Notes on Contributors

Kathleen S. Andersen is the senior program officer of the Milbank Memorial Fund in New York City. Among her interests are foundations, public policy, and health system oversight.

William Beery is the director of the Center for Health Promotion at the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, where he designs, implements, and conducts process evaluations of community prevention programs.

Allen Cheadle is a research associate professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington in Seattle. His interests include community health interventions, outcomes assessment, and analyses of health care utilization and costs. He has also done innovative work in developing “community-level indicators” as measures of environmental change and program success.

Paula Diehr is a professor in the Departments of Biostatistics and Health Services at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research includes a number of topics: the use of mental health services; evaluations of health insurance and provider plans; health status measurement; health promotion evaluation; and small-area variation analysis.

Susan L. Ivey is a research specialist at the Center for Family and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Ivey is an emergency and family physician with interests in vulnerable populations, particularly minority and immigrant women. In previous research, she has studied aspects of the physician workforce, the use of emergency medical services, access to health care, and the safety net.

Thomas Koepsell is a professor and chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington in Seattle and a co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. Dr. Koepsell is currently evaluating community-based health promotion and disease prevention programs and the application of epidemiological methods in health services research. He is also studying the causes of pedestrian injuries in older adults, cardiovascular disease in people with hypertension, and neurological and musculoskeletal diseases.

Jennifer Maeser is a research associate at the Center for Health Promotion, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle. She has participated in a number of community prevention demonstrations and evaluations and is now working with the Woman’s Health Initiative at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

David Mechanic is director and Rene Dubos University Professor of Behavioral Sciences at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His most recent work has centered on patient and public trust in doctors and medical care, managed care for persons with serious mental illness, and the changing patterns of mental health services in the United States.

Thomas R. Oliver teaches in the Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. In his teaching and research, he draws upon theories of political behavior and policy making to examine critical issues in health care politics and system reform. Most recently he has conducted studies of leadership in health policy innovation, comprehensive and small-group health insurance reforms in the states, and the evolution of Medicare policy.

David Pearson is a scientific investigator at the Center for Health Promotion, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, where he designs, implements, and evaluates community prevention programs. Edward B. Perrin is a professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was formerly a director of the National Center for Health Statistics in the Department of Health and Human Services. He also served as the design statistician for the Medical Outcomes Study and is chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Medical Outcomes Trust. In his research, teaching, and publications, he concentrates on devising new methodologies for measuring health outcomes and on using large health data systems in decision making and policy development.

Bruce Psaty is an associate professor in the Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Services at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he also co-directs the Cardiovascular Health Research Unit. Dr. Psaty’s research interests include the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, pharmacoepidemiology, epidemiological methods, and patient-physician interaction. He is currently exploring coronary heart disease and hypertension, the cardiovascular risks associated with the use of estrogen and progestins, and risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke in the elderly.

Richard Scheffler is a professor of health economics in the School of Public Health and professor of public policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. His recent work has been in the areas of the future of the health care workforce, managed care and reforms of health systems, and the financing of mental health services.

Michael Von Korff is a senior scientific investigator at the Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle. His work as a health services researcher and epidemiologist centers on the natural history and management of chronic pain and depression in primary care. He has conducted studies on the costs of chronic illness care, the prevention of depression chronicity and relapse, and self-management programs for patients with low back pain.

Edward Wagner is director of the Center for Health Studies at the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound and of the W.A. Sandy MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation. Dr. Wagner has studied interventions for reducing disability in seniors, investigated cancer prevention, examined the cost-effectiveness of primary care delivery, and carried out community prevention studies.

Thomas M. Wickizer is an associate professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is engaged in examining the effects of managed care on costs and outcomes, investigating the impact of utilization management on patterns of care and quality, and performing economic analyses of substance abuse treatment for high-risk, indigent clients.

James L. Zazzali is a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley. During the course of his predoctoral work in a National Institute of Mental Health training program, he collaborated on the research on the health care workforce published in this issue. His interests are organizational behavior, quality of care, and the measurement of patient health status.

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Volume 76, Issue 1 (pages 149–152)
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00082
Published in 1998