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Appendix E Biographical Sketches
Pages 167-176

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From page 167...
... Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, and other voluntary advisory bodies and corporate boards. Arthur L
From page 168...
... Dr. Andersen's other research interests include international comparisons of health services systems, graduate medical education curricula, physician health services organization integration, and evaluations of geriatric and primary care delivery.
From page 169...
... Dr. Ayanian is deputy editor of the journal Medical Care, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar, and a fellow of the American College of Physicians.
From page 170...
... Her research focuses on the use of health services, with a special emphasis on mental health services; different insurance and provider plans; health status; efficient diagnostic algorithms for headache, cough, and ankle trauma; health services for older adults; people without health insurance; and survey research methods.
From page 171...
... Dr. Meltzer is the recipient of numerous awards: the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Economics, the Lee Lusted Prize of the Society for Medical Decision Making, the Health Care Research Award of the National Institute for Health Care Management, and the Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Award.
From page 172...
... Mulrow, M.D., M.Sc.,* is clinical professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, program director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program, and Deputy Editor of Annals of Internal Medicine.
From page 173...
... He has examined the response of labor market participants to incentives created by market opportunities, government policies, and the institutional environment. Specific research topics include the economic effects of overtime pay regulation; immigrant labor market outcomes and welfare recipiency; the impact of labor unions on compensation, employment, and work schedules; the importance of sector-specific skills; and the relative economic status of Mexican Americans.
From page 174...
... He is also professor of health services at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Current research interests include development and testing of population-based care models for diabetes, frail elderly, and chronic illnesses; evaluation of the health and cost impacts of chronic disease and cancer interventions; and interventions to prevent disability and reduce depressive symptoms in older adults.
From page 175...
... Prior to that, she was a reimbursement policy specialist at a national association representing nonprofit providers of long-term care services. Her earlier positions included policy analysis and management in the office of the secretary in the DHHS, and work with a peer review organization, a governor's task force on access to health care, and a thirdparty administrator for very large health plans.
From page 176...
... She has worked on several projects, including the National Roundtable on Health Care Quality; Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care; Quality of Health Care in America; and a study on non-heart-beating organ donors. She has assisted in the research for The National Quality Report on Health Care Delivery, Immunization Finance Policies and Practices, and Extending Medicare Coverage for Preventive and Other Services and helped develop this project on the consequences of uninsurance from its inception.


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