Wade M. Aubry, MD
Department of Medicine
Technology assessment, evidence-based medicine, health insurance coverage, health care quality
Naomi Bardach, MD
Department of Pediatrics
Implementation science, pediatric asthma, readmissions, public reporting of quality, implementation & dissemination science, quality measurement, quality improvement, consumer engagement and technology
Jeffrey K. Belkora, PhD
Department of Surgery
Leadership, teamwork, and decision making
Andrew Bindman, MD
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Access to care, primary care, ambulatory care sensitive conditions, Medicare, outcomes research
Claire D. Brindis, DrPH
Director, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Caldwell B. Esselstyn Chair in Health Policy
Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy
Department of Pediatrics and Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology,
and Reproductive Health Sciences
Director, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health
Executive Director, National Adolescent Health Information and Innovation Center
Reproductive health issues, child health, health care financing, healthcare reform, women's health, prevention and health promotion
Michael D. Cabana, MD, MPH
Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Adolescent Medicine
Variation in physician practice as it relates to quality of care, particularly in asthma; quality improvement, physician use of clinical practice guidelines, primary prevention of asthma
Janet M. Coffman, MA, MPP, PhD
Department of Famiy and Community Medicine
Evidence-based medicine, health insurance coverage, management of asthma
Daniel Dohan, PhD
Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine
Deputy Director and Associate Director for Training and Development, PRL-IHPS
Cancer care and clinical research; inequalities and culture; ethnography; emergency care; health policy training
R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA
Department of Medicine
Associate Director for Research, PRL-IHPS
Outcomes of care: quality, appropriateness, and efficiency/resource utilization, financial and reputational incentives to improve performance, managed care, risk adjustment for chronic conditions, comparative effectiveness, especially of clinical strategies, organizational characteristics and policies
Emily V.A. Finlayson, MD, MS
Department of Surgery
Surgery outcomes in the frail elderly, use of administrative data (large data sets)
Robyn Gershon, MHS, DrPH
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Occupational and environmental health
Stanton A. Glantz, PhD
Department of Medicine
Policy and scientific issues related to control of second-hand smoke, large scale tobacco control programs, international issues, and manipulation of science by the tobacco industry
Joseph R. Guydish, PhD, MPH
Department of Medicine
Substance abuse policy, treatment, and prevention
Rita Hamad, MD PhD
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Health disparities, Social determinants of health, Causal inference, Social epidemiology
Renee Hsia, MD, MSc, FACEP
Department of Emergency Medicine
Access to emergency care, vulnerable populations, emergency department utilization, emergency department crowding
Dana Hughes, DrPH
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Access to care, child health, health care delivery systems, health disparities, and socioeconomic status
James G. Kahn, MD, MPH
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
AIDS Research Institute
HIV/AIDS, costs of illness and cost-effectiveness, health care financing, evidence-based medicine, international health issues
Patricia P. Katz, PhD
Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
Functional and psychosocial outcomes of arthritis, relationship between disability and depression, outcomes and quality of care, costs of illness and cost-effectiveness, functional status measurement
Grace A. Lin, MD, MAS
Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Resource utilization, appropriateness of care, shared decision-making, measurement of decision quality
Matthew J. Niedzwiecki, PhD
Department of Emergency Medicine
Emergency medicine, patient demand for care, health insurance benefit design, mental health, Medicaid, Medicare, managed care
Megumi (Megie) Okumura, MD
Department of Medicine and Pediatrics
Medicare and Medicaid population and issues, choice of ED vs. other providers, impact of health care reform on ED utilization
Anisha Patel, MD
Department of Medicine and Pediatrics
Water policy for childhood obesity prevention; evaluation of health policy implementation; population health
Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD
Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS)
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy
Health care financing, access to care, managed care, pharmaceutical issues, women's health, quantitative policy analysis, utilization and cost-effectiveness of preventive services and pharmaceuticals, cancer screening, implications of genetics and pharmacogenomics
Laura A. Schmidt, PhD
Department of Medicine, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Health policy, organization of care, institutional theory, medical sociology, history of medicine, politics and policy, access to care, insurance coverage, health disparities, poverty and health, women’s health, substance abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction, mixed methods, longitudinal research
James F. Smith, MD, MS
Male Reproductive Health Center
Departments of Urology; Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Cancer and reproduction, access to reproductive care, male reproduction, spermatogonial stem cells
Joanne Spetz, PhD
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing
Economics of health care, Health care labor markets, Nursing workforce, Hospital industry organization and operation, Health information technology, Econometrics
Justin S. White, PhD
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Health economics, behavioral risk factors notably tobacco use, global health policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics, impact evaluation
Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, MPH
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Maternal and child health, environmental health, science policy, research translation, chemical exposures and developmental susceptibilities
