Upcoming Events
- Fall 2008 Speaker Series
(link updated)
Oct. 27, Nov. 13, 2008
Next Speaker Series Topic, 10/27:
Obama vs. McCain: Health Care Issues and the Election - 17th Washington Health Policy Institute
June 1-5, 2009
Institute Flyer
Associate Links
CHPRE News - October 2008
Candidates Forum on the Future of Health Care Reform
CHPRE and the Department of Health Administration and Policy co-sponsored this event. Invited guests included Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Mark Ellmore (R-VA), Judy Feder (D-VA), Keith Fimian (R-VA), Jim Gilmore (R-VA), Jim Moran (D-VA), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Frank Wolf (R-VA). See Pictures.
New Publication
Lisa Eckenwiler, Carolyn Ells, Dafna Feinholz, and Toby Schonfeld contributed "Hopes for Helsinki: Re-thinking Vulnerability"to the Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 34, no. 10 (October 2008): 765-766).
Upcoming Speaker Series Presentation
Obama vs. McCain: Health Care Issues and the Election. October
27th, 6:00 pm in Mason Hall Board Room. Dr.
Linda J. Blumberg and Dr.
John F. Holahan from The Urban Institute will discuss the Presidential
Candidates' health care programs. Learn
more about the Speaker Series .
Posted October 1, 2008
CHPRE News - September, 2008
Robert Wood Johnson awards Dr. Webster with Scholarship
Dr.
DeWitt Webster received a $1000.00 scholarship to attend the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation (RWJF) New Connections Research and Coaching Clinic during
the American Public Health Association Meeting in San Diego in October. New
Connections’ goal is to expand the diversity of perspectives that
inform RWJF programming and to introduce new researchers and scholars
to RWJF, while simultaneously helping to meet Foundation staff needs
for data analysis that measure progress towards program objectives. For
details on the initiative visit the New
Connections webpage.
Posted September 26, 2008
Recent Presentations
Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler recently presented on the following topics:
- “Health Worker Migration and Transnational Justice,” Manchester
Workshop in Political Theory and Public Health, Manchester, United
Kingdom, September 10-12, 2008 - “Bioethics and Suicide Bombing,” International Association
of
Bioethics, Rijeka, Croatia, September 5-8, 2008 - “The FAB Voice in Research Ethics: Revising the Declaration of
Helsinki,” (Plenary Session) International Network of Feminist
Approaches to Bioethics, Rijeka, Croatia, September 3-5, 2008 - “Care for the Caregivers?: Transnational Justice and Undocumented
Non-Citizen Care Workers,” International Network of Feminist
Approaches to Bioethics, Rijeka, Croatia, September 3-5, 2008
Posted September 24, 2008
Fellowship Interview
Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler was recently interviewed regarding
her senior fellowship at le Centre de Recherche en Ethique a Universite
de Montreal. Listen
to the interview. (site in French)
Posted September 24, 2008
Candidates Forum on the Future of Health Care Reform
CHPRE and the Department of Health Administration and Policy are
co-sponsoring this event. Invited guests include Gerald Connolly (D-VA),
Mark Ellmore (R-VA),
Judy Feder (D-VA),
Keith Fimian (R-VA),
Jim Gilmore (R-VA),
Jim Moran (D-VA),
Mark Warner (D-VA),
and Frank Wolf (R-VA). View
the Flyer.
Posted September 15, 2008
Dear Mr. President: Mason Experts Offer Advice to Incoming Administration
Dr. Jack Hadley, Dr. Gary Kreps, and Dr.
Robin Remsburg posted the inaugural article in the Mason Gazette's new
series featuring expert commentary on a variety of important campaign issues.
This first installment focuses on health care policy. Read
the article.
Posted September 12, 2008
Jack Hadley to Inaugurate CHPRE Policy and Ethics Speaker Series on September 18
Please join us at 6:00pm Thursday, September 18th to hear our own Dr.
Jack Hadley speak on the topic: Uninsured
in America: Costs, Consequences, and Possible Solutions. The presentation will be held in Mason Hall, Room
D3AB on the GMU-Fairfax campus.
Dr. Hadley is the first of three (3) speakers to inaugurate the Fall
2008 Health Policy and Ethics Speaker Series, sponsored by the Center for Health Policy Research
and Ethics.
Posted September 5, 2008
New Study Makes Case for Universal Health Care
According
to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 45 million Americans were uninsured in
2007, making health-care reform a leading issue in the current presidential
campaign. A new study led by Jack Hadley, professor and senior health services
researcher in Mason's Department of Health Administration and Policy in the
College of Health and Human Services, examines the price tag associated with
treating those who lack health insurance. Read
more in the Gazette.
Posted September 5, 2008
2008-2009 Policy Research Mentorship Program Fellows Announced
The Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics is pleased to announce the awarding of two policy research fellowships for the 2008-2009 Policy Research Mentorship Program of the Washington Health Policy Institute. The 2008-2009 PRMP fellows and the working title of their policy research projects are:
Eileen K. Fry-Bowers, JD, MS, RN, CPNP
Loma Linda University School of Nursing
An Analysis of Successful Strategies in Advancing Autonomous Nursing Practice
Rose M. Schaubhut, RN, MPH
Louisiana State University School of Nursing
Staff Nurses’ Perception of Their Role in Quality
Indicators
Read the full
press release. Learn more about the Policy
Research Mentorship Program.
Posted September 2, 2008
August 2008
Press Coverage for Hadley Article
Dr. Jack Hadley's work on covering the uninsured has received
media coverage from a number of sources including Reuters,
WebMD, Marketplace, San
Diego Tribune, Washington
Post, US
News & World Report, CNNMoney,
and the Wall
Street Journal. Dr. Hadley also appeared on Fox
Business News and Bloomberg News.
Posted August 26, 2008
Visiting Researcher Seminar
Visiting Researcher to Speak Sept. 10th on Relationship
Between Physicians and Drug Companies in Israel. Read
more...
Posted August 22, 2008
June 2008
New Publication Announcement
Dr. Tony Yang's paper paper "Relationship Between Malpractice Pressure and Rates of Cesarean Section and VBAC" has just been accepted for publication in Medical Care.
Dr. Jack Hadley's article, " Covering The Uninsured In 2008: Current Costs, Sources Of Payment, And Incremental Costs", has been accepted for publication by Health Affairs and will be released as a web exclusive on August 25.
May 2008
Fellowship
This summer Prof. Lisa Eckenwiler will be a senior fellow at le Centre de
Recherche en Ethique a Universite de Montreal. While she is there, Prof. Eckenwiler
will be working on her book, Caregiving in the Context of Globalization: Toward
Justice for All.
Posted May 30, 2008
Article just published
Lisa Eckenwiler, Carolyn Ells, Dafna Feinholz, and
Toby Schonfeld, "Helsinki through a Feminist Lens," International
Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2008):
161-177
Posted May 30, 2008
Recent Publications
Bill Cartwright
Cartwright, W.S. A Critical Review of Accounting and Economic Methods for Estimating the Costs of Addiction Treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 34(3): 302-310, April, 2008.
Cartwright, W.S. Economic Costs of Drug Abuse: Financial, Cost-of-illness, and Services. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 34(2): 224-233, March, 2008.
Yiota Kitsantas
Kitsantas P. (2008). Underlying and multiple causes of death
in preterm infants.
Journal of Data Science 6(1), 125-134.
Kitsantas, P., Kitsantas, A., & Anagnostopoulou, T. (2008). A Cross-cultural
investigation of college student alcohol consumption: A classification
trees analysis.
The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 142,5-20.
Posted May 13, 2008
Health Policy Student News
Sarah Lash, a GMU Health Systems Management/Health Policy concentration student,
has been selected as a David A. Winston Health Policy Scholarship recipient. She
is one of ten graduate students nationwide to receive this award based on
academic scholarship in work toward pursuing a career in health policy.
Posted May 13, 2008
New study funded
Jack Hadley has received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study "High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries: The Roles of Physician Practice and Health System Factors". The goal of this research is to identify physician practice and market characteristics that contribute to high Medicare costs by analyzing care delivered to high-cost beneficiaries. Since the costliest 25 percent of Medicare beneficiaries account for 85 percent of total spending, even modest improvements in the cost effectiveness of their care would have significant fiscal benefits.
April 2008
HAP Faculty publishes article on Medicaid Reimbursement
HAP Faculty Dr.
Farrokh Alemi co-authored an article with Kathy Fornilli. The article, "Medicaid
Reimbursement for Screening and Brief Intervention: Amending the Medicaid
State Plan and Approving State Appropriations for the Medicaid State Match" was
recently published in the Journal of Addictions Nursing.
Posted April 3, 2008
Recent Faculty Publication
Yang YT, Studdert DS, Subramanian SV, Mello MM. A longitudinal analysis of
the impact of liability pressure on the supply of obstetrician-gynecologists.
J Empirical Leg Stud 2008;5(1):21–53. Available
from Blackwell Synergy.
Posted April 3, 2008
March 2008
Working Paper
Dr. Bill Cartwright completed in February a new working paper, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Drug Treatment, which will be published in 2009.
Book Review
Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler's book, The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape was reviewed in the March 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The reviewer said that "No other work has so centrally confronted the issues of ethics in the field of bioethics" and that it "should be at the top of the reading list for everyone currently training in bioethics, involved with clinical and/or research ethics consultation, pursusing an academic career in bioethics, or running institutions employing bioethicists..."
New Publication
An article by Dr. Jack Hadley was published in March 2008 Milbank Quarterly on the relationship between changes in physicians' incomes and practice settings and their care to Medicaid and charity patients. Read the article's abstract.
Upcoming Presentation
Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler will present two papers at the upcoming meeting of the International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics in Rijeka, Croatia, Sept 3-8, 2008. The first paper is "The FAB Voice in Research Ethics: Comments on the Declaration of Helsinki" (plenary session) and the second is "Care for the Caregivers?: Transnational Justice and Undocumented Non-Citizen Care Workers".
Policy Paper
Dr. Mark Meiners published a new policy paper in March 2008 through the Center for Health Care Strategies on long-term care financing as part of the Long-Term Care Insurance partnership Program. Read the policy paper.
Faculty Service
The World Medical Association (WMA) is working to revise the Declaration of Helsinki. The International Network for Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) has been invited to propose changes to the Declaration, the most widely respected code of international research ethics. Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler is currently serving as chair of the FAB committee responsible for suggesting revisions to the WMA.