Notes on Contributors

Carol Beasley is managing director of the Partnership for Organ Donation in Boston. She is responsible for organizing national research-based initiatives to increase the availability of human organs for transplantation.

Eric J. Cassell is clinical professor of public health at Cornell University Medical College and a practicing internist in New York City. Dr. Cassell’s major research interest is the theory of clinical medicine. He is the author of The Healer’s Art, The Place of Humanities in Medicine, a two-volume work on doctor-patient communication entitled Talking with Patients, and, most recently, The Nature of Suffering.

Dov Chernichovsky is a member of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel. He has examined health system policy and reform in developed and developing economies and, most recently, he assisted with reforms of the health system in Russia.

William DeJong is a lecturer in the Department of Health and Social Behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. He is an expert on the use of mass media in health promotion, with a particular interest in substance use prevention and organ donation. Mr. DeJong has collaborated with the Partnership for Organ Donation on a variety of research and public education projects.

Jessica Drachman is manager of communications at the Partnership for Organ Donation in Boston, where she supervises public education projects and handles public, community, and media relations. A good deal of her work involves educating both the public and medical professionals about organ donation.

Michael J. Evanisko is president of the Partnership for Organ Donation in Boston. His primary interests are understanding the factors associated with increased organ donation and using both public and professional education to increase donation.

Steven L. Gortmaker is a senior lecturer at the Department of Health and Social Behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. The focus of his research is the health of children, particularly those living in poverty, with the goals of identifying risks for morbidity and mortality and of initiating and evaluating interventions to improve health outcomes.

Ronnie D. Horner works as an epidemiologist in Durham, North Carolina at the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Veterans Administration Medical Center, and at the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center. His interests lie in patterns of health care utilization and outcomes among vulnerable populations that have limited access to care. His recent work has centered on racial differences in clinical management and outcomes in stroke.

Rudolf Klein is professor of social policy and director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy, School of Social Sciences, University of Bath, England. Mr. Klein has studied the adaptive strategies of welfare states in hard times, particularly the move (in the United Kingdom) from provision to regulation.

David B. Matchar is director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Education at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Matchar’s interests are in clinical practice evaluation, clinical policy development, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis; he has done his major work in stroke prevention and management.

Sandra J. Newman is associate director for research at the Institute for Policy Studies and research professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. She has examined housing policy, particularly as it pertains to vulnerable groups. Recently, she has studied the housing needs of persons with severe mental illness, the development and operating costs of housing this group, and the ways in which housing assistance systems affect families with children.

Eugene Z. Oddone is associate director of the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Oddone is interested in deter-mining the factors that influence access and utilization of important preventive procedures. He has conducted a formal evaluation of the process and outcomes of primary care.

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Volume 73, Issue 3 (pages 481–482)
Published in 1995