Notes on Contributors

Gary Franklin is medical director of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries in Olympia and a research professor in the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he directs the Occupational Health Outcomes and Epidemiology Program. He has focused his research on disability prevention and the study of health outcomes among injured workers. As medical director of the Department of Labor and Industries, Dr. Franklin has participated in a number of policy and program initiatives. He has also been active on a national level in policy development and in developing treatment guidelines for occupational health care.

Christopher Keane is a research associate in the Department of Health Services Administration of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include transformations in public health systems, the penetration of managerial ideologies into public health, medical care, and American culture. His recent research also includes the effects of children’s health insurance.

John Marx is professor of sociology and public health in the Department of Health Services Administration of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include professional ideologies in the privatization of public health, the historical and sociocultural determinants of public health, and the sociology of health, illness, and medical care.

David Mechanic is the Rene Dubos University Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His current interests include the effects of managed care; patient and public trust in physicians and medical institutions; and the changing organization of mental health services.

Robert D. Mootz is associate medical director for chiropractic at the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries in Olympia. He was the first chiropractic physician to hold a full-time government health services policy and research position. His areas of interest include technology assessment, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement. He serves as editor of Topics in Clinical Chiropractic.

Barbara R. Norrish is assistant professor and director of the Case Management Program in the School of Nursing at Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, California. She is interested in policy as it relates to the nursing workforce, the impact of managed care on nursing work, and change in health care organizations. Dr. Norrish is coauthor, with Thomas Rundall, of After Restructuring: Empowerment Strategies at Work in America’s Hospitals, an evaluation of the Strengthening Hospital Nursing Program.

Roy Plaeger-Brockway is senior program manager at the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries in Olympia. Mr. Plaeger- Brockway, who has training in public administration, has been involved in managing a number of large scale policy and program initiatives for the department, including the Washington State Managed Care Pilot Project and the Occupational Health Services Project.

Edmund Ricci is professor and chair of the Department of Health Services Administration of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. His applied research interests include program evaluation, public health responses to disasters, privatization in public health, and minority health disparities.

Nigel Rice is senior research fellow in the Centre for Health Economics, University of York, where he conducts research in the area of capitation and risk adjustment, in particular the development of resource allocation formulas for the distribution of funds for health care services in the United Kingdom. His broader research interests are in the application of statistical and econometric methods to the analysis of health and health-related data.

Thomas G. Rundall is professor of health policy and management at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include managed care, hospital restructuring, integrated delivery systems, and health program and policy evaluation research. He has published extensively in all of these areas, including studies of hospital structure and functioning, community-based health services systems, integrated delivery systems, use of health promotion/disease prevention services in managed care and fee-for-service delivery systems, and social and environmental factors affecting health and health risk behaviors. Dr. Rundall’s most recent book is After Restructuring: Empowerment Strategies at Work in America’s Hospitals.

Peter C. Smith is professor of economics in the Centre of Health Economics at the University of York, where he directs a research program on health policy funded by the UK national government. He is a member of a number of national advisory committees and has been instrumental in designing several major capitation systems currently in operation in the UK public sector.

Thomas M. Wickizer is the Rohm and Haas Distinguished Professor of Public Health Sciences and professor of health services at the School of Public Health of the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Wickizer has training in health economics and health care policy. He has focused his research on evaluating the performance of utilization management programs, analyzing the effects of managed care on costs and outcomes, and assessing the economic impact of substance abuse treatment. More recently, his research has focused on occupational health, managed care, and quality improvement within the workers’ compensation system.

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Volume 79, Issue 1 (pages 139–142)
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00199
Published in 2001