins, Losses, Errors & Ties
2:00 p.m.
Public Reporting of Data on Quality:
Why & How?
4:00 p.m.
What About Structure?
Organizational & Financial Effects
on Quality
Tuesday
9:15 a.m.
Empowering Patients: The Impact of
Public Reporting & Direct Patient
Involvement
Monday
8:30 a.m.
Technology Assessment: Identifying
Value in Innovation
4:00 p.m.
The Promise & Problems of Medical
Technology: Enhancing Value or
Driving Costs?
Workforce
Sunday
11:30 a.m.
Evidence for Planning the Future
Health Care Workforce
3:00 p.m.
Impact of Practice Organization &
Demographics on the Workforce
Tuesday
9:15 a.m.
Migration & the Global Health Care
Workforce: Balancing Competing
Demands
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2004 Most Outstanding Abstracts
Each year, AcademyHealth recognizes the most outstanding abstracts from each theme as selected by the abstracts review
committees. From these abstracts, a separate committee chooses three for significant and innovative research. The three
bulleted abstracts will be featured during a special session on Tuesday, 11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Behavioral Health
Coverage & Access
Lori Achman, M.P.P.
“Coverage of Mental Health Benefits and Parity Laws”
Susan Busch, Ph.D.
“Case Management of Uninsured Emergency Department
Patients: Results from an Economic Analysis of a
Randomized Controlled Trial”
Jim Banta, M.P.H., B.S.
“Severe Mental Illness and Congestive Heart Failure
Outcomes among Veterans”
Christine Eibner, Ph.D.
“Does Relative Poverty Predict the Need for
Mental Health Care?”
Jeffrey Harman, Ph.D.
“Disparities in the Adequacy of Depression Treatment
in the United States”
❂
Alka Indurkhya, Ph.D.
“Which Dimensions of Continuity of Mental
Health Care Lead to Improved School Outcomes?”
Neil Jordan, Ph.D.
“Effect of Managed Care on Treatment Costs
for a Medicaid Population with Psychiatric Disabilities”
Child Health
Nancy Lenfestey, M.H.A.
“Churning: Disenrollment and Reenrollment in
Wisconsin’s Medicaid and BadgerCare Programs”
Len Nichols, Ph.D.
“Uninsured Decliners of Employer Sponsored Health
Insurance: How They Changed from 1997 – 2003”
❂
Marlene Niefeld, M.P.P.
“Ambulatory Care Sensitive Condition Hospitalizations
among Elderly Medicare and Medicaid (Dual) Enrollees”
Mary Reed, M.P.H.
“Self-Reported Effects of Prescription Drug Cost-Sharing:
Decreased Adherence and Increased Financial Burden”
Lesley Curtis, Ph.D.
“Use of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs by Children
and Adolescents in the United States: A Retrospective
Cohort Study”
Nathan West, M.P.A.
“The Impact of Premiums on Wisconsin’s BadgerCare Program”
James Robbins, Ph.D.
“Newborn Hospitalizations for Birth Defects In
the Pre- and Post-Folic Acid Fortification Periods”
Peter Groeneveld, M.D., M.S.
“Technology Diffusion, Geographic Variation, and Racial
Disparities among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries: 1989 – 2000”
Chronic Care Delivery
Richard Kravitz, M.D.
“Providing Health Care Services to the Formerly Homeless:
A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Outcomes”
Stephen Davidson, Ph.D.
“Measuring Gradations of Quality in Chronic Disease Care”
Marjorie Pearson, Ph.D., M.S.H.S.
“Chronic Care Model (CCM) Implementation Emphases”
Alexander Tsai, M.A.
“A Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Improve Chronic
Illness Care”
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Lisa Dubay, Sc.M.
“Effects of the SCHIP on Access to Care,
Use of Services and Health Status”
Disparities
Chaya Merrill, M.P.H., Dr.P.H. (candidate)
“Examination and Evaluation of Initial State
Implementation of the Breast and Cervical Cancer
Prevention and Treatment Act”
Leo Morales, M.D., Ph.D.
“Mortality among Very Low Birthweight Infants in
Hospitals Serving Minority Populations”
Meena Seshamani, Ph.D.
“The Effect of Cuts in Medicare Reimbursement on
Quality of Hospital Care”
Steve Morgan, Ph.D.
“A Decade of Evidence-Based Prescription Drug
Purchasing in British Columbia”
Deborah Taira, Sc.D., M.P.A.
“Ethnic Disparities in the Impact of Copayment on
Adherence to Anti-Hypertensive Medications among
Asian-Pacific Americans”
Bruce Stuart, Ph.D.
“The Impact of Prescription Coverage on Drug
and Non-Drug Spending under Medicare”
Health Insurance Markets
Zhou Yang, Ph.D.
“How Much Would a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
Cost? Offsets in Medicare Part A Cost by Increased Drug Use”
M. Kate Bundorf, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.P.H.
“The Incidence of the Health Care Costs of Obesity”
Public Health
Anthony LoSasso, Ph.D.
“Immigrants and Employer-Provided Health Insurance”
International
Michael Harrison, Ph.D.
“Market Reforms in Europe: Dynamics of Policy Fashion”
Long-Term Care
Orna Intrator, Ph.D.
“The Effect of Medicaid Rate on Potentially Preventable
Hospitalizations from Nursing Home”
Donald Taylor, Jr., Ph.D., M.P.A.
“Do Selection or Treatment Effects Explain Differences in
Medicare Costs among Hospice and Normal-Care Decedents?”
Management & Organization
Shannon Mitchell, Ph.D., M.P.H.
“Gender Disparities in Healthcare Experiences:
The Impact of Managed Care Practices”
Nicole Quon, B.S.
“Trustbusters: The Prevalence and Predictors of
Trust Violations in American Medicine”
Bruce Siegel, M.D., M.P.H.
“Improving the Performance of the Safety Net:
Findings of the ‘Urgent Matters’ Project”
Medicare & Medicare
Prescription Drugs
Matthew Maciejewski, Ph.D.
“Medicare Drug Benefits and Selection Bias in HMO
Enrollment and Mortality in Diabetes”
❂
Yuhua Bao, Ph.D.
“Is Some Physician Advice on Smoking Cessation Better
than No Advice? An Instrumental Variable Analysis of
the 2001 National Health Interview Survey”
Michele Issel, Ph.D.
“Competency of Public Health Nurses and Faculty in the
Essential Public Health Services”
Technology, Innovation
& Evaluation
Andrew Chang, J.D., M.P.H.
“Bridging Terminology and Classification Gaps Between
Patient Safety Information Systems: A Comparison of Two
Coding Schemas for Near Misses and Adverse Events”
Vicki Fung, B.A.
“Use of e-Health Services (1999 – 2002): Mountains
or Molehills?”
David Samson, B.A.
“A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Left Ventricular Assist Devices
as Destination Therapy for End-Stage Heart Failure”
Claudia Steiner, M.D., M.P.H.
“Increasing Health Care Costs: the Price of Innovation?”
Workforce
Patricia Stone, Ph.D.
“Turnover of Critical Care Registered Nurses”
Diane Watson, Ph.D., M.B.A., BSOT
“What’s Up Docs? Population-Based Supply and Use of
Family Doctors, 1991 – 2001”
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Poster Program
Poster Session A
Poster Session B
Sunday
Tuesday
6:45 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Exhibit Hall (Reception)
7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Exhibit Hall (Breakfast)
Includes:
Child Health (101 – 132)
Coverage & Access (140 – 209)
Long-Term Care (215 – 240)
Management & Organization (245 – 274)
Public Health (395 – 433)
Quality & Patient Safety (315 – 390)
Workforce (280 – 309)
Student Posters (445 – 481)
Includes:
Behavioral Health (595 – 624)
Chronic Care Delivery (630 – 659)
Disparities (500 – 590)
Health Insurance Markets (700 – 716)
International (720 – 733)
Medicare & Medicare Prescription Drugs (665 – 696)
Technology, Innovation & Evaluation (740 – 758)
General Posters (775 – 906)
Set-up
Sunday 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Set-up
Monday 3:15 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Dismantle
Sunday 8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. and
Monday 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Dismantle
Tuesday 8:45 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Poster Presenters
(A) = Poster Session A
(B) = Poster Session B
Achman, Lori #665 (B)
Adams, Alyce #500 (B)
Adams, E. Kathleen #140 (A)
Adams, Richard #775 (B)
Ahmed, Nasar #501 (B)
Akincigil, Ayse #595 (B)
Ang, Alfonso #215 (A)
Angelelli, Joseph #502, #776 (B)
Anthony, Mary #777 (B)
Aparasu, Rajender #778 (B)
Arah, Onyebuchi #720 (B)
Arar, Nedal #630 (B)
Armstrong, Nicole #779 (B)
Arthur, Melanie #503 (B)
Ashkin, Evan #141 (A)
Ashman, Jill #504, #505 (B)
Audet, Anne-Marie #315 (A)
Avery, George #316 (A)
Aydede, Sema #216 (A)
Babey, Susan #506 (B)
Baker, Dana Lee #721 (B)
Baldwin, Laura-Mae #507 (A), #507 (B)
Baldwin, Marjorie #596 (B)
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Baldyga, William #781 (B)
Bambha, Kiran #782 (B)
Bardenheier, Barbara #217 (A)
Barlow, James #245 (A)
Barnette, Leslie #218 (A)
Beach, Mary Catherine #508 (B)
Bean-Mayberry, Bevanne #783 (B)
Beatty, Amanda #722 (B)
Behal, Raj #317, #318 (A)
Bekemeier, Betty #422 (A)
Benavidez, Oscar #784 (A), #784 (B)
Bender, Kaye #395, #396 (A)
Benton, Lisa #509 (B)
Beran, Mary Sue #667 (B)
Bernard, Shulamit #319 (A),
#510, #631 (B)
Bernell, Stephanie #785 (B)
Bhalotra, Sarita #246 (A)
Bhandari, Michelyn W. #397 (A)
Bian, John #700 (B), #786 (B)
Blakely, Craig #142 (A)
Blevins, Natalie #445 (A)
Blewett, Lynn A. #143 (A)
Blixen, Carol #398 (A), #787 (B)
Bogart, Laura #399 (A)
Bolin, Jane Nelson #632 (B)
Bonafede, Machaon #788, #789 (B)
Borders, Tyrone #144 (A), #511 (B)
Bott, David #145 (A)
Boulis, Ann #512 (B)
Braid-Forbes, Mary Jo #668 (B)
Bramble, James #247 (A)
Branin, Joan #790, #791 (B)
Bray, Jeremy #740 (B)
Bremer, Robert #792 (B)
Bridges, John #283 (A)
Bronstein, Janet #513 (B)
Brotanek, Jane #102 (A)
Brotherton, Sarah #793 (B)
Brousseau, David #103 (A)
Brown, Timothy #400 (A)
Browne, Gina #104, #248 (A)
Bruce, Douglas #401 (A)
Burkhardt, Jeffrey #669 (B)
Burkholder, Paul #794 (B)
Burns, Helen #284 (A)
Campbell, Cynthia #597 (B)
Campbell, Ellen #146 (A)
Cantor, Joel #701 (B)
Carlson, Matthew #147 (A), #633 (B)
Carlson, Melissa #320 (A)
Carmazzi, Angelina #795 (B)
Carroll, Holly #219 (A)
Cecil, William #702 (B)
Chao, Shih-Ching #796 (B)
Chapman, Jason #285 (A)
Chawla, Neetu #514 (B)
Chen, Chih-Ying #447 (A)
Chen, Lei #446 (A)
Cherrie-Benton, Carron #321 (A)
Cherrington, Andrea #402 (A)
Cheung, Robyn #286 (A)
Chin, Stanley #322 (A)
Chisolm, Deena #323 (A)
Choi, Daniel #148 (A)
Chumney, Elinor #515 (B)
Chung, Kyusuk #149 (A)
Cimasi, Robert James #249 (A)
Citkina, Helen #150 (A)
Coffman, Janet #448 (A)
Cohen, Amy #797 (B)
Colla, Judith #324 (A)
Conn, Emily Belmont #516 (B)
Conner, Norma #220 (A)
Connor, Jean #105 (A)
Conover, Christopher #151 (A)
Cook, Edie #598 (B)
Cooney, James #221 (A)
Cope, Jacqueline #449 (A)
Copeland, Laurel #798 (B)
Correa-de-Araujo, Rosaly #517 (B)
Costich, Julia #152 (A)
Cox, Elizabeth #450 (A)
Crystal, Stephen #634 (B)
Curtis, Lesley #403 (A)
Dall, Tim #280, #281, #282 (A)
Daumit, Gail #599 (B)
Davern, Michael #404 (A)
Davis, Catherine #287 (A)
Davis, Mary #406 (A)
Davis, Muntu #405 (A), #799 (B)
DeBate, Rita #518 (B)
Del Fiol, Fernando #670 (B)
Demiris, George #325 (A)
Derose, Stephen #800 (B)
DeVries, Andrea #600 (B)
DeWalt, Darren #251 (A)
Dhanani, Nasreen #153 (A)
Dick, Andrew #759 (B)
DiMatteo, Robin #635 (B)
Dimoulas, Eleni #451 (A)
Dlouhy, Martin #723 (B)
Dobalian, Aram #407 (A)
Dobbs, Debra #724 (B)
Dobie, Sharon #519 (B)
Doshi, Jalpa #671 (B)
Dossa, Almas #452, #453 (A)
Dougherty, Denise #106 (A)
Dowd, Bryan #703 (B)
Du, Jean #520 (B)
Duffy, Farifteh #601 (B)
Dugan, Elizabeth #801 (B)
Durand, Roger #802, #803 (B)
Duru, O. Kenrik #521 (B)
Egan, Brent #522 (B)
Eikel, Catherine #440 (A)
Eisert, Sheri #741 (B)
Elbel, Brian #154 (A), #704 (B)
Ellenbecker, Carol Hall #441 (A)
Elston Lafata, Jennifer #326, #327 (A)
Elwy, A. Rani #523 (B)
Emmert, Betty #804 (B)
Entwistle, Vikki #328 (A)
Ettner, Susan #252 (A)
Fadel, Huda #408A, #408B (A)
Fahlman, Cheryl #155 (A)
Fairbrother, Gerry #156 (A)
Faris, Richard #805 (B)
Fehrenbach, Nicole #107 (A)
Felix Aaron, Kaytura #524 (B)
Feng, Zeng #330 (A)
Fertil, Bertha #525 (B)
Fickel, Jacqueline #254 (A)
Field, Jennifer #602 (B)
Findley, Patricia #603 (B)
Flach, Stephen #806 (B)
Fleegler, Eric #108 (A)
Fleishman, John #807 (B)
Fletcher, Carol #604 (B)
Flores, Glenn #109 (A), #157 (A)
Flynn, Kathryn #454 (A)
Forge, Nell #605 (B)
Fos, Peter #409 (A)
Foster, David #526, #725, #808, #809 (B)
Fowler-Brown, Angela #455, #456 (A)
Franco, Sheila #636 (B)
Frayne, Susan #763 (B)
Freid, Virginia #810 (B)
Friedman, Bruce #811 (B)
Friery, Karen #331 (A)
Fuld, Jennifer #527 (B)
Gardner, Annette #158 (A)
Garrett, J. Eline #743 (B)
Gary, Helen #812 (B)
Gary, Lisa #528 (B)
Gaskin, Darrell #529 (B)
Gebbie, Kristine #410, #411 (A)
Gelberg, Lillian #412 (A)
Gerding, Abigail #672 (B)
Gerena, Mariana #606 (B)
Gibson, Mary Jo #222 (A)
Gifford, Greg #159 (A)
Girouard, Shirley #133 (A)
Goldman, Marlene #813 (B)
Goldsmith, Laurie #457 (A)
Gorey, Kevin #530 (B)
Grant, Roy #531 (B)
Green, Jack #435 (A)
Green, Lisa #532 (B)
Greisinger, Anthony #637 (B)
Grzybicki, Dana #814 (B)
Gutierrez, Benjamin #673, #815, #816 (B)
Haberer, Jessica #160 (A)
Hall, Mark #764, #765, #766 (B)
Han, Whiejong #111 (A)
Hanrahan, Patricia #817 (B)
Harada, Nancy #818 (B)
Harris, Katherine #533, #607 (B)
Hart, L. Gary #819 (B)
Haskard, Kelly #820 (B)
Hasnain-Wynia, Romana #534 (B)
Hawkins, Kevin #161 (A), #535, #674 (B)
He, Xiaoxing #591 (B)
Hebert, Paul #255 (A)
Heflinger, Craig Anne #536 (B)
Helfrich, Christian #458 (A), #638 (B)
Henderson, Jillian #332 (A)
Hendrix, Katharine #333 (A), #537 (B)
Hepner, Kimberly #767 (B)
Hess, Rachel #256 (A), #744 (B)
Hill, Steven #538 (B)
Hillemeier, Marianne #539 (B)
Hirth, Richard #675 (B)
Holl, Jane #335 (A)
Hollenbeak, Christopher #821 (B)
Holman, Cashel D’Arcy James #726 (B)
Holty, Jon-Erik #459 (A)
Horng, Mark #413 (A)
Howell, Embry #112 (A)
Hsu, John #336 (A)
Hu, Hsou Mei #705 (B)
Huber, Manfred #223 (A)
Hughes, John #339 (A)
Hughes, Linda #295 (A), #822 (B)
Hughes, Ronda #162, #337 (A)
Huh, Soonim #676 (B)
Hunt, Kelly #540 (B)
Hupert, Nathaniel #414 (A)
Hynes, Denise #415, #416 (A), #639 (B)
Imai, Hirohisa #823 (B)
Imai, Kumiko #113 (A)
Immekus, Daniel #824 (B)
Inkelas, Moira #114 (A)
Intrator, Orna #224 (A)
Issa, Amalia #745 (B)
Jakubek, Erin #288 (A)
Jamison, Marian #825 (B)
Jayadevappa, Ravishankar #338 (A),
#826 (B)
Jewell, Dianne #827 (B)
Jha, Ashish #460, #461 (A)
Jiang, H. Joanna #289 (A), #541 (B)
Jin, Lei #290 (A)
Johnson, Michael #828, #829 (B)
Johnson, Tricia #163, #164 (A)
Junlapeeya, Piyatida #830 (B)
Kaiser, Katherine #542 (B)
Kaissi, Amer #340 (A)
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Kash, Bita #291 (A)
Katzburg, Judith #543 (B)
Kazanjian, Arminée #165 (A)
Kellogg, Victoria #341 (A)
Ketsche, Patricia #166 (A)
Khan, Mahmud #706, #746 (B)
Khatri, Naresh #257, #342 (A)
Khoury, Amal #544 (B)
Kilgore, Meredith #747 (B)
Kim, Chun-Bae #727, #831 (B)
Kim, Myoung #677 (B)
Kim, Sue #545 (B)
Kim, Young Ju #462 (A)
King, William #292 (A)
Kletke, Phillip #768 (B)
Knapp, Katherine #293 (A)
Knight, Evelyn #417 (A)
Knott, Astrid #258 (A)
Kobayashi, Yasuki #832 (B)
Konrad, Thomas #833 (B)
Koroukian, Siran #115, #167 (A)
Kralewski, John #343 (A)
Krasner, Mel #344 (A)
Kruzikas, Denise #418 (A)
Kulkarni, Amit #640 (B)
Kung, Pei-Tseng #748 (B)
Kuzniewicz, Michael #345 (A)
Laditka, Sarah #168 (A)
Lamar-Welch, Verna #259 (A)
Landers, Glenn #225 (A)
Landsman, Pamela #707 (B)
Lane, Rondall #346 (A)
Laschober, Mary #678 (B)
Lau, Denys #608 (B)
LaVela, Sherri #347 (A)
Lee, Bruce #463 (A)
Lee, Jung Jeung #836, #837, #838,
#839, #840 (B)
Lee, Jwo-Leun #728 (B)
Lee, Kyeong-Soo #834, #835 (B)
Legorreta, Antonio #348 (A)
Leibowitz, Arleen #169 (A)
Levin, Scott #294 (A)
Leviss, Perri #419 (A)
Li, Rui #464 (A)
Li, Yu-Fang #841 (B)
Liang, Su-Ying #842 (B)
Liang, Yia-Wun #465 (A)
Lin, Blossom Yen-Ju #260 (A), #843,
#844 (B)
Lin, Chyongchiou #116 (A)
Lindrooth, Richard #226 (A)
Linton, Andrea #117 (A)
Litaker, David #845, #846, #847 (B)
Liu, Chuan-Fen #349 (A), #609 (B)
Liu, Hongxia #466 (A)
Long, Sharon #546 (B)
Lopez-De Fede, Ana #170 (A), #547 (B)
Lorch, Scott #118 (A)
LoSasso, Anthony #708 (B)
Lotstein, Debra #119 (A)
Loux, Stephenie #848 (B)
Lowe, Robert #171, #172, #173 (A)
Lu, Mingshan #610 (B)
Luck, Jeff #749 (B)
Luther, Stephen #641 (B)
Madamala, Kusuma #467 (A)
Madden, Jeanne #729 (B)
Manocchia, Michael #849 (B)
Manser, Sarah Turcotte #611 (B)
Marks, Corron #850 (B)
Markus, Anne #120, #174, #175 (A)
Matus, Justin #851 (A)
Mauery, D. Richard #612 (B)
Mazyck, Pamela #852 (B)
McAlearney, Ann #176, #261, #296 (A)
McCarthy, John #177, #178, #179 (A),
#548 (B)
McCloskey, Barbara #853 (B)
McConnell, John #180 (A)
McDonald, Leander #549 (B)
McGuire, Jim #550 (B)
McIlvaine-Newsad, Heather #551 (B)
McKeever, Patricia #227 (A)
Melek, Stephen #613 (B)
Meredith, Lisa #643 (B)
Meret-Hanke, Louise #228 (A)
Merrill, Angela #181 (A)
Meterko, Mark #854 (B)
Miller, Edward #229 (A)
Misra, Subhasis #855, #856 (B)
Mohr, Julie #350 (A)
Moon, Sangho #679 (B)
Moore, Jean #420 (A)
Morton, Reed #421 (A)
Moser, James #552 (B)
Moulton, Patricia #553 (B)
Mularski, Richard #857 (B)
Murray, Mary Ellen #183 (A)
Murray, Patrick #230 (A)
Muus, Kyle #184 (A), #554 (B)
Mwachofi, Ari #555 (B)
Naessens, James #858 (B)
Nag, Soma #680, #681 (B)
Nakonezny, Paul #185 (A)
Nannini, Angela #859 (B)
Narayan, Sangeeta #468 (A)
Navaie-Waliser, Maryam #121 (A),
#556 (B)
Neighbors, Charles #557 (B)
Newhouse, Robin #263 (A)
Nicholas, Lauren #860 (B)
Nigam, Amit #264 (A)
Nitz, Lawrence #186 (A)
Nonemaker, Sue #231 (A), #750 (B)
Noyes, Katia #682 (B)
Odetola, Fola #122 (A)
Ojeda, Victoria #187 (A)
O’Leary, June #188 (A)
Oliver, Thomas #189 (A), #683 (B)
Ong, Michael #423 (A)
Oppenheimer, Caitlin #265 (A)
Orlando, Lori #751 (B)
Oswald, Donald #861 (B)
Pai, Chih-Wen #266 (A)
Park, Chang #297 (A)
Park, Elyse #862 (B)
Park, Heidi #190 (A), #863 (B)
Park, Jinhee #469 (A)
Paterniti, Debora #351 (A), #558 (B)
Pawlson, Gregory #352 (A)
Peabody, John #734 (B)
Pearson, William #470 (A)
Peters, Karen #864 (B)
Pham, Hoangmai #644 (B)
Phibbs, Ciaran #123 (A)
Phillippi, Raymond #709 (B)
Phillips, Kathryn #436, #437 (A)
Pickreign, Jeremy #710 (B)
Pizer, Steven #232 (A)
Polsky, Daniel #730 (B)
Ponce, Ninez #559 (B)
Porter, Stephen #353 (A)
Portnoy, Joel #124, #354 (A)
Post, Edward #614 (B)
Potter, Margaret #298, #355, #425 (A),
#865 (B)
Powell, Paige #684 (B)
Pransky, Glenn #866 (B)
Presken, Paul #560 (B)
Price, Mary #867 (B)
Qaseem, Amir #233 (A)
Quan, Hude #561 (B)
Quinn, Debra #562 (B)
Rabiner, Donna #358 (A)
Radwin, Laurel #868 (B)
Regenstein, Marsha #191, #192 (A)
Renner, Philip #760, #761, #762 (B)
Resnik, Linda #563 (B)
Rimsza, Mary #125 (A), #564 (B)
Rivard, Peter #359 (A)
Rivers, Patrick #869 (B)
Robertson, Madeline #870 (B)
Robinson, Paul #565 (B)
Roblin, Douglas #267 (A), #685 (B)
Roby, Dylan #193 (A)
Romeis, James #438, #439 (A)
Rondeau, Kent #234, #268 (A)
Rosati, Robert #235, #360 (A)
Rosen, Allison #686 (B)
Rothman, Dov #269, #426 (A)
Roubideaux, Yvette #645 (B)
Ruiz, Rafael #194 (A)
Rupper, Randall #270 (A)
Russo, Gerard #195, #196 (A)
Saleh, Shadi #362, #363 (A),
#871, #872 (B)
Sales, Anne #299 (A)
Sampsel, Sarah #364, #365 (A)
Sankaranarayanan, Jayashri #646 (B)
Sarang, Rajesh #566 (B)
Sass, Marcia #873 (B)
Saunders, Robert #874 (B)
Savitz, Lucy #427 (A)
Sayer, Nina #875 (B)
Scharpf, Tanya #471 (A)
Scheinmann, Roberta #126 (A)
Scherer, Peter #300 (A)
Schieber, Richard #101 (A)
Schimmel, Jody #687, #688 (B)
Schneider, John #271 (A)
Scholle, Sarah #711 (B)
Schonlau, Matthias #647 (B)
Schramm, Steven #197 (A)
Schumacher, Edward #752 (B)
Sciamanna, Cecilia #876 (B)
Scutchfield, F. Douglas #428 (A)
Seelig, Michelle Dawn #429 (A)
Sentell, Tetine #567 (B)
Seshadri, Roopa #198 (A)
Shah, N. Sarita #568 (B)
Shambaugh-Miller, Michael #569 (B)
Shani, Michal #570 (B)
Sharma, Ravi #689 (B)
Sharp, Nancy #301 (A)
Shea, Dennis #648, #690, #691, #877 (B)
Shefer, Abigail #236 (A)
Shen, Jay #753 (B)
Shenolikar, Rahul #472 (A)
Sherman, Sandra #127 (A)
Sherrill, Windsor Westbrook #571 (B)
Shi, Shu-Feng #878 (B)
Shinogle, Judith #128 (A)
Shore, Karen #367 (A), #615, #649 (B)
Shrank, William #692 (B)
Singhal, Rita #368 (A)
Singhal, Puneet #473 (A)
Sisk, Jane #369 (A)
Skillman, Susan #302 (A)
Sledge, Jennifer #879 (B)
Sloss, Elizabeth #199 (A)
Smalarz, Amy #474 (A)
Smith, Dean #372 (A), #732 (B)
Smith, Jeanene #200 (A), #693 (B)
Smith, Maureen #370, #371 (A)
Smith, Monica #303, #304 (A), #754 (B)
Snyder, Claire #373 (A)
Sohn, Min-Woong #712, #713 (B)
Solloway, Michele #134 (A)
Sorbero, Melony #572 (B)
Sotnikov, Sergey #430 (A)
Soueid, Emile #755 (B)
Spetz, Joanne #201, #305 (A)
Stanwyck, Carol #880 (B)
Stebbins, Marilyn #881 (B)
Stewart, John #202 (A), #573 (B)
Stocker, Julia #475 (A)
Story, Molly #574 (B)
Stoskopf, Carleen #575 (B)
Strombom, Indiana #476 (A)
Stroupe, Kevin #650, #651 (B)
Stukenborg, George #374 (A)
Sudano, Jr., Joseph #576, #577 (B)
Swain, Geoffrey #882 (B)
Sweeney, Patricia #431 (A), #883 (B)
Takayanagi, Kazue #616 (B)
Tamuz, Michal #375 (A)
Tao, Guoyu #272, #273 (A), #652 (B)
Taylor, Erin #578 (B)
Taylor, Stephanie #203 (A)
Teal, Cayla #884 (B)
Thaker, Samruddhi #204 (A)
Thomas, Cindy #617 (B)
Thompson, Joseph #130 (A)
Thompson, Craig #250 (A)
Thorpe, Joshua #477 (A)
Thrivikraman, Jyothi #478 (A)
Tilford, John #131 (A)
Traina, Shana #618 (B)
Traube, Dorian #756 (B)
Tregunno, Deborah #376 (A)
Trivedi, Amal #579 (B)
Tromp, Martha Conkling #580 (B)
Tsai, Wen-Chen #653 (B)
Tsai, Kai-Li #885, #886 (B)
Tseng, Chien-Wen #694 (B)
Tun, Waimar #377 (A)
Tunceli, Kaan #695 (B)
Turner, Barbara #274 (A), #654 (B)
Uhrig, Jennifer #378 (A), #581 (B)
Ullman, Megan #479 (A)
Ulrich, Connie #306 (A)
VanSuch, Monica #379 (A)
Veneris, Sofia #757 (B)
Vinci, Carrie #887 (B)
Virgo, Katherine #655 (B)
Viswanathan, Meera #619 (B)
Vlaicu, Sorina #582 (B)
Volpp, Kevin #432 (A)
Vungkhanching, Martha #888 (B)
Walkup, James #889 (B)
Wallace, Neal #620 (B)
Wang, Bill Bing-Long #890, #891, #892 (B)
Wang, Margaret #656 (B)
Wang, Virginia #480 (A)
Wasiak, Radoslaw #714 (B)
Waters, Teresa #205 (A)
Watt, Ann #381 (A)
Weech-Maldonado, Robert #583,
#584, #585 (B)
Weinick, Robin #206, #207 (A)
Weisgerber, Michael #893 (B)
Weiss, Audrey #382 (A)
Weissman, Joel #383 (A)
West, Elizabeth #307 (A), #733 (B)
Westerfield, William #715 (B)
White, Alan #385, #386 (A)
White, Bert #716 (B)
White, Chapin #696 (B)
White, Michelle #894 (B)
Wholey, Doug #387 (A)
Wickstrom, Steven #388 (A)
Wieland, Darryl #895 (B)
Wilensky, Sara #308 (A)
Wilk, Joshua #621 (B)
Winston, Carla #586 (B)
Wodchis, Walter #237 (A)
Wolosin, Robert #896 (B)
Woltmann, Emily #622 (B)
Wong, Lok #389 (A)
Wong, Wai Shun #758 (B)
Woolf, Steven #587 (B)
Xu, Liyan #899 (B)
Xu, Wu #897 (B)
Xue, Ying #238 (A)
Xu, Yu #309 (A), #898 (B)
Yang, Serena #210 (A)
Yawn, Barbara #433 (A), #657, #658 (B)
Yoo, Grace #588 (B)
Young, A. Joyce #900, #901, #902 (B)
Younis, Mustafa Zeedan #239 (A), #589 (B)
Yu, Hao #132 (A), #659 (B)
Yu, Xinhua #903 (B)
Zachariah, Rachel #590 (B)
Zawacki, Alice #904 (B)
Zeber, John #623, #624 (B)
Zhan, Chunliu #390 (A)
Zhang, James #906 (B)
Zhang, Ning #240 (A)
Zhang, Xinzhi #905 (B)
Zhou, Fangjun #208 (A)
Zuniga, Miguel #209 (A)
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Exhibit Program
Hours
You are invited to visit the exhibit program in the Exhibit Hall during the following hours:
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
4:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. & 3:15 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
7:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Display of exhibitors’ materials at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting and advertising in the Agenda Book
do not constitute or imply endorsement by AcademyHealth.
Exhibitor Profiles
AARP
Public Policy Institute
Booth: 229
The Public Policy Institute is the focal point for public policy
research and analysis at AARP. Created in 1985, the Institute
studies and disseminates reports on a broad range of public
policy issues including health care, economic security, longterm care, independent living, and consumer affairs.
www.aarp.org/ppi
Abt Associates, Inc. *
Health Services Research & Evaluation
Booth: 122
Abt Associates Inc. is an employee-owned company of
over 1,000 professionals around the world providing a
range of research and consulting services to public and
private sector clients. Abt Associates is a leading
provider of innovative research and evaluation methodologies covering a wide range of health related areas
including: clinical, patient safety and economic outcomes and indicators; community-based health initiatives; mental health and substance abuse; post-acute
care, maternal and child health, public health and disability, and health care workforce issues.
www.abtassociates.com
AcademyHealth
Booths: 117, 119, 121
AcademyHealth is the professional home for health services researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners, and a
leading, non-partisan resource for the best in health
research and policy. AcademyHealth fosters networking,
professional growth, and development among a diverse
membership comprised of health services researchers,
public policymakers, business decision makers, policy
analysts, economists, sociologists, political scientists,
consultants, clinicians, and students. Drawing from the
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strengths of 4,000 individuals and 125 affiliated organizations, AcademyHealth provides a forum for its members
to share the latest research, review and analyze health
policy, and network with their peers.
www.academyhealth.org
AcademyHealth Career Center
Booths: 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205
Make professional connections or find a talented
employee by using our many Career Center services,
available during regular exhibit hours. Search for employment opportunities, potential employees, and training
programs in health services research and health policy.
www.academyhealth.org/career
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality *
Booths: 217, 219, 221
The mission of AHRQ, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care by using evidence to
improve health care, improving health care outcomes
through research, and transforming research into practice.
www.ahrq.gov
American Academy of Actuaries *
Booth: 124
The American Academy of Actuaries represents and
unites U.S. actuaries from all practice areas. As the profession’s voice on public policy and professionalism
issues, the Academy serves its members-and the publicin the followings ways: it establishes, maintain, and
enforces high professional standards of actuarial qualification, practice, and conduct; it represents the profession at the state, national, and international levels; it
assists in shaping public policy by providing legislators,
regulators, and others with independent, objective information and analysis; and in cooperation with other
organizations, it works to represent and advance the
actuarial profession and to increase public awareness of
the actuary’s vital role in the economy and government.
www.actuary.org
American Academy of Pediatrics *
Division of Health Policy Research
Half Table: 19-A
The American Academy of Pediatrics is the major professional
association for practicing pediatricians. The mission of the
American Academy of Pediatrics is to attain optimal physical,
mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults. To this purpose, the AAP
and its members dedicate their efforts and resources.
www.aap.org
American Institutes for Research *
Booth: 308
AIR Health creates, translates, and disseminates knowledge for health improvement. Drawing on 50 years of
behavioral and social science research, we apply unique
approaches for understanding and improving access,
quality, and financing of health care, coupled with the
development of award-winning health communication
strategies for diverse populations.
www.air.org
The American Journal of Managed Care
Booth: 313
The American Journal of Managed Care is an independent,
peer-reviewed forum for the publication of clinical
research and opinion related to quality, value, and policy
in healthcare delivery. The Journal delivers original
research on patient outcomes, clinical effectiveness, cost
effectiveness, quality management, and health
policy to managed care decision makers.
www.ajmc.com
Association of University Programs in Health
Administration
Booth: 128
The Association of University Programs in Health
Administration (AUPHA) is a network of colleges, universities, faculty, and organizations dedicated to the
improvement of healthcare delivery through excellence
in Health Administration Education. Our membership
includes the premier Baccalaureate and Master’s Degree
programs in Health Administration Education in the
United States and Canada.
www.aupha.org
Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Booth: 311
Blackwell publishes academic journals and general scholarly college and reference texts, with an emphasis on the
humanities, social sciences, and business.
www.blackwellpublishing.com
California Breast Cancer Research Program
Table: 30
The California Breast Cancer Research Program makes
grants to California scientists and community researchers
to find better ways to cure, treat, and prevent breast cancer. We’re funded by the people of California through a
tobacco tax, taxpayer donations, and contributions from
concerned citizens. The CBCRP is the largest state-funded
breast cancer research program in the nation.
www.cbcrp.org
Califronia HealthCare Foundation *
Table: 28
The California HealthCare Foundation, is an independent philanthropy committed to improving the way health care is
delivered and financed in California, and helping consumers
make informed health care and coverage decisions. Formed
in 1996, our goal is to ensure that all Californians have
access to affordable, quality health care.
www.chcf.org
Catalyst Technologies, Inc.
Booth: 126
Catalyst Technologies provides healthcare organizations with
innovative solutions in performance measurement, quality
reporting and research. We provide powerful analytic tools and
current, comprehensive detailed medical data for millions of
covered lives that help researchers make effective, affordable
healthcare a reality. Our Quality SpectrumTM software is
NCQA certified for HEDIS® reporting.
www.catalysttech.com
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services *
Booths: 317, 319
CMS is the Federal agency that provides health care services
for 1 in 4 Americans enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and
SCHIP, enforces quality standards, and establishes payment
policies. ORDI conducts research, and produces information
that shapes current and future programs.
www.cms.hhs.gov
The Commonwealth Fund *
Booth: 118
The Commonwealth Fund, a New York City-based national
foundation, undertakes independent research on health
and social issues. Its mission is to enhance the common
good by looking for new opportunities to help Americans
live healthy and productive lives, and to assist specific
groups with serious and neglected problems.
www.cmwf.org
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Department of Veterans Affairs *
Health Services Research and Development
Booths: 216, 218
This exhibit provides information about a variety of Health
Services Research and Development Programs such as
Investigator Initiated Research, Nursing Research, Service
Directed Research, Quality Enhancement Research, Centers
of Excellence and Resource Centers, Career Development
and Training Programs.
www.va.gov/resdev
Department of Veterans Affairs
Health Services Research and Development, Quality
Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI)
Booth: 220
This exhibit provides information about QUERI, a quality
improvement program targeting high-risk diseases and conditions prevalent among veterans. QUERI works to translate
and implement research findings into routine health care.
www.hsrd.research.va.gov/queri
Emory University *
Rollins School of Public Health, Department
of Health Policy & Management
Booth: 322
The Department of Health Policy and Management at
the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH), along with
the innovative Career MPH program taught via distance
learning, focus on today’s most pressing public health
issues. Within RSPH, the Emory Center on Health
Outcomes and Quality, one of the nation’s largest health
services research groups, combines leading academic
researchers at Emory with a team of experienced handson researchers formerly with Aetna.
www.sph.emory.edu
George Washington University Medical Center *
GWU School of Public Health and Health Services,
Department of Health Policy
Booth: 231
The Department of Health Policy is the home for health
policy studies and research at the School of Public Health
and Health Services. It focuses on both public health and
health services policy issues, and it emphasizes preparing
students to rigorously analyze health policy matters in
broad, cross-cutting, real-world contexts.
www.gwhealthpolicy.org
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Georgia State University *
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies,
Georgia Health Policy Center
Half Table: 6-A
The Georgia Health Policy Center was established in
1995 as a nonpartisan forum for consensus building
among diverse interest groups. The Health Policy
Center’s fundamental mission is to improve the health
status of all Georgians through research, policy development, and program design and evaluation.
www.gsu.edu/~wwwghp
Harvard University
Ph.D. Program in Health Policy
Table: 1
The Harvard Ph.D. in Health Policy is a collaborative program between five Harvard University Faculties: Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences, School of Public Health,
Medical School, Kennedy School of Government, and
Harvard Business School. Students concentrate in one of the
following disciplines: decision sciences, economics, ethics,
evaluative science and statistics, management, medical sociology, or political analysis. In addition, at the dissertation
stage, students select a policy area: environmental health,
health care services, international health, mental health, or
public health. This degree is intended for students seeking
teaching careers in institutes of higher learning and/or
research careers in health policy.
www.fas.harvard.edu/~healthpl
Health Administration Press
Table: 20
Health Administration Press publishes books and journals
on all aspects of health services management. We offer
resources that cover such important topics as healthcare
quality, physician-executive relations, health policy issues,
and economics. Health Administration Press is a division of
the American College of Healthcare Executives.
www.ache.org/hap.cfm
Health Resources and Services Administration *
Booth: 318
Health Resources and Services Administration is the lead
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency for
improving access to quality health care for all Americans.
HRSA’s 80-plus programs focus on primary care, HIV/AIDS
and maternal and child health services, health professions
training, rural health, and organ donation.
www.hrsa.gov
INQUIRY
The Journal of Health Care Organization,
Provision, and Financing
Table: 17
INQUIRY is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal for public
policy issues, innovative concepts, and original research
related to health care organization, provision, and
financing. In its 41st year, it is published quarterly in
print and electronic format by Excellus Health Plan, Inc.
www.inquiryjournal.org
Institute of Medicine
Booth: 228
The Institute of Medicine is a non-profit organization
chartered in 1970 as a component of the National
Academy of Sciences–under the Academy’s 1863
Congressional charter as adviser to the federal government. The mission of the Institute of Medicine is to
advance and disseminate scientific knowledge to
improve human health.
www.iom.edu
International Health Economics Association
Table: 29
The International Health Economics Association was
formed to increase communication among health economists, foster a higher standard of debate in the application of economics to health and health care systems, and
assist young researchers at the start of their careers.
www.healtheconomics.org
Johns Hopkins University *
Bloomberg School of Public Health, HSR&D Center
Half Table: 15-A
The Health Services Research and Development Center
provides a multidisciplinary locus for research on the
roles of organizational, financing, workforce, technology,
and preventive aspects of health services, and their
impact on utilization, cost, quality of care, and patient
outcomes. It conducts methodological and policy relevant research, and seeks to advance the state of knowledge regarding effective and efficient approaches for
providing health care services to all people.
www.jhsph.edu/hsrdc
Johns Hopkins University/University of Maryland
Center for Research on Services for Severe Mental Illness
Half Table: 15-B
The SMI Center undertakes research to improve quality
of care and patient outcomes for people with severe and
disabling mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, by
addressing the match between patient needs and services; developing guidelines for the financing and organi-
zation of care that consider patient needs, available
resources, and community characteristics; and testing
dissemination strategies directed at providers, payers,
regulators, and consumers.
www.jhsph.edu/smi
Jossey-Bass Publishers, a Wiley Imprint
Public Health Series
Table: 18
Come check out Jossey-Bass’s exhibitor table to see our
latest titles, including Consumer-Driven Health Care edited by Regina Herzlinger, and Towards a 21st Century
Health System: The Contributions and Promise of Prepaid
Group Practice, edited by Alain Enthoven and Laura
Tollen. Order forms with discount available!
www.josseybass.com/go/publichealth
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation *
Booths: 211, 213
The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues
facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice
and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the
media, the health care community, and the general public.
www.kff.org
Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy *
Half Table: 19-B
The Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy provides a focus and resources for Kaiser Permanente to
better participate in shaping the nation’s health policy
agenda. We bring experts together to research and analyze health policy, with a goal of increasing understanding of policy issues and helping provide solutions.
Working in collaboration with foundations, policy
instiutes, research programs, policymakers, and other
organizations, the Institute seeks to develop unbiased
information about health policy issues and alternatives.
www.kpihp.org
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Booth: 210
Kluwer Academic Publishers, a global publisher of scientific books and journals, invites all meeting attendees
to visit our display and receive a conference discount on
your purchases. Meet our publishers to talk about your
research. View all our journals and new electronic products available online via www.kluweronline.com.
www.wkap.nl
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The Lewin Group
Booth: 208
The Lewin Group is a premier national healthcare and
human services consulting firm. Lewin’s strategic and
analytical services focus on helping clients design,
implement, and evaluate programs to enhance service
delivery, financing, and outcomes. Lewin helps clients
deal proactively with shifts in healthcare and human
services practice, technology, and regulation.
www.lewin.com
Mayo Clinic *
Department of Health Sciences Research
Half Table: 12-B
The Division of Health Care Policy & Research, Mayo Clinic,
conducts basic and applied health services research.
Activities are expanding in the areas of primary care and
population health as our system of hospitals and group
practices grows in more than 60 communities in
Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Florida, and Arizona.
www.mayoclinic.org
Managed Care Interface
Table: 11
One of the premier, peer reviewed managed care journals, Managed Care Interface is published by Medicom
International, a managed care publishing and marketing
firm. Medicom International also publishes the Executive
Managed Care Directory, a comprehensive directory of
managed care organizations and their vendors.
Medicom International is a complete managed care
communications company. Its special projects division,
Medicom Excel, develops customized projects, programs and publications tailored to meet your particular
marketing needs using various media. In addition,
Medicom Excel offers Web site development and provision of managed care-related content and develops onsite meetings, symposia, and advisory councils.
www.medicomint.com
Medstat *
Booth: 120
Medstat is a healthcare information company that provides market intelligence and benchmark databases,
decision support solutions, and research services; applying these capabilities to improve decision making for
employers, government agencies, health plans, hospitals
and provider networks, and pharmaceutical companies.
Medstat is a business within the Thomson Corporation
(www.thomson.com).
www.medstat.com
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. *
Booth: 320
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. conducts public policy research and surveys for federal and state governments as well as private-sector clients. We study health
care, education, welfare, employment, nutrition, child
development, and other policy issues.
www.mathematica-mpr.com
The MayaTech Corporation *
Table: 22
The MayaTech Corporation is an applied social science
research firm providing research and evaluation, program management and support services, and business
services to public and commercial-sector clients.
Founded in 1985, MayaTech is headquartered in the suburban Washington, D.C., metropolitan area of Silver
Spring, MD, with offices in Atlanta.
www.mayatech.com
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National Center for Health Statistics *
Booth: 109
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is the
federal government’s principal vital and health statistics
agency. Through several ongoing surveys and other
data collection activities, the agency provides a wide
variety of data with which to monitor the nation’s health.
The NCHS booth will feature current published and electronic reports. Additionally, the booth will have information regarding NCHS’ activities on the Internet.
www.cdc.gov/nchs
National Center for Health Statistics
National Death Index
Booth: 223
The National Death Index (NDI) is a file of identifying
death record information for all deaths occurring since
1979. This computer matching service is designed to
assist researchers in determining whether specific study
subjects have died, and if so, provides researchers with
the states and dates of death and the corresponding
death certificate numbers. The new NDI Plus service
also provides the cause of death codes derived from the
decedents’ death certificates.
www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/ndi/ndi.htm
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Half Table: 23-A
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(NIAAA), a component of the National Institutes of
Health (NIH/DHHS), supports and conducts behavioral
and biomedical research on the causes, consequences,
treatment, and prevention of alcohol-related problems.
NIAAA funds more than 90 percent of the alcohol abuse
and addiction research in the U.S. NIAAA is particularly
interested in supporting health services research projects
that investigate the economic and organizational behavioral characteristics of alcohol treatment systems, as well
as research that will advance the translation of knowledge
on the efficacy of alcohol treatment methods and strategies into information that clinicians and policy makers
can use regarding the effectiveness of delivering such
treatments in real-world community-based settings.
www.niaaa.nih.gov
National Library of Medicine
Booths: 123, 125
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides
health services research (HSR) information (including
health policy and public health information) through a
variety of products and services. Foremost are databases on: literature in bibliographic format and full text,
citations to research in progress, and information on
health services and sciences research resources
(datasets, instruments, and analytical software). Other
products and services include: pre-formulated search
strategies on selected topics; special Web-texts and bibliographies on issues ranging from basic health literacy
to HSR collection development and information
resources to health informatics; print, video, and audio
historical materials; outreach and training on the Web
and in conjunction with the National Network of
Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM©); improving access to
information for public health practitioners; support for
research and development in HSR information infrastructure; and links to Web sites with health services
research information at NLM and beyond. To access the
resources and staff of the HSR Information Program,
visit our Web site.
www.nlm.nih.gov
National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH)
Center for Health and Disability Research
Table: 21
The NRH Center for Health & Disability Research (NRHCHDR) has conducted public domain, peer-reviewed
research funded by federal and private organizations since
1985. Our four research domains are: (1) disability and
health (primary care, prevention of secondary disabilities,
accessible housing and disability); (2) measuring the quality of care coordination programs for people with disabilities, particularly people enrolled in Medicaid, and life experience of people with disability; (3) improving clinical practice in outpatient rehabilitation; and (4) developing clinically
appropriate tele-rehabilitation services. NRH-CHDR is a
leader in participatory action research and participatory
evaluation. We frequently partner with local communitybased organizations such as Centers for Independent
Living, and with national organizations such as the
National Association for Spinal Cord Injury.
www.nrhchdr.org
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD)
Booth: 225
OECD is an intra-governmental organization based in Paris,
France, and groups together 30 open-market economies. It
helps governments to ensure the responsiveness of key economic areas with sectoral monitoring, including social policies and health issues. The OECD Health Policy Unit has
developed a unique database to allow comparative analysis
of member countries health systems. The newest edition
will be demonstrated at the exhibit.
www.oecd.org/health; www.oecdwash.org
Ohio State University *
The Center for Health Outcomes, Policy
and Evaluation Studies (HOPES)
Half Table: 2-B
The Center for HOPES provides leadership in collaborative research between HOPES scholars; other researchers
in the OSU health science community; and local, state
and national agencies. The Center promotes multidisciplinary health outcomes, policy and evaluation studies, while
enhancing graduate, professional, and community education on these issues.
www.hopes.osu.edu
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Oklahoma University Health Science Center *
College of Public Health, Department of Health
Administration & Policy
Half Table: 4-B
The Department of Health Administration and Policy of
the University of Oklahoma College of Public Health
strives to enhance the effectiveness of public health and
health services delivery by contributing to health policy
analysis and improving the administration of all health
service organizations. The Department offers fully
accredited Master of Health Administration and Master
of Public Health degrees.
w3.ouhsc.edu/hap
Oxford University Press
Booth: 312
Oxford University Press has an authoritative list of books
and journals on public health and epidemiology.
Journals include the American Journal of Epidemiology,
International Journal of Epidemiology, and the
International Journal for Quality in Health Care.
www.oup.com/us; www.oupjournals.org
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Health Policy and Administration
Half Table: 3-A
Penn State’s Department of Health Policy and
Administration is one of the nation’s oldest and most
respected programs. It offers an undergraduate (BS) as
well as three graduate (M.H.A., M.S. and Ph.D.) degrees
that focus on management, policy, and research in
health care systems, with particular attention to the
recurrent problems of cost, quality,and access.
www.hhdev.psu.edu/hpa/hpa.htm
RAND Health *
Booth: 316
RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
www.rand.org
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation *
Booths: 111, 113
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the nation’s
largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and
health care. It concentrates its grantmaking in four goal
areas: to assure that all Americans have access to quality
health care at reasonable cost; to improve the quality of
care and support for people with chronic health conditions;
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to promote healthy communities and lifestyles; and to
reduce the personal, social and economic harm caused by
substance abuse—tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs.
www.rwjf.org
Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited
Half Table: 12-A
RSM Press is the publishing arm of the Royal Society of
Medicine, a long-established postgraduate medical society with a multi-disciplinary and multi-professional
membership. RSM Press publishes books and journals
for the medical professional and professionals working
in related fields.
www.rsmpress.co.uk
RTI International *
Booths: 222, 224
RTI International is an independent, nonprofit organization with a staff of more than 2,000. Founded in 1958,
RTI has multidisciplinary expertise in public health, medical, environmental, and social research. RTI designs and
conducts sample surveys, epidemiologic studies, community and clinical research, and evaluates programs
and products for government and industry.
www.rti.org
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey *
Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
Table: 10
The Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides
funding to highly qualified individuals to undertake
broad policy studies of the most challenging health and
health care issues facing America.
www.ihhcpar.rutgers.edu/rwjf
Sage Publications
Booth: 310
SAGE Publications, an independent international publisher in the social sciences, technology and medicine,
provides journals, books, and electronic media of the
highest caliber. Researchers, students, and professionals
have relied on our innovative resources for over 35
years. Please stop by our booth or visit us on the Web to
review our publications.
www.sagepub.com
Saint Louis University
School of Public Health, Department of Health
Management and Policy
Half Table: 3-B
Saint Louis University School of Public Health is fully
accredited and the nation’s only school of public health
sponsored by a Catholic, Jesuit university. It offers masters
degrees (M.P.H, M.H.A.) and doctoral programs (Ph.D.)
in six public health disciplines and joint degrees with the
Schools of Allied Health, Business, Law, Medicine,
Nursing and Social Services. It is home to several nationally recognized research centers and laboratories with funding sources that include the National Institutes of Health,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health
Resources and Services Administration, the American
Cancer Society, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and
the World Health Organization.
http://publichealth.slu.edu
Social and Scientific Systems, Inc. *
Computer Systems & Data Analysis
Booths: 129, 131
Social and Scientific Systems is an employee-owned
company that has supported public health researchers
since 1978. Computer services, provided by over 90 programmers, include statistical analysis, database management, survey data collections, microsimulation modeling, system design and development, and Internet
database applications.
www.s-3.com
Society of Actuaries
Health & Retirement Systems
Booth: 124
The Society of Actuaries is an educational, research, and
professional organization dedicated to serving the public and Society members. Its mission is to advance actuarial knowledge and to enhance the ability of actuaries
to provide expert advice and relevant solutions for
financial, business, and societal problems involving
uncertain future events. The vision of the Society of
Actuaries is for actuaries to be recognized as the leading professionals in the modeling and management of
financial risk and contingent events.
www.soa.org
University of California, Berkeley *
School of Public Health, Health Services and Policy
Analysis Ph.D. Program
Table: 8
The Health Services & Policy Analysis Doctoral Program
provides training and education for careers in academia
and research. This is an interdisciplinary program that
utilizes all available resources on the UC Berkeley campus. Alumni are employed in leading universities, policy
research centers, and “think tanks” across the country.
http://hspa.berkeley.edu
University of California, Davis *
Center for Health Services Research
Half Table: 7-B
The University of California, Davis Center for Health Services
Research in Primary Care provides research and evaluation
services relating to primary care medicine and its organization, cost, quality, and effect upon patient outcomes.
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/chsrpc/
University of California, Los Angeles
Center for Health Policy Research
Table: 9
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, established in 1994, is one of the nation’s leading health policy research centers and is the premier source of health
policy information for California.
www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu
University of California, Los Angeles *
School of Public Health, Department of Health Services
Half Table: 7-A
The Department of Health Services, UCLA School of
Public Health, seeks to advance the health of our communities by improving the management policy positions, and research capabilities of institutions in the
health care industry, through the work of its renowned
faculty and students. Degree programs include M.P.H.,
M.S., Dr.P.H., and Ph.D.
www.ph.ucla.edu/hs
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University of Florida *
College of Public Health and Health Professionals
Health Services Administration
Half Table: 14-A
The Department of Health Services Administration at the
University of Florida offers degree programs at both the
master's and doctoral level. The master’s degrees prepare
individuals for jobs in health services administration. The
Ph.D. in Health Services Research is a full-time doctoral
program that prepares individuals to study the healthcare
system as a whole. The Florida Center for Medicaid and
the Uninsured is a campus-wide home for researchers and
analysts interested in issues related to access to quality
health care for Florida's vulnerable populations.
phhp.ufl.edu
University of Minnesota
Research Data Assistance Center (ResDAC)
Booth: with CMS
See Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for
description.
www.resdac.umn.edu
University of Minnesota *
School of Public Health, Division of Health Services
Research & Policy
Booth: 323
HSRP offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in health services
research, policy, and administration and an M.P.H. in
public health administration and policy, which prepare
graduates for careers in research, policy analysis, and
leadership roles in the public and private sectors.
www.hsr.umn.edu
University of Minnesota
State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC)
Booth: 325
SHADAC experts have a unique combination of skills in the
areas of survey design and measurement, health care
access research, and applied state policy analysis and
development. SHADAC is committed to advancing the use
of state-level data to inform health policy decision making
and to fostering dialogue between state- and national-level
health services researchers and policy analysts.
www.shadac.org
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University of Nebraska Medical Center *
RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Half Table: 4-A
The RUPRI (Rural Policy Research Institute) Center for
Rural Health Policy Analysis is one of six rural health
research centers funded by ORHP. The mission of the
Center is to provide timely analysis to federal and state
health policymakers, based on the best available research.
www.unmc.edu/rural
University of Pennsylvania *
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Table: 5
The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI)
is the primary center of the University of Pennsylvania’s
activities and programs in health services research, policy analysis, and health care management executive education. LDI’s over 100 Senior Fellows conduct multidisciplinary studies on medical, economic, social, and ethical
issues that influence how health care is organized,
financed, managed, and delivered.
www.upenn.edu/ldi
University of Rochester
Community & Preventive Medicine
Booth: 324
The University of Rochester offers several training programs: Master of Public Health, Doctorate in Health
Services Research & Policy, Doctorate in Epidemiology,
Post-Doctoral training in Health Services Research & Policy
and Post-Doctoral training in Preventive Cardiology. These
programs are offered by the Department of Community &
Preventive Medicine and all degree programs are accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health(CEPH).
The doctoral and the post-doctoral programs are supported
by training grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality and the National Institutes of Health. Students
in these programs receive tuition scholarships and
stipends. These programs are designed for individuals with
interests in public health, health economics, and health policy. Stop by our booth to chat with faculty and students.
www.urmc.rochester.edu/cpm/index.html
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Half Table: 14-B
The University of the Sciences in Philadelphia College of
Graduate Studies offers advanced programs of study in
the sciences and health-related fields.
www.usip.edu
University of Washington *
School of Public Health & Community Medicine
Department of Health Services
Half Table: 2-A
The University of Washington Ph.D. Program in Health
Services prepares trainees to conduct independent and
collaborative health services research. Trainees obtain
advanced knowledge of health services, the theoretical
frameworks available for conceptualizing population
health and health care, and the research skills to identify
and critically analyze: 1) the roles of cultural, social,
behavioral, and health care effects on health; and 2)
the organization, delivery, financing, management, and
evaluation of health services.
depts.washington.edu/hserv
Veterans Affairs Information Resource Center (VIReC) *
Booth: 230
VIReC’s mission is to improve the quality of VA research
that uses databases and information systems. Visit our
Web site for advice on data avilability, utility, and acess;
database documentation; notices of changes in VA data
systems and policies; slides from VIReC workshops;
and to subscribe to the HSRData listserv.
www.virec.research.med.va.gov
Virginia Commonwealth University *
Department of Health Administration
Booth: 212
With more than 50 years experience educating health
care leaders, and with consistent ranking among the top
10 health administration programs in the nation, VCU’s
Department of Health Administartion prepares health
care professionals to assume leadership roles in a wide
variety of health care settings. The Department has
offered the Doctoral Program in Health Services
Organization & Research (Ph.D.) program for more
than 20 years and has over 15 years in online masters
education experience. For more information visit our
Web site at www.had.vcu.edu, call 804-828-9466, or
write Program Director, 1008 East Clay Street, PO Box.
980203, Richmond, VA 23298-0203.
www.had.vcu.edu
Wellness Research, Inc.
Table: 13
Wellness Research is a Missouri not-for-profit corporation,
since October 1993. Missions are to: 1) do policy research
in the area of maternal & child health; 2) promote education in the area of holistic health and wellness. Fund-raising includes whole-food supplement sales.
* Organizational Affiliates
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Exhibitors by Category
Computer/Software Company
Research Network * (Half Table: 19-B)
Catalyst Technologies, Inc. (Booth: 126)
The Lewin Group (Booth: 208)
Social and Scientific Systems, Inc., Computer
Systems & Data Analysis * (Booths: 129, 131)
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. * (Booth: 320)
The MayaTech Corporation * (Table: 22)
Federal Agency
Mayo Clinic, Department of Health Sciences Research *
(Half Table: 12-B)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality *
(Booths: 217, 219, 221)
Medstat * (Booth: 120)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services *
(Booths: 317, 319)
National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH), Center for Health
and Disability Research (Table: 21)
Department of Veterans Affairs, HSR&D *
(Booths: 216, 218)
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) (Booth: 225)
Department of Veterans Affairs, HSR&D, QUERI
(Booth: 220)
RAND Health * (Booth: 316)
Health Resources and Services Administration *
(Booth: 318)
Wellness Research, Inc. (Table: 13)
National Center for Health Statistics * (Booth: 109)
National Center for Health Statistics, National Death Index
(Booth: 223)
RTI International * (Booths: 222, 224)
Other
AcademyHealth Career Center
(Booths: 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(Half Table: 23-A)
National Library of Medicine (Booths: 123, 125)
Veterans Affairs Information Resource Center
(VIReC) * (Booth: 230)
Professional/Trade Association
AcademyHealth (Booths: 117, 119, 121)
American Academy of Actuaries * (Booth: 124)
American Academy of Pediatrics, Division of Health Policy
Research * (Half Table: 19-A)
Foundations
California Breast Cancer Research Program (Table: 30)
Califormia HealthCare Foundation* (Table: 28)
The Commonwealth Fund * (Booths: 118A, 118B)
The Henry J.Kaiser Family Foundation * (Booths: 211, 213)
Association of University Programs in Health
Administration (Booth: 128)
International Health Economics Association (Table: 29)
Society of Actuaries, Health & Retirement Systems
(Booth: 124)
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation * (Booths: 111, 113)
Publishers
Non-University/Research & Policy Organizations
AARP, Public Policy Institute (Booth: 229)
Blackwell Publishing, Inc. (Booth: 311)
Abt Associates, Inc., Health Services Research &
Evaluation * (Booth: 122)
Health Administration Press (Table: 20)
American Institutes for Research* (Booth: 308)
INQUIRY, The Journal of Health Care Organization,
Provision, and Financing (Table: 17)
Institute of Medicine (Booth: 228)
Jossey-Bass Publishers (Table: 18)
Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, HMO
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The American Journal of Managed Care (Booth: 313)
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Booth: 210)
Managed Care Interface (Table: 11)
Oxford University Press (Booth: 312)
Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited (Half Table: 12-A)
University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health,
Health Services and Policy Analysis Ph.D. Program *
(Table: 8)
University of California, Davis, Center for Health Services
Research * (Half Table: 7-B)
Sage Publications (Booth: 310)
University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Health
Policy Research (Table: 9)
University
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public
Health, Department of Health Services * (Half Table: 7-A)
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health,
Department of Health Policy & Management *
(Booth: 322)
George Washington University Medical Center, GWU
School of Public Health and Health Services, Department
of Health Policy * (Booth: 231)
University of Florida, College of Public Health and Health
Professionals, Health Services Administration *
(Half Table: 14-A)
University of Minnesota, Research Data Assistance Center
(ResDAC) (Booth: with CMS)
Georgia State University, Andrew Young School of Policy
Studies, Georgia Health Policy Center * (Half Table: 6-A)
University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Division
of Health Services Research & Policy * (Booth: 323)
Harvard University, Ph.D. Program in Health Policy
(Table: 1)
University of Minnesota, State Health Access Data
Assistance Center (SHADAC) (Booth: 325)
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public
Health, HSR&D Center * (Half Table: 15-A)
University of Nebraska Medical Center, RUPRI Center
for Rural Health Policy Analysis * (Half Table: 4-A)
Johns Hopkins University/University of Maryland, Center
for Research on Services for Severe Mental Illness (Half
Table: 15-B)
University of Pennsylvania, Leonard Davis Institute of
Health Economics * (Table: 5)
Ohio State University, The Center for Health Outcomes,
Policy and Evaluation Studies (HOPES) * (Half Table: 2-B)
Oklahoma University Health Science Center, College of
Public Health, Department of Health Administration &
Policy * (Half Table: 4-B)
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Health Policy
and Administration (Half Table: 3-A)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Investigator
Awards in Health Policy Research * (Table: 10)
Saint Louis University, School of Public Health,
Department of Health Management and Policy
(Half Table: 3-B)
University of Rochester, Community & Preventive
Medicine (Booth: 324)
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
(Half Table: 14-B)
University of Washington, School of Public Health &
Community Medicine, Department of Health Services
(Half Table: 2-A)
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Health
Administration * (Booth: 212)
* Organizational Affiliates
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Exhibit Hall Floor Plan
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Conference Resources
Conference Registration
Message Boards
Atlas Foyer
Message boards are available in two areas:
❂ Conference registration area (Atlas Foyer)
for general messages.
❂ Career Center (in the Exhibit Hall) to facilitate job
interviews and networking opportunities.
Hours:
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Career Center
Exhibit Hall
Make professional connections or find a talented
employee by using the Career Center services, available in the Exhibit Hall during regular hours.
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Search job and fellowship listings
Search resume database
Training Directory
Conduct a search of formal research training
programs (e.g., graduate programs or postbaccalaureate certificate programs and
postdoctoral training programs) in: health
services research, health policy, health policy
research, health policy tracks in public policy
programs. Also, learn more about including your
program in the Directory of Training Programs in
Health Services Research and Health Policy.
Cyber Center
Business Center
Above the Atlas Foyer
Hours:
7 days a week
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Shipping Services
The hotel shipping department will provide services in
the Grand Foyer on Tuesday from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Webcasting
Select sessions will be webcast by kaisernetwork.org,
a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation, at
www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/academyhealth/jun04.
For more information about this service, visit
www.kaisernetwork.org.
Member Services
Member services staff will be available during regular
exhibit hours at the AcademyHealth booth (#117).
See pages 80 – 86 for membership information.
Atlas Foyer
Lost and Found
Computers will be available during the conference for
participants to check their e-mail.
Lost and found is handled through hotel security.
AcademyHealth accepts no responsibility for any lost
or stolen items at the Annual Research Meeting.
Speaker Ready Room
Dover
Hotel Shuttles
A computer and LCD projector will be available for
speakers to review presentations. The room will be
unattended. For assistance, please contact the
AcademyHealth registration desk.
Shuttle transportation is being provided from the Town
and Country to all overflow hotels. Times will be posted
in each hotel.
Press Room
Devonshire
A phone line is available to the press during the
conference. For assistance, please contact the
AcademyHealth registration desk.
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Continuing Education
Nurses
Continuing Education Credit Through the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
Continuing Education Credit for nurses will be provided by the AACN. The number of contact hours is 20.5.
To receive credit hours for attendance at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, please:
1) Complete the certificate of attendance (form in the conference bag).
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Distinguished Investigator Award
This year, AcademyHealth recognizes two outstanding leaders in health services research and health policy with the 2004
Distinguisher Investigator Award. Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D., and Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D., have been giants in health services research and health policy over the last two decades in terms of their impact on U.S. health policy and in shaping the
field of health services research. They are extraordinary bridge people, who bring the results of health policy research into the
sometimes chaotic world of presidential and congressional decision-making.
2004 Distinguished Investigator Awardees
Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D.
Dr. Altman is the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at The Heller School for Social
Policy and Management at Brandeis University and a noted economist whose research interests
focus primarily on federal and state health policy. He has served on a variety of government commissions, including the Legislative Health Care Task Force for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the
National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, and the Prospective Payment
Assessment Commission. In addition, Dr. Altman was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning
and Evaluation/Health at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1971 to 1976, and
later the dean of The Heller School from 1977 to 1993. Dr. Altman received masters and doctoral
degrees in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D.
Dr. Reinhardt is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and professor of economics
and public affairs at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1968. He is also a respected
health economist with strong interests in the uninsured and international health systems. He has
served on a number of government committees and commissions, including the Physician
Payment Review Commission and the National Advisory Council for Health Care Policy, Research,
and Evaluation. In addition, Dr. Reinhardt has authored more than 200 books, articles, and editorials, and he frequently testifies before Congress and other public bodies. Dr. Reinhardt received a
bachelors degree with honors in commerce and economics from the University of Saskatchewan
and masters and doctoral degrees in economics from Yale University.
Past Distinguished Investigator Recipients
(title and affiliation at time of award)
2003
2001
Emmett B. Keeler, Ph.D.
Senior Mathematician, RAND Health
Professor, RAND Graduate School
and the University of California, Los Angeles
School of Public Health
Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science
University of California, Los Angeles
2002
Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Care Policy
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Department of Health and Social Behavior
Harvard School of Public Health
2000
Robert J. Blendon, Sc.D.
Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis
Harvard School of Public Health and
John F. Kennedy School of Government
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1999
1992
Harold S. Luft, Ph.D.
Caldwell B. Esselstyn Professor of
Health Policy and Health Economics
Director
Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
Joseph P. Newhouse, Ph.D.
Director
Division of Health Policy Research and Education
Harvard University
1998
Stephen Shortell, Ph.D.
A.C. Buehler Distinguished Professor
Kellogg Graduate School
Northwestern University
1997
Milton I. Roemer, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Department of Health Services
School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
1996
Ronald M. Andersen, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Health Services
School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
1995
Barbara Starfield, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Head
Division of Health Policy
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
1994
David Mechanic, Ph.D.
Director
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy
and Aging Research
Rutgers University
1990
Eli Ginzberg, Ph.D.
Director
Conservation of Human Resources
Columbia University
1989
Herbert E. Klarman, Ph.D.
Retired
1988
Victor R. Fuchs, Ph.D.
Henry J. Kaiser Professor
Stanford University
Cecil G. Sheps, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Social Medicine
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1987
Kerr L. White, M.D.
Consultant
John E. Ware, Jr., Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
The Health Institute
New England Medical Center
1986
1993
Odin Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
University of Chicago
Robert H. Brook, M.D., Sc.D.
Professor
Department of Health Services
Center for Health Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
Director
Health Sciences Program
RAND
John E. Wennberg, M.D., M.P.H.
Director
Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences
Dartmouth Medical School
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1991
Paul M. Densen, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
Harvard University
1985
Avedis Donabedian, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Public Health
University of Michigan
Sam Shapiro
Professor Emeritus
Johns Hopkins University
Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award
The Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award recognizes scholars early in their careers as health services researchers who show exceptional promise for future contributions. This award commemorates the dedication of Alice Hersh to supporting the next generation
of health services researchers. Ms. Hersh was the founding executive director of the Association for Health Services Research.
2004 Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Awardee
David M. Studdert, LL.B., Sc.D.
Dr. Studdert is associate professor of law and public health at the Harvard School of
Public Health, where he teaches courses in health law and medical ethics. Before
joining the faculty at Harvard, Dr. Studdert worked as a policy analyst at RAND, an
advisor to the health minister in Victoria (Australia), and a practicing attorney. His
research focuses on topics at the interface between law and health policy. He has
studied medical injury, disputes in managed care, malpractice law, product liability
and mass torts, and informed consent. Dr. Studdert holds a law degree from the
University of Melbourne, and master’s and doctoral degrees from the Harvard
School of Public Health. He was a fellow in the medical ethics program at Harvard
Medical School in 1998.
Past Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award Recipients
(title and affiliation at time of award)
2003
1999
Benjamin G. Druss, M.D., M.P.H.
Rosalynn Carter Chair in Mental Health
Associate Professor of Public Health & Psychiatry
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Michael Chernew, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan
2002
Dana Goldman, Ph.D.
Senior Economist
RAND
Director of Health Economics
Adjunct Associate Professor
Radiology and Health Services
University of California, Los Angeles
Kevin A. Schulman, M.D., M.B.A.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of the Clinical Economics Research Unit
Georgetown University School of Medicine
1998
John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
2001
Susan L. Ettner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine and Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
2000
Laurence C. Baker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Research
and Policy and Economics
Center for Health Policy
Stanford University
Barbara Vickrey, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Reed Neurological Research Center
School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
1997
David A. Asch, M.D., M.B.A.
Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Chief of Health Services Research
Philadelphia VA Medical Center
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1996
1991
Andrew B. Bindman, M.D.
Division of General Internal Medicine
San Francisco General Hospital
University of California, San Francisco
Kenneth E. Thorpe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Health Policy and Administration
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1995
1990
David J. Ballard, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.P.H.
Director
Center for Clinical Evaluation Sciences
Professor
School of Medicine
School of Public Health
Emory University
Nicole Lurie, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Hennepin County Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Center for Health Services Research
University of Minnesota
1989
Lillian Gelberg, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Division of Family Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
1994
Lisa I. Iezzoni, M.D., M.Sc.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Hospital
1993
Alan L. Hillman, M.D., M.B.A.
Director
Center for Health Policy
Leonard Davis Institute of Health
Economics
University of Pennsylvania
1992
Troyen A. Brennan, M.D., J.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Alan M. Garber, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Stanford University
HSR&D Senior Research Associate
Department of Veterans Affairs
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James C. Robinson, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Health Economics
University of California, Berkeley
1988
Earl P. Steinberg, M.D., M.P.P.
Director
Program for Medical Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Thomas Rice, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1987
Arnold M. Epstein, M.D., M.A.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard University
1986
Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., M.P.H.
Senior Natural Scientist
The RAND Corporation
Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, Los Angeles
Article-of-the-Year Award
The Article-of-the-Year Award recognizes the best scientific work that the fields of health services research and health policy
have produced and published during the previous calendar year. The award-winning article provides new insights into the
delivery of health care and advances the knowledge of the field. This year’s article-of-the-year will be featured in a special
session on Tuesday, 11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
2004 Article-of-the-Year Awardee
Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Ph.D., Steven M. Asch, M.D., M.P.H., Joan Kessey, Jennifer Hicks, Ph.D.,
M.P.H., Alison DeCristofaro, M.P.H., and Eve A. Kerr, M.D., M.P.H.
Lead author Elizabeth A. McGlynn is an associate director for RAND Health and director of
the Center for Research on Quality in Health Care. She is a nationally known expert on methods for assessing and reporting on quality of health care delivery at different levels within the
health care system. She has led the development of QA Tools, a comprehensive system for
assessing the technical quality of medical care for children and adults. She has served on a
number of influential advisory committees including the Strategic Framework Board, which
developed a design for a national quality monitoring and reporting system and the National
Committee for Quality Assurance’s Committee on Performance Measurement. Dr. McGlynn
received a B.A. in international political economy from The Colorado College, a master’s
degree in public policy studies from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in public policy
analysis from the RAND Graduate School.
Past Article-of-the-Year Award Recipients
2003
2000
Linda H. Aiken, Ph.D., R.N.; Sean P. Clarke, Ph.D.,
R.N.; Douglas M. Stone, Ph.D.; Julie Sochalski, Ph.D.,
R.N.; and Jeffrey H. Silber, M.D., Ph.D.
“Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse
Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction,” Journal of the
American Medical Association, Vol. 288, No. 16, October
23/30, 2002, pp. 1987–93.
Mark Schlesinger, Ph.D.; Benjamin Druss, M.D.;
and Tracey Thomas, M.P.H.
“No Exit? The Effect of Health Status on
Dissatisfaction and Disenrollment from Health Plans,”
Health Services Research, Vol. 34, No. 2, June 1999, pp.
547–76.
2002
Darrell J. Gaskin, Ph.D.; Jack Hadley, Ph.D.; and
Victor G. Freeman, M.D.
“Are Urban Safety-Net Hospitals Losing Low-Risk
Medicaid Maternity Patients?” Health Services Research,
Vol. 36, No. 1, Part I: April 2001, pp. 25–51.
2001
Cary P. Gross, M.D.; Claudia A. Steiner, M.D., M.P.H.;
Eric B. Bass, M.D., M.P.H.; and Neil R. Powe, M.D.,
M.P.H., M.B.A.
“Relation Between Prepublication Release of Clinical Trial
Results and the Practice of Carotid Endarterectomy,”
Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 284, No.
22, December 13, 2000, pp. 2886–93.
John Kralewski, Ph.D.; Euguene C. Rich, M.D.; Roger
Feldman, Ph.D.; Bryan E. Dowd, Ph.D.; Terrace Bernhardt;
Christopher Johnson, Ph.D.; and William Gold.
“The Effects of Medical Group Practice and Physician
Payment Methods on Costs of Care,” Health Services
Research, Vol. 35, No. 2, August 2000, pp. 591–613.
Martin F. Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D.; and Samuel A.
Bozzette, M.D., Ph.D., et. al.
A series of three articles from the HIV Cost and
Services Utilization Study (HCSUS):
“Variations in the Care of HIV-Infected Adults in the
United States: Results From the HIV Cost and Services
Utilization Study,” Journal of the American Medical
Association, Vol. 281, No. 24, June 23–30, 1999,
pp. 2305–15.
“National Probability Samples in Studies of LowPrevalence Diseases. Part I: Perspectives and Lessons
from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study,”
Health Services Research, Vol. 34, No. 5, Part I,
December 1999, pp. 951–65.
“National Probability Samples in Studies of LowPrevalence Diseases. Part II: Designing and
Implementing the HIV Cost and Services Utilization
Study Sample,” Health Services Research, Vol. 34, No. 5,
Part I, December 1999, pp. 969–92.
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1999
1993
David Dranove, Ph.D.; and William D. White, Ph.D.
“Medicaid-Dependent Hospitals and Their Patients:
How Have They Fared?” Health Services Research,
June 1998, Vol. 33, No. 2, Part I, pp. 163–85.
Sheldon Greenfield, M.D.; Adam Keller, M.P.H.;
Richard L. Kravitz, M.D.; Willard Manning, Ph.D.;
Eugene C. Nelson, Sc.D.; William Rogers, Ph.D.; Alvin
R. Tarlov, M.D.; John E. Ware, Jr., Ph.D.; and Michael
Zubkoff, Ph.D.
“Variations in Resource Utilization Among Medical
Specialties and Systems of Care,” Journal of the
American Medical Association, Vol. 267, No. 12, March
25, 1992, pp. 1624–30.
Pamela Farley Short, Ph.D.; and
Vicki A. Freedman, Ph.D.
“Single Women and the Dynamics of Medicaid,”
Health Services Research, Vol. 33, No. 5, Part I,
December 1998, pp. 1309–36.
1998
Thomas Rice, Ph.D.
“Can Markets Give Us the Health System We Want?”
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 22,
No. 2, April 1997, pp. 383–426.
1997
Howard Freeman; Lilian Gelberg, M.D., M.S.P.H.;
Lawrence C. Kleinman, M.D., M.P.H.; and Judy
Perlman, M.A.
“Honing in on the Homeless: Assessing the Physical
Health of Homeless Adults in Los Angeles County Using
an Original Method to Obtain Physical Examination Data
in a Survey,” Health Services Research, Vol. 31, No. 5,
December 1996, pp. 533–49.
1996
John Billings, J.D.; Andrew B. Bindman, M.D.; Kevin
Grumbach, M.D.; Miriam Komaromy, M.D.; Nicole
Lurie, M.D., M.S.P.H.; Dennis Osmond, Ph.D.; Anita
L. Stewart, Ph.D.; and Karen Vranizan, M.A.
“Preventable Hospitalizations and Access to Health
Care,” Journal of the American Medical Association,
Vol. 274, No. 4, July 26, 1995, pp. 305–11.
1995
Robert H. Brook, M.S., Sc.D.; Katherine A. Desmond,
M.S.; Ellen R. Harrison, M.S.; Katherine L. Kahn, M.D.;
Emmett B. Keeler, Ph.D.; Marjorie L. Pearson, Ph.D.,
M.S.H.S.; William H. Rogers, Ph.D.; and Lisa V.
Rubenstein, M.D., M.S.P.H.
“Health Care for Black and Poor Hospitalized Medicare
Patients,” Journal of the American Medical Association,
Vol. 271, No. 15, April 20, 1994, pp. 1169–74.
1994
Bryan Dowd, Ph.D.; Roger D. Feldman, Ph.D.;
and Gregory Gifford, Ph.D.
“The Effect of HMOs on Premiums in Employmentbased Health Plans,” Health Services Research, Vol. 27,
No. 6, February 1993, pp. 779–811.
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Sheldon Greenfield, M.D.; Richard L. Kravitz, M.D.,
M.S.P.H.; Willard G. Manning, Jr., Ph.D.; Eugene C.
Nelson, Sc.D.; William Rogers, Ph.D.; Alvin R. Tarlov,
M.D.; John E. Ware, Jr., Ph.D.; and Michael Zubkoff, Ph.D.
“Differences in the Mix of Patients Among Medical
Specialties and Systems of Care,” Journal of the
American Medical Association, Vol. 267, No. 12,
March 25, 1992, pp. 1617–23.
1992
Jerry Avorn, M.D.; Igor Choodnovskiy, B.S.; Thomas J.
McLaughlin, Sc.D.; Dennis G. Ross-Degnan, Sc.D.;
and Stephen B. Soumerai, Sc.D.
“Effects of Medicaid Drug-Payment Limits on
Admission to Hospitals and Nursing Homes,”
The New England Journal of Medicine,
October 10, 1991, pp. 1072–7.
1991
Kevin Cain, Ph.D.; Frederick Connell, M.D., M.P.H.;
Paula Diehr, Ph.D.; and Ernest Volinn, Ph.D.
“What is Too Much Variation? The Null Hypothesis in
a Small-Area Analysis,” Health Services Research,
Vol. 24, No. 6, February 1990, pp. 741–71.
1990
Alan L. Hillman, M.D., M.B.A.; Joseph J. Kerstein,
Ph.D.; and Mark V. Pauly, Ph.D.
“How Do Financial Incentives Affect Physicians’
Clinical Decisions and the Financial Performance of
Health Maintenance Organizations,” The New England
Journal of Medicine, Vol. 321, No. 2, July 13, 1989,
pp. 86–92.
Emmett B. Keeler, Ph.D.; Willard G. Manning, Ph.D.;
Joseph P. Newhouse, Ph.D.; Elizabeth M. Sloss; and
Jeffrey Wasserman, Ph.D.
“The Taxes of Sin,” Journal of the American Medical
Association, Vol. 261, No. 11, March 17, 1989, pp.
1064–69.
1989
Grace M. Carter, Ph.D.; Emmett B. Keeler, Ph.D.; and
Sally Trude, M.S. “Insurance Aspects of DRG Outlier
Payments,” The Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 7,
1988, pp. 193–214.
Dissertation Award
The Dissertation Award honors an outstanding scientific contribution from a doctoral thesis in health services research.
Judging by the innovative research, this doctoral candidate shows exceptional promise as a health services researcher.
2004 Dissertation Awardee
Anita L. Tucker, D.B.A.
Dr. Tucker is currently assistant professor of operations and information management at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She completed her dissertation, “Organizational Learning from Operational Failures,” at the Harvard
University Business School in 2003. Previously, Dr. Tucker held positions as a quality
improvement engineer at General Mills and as a nuclear quality control engineer at
General Dynamics. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, and a master’s degree from Purdue University.
Past Dissertation Award Recipients
(training program and title of dissertation)
2003
2001
Jill R. Horwitz, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.P.
Ph.D. Program in Health Policy
Harvard University
“Corporate Form of Hospitals: Behavior and
Obligations”
Erik Michiel van Barneveld, Ph.D.
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
“Risk Sharing as a Supplement to Imperfect
Capitation in Health Insurance: A Trade-off Between
Selection and Efficiency”
2002
Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Ph.D.
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Informal Care and Elderly Health Care Use”
Denys T. Lau, Ph.D.
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
“Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescriptions
Among Geriatric Nursing Home Residents: Its Scope,
Risk Factors, and Health Consequences”
2000
Glen Mays, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
“Managed Care Contracting and Community Health
Care Performance”
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Student Poster Award
The Student Poster Award recognizes the outstanding research of a student and the quality of the presentation during the
poster session. The 2004 awardee will be announced during the Monday luncheon plenary.
Past Student Poster Award Recipients
(affiliation at time of award)
2003
1998
Katherine Jones, M.S., P.T., Ph.D. candidate
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Cornelia M. Ulrich, M.S.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2002
1997
Peter Groeneveld, M.D.
Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research
Stanford University
Shoou-Yih D. Lee, M.D., Ph.D. candidate
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
2001
1996
Brian Quilliam, R.Ph.
Community Health
Brown University
Eric S. Williams, Ph.D.
Sheps Center for Health Services Research
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2000
1995
Ellen R. Shaffer, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
Myde Boles, Ph.D.
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
1999
Christopher Seplaki, M.S., Ph.D. candidate
Preventive Medicine
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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NCHS/AcademyHealth
Health Policy Fellowship
The Health Policy Fellowship, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS) and AcademyHealth, brings visiting scholars in health services research related disciplines to NCHS to
collaborate, using Center data systems, on studies of interest to policymakers and the health services research community.
2004 Fellow
Hua Wang, Ph.D. candidate
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Project Title: “Effects of the State Children’s Health
Insurance Program (SCHIP) on Children’s
Health Insurance Coverage, Access to, and
Utilization of Health Services and Health Outcomes”
Past Fellows
2003
Jill Anne Marsteller, Ph.D., M.P.P.
Graduate Student Researcher
Health Policy and Management
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Project Title: “Organizational Determinants of
Disparities in Hospital Care”
Judith Ann Shinogle, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical
and Health Outcomes Science
College of Pharmacy
University of South Carolina
Project Title: “Firms’ Demand for
Health Benefit Generosity”
2002
Edward F. Buckley, M.A.
Doctoral Candidate
Wharton School of Business
University of Pennsylvania
Project Title: “To Examine How the Effects
of Managed Care Market Penetration on Nurse
Staffing in Hospitals Affect AMI Patient Mortality”
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2004 Award Committees
Distinguished Investigator
Kathleen Lohr, Ph.D., Chair
Distinguished Fellow
RTI International
Research Professor, Health Policy and Administration
University of North Carolina School of Public Health
Robert J. Blendon, Sc.D.
Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis
Harvard School of Public Health and John F. Kennedy
School of Government
Elizabeth McGlynn, Ph.D.
Associate Director
RAND Health
David Mechanic, Ph.D.
Rene Dubos University Professor
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy
and Aging Research
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Diane Rowland, Sc.D.
Executive Vice President
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Stephen Shortell, Ph.D.
Dean
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Barbara Starfield, M.D.
Professor
The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions
Alice S. Hersh
New Investigator
Michael Chernew, Ph.D., Chair
Associate Professor
Department of Health Management and Policy
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Linda Aiken, Ph.D., R.N.
Professor and Director
Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
University of Pennsylvania
Laurence Baker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Health Research and Policy
Stanford University
Gloria Bazzoli, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Health Administration
Virginia Commonwealth University
Peter Buerhaus, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Dean for Research
School of Nursing
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
Dana Gelb Safran, Sc.D.
Director
The Health Institute
Tufts-New England Medical Center
Barbara Vickrey, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
Reed Neurological Research Center
Department of Neurology
University of California, Los Angeles
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Article-of-the-Year
Dissertation
Kelly Devers, Ph.D., Chair
Associate Professor
Department of Health Administration
Virginia Commonwealth University
Lawrence Casalino, M.D., Ph.D., Chair
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Studies
University of Chicago
Shulamit Bernard, Ph.D., R.N.
Director
Program on Health Care Quality and Outcomes
RTI International
Ronald Andersen, Ph.D.
Professor
Health Services
University of California, Los Angeles
Andrew Bindman, M.D.
Professor
Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Carol Brewer, Ph.D., R.N.
Associate Professor
School of Nursing
State University of New York, Buffalo
Liesl Cooper, Ph.D.
Manager, Outcomes Research
U.S. Medical Division
Eli Lilly and Company
Haiden Huskamp, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Economics
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Mark Peterson, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Policy Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Joanne Lamphere, Dr.P.H.
Senior Manager
The Lewin Group
Mark Schlesinger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Division of Health Policy and Medicine
School of Public Health
Yale University
Dave Murday, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Health Policy
Center for Health Services and Policy Research
University of South Carolina
Teresa Waters, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for Health Services Research
University of Tennessee
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Annual Research Meeting Planning Committee
Sherry Glied, Ph.D., Chair*
Professor, Department of Health
Policy and Management
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Laurence Baker, Ph.D.*
Associate Professor
Department of Health Research
and Policy
Stanford University
Mady Chalk, Ph.D.
Director
Office of Quality and Financing
Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment/SAMHSA
Karen Scott Collins, M.D.*
Deputy Chief Medical Officer
Health Care Quality and Clinical
Services
New York City Health and
Hospitals Corporation
Douglas Conrad, Ph.D.*
Professor and Director
Department of Health Services
Center for Health Management
Research
University of Washington
Philip Crewson, Ph.D.
Assistant Director
Scientific Development
Department of Health Services
Research and Development
Department of Veterans Affairs
Kelly Cronin
Director of Patient Safety and
Outcomes Research
Office of Policy and Planning
Office of the Commissioner
Food and Drug Administration
Denise Dougherty, Ph.D.*
Senior Advisor, Child Health
Office of Extramural Research
Education & Priority Populations
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality
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Jose Escarce, M.D.
Senior Natural Scientist
The Health Program
RAND Health
Robert Galvin, M.D.
Director of Global Health Care
Corporate Health Care and
Medical Programs
General Electric Company
Edward Guadagnoli, Ph.D.*
Associate Professor
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Stuart Guterman, M.A.
Director
Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services
Donna Havens, Ph.D.
Division Chair
School of Nursing
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
W. David Helms, Ph.D.*
President and CEO
AcademyHealth
David Meltzer, M.D.*
Associate Professor of Medicine
Departments of Medicine,
Economics, and Public Policy
University of Chicago
Harold Perl, Ph.D.
Division of Treatment and
Recovery Research
National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism
Edward Salsberg, M.P.A.
Director
Center for Workforce Studies
Association of American
Medical Colleges
Kevin Schulman, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Medical Center, Center for Clinical
and Genetic Economics
Duke University Fuqua School of
Business
Lisa Simpson, Ph.D.
Endowed Chair
Child Health Policy
Department of Pediatrics
University of South Florida
Michael Jones, M.A.
Senior Health Economist
Policy Section Administration
Division of Health Policy
Illinois Department of Public
Health
Shoshanna Sofaer, Dr.P.H.*
Luciano Professor of
Health Care Policy
School of Public Affairs
Baruch College
Peter Kemper, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Health Policy and
Administration
Pennsylvania State University
Donald Steinwachs, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Health Policy and
Management
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Glen Mays, Ph.D.*
Senior Health Researcher
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Linda McKibben, M.D.
Medical Officer
Prevention and Evaluation
NCID/DHQP/PEB
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
Ming Tai-Seale, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy &
Management
School of Rural Public Health
Texas A&M University Health
Sciences Center
* Executive Committee
Abstract Reviewers
Behavioral
Health
Kenneth Wells, M.D., Chair
Professor
Department of Psychiatry and
Biobehavioral Science
University of California, Los
Angeles
Anthony Lehman, M.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry
School of Medicine
University of Maryland
A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D.
Scientific Director
Department of Psychiatry
Treatment Research Institute
Harold Pincus, M.D.
Executive Vice Chairman
Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute
and Clinic
Greer Sullivan, M.D.
Director
Mental Illness Research
Educational and Clinical Center
University of Arkansas
Nancy Wolff, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Mental Health and
Criminal Justice Research
Associate Professor
Department of Urban Studies
Bloustein School of Planning
and Policy
Rutgers University
Child Health
Lisa Simpson, Ph.D., Chair
Endowed Chair
Child Health Policy
Department of Pediatrics
Associate Director
Institute for Child Health Policy
University of South Florida
Marielena Lara, M.D.
Director
UCLA/RAND Program on Latino
Children with Asthma
University of California,
Los Angeles
Elizabeth Ozer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics and
Adolescent Medicine
University of California, San
Francisco
Sherrie Kaplan, Ph.D.
Associate Chief
Division of General Internal
Medicine
Associate Dean
College of Medicine
University of California, Irvine
Tracy Lieu, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Ambulatory Care
and Prevention
Harvard Medical School
and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Perla Vargas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Medical Sciences
University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences
Michael Von Korff, Sc.D.
Senior Investigator
Center for Health Studies
Group Health Cooperative
Patrick Vivier, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Community Health and Pediatrics
Department of Community Health
Brown University
Coverage
& Access
Paul Wise, M.D.
Vice Chair
Division of Social Medicine
and Health Inequalities
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Chronic Care
Delivery
Douglas Roblin, Ph.D., Chair
Research Scientist
Research Department
Kaiser Permanente Georgia
Karen Scott Collins, M.D.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer
Health Care Quality and
Clinical Services
New York City Health and
Hospitals Corporation
Katherine Swartz, Ph.D., Chair
Professor
Department of Health Policy
and Management
Harvard University
Linda Blumberg, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Health Policy Center
The Urban Institute
Genevieve Kenney, Ph.D.
Principal Research Associate
Health Policy Center
The Urban Institute
Catherine McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Health
Management and Policy
University of Michigan
Pamela Farley Short, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Health Policy
and Administration
Pennsylvania State University
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Disparities
Edward Guadagnoli, Ph.D., Chair
Professor
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Anne Beal, M.D.
Senior Program Officer
The Commonwealth Fund
Thomas Selden, Ph.D.
Economist
Center for Cost and Finance Studies
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality
Hayden Bosworth, Ph.D.
Head Scientist and Assistant
Research Professor
HSR&D/Department of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Dean Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Health Services
Management and Policy
University of Michigan
Marshall Chin, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Section of General
Internal Medicine
University of Chicago
Kaytura Felix-Aaron, M.D.
Medical Officer
Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
Said Ibrahim, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Center for Health Equity
Research and Promotion
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
University of Pittsburgh
Health Insurance
Markets
Douglas Conrad, Ph.D., Chair
Professor and Director
Department of Health Services
Center for Health
Management Research
University of Washington
Richard Lindrooth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health
Administration and Policy
Medical University of South
Carolina
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Ching-To Albert Ma, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Boston University
International
Huw Davies, Ph.D., Chair
Professor of Health Care
Policy and Management
Director
Centre for Public Policy
and Management
University of St. Andrews
Andrew Bindman, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
University of California,
San Francisco
Jean-Louis Denis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Chaire
Department of Health
Administration
University of Montreal
Pal Gulbrandsen, M.D.
Managing Director
HELTEF - Centre for Health
Services Research
Mary Seddon, M.B.Ch.B.
Head of Quality Improvement
Division of Medicine
Senior Lecturer in Quality
Improvement
School of Population Health
Middlemore Hospital
Long-Term Care
Vincent Mor, Ph.D., Chair
Chairman
Department of Community Health
Brown University
Susan Ettner, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
University of California,
Los Angeles
Penny Hollander Feldman, Ph.D.
Vice President and Director
Center for Home Care Policy and
Research
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Barbara Gage, Ph.D.
Director
Aging, Disability and
Long-Term Care
RTI International
Nelda McCall, M.S.
President
Laguna Research Associates
Charles Phillips, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Rural Public Health
Texas A&M University System
Health Science Center
Management &
Organization
Thomas Rundall, Ph.D., Chair
Professor
Center for Health Research
University of California, Berkeley
William Aaronson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Risk, Insurance, and Healthcare
Management
Temple University
Jeffrey Alexander, Ph.D.
Professor
Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan
Jane Banaszak-Holl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Health Management
and Policy
University of Michigan
James Begun, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Healthcare
Management, CSOM
University of Minnesota
Medicare & Medicare
Prescription Drugs
Roger Feldman, Ph.D., Chair
Blue Cross Blue Shield Professor
of Health Insurance
Division of Health Services
Research and Policy
University of Minnesota
Adam Atherly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Policy
and Management
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Emily Cox, Ph.D.
Director
Outcomes Research
Express Scripts, Inc.
Len Nichols, Ph.D.
Vice President
Center for Studying Health
System Change
Public Health
Glen Mays, Ph.D., Chair
Senior Health Researcher
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Janet Bronstein, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Health Care
Organization and Policy
School of Public Health
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Arthur Davidson, M.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Preventive Medicine
and Biometrics and Family Medicine
School of Medicine
University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center
Denver Public Health
Jeffrey Harris, M.D.
Senior Lecturer
Health Promotion Research Center
University of Washington
Linda McKibben, M.D.
Medical Officer
Prevention and Evaluation
NCID/DHQP/PEB
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention
Quality &
Patient Safety
Daniel Stryer, M.D., Chair
Medical Officer
Center for Outcomes and
Effectiveness Research
Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
Jeroan Allison, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of General
Internal Medicine
University of Alabama
at Birmingham
Julie Brown, B.A.
Survey Coordinator
Survey Research Group
RAND Health
Susan Edgman-Levitan, P.A.
Executive Director
John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary
Care
Ethan Halm, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Policy
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Joachim Roski, Ph.D.
Director
Quality and Performance
Effectiveness
National Committee for
Quality Assurance
Technology,
Innovation &
Evaluation
Alvin Mushlin, M.D., Chair
Chairman, Department
of Public Health
Department of Community
and Preventive Medicine
Weill Medical College of
Cornell University
Helen Burstin, M.D.
Director
Center for Primary Care Research
Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
Kathryn McDonald, M.M.
Executive Director
Center for Primary Care and
Outcomes Research
Stanford University
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Stephen Parente, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Healthcare
Management
University of Minnesota
Steven Teutsch, M.D.
Senior Director
Department of Outcomes
Research and Management
Merck and Company, Inc.
Call for Panels
Workforce
Jon Gabel, M.A., A.B., Chair
Vice President
Health Systems Studies
Health Research and
Educational Trust
Linda Aiken, Ph.D., Chair
Professor and Director
Center for Health Outcomes and
Policy Research
University of Pennsylvania
R. Adams Dudley, M.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor
Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California,
San Francisco
Beth Collins-Sharp, Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator
Center for Outcomes and Evidence
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality
Jennifer Edwards, Dr.P.H.
Deputy Director
Task Force on the Future
of Health Insurance
The Commonwealth Fund
Richard Cooper, M.D.
Director and Professor
Health Policy Institute
Medical College of Wisconsin
Margo Rosenbach, Ph.D.
Vice President
Cambridge Research
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Donna Havens, Ph.D.
Division Chair
School of Nursing
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Jonathan Weiner, Dr.P.H.
Professor and Deputy Director
Health Services Research and
Development Center
Johns Hopkins University
Lori Melichar, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Department of Research
and Evaluation
The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
General Call
for Posters
Stephen Mick, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department for Health
Administration
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Edward Salsberg, M.P.A.
Director
Center for Wokrforce Studies
Association of American
Medical Colleges
Donna McAlpine, Ph.D., Chair
Assistant Professor
Health Services Research
and Policy
University of Minnesota
Rajesh Balkrishnan, Ph.D., M.S.
Associate Professor
Management and Policy Sciences
University of Texas Health Science
Center at Houston
Craig Brammer
Senior Research Associate
Institute for Health Policy and
Health Research
University of Cincinnati
Maureen Smith, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Population Health Sciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Student Posters
Lucy Savitz, Ph.D., M.B.A., Chair
Senior Health Research Analyst
Quality and Outcomes Program
RTI International
Jane Nelson Bolin, Ph.D., J.D., R.N.
Assistant Professor
School of Rural Public Health
Texas A&M University
Debra Draper, Ph.D., M.S.H.A.
Senior Health Policy Researcher
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Pradeep Gidwani, M.D., M.P.H
Pediatrics
Center for Child Health Outcomes
Children’s Hospital and
Health Center, San Diego
Ram Shanmugam, Ph.D.
Director, Graduate Program
in Health Research
Southwest Texas State University
Best Abstracts
Michelle Dolfini-Reed, Ph.D.,
M.A., Chair
Research Analyst
Healthcare Operations and Policy
Research Center
CNA Corporation
Allen Dobson, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President
Health Care Finance Practice
The Lewin Group, Inc.
Many thanks…
AcademyHealth gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the planning, award, and review
committees. The time and effort of dedicated volunteers ensure the success of the Annual
Research Meeting.
Darrell Gaskin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy
and Management
Johns Hopkins University
Barbara Lyons, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid
and the Uninsured
Patricia Parkerton, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Services
School of Public Health
University of California,
Los Angeles
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2004 Boards of Directors
AcademyHealth Board of Directors
David Blumenthal, M.D., Chair
Director
Institute for Health Policy
Partners HealthCare System
Massachusetts General Hospital
Sara Rosenbaum, J.D., Vice Chair
Professor of Health Policy
Chair, Department of Health Policy
George Washington University
Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., Past Chair
John M. Olin Senior Fellow
Project HOPE
Nelson Ford, Treasurer
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Health Budgets and Financial Policy
Department of Defense
Harold Luft, Ph.D., Secretary
Caldwell B. Esselstyn Professor and Director
Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
Charlie Baker, Jr.
President and CEO
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Sheila Burke
Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer
American Museum and National Programs
Smithsonian Institution
Kathleen Buto
Vice President
Department of Health Policy
Johnson & Johnson
Arnold Epstein, M.D.
John H. Foster Professor and Chairman
Department of Health Policy and Management
School of Public Health
Harvard University
Judith Feder, Ph.D.
Dean of Public Policy
Georgetown University
Jeanne Lambrew, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy
George Washington University
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Jonathan Lomas
Executive Director
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
Nicole Lurie, M.D.
Senior Natural Scientist and Alcoa Chair
RAND Health
Jan Malcolm
Senior Program Officer
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
David Mechanic, Ph.D.
Rene Dubos University Professor
Institute for Health
Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Neil Powe, M.D.
Professor and Director
Welch Center for Prevention
Johns Hopkins University
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D.
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Director, Division of Public Health Practice
School of Public Health
Harvard University
Robert Reischauer, Ph.D.
President
The Urban Institute
Thomas Rice, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Health Services
School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
Donald Steinwachs, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Health Policy and Management
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
David Williams, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Professor of Sociology
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
W. David Helms, Ph.D.
President and CEO
AcademyHealth
Coalition for Health Services Research Board of Directors
Donald Steinwachs, Ph.D., Chair
Professor and Chair
Department of Health Policy and Management
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
David Abernethy, Vice Chair
Senior Vice President for Public Policy & Regulatory Affairs
HIP Health Plans
Mary Woolley, Treasurer
President
Research!America
David Kindig, M.D., Ph.D., Secretary
Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences
Emeritus Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences
Co-Director, Wisconsin Public Health and Health Policy Institute
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Charlie Baker, Jr.
President and CEO
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Jordan Cohen, M.D.
President
Association of American Medical Colleges
Charles Kahn, M.P.H.
President
Federation of American Hospitals
Sara Rosenbaum, J.D.
Hirsch Professor and Chair
George Washington University Medical Center
Department of Health Policy
School of Public Health and Health Policy
Gail Wilensky, Ph.D.
John M. Olin Senior Fellow
Project HOPE
W. David Helms, Ph.D.
President and CEO
AcademyHealth
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Membership
Where Researchers and Policy Professionals Meet
AcademyHealth is the professional home for health services researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners,
and a leading non-partisan resource for the best in health research and policy. Drawing from the strengths
of 4,000 individuals and 125 organizations, AcademyHealth provides a forum for networking, professional
growth, and development among a diverse membership that includes researchers, business decision
makers, policy professionals, consultants, clinicians, and students. AcademyHealth members examine,
debate, and research problems and solutions related to health and health care.
By joining AcademyHealth as an individual member, you gain access to tools and resources that help you
excel in today’s challenging work environment. We help our members share information through scientific
and policy conferences, topic-specific interest groups, professional training and career development opportunities, and a variety of cross-disciplinary publications.
Individual Member Benefits
Networking and professional support:
❂ Connect with more than 4,000 health services researchers, health policy analysts, and practitioners.
❂ Interact with colleagues year-round through topic-specific interest groups.
❂ Meet annually with 2,000 of your colleagues at the Annual Research Meeting and 700 of your
colleagues at the National Health Policy Conference.
❂ Vote in AcademyHealth elections and serve on AcademyHealth committees.
Discounts on:
❂ Annual Research Meeting registration fees (up to $200 value)
❂ National Health Policy Conference registration fees (up to $200 value)
❂ Methods Seminars registration fees ($100 value)
❂ Cyber Seminars registration fees ($50 value)
❂ More than 30 journals and newsletters (average discount is 10–20 percent)
Complimentary subscription to each of the following publications:
❂ Health Affairs ($116 value)
❂ HSR ($95 value)
❂ The Milbank Quarterly ($58 value)
❂ AcademyHealth Reports (quarterly membership newsletter)
Electronic resources:
❂ The members-only section of the AcademyHealth Web site features access to our searchable membership directory, online journal articles, salary survey data, publisher discounts, and more.
❂ The monthly Member Update offers advanced notice of upcoming AcademyHealth conferences and workshops, newly released publications, and much more, summarized in one easy-to-read e-mail message.
❂ The online Career Center features position announcements, a resume bank, funding announcements,
and much more.
Advocacy through the Coalition for Health Services Research by:
❂ Providing a unified voice on behalf of our members to support enhanced funding for health services research.
❂ Advising federal agencies on appropriate funding policies.
❂ Mobilizing other advocates to support the development of research and data to inform health policy
and practice.
www.academyhealth.org/membership/join.htm
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Organizational Affiliates
Partners in Advancing Research, Policy and Practice
Organizational affiliates are a vital part of AcademyHealth’s membership. We value these organizations for providing institutional support to our many programs and member services as well as the Coalition for Health Services
Research as it advocates for funding for the health services research field. Our affiliates are essential partners in
helping AcademyHealth fulfill its mission of facilitating the translation of research into policy and practice.
Organizational Visibility
Organizational affiliates have access to outstanding venues that increase your institution’s visibility with our
members and constituents. These include:
❂
Recognition for their commitment to AcademyHealth and the fields of health services research and health
policy through listings on our Web site, in AcademyHealth Reports, and at the Annual Research Meeting.
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A link from our Web site increases traffic to their sites by AcademyHealth members and Web site visitors.
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Exclusive space in AcademyHealth Reports for organizational announcements.
Want to share an accomplishment or change in your organization? Complimentary space is reserved in
AcademyHealth Reports just for organizational affiliates to make important announcements. This quarterly
publication is sent to more than 4,000 members.
Advocacy through the Coalition for Health Services Research
AcademyHealth’s advocacy arm—the Coalition for Health Services Research—provides a unified voice on behalf of
all our affiliated members to support enhanced funding for health services research. In addition, the Coalition
advises federal agencies on appropriate funding and policies, as well as mobilizes other advocates to support the
development of research and data to inform health policy and practice.
Registration and Advertising Discounts
Organizational Affiliates receive a variety of discounts based on their level of support.
Discounts
Contributing Affiliate
Supporting Affiliate
Affiliate
Annual Research Meeting Registration Fee
15 staff
($3,000 value)
10 staff
($2,000 value)
5 staff
($1,000 value)
National Health Policy Conference Registration Fee
15 staff
($3,000 value)
10 staff
($2,000 value)
5 staff
($1,000 value)
Cyber Seminars Registration Fee
10 staff
($1,000 value)
10 staff
($1,000 value)
10 staff
($1,000 value)
Complimentary Membership List Rental
4 per year
($2,000 value)
3 per year
($1,500 value)
2 per year
($1,000 value)
Career Center Advertising
30%
20%
10%
Training Directory Listing
30%
20%
10%
ARM Exhibit Space Discount
50%
50%
50%
ARM or NHPC Advertising
25%
25%
25%
Health Affairs Subscription ($270 value)
Yes
Yes
Yes
HSR Subscription ($399 value)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Milbank Quarterly Subscription ($156 value)
Yes
Yes
Yes
AcademyHealth Reports Subscription
Yes
Yes
Yes
To become an organizational affiliate of AcademyHealth, contact Kristine Metter, director of membership,
at 202.292.6754 or kristine.metter@academyhealth.org.
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Organizational Affiliates
We thank and salute our organizational affiliates.
Contributing Affiliates ($10,000 Dues)
Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services
Research and Development Service
Missouri Foundation for Health
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
UnitedHealth Group
WellPoint Health Networks
Supporting Affiliates ($5,000 Dues)
AARP
American Institutes for Research
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Inc.
Association of American Medical Colleges
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School
of Public Health, Department of Health Policy
and Management
Johnson & Johnson
Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
Merck and Company, Inc.
National Health Council
Nemours Foundation
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Pfizer Inc., Public Health
Affiliates ($2,000 Dues)
Abt Associates Inc.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
American Academy of Actuaries
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Physician Assistants
America’s Health Insurance Plans
American College of Healthcare Executives
American Medical Association
Association of Academic Health Centers
Audiology Foundation of America
Battelle Memorial Institute
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation
Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and
Management, Schneider Institute for Health Policy
Brown University, Brown Medical School, Center for
Gerontology and Health Services Research
California HealthCare Foundation
Center for Health Care Research and Policy,
Case Western Reserve University at
MetroHealth Medical Center
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Center for Studying Health System Change
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment/SAMHSA
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
The CNA Corporation
Colorado Health Institute
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health,
Department of Health Policy and Management
The Commonwealth Fund
Consumer Healthcare Products Association
Creighton University, Center for Practice
Improvement and Outcomes Research
Drexel University, School of Public Health
Duke University, Health Sector Management,
The Fuqua School of Business
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health,
Department of Health Policy and Management
Federation of American Hospitals
George Washington University, Department
of Health Policy, Center for Health Services
Research and Policy
Georgetown University, Health Policy Institute
Georgia Health Policy Center
Group Health Cooperative Center for Health Studies
Harvard School of Public Health
Health Research and Educational Trust
Health Resources and Services Administration
Henry Ford Health System, Center for Health
Services Research
Illinois Department of Public Health
Jewish Healthcare Foundation
John Snow, Inc.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations
Kansas Health Institute
The Lewin Group
Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners
Health Care System, Institute for Health Policy
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
The MayaTech Corporation
Mayo Clinic, Division of Health Care
Policy & Research
Medstat
Minnesota Department of Health
National Academy of Social Insurance
National Cancer Institute
National Center for Health Statistics
National Institute for Health Care Management
Foundation (NIHCM Foundation)
National Pharmaceutical Council
New York Academy of Medicine
New York Medical College, School of Public Health
New York University, Robert F. Wagner
Graduate School of Public Service
Northwestern University, Institute for Health Services
Research and Policy Studies
NRH Center for Health & Disability Research
The Nuffield Trust for Research and Policy
Studies in Health Services
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Health Affairs)
The Ohio State University, Center for Health Outcomes,
Policy and Evaluation Studies (HOPES)
Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, College of
Public Health, Department of Health Administration
and Policy and Center for Health Policy
Park Nicollet Institute
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Pennsylvania State University, Center for Health Care
and Policy Research
RAND Health
Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, a support organization of Indiana University School of Medicine
Research!America
Robert Graham Center: Studies in Family Practice
and Primary Care
RTI International
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Institute
for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research
Social and Scientific Systems, Inc.
United Hospital Fund of New York
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Lister Hill
Center for Health Policy
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, Berkeley, Center for Health
Research
University of California, Davis, Center for Health
Services Research in Primary Care
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public
Health, Department of Health Services
University of California, San Francisco, Institute for
Health Policy Studies
University of Cincinnati, Institute for Health Policy
and Health Services Research
University of Florida, Department of Health Services
Administration
University of Iowa, College of Public Health,
Department of Health Management and Policy,
Center for Health Policy and Research
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Center for
Health Policy and Research
University of Michigan, School of Public Health,
Department of Health Management and Policy
University of Minnesota, Carlson School of
Management, Center for the Study of Healthcare
Management
University of Minnesota, School of Public Health,
Division of Health Services Research and Policy
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Section on
Health Services Research and Rural Health Policy
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Cecil G. Sheps
Center for Health Services Research
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Program on
Health Outcomes
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, College of
Health and Human Services
University of Pennsylvania, Leonard Davis Institute of
Health Economics
University of South Carolina, Center for Health Services
and Policy Research
University of South Florida, Louis de la Parte Florida
Mental Health Institute
University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public
Service, Institute for Health Policy
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
University of Washington, School of Public Health and
Community Medicine, Department of Health
Services
The Urban Institute
VA Information Resource Center (VIReC)
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of
Health Administration
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
West Virginia University, Center for Health Care Policy
and Research
Yale University, Division of Health Policy and
Administration
List current as of 5-1-04
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Interest Groups
Year-Round Topical Discussions and Networking
Interest Groups help facilitate interaction of individuals around specific topic areas relating to health services
research and health policy. Interest Group members have an opportunity to exchange knowledge, disseminate
research findings, inform policy and clinical decision-making, build research skills, and create a networking opportunity for those sharing common goals. Through the groups’ Web-based discussion forums, members can connect
with and learn from their colleagues across the country. Interest Groups also meet annually at AcademyHealth
meetings and conferences. Current Interest Groups focus on the following areas:
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Behavioral Health Services Research
Child Health Services Research
Health Economics
Health Information Technology
Health Workforce
Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues
Long-Term Care
Public Health Systems Research
State Health Policy and Research
Women’s Health
The Behavioral Health Services Research Interest Group is composed of researchers, practitioners, policy staff,
advocates, primary consumers and families who are interested in forming new partnerships to improve mental
health, substance abuse, and alcohol services. The group sponsors issue forums that are intended to build
research/practice coalitions to both investigate behavioral health problems and creatively disseminate knowledge
regarding effective solutions to these problems.
The Child Health Services Research Interest Group provides a forum for researchers, policymakers, practitioners,
and trainees to interact on health issues related to children. The Interest Group provides opportunities to disseminate results, inform policy and clinical decision-making, build researchers’ skills, and create networking opportunities for those interested in child health services.
The Health Economics Interest Group is composed of researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and others interested in the broad range of health economics issues. The group’s mission is to foster the development and dissemination of the best health economics research to affect health services policy and practice.
The Health Information Technology Interest Group encompasses health information systems used in health care
delivery and management. The group focuses on the use of health information technology to improve the quality
and reduce the cost of health care. Interest Group members share interests in using technology to support patientcentered care, develop disease management tools, enhance the coordination and continuity of care, identify beneficial uses of the Internet, and assist in the timely collection of data.
The Health Workforce Interest Group focuses on health services research related to the health workforce of interest
to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. Topics include: the relationship between workforce and access,
quality, and cost; data collection and analysis; sources and quality of health workforce data; methods of measuring
supply, demand, and need; distribution; diversity; and policy and program information. In addition to engaging in a
dialogue on workforce issues, the Interest Group disseminates workforce-related information and provides opportunities for networking around this critical area as it relates to health services research, policy, and practice.
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The Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues focuses on:
❂ Influencing the development of scientific health services research knowledge relevant to nursing practice and
education;
❂ Building a community of interdisciplinary individuals interested in advancing health services research issues
(such as practice, education, and others) that are important to nurses; and
❂ Facilitating the development of nurses and others in the conduct of health services research and the use of
health services research methods.
The mission of the Long-Term Care Interest Group is to foster the development of the information base needed for
policy and practice to meet the growing need for long-term care (LTC). The LTC Interest Group’s goals are:
❂ To foster the exchange of LTC research findings among researchers, policymakers, and organizational decision
makers;
❂ To increase the impact of LTC research on policy and practice;
❂ To increase the usefulness and improve the quality of LTC research; and
❂ To foster development of the next generation of LTC researchers.
The Public Health Systems Research Interest Group focuses on research examining the organization, financing, and
delivery of public health services and the impact of these activities on population health. Interest Group members
share an interest in applying health services research methods to address critical issues in public health policy,
administration, and practice. Examples of such issues include public health infrastructure development, preparedness for bioterrorism and other emerging health threats, workforce needs and characteristics, financing and
resource allocation, performance measurement and improvement, prevention effectiveness, and community
engagement. Collectively, this research contributes to an enhanced understanding of public health systems, which
comprise the array of public and private entities that engage in activities to promote health and prevent disease and
injury at the population level.
The State Health Policy and Research Interest Group provides a forum for health policy analysts, researchers, and
policymakers to interact and discuss state-level research, research related to state health policy, and health services
research from a state health policy perspective. The group facilitates the development of a network of researchers
and analysts with a state-level health policy focus and foster collaborations across state-level household surveys on
coverage and access. The purpose is to inform decision-making and to foster dialogue among and between stateand national-level health services researchers and policy analysts.
The Women’s Health Interest Group is composed of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and trainees interested in exchanging knowledge, disseminating research findings, informing policy and clinical decision-making, building researchers skills, and creating a networking opportunity for those sharing common goals in women’s health
services research. Its mission is to foster the development of the field of women’s health services research to meet
the needs of and improve the quality and outcomes of care of women across the life span and for all women independent of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic position.
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Student Chapters
AcademyHealth Student Chapters: Providing a Professional Advantage
AcademyHealth student chapters enhance the learning and professional development experience for students in
health services research and health policy. Each chapter is expected to meet certain eligibility criteria to maintain
official designation and support from AcademyHealth. While we suggest that each chapter perform several key
functions, each chapter is encouraged to develop additional programs and projects of interest to its members.
Student Chapter Benefits
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Free start-up materials for distribution to prospective chapter members;
Space on the AcademyHealth Web site for chapter news and updates;
Promotion and listing of chapter and related academic programs on the AcademyHealth Web site, including
links to the program’s home page and to the chapter Web site, if available;
Mentoring opportunities to meet with health services researchers and health policy professionals.
Current AcademyHealth Student Chapters
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University of California, Los Angeles
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Washington, Seattle
For more information about starting a student chapter, contact Trena Mainor, membership operations manager, at
202.292.6755 or trena.mainor@academyhealth.org.
www.academyhealth.org/membership/studentchapters.htm
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Registration Manager
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Speaker Index
A
Abrams, Chad, 3
Achman, Lori, 31
Agrawal, Gail, 16
Aiken, Linda, 2, 28
Alexander, Jeffrey, 6, 21
Allison, Jeroan, 12
Altman, Stuart, 20
Anderson, Gerard, 30
Andre, Scott, 19
Andreyeva, Tatiana, 3
Asch, Steven, 18
Ash, Arlene, 2, 3
Atherly, Adam, 18
Aubry, Wade, 25
Audet, Anne-Marie, 12, 32
Austin, Bonnie, 16
Austin, Brian, 20
Aydede, Sema, 16
B
Bach, Peter, 22
Baggett, Kelvin, 11
Baker, Charles, 22
Baker, David, 9
Baker, G. Ross, 21
Banaszak-Holl, Jane, 3, 23
Banta, Jim, 15
Banthin, Jessica, 29
Bao, Yuhua, 3, 32
Baugh, David, 32
Bazzoli, Gloria, 13, 16
Beach, Mary Catherine, 29
Beal, Anne, 15
Beattie, Martha, 31
Beauregard, Karen, 12
Becker, David, 19
Belin, Thomas, 17
Bernard, Didem, 6
Bernstein, Amy, 9
Betancourt, Joseph, 17, 29
Bilheimer, Linda, 20, 30
Bird, T.M., 31
Blendon, Robert, 10, 20
Bloche, M. Gregg, 16
Blumberg, Linda, 8
Blumenthal, David, 23, 32
Bluthenthal, Ricky, 25
Boren, Suzanne Austin, 18
Bott, David, 31
Brach, Cindy, 14
Bradley, Elizabeth, 27, 31
Bramble, James, 22
Bray, Jeremy, 31
Brewer, Carol, 5
Briesacher, Becky, 6
Brody, Erica, 4
Brook, Robert, 18
Brooks, John, 30
Brousseau, David, 5, 15
Brown, E. Richard, 17
Brown, Julie, 29
Brown, Martin, 4
Buchan, James, 28
Buchmueller, Thomas, 8
Buerhaus, Peter, 20
Bundorf, M. Kate, 3, 10
Burstin, Helen, 7
Burt, Catharine, 9
Busch, Susan, 6
Coleman, Margaret, 24
Conrad, Douglas, 14, 29
Cook, Anna, 30
Cooksey, Judith, 5
Cooper, Phillip, 9
Cooper, Richard, 28
Costich, Julia Field, 29
Coughlin, Teresa, 18
Cowell, Alexander, 31
Crane, Robert, 4
Crewson, Philip, 22
Croghan, Thomas, 11
Cullen, Robert, 2
Cummings, Linda, 29
Cunningham, Peter, 15
Cunningham, Robert, 6
Curtis, Lesley, 31
Czech, Jane, 20
C
D
Cahn, Marjorie, 4
Callahan, Cathi, 27
Cantor, Joel, 18
Carino, Tanisha, 7
Carman, Kristin, 21, 27
Cerf, Vinton, 7
Chalk, Mady, 21
Chang, Andrew, 12
Chang, Hong-Jen, 10, 17
Chang, Ruey-Kang, 31
Chatterji, Pinka, 15
Chen, Alex, 15
Chen, Arnold, 32
Chen, Li-Wu, 6
Cheng, Sharon Bee, 19
Chernew, Michael, 8
Chesley, Francis, 6
Christianson, Jon, 23
Chuang, Kenneth, 4
Chukmaitov, Askar, 3
Clancy, Dawn, 18
Clark, Kara, 27
Clark, Robin, 15
Clarke, Sean, 8
Clauser, Steven, 4
Cleary, Paul, 21
Clement, Jan, 16
Cobb, Maisha, 17
Coburn, Andrew, 3
Cohen, Debra, 27
Cohen, Joel, 12
Cohen, Steven, 12
Damberg, Cheryl, 14
Davidoff, Amy, 29
Davidson, Gestur, 20
Davidson, Stephen, 15
Davies, Huw T.O., 5, 8
Denis, Jean-Louis, 8
Deverka, Patricia, 11
Devers, Kelly, 7, 20, 21
DeWalt, Darren, 23
Dick, Andrew, 14
Dilonardo, Joan Doty, 19
Doebbeling, Bradley, 18
Dolfini-Reed, Michelle, 32
Domino, Marisa Elena, 28
Dougherty, Denise, 11
Drainoni, Mari-Lynn, 30
Druss, Benjamin, 11
Dubay, Lisa, 18
Dubois, Carl-Ardy, 5
Dudley, R. Adams, 4
Dunn, Stephen, 2
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Edwards, Jennifer, 19
Eibner, Christine, 25
Eisenman, David, 24
Eisert, Sheri, 12
Escarce, Jose, 11, 24
Esposito, Dominick, 3
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Fairbrother, Gerry, 29
Farquhar, Cynthia, 25
Faulkner, Lisa, 3
Feder, Judith, 2, 10, 24, 30
Feek, Colin, 10
Feldman, Penny Hollander, 6
Feldman, Roger, 10, 28
Felix-Aaron, Kaytura, 17, 25
Felt-Lisk, Suzanne, 6
Fireman, Bruce, 20
Fiscella, Kevin, 17, 22, 31
Florence, Curtis, 18
Flores, Glenn, 15
Foote, Susan Bartlett, 7
Fordham, Miriam, 25
Forrest, Christopher, 11
Fortney, John, 22
Foster, Leslie, 28
Fraser, Irene, 29
Fulop, Naomi, 5
Fung, Vicki, 12
Furukawa, Michael, 25
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Gage, Barbara, 28
Galt, Kim, 6
Gamble, Vanessa
Northington, 7
Gao, Kun, 18
Garber, Alan, 23
Garrett, A. Bowen, 20
Gauthier, Anne, 16
Gebbie, Kristine, 31
Gebo, Kelly, 29
Gee, Scott, 11
Gelijns, Annetine, 23
Gentilello, Lawrence, 24
Gilden, Daniel, 21
Gilman, Boyd, 25
Ginsburg, Paul, 11
Glied, Sherry, 2, 7, 20, 30
Goldberg, Bruce, 4
Goldman, Dana, 11
Goldmann, Donald, 8
Gonzales, Junius, 9
Goody, Brigid, 21
Grabowski, David, 2, 20
Gray, Bradford, 6, 25
Greenberg, Barbara, 29
Greene, Jessica, 22
Greenlick, Mitch, 4
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Greiner, Gwendolyn, 8
Groeneveld, Peter, 31
Grumbach, Kevin, 20
Guadagnoli, Edward, 17, 31
Guterman, Stuart, 12, 32
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Haber, Susan, 5
Halpern, Rachel, 18
Han, Lein, 32
Hanrahan, Nancy, 5
Harman, Jeffrey, 15
Harris, Daniel, 6
Harrison, Michael, 5
Havens, Donna, 29
Heflinger, Craig Anne, 19
Helms, W. David, 22
Henne, Melinda, 16
Hennessy, Kevin, 21
Hibbard, Judith, 10, 21
Hill, Ian, 5
Hinshaw, Ada Sue, 11
Hofer, Timothy, 14
Hollingsworth, Holly, 30
Honore, Peggy, 24
Horn, Susan, 6
Horton, Nicholas, 17
Howard, David, 3, 10, 23, 29
Hsu, John, 15
Huber, Manfred, 24
Humphreys, Betsy, 4
Hungerford, Dan, 24
Hurd, Michael, 11
Hurley, Robert, 11
Huskamp, Haiden, 11
Hussey, Peter Sotir, 5
Hwang, Wenke, 28
Hyman, Chris Stern, 19
Hyman, David, 16
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Indurkhya, Alka, 25, 32
Ingber, Melvin, 14, 21
Inkelas, Moira, 5
Intrator, Orna, 6
Issel, L. Michele, 24
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Jacobson, Peter, 25
Jacoby, Melissa, 19
James, Brent, 11
Jeffrey, Brian, 11
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Johnson, Marguerite, 22
Jones, Cheryl, 8
Jordan, Neil, 31
Jost, Timothy Stolfus, 9
Joyce, Geoffrey, 25, 28
Joyce, Ted, 9
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Kadiyala, Srikanth, 3
Kanavos, Panos, 30
Kaplan, Sally, 19
Kaplan, Sherrie, 28
Kautter, John, 14
Kazakova, Sophia, 6
Keating, Nancy, 24
Keeler, Emmett, 9
Kelso, Dennis, 24
Kenney, Genevieve, 9
Ketsche, Patricia, 6
Kilbourne, Amy, 15
Kim, Sue, 5
Klazinga, Niek, 10
Knickman, James, 2, 22
Koren, Mary Jane, 2
Korthuis, P. Todd, 12
Kravitz, Richard, 25
Kronick, Richard, 8, 23
Krupski, Toni, 19
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Laditka, Sarah, 18
Lake, Timothy, 32
Lamar-Welch, Verna, 22
Lambrew, Jeanne, 9, 24
Laschober, Mary, 18
Leach, David, 32
Leavitt, Mark, 7
Lee, Shoou-Yih Daniel, 29
Lenfestey, Nancy, 29
LeRoy, Lauren, 22
Levy, Douglas, 3
Lewis, Rebecca, 8
Lichtenberg, Frank, 25
Lichtveld, Maureen, 16
Lieberman, Steve, 11
Lin, Michael Ken-Kou, 25
Lin, Wen-Chieh, 28
Lindrooth, Richard, 3, 17, 20
Lloyd, John, 27
Localio, A. Russell, 5
Long, Sharon, 18
Loonsk, John, 17
Lopes, Phil, 4
LoSasso, Anthony, 3, 20
Luce, Bryan, 3
Luft, Harold, 6
Lumpkin, John, 17
Lurie, Nicole, 31
Lyons, Barbara, 9
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Maciejewski, Matthew, 18
Makuc, Diane, 9
Mallinson, Trudy, 30
Mann, Cindy, 9
Manning, Willard, 15, 19
Marsteller, Jill, 9
Marton, William, 29
Maxfield, Myles, 32
Mayberry, Robert, 7
Mays, Glen, 24
McAlearney, Ann Scheck, 3, 12
McCall, Nancy, 4
McCormick, Ann, 29
McDonald, Kathryn, 16
McGlynn, Elizabeth, 2, 14,
20, 32
McHorney, Colleen, 6
McKee, Martin, 10
McKibben, Linda, 3, 16
Mechanic, David, 2
Melichar, Lori, 5
Mello, Michelle, 19
Merrill, Angela, 32
Merrill, Chaya, 25
Mertz, Elizabeth, 8
Millar, John, 10
Miles-Polka, Becky, 19
Milstein, Arnold, 7, 10, 14, 22
Miranda, Jeanne, 2
Mitchell, Nancy, 29
Mitchell, Shannon, 22
Mittman, Brian, 22
Mobley, Lee, 4
Molfenter, Todd, 21
Mor, Vincent, 24
Morales, Leo, 15
Morgan, Robert, 22
Morgan, Steven, 2, 3, 5
Mulvey, Kevin, 19
Murff, Harvey, 8
Murtaugh, Christopher, 24, 28
Mushlin, Alvin, 23
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Naessens, James, 3
Needleman, Jack, 13
Neumann, Peter, 7, 18
Nevarez, Carmen, 31
Newhouse, Joseph, 19
Nichols, Len, 3, 8, 30
Niefeld, Marlene, 18, 32
Nielson-Bohlman, Lynn, 23
Noel, Polly, 18
Nonnemaker, K. Lynn, 29
Normand, Sharon-Lise, 17
Norton, Edward, 20, 23
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O'Neill, Ciaran, 2
Okma, Kieke, 17
Osborn, Robin, 2, 10
Ozer, Elizabeth, 5
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Paasche-Orlow, Michael, 23
Palmer, Heather, 10
Palsbo, Susan, 30
Parente, Stephen, 12, 16, 23
Parkerton, Patricia, 3
Parry, Gareth, 24
Paterson, Ronald, 2
Paulose, Ryne, 9
Pawlson, Gregory, 21
Pearson, Marjorie, 15
Pearson, Steven, 7
Perez-Stable, Eliseo, 7
Perl, Harold, 9, 24
Perlin, Jonathan, 11
Petersen, Laura, 18
Phillips, Charles, 6
Picou, Margo Fox, 2
Pizer, Steven, 28
Platt, Richard, 8, 17
Ponce, Ninez, 29
Pope, Gregory, 14
Popovic, Tanya, 16
Prottas, Jeffrey, 19
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Quan, Hude, 24
Quon, Nicole, 22
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Radley, David, 25
Rainwater, Julie, 29
Reed, Mary, 15
Reinhardt, Uwe, 10, 17, 20
Reischauer, Robert, 2, 22
Rettig, Richard, 25
Rice, Thomas, 2
Riley, Gerald, 32
Rittenhouse, Diane, 22
Robbins, James, 31
Robinson, James, 4
Roblin, Douglas, 15
Robst, John, 14
Roman, Sheila, 32
Rosenbaum, Sara, 2, 19
Rosenthal, Meredith, 21
Roski, Joachim, 12, 24
Rowland, Diane, 2, 10
Rubenstein, Lisa, 11, 18
Rubin, Haya, 11
Rundall, Thomas, 8, 22, 23
Rystedt, Ingrid, 25
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Safran, Dana Gelb, 14, 21
Sage, William, 19
Sakowski, Julie Ann, 12
Salganicoff, Alina, 10, 22
Sallis, James, 27
Sampsel, Sarah, 28
Samson, David, 16
Saver, Barry, 14
Savitz, Lucy, 20, 25, 29
Scandlen, Greg, 23
Scanlon, Dennis Patrick, 6
Scanlon, William, 11, 30
Scherer, Peter, 10
Schlesinger, Mark, 6
Schmittdiel, Julie, 15
Schoenbaum, Stephen, 22
Sedlar, Lisa, 4
Seifert, Robert, 19
Selby, Joe, 14
Selden, Catherine, 4
Selden, Thomas, 9
Seshamani, Meena, 25, 31
Shea, Dennis, 28
Shen, Jay, 28
Shenkman, Elizabeth, 14
Shern, David, 2, 9
Shin, Peter, 25
Shortell, Stephen, 2, 4, 21
Siegel, Bruce, 3
Simon, Carol, 3
Sise, Michael, 24
Sisk, Jane, 25
Slutsky, Jean, 8
Smith, Brad, 28
Smith, Peter, 10, 14
Snider, Dixie, 16
Sochalski, Julie, 20
Sofaer, Shoshanna, 2, 21, 27
Sohn, Min-Woong, 22
Sorbero, Melony, 16
Soumerai, Stephen, 11
Stein, Jack, 9
Steiner, Claudia, 16
Stevens, David, 11
Stilwell, Barbara, 28
Stockdale, Susan, 25
Stone, Patricia, 8
Stryer, Daniel, 6, 11, 32
Stuart, Bruce, 3, 30
Studdert, David, 19
Sturm, Roland, 11, 27
Subramanian, Sujha, 4, 12
Sullivan, Greer, 14
Szilagyi, Peter, 14
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Tabak, Ying, 31
Tai-Seale, Ming, 19
Taira, Deborah, 22
Tallon, James, 4
Tang, Paul, 7
Taylor, Donald, 20, 28
Taylor, Humphrey, 17, 23
Testa, Kristen, 10
Thomas, Cindy Parks, 21
Thompson, Joseph, 11
Thorpe, Kenneth, 6, 13
Thrasher, Angela, 18
Tooker, John, 32
Tourville, Lisa, 27
Town, Robert, 28
Trivedi, Amal, 29
Tsai, Alexander Chung-Yu, 15
Tucker, Anita, 20
Tunis, Sean, 7
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Unruh, Lynn, 5
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Valdez, Robert Otto, 7, 31
Van Houtven, Courtney Harold,
22, 28
Vargas, Roberto, 9
Vickrey, Barbara, 2
Vivier, Patrick, 31
Volpp, Kevin, 13
Von Korff, Michael, 18
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Waldo, Daniel, 32
Washington, Donna, 22
Watson, Diane, 5
Weddle, Timothy, 12
Weil, Alan, 9, 10
Wells, Kenneth, 2, 11, 25
West, Nathan David, 15
Westmoreland, Timothy, 30
White, Chapin, 19
White, Leigh Ann, 15
Wholey, Douglas, 23
Wilensky, Gail, 10
Winkelstein, Jerome, 27
Wolff, Nancy, 31
Woods, Donna, 6
Woolf, Steven, 27
Wrobel, Marian Vaillant, 21
Wu, Shin-Yi, 15
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Yang, Zhou, 3, 25
Yano, Elizabeth, 18
Yawn, Barbara, 19
Yi, Rong, 3
Young, Gary, 14
Young, George, 16
Yu, Xinhua, 16
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Zerzan, Judy, 6
Zhao, Mei, 17, 24
Zingmond, David, 28
Zito, Julie Magno, 11
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