Farrokh Alemi |
Research Interests:
Online Management
Of Patients, Analysis Of Cost Of Treatment, Improvement Of Patient Safety
Through Probablistic Risk Analysis, Use Of Data Mining And Artificial Intelligence
In Health Services Research, Application Of System Analysis To Lifestyle
Management, Treatment Of Substance Abuse Disorders, Continuous Quality Improvement
And Program Evaluation
Current Research:
- E fficiency and Effectiveness of Health Care Delivery
|
Heibatollah Baghi |
Research Interests:
Application Of Statistical And Psychometric Modeling Techniques (E.G.
Confirmatory Factor Analysis) In Healthcare Research Using Lisrel, Investigation
Of Job Analysis Methodologies For Licensure And Certification Examinations
In Nursing Practice, Computer-Adaptive Testing, Item Response Theory,
Experimental Design And Applied Multivariate Statistics
|
Frieda
Butler |
Research Interests:
Aging, Long Term Care, Behavioral
Research, Minority Research, and Grandparents as primary caregivers to
their grandchildren.
Current
Research:
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William Cartwright |
Research Interests:
Financing, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cost-Effectiveness
Analysis, and Health Policy
|
Jack Hadley |
Research Interests:
Costs and Efficiency in the Medicare
Program
Current Research:
- Medicare Spending and the Health of the Elderly
(RWJ – HCFO
program)
This project will estimate statistical models of the relationship
between Medicare beneficiaries’ medical spending and their health
outcomes. Its
purpose is to identify whether there is inefficiency in Medicare spending
and, if there is, to recommend policies that would reduce spending without
harming beneficiaries’ health.
- Physicians’ Responses to Variations
in Medicare Fees for Specific Services (RWJ-HCFO, subcontract from
Center for Studying Health System Change)
This study will estimate supply
functions for specific physician services provided to Medicare beneficiaries
in order to determine how physicians respond to changes in fees paid
by the Medicare program. We will
also identify other factors that influence the supply of physician services
provided to Medicare beneficiaries in order to identify policies that
can constrain growth in the volume of services provided.
- Financial Incentives
and Variations in the Care of Medicare Beneficiaries (NIH/NIA, subcontract
from Harvard University Medical School)
This study will use data collected
from surveys of physicians linked to Medicare claims for their Medicare
patients to investigate how physicians’ financial
incentives (ownership status, compensation method, practice financial
incentives) influence how efficiently they provide care to their Medicare
patients. The findings will lead to policy recommendations for
improving efficiency in the delivery of medical care to Medicare beneficiaries
- Use
of Instrumental Variables in Evaluating Cancer Outcomes (NIH/NCI)
Working
with staff at NCI, this project will use data for the SEER-Medicare
linked files to compare outcome analyses using unadjusted multivariate
analysis, instrumental variable analysis, and propensity scoring. The
purpose is to develop a methodological monograph than will be available
to users of the SEER-Medicare data base.
Pending Proposals
- Financial Incentives, Treatment of Medicare Patients with
Low Back Pain, and Changes in Their Health (RWJ-HCFO)
This project will use data
from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to investigate
whether beneficiaries who are treated for back problems receive more
services if they receive care from physicians with a financial interest
in free-standing specialty hospitals or ambulatory care centers, and
if they do receive more care, whether they have better health outcome
over the three years they participate in the MCBS.
- Cost and Efficiency
in Treating High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries (RWJ-HCFO)
Using a unique
data base that links physician and practice characteristics from a
national survey to all Medicare claims for every beneficiary they treated
in 2004-2006, this study will identify potential high-cost Medicare
beneficiaries from a predictive model that relates Medicare costs to
beneficiaries demographic and health characteristics. We will then
investigate the effects of various physician, practice, and market characteristics
on the difference between predicted and actual Medicare costs for prospectively-determined
high-cost beneficiaries.
|
Emily Ihara |
Research Interests:
Social Determinants of Health, Particularly for Racial and Ethnic Minority
Groups and Vulnerable Populations; Effects of Immigrant Status, English
Language Ability, and other Social Markers on the Health Status and Health
Care Access for Asian American Groups with Large Immigrant Populations. |
Yiota Kitsansas |
Research Interests:
Application of Data Mining Techniques
such as Classification and Regression Trees; Methods of Categorical
Data Analysis and Spatial Statistics to Investigate Public Health Related
Issues in the Fields of Environmental Health, Maternal and Infant Health
and Substance Abuse Among Adolescents |
PJ Maddox |
Research Interests:
Examining the
Impact of Financing Arrangements and Delivery Systems, Program Outcomes
and Health Policy Analysis, Health Management
and Strategic Planning. |
Mimi Mahon |
Research Interests:
Bereavement Research, Children’s
Concept of Death, the Effects of Trauma on Children’s Understanding
of Death, Families’ Experiences When a Child Dies, Teachers’ Experiences
with and Beliefs About Bereaved Children
Current Research:
- Funeral
Directors’ practices
with bereaved children.
- Pediatricians’ beliefs
about and practices with bereaved children.
- Symptoms experiences by seriously ill patients.
- Oncology nurses’ beliefs about
caring for patients with cancer.
- Severely ill patient’s
experiences of health care.
|
Mark Meiners |
Research Interests:
Aging and Health with Emphasis
on Financing and Reimbursement issues, Financing and Program Development
in Long-Term Care, Long-Term Care Insurance, Medicare/Medicaid Integration
Current Projects:
|
Jeanne Sorrell |
Research Interests:
Ethics and Alzheimer's
Disease, Educational Research.
Current Research:
- Ethics of Respect for Spirituality in Persons Living with Alzheimer’s
Disease.
- Expert to Novice:
Clinicians Learning New Roles as Clinical Nurse Educators.
- Childhood Obesity: The Effect
of a Nutrition Intervention Program, Color Your Pyramid, on Nutrition
Knowledge, Eating Behavior, Physical Activity and Nutrition Status
in Washington, D.C. Public Schools.
- The Lived Experience of Doctoral Students Writing a Dissertation.
|
Cathy Tompkins |
Research Interests:
Gerontological Social Work Practice and Education,
Alzheimer's Disease, Grandparent-headed Households, Intergenerational Practice,
Technology and Education.
Current Research:
- Theoretical models to explain the caregiving relationship between
grandparents and grandchildren residing within grandparent-headed households.
|
J. DeWitt Webster |
Research Interests:
Culture and Identity in the Context of Health Disparities,
Community-based Participatory Research,
Evaluation of Community Partnerships,
Grassroots Advocacy Efforts Affecting Policy |
Tony Yang |
Research Interests:
Legal and Policy Issues in the Healthcare
Sector |
Debra Bergoffen |
Research Interests
Works within the context of the continental
philosophical and multi disciplinary feminist traditions, to explore
issues at the intersections of epistemology, ethics, and politics
|
Gary Kreps |
Research Interests
Health & O rganizational Communication, Health Promotion, eHealth,
Multimedia Edutainment, Multicultural Relations, and Applied Research Methods |
Timothy Leslie |
Research Interests
Interested in the clustering and movement of geographic phenomena,
particularly medical services and the associated access to health care.
This interest is focused on urban patterns and economic linkages, and
is largely explored using spatial statistics. |
Jim McAuley |
Research Interests
Aging, health and long-term care
Current Research
- Planning long-term care policy for Maryland through 2030
- Examining the marketing of Medicare managed care
|
Roger Paden |
Research Interests
Social and political philosophy, ethics and
applied ethics, including environmental ethics, ethics and
international affairs and business ethics |
Dan Rothbart |
Research Interests
Philosophy of science, health care ethics, and
philosophy, science, and technology |
Nigel Waters |
Research Interests
GIS; Transportation GIS; Web-based GIS; GIS and SDSS; GIS and Sustainability;
Traffic Safety; Medical Applications of GIS; GIS, the Media and Democracy;
Network Analysis.
Current Research
- Mapping the Media in the Americas
- Medical Geography Applications
- Promoting Sustainable Communities
Through Participatory Spatial Decision Support
- Web-based PPGIS and
Transportation Planning
- Case Based Reasoning andTraffic Safety Analysis
Active Research Programs
- Mapping the Media in the Americas www.mediamap.info
(Funding
approximately $1 million primarily from The Open Society Institute,
Hughes, Canadian International Development Agency, Social Science
Humanities Research Council). Before leaving the University of Calgary
Nigel Waters was the Technical Director of a project to map media
concentration in the Americas. In order to promote transparency in
elections and democratic politics, the project aims to utilize the
functionality of a GIS to map the media and analyze spatially the
pivotal role of the media in political finance in 12 countries in
the Americas. Various datasets (including media, election and census)
from each country will be organized geographically in a GIS for visualization
purposes, and geo-statistical analyses will be performed to understand
better the associations and patterns within these disparate datasets.
- Promoting Sustainable Communities
Through Participatory Spatial Decision Support.
(Funding from the GEOIDE Networks of Centres of Excellence,
Canada).The use of open source software to develop GIS based websites
for garnering the opinions of professional planners and members of
the public concerning proposed transit routes and other planning
developments.
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