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Presentations & Publications
Tim Henderson

Recent Presentations

Henderson, T. (October 2007). Advancing Health Policy for People with Special Needs.  California Task Force on Oral Health Annual Meeting, University of Pacific School of Dentistry Center for Special Care, Sacramento, CA.

Journal and Newsletter Articles

“Hospitals and Philanthropy as Partners In Funding Nursing Education,” Nursing Economics.  March-April 2007.

“Improving Oral Health Disparities and Access to Care: Challenges and Opportunities for the States,” Journal of the California Dental Association, August 2005.

“Addressing Workforce Remedies,”  The National AHEC Bulletin, 18(2), Spring 2002.

“Public Policies to Promote Community-Based & Interdisciplinary Health Professions Education,” Education for Health, 14(2), 2001.

“State Scholarship, Loan Forgiveness, and Related Programs: The Unheralded Safety Net,”  Journal of the American Medical Association, 284(16), October 25, 2000.

“Medicaid’s Role in Financing Graduate Medical Education,” Health Affairs, 19(1), January/February 2000.

“Roles of Nonphysician Clinicians as Autonomous Providers of Patient Care,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 280(9), September 2, 1998.

“Medicaid Managed Care: How Do Community Health Centers Fit?,”  Health Care Financing Review,  Summer 1996.

“State Initiatives to Promote Telemedicine,”  Telemedicine Journal,  Summer 1996.
“How Critical is Medicaid Support to GME: The TennCare Experience,” The National AHEC Bulletin, Summer 1996.

“State Legislative Strategies to Improve the Supply and Distribution of Generalist Physicians: 1985 to 1992,” American Journal of Public Health,  March 1995

“Getting the Most from Your Private Pay Accounts,”   Medical Group Management,   January/February 1986.

“No Frills Marketing of Community Based Primary Care,”   Journal of Health Care Marketing,   Winter 1985.

Over 40 articles on primary care professions education, financing and delivery in State Health Notes,  1993-2002.

Policy Research Reports and Case Studies

Advancing Health Information Technology and Medicaid: The Utah Experience (for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), 2007.

Trends in Medicaid Managed Care: Lessons Learned from the Colorado Access Experience (for AAFP),  2007.

Direct and Indirect Graduate Medical Education Payments by State Medicaid Programs (for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), 2006.

Community Care of North Carolina: A Provider-Led Strategy for Delivering Cost-Effective Primary Care to Medicaid Beneficiaries (for AAFP),  2006.

Public Policy and Health Professions Education: Challenges and Opportunities (for the Association of Academic Health Centers),  2005.

Medicaid Policy Briefs: National Overview; Costs and State Fiscal Conditions; Enrollment Trends; Intergovernmental Transfers and Other Special Financing Mechanisms; Administrative Costs; Graduate Medical Education Payments (for AAFP),  2005.

Developments in the Nursing Workforce: 2005 ((for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Nurse Funders Collaborative),  2005.

50 State Funding Opportunity Profiles for Nursing Schools: (for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing), 2005.

Pathways to Rural Practice: A Chartbook of Family Medicine Residency Training Locations and Characteristics (with the University of Washington),  2005.

Act Now for Your Tomorrow: Final Report of the National Commission on Nursing Workforce for Long-Term Care, (chapter on State and Local Policy Initiatives and Recommendations) (for the National Commission on Nursing Workforce for Long-Term Care),  2005.

Recent Developments in the Nursing Workforce (for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Nurse Leaders Conference),  2004.

Effects of the 1998 Workforce Investment Act on Health Workforce Development in the States (with the University of Washington), 2004.

State and Managed Care Support for Graduate Medical Education: Innovations and Implications for Federal Policy (for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Council on Graduate Medical Education),  2004.

Challenges & Opportunities Facing the Public Dental Health Workforce (for the Association of State/Territorial Dental Directors),  2004.

State Health Workforce Profiles: Education, Practice and Policy (26 states) (National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), for DHHS, Bureau of Health Professions),  2001-2004.

Rural Health Policy Briefs: Medical Malpractice; Oral Health; Health and Human Services & Economic Development; Rural Health & State Policy; Emergency Medical Services; Critical Access Hospitals (NCSL, for DHHS, Office of Rural Health Policy),  2000-2004.

Practice Location of Physician Graduates: Do States Function as Markets? (NCSL),  2003.

Medicaid Direct and Indirect Graduate Medical Education Payments: A 50-State Survey (NCSL, for AAMC),  2003.

The Role of States in Financing Nursing Education (NCSL),  2003.

Federal Title VII/VIII Health Professions Training Grants: Their Importance in Improving Access to the Health Workforce in Arkansas, Minnesota and Texas (NCSL, for DHHS, Bureau of Health Professions),  2002.

Graduate Medical Education and Public Policy: A Primer (NCSL, for DHHS, Bureau of Health Professions),  2000.

Effective State Incentives to Encourage Health Care Professionals to Work in Rural Areas (NCSL),  2000.

Funding of Graduate Medical Education by State Medicaid Programs (NCSL, for AAMC),  1999.

Financing Medical Education by the States (NCSL),  1998.

Medicaid Support for Graduate Medical Education: Should There be a National Policy? (for the Pew Health Professions Commission),  1998.

Primary Care Primer: A Guidebook for Legislators (NCSL),  1998.

What the States Can Do to Promote Managed Care in Rural Areas (NCSL),  1998.

The Roles of Non-Physician Clinicians as Independent Providers of “Physician Services”  (with the Medical College of Wisconsin), 1997.

Training Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants: How Important is State Financing? (NCSL),  1997.

Primary Care Residency Training in Texas: State Support and the McLennan County Experience (for DHHS),  1997.

Efforts to Evaluate State Strategies to Improve the Primary Care Workforce (NCSL),  1997.

Primary Care for Older Americans: A Primer (NCSL),  1997.

State Incentives to Improve the Practice Environment in Underserved Areas (GWU),  1996.

Scope of Practice and Reimbursement for Advanced Practice Registered Nurses: A Survey of the States (GWU),  1995.

Medicaid Funding of Graduate Medical Education: A Survey of the States (GWU, for AAMC),  1995.

State Initiatives to Promote Telemedicine (GWU),  1995.

State Efforts to Increase Community-Based Medical Education (GWU),  1994.

California's Effort to Reform Graduate Medical Education: The Isenberg Bill and the Univ. of California's Response (for DHHS),  1994.

Efforts by States to Remove Practice Barriers of Non-Physician Providers (GWU),  1994.

Health Care Provider Availability: State Legislative Activity (GWU),  1994; 1993; 1992.

Participation of Federally Qualified Health Centers in Medicaid Case Management (National Governors’ Association (NGA),  1992.

Outstationing Medicaid Eligibility Workers in Community and Migrant Health Centers (NGA),  1992.

Health Care in Rural America  (as staff with the United States Congress, Office of Technology Assessment), 1990.

Conferences and Workshops

Major Meetings Organized/Convened

The Annual Washington Health Policy Institute, Arlington, VA.  2006-.

Improving Mental Health Care in Rural Communities, Salt Lake City, UT.  2004.

The Medical Malpractice Crisis and Access to Care in Rural Areas,  Washington, DC.  2004.

State Financing of Nursing Education and Expanding Training Capacity,  San Diego, CA.  2003.

Addressing Oral Health Access in Rural Areas,  San Francisco, CA.  2003.

State Financing of Dental Education and Addressing Dentist Workforce Needs,  Park City, UT.  2003.

Integrating Health and Human Services and Economic Development in Rural Areas,  Boston, MA.  2003.

State Financing of Medical Education and Addressing Physician Workforce Needs,  Reno, NV.  2001.

The State Legislative Agenda for Rural Health,  Boise, ID.  2000.

Pre-Conference on Graduate Medical Education, Annual Meeting of the National Academy for State Health Policy. 1998.

State Strategies for Reforming Health Professions Regulation, Austin, TX. 1998; Topeka, KS. 1997; Hartford, CT. 1996.

State Strategies for Financing Graduate Medical Education: Sharing Reforms, Washington, D.C.  1997.

What is the State Role in Overseeing Hospital Conversions?,  Topeka, KS.   1997.

Does State Support of Medical Education Make Healthy Communities?,   Harrisburg, PA.   1997.

Managed Care and the Primary Care Workforce: Where Does the Legislature Fit?,  Austin, TX.  1996.

How Can Mississippi Improve the Education and Placement of Its Primary Care Physicians?,  Jackson, MS.   1996.

State Progress and Opportunities in the South to Improve the Primary Care Workforce,  Atlanta, GA.   1995.