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NAME
POSITION TITLE
Ricketts, Thomas C.
Professor, Health Policy and Administration
Deputy Director, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health
Services Research
eRA COMMONS USER NAME
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
DEGREE
(if applicable)
YEAR(s)
B.A.
M.P.H.
Ph.D.
1970
1978
1988
FIELD OF STUDY
History/Russian
Health Administration
Health Policy & Admin
AdminAdministration
A. Positions and Honors.
Positions and Employment
1978-1983
Research Assistant, Health Services Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
1984-1986
Research Associate, Health Services Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
1987-1989
Project Coordinator, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC-Chapel Hill
1989-1994
Associate Director, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC-Chapel Hill
1994-present Deputy Director, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC-Chapel Hill
1990-1997
Assistant Professor, Dept Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, UNCChapel Hill
1997-2001
Associate Professor, Dept Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, UNC-CH
2001-present Professor, Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, UNC-CH,
Professor, Department of Social Medicine, UNC-CH School of Medicine
Editorial Positions
1978-1994
Associate Editor Health Services Research
1994-2000
Editor, The Journal of Rural Health,.
2003Associate Editor, North Carolina Medical Journal,
2005Editorial Board, Health & Place,
Honors
1997 Distinguished Research, Award, National Rural Health Association
1998 Cecil G. Sheps Distinguished Investigator Award
1999 Member, North Carolina Institute of Medicine
2002 R.J. Reynolds Research Leave Award
B. Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).
Ricketts TC, Tropman SE, Slifkin RT, Konrad TR. Migration Of Obstetricians-Gynecologists Into and Out of
Rural Areas, 1985-1990. Medical Care 34(5):428-438, May, 1996.
Ricketts TC, Taylor DH, Savitz LA. Using Logistic Regression to Make County-Level Estimates of the
Uninsured Problem in North Carolina. Policy Studies Review. 14(3/4):323-338, Autumn/Winter 1996.
Baer LD, Ricketts TC, Konrad TR, Mick SS. Do International Medical Graduates Reduce Physician
Pathman DE, Ricketts TC. When-access-to-care indicators meet. Designated shortage areas and avoidable
hospitalizations. Archives of Family Medicine. 8(Nov/Dec):492-493 1999.
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Brasure M, Stearns SC, Norton EC, Ricketts TC. Competitive Behavior in Local Physician Markets. Medical
Care Research and Review, 56(4) 395-414 December 1999.
Hawley ST, Earp JA, O'Malley MO, Ricketts TC. The role of physician recommendation in women’s
mammography use: Is it a two stage process?” Medical Care, 38(4):392-403. 2000.
Ricketts TC. The Changing Nature of Rural Health Care. Annual Review of Public Health. 2000 21:639-57.
Ricketts TC, Hart LG, Pirani M. (2000) How many rural doctors are there? The Journal of Rural Health.
16(3):198-207.
Ricketts TC. (2000) Health care in rural communities. Western Journal of Medicine 173(5):294-5.
Ricketts TC, Heaphy PE. (2000) Hospitals in rural America. Western Journal of Medicine 173(6):418-422.
Ricketts TC, Randolph R, Howard H, Pathman D, Carey T. (2001) Hospitalization Rates as Indicators of
Access to Primary Care. Health & Place. 7(1):27-38.
Ricketts TC, Pope D. Demography and Health Care in Eastern North Carolina. North Carolina Medical
Journal. January/February, 2002.
Ricketts TC. Rural Health Research and Rural Health in the 21st Century: The Future of Rural Health and the
Future of Rural Health Services Research The Journal of Rural Health 18(2)140-6. Spring 2002.
Paskett ED, Cooper MR, Stark N, Ricketts TC, Tropman S, Hatzell T, Aldrich T, Atkins J. Clinical Trial
Enrollment of Rural Patients with Cancer. Cancer Practice 10(1):28-35, January/February 2002.
Silberman P, Costich E, Pendergraft T, Ricketts TC. (2002) Access to Care for North Carolina’s Uninsured.
North Carolina Medical Journal. 63(1):35-47. January/February, 2002.
Ricketts TC. (2003) Geographic information systems and public health. Annual Review of Public Health. 24: 16.
Pathman D., Thaker S, Ricketts TC, Albright J. (2003). "Use of program logic models in the Southern Rural
Access Program evaluation." The Journal of Rural Health 19:5 (supplemental 2003): 308-13.
Slifkin RT, Randolph R, Ricketts TC. (2004). The changing metropolitan designation process and rural
America. The Journal of Rural Health 20(1):1-6. Winter 2004
Ricketts TC. 2003. Arguing for Rural Health: Toward a Progressive Rhetoric for America. The Journal of Rural
Health 20(1):43-51, Winter 2004.
Chan L, Hart LG, Ricketts TC, Beaver SK. 2004. An analysis of Medicare’s incentive payment program for
physicians in health professional shortage areas. The Journal of Rural Health 20(2): 109-117.
Hobbs SH, Ricketts TC, Dodds JM, Milio N. 2004. Analysis of interest group influence on federal school meals
regulations 1992 to 1996. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 36(2):90-98.
Hartwig KA, Eng E, Daniel M, Ricketts TC, Quin SC. 2004. AIDS and “Shared Sovereignty” in Tanzania from
1987 to 2000: A Case Study. In Press Science Social and Medicine.
Ricketts TC, Gaul K. (2004) Numbers of Minority Health Professionals: Where Do We Stand? North Carolina
Medical Journal. Nov/Dec 2004. 65(6):381-4.
Ricketts, TC. (2005) Workforce Issues in Rural Areas, A Focus on Policy Equity. American Journal of Public
Health, 95(1)42-8 January 2005.
Weiner, BJ, Ricketts TC, Fraher EP, Hanny D, Coccdrilli, LD (2005). Area Health Education Centers:
Strengths, Challenges, and Implications for Academic Health Science Leaders. Health Care Management
Review 30(3):194-202.
Hall SA, Kaufman JS, Millikan RC, Ricketts TC, Herman D, Savitz DA. (2005) Urbanization and breast cancer
incidence in North Carolina, 1995-1999. Annals of Epidemiology 15(10):796-803.
Ricketts, TC; Goldsmith L. (2005) Access in Health Services Research: The Battle of the Frameworks.
Nursing Outlook. In press
Hall SA, Kaufman JS, Ricketts TC. (2005), Defining urban and rural areas in U.S. epidemiological studies.
Journal of Urban Health. In press, 2005.
Recent Peer-Reviewed Chapters
Ricketts, TC. Healthcare Workforce Planning. In: Fried, BJ; Fottler, M and Johnson, JA., eds. Human
Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success. 2nd Edition. Chicago, AUPHA/HAP, 2005.
Ricketts, TC and Melissa Fruhbeis. 2003. “Federal/State Coalition Initiative for Rural Health Care.” In: Leatt,
Peggy and Joseph Mapa, eds. Government Relations in the Health Care Industry. Westport, CT: Praeger.
pp. 109-22.
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Ricketts, TC. Geography and Disparities in Health Care. In Swift, E. K. Ed., Guidance for the National
Healthcare Disparities Report. National Academies Press, Washington DC, 2002 (pp. 149-180).
Ricketts, TC. Geography and Disparities in Health Care. In Swift, E. K. Ed., Guidance for the National
Healthcare Disparities Report. National Academies Press, Washington DC, 2002 (pp. 149-180).
Ricketts TC. “Rural Health Care in the United States” in: Rural Health Care in Japan and the United States:
Shared Challenges and Solutions (Also in Japanese). Washington, DC: The Mansfield Center for Pacific
Affairs, 2001.
Ricketts TC. The Rural Patient. In: Geyman, John, Editor. The Handbook of Rural Medicine. New York. John
Wiley & Sons, 2000.
C. Research Support
Ongoing Research Support
Contact # U79HP00035-02-00 Ricketts (PI)
September 30, 2003 through August 31, 2006.
Regional Center for Health Workforce Studies. National Center for Health Workforce Information and Analysis,
Bureau of Health Professions, HRSA. Sarah Richards, Project Officer
Role: Principal Investigator
Contract # 044706 Pathman (PI)
November 1, 2004 through June 30, 2006
Evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Southern Rural Access Program. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Contract # NA Ricketts (PI)
August 2001 through June 2006.
Technical assistance to the United Health Foundation to support the development and improvement of the
State Health Rankings project. United Health Foundation
Role: Principal Investigator
Contract # RFQ04-S232-0023 Ricketts (PI)
October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2006
Evaluation Criteria and Weighting of Overall Criteria in the Requirements of Funding New Start and Expansion
Grant Applications for Health Center. Bureau of Primary Health care, HRSA. Robert Politzer, Project Officer.
Role: Principal Investigator
Contract # NA Ricketts (PI)
September 1, 2004 through August 31, 2006
Frontier Extended Stay Clinic Demonstration Model Evaluation Assistance. Southeast Alaska Rural Health
Center (Funding from HRSA/ORHP)
Role: Principal Investigator
Contract # T42/CCT422952-01 Bonnie Rogers (PI)
July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2006
NIOSH Training Grant . CDC Occupational Safety Health
Role: Investigator
Completed Research Support
Contract # 230-03-0012 Ricketts (PI)
September 22, 2003 – September 21, 2005
Andy Jordan, Project Officer
Development of a New Measure of Dental Underservice. Bureau of Health Professions, HRSA, US DHHS.
Role: Principal Investigator
Contract # 5-U1C-RH-00027-02 Ricketts (PI)
January 2001 – October 2003
Development of a Proposed Rule for Designating Underserved Areas. Bureau of Primary Health Care, HRSA
Role: PI
Contract # 250-01-0011 (Subcontract # 03-006) Ricketts (PI)
August 2001 - June 30, 2003
Evaluation of the National AHEC Program. Bureau of Health Professions, Division of State Community and
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Public Health, HRSA. Evaluative study mandated by Congress of workforce development and support
program
Role: PI
Contract #99-5791 State of North Carolina Ricketts (PI)
September 1, 1999 - March
31, 2004
NC DFS Contract
Technical Assistance to the North Carolina Division of Facility Services for Analysis of the Statewide Hospital
Discharge Database.
Role: PI
Contract # NA Silberman and Ricketts (PI’s)
May, 1999 - April, 2004
Institute for State Legislative Staff. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the W. K. Kellogg
Foundation through the National Conference of State Legislatures
Role: PI
Contract # NA Ricketts (PI)
May 10, 2000 - May 9, 2001
Technical Assistance to the "Community Voices Project" of First Health of the Carolinas, Pinehurst, North
Carolina. Funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation through FirstHealth of the Carolinas.
Role: PI
Contract # CSR000002/03/4 –01 Ricketts (PI)
HRSA
North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
Role: PI and Director
October 1988 – August 2000
Contract # 98-BHPR-A262736 Ricketts (PI)
September 1, 1997 – January 31, 1998
U.S. Bureau of Health Professions, HRSA
Workshop on Health Professions Modeling for State and Local Primary Care Policy Makers...
Role: PI
Contract # 290-93-0038 Ricketts (PI)
October 1993 – August 1998
U.S. Agency for Health Policy and Research AHCPR Rural Center.
Included an evaluation of the AHCPR Rural Managed Care Demonstration and an Assessment of the Effects
of Medicaid Managed Care on Rural Areas.
Role: PI
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