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Appendix C: Contributors
Pages 192-198

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From page 192...
... Her primary research interest is in issues of health care access for the uninsured. She recently completed a study of the working uninsured using public hospital services in San Francisco.
From page 193...
... as an international fellow, and now is the study director for the IOM Committee on Technological Innovation in Medicine. Before joining the IOM, she was senior researcher for the Project on Future Health Care Technology, cosponsored by the European office of the World Health Organization (WHO)
From page 194...
... He has also served on the faculty of Yale University and held visiting appointments at the Health Care Financing Administration in Washington, D.C., and the International Institute of Management in Berlin, Germany. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering physics at Lehigh University and his doctorate in economics from Princeton University.
From page 195...
... Current projects include evaluation of the use of information technology in health care, the economics of cancer treatment, and the effects of National Health Service reforms on the use of medical technologies in the United Kingdom.
From page 196...
... His research has covered a wide range of health policy areas, including applications of benefit cost analysis, studies of medical care utilization, the relationship between volume of selected medical and surgical patients in hospitals and hospital mortality, regionalization of hospital services, duplication of health insurance coverage, adverse selection in multiple-option health insurance settings, competition in the medical care market, and health maintenance organizations. In addition to numerous articles in scientific journals, he has authored Poverty and Health: Economic Causes and Consequences of Health Problems (Ballinger, 1978)
From page 197...
... Wilensky at the Health Care Financing Administration. He is currently on leave of absence from the doctoral program at the Harvard University School of Public Health where he is studying health economics and health decision sciences in the Department of Health Policy and Management.
From page 198...
... in public policy at Harvard in 1973.


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